Fallen (HIATUS)

2.1 - Keith Lennon

Legend:

. [System Speech]
. [System Speech in flashback mode of Host]
. 'Mind talking'
. Thoughts
. "Speech"
. "Speech in Surveillance"

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ARC 2: KEITH LENNON
Chapter One

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He was still sitting in front of his now clean desk where he found himself in after arriving to this world, morose at the information he found out.

The identity he currently occupies is Keith Lennon. An orphan. Somewhat of a loner. Not a great conversationalist. Has a quiet presence. He only has acquaintances and two best friends. He's a great person for him to occupy in other words as Keith has some of his preferred personality to be able to laze about. He also doesn't have the same controversial past like Allen.

In this sense, he could say that his System did a good job finding his new identity.

Unfortunately, Keith's occupation would not allow him to fully embrace his hobby in this world.

Being a teacher sucks. Literally. It drains all your energy and mind. This is not an occupation that would allow him to be lazy. This work would force him to work and fully commit himself to avoid triggering the OOC punishment.

I'm going to strangle that robot, he thought in irritation against his robotic System.

A teacher! He loathed this profession! He had to do everything right! His lazy days are reduced to limited times. It's preposterous! He grieved for his beloved sleeping time.

He suddenly misses his long, relaxing time back in his space. He was completely free there.

There is nothing he could do about it now. Once he had already hopped on in a world, the system's consciousness doesn't follow. The only thing that was left was the automatic functions he could use and checks his behavior.

The system only comes back when the match up was finally a success and he could leave. In that moment, he could arrange whatever it was the identity he was occupying wanted to happen if they died.

Therefore, he is once again alone in this world. He hoped that he found his target immediately to get his work started.

He wanted to leave immediately even more than his desire back in his previous works. At least being a florist and a boss gave him a lot of leeway. Being a teacher? To disobedient college students?

He'll go crazy soon.

Perhaps his targets are also teachers in this school? Or maybe students? He really hoped they are teachers and not students. He really would not want to meddle in the affairs of teenagers.

They are just so dramatic that they might just give him a hard time.

Currently, he has two hours of free time to waste before he had to go to his next class to teach English. Two hours. That measly amount of time only enough to feel like he'd just blinked.

Keith could not help but sigh once again. No use complaining about his current situation. What he should do is hasten this mission of his and all of this state with finding out who his target in this world is.

Maybe he could actually search them? Keith was pretty sure his target is in the campus as he transmigrated in this place. Being in this identity meant that he would bump into his targets sooner or later. Maybe the original Keith had already even saw them once, or talked with them.

After all, being a teacher meant interacting with people.

Interacting... He gave a sign of relief. It's a good thing he purchased the Communication Skill back when he was still in his space. If not he would have a hard time in this world.

Ah! Why a teacher? It's not even a good profession. You can't relax everyday! Your body becomes too tired that you'll eventually just drop to the bed when you get home.

Why teacher?!

I'll make sure I'm not a teacher next time, he promised to himself. He is going to tell that to his System when they see each other again.

Which might take a long time. He grimaced. His first world only took a total of six days. Too fast. He felt like that is because the plot between his target is easy. Too easy in fact that he barely had to do anything.

They did everything on their own. It's the best. He only spied a little, delivered the flowers once and done! He is good to go.

He wondered what happened to the woman who ordered the flowers be delivered to Evan? He then shook his head at his thoughts. No use thinking about it.

He is now in his second world. He had to focus and concentrate.

He decided that since he still has two hours of free time, he would start taking in all of this body's memory to avoid any unfortunate things from happening.

He doesn't like not knowing things.

"Ah!" he gasped. He suddenly remembered that in order to absorb all the memories of his identity in just a small amount of time, he had to take in the pain of overload of information.

He forgot to ask his System for any advice or things he could do to lessen the pain he would feel.

He could go the usual type of slow integration but he doesn't like that. He wanted the information to be immediately accessed. He want to be able to leave as quickly as he could and slow integration won't be able to fulfill that desire of his.

Because it's slow. One year of memory needs one month of integration. Keith is already 28 years old. That meant to be able to absorb everything without pain, he had to stay for almost 2 and a half months.

That is too long! He could decide not to take the memories and just scan all the important parts, but that was what he did in the First World and look what happened?

He got chased down by one of the original owner of the body's one night stand that he had not even known even though that's an important part of Allen's life simply because it was his first time being with a man.

What if he skipped something important again and this time something worse would happen, something that would cause him to fail? That would be a tragedy. He DID NOT want to face any punishments.

He STILL do not know his deepest fear! He hadn't even begun investigating it!

"Okay. You are being too agitated. Calm down. Breathe," he murmured to himself. He was the only one in the office. The teachers were already in their classes while the Student Assistants have their own classes so he felt safe babbling to himself.

This is the first time he ever felt such panic. The intensity made his hands a little clammy.

I have to absorb it all, he decided. He would just bear the pain. I'll just ask System about this problem later. Mind made up, he decided to do it right there in the empty office.

TBC.