When one dies, a person would like to go in many different ways. Some want to die in their sleep, some want to die heroically like saving a loved one or being a savior in a disaster. Me? I wanted to die fast. Don't care how but as long as it was fast I didn't care. Thankfully, I'm lucky. I was on my way home from work when I got in a car crash. I was crushed when I was rear-ended into the back of a cement truck by some speeding dumbass.

I don't know what happened to the others but one moment I'm waiting at a stop and the next I'm in pitch blackness. I think anyway. I don't feel my body, don't feel my senses, nothing. It was terrifying and still is. I don't know how long I've been wherever I am but after what felt like a long time I saw a dull gold panel appear.

Congratulations!

You have earned a lucky spot as the new High Roller!

Would you like to accept?

Y/N

I stared at the panel for a while, trying to decide if it was real or if I had finally lost it. I had no voice and no body so I couldn't interact with it either way but I figure it's better than being stuck here. With all my mental strength, I try to think 'Accept' despite my doubts. To my immense gratification, it worked and the screen changed.

Thank you for accepting this offer!

You have been chosen as the new High Roller!

Starting now you will get 1 roll on a D20 for every significant action you do!

But watch out for high-value actions that can swipe you a roll!

On this D20 you will have tiers of loot and gifts

These gifts range from Tier 1 common loot such as pens and clothing

To tier 5 Mythical loot such as the infamous Omnitrix or the Doctor's TARDIS!

But wait, there's more!

For being new and fresh, you gain the chance to take curses and drawbacks to gain another roll!

These drawbacks are randomized and will affect your next life heavily.

So choose wisely~ ;)

Continue?

I read the words before me so many times I will see them in my dreams. What is this? Reincarnation? A R.O.B. tossing something at a random soul? Did I get enough good karma? I couldn't tell. I choose to Continue with this though.

Starting, you may choose your new looks!

Be warned though, drawbacks may affect your chosen design!

Well, this was exciting. It seems I get some RPG aspects in this. It's embarrassing to admit how long it took to make my new body but in the end, I was happy with it. The creator allowed me to see what I would look like in different stages of life from a baby to a man in his prime to an elderly sack of flesh.

I gave myself black hair and amber eyes and made myself caucasian, much like how I looked in my previous life. The similarities ended here though. I had made myself have a very athletic physique with a large wall of a body, 8-pack abs, and very tall at 6 feet 9 inches tall. I had tried to model my new self after heavy-weight boxers and deadlifts mixed. In my younger years, I'd have a bit of a chubby body but when I went through puberty and entered adulthood? That's where it shined with him cutting a very intimidating figure. After this, I continued with my new body completely.

Congratulations on your new looks!

Now you can get to the meat of the game: The Gacha!

The Gacha allows you to roll a D20 for random items from across the multiverse.

It can be a sock, the Green Lantern Ring, a fancy coat, or anything else one could imagine.

Now, let us begin with your first roll~!

I watch as the panel shifts now from a screen to becoming a Craps table with a large foam die with 20 sides. "Guess this is it." I think to myself before I will it to roll, sending the foam die across the table. It bounced off the wall on the other side before stopping with the face glowing.

Congratulations! You have completed your first roll and have gotten a 2!

You have received Arthur Morgan's Gambler hat!

I stare at the screen as it pops up in front of me. "What?! Are you kidding me?!" I rage in my mind as little party poppers go off from the table. I glare at the screen as much as a disembodied person could before the screen shifts.

Would you like to roll debuffs for more chances to spin?

Y/N

With all the spite of Kratos himself, I Accept and am shown a wheel. However, instead of the bright and cheery colors of a typical spinning wheel, this one is dark and dreary with toxic-looking colors and soul-sucking darkness. I feel my soul shiver at the sight before I have it spin. When it finishes, a deep reverberating bell tolls ominously.

Too bad, so sad~!

You have gained a Debuff~!

In your new life, you will be poor~!

Would you like to spin again?

Y/N

"Not too bad." I think as I Accept again. And once more the wheel spins before the bell tolls a second time.

Too bad, so sad~!

You have gained a Debuff~!

You have gained the Slothful Debiff~!

You will find it difficult to be motivated in doing tasks such as work, training, or other menial things~!

