After losing consciousness, unable to think clearly, I was almost ready to give up, let go of everything, and accept the approaching death.
1 minute, 2 minutes, then 3 minutes passed. I could still perceive. Then suddenly I regained control of my arms and legs. My body no longer felt icy from being buried in the snow.
'Am I still not dead?' I thought to myself.
Just like that, I slowly opened my eyes and steadily regained my vision. The scene that my eyes observed left me in shock. I was in a place where there was nothing but endless darkness. My body seemed to be floating. This was exactly like the feeling of being in outer space, where there was no gravity, although I had never experienced it before.
"What the f*** is this? Where am I?" I cursed unconsciously.
Putting that aside, I immediately noticed a bright spot. And it seemed like the dot of light was increasing its size. I couldn't tell if I was moving towards the light or if it was getting closer to me at an amazing speed.
After a few seconds, it was no longer a dot but was now as big as the darkness I was in. The light was elder and more blinding, I closed my eyes unconsciously.
'I count on you.' I heard that sound out of nowhere. That was the only and the last thing I heard when I was in that dimension. I was concerned, not understanding the meaning of it. But I would just leave it aside for now because I now have a bigger problem: "What will happen to me?"
"Waaaaaaaaaaah!" The next thing I gave ear to was the sound of a baby sobbing, not knowing what was going on, I immediately opened my eyes but they were blurred by tears. "Is this my tear? Why am I crying?"
I stopped shedding tears and sat up straight away. I tried to say, 'What the hell is going on!?' but the only thing that came out of my mouth was "Goo gaga wee!?"
I focused down on my hand, it was no longer the calloused hand of a grown-up man but the chubby hand of a baby, my legs had also become smaller. It didn't take me long to understand that I had been reincarnated to another world like in anime.
'So my wish has been granted.' I thought to myself amazingly.
As soon as I understood the current situation, I started to glance at both sides. I was in a room made of wood and in the middle of the room was an exquisitely crafted carpet. This room didn't have any furniture, but more essentially, above the crib I was sitting on is an open window. Realizing that it wasn't too high, I started to climb up to observe the scenario outside.
After 10 minutes of trying and failing again and again, I was finally able to climb up to the window. I looked outside excitedly, and what greeted my eyes first was a lush green lawn. Further away was a town surrounded by a stone wall with houses that were built of wood and stone, it seemed like my house was quite far from that town. Next to that town was a forest with giant trees, they must be as big as a 10-floors building in my world. Based on what I just saw, it could be inferred that the place I was staying in was outside of town and on a hill.
I looked back at the garden, noticing a blond man with a handsome face with cyan eyes, but I didn't care about his beauty, what I cared about was what he was doing. The man was holding an iron sword and slashing towards a large apple tree that was 10 meters away from him. Even though the distance was very far, each of his slashes left a scratch on the tree trunk. Perhaps it was because of the green thing surrounding his sword, it looked quite similar to what the people in my world called "Aura". After repeating the action for around 20 times, he put down his sword and raised his left hand.
'I wonder what he's doing?' I thought to myself.
The moment he raised his hand, a flame was created in his palm and shot forward. The flame shot towards the apple tree, and "BOOM!" The apple tree was slightly burnt at the trunk but fortunately the apples were fine.
'Could it be magic?'
'That was incredible!!!' I silently thought with excitement.
The man stopped for a moment to wipe his sweat and looked around. That was when our eyes met. The man was shocked when he noticed and instantly ran towards me with a worried face while I felt a little fret. The man quickly picked me up and hugged me.
He said in an anxious voice: "How did you get up here? Anyway, don't tell mama or your papa will actually die!"
'Huh, what did he just say?' I was stunned by his words.
At that moment, a strong murderous aura emanated from behind the man. It was from a beautiful woman with long, silky red hair that fluttered in the wind, along with sharp red eyes. Needless to say, she was extremely angry through the murderous aura she emitted.
"Honey, what did I say about keeping an eye on our baby?" The woman spoke as calmly as possible while approaching the man and surrounding her hand was an orange "Aura".
The man hugged me tighter and ran away from the woman. He ran while begging and screaming for his life: "Please spare me, honey! I swear this is not my fault!"
Meanwhile, I was still thinking about what the man said. "Papa" and "Mama". Those were the two simple words that made me dumbfounded. In my previous life, my parents had left me at an orphanage. I grew up without experiencing the love of family. Sometimes I saw people my age holding their parents' hands and the entire family looked so joyful.
'I am so jealous of them.' I always felt that way whenever I saw a content family together.
Living in the love of my parents was one of my distant wishes for me, a dream that would never come true, even after I turned 20 I still had that wish.
But in this world, it was totally different. I had been given a new life and a family.
I smiled. 'Then it's clear, I won't become like my previous life! This time I will try harder! Achieve the things I couldn't in my previous life! I will be able to protect people I love! I will live a life that I will never regret!'
After thinking such heroic words in my heart, suddenly I could not control my digestive system and started to (you know). A foul smell came from my pants, causing my father who was running to stop.
'Oh shit!'