Beyond The Fallen Sky

"[Sir…Sir…Good afternoon, Sir…]".

"...Ughh…that was…. pretty hellish…. how long did I pass out?".

"[ 1 hour and 30 minutes, Sir…and I am pleased to inform you…that the Transition Process has successfully completed…. all without an issue...]".

"Thank you…System…".

I passed out for an hour and a half, quite a short span of time, thankfully. The pain of the process really wrecks my entire body, it was the kind of pain that I would never want to feel again, it was even worse than getting stab or getting shot, and that pain, I also got a lot of stuff as well, as well as knowing that the previous owner of this body, is a massive jerk.

".…System…I am sure that you can access my memories, right?".

"[Yes sir, but only with your permission…. Memories are a personal secrets and rights…and as a dutiful servant, I won't delve in it unless you want me to...]".

".…. Thank you for that…. after all that I went through…. I am now more inclined to trust you more a little bit…".

"[Thank you, Sir.]".

".…Can you delve into my new memories…and picked out all the important ones and arranged them accordingly…".

"[Understood, Sir…I get to it at once, Sir…]".

While my imitation Alfred do that, all that I can do is just stared at the ceiling of this ramshackle shack and think about what is going on. My previous self, got the same name as mine, Azrael or Azra, I prefer Azra. The difference between him and me, is that this guy is a massive muscle-head jerk. A son to a common woman that were raped by a Savages man, his mother died upon his birth, the father was, a rapist belonged to a group of irredeemable humans, called the savages, the sort of people that known as the evil bunch that just destroyed the people beliefs on hope of a better days. They killed, robbed, raped some even indulged in cannibalism, the kind of people that should be shot to death upon encountering them.

That is this previous owner father, but thankfully, he was raised by his mother community, a normal human settlement with a slight order and restraints. By gene, he was strong and resilient young man, trained from a young age to become the settlement fighters, and he did just that. On his teens he became a guard of the settlement, and his late teens he decided to become a Scavengers, a profession that required a person to leave the safety and the comfort of the settlement to hunt and scavenge the wasteland, for food or valuable items, to trade for money. The adrenaline of fighting and finding treasures kept him going for years, but this man, is an idiot.

Instead of just keeping it safe and just aim for making a fortune, instead he throws everything that he gains from his scavenging works, to drugs and alcohol. Like a barbaric buffoon, those drugs use and alcohol made him a known volatile man, he kept destroying stuff in his drunken stupor, makes problems. He then had to pay for all that trouble, diminishing his funds, yet he kept on doing it. And then come to the ultimatum, one day he was injured to the point that he was barely alive and survived after he was attacked by a group of scavengers. The lives of one a proud strongman shattered in an instant, he was now a disabled man with a crooked leg, yet since he was living inside a kind community, the settlement arranged something for him.

That arrangement is for him to passed on his seeds and gave the community an offspring, since he was a strong man, the settlement hope for another man like him. But because of his reputation and his well-known financial situation, not a single woman wanted to marry him, the guy was disabled, obnoxious, short tempered and still thinks that he was a hot shot. So, no one's desires him at all. He was messy and really unattractive; he is an idiot that doesn't know to temper his anger or even keep himself clean. So, he falls from a strongman to nothing in a single swoop.

Luckily, the customs of this worlds forced the people to no matter what, had to contribute to society, repopulate the earth no matter in what fashion or order. And thus, the settlement that he was in, married him to a woman, a wife so at age 29 years old he married. But this guy was not thankful at all that he got married to another person that can take care of his sorry ass, he was bitter and angry, why, because he was married to an undesirable woman, a widow. On this earth, a woman above the age of 30 are already seen as undesirable, why because the chance of getting an offspring diminish greatly. This world followed the earth old style of family values religiously, so all that jazz apparently, so he married a widow, of age 37 years old, and she is also a clone that was freed from slavery. Adding all the wife 'undesirable factor, he just went dickhead.

Not knowing that he is no longer needed by the community, the fact that the settlement married him to an undesired wife already a big say that they just pity the man. Like a petulant child, he's action getting worse, he indulges in drugs and alcohol like always, using his wife as his savage sexual release and forcing her to work so that he can snatch all the money and use it to buy more drug and alcohol, food or the matter of the house, he didn't care. If something were missing in the house, or no food on the table, he beat his wife although he was the one that were wasting the money the entire time. A deadbeat husband, that I really hate.

But despite all this, his horrible action and personality, where he deserved to be beaten to death. His wife, Natasha, did not leave him at all, she stayed with him, dedicating herself to him fully. Lovingly take care of him, she bathed him, feed him, brought money to him, any problem he because she was there to apologize to anyone, kneeling on the ground for him. She got up in the morning, cooked for him, fetch water for him and goes to work and only come home at 10 in the night. Despite her tiring schedule, she still caters to his needs, if he needed sex, she would indulge in it too, no question asked.

So, in this aspect he is certainly lucky to meet and married such a good woman like her. No matter what shit he threw at her she would never run or betrayed him, yet his petulant grown ass child still complaining and acting like a jerk, he deserved to die to say the least. This world just decided collectively to go back into the medieval ages in terms of their societal norms, economy and technology at some part. There's guns and stuff, but no more heavy stuffs like missile, why, it is because the people don't know how to use them at all. All the knowledge and wisdom just slowly disappeared, those with the knowledge tend to keep it to themselves and never shared them.

Even butchery and farming become a secretive business that only owned by families, that knowledge become their trademark and pride and they hold it to their graves. The world had become so harsh that people resorted to cannibalism and mud pies, animals mutated to become monsters, radiated lands, zombies, mutations, everything on this land can kill anyone easily. It a world where strong eat the weak, quite literally, and for a cripple like the previous owner of this body, his place is far below the food pyramid, and he even dragging his family with it.

".…what a mess…. Sigh~…. this guy doesn't even know where he lived…even worse…the deadline for his debt is nearing the end...we would be evicted from this shack….".

"[…. Sir, I completed the task…. I have arranged all the crucial information from the previous your memories. And highlighted those that would be useful to you….]".

"Thank you…by the way…the previous me….is a jerk right?".

"[…he is certainly a barbaric person, sir…. unlike you at all…I believed you would do better here than him, Sir…]".

"Thank you for that compliment, System…".

"[you're welcome, Sir…]".

Even the system agreed, the previous me left a massive mess for me, and that is all the damage, and the alcohol he consumes had left me with a massive debt, that would eventually result on me and my wife be kicked out of this settlement. This shack is inside a barricaded settlement, meaning it was relatively safe, but now, since I haven't managed to pay that debt, me and my wife would be kicked out of this settlement. Which is a very quick way to die, out there in the wasteland is ruthless and with my cripple body and a wife, we probably ended up dead pretty fast.

".…Setting aside our shitty situation…. System…Hmm…it is hard to call you that title again and again, when we are basically on the same boat…do you have a name?".

"[No sir, I do not…and I do not mind about it…but if you wanted to name me…I am honored to be named by you, sir…]".

"Alright…since you resembled that character so much and you even like him…. you are now Alfred…my trusted A.I/System butler…".