Today is the 23th of April, the fifth anniversary of my death and tragedy. I still quite remember how all of this happened. My past name is Kazuhachi I live at my mother’s house. Ever since my father left my mother when I was still very young, I’ve been in very close relationship with my mother to the point I can’t imagine myself without her. It’s 12 O’clock in the morning, I strolling around the town to find the limited edition action figure of Manuto, a shonen anime that I liked so much. The thing I liked on that anime is how the main character evolved from the most hated person in his home village to become a hero and a leader to that same village that bullied and discriminated him during his childhood. One thing I’ve learned from that anime is that effort and patience has unlimited potential to change impossible things. I’ve admired the main character so much that I would’ve wasted my pocket money on that anime action figures and posters. I’ve watched this anime like 15 times over from the first episode till the last. I’ve also remembered most of the lines and names of the techniques used in that particular anime. Now I’m getting the April special of Manuto with his village flag as his cape as he defeated the main antagonist. I was so excited when I heard that the Manuto creator is officially at the store to sign the action figure. I went to the store with a bus. The store is quite far and probably when I reach there is already dark. But just like the main character I patiently saving my money for months for this very moment. The moment in my life that will be one of my best experience to meet with the creator of my favourite show. As time goes by the bus finally stoped then I proceed to exit the bus. It was night and because of it I can’t see very clearly of what was in front of me. Then scary-looking tall muscular guy approached me and whisper to my ear 

“ Give everything you have to me and I will let you off easily.” 

I was frightened and at that moment I began to think, as a longtime anime viewer this one of the most cliche moment in a protagonist’s life then as per the protagonists do all time I run for my life. Then a tall shadowy guy appears in front of me and I fell down then I predict again that the other guy will snatch of my belongings. After that the muscular guy began stealing my bag full of today’s figure hunt and my wallet from my pocket. When they finally stop robbing me I get back up like the main character and started to fight back. As all animes that I’ve already watched the main character usually wins or at least survives at times like this it is almost impossible that the main character dies off easily. So I ran into them at full speed and punch the muscular guy’s face from the back and fell.

“ Yess my theory works!”

Then almost immediately the other guy kicked my stomach and I flew back to the nearest wall and broke my back. After that I woke up in a strange room with fancy decorations. I was very confused 

“ Where am I?”

This is the question that keep lingering my mind at that very moment. I was a bit scared then I looked at my hands. My hands were small, I touched my body and go to the mirror nearby. Then I looked at myself and I thought

“ This is not me how could I became very small its like I am in a 15 year old body.”

Whilst minute ago I could’ve sworn that i am in a 25 year old body and died, how in the world that I still alive? And now in a body of a child I looked closely at myself. I have long blond hair, a fair white skin, an oval face with dazzling blue eyes. Then I thought to myself

“ Is it possible that I’ve been reincarnated to this world? This is just like that anime spear art online. But that can’t be true because I still have my past memory intact with me right now.”

I thought “At least I have a beautiful body of a girl.” Then I touched myself at the crotch and I found out that I was a male. That time I thought to myself “ Have I reborn as a TRAP?”

I have so many thoughts going on right now like why was I here? What would I feel like at the otherworld? Why do i have this kind of body? Then my mind calmed down and my memories started to reorganise the events that led me here. After some thought I realised something, the fact I was here is because I am not strong enough to defend myself. At that moment I gloated at myself for being weak, I’ve also regretted that I couldn’t make up for my lost thus I even haven’t said my last words to mother. Then somebody knocked and enter my door. A strange middle-aged woman rushing in and hug me as she utter this words

“ Thank goodness you are alright next time don’t eat anything recklessly okay? Not everything is safe to eat, you are lucky I am around or else.”

She hugs me so tightly yet I feel love instead of pain. From her action I could tell that she is the mother of this body not me. It is painful to me that she is resembling mother from my previous life and I am not ready to move on. I keep mumbling why, why, why until i shouted and I went under my blanket crying. I kept thinking what if my mother is lonely without me because I am very worried about her. Then she sat beside me and say

“ Ren are you alright? Do you need something? Just tell me okay I am your mother after all maybe I put too many of the medicine? hehe I know you don’t like medicine that much.”

