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01 - New Life

Added 2023-12-12 12:00:33 +0000 UTC

Looking around and seeing a completely unfamiliar room, I couldn't even think before a bunch of memories flashed through my mind.

Unlike what I imagined, having this large influx of memories didn't hurt at all, it was more like I was remembering things I had forgotten.

So now I'm Noah Black...

As I slowly got up from the bed I was lying in, I could already see in the mirror the reflection of the new body I would have from now on.

In my past life, my name was also Noah Black, but unlike Noah, who lived in a house, had food on the table every day and could go to school with ease, I wasn't so lucky.

I lived with my "father", but the man was just a drunken sailor who brought me the bare minimum to eat so I wouldn't die.

Because of problems at home, I had problems at school, and with problems at school, I had problems at home, and so an endless cycle was formed.

The last thing I remember from my last life is that one day while I was coming home from school, an old man asked me if I liked my life.

Honestly, I don't even know why I responded to him right away, since I would have told him to fuck off if it had been any other day.

But I said I didn't like it.

To my surprise, the old man snapped his fingers and showed me that there had been a boat accident and that only one man had died that day, my "father".

The shock that my "father" had died was so great that I didn't even realize that the old man had performed magic in front of me by showing me my father's accident.

I was sure I would be happy if I knew that my "father" died one day, but I wasn't... I wanted to be happy, but my chest hurt a little knowing that the only person who even remotely cared about me had died that day.

Seeing how sad I was, the old man snapped his finger again, this time he showed me the life of a boy my age who looked like me.

This boy had a passion for singing, so much so that when this boy performed at the bar near his house, that was when the boy had the biggest smile on his face.

I continued to see the most important parts of this boy's life, even though he wasn't famous, he made some money as a singer, but he still had to keep his main job, as an assistant on a ship, which made me raise my eyebrows suspiciously. .

I even followed him when he met a woman at the bar he hosted, they went out together, started dating, and she even got pregnant.

Being with this woman was the happiest moments of this boy's life, alongside when he was performing at the bar.

The problem was that during the child's birth, the woman couldn't resist and died, leaving only the boy with a newborn child to care for.

As soon as the woman died, the man's life, which was very colorful, became increasingly gray, until the man became addicted to drinking and began to take out his anger on the child.

Whenever he hit the child and heard the child crying on the other side of the door, surprisingly he would also start crying, with several times even wanting to open the door to apologize, but never having the courage.

At that point I already understood, this was my father's life!

Now I understand why the only time my father didn't swear at me was when he found out I was learning to play the guitar.

I expected him to hit me when he saw me doing that, but surprisingly, he just looked at me with the guitar in the room and left, as if he hadn't seen anything.

For someone who treated me so badly, just indifference was a great moment for me.

Seeing my surprise, the old man smiled and asked me.

"Do you feel bad for your father?"

Hearing his question, I thought for a while and replied. "No, even though he went through a lot of shit, he was still an asshole to me, who wasn't to blame for anything."

The old man continued to smile and nodded.

"Before he died, your father asked me for one thing." The old man said, making me look at him curiously.

With so many things this old man had done, I should have been crazy with surprise, but it was as if there was a calming aura about him that kept me calm and relaxed, making me just look at him, curious, waiting for the answer.

"The only thing he asked of me was if I could give his son the life he deserved." The old man said.

Hearing this, I felt my eyes become a little moist.

For someone who rarely heard any kind words, knowing that my father's only request before he died was that I could have a better life, moved me a little.

I didn't forgive him, but the hatred I felt lessened a little.

"You accepted?" I asked the old man with a bit of expectation, since if I could have a better life, I would really be very happy.

The old man continued to smile as he responded. "Yes, but only on one condition."

"Which?" I asked excitedly.

"I can help you reincarnate in the body of a boy who asked me for help. While your father asked me to give you a better life, the boy asked me to give a better life to his family. So, your job will be to have a better life for yourself, while striving to improve the life of the family that welcomes you too." The old man said in a serious voice.

Hearing his condition, I became a little nervous. This wasn't completely difficult, but I was still a little nervous about being faced with the unknown.

Seeing my nervousness, the old man smiled again as he spoke. "Of course, I'll give you a gift that will help you in your other life, I won't make you do something you don't want to do, if someone treats you badly, you have all the free will to treat them the same way, but the only request is that you treat the boy's family as well as the family treats you."

Hearing this, I finally nodded and agreed.

In the next second, I was waking up in an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar room.

