This world I was brought to by someone or something like my old one. The only difference is magic, and people's bone structure. Some people have more earbones. Some have bones sticking out of their heads. What you think is a human is a human but with extra bones. We have some more bones in our butts for example and in other places.
My guess is either we were created to have more protection or it was evolution. The people with horns and ears are not humans but still people in the way how they act. There are many races in this world. From Humans to elves to Beastkin to the Demon race. One positive difference is that humans don’t look at the color. Yellow skin people actually don’t hate each other. Black people don’t use discriminatory words. And the white people don’t think they are better than everyone else.
The only difference being some humans think they are superior not openly but they secretly think that. Humans in this world like mine is class-based. Poor, middle class, rich, filthy rich, superior, elites. How do I know people think a certain way? I was given a new power when I woke up in a new world. I can activate it whenever I want but only once every 24 hours. The skill is called “Stare into the Abyss”.
I can see in the mind of someone and all events that happen to them will be remembered. When I mean all events I mean all events. I feel all the emotions they ever had. A simulation of their life is played in my head in a matter of seconds.
Which has its advantage I can see people's ticks. Subtle actions they would only do and use. I learn everything about them, so much I can almost talk like them. At least their mannerisms and not their sounds. I love this power but who granted me this power? I wasn’t able to talk to anybody. I wasn’t able to see anybody. I could just hear an old raspy man. Or was it a devil?
My guess is I died. However, I do know my mind woke up in deep darkness. It was pitch black. Not a shade of a different color. It was like I was a blind spirit who stood still in nothingness. I Couldn’t turn my head and even if I could I wouldn’t be able to see. Behind me, a raspy voice echoed in my head. A voice with words I will never forget.
“What do we have here? Oh a man who smells of God? But what is this smell? I can feel the darkness in his heart. The child entertains me. I will perform a contract. As I a ----- will take all mistakes. I will take the blame; the fall; but I am not like him.”
I was then rushed with information. My smell, my sight, my hearing, and so on. Everything was filled and overloaded. I could tell I was waking up. I didn’t want to I want my questions answered. Who was talking to me? Where was I? Did I die? Can you repeat what you said, you cut out? Sadly I will have to find out later on. When I first woke a kind lady woke me up.
“Hey, are you ok? It’s not good to sleep outside. Do you have a house?”
I gave a weak response. “Ah, uh, no I ah was beaten up and uh dropped here.”
I wasn’t actually beaten up but I definitely felt like it. It a white lie what the worse that can come to it. I hate to lie but sometimes it’s necessary. I just hoped she finds it normal or something and shrugs me off. Thankfully she is an amazing great person. However, because of that, she babied me. At least she did baby me for that night.
“Oh no! How awfully do you remember who you are?”
“Nope. I can speak at least. For who or what I am I can’t tell.”
“What do you mean honey?”
This was my first encounter with a Beastkin. I saw them in anime and the comics that I read. But seeing one in real life caught me off guard. And in my delirious state what I wanted to keep to myself I said unto others.
“Well, you are a pretty lady with ears on top. And I can’t feel ears on top of my head.”
“Oh my, you don’t even know your race? Come here your coming home with me. Oh, man are you heavy! Oh, and you have muscles.” I was then dragged around into a small house in a small outlet in the neighborhood. And laid on a bed on the first floor. It wasn’t very comfy but comfy enough to sleep. It was a hard bed. I sleep on soft beds.
She walked out of the door and turned on the lights in the bathroom. It was the first time I saw a tail on a human-like person. It was at that moment I realized why people love Beastkins. She has to be an older beastkin but man, those ears, her tail, her human features, I am in love with Beastkin.
It wasn’t very long until she brought a heavy box with a red cross on it. I was in a survival group and I know what that means. That is a box full of medical supplies. She came closer to me to undress me to see my injuries. As she leaned in to pull my shirt I look at her chest. I am a man so, of course, some urges will take over me. If I was less fuzzy in my consciousness I would be a gentleman and not look.
She noticed and just had a frown on her face. She pulled my shirt off and then I felt the cold air on my chest and arms. I looked down at myself and I did see injuries. I guess it wasn’t a complete lie but at the time I was lying. I could also see a stab wound but I can’t see how deep and how big it is.
“Well, I can see you are still a man with Amnesia. My bosom draws a lot of attention. Oh wow, you are injured quite a lot. You got stab wounds and bruises everywhere. I am surprised you survived!”
Is that how women feel? I guess so, if you’re a boob guy. I was always a booty man myself. So I was less likely to get caught by the female I was looking at. I made it up to her later on. In a roundabout way. Her daughter didn’t have to be married off to some disgusting foreigner.
“Ok, I am almost done with first aid. I will go to the closet to get extra blankets. If you need anything just call me. Or my daughter. For she will return from her college classes soon.”
“College this late? Is it late? It is dark outside.”
She laughed a little but then smiled while closing her eyes. “She is a hard worker, it takes time for her to learn and use the things she learned.” She opened her eyes and went out of the room. She walked far because after twenty steps I couldn’t hear her. I thought the house was tiny but maybe it looked small on the outside.
