Miniature Cafe (1)

My shoulder peeked out from my loose shirt that slipped down to the middle of my arms. When I moved my hands, its sleeves flapped like a seal as if I was wrapped around a blanket. I pulled my sleeves up to find my hands were much smaller than I was familiar with.

"Please don't tell me I'm a child again," a high-pitched voice echoed in the room.

It was bad enough to regress into a child when I started out my reincarnation, but going through it all over again would be hell. Although I didn't like middle school, it was better than being sent back to elementary school. My eyes welled up in tears from my pitiful younger self that reflected in the glass window.

"What do I do now?" I helplessly looked up at Luke.

Luke almost always had the solution for my problems. He was able to help me control my mana and improve my miserable grades. Plus, I didn't have to attend the fraction meetings anymore since he attended them in my place.

"Let's go to the infirmary for now," Luke reached out to me to lift me up in his arms.

I cuddled against his chest while all of us started to walk towards the infirmary. I buried my face into his clothes, hoping that nobody would notice my transformation. Thankfully, Shelly and Ellen who walked beside Luke acted like a shield from the people looking in our direction.

I was placed on a white hospital bed before the doctor got out his tools. He had a tablet in his hands to take notes and few scanners which appeared as a larger version of a marble with a camera on front to help with the diagnosis. He grimaced at my current appearance before starting to ask his questions.

"So how did this transformation happen?" The doctor genuinely seemed curious.

"I sprinkled some mana into five large cups of milkshake to make them taste better and then I drank it," I confessed while hiccupping.

"You did, what-!" The doctor momentarily lost his composure.

Alex coughed to bring the doctor back into his professional mode. However, the doctor remained motionless in his spot from shock. It took him a few pokes from Allan for him to come back into his senses again.

"Will I be able to turn back into normal again?" I pleaded to the doctor.

"I think I have to call my superiors in the doctor's union," He got out his marble to call his mentors with more experience.

The video call was picked up by the other side after a few rings. A large office with the name card written in cursive as president was placed on top of the desk. An opened briefcase was on the floor and messy piles of paper were scattered all over her office.

Her face was filled with irks of annoyance as she ruffled her messy hair. Her white doctor's coat was rumpled with creasing wrinkles as she continued to write notes down on her laptop. "What do you want?" She didn't look at the camera.

"I have a patient who has turned into a child from eating her own mana by sprinkling it into her food," the doctor politely explained.

"She did what?" She looked up at the camera.

"It was an accident!" My voice strained from my blocked throat.

The camera turned to show tears strolling down my cheeks. Her eyes widened at the young child who wiped her face with a white handkerchief passed to her from a gorgeous lady. The expressionless lady comforted the child as he helped her wipe some milkshake off her hands.

"I'm coming right away," She almost tripped in the process of running to her briefcase.

The video clinked into black before vanishing away back into the marble. Not even three minutes had passed when she ran to the infirmary to watch the same scene with her own eyes. She had never seen a case like this before throughout the long fifty years of her career. But, nobody had ever thought of pouring their mana into their food before.

She quickly pulled out some advanced bulky scanners that resembled big movie projectors. The button was pressed as a bunch of graphs and complex data sets forwarded quickly down her eyes. It did not take her more than a few minutes to come up with a diagnosis.

"The patient is suffering from too much mana in her veins when her body can't handle it. But, I can't figure out why she has turned into a child from the result from that," She went through her notes again.

I never thought I would ever suffer from possessing too much mana. If I had too much, couldn't I just expend more of it to recover? To test my plan, I moved to place my hand on Charles and imagined reversing the time on his body to match the same age as I currently was.

It wasn't fair if I was the only one who suffered. Charles started glowing as his clothes got bigger until we couldn't see his hands that were hidden inside his sleeves. He screamed from the pain of his body condensing into a smaller entity and pounded his fists on the floor. Soon after, his body went cold before dropping onto the ground.

"Charles!" Miliana intensely shook him to wake him up.