The System That Grants a Playful Life
I let out a long sigh, slumping deeper into my chair. "Haa... Isn't there anything fun to do?" My name is Beomseok. Right after turning twenty in 2022, I enlisted in the military. Two years later, I was discharged and now, at twenty-two, I was bouncing between job interviews in a desperate hunt for employment. The moment I got home from yet another part-time interview, something strange began to echo in my head.
With a 0.000000001% probability, you have acquired the Playful Life ability.
"Huh...? Playful Life?"
What the hell? Playful Life? Is this the same thing I read about in those web novels?
I decided to test it out in my head. 'Playful Life!'
The moment I shouted the words internally, a system window materialized right in front of me.
Applying Playful Life.
Accessible worlds: Pokemon. One Piece. Naruto. Bleach. Oshi no Ko. Inuyasha. Yu-Gi-Oh. Demon Slayer. Detective Conan. ……
"Whoa! These are all the anime worlds I used to binge-watch!"
"You're telling me I can live a playful life inside these anime worlds?"
Playful Life ability has been activated.
Creating Exclusive Dimension.
The Exclusive Dimension is a space where time does not flow. Even if you enter a playful world, time in all other dimensions except that world will remain frozen.
Raising the favorability of characters from the playful worlds allows you to invite them to the Exclusive Dimension.
To preserve the world's flow, any character summoned to the Exclusive Dimension will be forgotten by their original world.
Characters summoned to the Exclusive Dimension can be taken to other playful worlds.
However, you may only summon up to 10 beings from other playful worlds at a time.
Points are awarded based on the favorability of characters in playful worlds. These points can be used to purchase items for yourself, the Exclusive Dimension, or within the playful worlds.
If you die in a playful world, you will return to the Exclusive Dimension 30 days before your death in that world.
Displaying Beomseok's status window.
Name: Beomseok
Strength: 5
Intelligence: 3
Agility: 3
Sexual Stamina: 1
Points: 0
Acquired Abilities: None
Owned Items: None
Point Shop: View
Damn… Listening to the voice in my head and staring at the status window, it really felt like I could travel to those playful worlds. I had no idea how to use the ability yet. My apartment wasn’t very soundproof, so yelling out loud would be embarrassing. I just muttered it inside my head again.
'Playful Life!'
The instant I shouted it internally, everything before my eyes was swallowed by a blinding green light. My very existence began to vanish from reality.
"Ugh… My eyes hurt… Where the hell am I?"
When I opened my eyes, I wasn’t in my familiar room anymore. An entirely new landscape stretched out before me. A vast green meadow rolled endlessly, and right in the middle of it stood a single-story mansion. So this was the Exclusive Dimension?
"This… This place is the Exclusive Dimension?"
I walked toward the mansion and pushed open the door. The interior unfolded before me. It wasn’t ridiculously huge, but the living room alone was over fifteen pyeong, with four separate bedrooms—each around ten pyeong. There was also a kitchen roughly five pyeong in size, complete with a sink and a gas range with a built-in oven. Since this dimension had just been created, the place was completely empty except for those basic fixtures. It was basically a blank canvas of a house.
"So I can summon characters from the playful worlds here, huh?"
Gulp…
In my wildest fantasies, I had always dreamed of building a harem with all those beautiful female anime characters. I could hardly believe that dream might actually come true. Then… where should I start?
Since I was completely alone in my own private world for now, I didn’t bother keeping it internal this time. I shouted out loud.
"Playful world!"
Please select a playful world.
Oshi no Ko. Naruto. Pokemon. One Piece. Yu-Gi-Oh. ……
"Alright… So which world should I go to first?"