Chapter 1: New Life

In a dark room with a small amount of moonlight pouring in from the window, a weak and exhausted looking boy is laying on his bed, his face and eyes show clear signs of giving up, as if life has lost all its purpose, he is slowly scrolling through his shabby looking phone reading a novel about another life, soon finishing the last chapter of the novel.

The boy lightly scoffs: "How great would it be if I could leave this hellish place for another world"

Letting out a heavy sigh, the boy closes his phone and puts it on the bedside table by his bed, turning onto his back and quietly staring at the ceiling.

Suddenly after a long time passed and the boy is about to fall asleep, a gentle but strangely non human voice sounds in his head: "I will grant your wish of living in another world, I will send you to a world were people die like flies and the gap between the poor and rich is like 2 different worlds. I sincerely hope you manage to live well in your next life and find the joy you are searching for."

"Huh?" The boy replied blankly, only to be hit by an extreme drowsiness the next moment plunging his mind into darkness....

In an empty alleyway outside a shabby nightclub you can see a unconscious androgynous teenage boy laying next to a big green dumpster filled to the brim with trash, loud booming music can be heard from the nightclub and occasional cheers.

The teenager looks to be about 16 or 17 years old with long gray hair that's stained from the slightly wet ground, his pants and shirt covered in garbage filth appearing to have lain there next to the dumpster for a couple of hours.

Suddenly a burst of stinging pain hits the boy's brain causing him to make a visible grimace in pain, the loud booming music from the nearby nightclub enters his ears causing his head to spin and the intense smell from the close by dumpster makes him slightly nauseous, feeling the slightly wet cold ground against his back he slowly opens up his closed eyes.

Sitting up slowly, the boy starts to look around in confusion, slowly taking in his surroundings, soon his eyes lose focus as if remembering something.

The boy remains sitting there absent mindedly until a clear and crisp ring like a wind chime sounds in his head, awakening him from his distracted state, his eyes instantly fell on a clear soft blue panel in front of him.

The panel reads out in bold text:

[Welcome to your new life, as a gift from me to you on your new journey, I will grant you a random power and also some other small gadgets which you can find in your virtual bag. However because your existence is foreign to this world, you and the system will slowly be rejected for that reason the system will produce tasks for you to complete, upon completion of a quest you will be granted integration points corresponding to the amount of integration with the world gained, these points can then be used to redeem items from the system, although it may sound simple the amount of tasks needed to be completed by you to fully integrate with the world might be difficult for a human to complete throughout multiple life times. With that out of the way, I can only wish you a fulfilling second life.]

Only after a long time of silence and rereading the system notice twice did the boy fully understand his situation and at the same moment to as if to confirm this, the notice disappeared.

"hmmm" The boy let out a light hum and turned his eyes to the new system panel that appeared.

The new panel had four tabs to choose from, [Profile], [Inventory], [Tasks] and [Store], deciding to claim his "gift" first the boy opened the [Inventory] tab without delay.

After pressing the tab a new panel appeared with a bunch of boxes, all the boxes were empty except for the first box, in it was a tiny gift box with blue wrapping and a red ribbon. Pressing on the first box a small panel flashed.

[Do you want to claim your gift?]

[ Yes | No ]

Obviously the boy chose to accept his gift as it was said to contain a power for him, and without it he probably wouldn't last long.

After opening the box a colourful pinwheel appeared with lots of different rewards named on it, the more normal ones being things like iron physique, super strength, super speed, super intelligence but there was also a lot of fantasy based powers such as haki, instant transmission, ice release, devil fruits and a ton of other things. However most of the fantasy based powers had a (modified) following its name.

Being puzzled by this the boy could only ask the system in confusion: "System what does the modified at the end of some of the powers names mean?"

[Some powers have been modified to fit the [Rules] of the world as the system does not have enough power to implant new [Rules] unless the host manages to completely integrate into the world]

Understanding this the boy stopped stalling and pressed on the wheel to make it spin.

Looking at the different options flying by he couldn't help but grow slightly excited for what power he would get.