Chapter 22: Rei, egg, and the gem

Reigan opened his eyes, viewing a dark room with a starry sky ceiling. He looked at his side and saw that the window was also hindered by the big starry curtain.

This place...

It can't be...

Reigan looked at the cabinet with a trophy he had received in the kid's competition and some medals by its side. Inside the transparent glass, cabinets were superhero anime toys and a picture of him and his master who died when he was 10.

He felt confused, he didn't remember these trophies that he had received before, but a part of him was certain about such information. Maybe he did receive this, just forgot because they left this house. So why was he here again?

He sat on the side of the bed, only to notice that his feet didn't touch the ground. He observed his body only to get nervous.

He jumped out of the bed and went toward the mirror, near the door.

There was a kid shown on it. He had ash gray hair that had a shade of red-violet, big green eyes, there was a black and white small circle in the center of his pupil. It was not that obvious when afar but when you study it, you can see those colors. He had thick eyelashes, cherry-red lips, a handsome nose, and a natural color of skin. The kid is really handsome, even though he was wearing an anime character pajama. It was him after all.

Reigan felt proud of his looks. He came back as a handsome child. This form of his was the best.

He even tried to raise his sleeve to check his muscles. And pose in front of the mirror. "Ah, so handsome-" he paused a bit, noticing the sound that coming from his mouth sounded like a little girl kid, but rather feeling distressed he felt happy. "Oh, my voice is also handsome. Tsk tsk tsk." His sight was diverted toward the person who kept knocking at the door and saw a cute little 2-year-old child. This girl, it was Mica.

"Big brow awake?" she blinked her green eyes at him then grinned. "Big brow, carry Mica." she raised both her arms while peering at him with eyes full of hope.

"Mica..." Reigan felt perplexed. His sister had... Had what?

Reigan didn't know what Mica had done, he couldn't even remember any of it. What did Mica do?

He glimpses at Mica whose eyes were full of expectation from her big brow.

"Big brow, carry Mica, carry Mica." Mica's eyes started to tear. "Carry Mica, carry Mica!"

Reigan touched Mica's hand, and a playful arc was formed at the corner of his lips. She was too weak to do anything, if she does, then it might be small matters. "I don't wanna."

Mica started to wail. "Big brow hates Mica... Big brow hates Mica, waaah! Mama, Big brow hate Mica."

Reigan was taken aback by the sudden reaction of Mica. He felt jittery, had no idea how to make the little girl hush. In the end, he walked forward and hugged her. "I love Mica." He said, trying to hush her.

"Willy?" Asked the teary-eyed Mica.

Reigan nodded his head. He then brought her downstairs seeing their smiling mother at them.

He couldn't help but like this time.

They enjoyed the food, and then someone knocked on the door.

"Rei! Rei!" called out the voice of a young kid.

Reigan went out and saw a kid with black hair and a black pupil smiling at him. He didn't know who this kid was, but he looked so flustered.

"Rei, let's go," he said, pulling his arm.

"Where?"

"Change your clothes first, Little Reigan," his mom reminded him.

"Oh," he almost forgot.

"Make it fast, everyone is waiting for you,"

Reigan felt confused about what this unknown kid was talking about.

The next thing that happened was that they were in front of some kind of black hole, that had a red color in the center of it...

His friends were being held captive by this black shadow, while they were begging for his help.

Reigan felt confused. What with this situation but he was certain of one thing, he needed to help them, but what could a little boy do? Even how many trophies one had, his friends. All of them turned to ashes. He was so powerless.

Then from that black hole, the red orb came out. Going in his direction, he saw his whole body tattered and full of wounds and bruised, but it also healed little by little.

"I could let them go," enchantingly said the orb.

Reigan glared at the orb.

"I need a place to stay, If you-"

Everything the word that orb said was omitted. He got no idea what he said, but that orb entered his body, and the next thing he woke up in a bedroom. There was no trophy, only he and his master picture were there.

Reigan roamed his eyes. What happened?

He tried to reminisce about everything that occurred but nothing came out. In the end, he gave up, he didn't even notice the subtle change in his surroundings.

His mother smiled sweetly at him, and he walked toward his school. He was excited about being brought to school by his mom when his step was put on hold and heard some sounds.

