[Note: Dialogues written in *___* are Zarathrax's inner thoughts.]
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*Ughh.. what is this weird feeling I am having? My mind is dizzy and it's hard to even think straight, every time I try to think I just fall asleep.*
*Ughhh...not again. Why do I fall asleep everytime‽*
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*Finally!! I have began to have physical senses once more.*
*What is even happening to me? I remember dying on the battlefield. Where am I now? And this warm liquid I am feeling across my entire body...what is this thing?*
*Hm? I can hear someone humming. It's so beautiful and soothing to the mind I feel like sleeping again.*
"La~ La~ Laaa~ Grow big and healthy, my little treasure…"
*This voice....It's so youthful and filled with life, but who is it and where am I? I can't seem to move my body no matter how much I try. I wonder how much time has passed since my death and what Noir and the others are doing. This voice is really making me sleepy. No! I don't want to sleep again.*
*It's no use. I can't control anything currently. Guess I should just sleep.*
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Time passed by as I grew up in mother's womb.
Untill the day of birth.
"Push harder, Alice!"
"Ugh…! Ahhh! Nngh…! C-Come on…!"
"Harder! You can do it!"
I heard two voices, one of them was the same youthful voice I kept hearing every now and then and the other sounded like the voice of an old women. I could feel a large hand grabbing me, and slowly bringing me out of wherever I was.
Pop!
Suddenly, I felt like I had been freed from the confinements of the place I had been to. I could finally move my body a little, though I still didn't have much control over it, it was as if my body wouldn't listen to me and do whatever it wanted. I faintly opened my eyes, being greeted by the intense light.
*So much light!!!*
I forcefully opened my eyes trying to look around. I was in a wooden room with a bed in the middle. The room was well decorated. But....what I saw in front of me was strange. I was in the hands of some strange humanoid creature that I have never seen in my life. I looked around in the room and saw a woman lying on the bed. She looked very weak and exhausted. I then looked at myself. I had humanoid hands, but they were small, too small to be exact.
After much thought, it was then that I realised what had happened to me. I had reincarnated into the body of a child after my death. The warm liquid I felt across my body and the place that seemed to bind me was my mother's womb. Everything started making sense to me. The person lying on the bed was supposedly my mother, and the old woman, I don't know who she was. Aside from all that, what I found strange was the fact that I had never seen this race of humanoids. Never in my entire life.
As I was collecting my thoughts and realised the situation I was in, the old women started saying something.....
"I-it's a boy, Alice!" Said the old women.
*Huh? What is she saying?*
The old woman handed me over to my mother.
*I don't understand. What exactly happened after my death? Has it been that long ago since my death for a new species to appear‽ No. Maybe I might not be in Infernum in the first place. Yes, that might be a possibility.*
As I was lost in my own thoughts, I noticed that the woman who was holding me(who was now my new mother) started crying. They were tears of joy to be exact.
*Maybe she is happy to see me? I mean who wouldn't be happy to see their newborn child?*
"Welcome to this world....my baby"
Bang!!
Suddenly the door opened and two figures walked in. One of them was a young man and the other one was an old man.
The young man quickly ran to my mother's side and started speaking.....
"Are you ok Alice? How's our baby? Asked the young man
"I am ok, look and our baby is also fine. He's a healthy boy."
I didn't understand what they said but judging by the young man's reaction, he must be my father.
The man held me in his arms and cried tears of joy looking at me. This guy was definitely my father.
I could see the old man standing behind him, smile. He too looked happy, just like the others.
*So this is my new reality.*
*There are tons of things to learn and explore, I really want to know whether I am on Infernum or not and of course about this new humanoid species, but that will have to wait. As I am now, I can't do anything. My first priority will be to learn this new language.*
My thoughts were interrupted as my father started saying something.
"Though one thing is strange... Aren't new born babies supposed to cry? Why is he so silent mother? Is something wrong with him?Asked my father with a worried expression, to the old woman.
"Even I found that strange, so I checked his body and he seems perfectly fine, he's even healthier than any normal new born." Said the old woman.
*Why are they all looking at me like that? Judging by their expressions, it seems they are worried about me. But why? What's wrong?*
As everyone was looking at me with a worried expression, suddenly a little girl came running in the room.
"Where is the baby? I wanna have a look."
The girl stopped beside my father.
He bent down and handed me over to the little girl. The little girl looked really excited and couldn't contain it and quickly snatched me away from my father and looked at me with a wide smile on her face.
"Remember Emma, you have to be a good sister and take good care of your baby brother like you promised,ok?"
"Hm. Yes, I will take good care of him." The girl started pooking my cheeks and giggling.
"Looks like she already likes him a lot"
"So what are you going to name him?" Asked the old man beside my father
"We have decided to name him Cassian" said my father
"That sounds like a good name" said the old man
*I don't know what happened but they all suddenly look happy. Well whatever the case is, this is the start of my new life.*
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