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Rebirth

There was a wall in front of me or should I say where I was facing……

I turned to my sides, what I could see was nothing but vertical bars similar to those in a jail cell. Am I in prison?

I quickly removed that thought and kept observing. Something was covering my body, it was warm but it was a little heavy. I couldn’t move my arms for some strange reason. I tried again and again but it was only small movements. It could be because I was tired or perhaps since I had woke up from a long sleep.

I could only my head, so I kept turning and simply looked. After a while, I heard some sound. It was a small but familiar sound….ah it was movement from footsteps.

(Someone’s coming..)

It was a female …..human? She looked quite young, maybe about 10 years old? But she was larger than me, could humans grow more than 7 feet?

She gazed at me and started smiling, her hand was nearing my face. She was poking my face with her finger. Stop poking, I am not some animal.

She stopped. She was still smiling and she quickly turned to her left and yelled.

“??????????????”

I couldn’t understand what she was speaking, but she had a loud voice. After a while, I could hear the sound of steps again but this time it felt like they were rushing here.

This time there were two people who appeared in front me, they looked like giants much bigger than me. One of them I could confirm as a female but was much taller than earlier one and other a male. The female also seemed quite young and the male had facial hair.

Slowly the females hand came for me, I tried to wriggle my way out but I still couldn’t move my body the way I wanted. She held me in her arms and looked at the other two who were present. They started speaking, but I couldn’t understand the language.

I thought they were dangerous at first, but they didn’t seem have any intention of harming me rather they were gentle and kept watch over me. I finally realized why I couldn’t move my arms, they had shrunk. It wasn’t that they were giants, it was me who the Lilliput ……rather I was much larger when compared to that story though.

I tried to speak but it was futile. I understood that this body which I was currently in was an infant’s, then the people I saw would be my parents. I still doubted this, but I understood this was somewhat similar to when I shifted my consciousness to my cloned bodies. I didn’t experience any pain so I didn’t notice. But after observing a few hours more and calming down I was aware of my surroundings.

I was still puzzled as to how my body had changed. I knew that shifting the consciousness of a person was possible but only if it was the same exact body type. It was similar to overwriting the memories of a person, the first time I did it was unpleasant and I couldn’t feel any other emotions but pain. I had lost the feeling of happiness, satisfaction and anger , almost all emotions which made me a living being.

But I could somewhat feel them now, even though I lost them a long time ago I remembered how it felt having emotions. I believe there was such a theory called reincarnation but it was never proved during the time I was living or prior to it. And I am sure enough that I was the only one who shifted his consciousness as the technology I had used was a lost artifact I obtained through my means.

Though I can’t confirm it right now, I will assume that reincarnation has taken place yet with my memories being intact. Reincarnation should’ve never allowed a person to keep their memories or so what the theory had been stated during my previous life. It could be something else but for now I will focus on gathering more information.

-----5 days later-----

Although not much improvement was seen, I was slowly able to understand the words my family spoke. Only bits and pieces were what I was able to comprehend. They used sign language to speak to me, like pointing at themselves and announcing their name or doing the same pointing at certain objects.

I suppose this is how interaction with an infant would occur. I learnt my family had consisted of 4 members including my self, one was my mother whose name I believe was Olivia and my father’s name was Dari. I was able to learn their names whenever they shouted and that person appeared in front of me. I suppose the other girl who was younger than them would be my older sister, she pointed at herself and kept repeating the same word which would probably be her name, Sara.

--------20 days later--------

As the days passed I understood how my family interacted with me. Olivia would come to check on me every few hours and would feed me. It was actually easier to cry when I was hungry than say anything else so I did just that. Olivia had blond hair and she looked really young to be my mother. I sometimes thought maybe I was adopted but I would simply ignore it, since I couldn’t come to a conclusion. A normal person would feel weird when being breast fed thinking he maybe adopted, but I followed what a normal baby would do and simply took my nourishment.

Sara would come and every time she would repeat a few words, these same words I heard whenever Olivia or Dari came to see me. I thought maybe it would be what you would call a baby in this language, but I thought it would be too weird if they did that. Naturally when handling a baby, calling it by its name would be best way for it to recognize itself. So I finally found out my name, the name given to me by my parents of this world. It was Orian.

