"It would appear that your Quirk is visualization-based," the doctor informs her with glee.

'Visualization, sure, let's call it that,' she thinks

"You'll forgive me if I'm a bit overexcited, but we don't get many Quirks like this!" he says with a bright grin. "The system for a game that appears and tells you things about the world, or yourself… giving you the ability to 'level up', it's… well, it's quite fascinating."

He can sense her lack of enthusiasm, it seems. She doesn't know what to do, now. It wasn't something super useful for making a living, was it? Which meant further relying on the government to take care of her, since…

"I understand this must be difficult for you," he says. "Being Quirkless your whole life and then getting into an accident where you wake up with one… but no memory of yourself… that has to be difficult."

'Waking up in an alternate reality that is actually a fictional world you're familiar with is also very stressful,' she thinks.

"But I think this could be good for you," he says. "This Quirk is so rare that we want to run tests and see how it works. Which means you would earn money for allowing us to run experiments. Nothing invasive, just asking questions about how it works and what it does when you hit those choices in the menu and such. What happens when you do exercise…"

"I'll get paid for having a unique Quirk?" she perks. "But… will getting paid cut off my assistance? And if so, would I get paid enough to compensate?"

He thinks about that while humming to himself. "Well, it'd likely only be about two hundred a week. That's eight hundred a month, which is barely enough to cover most rent. Perhaps you should get a second job. You'd be doing quite well if you were to do so. You'd only need to be here a few hours a week. We can schedule around whatever job you have."

'That's actually a better deal than I thought I'd get,' she thinks

She'd had to rely on disability benefits for her entire journey through recovery.

Nobody ever told the story of a transmigrator who fell into a dead persons' body and had to physically heal from those wounds. It would probably have been too gritty, realistic and angsty. But that's what happened to her.

Six months, she had to stay in the hospital, even with the healing Quirks of the doctors at work on her. Probably because every bone in her body was broken and her lungs had collapsed at the scene as well as her heart… well. Bad things happened all over.

Apparently it wasn't even a villain attack or anything, just a bad car accident. Went off the bridge and rolled across the interstate for a while before eventually getting rammed by a semi-truck.

When she first woke up in the hospital, the system told her 'healing is now at .5%!' which told her all she really needed to know about how her broken body stayed alive even though she fell into it while it was dead.

The answer of course, was that the System had a slight healing effect. So, as quickly as she'd been drowned in the waters of death, she'd been hauled up toward the surface, to life.

Once the paramedics hit the scene, instead of struggling to keep her alive, her healing factor was just doing its job and actually healing her.

Which is why she didn't immediately die upon entering the broken body. Which she should've, by all accounts. But she had a Quirk, and that saved her life. And that Quirk was probably gifted by whatever force brought her here, specifically so she wouldn't die. Though that's a bit weird, isn't it?

'If the… thing, person or deity that brought me here wanted me alive, it could've just given me a healing quirk. Not a 'game system' Quirk. That has to be for another purpose.'

But she would probably never know what that purpose was. Or why she's here.

"I guess I should figure out my next steps," she says with a sigh. "Would you mind getting in contact with the government through my social worker and letting them know I'm going to try and get a job and work?"

"I'd have to report it regardless," he replies, patting her arm. "You're now able to work, which means they would've taken you off your assistance soon, anyway."

She nods, pinprickles of hot annoyance flashing up her spine and down her arms. If only she'd fallen into someone who was as disabled as she was in her past life, she would be able to take her time to acclimate to this world.

Six months was not long enough. Not when they were spent in a drug-induced stupor. With only small moments of lucidity which were accompanied by excruciating pain when the meds wore off.

It's not like her life was so hot back in the other world she comes from, but it's also not like she was dying or in extreme physical pain, either.

'If I'd been given a choice, would I have made that trade-off?' she wonders. 'Excruciating agony for a few minutes every couple of hours for six months… to get this?'

Even now, she's not really sure… after all, physical isn't the only kind of pain there is. And she was drowning in hers.

Ping!

A system notification pops up.

~~~~Quest~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~Get a job!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rewards: Monthly Income~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bonus Skill Points

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Experience Boost~

"Ugh," she accidentally expresses her disgust aloud.

"Are you alright?" the doctor takes note of her pallor and makes note on her chart. She could guess what he wrote.

"I got a Quest Notification," she replies. "The rewards are weird, though. Before, it was just 'Heal up!' and when I got out of the hospital the reward was a 'healthy body' and 'well rested' boost which just gave me a week of being especially well-rested."

"Hmmmm, even so," he grins. "This means we'll see what the rewards can do for you! Obviously there are many 'reality bending' Quirks out there, but there are always reasons and limits. We just need to know what yours are. It's possible it's just listing things that you would get anyway as a reward, or things that you want, to motivate you. But it's also possible that you might end up actually getting swords and armor like in a game, popping out of nowhere! Or more specifically, out of the lipids in your body, as is common with other 'producing' Quirks."

"I don't know," she replies, sighing. "The rewards just say 'Income', 'Skill Points' and 'Experience Boost'."

"I can't wait to find out what that means, regardless," he replies with great enthusiasm. "Just be sure and come in two days a week. It can be any two days. If you can only come one day, the pay will be halved. If you can come in more often, the pay will go up by one hundred for every visit you make."

'Yeah but if I come in too often, the novelty wears off and you stop paying me altogether,' she thinks.

"I'll try to come every Monday and Thursday, then. If I can't, I'll reschedule," she replies. Then stood, from the comfortable leather seat she'd been sitting in for the past hour. Her back ached. "Thank you. I'll be going back to my apartment now. Please call me if you figure anything out."