Aura

After eating stale bread and leftover soup for breakfast I went outside and saw my dad.

"What's wrong dad?"

"Come with me son."

I followed him until we reached the plains. The village is bordered by a forest to the west but there are plains to the east. This is the only place we kids were allowed to wander around. A third of the plains were used for farming crops.

The farmers greeted dad as we passed by. Some were even looking at me with reverence. It was probably that "blessed child" rubbish again.

We reached the middle of the plains soon. The cold morning breeze made me feel refreshed.

"So, why are we here again?"

"I'm going to be teaching you something I learned from a friend in the neighboring town. He's a soldier there and he taught me something really useful. I want to teach you this too."

"What is it."

"He called it Aura. It's an energy that every living being possesses. The thing I'm going to teach you is an Aura technique, it's supposed to increase your Aura and strengthen your body."

"Aura? So, like magic?"

"No! Hahaha! Magic is very rare, son. Aura can be used by everyone but magic is something that only a rare few can use. I heard that most nobles of the kingdom can use it."

'Huh... so magic does exist. Does being able to use magic have something to do with bloodline?'

"How do I learn this Aura thingy?" I said, a bit excited since I'm learning something that didn't exist in my previous world.

"Ok! I'm glad you're excited. First, relax your body and then...."

The lecture was quite wordy, but it wasn't hard for me to learn it. I only needed to do a breathing exercise in a certain pattern. At first, I couldn't relax and the technique wouldn't work. My dad remarked that I was too stiff, he told me to relax multiple times. I tried to think of good thoughts and remembered my camping days with my grandpa in my past life.

Soon after that, I could feel something surge within me. Like a small tide, sending something to every corner of my body which I assume to be Aura energy.

I felt lighter, I could breathe easier. My eyesight was clearer than before. It was amazing, but I felt like something was wrong. Deep inside me, I felt like this technique was... crude. Like it was half-heartedly made. Strange.

I pushed those thoughts aside and focused on this reinvigorating feeling. I noticed a thin layer of energy covering my skin. It was so thin that I could barely see it, but it was there.

"That's your Aura, son."

"Yeah, let me show you mine."

I watched as my dad released his aura. Thick white energy coated his body.

"Woah, your aura.. it's..."

"Huhuhu, what do you think? Is your dad awesome or what?"

"It's boring!!"

"What?!"

"I thought an aura from a grown man would look cool, but instead all I see a weird white blob covering you."

"You little... *sigh* I'll show you how to use aura."

And so my dad showed me how to control aura. I could use it to strengthen parts of my body, increase my speed, and also improve my eyesight. I could see in the dark whenever I focus my aura on my eyes.

This aura thingy reminds me of Nen from H*nterxH*nter, but the way to accumulate aura is through breathing, like Hamon from JoJo. It amused me that aura is similar to fictional works from my previous world. Hmmm, maybe I can use those fictional stuff and imitate their attacks. That would be a good idea, let's not get too optimistic though.

After being reincarnated, I discovered that was really agile. Speed and agility are my forte. That made me curious, what if I add my aura to my natural agility? My aura isn't that strong yet and you can barely see it thinly coating my skin, but it should produce results.

After a while, we returned to the village. Dad went to the forest with some of the other hunters. Please bring back something other than boar.

I positioned myself near the wall of a random house. I focused my aura to my arms and legs. I make a running start and jumped.

I grab onto one of the timber frames, pulled myself up, and kicked the wall. I boosted myself up and grabbed onto the roof. I quickly pulled myself up and stood on the roof.

That was fun. Is this parkour? I hope it is. Aura is cool, a normal 8-year-old wouldn't be able to do this.

I turned my attention towards the other houses. An idea popped into my head. I backed off and made a running start. Just when I reached the edge of the roof I leaped off.

I almost didn't reach the next roof, but I did. I pulled myself up and laid down on the roof tiles. Roof tiles aren't really comfortable to be a bed.

"Luka! Get down from there!"

Oh right... I forgot people exist.

I look down the roof and saw Elder Zeph. He's the oldest guy in the village, but also the most religious one. They said he fainted when I was born when he saw my golden-yellow eyes. He's the one that spread the 'blessed child' rubbish in the village. He's a bit annoying when he starts to preach about the gods but it's hard not to like him.

"Hey Elder Zeph! It's fun up here! Wanna join me!"

"Oh great gods, why does the blessed child have to be so troublesome. Luka, come down here this instant, or else I'm telling Linda!"

Oh shit! She's scary when she's pissed. I gotta go down now.

I look around to see if I can go down. Oh shit, looking at the ground from above, it's kind of scary.

I try to erase those thoughts and find a way to get down... Oh no.

"I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET DOWN!!"