Panic starts to set in as I realize there is no way I'm going to be able to explain this to my mother! Hey mom I'm back from slaughtering bunnies!!!
"I... I have to... I have to get this blood off me." I say in a near panic.
"I only did what was necessary..."
"But you didn't have to!"
"YES, I DID!!"
I'm losing it. I'm arguing with myself to try to justify what I did. I don't k LW why I would want to see that scene again, but I look back to the bloody mess that used to be a bunny. What I see shocks me out of my panicked state.
"What the..."
The mutilated bunny is disintegrating. It looks almost like it's sinking into the ground. It is being absorbed by it! Is this what happens to creatures that die on this world?! In my video games, enemies just pixilate, vanishing as their pixels do. But this is real life. I'm guessing this is some sort of rapid decomposition. If that's the case, will this bunny respawn? If it respawns, is it even the same bunny? Thinking of this settles me a bit. Seeing it happening like this still doesn't make it seem like the bunny will live again.
I continue watching the bunny sinking into the ground, mortified at what I'm seeing. Soon all that remains is a patch of fur. Even the blood that was splattered around is gone. The blood on me remains though. For some reason I felt the need to pick up the fur. I picked up the fur and then I noticed a small dark yellow stone hidden under the fur. I pick up the stone and put it in my pocket. I carried the fur as I walked back toward the house.
I set the fur down on the pile of firewood and hurry over to the nearby bucket my mom uses to water the garden. There is still a little water in it, but I need more. I need to cast my water spell again. I concentrate and cast the spell, another sudden gush floods out of my hand, but it quickly stops. It wasn't much water, but it looks like enough to clean up a bit.
"I wonder why it stops like that. When mom does it, it's a constant stream. I wonder why mine doesn't do that."
I quickly get to scrubbing off the drying blood from my hands and arms. I take off my sandals and scrub off the blood off my legs. After I finish scrubbing the blood from my skin, I appraise my clothes. I don't know what to do about my clothes... they are soaked with blood. I don't know how to wash them without my mom finding out. I need to think about how to remedy this.
I look around the yard to see if I can find something that I could use to help clean my clothes, and then I stare at the garden with its fresh moist loose soil. I think I have an idea. That will work! I run over and grab handfuls of dirt and put it into the water pail. I grab more dirt until I have a nice pail of nasty mud that is sure to stick firmly to anything. I then proceed to spread the pasty mud all over my bloody clothes. I coat my clothes with as much mud as possible to ensure no blood shows through. I am actually having a bit of fun doing this. Kids love playing in the mud no matter what planet they are from.
"If I can't wash it out, I'll cover it up!"
"I'm 3 and a half years old! I'm supposed to be filthy, right?!"
When I was satisfied that I had concealed my crime, I then smeared some mud on my skin as It would just look strange if only my clothes had mud on them. I ran back into the house making sure to trail some mud into the house. I know I am going to get in a little trouble for this, but it needs to be done. It's a sacrifice I'm more than willing to make to ensure my mom doesn't find out I slaughtered a bunny in her yard.
"I'm back mom!!" I shout loudly with a big fake smile on my face.
"CHRISTINE!!! What the hell are you doing!!! Get back outside right now and take off those muddy clothes!!!" My mom yells seeing her 3-year-old daughter caked with mud and tracking it in the house.
Well, that's what I was going for. The plan worked like a charm. I laugh and run back outside. I strip butt naked and fly back into the house. I see my mom filling up the bath basin for me using her water spell. In the future I am going to have to really put in the effort to figure out why she can sustain the spell and I seem to be unable to.
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"Come on you filthy little girl, it's bath time!"
"Sorry mommy" I say with real sorrow in my voice, not so much for tracking in music but for killing the bunny. This was somewhat of my repentance for what I did.
"It's ok. What were you doing out there?!"
"I was running with the bunnies, and I fell into some mud in the garden."
"Silly girl. I'm going to have to supervise you next time you want to go outside!"
My mom starts cleaning up the mud I dragged into the house while I laugh and play in my bath like a 3-year-old should. I have to explain this though. Since I have all my memories, my mentality is that of a 17-year-old teenager, well 20-year-old technically if you add these three years to my original 17 years. I don't have the mentality of a 3-year-old like I should, so I have to actually force myself to act like a 3-year-old, so my parents don't look at me funny, or get suspicious. It's rather exhausting having to act like this. I'm just guessing what a 3-year-old acts like. I don't have any memories of the first time I was 3, so that's not of any help. How many people actually remember themselves at 3 years of age? I sure don't!
