"Why do you live like this?" they all ask. Well, if I can't live the way I'm living, then why live at all? My whole life, I've been asked, "Why do I live the way I do?" If you're not happy with the way I live, then I won't live like this.
"I hope I get to see this world again!" I say as I jump off the building. Well, that's what I remember saying. I then saw some sort of light. "Is this the afterlife?" I thought, but then I saw a woman holding me. "What the hell?" I tried saying, but it just came out as "waaaa!" I do admit this woman looked pretty fine, but as I was trying to move, some random guy grabbed me. I then said, "Hey chump, who you putting your hands on?" And then I tried putting my hands on the guy's collar, but what I saw were chubby small baby hands? I realized I didn't say what I just said; I just started crying even more! What the hell was going on? Was I reborn? If that's the case, heck yea! I finally get a second chance at life. I won't have people calling me ugly, broke, and especially them asking why I lived my life this way. But I realized this was not America. I noticed my supposed mother was wearing a kimono. Was I reborn in an anime? Who knows what I could do? Maybe I'm the protagonist. Do I have a high-class magic Tier system? Oh, so many things could happen!
Two years have passed, I've spent time understanding the language of the world in secret. In this world, I am considered 3 and not 2. Strange enough, 14 is when you're an adult, so I'll get to have—no, I'm mature, I wouldn't do that so quickly, no matter the age. My family is working class; also, magic doesn't exist. There is this thing called li; using it, you can conjure different spells or whatever. I also learned to read in secret. Turns out, Li can be conjured by meditating, so for several days until the start of fall, I started my meditation journey. I managed to conjure Li so easily; maybe I am the protagonist after all. Hehe, I also found out there are different types of Li: Body/Weaponry enhancing, Elemental, Spiritual. I'm ashamed, but I only mastered one Elemental. And it was magma. I don't use it because it is very destructive. One day, I made a big ball of magma which took half of my Li reserves. It also blew up half of my home before hardening before I was knocked out cold. I heard my mother's voice, "Leon!" My name is Leon, how embarrassing I never knew or maybe I just never listened to what my mom or dad said. A day passed, and my house was fixed. "How the fuck?" I said in this world's language, thank God they don't know about the F word. My parents were happy I could talk, and I saw the confusion on my dad's face, maybe because I said The F word, whatever that confusion then transformed into a grin, my dad told my mom while shifting his gaze towards her, "It's a boy and it knows how to control li; it doesn't have to be a medic after all!" My mom then responded, "God don't have to rub it in!" She then continued, "What God should he be under?" Then the conversation turned into all-out gibberish. God(s), I need to learn more. I also need to train my Li capacity. For the next few weeks, I made tiny magma balls outside that quickly hardened. I'm telling you, I'm the protagonist, man, but anyways I wasn't gonna include this, but I had an argument with my dad. If I was counting my days correctly, it was a Monday afternoon. I saw some kids bullying a White-haired boy with long ears. "Other races exist in this world," I said to myself. The boy was having mud thrown at him, a hood protecting his hair, god he must've done it well today, and due to my heroic instincts, I threw one at the ground to scare the kids off, but it was a little too hot, causing a burn mark to appear on what seemed to be their leader's leg as they ran off. I said, "Hey you booger hair!" Maybe I was a little too mean, but I made up for it by grabbing his hair and taking him to a nearby river. I then washed his hair. I realized I was a bit rough though, so I apologized and introduced myself as "Leon Castel!" Yes, I know my last name, aren't I a professional? The boy then introduced himself as "Nebo beyra." What a strange name for ancient Japan, but the village I was in wasn't really Japan; it was Greek. I also remember my mom and dad talking about Gods. I took Nebo to my house, and he stayed there for the whole night; it seemed as if he had nowhere else to go. He slept in my room. The next day, I prompted him to take a shower with me, but he refused. I then realized how this might be an anime scene and he's secretly a girl, so I secretly took off his or her shorts, but what I found was simply a short noodle. He ran out of the room crying and didn't talk to me for the whole week. My dad had an argument with me, telling me how some men were ashamed of their sizes, but I apologized because I thought he was secretly a female. At that moment, I thought I should've kept my mouth shut, but my dad then told me, "So my son is a womanizer just like me." After saying that, he let me off the hook and told me to apologize to Nebo, so I did. Nebo accepted it, and we were friends again a couple of days later. And I realized this year was eventually gonna end, and I wanted to start exploring more of the world, so I talked to my dad. He told me how he could enroll me in Cheonlong Academy, an Academy founded on one of the Six major continents, but I begged him to enroll Nebo alongside me, and so he did. He bought a carriage and a boat to take me to Cheonlong, and we left as I waved goodbye to my mom and dad, and Nebo waved goodbye to his brother. Honestly, I never knew he had one, and that is where we start our journey to Cheonlong. I'm truly a good protagonist, aren't I?