I thought for a while about what my name would be. But then I remember from my stories and shows that people could see their status screens. I wondered if that was a thing in this world. I was so I quietly said status. And a status was formed.
Name: Ren, Taichi (First and Last Name In Order)
Race: Human
Title: Hero
Skill: Stare Into The Abyss
HP: 100/10,000
MP:20,000/20,000
Skill Points: 0
It was a very interesting status screen. It showed a lot of information. It kept some things hidden from me. Like when others would view my status the title is blank and my skill is corrupted. Others can’t view me being a hero. Which is a good thing I found out later on.
Stolen story; please report.
The women came by later with blankets. She put one on me and had a few put off to the side of my bed. I was slowly getting tired. So much I had no energy to look. My manly urges faded away quickly. Even if I did look I wouldn’t be able to sleep being excited. My subconscious knew I wouldn’t go anywhere so sleep was the best option.
I slowly thought of nothing but blackness. My body wanted to remain awake. I was in a world, in a place I knew nothing of. My mind knew that I needed sleep. I need to sleep and rest my body and let myself gain hp. They do say your mind is more powerful than the body. So even though my instincts in the body warned me to stay up. I fell asleep.
I woke up to the sound of a girl I didn’t know. She was loud and filled with anger. The woman I knew from yesterday tried keeping her voice down. She was however filled with anger. I couldn’t sleep any longer so I just got up. I had to pee anyways and get water. I don’t remember much from my past life. I do remember how annoying it is to live.
You can wake up needing to pee and thirsty. Your mind can feel rested but the moment you wake up your body aches. You rest to heal your body but when you wake up you are stricken with pain. Why does the human body react that way? I didn’t notice it but I finally saw my appearance for the first time. I saw a mirror and saw the bed hair.
Jet black hair with wide shoulders and abs. Hey, I actually look pretty good. Even though I was in hurry to pee and drink water I had to check out my body. My muscles had muscles. I also didn’t have annoying body hair. But I was an adult. My thing had morning wood. So I have gone through puberty.
I had to go so badly that I walked fast outside the room and went towards the restroom. I walked outside the pair went quiet and I could feel a pair try to see me. I had to go really bad so I just slammed the door and opened the toilet seat. It was a good pee. I also closed the toilet. Something I wouldn’t usually do, but I did live with women at least for that time.
When I got up a blond hair beastkin walked up to me and got in my face. She was young once so I assumed it was the daughter. “You took advantage of my mom did you!?”
I stood there for a second to think of a response. I didn’t know what to say at the time so I just blurt something out. “No, nothing happened between us. She just gave me first aid and a place to sleep.”
“So you did take advantage of my mom!”
“I don’t know. I don’t know if I took advantage of her. Last thing I remember last night was getting dragged. I also remember my name last night.”
The mother interrupted, “Oh no way please tell me what it is! This is a good development, your amnesia might go away soon!”
“Mom he doesn’t have amnesia! He is lying about it!”
“No, honey last night he didn’t even know I was a beast kin.”
“Do you really not know what a Beastkin, Human?” she looked at me with one eyebrow raised.
“Oh, Humans don’t have cute ears and tails?”
She got ticked off. “Of course you dumbass! Humans aren’t like anyone else, every race has its own features!”
“You know you must be right.”
“So you admit to lying.”
“No, but I admit that we all have different features.” I crossed my arms while proudly speaking. “I can’t believe you are the daughter! Your mom looks so young and beautiful. Beastkin sure has good genetics.”
Her mom blushed a deep red and closed her eyes and lowered her ears. I couldn’t hear her mumble. But she shook back and forth. This ticked off the daughter.
“Stop trying to seduce my mom, you jerk!”
At the time I couldn’t realize I was flirting. I still really can’t tell if that is flirting or not. I am just saying that beastkin has a lot of beauty. I would have said this to anyone really in this situation.
“You bastard let me see your status. You have amnesia right, just say ‘Status’ you perv!” I said status and a status screen came up. The girl grabbed it in mid-air and looked at it. That seemed weird, it's like she grabbed nothing and manifested it.”
“So Ren! Let’s see! Your title… You have a title, but it’s blank!”
The mom broke out of her trance. “Oh a title, how amazing, even if it is blank you can always get one later.”
The daughter spoke up again. “Your skill, what does this say? It’s all mumbled!” She showed me the status screen and a note appeared at the bottom of the status screen. * I advise you to lie about your skill * I usually don’t take warnings too well but I trusted the message.
“I am not sure. To me, it says it is corrupted.”
“A corrupted skill. No, maybe your skill is malfunctioning.” I looked down on the table to see a newspaper. It looked interesting and I picked it up to start reading it. It talked about a Goblin tribe forming near the town. It was a warning towards people. It was also asking for recruiters regardless of skill level or rank.
“What a stupid human trying to show off his reading abilities. I bet you're like every one of us. No one but nobles can read past the third grade.” She said proudly.
That made me mad so to prove it I read out loud. “Warning citizens of the Pangea Kingdom. A Goblin tribe of 10,000 has made a home next to the walls of our kingdom. If you want to travel please have a lot of guards. Any adventure of any rank, will have quests available to slay goblins.”
