A person was located in the dark void with flickering lights, heavy and pained grasps could be heard as he struggled to breathe.

"This is bad... Really bad..." The person called out as they struggled and gasped in pain.

"Rudeus?" A much softer and childish voice cut in, seemingly filled with worry.

The darkness briefly dissipated and revealed a small hand with a pool of blood growing beneath it.

Subaru was now standing in one of the convenience stores, located nearby his house. A young man with nasty sharp eyes and black hair was reading a book with pictures on it.

"Ah, I see. This is where they suck you in. " He said as he flipped through the book with an amused expression.

The puddle of blood beneath the hand was increasing its size, now twitching in place as the person clearly lost consciousness.

"N-no... Run... Call Ghislaine..." The boy tried to warn the person next to him, but pain overwhelmed him, so his cries were unheard.

Another slash, and another body fell numb to the ground, right beside the hand with the pool of blood beneath it.

The body of a red-haired girl, who was still a child.

Subaru moved to the other shealth, which was filled with various fast-make food. He was inspecting a few of the coloured cups.

"Nah, Natto."

Subaru looked at the window and saw a young couple passing by, which caused him to grimace a bit.

The blood suddenly started to fill the area beneath the body of the red-haired girl.

The struggling hand of the person slowly moved towards the limp of one of the girl's.

"Just wait there..." The person gasped in pain, despite that the clear determination was in his eyes.

Subaru was now talking with a cashier, in his hand was a coloured cup, which seemed to be a fast-make ramen and some chips.

"That will be 363 yen."

Subaru picked up a metal coin from his wallet and stopped to look at it.

"Oh, a grooved-edge ten."

Having paid for the goods, Subaru excited the store and headed towards the road.

He stops short of the road and watches as a car drives past him.

A slow-moving hand was making its way towards the limp of one of the girl's.

A young boy with golden hair and green eyes was revealed to be the owner of that hand.

"Going to..." The boy voiced through blood sprouting throat.

Subaru walked out of the building's parking lot with a plastic bag with goods in his hand.

He began walking across the wide street with his hand in his pocket.

Unbeknownst to him, a truck was speeding in the same street as him.

And then...

A sharp-clawed hand, coated in the midst of darkness was cutting out of the white wall of space and reaching towards Subaru.

A weird force of wind ran through the world around Subaru as if it was a scanner. Sensing this, Subaru stopped in the middle of the road, looked around before shrugging. "I guess anyone's eyes would be tired after holing up in their room, gaming all day."

Subaru rubbered at his eyes for a bit, as he was rubbing them the view began to change, he struggled to open his eyes at the sudden brightness.

But before he realized what the brightness was, he was hit by something. Hit by something big. Hit by something very fast. Hit by something that made him fly like a ragdoll. He flew a few meters away from his previous location.

"Agh..."

Subaru POV:

It hurts. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts. IT HURTS.

The pain was unbearable. Definitely broken ribs, the torso and the head took the most hit. The blood was pouring out of his ears and mouth, he couldn't move any Inch of his body.

How am I even in consciousness after that hit.

That thing stopped, it was a truck. An anxious driver quickly exited it with his phone in his hand, and seemed to be calling someone.

"Zenith! Anipa bayhebu! La took!"

'Heh' I tried to chuckle, but instead a pained gasp was the only sound that came out of my mouth.

I wanted to laugh but I couldn't.

I wanted to scream but I couldn't.

I wanted to reassure him that it's fine, it was my fault but I couldn't.

So the only thing I could do is to close my eyes.

"Epabuhia! Akunaja taku! La took!"

'Huh?'

I opened my eyes yet again, for me it was a moment but for everyone it was an hour. I was in a car. An ambulance. With me were 2 familiar faces, my dad who was worried to hell and tried to comfort the 2nd person.

The said 2nd person was my mother, she was sobbing over me.

Over me.

Again pathetic myself made my parents upset. After I shelved myself from the outside world, my parents tried to help me. Every day my dad would come to my room to try to get me outside. And now I am dying. I was wasting his time. I couldn't live up to his expectations. I was a failure.

I should have just disappeared. Everyone would be happy.

I closed my eyes again.

I heard a click and a lot of rambling which I can't comprehend. I probably can, but I don't want to.

"Epabuhia! Tauwka seio kwa! Pahail za!"

Another click and I opened my eyes.

I was surrounded by people, all of them looked concerned, they tried to keep me awake.

'Am I dying? I want to close my eyes and sleep'

So despite the effort of the people around me, my consciousness slowly faded away.

At least I wanted to make my parents proud. To be a better kid. To be his son.

"Ivin kav Zenith! Pahail za!"

'Who keeps rambling?' I slowly opened my eyes and was blinded by sudden brightness.

Am I still alive?

Once my eyes adjusted to the brightness, I found a young beautiful woman gazing at me.

