All Chapters of KAI REBORN (The Seven System): Chapter 1
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KAI THE FALLEN 1
Kai Ricky: Bro, you should just cancel the match man Danny replied: Yes. Ricky: It's not worth it. You know how strong Chen is. He could kill you. The phone screen blurred as I scrolled through the groupchat, each message reminding me of how big the risk I was taking was. My thumb hovered over the keyboard. They were right. Of course they were right. Chen would destroy me. He’d proven that already, hadn’t he?But I couldn’t cancel. I wouldn’t. There was too much at stake. My chest tightened, and I forced myself to take a slow breath. Stay calm, stay calm. I took another breath in, then another. The wheezing started–the familiar whistle in my lungs, I was about to have an attack, that meant I needed my inhaler. The same inhaler which was now in pieces on the gym floor. I forced my eyes trying to push the image away, but it felt like an annoying buzz in my head that wouldn’t just go away. The way Chen grabbed me by the collar during training, lifting me like I weighed absolut
KAI THE FALLEN 2 (Saturday Night)
July 23rd 2020KAI "Kai, man, you don't have to do this."Ricky stood in front of me, His janitor uniform was still on—he'd come straight from his shift at the gym to be here. That's the kind of friend he was. The kind who showed up even when he knew you were about to get destroyed."I know," I said quietly. "Then don't." He crouched down to my eye level. "Chen Wei is a monster. You saw what he did to Marcus. Marcus was actually good, and he still ended up in the hospital for two weeks. You're—""I'm what?" I looked up at him. "Weak? Pathetic? A punching bag with legs?""That's not what I meant." Ricky's face twisted with frustration. "I meant you're not ready for this. Nobody expects you to be ready for this. There's no shame in—""There's every shame in it." I stood up, cutting him off. "I already told Old Man Zhang I'd fight. The money's already promised. If I back out now, I'll never get another match. Never.""So what? You can find other work. Real work that doesn't involve get
KAI THE FALLEN 3
kaiMy lungs seized completely. No air in. No air out. Just nothing. Pure, absolute nothing.I tried to gasp, but my throat had closed. My vision tunneled. The crowd's roar became distant, muffled, like I was underwater.Chen Wei didn't stop.Punch after punch after punch. My ribs cracked. My face split open. Blood poured from somewhere—everywhere. I couldn't tell anymore.I hit the canvas hard. The impact jarred something loose in my chest, and I managed one tiny, wheezing breath. Then another."Stay down," someone was saying. Ricky? Tony? I couldn't tell.But I could see.See Maya, standing there in that goddamn shirt.See Chen Wei, walking back to her, leaning over the ropes.See her reach up.See her kiss him.Right there. In front of everyone. In front of me, bleeding out on the canvas.She kissed him.And he kissed her back, his bloody gloves resting on the ropes, her hands on his face.The crowd went insane.Something inside me shattered. Not my ribs—those were already broken.
KAI THE ENCOUNTER (4)
KAII was falling.Not the kind of falling where you jolt awake in bed, heart racing. This was real. Endless. Like being dropped into a black hole that had no bottom.I tried to scream, but no sound came out. I tried to reach for something, anything, but there was nothing to grab. Just darkness. Cold, suffocating darkness.Am I dead?The thought came clearly, cutting through the panic. And with it, memories flooded back.I'm dead. I actually died.The falling stopped.I landed—not hard, just... stopped. Like someone had pressed pause on gravity. My feet touched something solid, but when I looked down, there was nothing there. Just more darkness beneath me, somehow holding my weight."What the hell?" My voice echoed, bouncing back at me from all directions.Then, light.It didn't bloom gradually or fade in softly. It just was. Sudden and complete, like someone had flipped a switch on the universe.I threw my arm up to shield my eyes, stumbling backward. When I could finally see again,
KAI THE REBIRTH (5)
KAI"Yes."The word left my mouth before I could stop it. Before I could think. Before I could understand what I was really agreeing to."Yes," I said again, stronger this time. "I accept."The seven figures seemed to shift, though they didn't actually move. Like reality bent around them for just a second. I felt something change in the air—or maybe it changed in me. Something fundamental. Something I couldn't name."Good," the center woman said, and I swear I heard satisfaction in her voice. "You've made the right choice, Kai Wang.""Then send me back," I said. "My mom needs me. My sister—""In time," one of the men interrupted. "First, you must understand the terms fully."My stomach dropped. "What terms? You said I'd get a second chance. You said—""We said you would receive power in exchange for service," the center woman said. "And you will. But service requires... specificity.""What does that mean?""It means," another woman said, her voice cold and clinical, "that you will fig
