Huh What? where am I? What happend?!?!
I stand up and look around just to notice a black place
Ah I remember now
I saved a dog and a kid from getting run over by a guy getting chased by the cops
well that's one way to go out never thought I would die in my vacation to japan
"Jan Frieden"
"Sorry I was just trying to remember what had happend, is this the afterlife? and who are you?"
I just noticed now but she has an expression implying that she's sad
"Ah it's okay! My name is Eris I'm the goddess of fortune but... I'm afraid to inform you that you're dead..."
budup* She looks even sadder? is she mourning my death? either she's incredibly cute or I'm mistaken
"What happend to the driver?"
"Fortunately the driver crashed and got caught by the police, He was sentenced to life in prison for multiple murders. and... well he was broken out and than found dead."
"Wait how long has it been?"
Was I in a coma? or does time just flow differently here?
"Actually it's been 4 days, I was busy guiding other people and you were just waiting in line I'm really sorry"
"It's okay I understand alot of people die all the time so dealing with them must be hard no need to stress over anything,"
She smiled at me and nodded This girl seems very stressed, so stressed infact she looks like she could break down any second
"By the way you said he was broken out and killed.."
"It was well..."
No don't tell me...
"After your father heard about what happend to you in a blindrage he hired the yakuza to make that happen..."
Oh my god...Dad what the hell?!?!
"Ah I see..."
Another thing I was worried about
"is the kid okay?"
Eris smiled at me
"The kid is fine, his family adopted the dog and called it Frieden"
After that Eris told me about how my funeral went and all that kind of stuff
I would love to spend more time with this person since she looks so sincere and nice but she did mention that others had to wait while someone was being guided so I didn't want to make her job too hard, Than again the amount of company she gets must be low if she works so hard and I'm sure the average person would give this girl alot of shit since she called herself a goddess
"Well Eris I would love to keep talking to a cute girl like you but I don't want to keep the dead waiting so let's continue shall we?"
My sheepish comment made her a bit red I'm sure I would be even redder If I didn't feel like crying right now.
"You have 3 choices, first starting over as a baby"
"Yeah No I like my memories"
"Second would be Heaven"
"Me. The son of a corrupt politician who used his father influence to hurt people in his school and always got away with it, I can go to heaven?"
"Y-Yes you did save 2 lives after all"
"Is heaven fun? do they have video games, Netflix, manga?"
"No...You just kind of sit under a sun and eat fruits everyday..Without a physical body"
"Ahahahahah No. Besides I don't want to get bullied by grandpa for not believing in god. Eris option 3 what is it exactly?"
Eris stands up and gives me a grand introduction for this isekai world which sounds stupid. Apparently I get to choose an item to take with me it can be anything fictional or non fictional, or something from these papers. Wait they said anything? even a power? or...
"Eris I want to be the God Of Death."
Eris looks at me with a troubled expression
"Jan-kun... The thing is I'm the goddess of fortune...I can't just make you a death god Only the allfather could do that but he has been asleep for the last 30 years , unfortunfortunately I can't grant that request.."
Damit! I always wanted to become something like that the grim reaper has always been my favorite halloween character I would always dress up as either him or a psycho doctor
"It's fine I won't complain about something that's outta ya hands.. than...I'll chose hmmm what about skill creation?."
"Skill creation? as in the ability to create skills? well I think that's very limited but yes that would work"
Ah I forgot 2 very crucial things
"Ah wait Eris this worlds langauge will I be able to speak it?"
Learning english was hard, Japanese was harder since I did
Ah I still feel shaky I can't even speak or think with proper grammar, Wait wait wait thinking with proper grammar? what the fuck brain start functioning already
"Yes that won't be a problem!"
"Will I have a good understanding of the langauge? I don't want to read the whole dictionary again."
"Ah unfortunately you'll only know how to speak and read like any average person would do, however you can always read the dictionary!"
I only like reading when it's about something I'm interested in, when it comes to grammar I need to know difficult words like presumptuous or augmentical to sound smart since I am one of those
and
"What about starting money and gear?"
Eris'es expression looks like the expression of someone who forgot to turn their stove off
"The others...I forgot to give them starting gear...I'm not even qualified to do this.."
huh? She's tearing up over something so stupid? gosh she's cute though I have no idea what to do in this situation
I walk over to this pure ball of stupidity and start petting her head
"It's okay I'm sure they managed to do something with their skills you shouldn't cry over forgetting something like that, you didn't do it intentionally so it's okay isn't it?"
She's still crying, All because she forgot to hand over money and starting gear, these people probably have holy swords and all that kind of shit, and she's crying because she forgot to hand them over money?
I give eris a light flick to the forehead which was really light but it got her attention.
"Eris."
"Y-yes?"
"I'm sure they're doing fine after all they have amazing stuff with them right? they should be able to kill monsters and make money easily I'm going to be honest with you in all my life I've never met a nice girl like you I'm sure the others gods or goddesses would have just made fun of my death or something like that yet you decided to be kind to me, instead of looking into the bad things you've done look into the good ones I'm not your boss, I don't know who is and I don't care I give you a 10/10 would visit again"
I give her a small hug which she returns, this reminds me of the times my father cried in the living room calling himself trash my mother always went up to him and told him to look into the good things he had done instead of the bad things.
After I let go I tell her that I'm ready
Eris perked up immidiately
"Oh right Brave hero-" she stopped and reset her sentence
"Jan-kun I hope you enjoy your next life!"
"Heh I have a feeling I'll enjoy this one"
The smile she gave me... Yeah she really is a goddess.
A/N This is my first fanfic and I suck at writing romance scenes so I'm always open to actual advice and critism