He secretly gets away from his mom and sees a kid being bullied. The child was so beautiful. With his blue eyes and hair, rimless eyeglasses wearing a jumper.

He glowered at the bully, how could they hurt a harmless girl.

Reigan took out his tonfa from his bag and then punched the older kid. He wasn't scared of him.

He was still fighting when his memory changed. His father smiled at him, "Reigan." He called out his name and he happily complied.

Then he brought out a necklace, It was a sphere shape with a pair of wings, where the gem was colored green. "Here, take this. It was a--" the necklace that was supposed to give to him floated.

"Wow," that one heck of amazing special ability, but the look of horror could be spotted in his father's eyes. The next thing that happened was it entered his mind, and his sight turned dark.

Reigan opened his eyes, his hand was being held by Andrew, but in his heart, he already named him Andrea. Andrew smiled sweetly at him. "Rei, there will be a competition so I could not play with you tomorrow."

"Competition?"

Andrew nodded his head. "Mn."

Reigan pouted "Why?"

"Huh?"

"What's so good about competition? Why go there?" Why would his wife go to the competition? Those children there were weak chickens. hmph.

Andrew chuckled with his tantrum. "There were a lot of strong children-"

"I am the strongest!" Andrew ruffled his hair but hated it so he knocked his hand only to regret it. "I-"

Andrew sadly smiled at him then looked at his watch. "I need to go." Then he ran away, making Reigan feel stifled in his heart.

He just made his wife cry!

Reigan followed but couldn't see him, ending up going home, feeling down. His parents kept on asking him what happened, but he didn't answer. Rather he went to his bed, falling asleep.

Meanwhile...

Reigan's real body was outside the rock but was still sound asleep. The egg that was supposed to be inside Reigan's body rolled back at him from afar direction, then nudged the sleeping Reigan but he was still not conscious.

You could notice that the egg was lighting up with red and gold color while bouncing at the top of Reigan's body but its owner was still sound asleep. The egg kept on trying to jump on him hoping to wake him up only to fail.

Then the egg noticed the forehead of Reigan started to sprout a red gem.

The egg watched it intently but it found the gem annoying, it couldn't accept another egg other than itself, so it attacked the red gem.

Reigan, who was lost in his consciousness, felt his head being pounded. It was as if someone was hammering his head, but he didn't understand why such a thing happened.

On the egg side...

The gem on Reigan's head continued to sprout and stabilized itself on Reigan's forehead.

Reigan's real body opened its eyes and the hue of black and red play in his pupil while smirking. He looked at the egg who seemed glaring at him and softly laughed. He grabbed the egg with a face full of amusement. "What is this? Oh..." he chuckled. "tsk tsk tsk, To think the high and mighty you will be turned to egg, so small and easy to destroy..." He was about to smash the egg but stopped when he noticed the small transparent box in front of it. "What's this... A status box..." He read the thing written on it. "Name, unknown. Status, blood-pact, oh..." He peered at the egg." How amusing... Hahaha, to think those measly gods made this world interesting, that god of game is really full of surprises." a glimmer of a smile could be seen on his face.

The egg slipped away from his grasp then leaped on his head, not caring nor understanding what he was saying.

Reigan's body just let the egg stay on his head that was so proud because it was higher than the owner.

Reigan looked comical with the egg on the top of his head and his hair in its nest.

Egg: <(^w^)>

Reigan's body didn't care. He just got this body from that kid, so he will enjoy it, then look at his status and his brow knitted.

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Name: Reigan Dela Rosa

Age: 16

Race: Norman (hidden)

Status: Player (?), blood-pact unconscious

Level: 14

HP: 245/1000

MP: 0/100

Strength: 50

Agility: 50

Luck: -10

Title: The enemy of all race (until level 50)

Special Ability: Regeneration, Space, Time Rule, (Unknown)

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"That god of fortune, giving this body bad luck... or it was another reason." he tapped the innocent egg. "Do you have any idea why?" He asked the egg, but the egg was just enjoying its stay on his head.

He tried to know what the possible reason was and then giggled. He carried the egg who struggled from his hand. "I wonder... If this was all because of you... Ne, little god."

The Egg: ( o ‸ o)?