KAI THE REBIRTH (6)
INTERLUDE---The hospital hallway smelled like disinfectant and despair.Mira sat on the floor, her back against the wall, school uniform wrinkled and stained with tears. Her whole body shook with sobs that wouldn't stop, couldn't stop. Every breath hurt. Every second he stayed dead was another second her world crumbled."He can't be gone," she kept saying, over and over like a prayer. "He can't be. He promised. He promised he'd figure it out. He promised—"Ricky crouched beside her, one hand on her shoulder. His eyes were red. He'd cried in the bathroom ten minutes ago where no one could see, but now he was trying to hold it together for her."I know, kid," he said quietly. "I know.""He was supposed to save Mom," Mira continued, her voice breaking. "He was supposed to fix everything. That's what Kai does, he fixes things, he doesn't—he doesn't just—"She couldn't say it. Couldn't say the word "die" because saying it made it real.Danny stood a few feet away, staring at the closed d
KAI THE REBORN (7)
KAIIt was a dream. It had to be a dream.I stared at the words floating in front of my face—[SYSTEM ACTIVATED]—and blinked hard, trying to make them disappear. They didn't. Just hung there in my vision like someone had projected them onto my eyeballs.[INITIALIZING...][LOADING USER DATA...][DAILY TASKS PENDING...]"This isn't real," I whispered. My voice came out rough, like I'd swallowed gravel. My throat burned. Everything burned, actually. My chest felt like someone had parked a truck on it. My ribs screamed with every breath.I looked around the hospital room, trying to ground myself in something real. Beeping monitors. IV poles. Tubes running into my arms—one, two, three different lines. A catheter I definitely didn't want to think about. Heart monitor showing a rhythm that looked way too erratic to be healthy.And that damn glowing text still floating in front of everything:[SYSTEM INITIALIZATION COMPLETE][WELCOME, KAI WANG][LEVEL: 1]"No," I said out loud. "No, this is—I'
KAI THE REBORN (8)
KAIKAII tried to lighten the mood. "So, uh, did Chen Wei at least look cool doing it? Should I be honored that I got killed by the next big thing?"Nobody laughed."Too soon?" I asked."Way too soon," Ricky muttered."Chen Wei is an asshole," Danny said flatly. "He didn't even stop when the ref called it. Tony had to physically pull him off you.""Yeah, well." I shrugged, and immediately regretted it when pain shot through my shoulders. "I knew what I was signing up for.""Did you though?" Mira's voice was quiet. "Did you really know you might die?"I looked at my sister—her tear-stained face, her school uniform wrinkled from days of sitting in hospital chairs, her hands gripping mine like I might disappear if she let go."Yeah," I said honestly. "I knew.""And you did it anyway.""I had to.""No, you didn't!" Her voice rose. "You didn't have to—Mom wouldn't want you to—""How is Mom?" I interrupted, needing to change the subject before Mira started crying again. "Is she okay? Does
KAI THE REBORN (9)
KAI Two months.I'd been in this hospital for two whole months, and today I was finally getting out.Parts of me had healed—the ribs were mostly better, the lung was working again, the worst of the bruising had faded to a sick yellow-green color that almost looked normal in the right light. But other parts... other parts were still broken. Just not the kind of broken that showed up on X-rays.I sat on the edge of the hospital bed, staring at my phone. It had been charging on the nightstand for weeks, powered off, ignored. I hadn't had the courage to check it. I hadn't wanted to see the messages, the missed calls, the evidence of a world that had kept turning while I was stuck in this room doing push-ups and fighting with a system only I could see.But today was different. Today I was leaving. And I needed to face whatever was waiting for me out there.I pressed the power button.The phone vibrated to life, and immediately—immediately—notifications started flooding in. Hundreds of the
KAI THE REBORN (10)
KAIRoom 412.I stood outside the door for a full minute before I could make myself go in.It wasn't the first time. I'd visited Mom almost every day since I could walk again, sat in that hard plastic chair next to her bed, held her hand, told her I was fine even when I wasn't. But it never got easier. Not even a little.Every time I walked into that room, I saw her getting smaller.That's what diseases did to people. It didn't just attack your body—it shrank you. Made the woman who used to fill every room she walked into shrink down to something that barely took up space in a hospital bed.I pushed the door open.The room was quiet. The only sound was the steady beeping of her heart monitor and the low hum of the IV machine dripping medication into her veins. Curtains drawn halfway, letting in thin strips of afternoon light that made the whole room look pale and washed out.Mom was lying still, her eyes closed. She looked small under the white hospital blankets—impossibly small for t