Chapter 1 - Life is Nothing...Nothing is Life.

26th November 2019. This was the fateful date that was reported in many journals. The reason why this date was a significant one was due to the death of a boy who was nearing his 18th birthday. His name was Ethan, an orphan... determined to do his best to achieve heights high enough to fill his parents, who he had never met, with great pride of him.

The latter was enjoying a rather peaceful life, even if it wasn't always so smooth. He was, at times, living a considerably unfortunate life, but all of this misfortune was discarded the moment he was killed by a person. He didn't understand what that person was trying to tell him, but that confusion didn't last long before the crazed man unsheathed a knife from within his jacket and struck towards him, killing him without a single moment to spare.

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Ethan found himself in a vast, seemingly endless space. He was greatly confused at the situation he had come across and couldn't help but think of reasons behind that man arbitrarily claiming his short-lived life.

He had a dream, one he wanted to achieve before reuniting with his parents. As such, he believed that he would feel immense shame if he were to meet with them as it was now. Fortunately, however, this confusion of his didn't last that long as, having read an almost infinite number of novels relating to Isekai and novels in general, he internally wished 'Maybe I will be reincarnated into the world of Danmachi... I would have to achieve something more than that if this was the case…' As he finished this thought, an unexpected voice resonated within his soul.

[Do you wish to be reincarnated?]

The voice that echoed within him was extremely mechanic, such that even a robot would be put to shame.

["Can I?"]

At the end of his words, the voice, in a way similar to the previous inquiry, repeated

[Do you wish to be reincarnated?]

His thoughts were beginning to race to get a better understanding of the situation, but the voice wasn't kind enough to give him any time. Instead, it continued to resonate and identically repeat the same message in a way similar to the previous one. It continued to echo to the extent that his soul began to tremble each time the voice spoke. With this circ.u.mstance, he acknowledged that the voice wouldn't leave him any luxury to think, so he firmly stated.

["Yes. I wish to reincarna--"]

Before he was even able to finish his words, the voice abruptly cut him off from making any further remark.

[Processing the soul for reincarnation...]

[Do you wish to be a male or a female?]

["I want to be a male."]

[Understood, creating a male body...]

The feel of his flesh, bone and blood, being constructed around his soul was something that Ethan couldn't fully understand. Before the process had started he hadn't even realized that he didn't have a real body and was merely wandering around as a tiny soul in the ocean of emptiness. After a couple of moments, as the process had ended, the machine began speaking once again, this time with a voice that seemed less robotic.

[Your wish to be reincarnated into the world 1042, titled {Danmachi} has been authorized and granted by God. You will receive, at the start of your new journey, me. Since the reincarnation into the designated world was rather taxing, you didn't obtain any additional reward more than a boost in your potential. Essentially, God granted you a [Blessing]. This will be listed as one of your skills within the Status Board. When you awake once more, I will introduce myself properly.]

Upon hearing those words, his consciousness started to fade into black.

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(A/N: This is the Prologue…know that I will explain his past and his looks, and other things of him later in the story.) (Ch 15 explains everything)

(I have a discord server. discord.gg/cpVr5X8 If you enter it, you can choose one of Ethan's future powers from the pool I created, but that's not all! On the server, you can see the reference on some things that will be present in the story! Right now you can freely see some things but I advise you to read the story further before seeing them otherwise you'll get spoilers!)