---------Two Months Later ----------

The days went by and I was feeling really bored. All I did everyday was sleep in my cradle, be fed by Olivia, Sara always seeking my attention as she took me in her arms and walked around the house although this actually helped me and Dari always snuggling me onto his half grown beard. All of them got really happy when I simply smiled and made dumb noises which was all I could do at that moment. Don’t start thinking I like these making stupid noises?

But now I could finally make small movements, my hands felt more free and I could crawl on the floor. I crawled all over the house even though the floor was made of stone, it wasn’t rough to hurt my skin. Olivia would bend a little whenever she saw me crawling, call my name and slowly wave her palm back and forth like you would call a dog. Whenever I saw this and came to her she would get really happy and hold me leaving aside whatever she did.

Sometimes I would see this and simply go the other way, at which point she would get quickly depressed. Hey I am certainly not a sadist, it was just testing her reaction.

But being a baby isn’t easy, why do I excrete within the clothes they have bound my lower part to. I can’t really hold it and my clothes get soiled this way. Its truly embarrassing for me, a long lived adult who didn’t suffer this even when I reached old age. Since I can’t stay in state and I can’t speak yet, I naturally start crying loudly so Olivia changes it. Whenever this happens Sara usually holds me and while I’m being changed I get the feeling she’s mocking me. I’m growing older Sara, I will have my revenge.

I found that sleeping on Olivia’s lap was incredibly divine, it was so warm and later it would be ‘feeding’ time. No, don’t misunderstand it’s because food is basic necessity. I don’t have any other ill intentions.

------One month later-------

Hmm….How long have I been in this infant form? I believe it’s been 4-5 months since I first awoke with my memories. I’ve pretty much understand the language my family speaks and I usually listen in on their conversations when I roam around the house. I didn’t get the chance to head outside though.

Since I’ve been eavesdropping …err I mean listening to the what my family speaks, I’ve gained information about them and about the outside. I can confirm that wherever I am, it’s a planet I’ve never visited before….no I shouldn’t say a planet since I can’t confirm if it even is. I know any planet from my previous universe wouldn’t exist as they all got wiped out during the end.

Seeing the clothes, the structures of the house and various household objects, I can guess this current world lacks any technology which would ease living conditions. There was something similar like this in my previous life, there were planets which only recently began evolving. There were tribes among them and shelter was lacking. But the conditions of this tell me that its at least advanced enough to not be in the prehistoric era in this world.

I still ponder whether me being a human when I was born again was a coincidence of me entering like this. Perhaps this was the new world which was supposed to be created next, then if that was the case maybe because I held onto my memories and somehow wound up here could’ve caused humans to also be born. I doubt that would be the case since that would involve many factors and not just my existence which would’ve made humans to be made here. Maybe in every cycle of the universe it was the same way and humans somehow appeared, I think that would be most likely as there were many planets in the previous universe where there were species resembling humans one way or the other.

I think I shouldn’t worry about this, as I haven’t even confirmed if this body is naturally human or not.

Leaving that aside, I finally stopped crawling taking my first steps to walking. Everyone was shocked, when they saw and they kept cheering to keep going. I already knew how to walk basically, I also knew proper posture to take so it would keep perfect balance on the body. But if I just randomly started walking like that, they would easily get suspicious. Some may even think I’m a genius or a monster. So I humored them by dawdling and falling like an idiot.

It seems this house is located in a village and the village is surrounded by a forest. Olivia always warns Sara whenever she heads out to not to go too far in the forest. It doesn’t seem like Sara has any means of protection and Olivia worries a lot about this. Worry not fair maiden, this knight will protect thy daughter. Though she’d be more worried more if I went with Sara in my current state.

It seems Dari is actually a merchant and sells goods by travelling to neighboring cities. He has to take the carts loaded with goods and Sara usually takes care of the horses whenever he heads out. The nearest city would probably take 2 days to reach since whenever he heads out , he comes back after 4 days. I assume there’s a safe path in the forest which he can access to safely deliver the goods.