With the memories of that body and the reflection I saw in the mirror, I was able to understand why Noah had the right to make a wish to God.

Noah weighed 150 kg (330 lbs) with a height of 1.82 m (6 feet), which for a 17 year old boy put him at the limit of what his body could handle, so much so that that night his body couldn't handle it and had a heart attack.

Looking at the body I would have from now on, I felt a little unmotivated, since even though God revived me, this body is not healthy at all and could die again at any moment.

'I have to start taking better care of this body urgently.' I thought as I started to look around and thought about Noah's memories from this world.

Apparently I live in a family of 5.

This body's father, Jonathan Black, this body's mother, Lauren Black, a sister two years younger, Olivia, and brother ten years younger, Ethan.

From what I observed from the memories, Noah's relationship with them wasn't very good, or rather, apparently the relationship in the whole house was a little chaotic.

Jonathan had to work from early in the morning until late at night to pay the household bills, but to make up for his absence at home, he wanted to be the cool father who played with his children with some childish games, a pretty cool guy, but he was lacking with a little authority that a father should have.

Lauren, who stayed at home taking care of things, was an extremely perfectionist woman, to the point that she invaded her children's personal space a little while trying to help them as much as she could, a good mother, but who didn't have a very good sense of when to stop trying to help.

Olivia was entering the rebellious adolescence phase, which caused a lot of chaos at home, as she often didn't understand that the things her mother did were out of concern for her, which generated a lot of conflict between the two.

Ethan was just a child with somewhat high ADHD, which meant that the family just treated him as a slow child who had no talent for learning things and who unfortunately didn't know that he had this disorder.

Noah, on the other hand, was the typical teenager who was bullied at school, a chubby boy with a lot of social difficulties, few friends and whose only hobby was watching Japanese cartoons, which made it difficult to contact people who didn't share the same hobby as him, including his mother. own family, making the boy more isolated with each passing day.

But despite how chaotic the family was, and how isolated Noah was, he still truly loved these people, as they were the only ones who truly cared about him at the end of the day.

When he died, I have the memory of him regretting how he arrived and how he wanted things to be better.

"Don't worry Noah, I'll take care of them for you…" I said in a low voice, as a feeling of relief ran through my body, probably saying goodbye to the old Noah.

"What did you say? Is it time for school?"

Suddenly, I heard a confused and sleepy child's voice.

Recognizing the sound, I knew it was Ethan's, I forgot I shared a room with him, probably when I said it out loud he woke up confused.

Since the old Noah was the one who woke him up to go to school, he must have thought it was time to go.

"Not yet, you can go back to sleep." I replied in a low voice while speaking with a bit of affection.

This was a new sensation for me, since I never had anyone to talk to like that, but talking like that came very naturally, apparently Ethan was the one Noah was closest to in the house, so it was normal for him to take more care of the little boy.

Unfortunately, not even Noah knew that Ethan had ADHD.

When Ethan heard what I said, I could hear him muttering as he rolled over and went back to sleep.

As I wasn't sleepy, I decided to take out my cell phone and see what time it was.

[04:50 am]

'Maybe I can start improving this body today?' I thought interested.

Despite not being extremely healthy in my past life, I still exercised a lot by cycling to and from school, so my body, despite not being very muscular due to lack of nutrients, was quite healthy.

'I don't think I'll be able to ride a bike at this weight, but I think I can walk.' I thought, I decide to start my routine today for a healthier life.

When I made up my mind, a blue window appeared floating in front of me.

[Mission: Walk 3 km (1.8 miles) in 1 Hour.

Rewards:

+1 CON, Mysterious Title

To accept?]

Looking at the floating blue screen in front of me, the first thing I remembered was what God said.

"Of course, I'll give you a gift that will help you in your other life…"

'So this was the gift?' I thought as I started to get excited.

I clearly knew what this was, having read novels where the MC had a System exactly like this, I was really excited.

'Accept' I thought, making the window disappear from in front of me.

When I thought about opening a window where I could view the quests, that window instantly opened, allowing me to see the quest I currently had.

'Status?' I thought uncertainly, wanting the famous Status window to open in front of me, and to my surprise, it did!

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Looking at my Status screen, despite seeing so many low values, I started to get extremely excited, as I knew that with a System like this, as long as I dedicated myself, I could be able to improve my skills much faster. , in addition to being able to monitor in real time whether I improved or not, which would give me a huge incentive.

With an excited smile, I opened my closet and put on a football shirt and quietly started to leave the house, ready to go for a walk.