I get out the bath and mom dries me off and puts me in some new clothes. I'm exhausted from today's events, and I know why. My endurance is 15/100. Wait, its lower now because I cast my water spell again with the extra MP I received from leveling. So, it appears that each spell I cast costs me 20MP and 5 points of Endurance. I'm so tired! I climb into my bed and curl up under the covers.
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Ugh, I HATE wearing dresses. I admit they are comfortable as fuck, but I'm a guy! I mean, I was a guy! Fuck me... I'm too tired for another existential crisis. I will save that shit for another day when I have the energy to delve into the mind-fuck that is my existence. First, a nap before dinner! I close my eyes and the world goes black.
I wake up to the low sun shining down on me through the window. My stomach releases a massive gurgle. Good god I'm starving. Who knew beating the shit out of bunnies would make you so hungry! Well bunny. I beat the shit out of ONE. Rather pathetic, but also a bit of psychotic behavior from a 3-year-old.
"Ugh, I'm starving!"
I let out a huge yawn, then roll out of my bed, and headed out to the living room to find my mom. Hopefully she has dinner ready. I haven't eaten anything for a long time, and it looks like it's almost nighttime. If I think about it, I haven't changed a bit. I'm still sleeping the day away, only rolling out of bed to get food from my mom. Nothing has changed! I'm just 3 now instead of 17!
"Good morning sleepy head! I tried to wake you for dinner last night, but you were out like a rock."
"Good morning mom... wait! Morning?!"
"Yes dear, it's morning. You slept through dinner all the way to now!"
Shit! I guess that's what happens when you let your endurance get too low. I'll have to remember not to push myself too hard like that. I know I will need to if I'm going to ever level again. The thought caused me to shudder as I remember what I did to that bunny. THE BUNNY! Oh shit! I left the fur out on the firewood and the yellow stone in the pocket of my clothes outside! I don't know what that yellow stone is, but I have never seen any rocks like it before, so I wonder if it came from that bunny.
"You ready for breakfast dear?"
"Yeah! But hold on mom I want to show you something. I found something while I was running around yesterday, but I left it in the pocket of my muddy shorts."
I run outside and carefully dig in my pocket for the stone, which thankfully was still there. I could probably check my inventory status to see what this stone is called, but It would be better to play it off as though I found it. Gotta cover my tracks! Perhaps my mother will be able to give me a better explanation of what this sone is. I'm not sure what to do with the fur though, so I hide it behind the wood pile for now, then I run back inside.
"Look mommy! I found this cool rock yesterday!" I say as I run in holding the yellow stone up high.
I hand my mother the yellow stone, and her eyes get wide.
"Well look at that! It's a mana stone!"
"What's that?"
"All animals and monsters have mana stones inside them. When they die, their body is taken back by Cardial and these mana crystals are often all that remains."
"Oh, ok. Can I keep it?"
"Sure dear, you found it!"
Well, that's interesting. Finders keepers is a thing in this world. Oh, and mana stones too apparently. I wonder if there is any practical use for them. So, what the hell do I do about these? If I'm going to be mass murdering bunnies in the future to level up, how am I going to explain piles of bunny mana stones all over the place?! It would certainly raise questions if I had a pile of them in my room. Do these bunnies have spawn rates? If I kill them all, what do I tell my mom as to why there are no bunnies around anymore?! These things are ALWAYS running around everywhere! She is going to notice if they suddenly all disappear! I doubt she is going to suspect her three-year-old daughter is the bunny's Charles Manson. Do I really have anything to worry about?
I already made the decision not to tell my parents about my status screen. I don't know if that is the same as this "awakening" my mother told me about, or if it is something only I have access to. For all I know this could have something to do with my skill, and nobody else on this world has the ability to see their status screen. I am going to have to wait 2 years until I'm closer to my awakening to ask more questions about this awakening thing, and what it really is. They will probably me much more forthcoming with information the closer I get to my actual awakening. For someone so eager to learn about this and find out, it is going to be a LONG two years before I can get some answers. Unless I figure it out for myself. We will see what comes first.