Since I was little, I had never believed that you can start over a new life after death. I simply address the matter as daydreaming and as an escape from reality since you can't erase what you've done. Your past couldn't be rewritten. Even if you did start another life as in reincarnate into another person, I believed that you'd have no memories of your past life.
Or so I thought.
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Ugh...
I felt extremely uncomfortable. Reason being was that my body felt too cold. I also felt that my body was tired and numb like I had never moved it before. I knew of the fact that the human bodies tend to get cold when somebody died but this was too much. Moreover, if this was the afterlife, my probably destroyed body on Earth shouldn't have an effect on me.
This didn't make any sense whatsoever. I'm utterly confused. Anybody would be in this kind of situation.
Putting thoughts aside, I needed to do something about my freezing body and fast. I am trying to take the current situation as calm as possible and started to do simple actions.
First and foremost, I opened my eyes. It was blurry at first but I adjusted my sight of vision by blinking a few times. It seemed like it worked as I could see clearly now. What came into my sight was obviously my surroundings.
Well, well. No wonder it's cold. The surrounding trees had snow piled on top of the branches and leaves. The same went for the ground. From what I could see right now, I believe that I'm inside some unknown forest and it's currently winter. Furthermore, I was lying on the hard and cold ground.
How great.
Since I couldn't bear with the cold anymore, this time, I tried to move more parts of my body such as the arms and legs. I'm able to move them just fine but a numb feeling accompanied my movements. It's not that surprising considering who knows how long I have spent in the cold.
After getting used to moving, I started to get up from my lying stance.
I hurriedly inspected my body. I have confirmed that this was not my body which was predictable. Knowing this fact made me explore and examined my body more thorough.
My skin was as pale as a ghost's, although I didn't know how my face looked like at the moment, at least it's better than my last one. My hair was completely white; contrast to my previous jet black hair. I wore high grade looking clothing. I also wore a pair of white gloves, black robe and shoes.
Well, I'm grateful to the last owner for having worn a proper set of clothes instead of being stark naked in the cold.
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Why I said 'the last owner of this body you asked? Wasn't it obvious that this was the so-called reincarnation that was used in some manga and ranobe (light novel)?
Enough of the details for now. I needed to get out of this forest and fast. As for what I'm going to do after this.... I'd decide on it at a later date.
I sincerely hoped that I wouldn't get lost in this forest. That would probably spell the end for me.
"Now, shall we go?"
With that said, I started walking in the cold with hopes to find an exit to this forest. While walking, I didn't forget to observe my surroundings more. I was interested in this seemingly large forest. Even though there're just snow everywhere, the sight still looked beautiful. It's quite uncommon to find a nature's place that's not ravaged by the modern society. That said, where in the world is this place?
As soon as I get out of this place, I'm going to find information. There's too little that I know right now. I kept it in mind so that I wouldn't forget about it.
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It had been about half an hour since I started walking but there didn't seem like anything that would help me out of this freaking place. I'm tired but I needed to keep walking to keep my body warm. My stomach was also telling me to hurry up and eat some food. But you know, there're currently nothing to eat in this forest since it's presumably winter here.
Isn't this situation just too dire?
Aha! I have an idea that's not that brilliant. But it's better than nothing right?
The idea itself was very simple. I just needed to simply check the pockets of clothes to see whether there're anything useful.
My top wear was a simple collared shirt covered by the black robe. The shirt possesses one breast pocket and the only one there is meanwhile the robe possesses none. I found a platinum plate from the breast pocket. I'd check it after I searched all of the pockets.
My bottom wear which was black sleek pair of trousers had a total of four pockets; two front and two back pockets. I obtained nothing from them. I could only sigh from the result of my findings.
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Well, I guess all I have was this platinum plate thingy. I better check it out.
On a closer look, the plate was shaped like an upside down triangle with no sharp edges. It also has a few weird, or should I say 'artistic', carvings. I kinda liked the carvings so I traced my index finger along them. After I did that, to my surprise, a window screen popped up.
Status WindowName: Ren TatsukiAge: 17 years oldRace: UnknownLevel: 5StatisticsStrength30Defense25Agility45Intelligence600Magic300Luck60Skill(s)-Creation Magic
-Language ComprehensionTitle(s)None
"The fish is this?!"
Seriously, what exactly is this?!
This kind of thing only appeared in games, manga and ranobe isn't it?! Then again, reincarnation was also the same so I guess this kind of fantasy crap was of the norm here?
'Am I not on Earth?'
I thought of the possibility that I'm no longer on the same earth as I was in my previous life. Does this also mean that I'm currently in another........ world?
It's not a confirmed possibility. I can go gather some information later on so I need to assess my situation calmly.
Putting aside my surprise, I began analyzing the opened window screen that's in front of me. There're my name, age, race and some other things that I didn't quite understand.
The matter with my name and age are very accurate but I wonder why my race is stated as 'unknown'?
The other stuff were Strength, Defense, Agility, Intelligence, Magic and Luck which caught my already-piqued interest. Other than my Intelligence and Magic, my other stats were very low with Luck being the highest among them. I thought that as ironic since I'm not in a good situation and am currently freezing and starving to death. I'm astonished as to how I could still think rationally.
Well, I guess the stats were good enough considering that my level was 5.
Apart from those stats, there're also 'Skill(s)' and 'Title(s)'. While I didn't possess any title, I do possess two skills. One of them is the mysterious Creation Magic and the other is Language Comprehension. I suppose this world has magic.
This made my theory on being in another world more possible. I'm mostly convinced that that's the case.
I wanted to try my skills but I guess that I couldn't use Language Comprehension just yet. There's no foreigner in this isolated place after all. So that left me with Creation Magic.
As the name states, I think that the Creation Magic is to be able to make something from one's imagination.
Heh. Now I'm excited.
I quickly tried to imagine food since I'm starving. If this works, it might be the only thing that will be able to save me from my current problems.
I then closed both of my eyes. I imagined a box full of spicy, hot chicken wings and hold out my hands. I tried to make my image of it as clear as possible. During the process, I felt that my energy was being sucked up. Suddenly, a heavy object can be felt on my two hands.
I opened my eyes slowly and to my joy I saw exactly what I wished for.
A box full of spicy, hot chicken wings!
I almost cried in joy. The aroma of the chicken wings that's wafting in the air tickled my nose. Losing to my temptation and hunger, I grabbed one of the chicken wings and ate it hastily. Even though I almost burned the insides of my mouth, the food was real and delicious!
And so I sat down under a near tree and despite the coldness that my body felt, I began to gobble up the food.
'Magic is so convenient!'
I thought of that at the time and I looked forward to my new life.
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A/N: There were a lot of sentences that I was confused on whether to use past or the present tense. I hope you guys who are reading point out the mistakes kindly as English is not my primary language.