AHHHH I mentally scream to myself my eyes my poor eyes. Wait why do I feel cold now, as all these feelings and sensations rush to my brain, a giant screen pops right in front of me

Name: Unnamed

Race: Baby octling

LvL: 1/5 (0/10)

HP: 5/5

MP: 0

Strength: 1

Vitality: 1

Defense: 1

Agility: 1

Endurance: 1

intelligence: 3

Rank: O

Status: Normal

Titles: [Reincarnator]

Unique skills: [Multi-limbed lvl 1] [Posionous beak lvl 1] [Ink Cloud lvl 1]

Skills: [Acid shot]

What the... this all looks like a game menu screen, wait WHAT, baby octling? Am I an octopus, was I an octopus... n-no I was a human right. As I think about whether I was a human or an octopus my eyes finally adjust to the light. To my horrible my horror I can confirm that I am indeed an octopus.

Woah this feels kinda weird I say as I start to move all 8 of my hands? No tentacles in different directions. Wait if I’m right I have to shout out something and the screen should come back. Immediately I shout out menu.... huh, nothings happening do I have to say it again? I then begin shouting menu in my mind, trashing my tentacles and snapping my beak, after 3 or 4 minutes of this grow exhausted.

why isn’t this working, I’ve said menu a thousand times by now, could it be that I’m saying the wrong thing? I think as hard as I can trying to reach out for another word other than menu, Window? No, Screen probably not... Status! That’s it, it has to be status. I then try shouting status in my mind and low and behold the screen pops up again.

Name: Unnamed

Race: Baby octling

LvL: 1/5 (0/10)

HP: 5/5

MP: 0

Strength: 1

Vitality: 1

Defense: 1

Agility: 1

Endurance: 1

intelligence: 3

Rank: O

Status: Normal

Titles: [Reincarnator]

Unique skills: [Multi-limbed lvl 1] [Posionous beak lvl 1] [Ink Cloud lvl 1]

Skills: [Acid shot]

huh, with the screen displayed in front of me looks just like a screen menu from games, wait for something doesn’t make sense to me, I’m pretty sure if you shout status nothing should happen, yet it did. Screen menu form games? What the hell is a game, I try to think hard and as a reward for this, I get a headache. Headache? I sound out that word in my head, what’s that, is it that horrible pain I get in my head whenever I think too hard? Is it? Aight screw this let’s leave all this thinking for another time let’s look at the screen for now.

Huh, unnamed, did I not have a name before, I should have had one right? Also Rank O?! What the hell is rank O, I’ve heard of F and that’s the ranking only for the worst monsters or items in a game, don’t tell I’m the worst of the worst. As I continue reading through I come across one that piques my interest [Reincarnator]. What in God’s name is this, I’m pretty sure that this is really important but nothing seems to come to my head. So, I like the dumbass that I am, forget about the horrible headache that I get whenever I try to think real hard about words like this try to remember it. Immediately I get the worst headache I’ve ever experienced. Ahhhhh my head, my tentacles start to writhe in pain. Come on you can do it, you can get through this I chant to myself and then the screens pop up again.

[Mental resistance lvl 1 has been acquired]

[1 Endurance point has been awarded]

Woah, the pain slightly calms down form a raging inferno to a slightly less angry inferno, how do I know these works again, best not think about it again. Before I have the time to look through my skills I notice that I’m not alone. I see thousands of other cute little octopuses all around me. Some of them are floating around aimlessly, others are just hatching and the rest are eating something. Talking about eating I realized that I was pretty hungry as well. What are they eating I think, eventually I catch a glimpse of what they are eating and it seems they’re eating some kind of yellow viscous muck, like snot. What the hell. After a while I realize that they were eating the eggs they came out off and remember something about animals eating their own eggs after hatching because it contained some nutrients. Ugh, I think I’m gonna get sick, the egg sac looked a lot like snot whatever that is. I didn’t know what mucus tasted or really looked like but it made me feel nauseous.