I slowly said “stop” then again I shouted, “STOP! ARE NOT MY MOTHER YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME!” 

After that I left the room. I kept running to the exit where there is a butler-like person in front of me “Master Ren where are you g- .” I pushed him and run over to the exit. At the exit I was stunned for a second to see a beautiful garden and above it a beautiful double sun shine brightly above the horizon. After that I continue running to no end until a strange thing happened while I run, my body feels like steering my direction to a nearby big and old tree. Upon arriving apparently there is a cavity inside the tree that coincidentally fits with my body. After that I stopped crying and trying to adjust my mental state at the moment. After some some moment I feel really guilty for saying those words to her as if i am the bad guy here. I thought to myself that I am an idiot and I shouldn’t let my emotion take control, then again this further prove my weakness. Then when I became mentally weak something is coming out from my hands it is like a glowing purplish aura gushing out from my hands. As the aura keep burning, my head feels numb it feels like I went on a 5 miles run nonstop and I need to rest, then before I collapse I see my past life mother come and looked like she was worried for me as my sights faded to obscurity. I woke up again in the same room only to find my mother at my side. 

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“ I'm sorry for what I said bef-“ before I could finish my words she slapped me and then hugs me again.

“What were you thinking I am your mother if I didn’t stop your magic from overflowing your life force could’ve been in danger”

“Then how could you find me? And why you still cared about me eventhough I said those things to you” this is the most corniest line I’ve ever spew from my mouth although it was worth it for this kind of moment.

“For starters call me mom like you used to be and of course I know where you are hiding, you always hide there if you have some problems like this and I know this because I am your mother.”

As of now this is the most anime-like and cheesiest moment in my entire combined life and truthfully I do not regretted that I was reincarnated here because I still have my mother with me. Although she is not the same as the previous this is more or less the same.

“ Wait! Mom did you say magic?”

“ Yeah and you need to control your magic from now on.”

“ I mean can you please explain more to me about this magic?”

After some talk with mom as I called her that from now on I know everything about Ren and the systems in this world. Apparently this body I am inhibiting is named Ren so I am going to call myself that from now on also. My family is actually a noble with my mother has the lowest title for a noble, Baroness. My father in this world has died from a disease and his body has grown up into that giant tree that I previously used as a hiding spot. The old butler that I ran into is named Sebastian and apparently he and his ancestor served my family for the longest time. Ive also learned about the mythology of this world. This world is known as Gaia and the creator is called Altia and the legend goes with Tia’s battle with demon goddess Dusk over the dominance over Gaia. Then, Dusk alongside her followers is condemned of Gaia to the depths of hell after her lost to Tia then in the aftermath of that battle she gave a clone of her powers to her followers and their descendants known as magic. Magic also comes in 4 official colours red, green, blue, and purple and each colour has a unique ability. Also as I’ve seen before my colour is purple, the magic that utilises concentration to forge anything from my own imagination by consuming my mana the longer I used it. Red has exceptional element control, blue has the ability to enhance anything good for offence, defence, and support. Lastly, Green has the element to manipulate anything. At this point all people already mixed one another with someone carrying the magic ability blood. The only separator between the elites here is between the potential of one’s mana capacity. For those who has a mana capacity of 3 or below is called a victus while someone who has more is called a magus and the indicator to this is the mana pool system. At some point people at certain age can come to the town’s cathedral and check their mana pool. Mom said that I just turned 10 and 10 apparently is the legal age to test out one’s mana pool and I’m going to the cathedral tomorrow.

