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KingOfDeath--Sterben t1_iu4dwvi wrote

(my English isn't that good)

Well, that's a rather sad way to die, choking on a fish bone. As I was approaching the light at the end of the tunnel, I found a locked door, what's with the EA up in here.

In front of the door, there were the words: "Entering the afterlife:

  1. Be vegetarian
  2. Be vegan
  3. If points 1 and 2 are not applicable, a special qualification will have to be given, living the final 24 hours of the life of every vertebrate you are"

"Why vertebrates?" I thought to myself, there are a lot of other animals that aren't vertebrates, what's the deal here? Also, this seems awfully against people who aren't herbivores...

Fine, I'll take the special qualification as punishment for not being an herbivore even though my body is built for digesting meat also.

In an instant, I find myself as a chicken, I'm not going to describe it in too much detail as this will just be my body for the next 24 hours. Luckily, I get to control my body, that would have been boring if I only got to watch the life of the chicken.

Interestingly enough, the life part only existed until I was about to be killed, so there's no pain involved, not sure what the punishment is here. The kill also always happened at the end of the 24 hours, why must this be a plot point damnit.

Some interesting things I learnt in my 8000 days as a chicken... What? You don't wanna hear about that? Fine.

And... There's fishes also, I guess they're vertebrates too. Not sure I learnt that in science class. I'll have you know that knowing one of the fish that killed me is gonna die in the next 24 hours made controlling the fishes way more fun.

This special requirement really just grouped up all the animals as one species and made me live through it in order from the highest number, they could have mixed it up y'know? For the variety of course.

Apparently, I've also eaten 80 rats... Yeah, good thing I'm already dead and I don't have the bodily functions to throw up.

As the view faded to black again, I was waiting for the next 24 hours that I had to live through. As the lights focused, I realised I was in a bed.

Hmmmm, rats I understand, but I don't remember eating somebody's pet, there's no way it could have gotten into my food right?

I looked down at myself, seeing a body that's definitely a human.

Oh my god, I've eaten a human?

Wait nevermind, that's my shirt and bed, I'm in my own final 24 hours?

I could try and give an explanation for this, humans shed dead cells, I might have eaten parts of myself, but seriously, those requirements are way too strict. Is that why I've been getting so many days? Because of cells from other animals? Are you kidding me?

Doesn't that mean I can get days from animals that weren't even actually eaten by me? It's just dead skin droppings?

This does bring up an interesting question though, while my death is definitely confirmed in the next 24 hours, does this mean I'm working in the alternate reality? Where anything I do doesn't change the outcome? If so, there's really nothing for me to do this time, I can enjoy my opposable thumbs and start playing some of my favourite video games.

As the 24 hours finally ended, I finally got back to the locked door, in high energy. The door swung open and...

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The_DeathDuck t1_iu4s6lk wrote

"HAPPY CAKE DAY!!!" They yelled, happy that they successfully pranked me, the only problem was that... I didn't know any of them.

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