Chapter 2: System Palava

I lie down for sofa for a while before the system finally show, as usual, e come late.

Na so system dey do as if na oga for NNPC. Me, I don dey used to the delay. I even carry pillow arrange for chest, just dey press phone dey wait.

This na our sixth run together.

At this point, I for say make I dey call system 'my guy'. Who else go dey see person waka die, resurrect, still dey cheer am on?

By now, we don turn old padi.

Sometimes I dey wonder if system no suppose dey collect salary, the kind loyalty e get for my matter.

[Host, sorry! I just finish meeting for headquarters, na im make I late.]

The way e talk sef, you go think say na one big organization dey behind everything. Headquarters ke? For where? Abi dem dey for Obalende?

I no vex. Wetin I wan do again?

After five deaths, you go just calm down for life. No need to vex for system wey no dey quick pick call.

[You dey okay? Sorry, last time your death rough small, but na the fastest and sharpest way.]

System voice get small pity inside. I just sigh. Na true, the thing sharp, but my body never fully recover.

[This time, make we reason am together! I no gree say we no fit win Tunde Ajibade!]

I wan laugh. Who system dey deceive? E get where stubbornness go reach, you go just bow.

The system just dey yarn for my mind.

E no tire to dey motivate person. E for just open motivational speaking for Instagram.

I don hear this one five times already. I no even get hope again.

Hope no dey my dictionary again. Na just dey move dey go.

"Wait, wetin dey happen?"

As I yarn so, my heart dey beat. Maybe system wan drop another wahala.

"Why target come increase?"

I no like surprise. The last time e surprise me, na so one Okada man nearly crush me for Ugbokolo junction.

"Bashir Danladi? No be Tunde Ajibade padi be that?"

I remember Bashir face. That boy dey always dey form classic for secondary school.

As I hear the system shock, I check the virtual screen for front of me. True true, things don change this time.

Screen wey dey always show Tunde Ajibade name, now two names dey shine—like two exam options.

Just as system talk, new name dey for the target list:

Bashir Danladi.

The name dey look me for eye. The thing shock me small.

Wetin this one mean?

E mean say na crossroad I dey now. Which lane I wan follow?

I fit choose between the two now?

Na real JAMB question. I dey reason say if to say na village, this one fit require family meeting.