I think I kinda died

In a day like any other, the sky was as blue as ever and a lot of people keep coming and going in the streets. I, on the other hand, am simply sited on a bench with a Japanese katana beside me looking at the sky. The many buildings reflecting the sunlight and the noise of the cars don't seem to bother me at all.

The sun has a rainbow around it and it's pretty beautiful to observe, especially when you don't have anything better to do. I'm a 27-year-old unemployed man, who isn't even trying to find a job.

My name is Kin Yun and people nicknamed me Ky, in the beginning, it bothered me but now I'm used to it. You might be wondering why I choose to stay unemployed or why am I sitting on this bench looking at the sky with a Japanese katana, right? Well, that's pretty simple, it all started on the day of my first job interview 5 years ago.

-5 years ago-

On that day Ky was late for his job interview and he was trying to get there as fast as possible, so as a man with no car of his own, Ky called an Uber but there was a horrible traffic on that day so Ky decided to leave the Uber and go running, it was a great opportunity to work at the gaming company that created all his favorite games, luckily he attracted their attention with his last project at University. It was something he couldn't miss but he still let himself sleep too much, anyway on his way to the company while running, he was in such a hurry that he didn't notice the truck coming when he was crossing the street and then he died, or so he thought but the reality was a little bit different.

He was there standing as the truck passed by and all the people around had turned back and white losing all color but only the people, the builds and other objects remained the same being as colorful as ever.

when he tried to call out to someone or touch them, he would be ignored and his hands would go through them. He easily panicked and kept trying but soon gave up, even animal didn't seem to be able to see, hear or touch him. He didn't any understanding of what was happening until he heard a voice.

"Young man, you sure have little luck.... To have died in the exact moment of the law revision, I didn't even know that was possible." Said the mysterious voice with a pitying tone.

"What? Who are you?! What do you mean by 'died in the exact moment of law? Revision?'." Said Ky totally confused by the new information, he had already recovered from his panic and had decided to understand the situation he's in.

"Oh yeah, I keep forgetting you mortals are slow to catch up, such pain to have to explain everything," Said the mysterious voice with a troubled tone, not wanting to waste its time explaining things.

"HEY! You can't just say something so crazy and then talk like it has nothing to do with you! You have to explain things starting with your identity." Said with the air of an unfaired person since he believes he has the right to know what's going on.

"Ok, ok, chill man I'm just bored of having to do this all the time." Said the mysterious voice trying to justify itself.

"Didn't you just say you didn't know this was even possible?! Just tell me what's going on!" Ky said very dissatisfied with the lack of care demonstrated by the mysterious voice.

"Fine, fine, you really have no patience. So, you said my identity huh? Yeah about that, you're not qualified to know it and I'm not just being arrogant, you'll literally get hunted down for knowing who I am, especially in your current condition." Said the mysterious voice sounding as bored as ever.

"Just explain what you can then!" Said Ky while containing himself not to explode, he's already in a seemingly complicated situation and he doesn't need complicated people or whatever this mysterious voice is to deal with right now.

"Just listen then, cause I won't repeat." Said the mysterious voice with a troubled tone.

He simply nodded since at this point he had almost given up trying to talk with that creature.

"So basically, you should have died ran over by the truck." The mysterious voice said making Ky start to question if one could call not dying ran over by a truck unluck and just when Ky was starting to think so the mysterious voice continued to speak. "But you died in the exact moment the mortal world was mixed with the shadow world, so instead of dying, you were transferred to the shadow world."

Receiving this information new questions surfaced in his mind but only one really mattered for him.

"What is the shadow world?!" Ky asked the question that set him to the beginning of his new adventure.

-back to the present-

After asking that question Ky got answered that the Shadow world is parallel sub-world to the human world. In. The shadow world where there are a lot of dangerous creatures and sinners trapped by superior forces like that mysterious voice, that is the place where he has been trapped for 5 years with the mission of exterminating the most dangerous creatures there in other to leave this place.

"Well, I'm done with all their dirty work" Ky said with a hopeful expression.

Not long after receiving this mission Ky understood that they were using him to clean up all the dangerous things that could one day disturb and destroy the human world putting his life in danger in exchange for his freedom.

After spending these 5 years in the shadow world he learned a lot. In basic, the shadow world has nothing to do with shadow and was called this way because they liked the name, it would be more accurate to call it essence world instead. Everything here has an essence called shadow soul energy, the shadow soul energy not only quantifies how strong you are in comparison with others it's also the base of everything in the shadow world and even the currency depends on crystalized shadow soul energy.

The problem is that even though shadow soul energy is everywhere it's not that easy to get yourself more, everyone has a preset quantity of it in the beginning, and to get more you have to absorb the shadow soul energy in the air but how fast you can do it depends on your shadow talent, that is something that is set in stone and can not be changed. The higher the shadow talent the better chances of survival you have.

When Ky got to the shadow world he had zero shadow talent but he had what they call a shadow trait in exchange for having no talent he has an special/unique ability that changed everything, the essence extraction. This ability has many diverse uses but his favorite is to steal others abilities and talent, that's the method Ky used to climb to the top of the shadow world.

Right now Ky is resting after defeating the last and strongest of his enemies up until now, if it weren't for the healing skill he has, right now he would be full of scars and even missing some members but fully considering things had he not gotten regenetative ability he would have died long ago.

But Ky now looks better than ever despite the many death or life battles he's a decent looking young man with good black short hair, beautiful deep purple eyes, a hard to believe soft black tanned skin that would be impossible without the regebetative ability, decent height with 1,76m.

