Back at home

The next morning, Ben woke up at 10 am, ate breakfast, and prepared himself to be driven home. His parents shortly arrived and brought him back home.

Back at home, Ben directly looked at his room. For others, it seemed that he didn't see his room for 10 days however, he mentally didn't see his room for over 12 years.

He let himself fall on his soft bed.

´Everything is as I remembered it to be. There's indeed no place like home.

In my last life, I completely lost contact with my family as I became a guild member known as adventurer. After the information about the exp became public, the UNO created the system of guilds and provided support to each new guild.

The guilds were places, where people could register and take quests. The quest given could vary from each other, but most of them are related to portals or monsters.

The UNO probably wanted to unite the strong civilians and have a place to control them. The most dangerous quests were traveling through a new portal and exploring the new world. Being an adventurer was a very popular job as you could win more money the higher the risk of the quest.

The stronger adventurer didn't use guns as the effect was limited and they used weapons forged of the metals of the new worlds.

In the first year after joining the guild, I dreamed about becoming one of the strong and reliable adventurers. My illusion was shortly destroyed due to the system under which a guild worked. The first problem was that without money you have a very hard time in the guild.

Weapons, training, and other helpful items cost a lot and without them, your improvement slows down greatly. It was my naivety, who let me think that becoming a strong adventurer wasn't influenced by capitalism.

Nothing had changed, the rich people would have everywhere advantages. They had a better education, better nourishment, connections for their future jobs and were more popular with the opposite gender.

I know that I exaggerate! It is sometimes so easy to blame other people.

At that time, I lived with minimum expenses and just spend my money on nutrition and training.

In the beginning, my parents, Karo Lupus and Tilo Lupus, often tried to convince me to come back home, but I was too stubborn and they stopped calling.

What I didn't know at that time, was that It would be the last time that I would hear their voices. I helped explore a new world, coming back on earth 6 months later.

My parents died along that time due to a new virus transported from an adventurer, the virus killed a tenth of the European population. My sister, Emma Lupus, hated me for not being present at that time, they had a hard time as my mother lost her job and suddenly my parents became sick.

I abandoned my own family in a dangerous time, just to follow a stupid dream. I was so naive. I hate myself for that. For being stupid, for being weak, and for being naive.

After talking with her for the last time, we chose different paths. She made her own family and I tried to become a stronger adventurer. I bought syringes on the black market, which would improve my genes. I ended up using biohacking more frequently and became slowly stronger. In the end, my last life ended full of regrets.

I am so lucky to have another chance.

The first step to change my future is to clean and reorganize my room.´

Ben did exactly that. One hour later, the chamber looked completely different. He discarded his games, his comics, and the paper in the folder, he wouldn't need. He sorted his pens and rearranged his chamber.

The second step is to change my eating habits. In my last life, the research about alimentation ended with some simple results, the perfect nourishment has two main effects: the best possible condition of the body functions and a less declining rate of vitality.

To reach the perfect nourishment of your body you have to let your body be analyzed and you would be given the exact number of secondary plant substances, mineral substances, and vitamins.

Firstly, I will inform my father that I won't eat any sweets, any biscuits, any chips, or any fatty meat. Secondly, I will ask him to buy matcha tee, 90% cacao chocolate, many different nuts, ...

The third step is making a fitness plan for the next few months. To slowly rebuild this average body, I will have to begin with calisthenics, jogging, skipping, and stretching. Tomorrow I have to buy jogging shoes, a pull-up bar, a skipping rope, and a stretching strap to at least have the most important equipment. As it is already 18h, I should spend time with my family and convince my parents to annul my membership in the tennis club. Tennis is a good sport, but I can't focus on training my body in it.

I descend the familiar stairways and, in the process, I am looking at the pictures hanging on the walls. Most pictures contained my sister, which is, by the way, one year older than me, and me or my family, the minority contained our family on the maternal side and our family on the paternal side with us. The picture shows a good relationship, yet due to financial problems, the relation was always tense. When my maternal grandparents died, my mother inherited most of their heritage, this resulted in many disputes and insults with her two brothers. I always thought that it was logical, my mother was always present for her parents. Traditionally seen she shouldn't have inherited, but her brother rarely spent time and money on their parents, and don't forget the fact that we are 2031. My paternal grandparents still live and we sometimes contact them, even so, our relationship is quite bad. The root of the problem is that my father never liked the strict demeanor of his parents, so he ended up studying far away and fell in love with my mother, after receiving their degree in economics, they decided to get married. The proposal of my father without consulting his parents was a clear stain in the relationship with his parents. To summarize, apart from my parents, my sister, and my best friends, Alex and Tobi, I don't have to care about other lives.

Arriving in the living room, I see my mother preparing a lasagne and a salad. Her lasagne is different from the traditional recipe, she prepares it with less meat and adds many different vegetables. My mouth starts to produce saliva from the simple imagining.

Me:"Hey Mom, where is dad?"

Mom: "He just left to buy some food for the coming days! We will eat around an hour. How are you feeling? "

Me:"Very good. Can I set the table?"

Mom: "Sure, but don't overexert yourself. The doctor said you shouldn't go to school in the next few days as school strains a lot of your brain."

Me: "I have already recovered in these 10 days, I would like to go back to school the day after tomorrow, the longer I am missing school, the more I will have to catch up."

Mom: "If you are feeling fine tomorrow, I won't say no. Can you please bring the compost outside?"

My father shortly arrived home and I helped to organize the purchased food and we finally ended up eating dinner. The family dinner was peaceful and we talked a lot before everyone finished dinner, I told my request about annulling my membership. My parents tried to change my mind, but I persuaded them by saying that I want to focus more on studying and that I will begin with jogging in the following days.

Finishing dinner, I go back to my room and use the time before sleeping to think about how to train for the coming fights.