Some time, Some space;

A group of flickering white orbs shined in this space.

They were colliding against each other, some getting bigger and bigger, others smaller, the rest dying out.

They were all traveling to a single direction, but they kept on pushing, colliding, & swallowing each other; they did not have any other choice after all, unless they wanted to quickly weaken and die.

Along with time; the group of white orbs kept getting lesser & lesser, until only one of them remained.

It was a special one among them. While others were getting bigger, it was getting smaller and denser. While others were losing their shine, the orb contained it in and was only getting brighter. 

This, was thanks to its innate talent. 

It was not like the others did not have their own innate abilities, it was just that its talent and environment fit together perfectly, which made it survive this crisis with ease.

The white orb steadily went forward toward its direction.

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Edward woke up, feeling---nothing. It was an odd feeling, novel but disturbing at the same time. 

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Edward quickly used his soul to sense what is going on; he found out that he was inside a tiny thing, a fetus, surrounded by liquid.

Edward quickly came to the conclusion that he reincarnated. He did not panic, did not feel sad, not even surprised or happy; his emotions were subdued by his current state, but was still intelligent by the force of his soul and memories.

Edward reviewed the previous life's memories; he used to be a normal person. He had his childhood, his teenage years, his adulthood. He studied his subjects like a normal student, went to college, graduated to become a doctor, and was preparing to retire by the age of 30. Edward found out that his previous life's goal was pretty simple; it was only to live happily. He's had that goal since he was a child, so he aimed at it by acquiring the best paying job to get rich and retire as soon as he could do it. 

He also used to have a wife, but she died, and he could only resolve himself to live alone for the rest of his life. 

That was the plan, and he was in the day prepared to retire, but his life ended at that time. That life ended when a meteor shower tore through the ultra thin atmosphere and detonated the world like a big firecracker.

He survived at that time, although only with his soul, but he was not the only one, and could not  survive forever. 

The void was eating away at them, so all they could do was to hurl their soul to the direction their instincts were pointing them to. 

Their soul force was not enough to survive the journey, so they ate away at each other. Edward then found out that he could siphon away their soul force, & he did just that. 

He awakened his soul's innate talent & ate them all; strengthening himself more than enough for the journey. 

Now that Edward gained himself a new life, and could do nothing more than think, he started to plan for his future-self...as a baby.

Why suddenly so urgent to do it? Because his innate talent is eerily similar to a horror novel's protagonist, and if he learned anything about horror novels, then it's that protagonists almost always die in it.