What's happening? Why do I have such a terrible headache? I don't remember playing LoL again in the last twelve months.
"Aaargh…"
Also… where the hell am I?
Looking around, just the bed I'm on and the table lying beside is enough to tell me this isn't my room.
Shit.
Did someone kidnap me?
Don't tell me it's some psycho trying to change my gender. Ever since I watched The Assignment, that has been one of my nightmares.
I immediately moved my hands to my pants.
"Phew~"
It's still there.
After calming down a little, I forced myself to focus. Panicking wouldn't help.
First, let's try to remember what I can. Maybe that will give me some clues.
My name is Jason Todd. An orphan living with a foster family. I'm smart enough to get a scholarship and I prefer keeping to myself. My classmates see me as a nerd, which… isn't exactly wrong. I'm just a nerd for fiction.
My main hobby is reading fanfiction.
In fact, the last thing I remember doing was reading one. It was a Marvel fanfic where the main character transmigrated as Harry Osborn and had a Gacha system.
Okay… everything sounds normal so far.
Except…
There's something else in my head.
More memories.
Memories that clearly don't belong to me.
Jason Todd.
No… not me.
Another Jason Todd.
We had same name. We. Because that guy definitely isn't me.
Just like me, he's an orphan. But instead of spending his nights lying in bed reading stories, he spends them jumping across rooftops in the city wearing a costume with a bird-themed nickname while acting like some vigilante.
Robin.
Wait…
Isn't Robin supposed to be a comic book character too? One of the most iconic sidekicks?
Or maybe not anymore.
Because these memories… they're far more detailed than anything I ever knew about him.
They're personal.
Fuck.
I transmigrated as Jason Todd.
Don't panic. Don't panic. Don't panic.
Shit, how am I not supposed to panic?
Sure, I like reading isekai stories, but I never wanted to actually be part of one. I was an atheist, but even then I always prayed that I would never meet Truck-kun during one of his multiversal delivery routes.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Wait a minute…
Isn't the big G the real deal here?
"Please… please, if you can hear me, send me back!" I whispered desperately. "Look, I'm not responsible for whatever happened here. I swear I didn't make any deal with some eldritch being or anything. This must be some trick by a ROB or something."
"So please… don't take it out on me and just send me back home."
I waited for a few seconds.
Nothing happened.
With a sigh, I took a deep breath and forced myself to calm down.
Alright.
If God isn't going to help me, then I'll have to figure this out myself.
From now on…
My survival depends entirely on me.
And for that, the first step is understanding this world better. I closed my eyes and focused on the memories again, especially the ones related to Robin. I had expected accessing them to be difficult since they weren't originally mine, but strangely enough, I could go through them as if they had always belonged to me. Every memory was there. Clear. Accessible.
I would still need time to properly sort everything out, but at least I could gather the general information for now. Bruce had taken Jason in after Dick left. That part matched perfectly with what I knew from my meta knowledge.
I skimmed through most of the second Robin's adventures. Right now, I wasn't interested in every patrol or mission. What mattered was the most recent event, the one that led to his death.
Although the police didn't officially work with Batman, some officers still cooperated with him behind the scenes. The most obvious one was Jim Gordon.
And Joker, being Joker, decided to have some fun by targeting him and his family. The result was devastating. Gordon's daughter was shot and left paralysed from the waist down.
Seeing Barbara in that condition had filled Jason with rage. The anger pushed him to go after Joker, determined to take revenge for what had happened to her. But instead of revenge, he walked straight into Joker's trap.
He was captured. What followed was brutal torture at Joker's hands. And in the end, this world Jason Todd lost his life.
Although I had always liked Damian more as Robin, seeing the torture this Robin went through made it hard not to feel a bit of pity. Even until his last breath, Jason had believed that Batman would come and save him.
That belief… never came true.
I was about to dig deeper into the memories when something suddenly caught my eye. A faint shine from the side of the bed made me turn my head slightly.
There, on the small table beside me, was a bottle. No… not exactly a bottle. It looked more like a small test tube sealed with a cork. Inside it was some kind of black liquid, thick and dark, almost like ink. It honestly looked like a potion. Also how did I ignored it till now? Was it because of headache.
Carefully picking it up, I froze for a moment. Right then, something entered my mind. It wasn't a voice, but more like information suddenly appearing in my thoughts. It was knowledge about the thing I was holding. According to that information, drinking the liquid or whatever it was would give me something which would be useful to me.
Does it mean I will get franklin richards power?
Also with the way the bottle is present here, does it mean someone is behind my transmigration.
The idea shocked me for a second. But only for a second. Without hesitating any further, I pulled out the cork and drank it in one go. I was in the DC universe now. The chances of dying here or dying again were countless times higher than in my previous world. Whatever I might get from this, it had to be better than having nothing at all. As for the possibility of it being a trap or some kind of trick… I honestly didn't have the luxury to worry about that. This world wasn't a place where playing safe would keep you alive.
As the tasteless liquid slid down my throat, a strange clarity immediately filled my mind. I instinctively understood what I had obtained. It was an ability that allowed me to obtain things from across the Omniverse and more.
"Huh… isn't this basically a Gacha?" That wasn't bad at all. Though, if I were given choice a harem system would've been pretty nice too.
I chuckled at my own ridiculous thought before focusing on the new ability. A holographic screen appeared in front of me, floating in the air. One interesting feature of this… whatever it was… seemed to be that I could choose what form it should have. Since I had always liked system novels, my brain had automatically shaped it into the familiar system-style screen.
Jason Todd
Race: Human
Characters Assimilated:
Fully Assimilated:
– None
In Progress:
[–None] [–None]
Powers:
–None
Items:
–None
Cards:
–None
A completely plain profile. Still, I could more or less guess what each category meant just from looking at it. Instead of overthinking it, I decided to check the second page. There were four pages in total on the interface. The moment I thought about switching, the screen flickered slightly before shifting to the next page.
Points: 1 (1 Point = 1 DAY)
Exchange Mode: (1 Point = 1 USD or equivalent)
Mode:
Free Mode: 10 Cards / 1 Point
Normal Mode: 1 Card / 3 Points
In-Setting Mode: 1 Card / 6 Points
Hmm…So there were two main ways to obtain points, which were then used to draw cards.
The first method was passive. I would receive one point every day, meaning that in a typical month I would have somewhere between 28 to 31 points, depending on the number of days.
The second method was through money exchange. I could convert money directly into points at a rate of 1 point per dollar. However, there was a limit, I could only exchange up to 100 points per month through this method.
Then there were the Gacha modes themselves.
The first one, Free Mode, gave ten cards for just one point, which was incredibly cheap. However, the downside was obvious, the card quality would likely be much lower, and the probability of getting something powerful would be extremely small.
The second option, Normal Mode, required three points for one card. It was far more expensive per card, but the quality would probably be much higher.
The third option, In-Setting Mode, was even more costly. Each card required six points, and the cards drawn would come specifically from the world I was currently in. In other words, DC-related rewards.
That was literally double the cost of the normal mode, whose pool seemed to include the entire Omniverse.
While the first mode gave the highest number of cards, their quality would likely be mediocre at best. The Normal Mode, on the other hand, seemed much better for steady growth. Even though I would get fewer cards, they would at least be useful enough to strengthen me.
Under normal circumstances, I would definitely choose Normal Mode to develop my abilities faster.
But right now… I needed something immediately.
Something that could at least give me a bit of security.
So instead of saving points, I decided to test the Free Mode first.
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Card's Suggestions
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AN: I am changing the first two chapters since I didn't like what and how I wrote before. I will edit it by today. Also adding image of the card's is your all responsibility since I am too busy to do that.