Chapter 25: Side story 2: Of death and rebirth.

*POV Will*

Why did my life go this way? I though as I opened the door to my extremely small apartment. The neighbors were complaining and arguing loudly. I don't care about them as I go inside and lock the door.

I push a bunch of empty boxes from my way, as I see more envelopes on the ground. At this rate, I'm going to run out of money, and then what? Even thinking about when that happens is terrifying.

I prepare my instant ramen and sit down and open my phone. No messages. I ignore that and just watch videos.

But I can't escape anymore, and halfway through the video, I just stop it and throw my phone away out of frustration.

Why? Why did everything go wrong?! I'm going to run out of money, then I'll be homeless and that'll be it. I still can't find a job, and soon everything will be gone.

I wish I had someone I could talk to, I wish I could have someone to love. Is it really living when you are just wasting away like this?

I am tired of this. I had one chance in life, and I blew it. Hahaha, what is it with me and blowing my chances? I'm always asking for second chances.

As I was crying, I grab a pistol that I had, then I aim it at my head.

I just wanted a second chance, I wanted to right all my mistakes. If only I could get a second chance.

And then I had pulled the trigger.

An ever expanding white space was around me. But this was extremely strange. I should be dead, but I can still think and see. So is this a mental ward or something? No, I did feel the bullet going through my head in those final moments. I am definitely dead, so this must be the afterlife.

[This life of yours was ended by your own hand. It is saddening that you have taken it due to financial difficulties, and feelings of loneliness. But suicide is not the answer to adversity, it will not help you. And I shall not bestow judgement upon you. Instead, you shall be reincarnated.]

Wait, do you mean that... I can have a second chance? I can live again?

[This encounter will be erased from your memory, and several riskful memories shall be omitted, in time you shall get them back. Your psyche is stable, so the information regarding these memories will remain.]

I can finally have a second chance, thank you whoever you are. You were the first to be able to give me a second chance. This time, I'll live my life to its fullest!

[Integrating "Appraisal" key.]

[Creating "Forbidden" barrier.]

[You shall now be reincarnated into an ordeal of the highest possible degree, since all must face their adversities. It will be painful, difficult. It may not appear immediately, but it will come with time. And when it comes, never give up. Do not let despair control you.]

Wait, what?! Adversities?! What do you mea-
And then everything went black.

Ngh. Where am I?

My head was feeling really heavy, ugh, I really want to move. I start squirming around, and then I try to touch my face. When I do that, I feel a small soft hand touching my face.

Wait, am I a baby?! I-I really was reincarnated! It wasn't a hoax... I wanted it to be true so badly. And it was.

I started crying from that realization, when I look back on it. I wanted a second chance to fix everything more than anything else. This time, I'll improve, and I'll never make the same mistakes that I have done before.

Well, now I just need to open my eyes and see where I am, what world am I in now?

When I open my eyes, I see a high white roof, around me, there was an extremely fancy looking crib, with many pillows inside it. The rest of the room was incredibly wide, with quite a lot of books and wooden swords in it. But what I realized first, was the tall maid looking woman getting closer to me.

Woah, she was quite beautiful, I wonder if she was my mom? Judging by this room, I was probably just the son of a noble that she was serving.

She goes over to me then picks me up, she giggles at me and then says something to me. She then begins preparing to breastfeed me.

I recoiled slightly out of shock, which surprised her, but then she continued on trying to breastfeed me.

This time though, I don't recoil and I let her feed me.

You know? Maybe being a baby isn't so bad.

*POV Mia*

If only I hadn't met him.

Living with him was nothing but a constant hell, I can't handle this anymore, but will I be able to live without him? I don't know, I'm too scared of leaving him. I just can't do it.

Suddenly, I hear the sound of knocking on the door. Each blow on the door made me cower.

"Mia! Open this door now!"

"Mia! You better open the door now or you're going to be sorry!"

I can't live without him, but I can't live with him. So there is only one thing a worthless person like me can do.

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I already had a noose, but before dying, I wanted to listen to a song one last time. It was just the soundtrack of the first RPG I had ever played, but it was comforting for me, especially with the shouting and the door slamming.

And then I had jumped, and soon after, my vision had faded.

