V1 | N2 - Reincarnation

[Author's Note: You may notice some weird words during this chapter it's a constructed language that I am working on right now so it's still in the process of having changes being maybe. If you have any recommendations, however, feel free to share them in the comments!]

What happened? What was that bubble of light just now?

Flashbacks of me being in school just moments ago flooded my memories I remember sitting next to Sachika and talking to her, Daisuke teasing Kaze and Mrs Agawa doing for usual announcements at the start of the school week.

I wasn't sure whether I was asleep or if everything around me was just simply pitch-black for some unknown reason. I tried to move my body and doing so I could feel my limbs aching. It felt as if I had never moved my limbs in my entire life I could even feel the soft grind of my elbows and knees as I moved them.

The sounds of muffled voices started to fill my ears. At first, I thought I was imagining it, but with each passing second, it was pretty obvious that wasn't the case at all.

Am I in a hospital? I must be after feeling that awful sensation of burning across my body I must have passed out and now I'm at the hospital getting treatment that must be the case. At least that's what I thought at first until I started to hear words that I had never heard before being spoken around me.

I wouldn't put it past the realm of possibility that I was going crazy, after all, I saw a bubble of light envelope me and my class which looked like something out of science fiction film. Now that I think about it is Sachika okay? I hope she is, she had been sitting next to me at the time when it all happened and knowing that dampened my hopes.

Regardless, I had to keep my hopes up I knew for sure that she was a fighter and if something did happen to her she wasn't going to go down without a fight. Right now, I have to worry about myself and when I know that I'm okay only then can I worry about Sachika and the others.

The voices that I was hearing not so long ago were slowly starting to become more clear and louder. Was I starting to gain consciousness again? If so maybe the nurses or doctors can tell me what happened and whether everyone is okay.

A faint light was starting to fill up my vision and I could feel a sticky wet substance upon my skin that almost made me feel sick. I hadn't a clue what was happening to me at first I just thought it was just me hallucinating again, however, the more things I could hear and feel that very idea was slowly becoming less believable.

It wasn't long before I heard a woman screaming and a gentle cold breeze go over my skin. I started to open my eyes hesitantly even though the light itself was making the task much difficult than it needed to be.

When my eyes had fully opened I was met with the sight of a beautifully intricately woven silk cloth hanging above me on what looked to be one of those overhanging canopies you might sometimes see above beds. It was almost tranquil looking at the cloth seeing that it was the first time I had ever seen anything like it in my life.

"Uit tbue uayc?"

Hearing that person startled me, but hearing foreign words that I had never heard before was even more distressing.

W-What? I-I don't understand these words. The slightest thing that I could gather from that sentence was the fact that it sounded like a woman. I tried to move my neck side to side but to no avail as trying to do so left a sharp aching sensation in my neck.

"Woet"

This time I heard a man. Once again I tried to move thankfully at this point the aching pain was starting to die down for the most part. I decided to move both my hands in front of my face to get a good look at them I didn't know what to think at first.

I was expecting to see my usual small feminine hands, but instead, they were like tiny baby hands. Looking downward I could see that I was wrapped in a bleach white linen cloth although my legs were covered I didn't need to see them in order to figure out that they too were small like my arms and hands.

Wait, I must be hallucinating! There's no other way to explain all this! T-There's no way that I'm a...baby right?

My train of thought soon arrived at the conclusion of being reincarnated seeing that I use to read a lot of manga and in Japan, that genre was all the craze at that time, but those type of scenarios were no more than fictional tropes, right? Being isekai'd wasn't possible, after all, I don't remember hearing about technology like that in our world or anyone just leaving this world through some type of portal or something.

Although there was a part of me when growing up as a kid in Japan that wanted to experience something like an isekai situation, however, it was no more than wishful thinking on my part. So the thought of something like that happening out of nowhere both excited and terrified me the idea of the unknown itself was daunting, it was only natural to rub this off as no more than a figment of my imagination at best.

At least, that was the most logical way to approach this situation, am I right?

Suddenly I see the face of a woman to the left of my vision. She's young but still mature for her age if I had to guess maybe in her mid-twenties, she had beautiful golden blonde hair tied in a single braid her face had droplets of sweat and she was breathing heavily. Her soft ocean blue eyes were something of a calming effect towards me.

It was only then that it just clicked in my mind that this woman must have just given birth to me. I felt embarrassed it was always weird for kids when their parents talked about when they were born, but subjecting someone to the whole experience who is fully aware of what's happening is enough to make me want to die all over again!

"Tbue tuo huesq" a gentle smile appearing across her face.

"Xuijbt!"