I then turn around trying to find my egg sac just in case I wasn’t able to find anything suitable or more appetizing to eat, I find the largest octopus that I’ve ever seen in my brief speak of existence. I swear I peed a little, I immediately try to swim away as far as possible but it seems that swimming with four new limbs is harder than you think. I then get my tentacles all tangled up and then to make matters worst the giant octopus has noticed me. If I regret anything in my short time of livings, it’s that I’m going to die. As the octopus nears closer to me, I think about the many possible ways it could kill me. It could eat me in one bite, or crush me with its tentacles or tear me tentacles to tentacle which sends a chill down my spine, wait do I even have a spine agh forget it I’m dead anyway.

instead of killing me the massive octopus gently prods me and helps me untangle myself. Wait, what? I think as to why this behemoth would bother helping me until I realized that this octopus was the one that laid all the eggs and was my mother. Hahahahahah I laugh maniacally as I realized that I would continue to live, I’ve never been happier in my life, I even do a little octopus dance, though the moves seem pretty weird right now I’ll eventually get a hang of it. Mother then gently prods me with her tentacle and encourages me to go and join my siblings. Using my tentacles as a support I maneuver my way up to my siblings. It seems mother choose a small cave to lay her eggs which were a smart decision to me. After reaching my siblings, mothers tentacle retracted back and I found that more eggs were waiting to be hatched. I then soon found out that nature was cruel as I saw my siblings eat away at our unborn siblings.

What the FUCK?! Are they eating our own bother and sisters, that messed up I mean good lord imagine coming back from work only to find out from your babysitter that your kids were cooking one another? Uugh, I think I feel sick then my stomach started to rumble, oh no you don’t you traitorous bastard. I can’t stop my siblings from eating one another but I sure as hell am not going to stoop so low as to eat my own brother and sister. While I have this heated mental argument with myself Mother’s keeps her eyes on us and sends one of her tentacles tans gently push me near these egg sacks. Hold up, you want me to eat this!? As if answering my question she gently nudges me even closer to eat. Oh no, you don’t, I try my best to swim away but each time I go to far mother sends her tentacles and pushes me back to the egg sacs. After my seventh attempt, I give up and simply watch as my siblings eat away.

How can they eat so happily I think to myself, they’re eating their own family. I watch as they munch away at their food and I start to drool from my beak. Gulp, actually this doesn’t look so bad maybe I should give a little tas- NO, control yourself, remember these are your brother and sisters- but then again they looook so TASTY, just a nibb- AGHH, after 5 more minutes of arguing with myself on whether I should eat or not a notification pops out.

[Hunger Resistance lvl 1 has been acquired]

Hunger resistance: you have been able to resist your hunger and do not feel as hungry but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to eat.

[1 Endurance has been awarded]

As soon as I saw the notification my hunger subsides but not completely. Yes, my hard work abstaining from eating my own kin has been rewarded. Ignorant to my accomplishments my kin continue feasting as if there will be no tomorrow. Huh, I also go 1 endurance point, I wonder if it helps me resist things or endure against them? Both make sense to me but I can’t really confirm, I’ve shouted inspect hoping that it would reveal something to me but nothing seems to be happening. What the hell I'm pretty sure that I’m meant to have that skill to learn about the world, how come the people who get stuck in my situation get that skill and all I get is four new limbs to okay with. I don’t know how I know any of this but this has got to be unfair, I mean why an octopus, couldn’t I have been reincarnated as a human or something really cool like a dragon. Wheres my refund I don’t want to be an octopus. I continue complaining for 20 minutes straight before I got tired of that. I feel so hungry, even though I got hunger resistance that helped me greatly I can still feel hungry. The worst part is when I try to scavenge food on my own by venturing out the cave mother immediately stops me. Then again I am rank O, even if a pebble fell on me I could die. Dammit, I really don’t have any choice do I, I can either starve to death or I can become a cannibal. It didn’t take long to see which was the better option.

I swim up to one of the unhatched eggs sacs. I’m so sorry I say to egg, I hope you live a better life next time. Before my sink my beak into the yolk I notice how large the egg is in comparison to me. It about half my size and I’m definitely sure that I saw the other octopuses gobble up several by themselves. That doesn’t make any sense, if I’m right one egg should have satiated them, but then again I am an octopus I really shouldn’t be arguing about things like. Welp, here goes nothing.