Chapter 7

I died. I most definitely died. I 100% died.

So how is it that I’m a baby?

No no no, this is just plain wrong. I do remember someone saying something but I forgot what he said.

Something about regressing?

But god damn this body is annoying.

I can’t talk, can’t even think properly.

Plus I have this uncontrollable urge to cry and eat.

People say babies are adorable, I gotta say, being a baby is absolutely terrifying, a mental trauma I tell you.

Well first things first, I need to remember everything about my death and try to prevent it.

How did I die again?

Ah. I don’t want to think about it.

They kidnapped us, they called themselves the Red Flower, one of the largest underworld forces.

Arjun, he… he was brainwashed, mentally shattered, we were forced to battle him to death.

Arjun had special training as first son, only Mirst had an interest in combat other than Arjun. The thing was, he didn’t even bat an eye when killing Hermia.

How could he? How dare he?

I tried to avenge her, but… Arjun is also my brother. I couldn’t just kill him like he killed Hermia.

I never killed someone before.

Especially not my own brother.

Other than my reflexes and instincts, Arjun was better than me in every aspect.

I only managed to survive as long as I did because of my faster reaction and dodging.

He cut off my arms.

I don’t want to remember it.

It was unimaginable. It was too painful.

Then he simply stabbed my heart. His eyes were void, his optimism wasn’t there, the usual shine was gone. Arjun was already dead.

The last thing I saw was my brother approaching Mirst.

I shouldn’t have thought about it. I don’t want to remember.

As if responding to my thoughts I started to cry. Why do I cry so easily?

I’m weak.

I’m too weak to do anything.

At that moment I formed two goals.

Become stronger, and eradicate the Red Flower.

But damn, when will I stop crying.

A maid appeared in my vision.

“There there, it’s alright. You are very special, you know that?”

‘Yeah yeah, one of the candidates to be the Saint and King of Humanity, all that stuff which brought me into this mess right?’

The maid began humming a lullaby.

‘I don’t remember this maid, was she fired last time?’

She began stroking my head.

Oi stop, I’m not a kid. Ugh, why does it feel good.

“There is a chance you will become the ruler of 4 continents. Amazing right?”

I stopped crying. I was so shocked my uncontrollable tears stopped.

‘FOUR???!’

Maybe I misheard.

“That’s right, the children of Master are special”

No not that, repeat the thing from before!

Not listening to my thoughts she continued humming.

Gah, how I wish I could talk.

…

After 5 years, I finally got a body that can fulfill my needs.

I also remembered more of the conversation I had.

The reason the prophecy changed was because I got another ‘gift’, I think.

Does that mean if I die a lot of times my potential becomes higher too?

I don’t want to find out, dying hurts too much.

I started to train with the sword, I would have done more if not for this weak body, and the teacher refused to overwork me.

So I spent all my free time in the library.

The royal library.

It is a place closed for the public, even father has to get permission to enter. But due to our special identity I could access it any time I wanted.

The royal library was special as it was basically a realtime recorder of the entire continent.

Although there are many gangs and criminal clans that are found, it takes too much manpower to capture them all so most of the time the Empire simply watches, if a clan grows too much in power, only then will the Empire dispatch troops.

Sadly this information is only on the 7th floor and higher.

Those below are filled with historical files, stories about kings, emperors, heroes and so on.

The underground floors are magic books.

As for how I know all this, Just a few weeks before I died I visited the royal library in the hopes to find clues on the assassin that had attempted to kill me.

I don’t think he was part of Red Flower, but something about him seemed off.

When I reached the 7th floor I realized a huge problem.

The shelves were too high.

I could only reach up to the 4th shelf, and the bookshelves reached to the ceiling, having 16 shelves.

Being a kid is truly frustrating.

Without much of a choice I could only scan the books which I could reach.

After walking around for hours. Gosh sometimes I wonder if children have unlimited stamina once they set their mind to something.

Is that why they are never tired when they play?

‘Criminal clans, Dabaira Empire, 4th year, 15th cycle of the Eolic calendar.’

Found it.

I memorized its location before going back to the mansion. I wasn’t allowed outside after 6pm.

...Is it me or has the number of soldiers increased again.

My god, in my last life the Saint would unite the Ameuthe, Conrid and Azure continents, but apparently this time the ‘Holy Land’ was included. The original name for the continent used to be Dirak, however this changed a couple thousand years ago into the ‘Holy Land’.

It is the largest continent, as well as the most powerful.

…And I’m supposed to conquer that.

Well first I need to survive.

But because of that, they are far more involved with the Saint than last time, meaning they gave triple the support.

And that alone practically doubled the security, despite the hundreds of kingdoms and empires allying and sending their military as support.

‘The Holy Land is scary powerful...’

How do I become the ruler of that kind of Empire?

Ah well, I have to grow up first.