Sara usually plays with me, whenever she’s inside the house. She tries to be careful not to make me cry since Olivia will end up scolding her. Should I do it? It won’t hurt me right? I could simply cry for no reason. I didn’t though.

I entered a room which Dari mostly resides during morning in case if he’s in the house. They told me it was a study room. It had a desk and a few books lined up.

Books…..why? Even though I never used them, it was a primitive method of storing information. Does this mean almost every time there will be a similar technology made when humans are involved? For now I’ll obtain the information in them.

I point to the notebooks and Sara who was with me glanced at them. She didn’t hesitate to bring a book and down and open them. Hey wait a minute, are you really going bring down a book in front of a messy child who cries and soils himself very often?

It looks like she herself was curious about the book, her eyes were glaring at the single book she had brought down. I think this was her favorite one, since she quickly glances over the pages and tries to show me the best parts. It’s not like I had data crystal I was highly fond of.

She places me her laps while she reads the content of the book from the starting page. She probably thinks I don’t understand it. She’s closing the book , I motion my hand in between the book and signal her to continue. She looks a little surprised but she continues reading since I was curious.

It was a book about the plants and animals which lived in the large region the humans had lived up till now. It was basically a encyclopedia. It described the region as the Carthos Continent and how lush the flora and fauna had been.

Sara started showing me hand drawn pictures of the various animals that lived here. There were many simple ones which were similar to the creatures which were found on the various planets I had been on. I was listening to her explanation about each one and after a few pages I finally realized.

It was a simple sketch, I almost thought the one who drew had no talent and he made great mistake. But I saw it and I knew that making such a mistake was impossible. The picture which I saw was of a three headed dog or wolf creature. It shouldn’t have shocked me though I hadn’t seen such a creature in my previous life. The reason it shocked me was because the information about that monster was what I had seen in the data crystal in the white room.

The chances of it being a coincidence were low and I had no doubt that I had been reborn into the next world after the destruction of mine when I saw two more creatures which were also described in that same data crystal. I thought that they should’ve been evolved as the information that God obtained could be from an earlier era, but the information described as such was that these creatures never evolved from their initial creation and the information on them was written collected from many millions of years into the future.

With this, I realized I was born as a living being in the next world.

--------Ten Days Later--------

Since I could walk now, I was playing with Sara at home. The main aim of the game was to catch or tag her. Since I couldn’t run quickly yet Sara goes easy on me but I still can’t beat her. She escapes at the moment i just catch her.You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you? Watch my special move, hidden speed.

I started sprinting, since I already knew the right steps to take to increase my speed, Sara was bewildered and started running quickly. Seeing the big sister run away from the little brother would be a weird scene if a normal person saw it and didn’t think they were siblings. I can’t believe I’m chasing after girls at my age.

I almost tagged her, but couldn’t. At the last step I lost my balance and fell. I did everything correctly yet I fell. Yeah, having a infant’s body has its disadvantages. It was mainly because this body wouldn’t be able keep up with stress I was putting on it. I should be careful the way I train this body.

Train?Why would I be training it? It’s simple. As soon as I found out where I was, I wanted to know more about this world. Everything from its inhabitants to its features, the alignment of its stars and planets, the different elements which were present. Why were there creatures existing which weren’t in the previous universe. What are the laws which apply here?

It was amazing. The excitement I felt, the happiness in being part of this family, the frustration of being weak. I could never feel them in the long life I held before.

I decided.

I’m going to explore every bit and detail of this world to my heart’s content and experience all the emotions I can feel in the life I can live.

--------Olivia’s POV-------

Ahh…Orian’s been quite active lately, isn’t he?

I was scared when he was first born, all he did was cry and sleep for a few days. Sara was more quiet when I had her. She took her father’s hair and Orian has my hair for his looks.

He learned to walk so quickly too. Sometimes I feel like he can actually understand what I’m speaking. Such a cute child, we’ll cherish him the same as Sara. I wonder how he will grow up to be in the future.

Awww….Orain’s being mean. Even though he was rushes to me when I call out to him. Today he just ignored me and smiled as he left. I should teach him a woman’s anger at being ignored in the future.

He gets along with his sister nicely. Hope those two don’t fight too much in the future.