New world, new life

It had already dawned in the city where I live and a new week of going to university begins again, but as I have always said since I finished school: "my life is not interesting at all, in fact I would like to be born again and start all over again." again and make other decisions that make my life change a little. I wish I could try harder on the college entrance exam where I really wanted to study, I could declare my love for the girl I liked in school but sadly everything went to waste and even though this life I'm leading isn't shit yet , I try to live it as much as possible but I'm already giving up.

I got out of bed, bathed, dressed and ate breakfast, basic things that I do in my day to day without thinking that possibly soon my life was about to change. I left with the greatest peace of mind that I can have straight to the university, when my neighbor who was my childhood friend goes out for a walk with his dog, for things in life the "cunning" animal escapes from him and flees towards the road, my friend and I went after him to catch him and avoid any accident but...

"Life always has plans for everyone, right?"

The dog was in front, I was behind and my friend a few centimeters behind from me, the traffic light on the highway was red and the dog managed to pass and I think it could also pass before the light changed to green and that was how it was going to be but a certain large vehicle, specifically a bus whose driver was impatient I don't wait for the traffic light to turn green, then with the traffic light still yellow and me a few seconds and centimeters from reaching the other side of the wax where the dog had already arrived, the big vehicle starts and... PLAHS .

My body was lying on the run still alive and with possibly several opportunities to save my "super-big" life, but by games of fate my friend who didn't risk crossing the road called an ambulance that was late arrived and when the paramedics finally arrived at the scene, my body no longer responded to anything, I was no longer breathing and nothing passed through my head, if so, I had died.

When I woke up I immediately realized that I was in a totally dark environment, there was literally nothing but me, I had memories that I had died stupidly for helping a friend and now I have no idea where I am going, if to heaven or hell.

Suddenly in the midst of so much darkness I hear a sinister laugh accompanied by a greeting.

"Hahahahahahaha, welcome."

"Welcome to where? And more importantly who are you?"

"Wow, wow. Any person would be terrified in the midst of so much darkness after his death, but you don't seem worried about that, surprising."

"Well, I'm already dead, who cares, my life hasn't been anything I wanted so if I'm already dead, I won't care."

After hearing a snap of fingers, the darkness begins to fade little by little and now they only saw a huge, completely white room that seemed to be infinite, the only thing different was a small altar with a chair and on it a beautiful girl dressed in very elegant white robes.

"Right now you must be wondering where you are, right? Well, it's easy, you're in a space completely isolated from spiritual matter or in your terms you're between heaven and hell".

"And what am I doing here? You could have just let me go to either place and I would have been able to rest in peace."

"To be honest, your soul was going straight to hell, you were never going to rest in peace, only suffering awaited you.

~ ~But let me explain who I am and why you are here."

"About time".

"My name is Aether and I am a goddess and the reason you are here is simply to propose to you a new beginning of life."

"A goddess? A fresh start to life? What nonsense".

"Uuuuu so daring, I like it. When I was bringing your soul to this place I could see your regrets about your past life and that really made me very sorry, so I said why not give this human a second chance to take advantage of his life but this time in a world where he exists swords, magic and other unimaginable things for the human mind".

In my mind I could only think that it would be to be reborn in a new world where nothing would be the same as the world I came from, but I'm sure that anyway the souls that are already dead or that died on the same day that I only chose me, this book is missing a page.

"You offer me to have a new life, but at what cost? Why of all the people who died before or on the same day as me did you only call me? And what will happen if I decide to accept your proposal? What benefits will I have in this new life?"

"There are too many questions to answer, I see that you analyze everything before answering a simple "yes" to my proposal, but I will try to answer everything quickly and summarized.

From all the deceased people I only chose you because I feel that you are very, very special and you have a somewhat peculiar gift that I am sure will put a lot to the test in this new world, if you say yes you will accept the proposal all your memories and knowledge of your past life you will take with you to the new world and the cost is totally free".

Your answers may not convince me much, but you are offering me a new life to start from scratch, I will be able to make new decisions and do things that will benefit me in the future, although I would have to learn how to live in a world of magic, but a new life is a new life, I am not going to waste this opportunity.