The whole room was silent and their faces were in shock. The daughter spoke up. “Are…are you a noble?”
I looked at her and with a deadpan face said. “Nope! Just your average citizens, I think. I don’t know.”
“But you can-” My stomach growled. I was also reminded that I am thirsty. Very thirsty now with all this talking. The Mother laughed while the daughter kept ranting on. We sat down and ate a good breakfast.
I was told off by the daughter whose name I found out was Furin. I am a leech who needs to go get money if I want to stay here. She would rather kick me out but The mother whose name I still didn’t get pleaded on my behalf to let me stay. She brought me to a workplace anyone can get accepted. The Adventures Guild.
While she talked and talked on and on I used this time to observe my surroundings. There are apartment buildings, Small businesses, sky scrappers. There are modern tools like smartphones. They are small smartphones and there are electric signs playing advertisements. Playgrounds in the city. Yeah, this is like my world. It’s advanced.
There are apparently monsters like goblins so this world and my old one aren’t on a 1-to-1 scale. My world also didn't have skills or magic. I can’t say it’s similar. I guess I can only say that it is somehow modern in a world filled with magic and monsters. I wonder if this world still has books that are physical. I would love to learn about the history of this world. I already know this world is a Pangea. Meaning all the earth's land is fused together.
Some cultures are familiar to me. There are celebrities and advertisements with celebrities. But celebrities are not random people with talent. Or interesting lives. It’s royalty, or what I assume is businessmen and women. Unlike the dukes, barons, and lords that have a title in their name. The ones who are in the advertisements are wearing business suits. Or traditional clothes from other countries.
What bothers me the most is the wealth gap. There are some natural beauties like Furin that are lower class. But the ones in royalty are far more attractive than most citizens. I wonder why they are so beautiful. If they look young, what do the mothers and fathers look like?
Oh wait is that one of the royalties she is doing a meet and greet? Maybe I should talk to her and gather info. The best option though is to go to a library. I doubt I can learn much from an awkward fan meet-up. I need to know about the history and not some girl's day so far. Oh a message, wait a message from who? It just appeared before me in my vision.
Stare into the abyss would be useful to use on that woman. To activate it touch her skin and say in your head
Oh, so my skill requires me to touch someone's skin. Maybe the thing messaging me knows my thoughts. I was thinking about getting information. Maybe my skill is a way I can get information. The princess is alone and no one is in line to see her. I would talk to her but Furin is trying to get my attention.
“Ren, you punk are you even listening to me?”
“Yes of course I was Furin!”
“So what’s my mother's name then?”
“...I wasn’t listening.”
She grabbed the collar of my shirt. “You punk when a beautiful lady is talking you listen, ok!?” She said while pointing at her.
“Isn’t calling yourself beautiful narcissistic, at least the tone you had was.”
“Fine, whatever human find the adventure guild yourself. I will go say hi to the beautiful princess. Princess Rain is so nice and adorable!” Rain? Like the droplets of water from clouds? That is a weird name for a first name. This is another world though so maybe names like these are normal. I mean from what I can remember celebrities named their kids some awful, awful names.
I see Furin walking toward the princess. Damn it was spacing out. She is currently my only lifeline! I need to stick with her for now. I also need to use my skill on Princess Rain. It was recommended. I walk fast towards Furin. I could also see the princess's eyes light up. Has no one showing up in a while or something? I wonder why she is so happy.
“Are you here to see me? Oh my Gosh, finally the first citizens that want to talk with me!” Wait we are the first ones? Isn’t she a princess, shouldn’t people be flocking to her? Whoever messaged me was right. Using my skill, if it is about gathering info would be good to use on her.
“Of course, Wait for us?” She looked behind her to see that I was walking behind her.
“Oh him? Ha! he is nothing but a freeloader.”
“I can’t help it! I have amnesia. I am also going to get a job soon.”
“Oh, Amnesia. I do hope you get your memories back.” She said with a smile. I smiled when I saw hers but my face switched to shock when I saw her knight next to her. My nerves are telling me to stay away from him. I don’t know how strong her knight is but through stats, I can tell he is strong.
“Are you ok sir?” Princess Rain said with a worried Look.
“Oh, yeah sorry. Your knight is good at his job, I can’t help but feel intimidated.”
“Oh, Jim? He is kind but does have a duty to protect royalty!” The knight said nothing but bowed a little bit.
“Oh, heavens. Please, I want to meet my fans. Please tell me your names!”
Furin and Princess Rain talked for a while. Just girl stuff. I wasn’t really interested in it. Stuff like clothes and shoes. Furin probably took advantage of no one being around. She really likes Princess Rain which is weird in my opinion. I thought she hated humans or maybe she hates men.
Ah, who cares I am tired and want to hurry up and get a job and go to the library. I interrupted the conversation by holding my hand out. Princess Rain was confused but smiled and put her hand out. We were about to close our hands for the greetings but I slipped or made it seem like I did. I grabbed her wrist and in my head, I said my name's skill. Stare Into The Abyss. It was activated and what felt like years was only about a second of time. I saw everything About the Princess.