My vision was replaced with a white expanse that seemed to go on forever. Was I alive? No, there's no way, I didn't communicate with anyone except him for a long time. Did he save me? Maybe he did. But how do I know I am alive? There is no place on the planet that looks like this.

[You have taken your own life. It saddens me what happened to you by who you thought was your beloved, and he shall be judged upon his actions]

[But death by your own hand will not help you. None of your problems will ever be solved by that. I want to see you succeed, but giving up erases your chances of overcoming adversity and finding happiness.]

[Therefore, you shall be reborn.]

Reborn? I don't want that, I'm nothing without him.

[Psyche unstable. Riskful memories shall be omitted, in time, you shall get them back, but I will hide your pain for you until you are more prepared for it. Prepare for any personality shifts or confusion]

Huh? Then suddenly, I felt things missing from my brain, and these feelings had disappeared as soon as they had arrived.

I think I'm alright now? What happened though?

[You shall now be reincarnated, you will face an ordeal of great difficulty. But you shall prevail. For you have the strength to prevail. Never give in to despair, the pain you will meet with will be great. But you can overcome it, pain is only temporary, no matter how permanent it seems.]

O-Ok, thanks for the pep up talk, I guess? But wait, an ordeal?! I can't manag-

Then everything went dark.

Uuu, where am I? Ugh, why do I feel so heavy? Especially my head. And why can't I see? Wait, am I blind?!

I try to open my eyes. When I do, I see a crib around me, and a small hand in front of me.

So I really was reborn? Th-that is pretty unbelievable, but more importantly is my family okay? Are they missing me now that I'm dead? And where on earth am I?

I really want to go back and at least tell my family goodbye, to be able to talk to them again. But I can't, so I must at least get a hold of myself, and understand more about where I am.

...Looking around, I see that the bed around me had a lot of pillows. With all kinds of different patterns embroidered on them, such as flowers, and the mat of the bed was low and soft.

I look to the ceiling of the room and I see that it is high, and had a patterned roof of wood.

Wow, it's actually a pretty nice pattern, and the place looks pretty expensive. Does that mean my family is rich? If so, then thank god that I don't have to worry about money. Hopefully, you never know what could happen.

I move my head to the rest of the room to see that there was a person there, cleaning the mats that were laid on the floor. She wore a long flowing robe, with large sleeves, and a sash holding it in the middle. But the more important details were the long ears and horns that she had. Oh my god! Was this a fantasy world?! But what kind of creature would she be? Ears like an elf, but horns like a demon.

Wait, do I also have that? I move my hands towards my head, and feel around my head until I feel a pointy bump.

Then, I move my hands to my ears and feel a slight point. That settles it, that does mean I'm not human, and I guess I'm the same as her?

Does that mean she is my mom? Well, the clothes she is wearing are pretty humble in comparison to the room, so it's possible that she isn't my mom. I just don't know anything about this world to assume anything though.

The lady realised that I was staring at her, walked over to me, then she had picked me up. She then said something to me.

Sorry lady, but I can't understand your words.

I want to go down. Can you put me down so I can move around? I tried to move to tell here that I wanted to go down. Luckily, she understood that I wanted to move, and had moved me over and put me down on a mat next to some wooden weapons and books.

Looking around, there was nothing but books and wooden weapons. Did my parents really think that wood weapons are suitable toys for me?! That is really strange.

I grab one of the nearby books, and put it in front of me, I was pretty tired from this small amount of movement. Pretty pathetic of me. I ignore that fact and open this book.

In this book, were illustrations of what looked like a man with an aura around him. There were words written that I didn't understand.

Though the illustrations were quite good. The man looked like he was trying to sense something around him, then he took that aura around and inside him, and had formed it into a flame on his hand.

Was this picture book a guide? Did they want me to copy that? Well let's try it. The illustration showed that aura outside and inside the man, so let's try to find it. I kept trying hard to no avail. Looks like this is harder than it looked like.

That lady sees what I was doing and sits next to me and holds the book. She then started reading it for me, occasionally pointing at the illustrations and making noises or gestures with her hands.

Thanks miss, but unfortunately I really can't understand your words. Well, I'll just have to continue practicing what this book wrote, after letting her finish reading it for me of course.

It was a pretty long while, but she had finally finished it for me, after doing that, she had tucked me back into the crib.

You aren't gonna let me stay out huh? Fine, I'll just practice and then go to sleep.

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