Chapter 2 – Life is weird – If I'm alive.

A week has passed since that interesting night. My swords now at my waist have not changed anymore.

My body however seems to become more powerful with each passing day, when I breathe beyond the normal air, I feel a feeling of heat that infiltrates my body, and seems to reinforce every existing cell.

When I train with my swords, it's like using an extension of my body. And not something external, although weird, I can't say it's bad. It's like finding something that completes you that you weren't even looking to start with.

Moving on it's time to find something to eat, keeping a relaxed posture I start focusing on every noise around me, trying to find something that's edible.

Found it, 30 meters to the right behind that bush, something big is over there, it will probably make a good barbecue. Picking up a rock beside me, I focus my strength on my arm for a moment, then in a quick movement I hurl it toward the target.

A crashing sound, and blood flying upward is a sign that I've hit the mark, but why does it look so much like a human hand... it must be my eyes deceiving me, better check it out.

Oops, looks like someone accidentally hit this poor man, in the head with a rock, causing it to explode. The poor man seemed to be hunting, judging by the wild hen beside him.

Don't worry my friend, I will take this chicken so that your effort is not wasted, as well as all your wealth. Don't worry, you will stay in my memory.

Now after securing lunch, and 5 coins, better move on.

After stopping for a simple meal made from a chicken that I found behind a certain bush, I continue heading south, in the distance a small village comes into my vision.

At least tonight I won't need to sleep on the grass, after a few days it gets tiring. Entering the village, my first impression is that I have entered some kind of slum, decaying houses, ragged men staring at me as if they are going to rob me, and then shred my body, and women in conditions that I can barely tell whether they are alive or not.

One of the men finally decides to act, rising from where he is sitting he takes a small rusty knife and runs towards me, three other fools imitate his act armed with sticks and other random weapons.

I dodge the first idiot as I hit him in the stomach with my knee. Only for him to fall to the ground with his mouth foaming. I land a second blow to his neck, breaking him. The second one tries to hit me with a downward blow, again I dodge a step back, position myself behind the idiot, and kick him behind his knee, forcing him to his knees, with a quick movement I grab his head and twist breaking his neck, two less two to go.

The third idiot reaches out trying to stab me with a short knife, stepping to the side and avoiding the blow as I grab his arm, with simple disarming movements. In one fluid swipe, I drive the knife into his left eye before he has a chance to flee. Three less, one to go.

The last one seems to have some intelligence since seeing me kill his three friends he stopped, and is now looking for the most effective escape route.

Deciding on the right he takes off at a run without even looking at me, taking the knife out of idiot number three's eye I aim at idiot number four's column, without using much force of course I throw the knife so that he avoids his escape, but not the Herb tea. We don't want me to accidentally break you in half.

Time to have some questions answered, I hope this idiot is useful to me.

Thirty minutes later, and a few nails and teeth less, this idiot was useful to me.

First I'm in a place called Rukongai 79 north, one of the Soul Society districts, second I'm really dead, this place apparently is where people come after death, third this is one of the worst places to be if I want to. To improve my situation, I have to keep going until I am as close as possible to the central region of Soul Society, which is where the Shinigami live. Shinigami, they are people endowed with spiritual powers, and it seems they all use a sword, better keep the fact that I have two swords hidden, I'll just say my sword split in two, it should do. Fourth, the creature I killed the day I woke up here is called hollow, and it devours poor souls like me, the shinigami exist to defeat hollow it seems, if I consider the three idiots I saw that day, this world is seriously fucked up.

By getting all this information, I can finally make a plan of what to do. Looking at the idiot, I understand what the first part is, the second part is going straight to the central region. As for the rest, I'll find out when I get there.

Now, looking at idiot number 4 who's been helpful to me, I rip the knife from his spine, and stick it in his right eye. I've already killed your 3 friends, I can't show anyone preferentially, equality is one of the most important things to practice.

Time to get out of here, no way will I sleep in this place, my body itches just thinking about fleas and other disgusting things that can infest such dilapidated houses.

Central region, here I come.