Huh? I don't recognize her among the people.

Beside her was a young man, with brown hair, giving me a smile.

Just by looking at him, I can tell he was strong, probably hitting the gym occasionally.

But where am I? This is definitely not a hospital and their clothing is weird.

The young woman said something and cracked a smile as her gentle gaze was kept on me.

Was that another language? I can't understand it, that's not Japanese.

The man replied something. Yeah, that's definitely not Japanese.

Another voice came from somewhere, it was a... Maid? Not the best time to cosplay, I am dying here, you know?

I tried to ask, "What's happening, who are you people?"

"Blaa, gurgh—"

Huh? What was that? Why couldn't I speak? Was the brain damage too severe? And my body felt too weak, I couldn't move.

In the end, the man picked me up.

Whoa! I knew that he was strong, but to pick me up that easily. Then I was able to see the place I was in. It definitely wasn't a hospital, a medieval era like room?

The next moment, the man looked at me with a goofy smile and tried to smooch me.

'Ey! Ey! Back off!' I tried to push him away with my hands, but then I realized something. These hands... Weren't mine, they were too small.

And slowly the realization came over me. The unknown language, the inability to speak, the small frame of my body. I started gathering up the pieces, this was the typical scenario of isekai manga, this means... I was...

"Urghh, blaa—"

Od Laguna realm, the shadow garden:

Among the fog filled with dark-purple darkness, there was a silver-haired half-elf who was feared across the whole world. The cause of the Great Calamity, the one who consumed 1/3 of the world, the one who was sealed away by the Great Sage with the help of the Sword Saint Reid and the Divine Dragon Volcanica.

The Witch of Envy, Satella.

Right now she had a conflicted expression as she watched over her beloved in the convenience store.

"I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him."

However, there was another presence within the shadow garden. The presence kept on repeatedly chanting the same words of obsession over and over again.

The presence has prepared a spell to yoink her beloved from his world to their world, so they finally could be together.

"Wait! He is not prepared yet! Our world is too dangerous for someone as kind as him!"

Satella exclaimed, tears running through her cheeks due to her lonesome 400 years spent in this seal. Although she wanted to be with him as soon as possible as well, her mind was telling otherwise, to give him some time to prepare.

However, the presence was indifferent, the look of the obsession has not changed at all, but her tone became slightly aggressive.

"He's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine, he's mine."

The presence just finished the spell, the authority of envy was given to their beloved, but something unexpected happened which caused Satella's and presence's eyes widened in horror.

The image of their beloved being hitten by a huge fast-moving metal box. A truck.

His body was a bloody mess, broken ribs, twisted limbs and blood was pouring out of his mouth.

The presence lost concentration on the spell and failed to teleport her beloved.

"NOOOOOOO!"

The spell which she has been preparing for all of those years was to avain, the tears streaming down the cheeks from both of them. Satella was filled with regret, sadness and horror. But the presence was filled with fury and hatred. Hatred towards the driver of the truck.

She was about to cast another spell, to teleport to beloved's world and tear this vile creature by bits till there was nothing left and then take her beloved to their shadow garden.

But Satella managed to stop it, stopping the serious consequences of that action.

The light in the Subaru's eyes slowly faded away.

However, something else happened. Their beloved's soul. They lost track of it.

Satella panicked and started desperately searching for his soul. She feared the worst that it was gone forever.

But fortunately, she could still feel his soul, the authority of envy was successfully given to her beloved, which means there was a link between their souls.

Even though she can feel it, she doesn't know where it is now. It's not in the human world and nor in their world.

She started searching his soul again, across the alternative worlds.

Somewhere in Lugunica Kingdom:

Deep in the cave, a temporal base for a witch cult was located.

The cult was known for destruction and genocide wherever they step. Led by the sin of archbishops, they kept terrorizing the world for the past 400 years. However, not a single soul knows the true leader of the witch cult. But it's said that the whole reason for the existence of the cult is to free the witch.

Right now, the members of the cult are proceeding with the ritual. An elf was hanging in the air by what seemed to be an invisible force.

The elf's body was terribly mutilated. Their limbs were twisted in different directions, their right eye was missing and left one was hanging out of the eye socket, their intestines were hanging out of the belly, and some parts of the skin were missing. The pool of blood formed beneath the hanging body due to hours of the pure torture. However, they were still breathing. Their heavy breathing and pained gasps echoed across the whole cave.

"Why! Why? Why?! Why?! Why?! Why didn't it work?! This elf's body was unworthy of the possession of the witch! I am sorry for my slothness!" The person in the dark-purple robe was screaming and banging his head against the wall of the cave. The cracking of the skull could be heard and the blood started dipping from his forehead.

"I was so close to receiving her love! But due to my sloth I failed the witch!"

