A lone house sits on the edge of a tree line of spruce. It is almost completely dark inside except for the lit lamps coming from the bedroom and tinted window in the bathroom. It is still dark outside, the first signs of the sun's light barely shining over the horizon. Inside the bathroom running water can be heard as the occupant pours some water over their toothbrush before turning off the sink and beginning to tiredly brush their teeth. With their free hand they rub one of their eyes to get some smudge away. "I'll grab a sandwich when I get to the city before classes start" the person thinks. They contemplate for a minute what kind of coffee they'll get before deciding on just plain normal black coffee before spitting and rinsing their mouth with some water. They go downstairs with their bag ready and quickly put on some thicker boots and a large black overcoat. The mornings are really cold this time of year with all the snow, basically biting into your face when you walk outside. They're about to close their front door before they stop and rush back in, grabbing their ID card. 'Y/N L/N' it reads. Now with nothing else forgotten they begin their long walk towards the bus station.

The person walks in silence as they try to remember the day's schedule not wanting to get their hands and phone out their pockets to check in the cold. A bright headlight shining from behind by Y/N doesn't react. They just continue on their way towards the bus station, not long left, until a piercing metal shriek breaks Y/N's line of thought. A feeling as if lightning has just struck his body appears before it's all gone to complete darkness.

-

In a dark space between worlds and realities floats a lit screen. On the screen a counter is shown, slowly rising with a pinging noise.

[891,678,234,967...]

[891,678,234,967...]

[891,678,234,968...]

[891,678,234,969...]

[891,678,234,981...]

[891,678,234,981...]

The screen also depicts other windows with different names.

[Monitor Universe: 817H3]

[Reincarnator.EXE]

[Admin Call]

[Monitor Universe:Alp06P]
[Help]

[Report Tool]

[Paul's Homework (Richt don't touch)]

etc.

Behind the screen of this computer seemingly handling the reincarnation process of several worlds with billions of souls, sit a strangely normal person in appearance, boringly staring at the screen as the numbers rise.

They seem too bored to honestly care about the important process currently being handled and seem to be on the verge of falling asleep. Suddenly, a ring tone sounds out throughout the empty dark space.

*Click* "Yeah?..." the person behind the screen lazily calls out.

"U-uhm Boss, I'd just want to report that Entity Ad-" A squeaky voice akin to a fae speaks over the link before they're interrupted.

"Yeah yeah I got it..." The person responds with not a single sliver of interest, most likely not even listening to the other being.

"B-But what about t-the faulty-"

"I know I know, I got it covered" the bored person interrupts once more before rudely cutting the connection and returning to their previous task of doing nothing. (Spoiler: He ain't got it covered)

Somewhere else in the dark void a pipe can be seen running through the darkness. Inside the pipe that upon closer inspection is massive, being seemingly several kilometers in diameter flows an seeming river of shining balls of light. They are coloured all the rainbow colors and vary in size. Some are tiny while others dwarf everyone else taking up a large chunk of the pipe currently carrying the souls of several worlds. Along the pipe's length are other pipes branching off to other unknown places. Among this sea of souls the small soul of Y/N L/N floats along being knocked around by larger souls as they speed forwards. Through one of the secondary pipes leading to the main one two massive souls suddenly emerge emitting a huge wave of power as they make their way through the main pipe. The small soul of Y/N and the two giant ones continue forwards till they reach a sort of sorting mechanism that pushes the different souls into different pipes based on unknown factors. But worryingly one of the doors sorting the souls seem to have weird sparks flying off it. On the door the words "Class KT10 Souls" are written as it opens but seemingly only for some of the largest souls that travel down the pipe. Though as the sparks intensify as the door moves it seems to slow down its closure and some unlucky smaller souls seem to slip through the opening going down the hatch seemingly meant only for the strongest souls. When the two massive souls finally reach the end the door marked as Class KT10 Souls open and they go their way but once more the door slows down as faulty sparks fly in all directions and coincidentally, Y/N's soul just happens to float past in that moment and without control, his soul falls down the hatch together with the two massive souls.

As the three souls fall down the new pipe that gets continuously narrower they start to bump into each other. As the gap shortens more and more it seems as if Y/N's soul will be crushed until suddenly *Plop* the three souls merge into one massive ball of radiant light. The new soul's massive size instantly blocks the pipe as the pressure rises, until finally the whole pipe explodes and the new soul is sent out into the abyss.

Up by the man and the computer a notice suddenly pop up.

[Class KT10 Soul Pipe #46 Ceased Functioning]

[Class KT10 Soul Entity 'Adam' Failed Check-Up at Soul Station 2#]

[Class KT10 Soul Entity 'Lilith' Failed Check-Up at Soul Station 2#]

[Class KT0,2 Anomaly discovered in Class KT10 Soul Pipe #46]

"... Well... Shit...?"

End of chapter.