"Very well, Goddess, I accept your proposal, if I want to reincarnate in a new life".

"Heeheehee, great choice, ah but before you start your new life I will give you a small present from me."

After saying that, she snapped her fingers and for above my head a star of fire was slowly descending directly towards my head that immediately disappeared when it was down on my head, a small luminous circle began to surround me and in a blink everything disappeared. My new life had already begun.

I had my eyes closed, my movements were very limited but I could hear some voices around me.

"Already... He was born... Our son, dear". 

"About time, he was making us suffer, I almost thought we weren't going to survive, we don't have money to go to a clinic so we had to do it at home, ufff".

"How do you want me to call? "

"How? Do I have to give it a name?"

"Haven't you thought of one? Geez".

"Okay, how about Shun, do you like it?"

~ ~"I like it. Especially since Shun means "talented" and that means that our son will be very outstanding in everything he does."

It seems that I started a life from scratch again, now I'm a baby and such Maybe I still can't talk but if I keep my memories and experiences from my past life, which can allow me to help me adapt faster to this world.

And so my life began my new life, it didn't take me long to realize What did my parents do, for example, my father used to be a well-known and wealthy merchant and I say "before" because now he's just a bum who spends his time drinking and having sex with my mother every time she comes home from work, Apparently his life ended like this because they discovered that the merchandise he sold was totally false, he made money manufacturing things that seemed expensive and sold them at exorbitant prices, as far as I know the king's wife bought him a very expensive object and realizing that it was false the king threatened his life telling him that if he realized that he was carrying out his work as a merchant he was going to decapitate him again and as if this were not enough he stained what little reputation he had left by informing the entire country and neighboring countries that it was a con artist that drove my father to bankruptcy and despair.

My mother, on the other hand, was a magic teacher in a small wizarding school in our small town, in fact, she was the one who was teaching me magic since I was a three-year-old baby. My mother did not know about my father's bad deeds but when the announcement was made that my father was a scammer, it reached my mother's workplace and the school ended up firing her for keeping her image clean. 

My mother did not leave my father because she continued to love him and believe that he would soon get his job back together, but at the age of eight my father never went back to work and my mother is the only one who keeps the household alive financially With her new full-time job, my mother was always characterized as a very beautiful woman and adored by many men before and after her marriage and it is for the reason of being desired by other men and the need to support her family that now he sells his body to strangers to earn some money. All this was going to cause hell in our small and humble home.

One day my father went crazy when he found out that my mother was supposedly going out with one of his "clients" and when she came home my father was already waiting for her to argue with her. 

"Did you hope I didn't notice you were seeing another man?"

"Darling, what are you talking about? Are you drunk again?"

"Damn, the kiss marks on your Your neck and your torn clothes give you away".

"It's part of the job, do you know what I do to maintain this home?"

"I don't care what you do in this house, you just sleep with other men, is it because what I do no longer satisfies you?"

"Don't say nonsense I still love you, you know how disgusted I feel when I sleep with other men, not all those men are like those in romantic stories most of them are fat, ugly and unhygienic, stop complaining to me, you're scaring Shun".

There I was listening to their argument, pretending that I was scared by their fight.

"You're just any woman, rot."

My father took a fully filled bottle of wine and with all his might hit the glass object on my mother's head, she was still alive dragging herself on the ground saying that She ran away but my father finished off her by embedding the broken bottle in her back, which caused a great spill of blood and therefore her death.

"Damn, you deserve death multiplied by a thousand".

" Mom? Did you really kill her?"

Although I wasn't so worried about their argument, I never thought that my father was going to kill her for real and it was the first time I saw someone die in front of my eyes and more when that person was the one who gave you life.

"YOU'RE A DAMN MURDERER DAD".

I screamed with all my might trying to release my anger.

"And you're just a keeper, it's your fault that your mother prostitutes herself like that just to support someone who's useless".

 It was obvious that my father did not know what he was saying, he had never said that to me before or after all the events that happened, he was under the influence of alcohol and scared at the same time for killing his wife, his soul mate who had been with him in all difficulties and that he was just doing his job, he left magic and stopped teaching me to keep his home since he never stopped being a mother. 