"It would be nice if I at least received a reward for all my work" Said Ky in a sarcastic way, he knows very well that he won't receive anything for his efforts but as long as he can maintain the skills he got in the shadow world it would be already too good. While Ky is having his fantasies he's interrupted by a familiar voice he hadn't heard in a long time.

"I'm surprised a crybaby like you didn't go visit his family right after finishing." said the same mysterious voice from before but this time he could see a body, in fact, it is a handsome young man and he's not alone there's another handsome guy and two beautiful ladies. If it was Ky from the past he would have stopped staring at the ladies completely lost but he has gained resistance to it over time, believe it or not, many of the females he met in the shadow world were beauties at least until they turned into their monster form and even Ky would never admit it, he found some of them sexy even in the monster form and the greatest exception were those who looked even better after transforming but those are thoughts that will die with Ky since he believes that, what happens in the shadow world stays in the shadow world! But of course, such a thing would not stop him from bragging about his achievements there when he could, if there's anyone who would believe him of course.

"I'll visit them after you take me back to the human world, I've finished all of them, now send me back." Ky said calmly not minding his words.

They all burst into laughter and Ky looks at the serious and they all stop.

"Oh.... You're serious.... How do I explain this?" The young man who is the leader and who talked to him the first time seems to be having trouble finding the words to explain Ky's subtitle situation.

The girls simply look at him with eyes of pity which makes Ky angry since he's guessing where this is going but he controls himself and decides to wait for the answer.

The young leader wouldn't say anything so his companion who doesn't seem to care at all spoke on his behalf. "You're not going to the human world ever again, once you enter the shadow world you can never enter the human world again, you become banned forever. When he said we would take you out of here he meant to another world at your choice, besides you kinda died in the human world so there really is no point, I don't even know why you thought you could go back." Hearing those words Ky looked at them coldly and asked.

"were you the ones who created my accident or was it really an accident?" This is a question that has been in his mind ever since the beginning and he's asking now.

"It was an accident and I never told you that, you could go back to the human world." the leader said sincerely feeling guilty for his own carelessness not mentioning something this important.

Ky actually already expected something like this, when he was first trapped here he was told there was no way out unless he made a contribution for the world management association these young people in front of him work for, otherwise, he would be trapped there forever, those are rules that have existed since the beginning of everything, but the details of how long the rules existed since the beginning is something Ky himself doesn't know and he has hate against the higher-ups that command this association. Even though he never got to actually work he knows that many times the employees have no choice and can only execute orders, and the leader of these young people is also the one who gave him the special ability that allowed him to survive and complete this crazy challenge. So he has hate towards the higher-ups but can't do a thing about it, all that frustration stops him from acting nice towards these young people that are probably not guilty at all.

Ky sighed and said "Just send me to a place similar to the Shadow world but even more amazing and full of possibilities. Also, I wish to maintain my current skills and this Katana" even if he fought these people, what would he win? Nothing! Would he be able to go back home? No! So the best he can do is accept things, besides he can't say a new world doesn't sound exciting.

"Well, I'll do what I can bye" The leader was first calmly giving his fair well but the moment he said and Ky started disappearing, Ky ran to the young leader and gave him a full-strength all-out punch right in his nose making him fly some meters behind, then he immediately kicked the face of the other young man making him hit a building nearby, then advanced and slapped both girls at the same time real hard on their asses making fall flat on the floor with their faces, before completely disappearing with a smile and feeling refreshed, if it was not a surprise attack and the young leader actually wanted to fight back things might have gone bad for Ky but he got out unharmed and feeling at least a little better.

Some would ask why he attacked everyone? That's pretty simple, even though it's not their fault they all used him during this time to earn more benefits from their association, it's not the worst but it's still enough of a reason for him to blow off some stress on them, Ky is not an idiot and know their all stronger than him so his attacks even if all-out aren't that hurtful or so he thinks.

"Shit that hurt a lot! How did this get so strong?! The ability you gave him should make him this strong!" complained the young man while he got out of the hole made in the building with his body."

""That shameless pervert brute!!"" Both the girls complained while grabbing their hurting assets.

"Ok, I kinda deserved that one.... Wait! This is no good! Not again!" The young leader was laughing it out until he noticed something was wrong.

"What is it? Did his soul not handle the transmigration and he died somewhere?!" The young man said with expectations, at first he did really care but then he got kicked in the face real hard and it hurt as hell! So he's kinda wishing something bad happens to him, it's not full-on hate, it's similar to how students wish for the teachers to have accidents so that they can't come to give them lessons.

The girl simply looked at the young leader with evil grins that said everything.

"It's not what you're thinking... Did you forgot which day today is?" He said serious making the others get serious as well.

"It's the.... Don't tell me that?" The Young Man immediately understood what the young leader meant.

"Noctus? Zernox?" One of the girls said their names in the order they spoke and looked at them confused.

"Yeah, I don't remember anything special about today." the other girl added.

"That's only natural cause we are usually the ones taking care of it, there's no way you and Felnishia would know about it." Noctus said, being their leader, of course, he knows what they work with.

"Yeah, there's no way Trix and Felnishia would know. They don't usually come to the human world even less to the half-Shadow world, so this is only expected" Zernox said adding to what Noctus said.

""Do you mean he that?!"" Both the girls ask at the same having realized it.

"Yeah, he's really an unlucky guy." Noctus said while sighing.