Weapon manuals

Hero's chest moved up and down as he stared from side to side in frustrations. Due to his earlier shout, it attracted old man Hutchinson's attention to him and old man Hutchinson had switched off the radio.

"No! No! Sorry for shouting. I was just... Errm! Nevermind. I am ok." Hero said quickly. 

"We are about to reach at my home and if you don't feel well, just tell me and we will sort out the issue." Old man Hutchinson said to him with a caring voice. He laughed before he said.

"You know, when I was at your age, I was so stupid in that the girls would always make fun of me because I didn't knew how to woo them for myself. The more I tried to woo these girls was the more I became distant with them because they felt awkward around me and they didn't want to listen to my stories. To keep me away from them, the girls would usually look down upon me and make me a joke of the town. I was like a clown but I really needed a girl for myself, I was so desperate and the poverty life that I lived in only made the girls to disassociate with me. I didn't have either male or female friends because everyone didn't want to associate themselves with a weirdo like me..." The old man went on telling Hero about his past but Hero was not interested in hearing his stories, he closed his eyes and the system's interface surfaced once more.

[No response has been detected from the host.]

Right now, the list of weapon cultivation manuals was gone and in its place was a dark page. It was only a single notification that was flickering on top of this page 

[No response has been detected from the host.]

'Damn! Bastard! Didn't it hear me saying that I want the Curved Sword Cultivation Manual?' Hero was agitated. His knuckles dug into his palm and he wanted nothing but to hit the dashboard but he held himself in.

[The Host has lost the chance to select a weapon cultivation manual.]

[System will select a weapon cultivation manual for the host.]

'What now! This can't be happening right?'

Hero was left confused, helpless and irritated.

He had the chance to choose a weapon cultivation manual of his choice but when he did so, the system didn't respond to his need, right now, it was going to choose for him. Hero felt like he was being played with here.

'You could have just chose a weapon cultivation manual for me from the very start, why show me the damn list?' Hero wanted to shout so that he could release his frustrations but he didn't want to scare the smiling old man.

The list of the weapon cultivation manuals surfaced again and the pages flipped quickly and as they did so, Hero could catch a glimpse of many weapon cultivation manuals that he had never heard of.

'The Knife cultivation manual, Bill hook cultivation manual, Scimitar cultivation manual, sickle cultivation manual, bow and arrow cultivation manual, spear cultivation manual, glaive cultivation manual...' The list was endless. Hero saw several weapons that he would have chose if he had time like the glaive cultivation manual but he could only wish. The choice was now with the system and Hero didn't have the control over it.

Finally after a few seconds, the flipping of the pages came to a halt and then the red bar went through the weapon manuals on the page until it came to a stop at the selected weapon cultivation manual.

"No! No! No! This can't be! Impossible! I am finished!"Hero hollered with a defeated look. He didn't even want to look at the interface again as he had now opened his eyes.

Hero was more than frustrated. He felt like the weight of the world was now upon his shoulders. The system was not helping him but it wanted to finish him.