In my whole life i believed that kindness always pays off. I tried to never hurt anyone, and tried to make everyone happy. I wanted to become a hope to anyone who needs it. That's why I always tried my best and made people smile around me until the day I died.
What? Where am I, who are these people and why are they leaving me here? What an orphanage? Ah... of course, people who can't even take care of their own child.
After observing for one week since I was born in this world and taken in care by an orphanage i came to know that I am an illegitimate child of some noblemen. That's why he wanted to get rid of me. The lady of the orphanage took me in when she found me outside the door of the orphanage . Things aren't looking good for me at this orphanage either. There are too many children.
There's been three weeks now and the lady who used to look after me is not coming from the past two days. And the other people here just leave me, a newborn unnoticed. But unlike other children i do not want to get taken care of, every time. It feels good to be asleep all day but now I started to crawl. It was a pretty good start. But this body is too small and gets tired easily.
It's been over six months since I was reincarnated into this new world. Now I can walk, hardly that is. I started to explore the orphanage but these damn kids always stand in my way. Just because they are some years older than me doesn't give them the right to pick on me. But I cannot do anything for now, i try to run from them but they keep chasing after me, so annoying little brats.
When I grew up three years old. I came to know that magic is the real thing in this World. I read a book i found lying somewhere and for some reason I can understand it. It did taught me about some basics of this world's magic. I read in that book magic can be used by incantations and spells but the most effective and hard way to use magic is by meditating and stabilizing the all seven cores in the body along with most important thing "the brain".
Apparently more stable the mind of a person more effectively he can manipulate mana around him and thus magic. The most important factor of this practice is that it doesn't require any spells or incantations. It is the hard way of course, but hard work always pays off.
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During my three years time I did practice meditation a lot by that I was able to stabilize my one lower level core. Which was a great improvement because I was able to feel the mana around me now. There is still a long way to go.
I kept trying to stabilize my second core. It wasn't an easy task but I did succeed after two more years.
I am five year old now and can walk around more easily. At last I felt some freedom as I was able to do almost anything. Those older kids who never get adopted used to pick on younger ones. And it was almost time to test my improvement as I successfully stabilized my two lower mana cores.
Some boys almost two years older than me were bullying a younger kid in front of me. I concentrated mana around my palm and condensed water vapours around my hand to form a water ball and then under pressure i gave it some velocity in the direction of those bullies. They get washed away and I was convinced that I am doing well.
In my previous life i never believed in violence but this world where magic resides I was sure that it can't be avoided. There will be more than enough situations in future where I have to simply kill or be killed. For a person who had lived his previous life with morals it will be difficult but survival of the fittest is the rule of nature where morals and values are words, if spoken and death as thoughts.
The time I turned seven my third core began to stabilize. This was the year when the orphanage lost all his fundings and children were to be homeless again. Most of the children under five years old were taken by another orphanage and left behind were the only three children, the two nine year old boys william and Rin, the same bullies and myself. I was kind of happy that now I'll be able to explore this world on my own but these boys on the other hand weren't that wishful. They were just children without any knowledge of the world outside.
I asked them to follow me as I told them I can keep them safe. "We'll go on our own, what can a child like you do?? You are younger than us, you'll probably die sooner than us." Said the boy. Too much arrogance can lead a person to the inevitable. They left me and asked me to not follow them. Well not that much I can do about it. I leave them to be.
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