My father was going straight towards me with the same broken bottle with which he murdered my mother in cold blood.

"If I get rid of you I won't have to worry about feeding you or anything, DIE" .

I quickly fled to a corner of the house where there was an ordinary broomstick that I was going to use to defend myself.

"What are you going to do with that, brat?"

"Avenge my mother." 

"You are not going to avenge anyone, since you are going to accompany her to hell".

I am not going to die so quickly in this new life, I conjured a spell that my mother taught me to change the simple stick of broom to a sharp wooden spear, i found out that using this spell basically modifies the target matter in question, it turned out to be very easy for me when i put into practice the physics and chemistry from my previous life, here in this new world they are known these matters but it has not been studied in depth and some terms can become quite complex for the people who live here.

Everything calmed down in an instant, the wooden spear had ended up piercing the stomach of the man who once I called dad, his body lay lifeless on the floor with a large pool I'm of blood.

"What a way to start a life, it's as if that goddess had all this planned from the beginning, she considers this a game."

The days passed and the residents of the town complained of a rotten smell that came out from my house they also noticed the little movement of the people inside it. The next day the village leader came along with two other men to see why that bad smell was coming out of our house. The surprise that the three men took was enormous and they were gloomy when they saw the rotting bodies of my parents and me at his side crying his death.

A day later they took me to an orphanage to take care of me until I was old enough to take care of myself or until someone wanted to adopt me, I did not get along with any of the children or girls present in the place, I only cared about surviving, in addition to putting into practice the spells that my mother taught me and inventing new ones since I was very talented due to my mother's blood that came from a family of innate sorcerers and apparently I also inherited that talent, so it was not difficult for me to modify the material at my whim of the objects I wanted, such as metal, so I was able to transform a simple metal rod into a metal spear like the ones they use in wars without problems. Some of the local children also practiced magic but they didn't cast spells like mine.

When I was ten years old, the orphanage was going to receive an unexpected visitor but I had noticed something suspicious and it was that there were fewer and fewer children in the place, when I left my small room, which was the place where I spent the most time when I went to the stairs I was attacked by nothing more and nothing less than the one in charge of all the children of the orphanage who had the intention of putting me to sleep with a sleeping spell. 

"You weren't the manager of the place? Why are you doing this?"

"It's better that you don't know, just let yourself sleep and everything will pass very quickly."

His malevolent laugh betrayed that he was not It was not good, I tried to run away but I was taken by the arm and as self-defense I took out of my pocket a steel knife that I had made in case a situation like this arose and I inserted it into his chest having fallen down the stairs leaving a trail of blood down the steps, at that precise moment as if by things done by a goddess the unexpected visitor who was going to see the place was making his appearance and he could see the inert body of the manager fall in front of him, the few Children screamed in fear and the other attendants were scared to see such a scene while I went down the stairs with my hands covered in blood.

"I'm so sorry that you had to see such a horrific scene Count Kiyotaka."

Said one of the workers from the desperate place, but it seems that this count does not show any sign of fear, rather he has a surprised expression when it happens something good.

"Take that child away quickly".

"No, wait. I had come here to adopt a child to be in charge of inheriting my assets and I think he is.. perfect." 

"WHAT IS HE SAYING?"

All those present shouted at the same time.

That count wants to adopt me, I don't know if he's crazy or if he's done. 

"The new heir to fortune has to be strong, cool and serious when making a decision and when putting that decision into action."

"But... Count Kiyotaka just committed cold-blooded murder, we have better boys or even girls to adopt."

"What if he committed murder? You don't know if he did it in self-defense and I came here specifically to adopt a boy, I will adopt him and end of the discussion".

Slowly the count approached the employee and said something to him in a low voice.

"They think I don't know what they are doing here, if someone found out what this place does with the children, all those in charge here would never see sunlight again in their lives or even worse, they would not be able to open their eyes to a new day".

"I don't know, worry sir, you can take it with you".

 The clerk walks away from the count in fear and says that he can adopt me. In the end, the count manages to adopt me by paying a little more than what is normally paid when adopting any boy or girl.

I think that a new chapter of my new life is being written.