Couldn't My Reincarnation have been more Cliche!

Chapter 2 (Broken Expectations) Part One

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[message pending]. . . . . . . .[Message received]

[would you like to access this message?] . . .

[YES]. . . . . . . .[NO] }


Looking at the new lines of text that appeared in front of me, I couldn't help but be a bit hopeful that maybe everything that happened so far could be reversed. However, as it was that phony Goddess who I was supposed to be saved by, I wasn't willing to pin anything more than that small hope on her.

Without much more thought I opened the message, as with a small flourish of colors and bright noises, I started to here a familiar voice in my head, though it seemed to be pre recorded.

System Voice message<

["Hey, so you made it out of my domain safely, great! I'm super happy for you, I knew you could do it. Yep, I was just joking about you having an incredibly high chance of poofing out of existence, yep, totally was, completely joking about that! And don't worry, there's no need to pay me back for all the amazing stuff I did to save you. I already got my payment when I took ownership of your soul, so no need to worry about any sort of interest on your debt. Aren't I just the best?! Eh, I guess you're probably making a face after hearing that, but don't worry, it was just a joke, or was it? No, it was, okay, okayyyyy, I'll stop playing around.

Anyhow no need to be so formal in our messages. I know it must have been hard thinking about what to say to me, but don't worry, even if it's intimidating to talk to such a wonderful Goddess as I, I'm really not the type to turn you to salt if you turn around or anything like that, just to talk to me however.

Well anyway, about your unpleasant situation, um, I'm sure I included some stuff to help you out if you ended up someplace unsafe, but I don't know how that could be the case. And uhh, I'm actually super busy right now with super important Goddess business, so uhh I-I um can't do anything more. Yeah, because of my super important stuff, it's super important, okay, so don't keep asking me to fix your situation because I'm too busy right now, and it's not because you ended up like way further than I thought you would, nope, that's not it at all. Well anyway, I'm sure you'll figure it out, you seemed like a tough cookie, and besides, if you made it there with your soul intact, you should have plenty of my power left to keep yourself alive, well, unless something crazy happened and you ended up somewhere with a Natural Divinity arou. . . nah, that's super unlikely, so it's probably just you doing something wrong, yeah, that's about it. Uhh, good luck!"]

As I read through the message, my face became cramped, and the hope that had previously begun to rise to my face was stopped halfway. I could almost hear that blasted goddess laughing to herself while sending this, thinking about how she could shatter what little hope I had left..

It's not like I had any "great" hopes for her in the first place. I mean, just looking at this system I had, it was clear she was incompetent, yet I didn't have my expectations so low either. So yeah, I guess I am a bit grateful for this message, since I almost went on thinking that she was at least in some way a goddess. Now I know she can't be anything but some fraud devil, and this world I'm in must be some punishment for how I lived my life. Even so, isn't this just unfair? I'm not even sure which religion I should have been following in my past life. But Isn't it unfair to say "My will be done" over and over again expecting me to pick a side?!

Furious now, I mentally pulled up the GSSL icon, and before anything more could cheerfully make itself known, I immediately accessed the message icon and sent something more to vent my anger than with any hopes of receiving results from it.

[You ******* Goddess, do I sound like I'm doing okay now? **** Stop joking around, you're a ***** ****, you know that? Is this all some sort of game to you? Am I so lowly to you that you couldn't even possibly care about me? Go **** yourself!]