It is morning the sun is rising up to the horizon as I venture through my bedroom’s window. It is a good sign that today I will reveal my role as a protagonist of my own life. I do everything like a noble kid would do I bathed myself, I have my maid to put on my attire, and have breakfast with mom. Then I rushed to entrance to wait eagerly with my mom for our family’s carriage. Minutes past by and I heard a subtle yet loud neigh just outside the entrance. As I hear those sounds my heart flutters with joy then I swiftly open the entrance to see a majestic view. The carriage that I was going to rode upon is decorated in white with large gold ornaments painted the other side of the carriage and on top of that there is a miniature gold horse placed at the top of it. With no further ado I rushed to get into that thing. At that time I still don’t know how to open the door so I took minutes staring at the beautiful decorated door until my door was eventually opened by our family’s chauffeur Mr. Ronaldo. Inside the carriage the seat was two sided and facing each other so my mom took opposite sitting so that she can see my face clearly during the journey to the capital. During the expedition I kept seeing along the road people in poverty but the thing that interest me is that the people is happy even in poverty. Then I remember something from my last conversation with mom that this country although is the richest it is also the poorest. There is 4 major kingdoms in Gaia the west kingdom of Melgraad, the east kingdom of Zheng, the theocratic kingdom of Zune, and the great merchant kingdom of Zen. Right now my family is one of the nobles of Melgraad so although I am a noble in the future I wanted to maintain my relationship with a commoner. Apparently all people who served their country will earn the title knight and was given an armour to show the country’s respect of their service. The armour usually used as a symbol and not meant to be necessarily used but they can otherwise. As I keep swimming in my own river of thoughts we finally arrived at the capital city of Melgraad, Zakoria. My jaw dropped as i venture deep in the streets of Zakoria as there is so many things I’ve never seen before in my 2 life. There is a lot of merchants selling goods to their customers, ships docked in a mass whilst sailors come out from their ships. There is a magic performer that produce pyrotechnic from his body. This really gives off the vibe of the middle ages like I saw on various anime. Then at long last I arrived at the cathedral.

“ Ren, this is the place that will determine your future. While I was your age I was shocked to see my mana pool is 8 so I highly doubt you will getting much less than that.”

Did I hear that clearly my mom the mom than gives birth to this body has a mana pool of 8? Maybe this is my destiny as the protagonist. As I get off from the carriage I saw a large white building with pillars on it similar to the temple of Zeus back in my previous world. I also aware of the large crowd that came today to have one of the most important and deciding factor in their entire life. It appears that people with higher mana pool will get better privileges in this country. Apparently as I waited with my mom for my name to be called I saw many people pray to the Goddess Altia. It seems that not only Melgraad people come here there is also various people from around the world going to this cathedral for their future to be seen because allegedly this is the only cathedral to have the mana pool system that is required for your life because it appears that from jobs to restaurant menus is divided between the results from the mana pool system it is like social stratification here. Then a young boy with a large crowd of bodyguards appears from my back, as he pass right in front of me I can clearly saw his appearance, he is a tall guy with spiky black hair, white skin with deep blue eyes. He wore a white decorated garment with cape with Melgraad symbol on it. As soon as he appears closer my mom along with others around me begin to bow.

“ Ren you must bow your head to the higher rank”

On the face of it, it looks like he is the son of a high ranking noble. Then as I put my head back up I see him enters the altar where everybody can see him taking the mana pool test. He stands on top of a glowing rune and the head priest soon began chanting to start up the system.

“ His rank must be higher than any noble as he is given the priority from all others.”

Then I continue to hear the head priest’s saying, I was far from the altar so I cant hear too well but at the moment when the priest says the prince of Melgraad I began to question.

“ Of course, he is the prince no wonder he appears like that and have the charisma, as the plot of various anime I’ve watched the prince always gets a high score but the the protagonist will score higher than the prince and I’ve become a hot sensation to the public.”

Then as the ritual begin people including me see something odd about the system, as I’ve watched countless of people getting pooled I’ve never seen anything like this. Usually the pool will generate bluish like light when it is pooling the results from the people but now it changes colour like like a rainbow. Then after the pooling ends the Head priest looked like he was shocked

“ M-my liege y-your mana pool is one of the rarest, only 1 in every 10 years you have a mana pool of 9”

After that the crowd cheers as he left the altar. People are shouting and praising as he headed to wards his own carriage. His carriage is a massive carriage decorated fully with rare metals and diamonds. The carriage is equivalent to a limousine back in my previous life and my knee fell to the ground as I see the animal that pulls his carriage was a dragon. All and all now with my name been called I thought to myself as I walk straight to the altar that now is my time to shine and show the world that I am the protagonist. This is maybe one of my pivotal moments in life if not the most since this moment is the reason why I ended up this way and that time I didn’t know much about the horrors of this world may be.