Ch.1 Pitch-black womb

In a place where light particle is practically nonexistence were a lone soul that floating around since who knows without any certain direction.

‘This is it? does my life truly over’

Faint sound of speech comes from that soul and then resonated through vast surrounding emptiness.

‘My entire life, my career, my whole accomplishment, it’s all go in vain now’

*Sigh*

‘Anyway, my life isn’t worth that much. And if I think about it now ending it early on wasn’t an entirely bad idea either’

Yet the soul know that it was just a mere consolation for him after an unfortunate event of losing his own life due to an accident.

Looking at it now this soul was actually clueless, he doesn’t know what will happen to him after death, after all there isn’t any reliable information to where does the soul of dead people goes, maybe he will come to hell to redeem his soul before accepted to god’s kingdom, after all isn’t those noisy religious preachers always said, or maybe he will stay in this place that shrouded in darkness and absent of any light for eternity? Either way he could only wait till time tell him what right.

The soul itself have a name, or to be exact former name as it was used when he was still a human, Ilyas is his name, born as a sole child of a workers families that barely live wage to wage, Ilyas also wasn’t living the best childhood as his small and short build as a child made him a frequent targets of bullying by his classmates in elementary school, but at least his stomach were filled every day, it was until an unfortunate event of an accident hitting both of his parent that makes his father dead while his mother crippled and later choose suicide when he was twelfth, Ilyas were given no other choice than to mature early, to fighting with insurance companies for settling money and later with the rest of his relatives for meagre inheritance right only makes it even faster.

But fortunately, he won most of it in court, although it also makes him cut contact with most of his relatives Ilyas think it was worth it back then and still is.

While being mature early have some positives effect like that it also had its own consequences such as colourless teenager day, his days in middle school and high school were filled with no other activities other than the essential.

As for friends? He did have it but it was such a long time ago when he’s still in kindergarten, he doesn’t even know of whether one of them will remember him or even come to his funeral, as for romantic relationship? Nah… forget it, is there any woman that he can get contact to when most of his days other than study in school were spent part time working or gaming in his house?

With his above average grade, he then applies and got applied at a second-tier university with him naively choose to majoring in computer science just because one day he saw some news said that people that majoring in it were in hot supply and being paid the most in the job market.

Four years long struggle of dividing time between studying and part timing made him graduated with also an above-averages grades with some extra stress accumulated in his bodies, but just before he thinks that his suffering will finally end as he got a high paying job in a large company, he gets a most heartachingly news that exceed lost both of his parents.

His computer science major that he painstakingly studied for were rendered useless in job market because some artificial intelligence released and made by some startup companies called Nvadai have a monstrously capabilities of coding in more than fewfold of speed and accuracies of a team of programmer thus rendered this job obsolete.

Not long after that his company adopted this AI to their workforce despite harsh opposition that come from the bald middle aged chief technical officer.

Confirming the worry of his and fellow colleagues, few days later he and most of the fellow programmers of the companies were fired without any notice, the once prestigious major and profession that he chooses naively back then were thrown to the back of the history by the world in a matter of weeks.

Regret and rage were filling his mind and soul to the brim of exploding at that time, leave with no choices he then forced to live the life that he did before, working part times in few restaurants before eventually choose to established a repair shop for computer in his former parent house after studying for a while.

Things were going upwards for him in a while before falling into an abyss once again as his health condition were deteriorating when he suddenly fainted in his house when he’s talking to a customer in his shop.

Fortunately for him this customer was kind as he was the one who called the 911 when he fainted. He then fell to into coma in the way into the hospital in the ambulance.

And before he knows it, when he woke up from that coma he was already here, in a place void of light and lost his sense of body.

………..

After an unknown long period of time passed a sound can be heard again, but this time with much restless tone.

‘What is happening right now, does it really mean I will stuck here eternally? darn it you priest, where is the judgement, where is the hell, I’ll rather burned by hellfire for one thousand years than waiting here, at least in there I will feel pain not like right now’

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Ilyas never knows that waiting was such tiresome thing, yet here he is tired of waiting, he’s tired of waiting for something or rather anything to happened to him, when he was alive, he was a routine commuter, but comparing that and his current predicament makes him feel that waiting for commuter is a heavenly entertainment.

And maybe the so-called God are finally pitying him, after a long period of time he feel something, yes, he feels something, not just an illusion that sometimes occurs before, right now he’s really felt something, he feels it clearly right now.

It comes from his supposedly stomach yet because his vision is still dark as before he can’t really confirm what is happening.

Although he can’t confirm what really happened to him it still gives him hopes, after all being alone in vast void without distraction for a long time already makes him lost sense of time and even almost makes his mental broken.

Now with this bit of hope Ilyas sure that he could preserve to see the end, no matter whether hell or afterlife he will preserve, such a strong will and determination is actually very rare to see from Ilyas that usually carefree in his previous life.

