Meeting the greatest programmer...

I was dead... being dead is truly hard...

I don't know how long I slept, but I opened my eyes again, to find myself in a wonderland that was bright, so bright, brightness that it hurt my eyes...but completely empty...no one around... I looked at myself to check if my body was ok or did I have to fix it with some glue.

but my body's visualization was alright. I tried touching myself, but I can't feel the touch...my hand passed through my body as if I was made of air... that was thrilling but fearful too...I vanished from the world... my degrees, my programs, and my achievements all are nullified,

I was not satisfied, I shouted...

"Is anyone here?" no answer,

"Am I the only one here?"

nothing... no sound...

"Why?... why am I here?"

I started crying louder... harder so that someone can hear me out,

"You brought it to you, Jack"

a bold voice echoed around me,

" Who...?? who's that??" I asked in fright,

"Please show yourself..!! what do you mean, I did it to myself, what did I do?"

I cried out

"Who are you to punish them, Jack?" that voice added in.

" was that wrong, they were all betrayers, I just helped them reduce their sins" I explained my deeds,

"How would you confirm that it was a sin?" but he was determined to make me wrong.

I don't have anything to say,

"Please show yourself, Are you God? or the karma? who are you?"

" you may not be able to see... me..."

that commanding voice continues...

"If you wish to see me you have to pass a trial",

"trial...!! What trial? is it a game? or a system? I am ready for it...!!" I said confidently,

"hmm.... let's go on your way,

it will be a system, just like the one you created,"

hmm, that's interesting,

"ok, so... what should I do?"

I was excited to hear the word system, after all, I am a programmer, a genius...

"you are interested, I thought you would give up,"

that was puzzling,

"Why would I?"

I heard a loud sound of laughter,

"ha... ha... ha... ha..."

Though I was threatened by that laughter, I wanted to know which ridicule system was that.

That voice continued,

" It's simple, you just have to enter the bodies of different people down there"

"What...!!" I was shocked, ' just', is it that easy?

"So are you giving it up?"

I thought it through,

"No, I just want to know more about it"

"you are braver than I thought, so this system consists of various levels, just like how your system was"

I was curious, curious enough to know if this death of mine could be abolished.

"Is this a second chance for me? can I live in that body",

I asked curiously, as I am familiar with the concept of reincarnation and rebirth from drama, movies, and novels, actually so many sources.

" No, it will not be a second chance, it will be a test every time"

"wait...!! every time... what does that mean?"

that sound weird, there could be even more to it,

it's better to confirm than be struck.

"you have to stay for twenty days in everybody you enter"

"What...! how many bodies should I have to enter?"

amazed, afraid, puzzled I can't express myself. I was eagerly waiting for the answer, 2,4,6,10..!!

how many?

He laughed again,

"until you find your answers"

I was dumbfounded,

"What do I have to do with that body?" I asked bizarrely,

" oh that's very simple, you just have to stop that body owner from cheating, from betraying their loved ones, this is what you used to do, didn't you?" it was said sarcastically,

"But How? can I have superpowers?"

I was excited, maybe, I'll be provided superpowers to control them,

"no, you'll live their life for them, the betrayer's life,"

I was disappointed,

"What...!, then how could I change it"

"you have to sort it out by yourself, that is simple, Jack, you just have to, control yourself not to cheat on, which they can't, which you hated the most," he said.

" so are you ready? or you're giving up"

I was confused, is it that simple, or will it be hard for me... but if don't try, how would I know?

Finally, I thought it through, I decided that I need a chance, to prove myself right,

It's just a matter of twenty days... will that be enough for me to stop them.

"Ok, but I am curious, who those people will be?" I asked him just to know, how my life will be once I agree,

He laughed again... that was louder than the previous one.

"let's try it out, Jack...!!"

That light got stronger, making me feel dizzy, and just in seconds, I was blacked out...!!

MY FIRST TRIAL...

I opened my eyes, and it was morning light that make my eyes sore, I was laying down in the sky, it was like a forest.. a deep forest, my arm was painful, but why?

I remembered that accident, so am l back to my body?

But to my surprise, I was hit by an arrow and my attire was like royal attire,

I got up from there to know where I was and looked around, but I couldn't find any traces of people,

the pain was real, my body was touchable... so it happened for real,

my blood was oozing out of the wound and because of that, I felt dizzy again, but before I fell, I saw a beautiful young lady in a historical outfit come running to me,

"My lord," she said in concern,

" I fainted in her arms".

The next time I opened my eyes was in a small cottage, made of wood and dry grass. I saw around, a girl cooking something in the corner of that room, on a wood stove.

"hey ", I don't know her name, nor my name, I just want to ask her.

She came running to me,

" My lord, you are awakened"

my hand was better now and was tied with some herbs and a cloth over it, I asked hesitatingly

"Who are you? and why are we here?"

She was puzzled,

"My lord, you didn't remember?"

I can't say what my story was, but I just acted according to the play...

"Maybe because I fainted just now, I don't remember anything, you can help me"

She sat down as if showing respect to me,

"lord you are a duke, I am your humble maid "

"duke..!!!"

I exclaimed out of shock, she stood up at once,

"Did I say something wrong, please forgive me, please have mercy "

I understood that I just scared her.

"no don't Panic, I just can't remember a thing about me, sit here, and tell me, who I am and how did I end up here?"

I asked her to sit on the bed beside me but she insisted on sitting down.

"you are Duke Edward, you were injured in a battle you fought yesterday, I am your humble bath maid, I bought you here to hide you from your enemies,"

Duke Edward, I heard it somewhere, but where...

I was surprised to remember that I read it in my history text at my school, I am in history now, I got the game, and I asked her,

"Do I have two wives, are they alive?"

Her blue little eyes opened big, she seems to be surprised,

"No your highness, you are married only once, and she is healthy and alive"

so I am before that period when the incident happened,

I read his story back then, he betrayed his pregnant wife and his betrayal made his wives die, but how I don't know exactly, as per I remember, he has two wives.

He was no good, I hated him, that was the first time I resented someone.....

But what I have to do in his body, it's said he was a characterless, a pervert, who slept randomly and caused his wife to commit suicide.

If she is alive then I have to make sure that she'll not commit it, and that he doesn't do anything... well that's easy...

Is it the first test... well I think I passed...but is it really that simple...

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