10 Your First Ability (1/2)
[Invalid query. Try again.]
The System answers your question with its most favorite phrase.
You swore that the System must have its tutorial mode turn off. Otherwise, why couldn't you get a straight answer out of the damn thing?
”Inventory,” you call out.
[Invalid Query. Please Try Again.]
”Of course,” you curse. It was never that easy. You take a moment to calm yourself and rephrase your query.
”Can you please show me my Inventory?”
You have half expected a game window to appear in front of your eyes, but you were wrong.
A grid of 3x3 appears in your mind instead, follows by a migraine – which follows by cursing, by you.
”Fuck! Goddamn it!”
You try your best to ignore the pain and have a quick look at the grid – your inventory. The longer the Inventory remains in your head, the painful the migraine becomes.
You notice that there was a single item in the grid, sitting on top left corner. It was a golden treasure chest. Inside must be the reward for creating your first script. Now, only if you know how to get it out of your head.
The System really makes it hard for you, but after trying all sorts of phrases, moves and gestures, you finally got the damn chest out of your head. You had to stop every now and then as the pain became too difficult to bear.
The golden chest vanishes from your inventory and materializes in your hand. You feel its weight and the cool metal upon your fingers despite the hot weather. It is obviously gold – real gold!
Grinning like a madman, you place the chest made of solid gold on top of the desk in front of you. It is now sitting next to the typewriter and a pile of paper that is your screenplay.
”I wonder what I got,” you ask yourself and slowly examine the chest. If it is a shitty item, at least you could sell the chest to get some money.
Once you finish ogling the chest like a sexy lover, you open it, and within its confines, there is an apple – an ordinary looking apple from the look of it. There was nothing special about it. Maybe it is shinier than most apples you found in the supermarket.
Your raise a brow and pick up the apple. The moment you did, the golden chest fades away.
”No! My precious! My precious!”
You frantically try looking into your mind, at your Inventory but the chest is nowhere to found. It just disappears, vanishing away like it was never there.
You grip the apple tightly in your hand and nearly cry a river. All that work, and you got an apple. Of course, you know it likely isn't an ordinary apple. It probably gives you something if you eat it.
”Maybe it's a devil fruit?”
Your eyes immediately sparkled. Devil fruits are fruits that grant a person supernatural power from the world of One Piece, an anime.