The darkness began fading into a golden brown. The light was increasing in intensity as it pierced through the translucent skin of my eyelids.

The sound of flowing water swelled as I began to regain feeling in my hands and feet. The sound of water sprang from a fountain where I laid, and the hands and feet I controlled belonged to that of a newborn baby. I was crying; but these were not tears of a baby experiencing birth. Rather they were tears of joy from achieving a lifelong goal.

“It’s real… Isekai is really real!”

In front of me stood a blonde priestess in a white robe. She had a gentle smile and extended her hands to caress me. A bishop beside her nodded his head to signify his approval.

I threw my entire body around in a bout of euphoria.

It is immediately clear to me that I was reborn in some church setting with their clergy's summoning ritual. Plans and plotlines started flooding within my head. Images flashed as I divinined my future:

Develop my holy magics early using my Isekai experience Gain a strong foothold within the church using my abilities Establish my relations within nobility to increase my societal standing

I had already mapped out my next one hundred moves the moment I grasped this scenario!

As I was engrossed in my own celebration with laughs unbefitting a newborn child, I felt a wet cloth stretch over my mouth.

“Eh. Is this part of the baptism ritual?”

I tilted my face inward to feel the warmth, but then… the cloth was pushing harder and harder against my head.

“Woah, this is a little rough for handling a baby”

I tried to push against the cloth to relieve myself but my struggles were met with even greater force.

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There was a limit to how trusting someone can be! I finally realized -

“This bitch is smothering me!”

I struggled as best I could but it was futile. How could a baby ever overpower a grown adult? I felt my lungs heaving, trying to grasp for any semblance of oxygen. My heart rate was skyrocketing and I could feel my vision blurring. This can’t be how my life in another world ends…

“Painful. This is so painful…”