To my left, this time I saw a man who looked to be around the same age as that woman maybe a little older. His hair a short golden brown and slightly spiked and those emerald green eyes were...admittedly dreamy-like for me. To be honest, this guy was sort of my type and it just hit me then that if this was all truly a reincarnation this guy was my new father. So having such lewd thoughts made me feel even more embarrassed!

Thinking to myself I figured that if I have been reincarnated it was a very good chance that both this man and woman were my new parents, but I couldn't jump to a conclusion just yet.

Again the idea of just reincarnating scared me it made me wonder what happened to everyone else making me wish deep down inside that they were safe wherever they are right now. But the thought of starting a new life also excited me so to speak.

In my old life I never really had a close connection to my birth parents all they cared about was leading the company to new heights and me doing well at school so I could take over the company someday. The only people to ever really understand me for who I really was were the friends I made at school.

Like I said the current situation that I believed myself to be in right now both made me happy and sad. Which in turn made my emotions conflicted on the matter, but before I could think anymore on it the woman to the side of me reached out towards me with her arms and hands out in front of her.

Without warning, she lifted me up in her arms with total ease. I could feel her warm touch through the thin linen cloth that was wrapped around me. Again I looked down and this time it was pretty obvious that I was the size of a baby there was no other way to explain it.

Opening my mouth to say something the only thing I could hear was the typical cute sound that a baby would make when trying to speak for the first time. In fact, hearing myself speak like that made me more embarrassed than before that it made me want to curl up and hide somewhere.

"Tuo kuus!" the woman sounded really happy upon hearing me trying to speak.

"Puip tbue sx suo tduec?" that man peered in closer trying to get a better look at me.

"Wuet!" again the woman seemed overjoyed. While the two of them were conversing with one another my mind drifted back to the thought of being reincarnated I just couldn't help but be fixated on that possibility to explain all this. Again I tried to rack my brain for a possible answer for all of this, but I just couldn't find one.

I was so preoccupied with thinking to myself that I hadn't noticed the flashing diamond symbol in the bottom left of my vision.

What's that?

Concentrating on the symbol it almost scared me to death when all of a sudden a pop-up window appeared before me. I briefly looked at the two people still talking to one another that I presumed to be my parents it seemed they hadn't noticed anything different.

Before I knew it a load of text started to appear within that pop-up window.

[Necessary Protocols Being Installed...]

[Please Standy By...]

W-W-Wait w-what's happening?

[10%]

[20%]

H-Hey?!

[30%]

[40%]

Am I in some sort of simulation dream right now?

[50%]

[60%]

It has to be right?

[70%]

[80%]

I don't know why but the thought of just comforting myself like this seemed to be the best course of action, at least, that's what I believed at the time.

[90%]

[100%]

It stopped, a part of me believed that all of this was still a dream, in fact, honestly, a part of me wished deep down that I wasn't dreaming at this point because it was all starting to become too much to handle.

Again I was almost scared to death when another pop-up window appeared.

[Thank You For Your Patience...]

[The Administrative System Algorithm of the Evolution System, Has Been Installed...]

[We Hope You Enjoy This Premium Service, Yours Truly, Providence...]

Providence? For some reason, hearing that word seemed to ring a bell with me, however, I couldn't quite remember what it was exactly is it a name of a company or something? Before I could think about it more another pop-up window appeared in my vision.

[Would You Like To Continue?]

[Yes] | [No]

Seeing this I was unsure of what to do. Should I accept it or not either way I didn't know what outcome I would get when I chose. If I said no I may never get another chance to find out what's going on, and if I picked yes who knows what will happen afterwards. The decision was risky but I had a feeling that I couldn't just ignore the question outright so I had to make a decision.

I focused my vision hesitantly upon Yes at first for a brief moment I stopped myself when the word itself suddenly flashed for a brief moment before disappearing.

Damn it! I still wanted to think about it before deciding. Not long after another pop-up window appeared this time with a grid-like table accompanied with a combination of words and numbers.

Name: Velrisia Uo Flauronte (Nanami Hashimoto)

Species: Human 

Level: 1

HP: 87

MP: 14

SP: 20

Looking at these words and numbers reminded me of the role-playing games I would playback in Japan. At this point, I was pretty damn certain that I must have died and been reincarnated which left the question of was everyone else safe and sound back in Japan, did they reincarnate along with me or did they not have the fortune of getting the former two options.

Right now, there wasn't much I could do but play it by ear for the time being.

Before I do anything I'll have to learn about this new system that has been installed and work from there. At first, I thought it would be easy until the thought of being a baby dawned on me making those plans a lot harder to accomplish now.

Well, I guess I'll have to get through the first few years before I can really do anything. Oh man, this is going to be a pain, but no matter what I'm going to figure this all out and find myself some well-deserved answers!