Alexander woke up for the first time after his death and stunned, he looked around, he seemed to be confused looking around him, there was a plump woman besides him dozing off she seemed tired and she looked like she hadn’t slept in a long while, though she did look like she used to be pretty at some point in the past.

Besides that, he seemed be laying in a basket of some kind with a few rags around him, and the cold wind seeped through the small layer of rags that he had, if he wasn’t wrong there should be a fairly cold day of fall or a pretty warm day of winter, and the temperature threatened to numb his limbs, and yet he did not cry.

He looked at his hands which seemed to have strangely shrunk and smoothened a fair amount, and for some reason he couldn’t move them quite as skillfully as he used to, which stunned him after thinking about it, it was as if they were too heavy for him, or perhaps he was too weak for them? He did not know.

Besides this he noticed how tired he felt, so exhausted and hungry. He hadn’t felt hungry in quite a long time, yet the familiar sting of it attacked him quite sharply, which made him remember his own childhood, and it felt as if it was a million years ago, a time where he was still just a human, a “good child” they said he was.

He seemed to have let a few whimpers go while he reflected on his current condition because the strange woman seemed to have woken up at some point and she stared at him with a strange gaze, was that… sadness she felt? Ah yes, emotions, he remembered them.

To be honest, alexander could never tell emotions on first glance, it was always more of a learned skill, than an innate ability, but what was new? He always had to work twice as hard for things as his peers on the past, the reason why, never known, but perhaps this was not the moment to dwell on it seeing as how he was in a strange situation.

The woman took alexander and for some strange reason showed him her chest. Though even when he used to be an adult male, this did not move him much, not because of the body that he inhabited before, nor because of her somewhat advanced age, he just never cared for such things as carnal pleasure in the past, he always saw it as a strange thing, though perhaps he stopped being human before he actually became an inhuman.

『my apologies, but I’m not interested in that sort of thing, lady 』he thought, but for some reason the sight seemed to call something deep within him, some sort of instinct, right, he was hungry, and he seemed to be quite small, perhaps a baby? It wouldn’t be too farfetched to say that it was hunger which moved him to comply with the woman’s offer.

To be quite honest, he would never have thought that he’d be in this situation. First of all, he seemed to have shrunk a considerable size, second a woman seemed to be breastfeeding him?

He’d be lying if he said that he wasn’t confused at all, but from all the evidence he seemed to have swapped bodies or been reborn? For now, he couldn’t be sure, but either way, his body was now that of a baby. Was this what those messages referred to after he died? Did the gods do this? If so, then why? Alexander knew how much the gods hated “The Demon King”, they all wanted him dead, then if so, why would they bring him back?

Alexander thought for a moment, thinking on how to proceed. For now, perhaps the best way forwards was by pretending to be who they thought he was, just an innocent, well-behaved child. This thought however struck a chord within his memories, making him recall things that he would’ve rather forgotten.

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『Gods, it’s like I’m back to my old life all over again 』he whined to nobody in particular, after which he simply decided to gather as much information as he could. Information was the best tool for now, seeing as how he felt quite weak and had lost most control of his body.

『open status』he said after which he proceeded to take in the information that he now had.

Status

Name:

Alexander of Varen

Age

0.18 (1 month and a half)

Lvl

1/3

Hp

1/1

Mp

0

Class:

【Null】

Titles:

【Fearless one】【Lucky one】【Remade one】

Skills:

Innate:

【Breathing Lvl 1】

【Moving Lvl 1】

Passive 【Body Control Lvl 0】 Active

Strength:

1

agility:

1

Stamina:

1

Intelligence:

13 Dexterity: 0

『Well, as expected, it seems that I’m a newborn child, though I do have quite the intelligence for one, it seems that some of my past intelligence has transferred with me, well that, or this body is naturally that one of a genius, either way it seems to benefit me.』he thought

Alexander looked around and only saw a small room which to be honest seemed quite shabby, perhaps in some sort of slums or a small poor village, in which area of the continent? He did not know yet, Varen didn't sound familiar, but he couldn't know each and every village in the whole continent, so perhaps he’d know a bit later but for now he put his curiosity in the back of his mind for now.

After he was done with breast feeding he felt quite sleepy, it seemed that even though he did possess a good amount of intelligence his stamina still was quite lacking compared to how it used to be.

He knew however that stamina would come with time, and hopefully also knowledge, it seemed that not knowing things did nothing to put alexander at ease. However, as he kept looking from place to place before looking back at the lady, she seemed to be just about to cry, and just looking at him seemed painful, she hugged him after he finished feeding.

She didn’t seem to be his mother, she seemed too old for that, then if so, where was his mother? Was she asleep? Or away? What about his father? Hopefully this one would be a better one than the first one he ever had… because if not, well, let’s just say that things might get difficult once more.

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