I cringe a bit at that. Unless it was a peaceful world I'm going to, that will hurt a bit but not too much. Now, a sensible person would stop here and get their two new rolls but I was and still am a horrid gambler so I spin again.

Too bad, so sad~!

You have gained a Debuff~!

You have gained an Addiction Debuff~!

And with that, I froze. "Addiction? Like drugs?!" I think, panicked. "What the hell am I addicted to? Meth? Cocaine? Something easy like alcohol or cigarettes?"

You are now addicted to Caffeine and must have at least 1 cup of coffee a day or you will have withdrawal symptoms~!

Bonus: No therapy for these~ ;)

"Oh thank the heavens." I groan with a 'sigh' of relief as I read those words. "Nothing too bad. Close though. Now, final spin." I think before spinning the horrid wheel again.

Too bad, so sad~!

You have gained a Debuff~!

You have gained the Orphaned Debuff~!

Now, starting in your new world, you are on your own~!

"Fuck." I think. With a bitter heart, I stop myself here and finish with the Curse Wheel before I dig myself deeper and return to the Gacha. "Oh how happy I am to see this assault on color again." I think as I gaze at the dull gold table before I use my first gained roll.

Congratulations! You have completed your second roll and have gotten a 20!

You have received Thor's mighty hammer Mjolnir!

"R-Roll." I command as I stare at my prize in utter awe. No matter where I went this was a heavy rig of the deck in my favor.

Congratulations! You have completed your roll and have gotten a 4!

Congratulations! You have received a High School chemistry Set!

Let down by the drop, I let the die fall again and give me my reward.

Congratulations! You have completed your roll and have gotten a 15!

You have received Excalibur(Stone Locked)

"What bullshit is that?!" I exclaim as I stare at the screen. "What do you mean stone locked?" I grumble as I roll again, pissed beyond belief at the unfairness of this as I get my final prize.

Congratulations! You have completed your roll and have gotten a 9!

You have received Firebending!

"Neat." I grin as I read my final reward. I had a good handful of prizes so far. Despite having Excalibur locked away, I still ended up coming out of this smelling of roses with the fire bending and Mjolnir. "Alright, now what?" I wonder, only to have the system answer my question.

Congratulations! You have completed your tutorial and are now ready to move on to your new life!

You are to be reincarnated into a different world from your own and fix things!

The world you are reborn into has been screwed beyond belief and now requires you to fix it and push it back on track!

But be careful~.

You are not all powerful~ ;)

"Well isn't that fucking ominous," I say with a scowl. "What do you mean 'screwed beyond belief'?! Tell me, you damn bastard!" I demand. "I mean, I don't even get to choose where I go! At least telling me what's going on would help!"

It was then that I realized I was in my new body but as I noticed I was sudden;y met with pitch blackness as unconsciousness overtook me and when I woke back up I found myself in an abandoned bus. Looking around I can see it had been hollowed out like the bus from The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners. Getting up with a small stumble, I make my way to the dirty mirror nearby and look at myself. I was young, 5 or 6 from what I could tell, with my hair long and knotted, falling over my face and to my shoulders from lack of care, and my body was coated in dirt and grime. My clothes weren't much better.

I was wearing a too-big Christmas sweater with some holes in it, a ripped green T-shirt, worn jeans, and raggedy tennis shoes. I looked well and truly homeless. "Fuck me…" I mutter, damning my Orphan and Poor debuffs. One or the other wouldn't be too bad but both together? May as well call me a Russian whore with how hard these things fucked me.

With a deep breath I clear my head, and my hair from my face, before looking around my bus. In one corner I could see a ratty old mattress with a small box next to it that had some more clothes. In the opposite corner was Mjolnir with the hat on it. Next to that is the chemistry set and outside the window I could see the damned stone that kept my sword from me.

Of the gifts I got that were useful, I had only one I could use. I could feel the ability to firebend in my body, the power flowing through my veins. I liked watching Avatar. It was an amazing show with great world-building so I was thankful for my nerdiness since I can roughly remember the movements Zuko and Aang did when they learned the dragons' way of bending.

"Well," I say, my voice much higher than the one I had. "Time to start training."