SECOND DEATH– A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

Just as the light subsided, my vision blurred in. That God had sent me away so abruptly without a warning.

"Boss, he's awake!" A masculine voice said catching my attention, I looked around my surroundings to notice more than seven muscular men, some glaring some warily staring at me. It was then I noticed that I was tied to a chair in the middle of an empty... warehouse?

"You amaze me Henry," A man with peach colored hair and purple eyes, wearing a costly looking pink suit said as he walked up to me with a smirk on his face. Compared to the others, he was less mascular but he still had a really good build.

"Even without your powers you were able to take down fifteen of my best men." He continued, "I guess I shouldn't be surprised after all you're the strongest infinite. Mere fancy magic tricks won't stop you from being the best. Unfortunately I will have to end you today." He said as his smirk turned into a wide grin.

". . ." I was silent trying to process what was happening. How am I in a situation like this? Aren't I supposed to be a new born baby, what kind of situation is this? My mind was a mess but the problem was that I was too calm for my liking. I didn't show any atom of fear in my demeanor.

"Ho? Fearless as ever I see," he said as he brought out a strange but very dangerous looking gun. It had this technological design to it, the type of legendary guns in those shooting games.

"I finally did it brother? What do you think of my life's work. All those years, in all the lives we lived, all the galaxies we survived and all those time you spent conquering everyone of them, I spent my time creating a gun that can kill infinites forever, that can kill you. Isn't it great," He said excitement was clearly heard in his voice.

"Don't worry, it's been tested and it's trusted. You're going to be this baby's next victim. Honestly, you have no idea how many millennia I have dreamt of this day, it was easy and luck played a huge part in it." The man said.

He pushed the gun closer to my head and fear enveloped my mind. I wanted to scream and tell him I didn't know what was going on, but no words came out of me. No, it was more like I couldn't say anything.

I was struggling to talk but nothing happened, and I thought the only problem was synchronzation and it was a bad time for me not to fully synchronize I need to clear the air, heck I think I was reincarnated in the wrong body.

After not getting a reply from me I noticed his smirk was replaced by a dark emotionless expression, just like the ones I had on my face.

"Tch, still the same, always think you have to act like the elder brother. PS, unlike regular guns this won't grant you a quick death, oh, it's pain is heart wrenching and even worse than getting stabbed thirty times in the heart... So you better brace yourself for the torture"

"You have to do more than that my dear little brother. I have faced the gods and all you want to end me with is just thirty stabs, you're still softhearted that's why you're the little one."

'...' Did I just say that? No, it was the body that spoke. What the hell, I haven't possessed him yet, why do I share the same senses with him, I can smell and feel the stinging pain from his injuries, what exactly is going on here?

"Give it up, you can never be like me or even has as me. It's not something the likes of you can achieve. You want me to commend toy you spent years working on? Sorry I don't have trophies for trash." What the heck, this guy... He literally has a gun to his forehead and is spouting this nonsense, come on dude apologize.

"You disgust me, I can't stand your egoistic attitude. I wish I could keep you alive and torture you more, but, I have business to deal with, I don't have time to play with you, so sleep tight, I hope you scream in the nightmare of darkness." The man said still with his dark expression as he pulled the trigger.

The pain...it was worse than anything a human could feel...it was... something I can't explain...

...

I was back in the universal space again. Speechless, I just stared at the space before me, my thoughts frozen for a second.

"I... I died again?" At that moment the celestial being appeared.

"Oops, that was a very bad timing. I thought they would kill him sooner. Didn't know they had more dialogues to read through," he said, his hands up in surrender. I was too traumatized to even ask questions. After dying twice in a day, who wouldn't be?

Although it took longer than you could imagine, I was finally able to calm myself down so I could think logically about the situation. Surprisingly the celestial being was understanding and had the patience to wait.

After dying twice it's hard not to learn anything from it. I understood that he reincarnated me into a living person, and he doesn't care about my life, this could be dangerous. Very dangerous.

"I have a question" I said, perhaps dying twice has it's perks since I get to ask the question I wasn't able to ask before.

"Uh... what's with you and questions, fine go ahead"

"I'm this world I hope I'm allowed to play by my rules, I'm don't want to play a hero nor a villian. Do I have this freedom?" It was something important for me to know, for survival, it's going to be near impossible having a bounty on my head as a villian and as a hero, I would be expected to lay my second...third life for people who I know not.

I'll just be as selfish as I can with my life, no hero nor villian, just there for me.

"The sole aim is to survive you can be a hero or a villian if you want, your choice. And leg me tell you something boy, you might be reborn into a fantasy world, but everything and everyone there is real. It's a world separate from your dimension." He said. I didn't think much of it, since all I have to do is survive. I don't exactly need to kill anyone either.

"Aren't you supposed to register me as a player first?" I asked.

" You're already registered here's the proof " a blue translucent screen appeared before me with my name written as his player. His name was censored and so was every information regarding him. It was too suspicious.

"Come-on are you second guessing yourself? You think I'm suspicious? Do I look that irresponsible to you?" I feel like he already knows what my answer is going to be.

"Come on don't hold grudges. It was a honest mistake." Honest he calls it. Mistake he calls it. Tsk, how annoying.

"Let's go. This time no mistakes." I said, I had little time and time flow from here and there I'm sure is different. I had to get moving.

"It's a promise" he said and again I was covered in light only hearing his laugh echo.