Chapter 18: Chapter 13 – A New Name and A new Beginning (2)

After Ken seemingly lost consciousness because of Zell doing something to him, he felt as if he was in a dream.

In the dream, he was drifting across an infinitely vast dark blue sky, filled with countless twinkling stars. He just drifted and drifted, following the current of whatever he was on, without any idea where it would lead him.

And then he woke up, feeling extremely uncomfortable. He felt as if his skin was many times more sensitive which made the air multiple times colder than he felt it should be. There was even a lot of... something on his skin. Was it mucus? Or some sort of slime, perhaps? Ken couldn't tell, but he didn't like it.

'This is so uncomfortable.' Ken thought. 'No wonder babies are always wailing like madmen.'

Ken somehow understood that he was a newborn baby at the moment. Zell had told him that he would be reincarnating into a baby's body, and Ken had read plenty of novels, most of them isekai types, so he naturally concluded that the intense discomfort that he felt, which made him want to peel his skin off, was from being a newly born baby.

'I thought I would be reincarnated into a baby that was already born, not into a baby that was literally getting pushed out of the womb.' Ken mused, with a hint of complaint. 'I don't really want to experience that again...'

To top it all off, his eyes felt extremely... clunky? In any case, he couldn't seem to open them. He could tell that there were a bunch of people around him, making a fuss, however, he couldn't really hear anything distinct. It sounded as if his ears were muffled by something, so he couldn't make out any words the people around him could've been saying.

'Oh! That's right.' Ken suddenly remembered something from one of the novels he read. Apparently, babies were supposed to cry when they were brought into the world, since they have literally never experienced anything more uncomfortable than being born. Ken felt like that made a lot of sense, especially right now. The novel also spoke of how it was worrying if a baby didn't cry, since it might have abnormalities, or it might be dead or sick. 'Guess I have to cry...'

Ken then tried to get his newly acquired vocal cords to do some wailing. Once he did, he heard what seemed to be joyous exclamations all around him, which meant that he had done the right thing. He continued crying for a while more, since it would be strange if just stopped right now.

'Oh... what's this feeling...?' Ken suddenly felt himself being lifted up. There was something soft pressing on the entirety of his body. The soft thing seemed quite elastic and held a comforting warmth. Ken unconsciously stopped crying because of this, and he decided to just enjoy the sensation. 'Hey... this is good. I could get used to this.'

In addition to the pleasant sensation, the smell coming off of the soft thing was also very pleasing. With both his skin and nose in bliss, Ken's mind couldn't help but sink into relaxation.

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Eventually, he felt what seemed to be a finger prodding his small hand. Ken felt that it had the same pleasant scent and feeling as the soft thing pressing on him, so he just grabbed it a bit. But then he realized something.

'The soft thing on my face has a similar smell and feeling to the finger I'm holding... and I'm being lifted up, so... This soft thing is a person's breast! Why is it so big? It can actually smother me like this? In any case, if the feeling somehow feels familiar, then the one holding me should be my mother...' Ken was a bit surprised by the massiveness of his supposed mother's mammaries, but he snapped out of it quickly. He decided to tighten his grab around the finger, since he felt that that would somehow make her happy, which was quickly confirmed to be true, since he felt a very melodic voice shriek merrily close to him. He then felt as if he was being lifted up and down for some reason. 'But that can't be, right? If my mother is the one holding me, then she should have just finished giving birth, so that can't be right...'

Ken just decided to stop thinking about it, since he wouldn't be able to find the answer anyway. He just chose to focus on what he could find out.

'Let's find out a little more about my new body, shall we?' Ken thought to himself. He proceeded to use [Supreme Insight] on himself, with the goal of finding out as much as possible. 'Since my eyes are closed, I'm looking at my own eyelids, right? Which means I'm technically looking at myself. It should work! Please work!'

A semi-transparent blue screen showed up in his vision.

 

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