"Balut!!, balut!!, balut!!".

Hearing the vendor selling his goods, I was reminded of how hungry I am while I am on my way to the nearest convenience store.

It was already 10 in the evening, so some of the stores are already closed except for the convenience stores as well as the other stores that are open until 12 in the midnight or the others that are open 24/7.

Usually I would have already eaten at this time, but considering that I am the only person in the dormitory right now because I need to retake some courses that I failed, while my twin brother and my older sister are enjoying their vacation.

When I am alone I pretty much forget about the necessary things that are needed, like food, soaps, toiletries and other necessities as I am laziest and the least responsible among the siblings so when considering buying the necessities I just let my twin brother and older sister handle it.

And unluckily this time, I ran out of rice without even realizing it.

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As I entered the convenience store, I immediately went towards the shelves where they sell bread, chips, and other types of snacks, and although I’m Asian and I usually eat rice, most of the small convenience stores does not sell rice grains, so I’m forced to eat bread and other snacks to fill my hunger while I only plan to buy rice tomorrow after I finish my classes.

As I was making my way to the counter, I saw a man, who entered the store while looking around nervously as if he’s looking for something, seeing someone who acts just like that, I just ignored him and besides maybe that’s just how he usually acts and it’s not my business to stick my nose to the business of others.

But as I was about to remove my eyes from the man, I saw a metallic thing that is under the vest of the man, as I was curious as to what that thing was, I unconsciously took a few steps towards the man, to get a better view.

As I was taking a look at the man while also approaching him, he also returned the gaze and seeing where I was looking; he suddenly tensed up, while nervously looking at me, and immediately retrieved the thing on his jacket.

As he was retrieving the metallic thing on his jacket, I was able to see what that thing was, and when I confirmed what it was I was immediately startled and my body moved out without realizing it trying to fight for the thing on the man’s hands.

“A gun, it’s actually a gun, and why the heck am I actually trying to fight for the gun on the man’s hand?!”

That was the thing that was actually going through my mind now, until now I don’t even understand why am I fighting for the gun and why my body suddenly moved after recognizing it, maybe it’s instincts, or maybe I just saw something that can threaten me so I try to remove that threat immediately after recognizing it, I don’t know the reason, I’m even regretting looking at the man, or going to the convenience store at this hour. But all those regrets are behind me now, I can only struggle to gain control of the gun as I will be in danger once I let go of it.

As I was struggling with the man, the people on the store finally noticed the commotion.

Hearing screams and shouts coming from the people behind me, I was distracted and nearly lost grasp of the gun on the man’s hands, giving the man an advantage against me, the struggle continued for a few seconds before I finally lost grasp of the gun.

Immediately after getting the gun, the man while panicking pointed the gun towards me and pulled the trigger, I was so shocked at what happened that I cannot even feel the pain on my chest. After that, I just suddenly lost control of my legs and fell to the ground.

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Suddenly the place became noisy of shouts people calling for help or people yelling to chase the man.

And that’s the Last thing that I remembered after losing consciousness.

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I do not know how long I was unconscious for, but I suddenly felt pain while breathing.

“Arghhh!” Although pain was not that excessive, still it was too sudden.

But surprisingly instead of groans or screams, I let out a painful cry of an infant.

“Congratulations Fred and Lina, he’s a boy!”

As I want experiencing these things, I suddenly hear a voice of woman.

As tried to open my eyes I was surprised that I was not able to, I also tried moving my arms and legs but they felt too heavy as if there is a huge weights covering my arms.

“Thank you, Aunt Judy, let me hold him so I can see him.”

I heard another voice, this time a voice of a man, his voice is slightly big and hoarse.

“Fred, Give him to me, I want to see him.”

This time I heard another voice of a woman, her voice is warm and gentle.

Suddenly I felt sensations on my arms and on my head, as if someone is touching me.

“He’s so cute and small; he looks just like you Fred”

The woman was saying these things while I assume that she was holding and hugging me.

“Who are these people, and where exactly am I?”

As I was thinking these things the old woman suddenly spoke.

“What name do you plan to give him?”

“We already agreed upon to name him Leon just like my brother’s name if it is a boy and

Alicia if it’s a girl.”

“So it’s Leon then, a good name” Said the old lady.

As I was listening to what they were saying, I suddenly felt extreme drowsiness, then I immediately fell to sleep, perhaps babies really cannot be awake for long periods of time.

~~~

3 months have passed since I travelled to this world.

First thing I noticed after arriving here was that my parents looks exactly the same with my parents from Earth, so I’m still torn between feeling comfortable as they are still the same familiar faces that I see every day, or if I should feel scared as I am sure that this place is different from Earth with all is reincarnation thing and them having different names.

Second thing I noticed was that this place seems like medieval ages of Earth, wooden houses, wooden fences, wooden carriages and more wood. Seriously this place is full of wood; I haven’t even seen anything made out of concrete yet.

The next thing that I noticed was the people, although a few of them are humans like my parents and Grandma Judy, the midwife that helped my mother during her delivery. Most of them resemble different kinds of animals, although there are some that looks like trees and golems and others that resemble orcs and dwarves. Seeing them for the first time I was so shocked that my mouth turned so wide you could probably put you whole fist in there.

Also, apparently magic exists here, although what I was only able to see were the simple ones like lighting a small flame like what my mother does when she starts cooking.

Despite all those amazing discoveries, the succeeding days after I arrived went uneventfully; I was only able to do the standard things that a baby will do, eat, sleep, then repeat. As I was not even able to walk or even crawl yet and my mother does not bring me out of the house except in the morning, thus I pretty much just stayed inside the house for the first few months.