In an orphanage a baby could be seen in a small crib with a huge frown on its face Jason had been in this world for 5 days now at first he was excited about his future prospects, but his dreams were crushed on only his second day there, the moment he woke up he tried meditating and multiple different things to unleash his power, after a few hours of doing that he came to the realization that his new world didn't have any magical properties, but it was as if the heavens were playing a cruel trick on him because at that very moment he saw a young toddler entering his room with some food to feed him ... the only issue was that the child wasn't even holding the bowl it was just levitating in front of him as he walked
Jason began crying out of jealousy after he was fed. 'why him? It should've been me, not him!!' but after a while, he decided it was better to just think things through a bit.
'What if you need to reach a certain age before you're able to awaken your powers? Yeah! this world might work like that I mean it'd be pretty dumb if babies could have powers the moment they're born maybe I should try to find out more info from the people, since my new mom is dead I think this place is an orphanage I've seen a lot of kids entering here too'
'why couldn't I have been reincarnated as a 4-year-old or something? Being a baby is way too boring. I've only been able to shit and pee. My bones are also way too weak, and I can barely lift my hands.'
4 days or so passed since then and he's barely made any progress in learning more about this world and its power system he's only seen the telekineses kid use his ability but not the others plus it was extremely hard finding info since the kids and ladies that were there to clean and feed him only focused on the task at hand he couldn't even crawl, 'those reincarnation books are so dumb those MC's are able to walk the moment they're born I even remember one where the mc was able to sword fight with a grown man even though they were fresh out of the womb... Mann!! that guy was Right, I now realize that those stories were kind of dumb'
It extremely bore Jason to the point where he spent most of the day just sleeping (his baby brain needs rest) and only waking up when he had to eat this went on for 1 month straight
recently the kids were more relaxed around him and were even allowed to bring him outside with them whenever they would play, the first time he was brought outside was 3 days ago the air was cool and when he looked at the orphanage, it was pretty big at first he was expecting a small little church but it was of a decent size the only place he's been in this entire time was his small room
the telekinesis kid was the one holding him it seems he had a weight limit on what he could control I looked around at some of the kids and began counting '1..5..6..7..10..13' there were only 13 kids 5 girls and 8 boys one thing I noticed was the hair colors they were all unique with a multitude of different colors one girl had straight-up red hair and a boy had pink hair
overall they seemed like good kids and some even came to pat my head (I still only have whips of hair) which made my ego grow even bigger
It was a pretty fun day. The kids were just playing tag and hide and seek, once again making me reminisce about the past.
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Today I was once again brought out but by a different person. It was a young lady, someone who works in the orphanage.
"hey little jerlax I know you'll have so much fun today your big brothers and sisters will be competing today"
Jason put on his 'cutest' face while giggling
"that's great. You look so excited," she said, pinching my cheeks.
all the 13 kids were there the atmosphere felt restless and hyped 2 kids got in front of everyone else and one of them began punching at the smaller one I almost creamed (Yes creamed not screamed) when I saw the small child's arm start to turn grey it looked almost metal like
Upon seeing him activate his ability, the bigger child proceeded to back away. A few of the other kids cheered.
"Remy is so cool, his hardening ability is so strong even Soll is being cautious when fighting him," I heard a few kids say
Remy began attacking soll with multiple kicks, soll managed to dodge a few but some of the attacks made contact due to Remy's skin being hardened. It felt as if he was being attacked by bricks. He paused and said.
"you've gotten better since our last fight "
"I suppose I did " Remy snarkily replied
"I'm glad you're my rival.. guess ill have to go all out on you " his body began exuding fire, bright yellow flames covered him from head to toe I could feel the heat even though I was a good 15 or so meters away
'no way even a child who barely looks 7 is that strong. I can't even begin to imagine the adults. I hope my power is just as cool as theirs. ' Jason couldn't help but admire such an ability
soll with his flames activated gained a boost in speed as he was already in front of Remy in the blink of an eye he began attacking him, because of his increased speed Remy couldn't dodge them even with his hard body the damage he took could be shown on his face I could see small waves forming from the attacks being interchanged
A woman appeared seemingly out of nowhere in front of them to stop the fight immediately after seeing her they immediately stopped fighting.
"we're sorry headmaster..we took it too far!!" They both said in sync fearfully as they started bowing on their knee it was a stark contrast from the previous fighting kids, I wondered how strong she was she looked like she was in her 40s sporting matte black hair with a few gray ends
"Alright children, this little competition is over since these two numb skulls couldn't control themselves. " her voice was surprisingly loud even though she wasn't, screaming she definitely never needed a megaphone
all the kids groaned in frustration but nevertheless, they started dispersing with some going inside and others playing games outside
the headmaster walked toward us
"Hey Marie, is that the new baby "
"yes headmaster, he's only been inside the orphanage, but he's old enough to come out now"
"hmm, I see. Was he born with an ability?"
"no headmaster, hopefully, he awakens one before he's 12. If he doesn't, his life will be difficult "
"Indeed, it will, I'll be in my quarters for today, I shall be leaving for the capital tomorrow morning the elves are attacking a few villages near this kingdom and his highness wants me and a few other ranks 2's to deal with it"
"I'll inform the others," Marie said as the headmaster seemingly disappeared with no warning
Jason was shaking with excitement
"oh are you sleepy little jerly? " she headed inside and laid Jason in his crib
Jason felt as if he was on Cloud 9. He's learned a lot today more than he'd learned the whole month
Elves exist here, do dwarves exist too? more importantly, it seems that I have till 12 years old to awaken my ability didn't that headmaster mention something about ranks are rankings just how strong your ability is at birth, or is it more than that even though I've learned some new things I have even more questions
his eyes began closing 'dammit weak baby brain I have to sleep' Jason slept peacefully
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a lot of mistakes please inform me of things I should fix and work more on this is the second chap, and I enjoyed writing this as of now I don't currently have a release schedule add this to your library and consider commenting a review if you enjoy this