Since then, he was more aware and conscious to his surrounding, his attention brings him joy as he could feel more things as each day passed, his lack of feeling to his surrounding also decreasing each day, now Ilyas could even feel his surrounding temperature as for physical contact Ilyas was waiting for his vision to back to confirm what really happening to him.

The waiting continues for an unknown time since then, yet Ilyas was filled with more and more hope, and one day, he felt a contact, more specifically a physical contact, he was surprised and delighted.

‘This is it, this is what I’m hoping for an eternity, now I just needed to wait till my vision is back, until then I’m just going to wait’

But unlike his expectation, the contact never goes away, in fact it even starts to grip and pull his head to an unknown, and despite Ilyas desperate cry it doesn’t stop at all.

And when Ilyas hope was nearly shattered another surprise.

‘Does this really an air?’

Like a holy light that shone an abyss, all of his hope were restored and even bring to an even greater height cause, he felt an air and even breathe it.

……

“Waaaaaaaaahhh”

A loud cry was heard in a room, inside of it were a group of maid and servant surrounding a woman that recently giving a birth, among of these group was a mature woman with more sophisticated dress than the others carrying the newborn baby.

“Wow, this baby is sure energetic”

“It’s a blessing from the lord”

“Quit chatting you all, we should tell the viscount immediately, and don’t forget to tell him that madam Emma is alright”

“Yes madam”

After sending all of the other servant, this mature servant then brings the baby to its mother that currently lying weakly on the bed.

“Marcil, can I see my baby now?”

“Oh of course yes, here Emma”

After looking at the baby Emma only smiled while her tears slowly falling down from her chin, and at the next moment the door of the room was opened and a tall man comes with an urgency clearly written on his face.

And after seeing his wife carrying a baby he then smiled and rush to his wife immediately

“This is our baby, James”

“Yes, this is our baby, honey”

Looking at his newborn baby James eyes were full of tears and it took a while for him till he continues his speech.

“Then, I shall give you name of Ilyas and your full name will be Ilyas Proudmoore”

……

A month then quickly passed since the baby was born and the whole of Viscount James family were still merrily celebrating, yet none of them knows or even dream in their wildest dream that the baby himself was dumbfounded to his own situation.

‘To think that that boundless void that makes me lose my mind was actually a womb of a woman’

Ilyas really dumbfounded, he never expected that his soul was actually got reincarnated and to another world on top of that, he himself doesn’t really know what caused him to get reincarnated but for him to think right now was a bit of a hassle.

‘More than that, the brain of this body doesn’t even capable to host my full thinking abilities more than thirty minutes’

Well, when he clearly thinks of it right now, it really makes sense cause the brain of a newborn was far from mature and still in its infancy stage, to force it to host a fully grown adult level of thinking was akin of forcing a baby horse to pull a carriage, it was impossible hence it was understandable for him to limit his thinking and spend most of his time sightseeing and familiarize himself with his bodies.

Put aside of his limitation of thinking for a long continuous time Ilyas now can gather some valuable information regarding of his surrounding, like knowing his new name that fortunately same from his name in his previous life and who is his father and mother is.

Although he doesn’t know or understand the language that the people surrounding him talks, he still gathers a bit information just solely by observation.

‘Lucky me hah, my parents should be an upper-class, or even a noble. With this My life in here should be smooth sailing, hahaha’

Ilyas was practically smiling wide at the moment, after all who doesn’t get excited when they know that the families that they were born into was wealthy.

And Ilyas experience in his previous life made this satisfaction even larger, after all he was practically living wage to wage in his previous life, to think of living without financial pressure was already makes him float to the sky.

When Ilyas still stuck daydreaming the door of his room was opened and a tall man from before that now he knows as his father enter the room.

“Emma come here quickly I see Ilyas smiling right now”

His daydreaming was obviously obstructed by the sudden call, although it annoys him a bit, he could only endure it as the one that disturb him was his future source of financial freedom.

“Where, I want to see it”

Following him was a beautiful woman that obviously his new mother that enter the room before quickly approaching Ilyas.

‘Show them your acting skill Ilyas, show them, believe in yourself’

Ilyas inner mind was full of encouragement as now he was fully dedicated himself to acting like a baby.

not long after that his father exited the room and left his mother and him alone, yet now he knows that the real acting test only came now.

“that’s my baby, can you show me your smile again”

Ilyas could only followed his new mother instruction as his new mother stretch his chin over and over before kissing him on the forehead for a few times.

“Now let’s change your diaper. Marcil Ilyas need his diaper Changed”

Few minutes later a group of maids enter the room before changing his diaper, Ilyas is obviously embarrassed but he could only endure his embarrassment by silently blushing while his immature manly part and ass were shown to the group of maids that expressionlessly change his ass after taking the previously used diaper.

But as it wasn’t the first time His embarrassment actually a lot lighter than a few weeks ago.

And by this feeble experience he also knows a trick that let the maid to quickly change his diaper before they left the room, the trick was simple.

Crying.

“Wah-wah”