With one smooth movement, the neck of the elf was snapped by the invisible force and their breathing finally stopped. Their body lifelessly fell to the ground of the cave, Into the pool of their own blood.

The man in the dark-purple robe stood up, due to the darkness of the cave it was impossible to fully describe his appearance.

He clapped his hands. "Alright guys, take this unworthy rubbish out of here and let us proceed with the next one."

Several men rose from the floor, they had identical appearance which were jet black clerical robes with triangular hoods which have two red cut-outs for the eyes and a large red symbol resembling an eye, located on their forehead.

"Oh?" Suddenly, he felt a weird sensation, a sensation which usually indicates a new change of their Gospels.

He quickly took it out of the robe and startes flipping pages until he found a new saying.

"Alright guys, let's stop with the ordeal, we have a new order." He said it to what it seemed to no one, but soon enough dozens of the men in the dark robes rose from the ground.

A few of the members walked closer.

"Ah my loyal fingers! You were working so diligently, I am sure the witch won't let it go to waste and you will be rewarded as well!"

The fingers bowed down and one of them said. "We are ready to hear your new orders, sin Archbishop of Sloth, Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti."

Six-faced world realm:

Subaru's POV:

A month passed by.

I was right, I was reincarnated into another world. The alternative world.

I had become a baby. I had to start from absolute zero.

The first thing I saw in this world was a couple - my parents to be more specific.

I grimaced a bit. Should I call them my parents? I know for the fact that my real parents are still in my original world, but I failed them. Failed as a son.

So fate decided to give me a second chance?

Or is it the actual afterlife? Being reborn into other worlds over and over again?

It sounds cool on paper, but in reality... It might be troublesome.

I don't know, but calling them my parents now leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

I still have my memories from my past life, so modern knowledge can help me survive in this new world.

This world seems to be in the medieval era as I expected. No electricity and no manga. By the looks of our house I can tell we weren't poor.

We also had our own maid.

Whenever she worked I always stared at her in amazement.

I always thought that the maids were a form of elegance back in my world.

But damn, honestly... I am very bored, I can't even walk or talk yet...

Half of the year has passed now.

I finally started learning the language after listening to my parents and maid's conversations. I guess the body of the baby somehow affects me, because I kept on learning things pretty fast.

"Rudy! Where have you gone now?"

Apparently, my name is Rudeus now. Quite a nice name in my opinion. The reason why she was looking for me, because I escaped the bed again.

I finally started to crawl. Finally I could see what's outside of my little bed.

"He'll run somewhere else when I remove my eyes from him." My mother said, while looking under the tables.

From what I learned, my mother's name was Zenith, and she, as always, was looking for me. Being able to crawl gave me so much freedom, so many things to cure my curiosity.

"Isn't it good that he's active?" My father scratched the back of his head, "I was so worried when he didn't cry at all when he was born."

My father's name was Paul. While being strong and flexing his muscles now and then, I can't say that he was smart. Even while changing my diapers, he always left a mess behind it.

"Even now, he doesn't cry."

I was not at an age when I'd cry loudly when hungry, after all.

Finally being able to crawl I learned a lot of things.

Well, as I expected, my parents were quite well off.

The building was a two-story wooden house, and there were over five rooms. They had one hired maid.

The place was a village.

From the scenery I could see from the windows, it was in a tranquil landscape of farming plots.

The other houses were scattered around, and on one side of the wheat fields I could see two, three families.

But I was right, this world had magic. I saw my mother casting a healing spell on her bruise on her arm.

I couldn't help but grin like an idiot while watching the process.

Finally! Magic! Being reborn into the world filled with magic! A typical isekai scenario! Maybe I do have some hidden powers as well? Maybe they will unlock later in the future. I want to learn the magic somehow, but I can't just walk up to my mother and ask her to teach me some magic.

Swords, magic, adventures, and my main heroine. Maybe it will have to wait...

Most of the time during the evenings, I watched my father training with his words with a naked torso, and some of the female villagers were staring at him with a lustful gaze.

I wonder if he does this on purpose...

Later on, due to the conversation between my parents and maid, I figured that we were in Asura Kingdom, Buena Village to be more specific.

Also, it surprised me that we were nobles. The Greyrat bloodline is a prominent old noble family of the Asura Kingdom divided into 4 Noble Houses, Notos, Boreas, Euros, Zephyrus. So you probably figured that my full name would be Rudeus Greyrat.

I wasn't sure in which branch we belonged to, but it doesn't really matter to me right now.

The only thing that matters to me is not to fail this life as well. I have to train to be strong, I have to make people around me happy.

Back in my old world, I kept myself locked away in my room, from everyone. Even my own parents. They tried to help me, but of course, as stubborn as I was, I wasn't listening. I kept skipping my school and drowning my sorrowness in reading the manga.

But now, in this different world, fate has given me a second chance. And I won't waste it.

I will reach my happy ending.