New Story

Well, I am 2 years old now and I got to live as they were just checking whether I have developed any abnormalities, as when I was just born, I didn't cry, but newborns always cry when they enter this world for the first time. I was their first and only child, and they were afraid whether I had problems or not. At first, they thought I was dead as I gave no movement and didn't cry, but when they saw me squinting, they were relieved and they saw it as a first funny moment of their child.

Due to the fact that I was their first child, they didn't want me to be disabled, as this world is cruel and only the strong survive. Even if I was born disabled, they had the thought of taking care of me for their entire life, as I am the first child and their most anticipated child. That woman who patted me to check whether I had a problem or not (whom I cursed for being cruel for hitting the newborn), told my parents that I have developed no abnormalities. 

After that incident, it had been two years, and I have been trying to understand the world that I was born into, or should I say the world where I will be living my new whole life. After many struggles and inconveniences, I found a few things about this world, and actually, it is mind-shaking.

You asked what the struggles and inconveniences are. Have you ever shitted your pants while reading? This world doesn't have any languages from my old and it was hard for me to understand anything. I started to learn to read and write so that I can understand the world better and to speak ass fast as possible. It was hard for me to just understand the words they were speaking as they used a weird tone to pronounce the words, and it was hard for me to even imitate it. After many mistakes, blabbering, I was able to pronounce a few words. My vocal cords also developed along the way, and at the age of 5 months old, I was able to speak my first word, and it was mama in their language, which got them excited. They had a huge feast that night just because I spoke a word.

After that day I crawled all around the house to search for the book but halfway I would shit in my pants and sometimes I would get caught by my mom when crawling. It was so freaking hard for me to search for the book. And another problem is I was a 5-month-old child and I didn't have that much energy to tour the whole house, so I would sleep in the mid hallway. This house wasn't even that big, and yet it gave me a lot of trouble. And one day I found books, and it was in the living room, and they were high up in the cupboard. Once I saw the location of the cupboard, I would always try to sneak up on my mother to go there and read the books. I tried many times, but many times I got caught midway and I would flail my limbs towards the living room area. My mother, most of the time, would be busy making clothes and cooking from the hunt my father got. So when she got busy, I would do my work, but she always had her attention on me and let me roam around as long as I am within her eyesight and her working space was in the second floor by the side of stairs leading down towards the middle area of living room and dining room. And like this, 2 months had passed, and I reached 7 months old in this world. Along the way of sneaking, I also learned to walk, and when I reached 7 months old, I could walk for a few steps, and it again got them excited seeing their child walk for the first time.

But all my attention was on books, and I wanted to study, but they didn't even teach me to read and write. Well, even I wouldn't think of teaching a 7-month-old kid, as they are just kids, and forcing them to read and write at that age is like torturing them. But I want to read. One day when my mom picked me up, I started to point my fingers towards the living room and curious as to where he is pointing, She went with the flow and went towards the direction where her child is showing and she entered the living room but her son was still pointing and it was towards the cupboard. She smiled and went with the flow, and went near the cupboard with the child in her embrace. Her child pointed his finger towards the book, and she was curious as to what her child would do.

She saw her child stretch out his hand and try to grab a book, but due to insufficient strength, the book fell to the ground. She saw her child again stretch out his hand and try to grab another book, but again the same thing happened, and the book fell down. Later, the child started to flail his hand towards the fallen book and saw him pick up a book and start turning the pages, which surprised her so much that she laughed.

I couldn't even hold the book, damn. I am so weak, Haaah. I wanted to improve my body, but this age is at age of natural development, and if I did something to alter my growth, my body may develop some abnormalities. But first of all, I need to know about this world. Because I keep feeling excited, and my heart seems to be in unrest. Now let's see what's written in this book. I turned the page and saw weird symbols and scribbles that were hard to understand. AAAH, I am such an idiot. I forgot that I couldn't understand the language, as this world doesn't have any similarities to my old world. Just because I can speak doesn't mean I can study, HAaaah. Looks like I need to ask my mom to teach me how to write and read. 

I couldn't speak much, so I had to wait a long time before speaking even a little, and I asked her to teach me. After I asked her to teach me how to read and write, she was so enthusiastic that she bought a lot of books from history to geography, as well as dictionaries, as many as she could find.

Well, I am starting a new journey now, and that journey is all about gaining knowledge and information about this world that I am currently in. I have my father and mother as my only relatives and don't have any other blood relatives. My mom is a housewife and also a tailor, and she works from home. My father always goes out to hunt and comes back with huge prey like a big boar. The skin of that boar is used to make clothes, and the bones are used to make household utensils.

You can say that my father is the breadwinner of the family and he goes out to hunt as always, and he is not alone, as he seems to be a member of a group as some people would always come for him and say something to him and he goes with them carrying sword and shield. This world seems a lot backward, as they are still going out and hunting, but the most surprising thing is that even though the prey that he brought looks like a wild beast that can be found in the wild in my old world but the size seems a bit big or should I say that their size doesn't match and I thought it maybe because both worlds are different and size may had varied but after I got a close look. I can say that my instincts were telling true as this world does contain mystical power.

Why? Well, I used to read lots of web novels, and I used to read them so as to forget about the trauma I went through and to entertain myself and keep my mind occupied as well. And those web novel writers are amazing, as they managed to write something like that, so awesome. If you are observant enough, you can see many details hidden in plain sight, and the beast's body had a wound that seems to be created from a sword strike, but the disturbing fact is that no man had ever been able to injure a beast of this size with just sword as it needs huge amount of strength even in my old world, no one could do it so effortlessly. There was a single strike mark in the stomach area, and it was smooth. This beast lost its life in a single strike, and from the looks of it, it wasn't even able to struggle its way out. That's how I found this world is different.

Now I have another goal, and that is to unveil the mystery surrounding this world. But I won't do it now as it's not time yet, as I have nothing to work from. This world reminds me of the medieval era when guns hadn't been invented yet. I have been in this village for a long time (my own house), but I haven't even visited the village I am living in. Well, I am looking for the day when I will go out to explore the village. I had been looking forward to exploring the village for a long time, but I never had the chance to go beyond the garden in front of my house. As for what we do when we need something, it's trickier to say. We do kitchen gardening, so we don't go to the market to buy vegetables, and as for rice, my father buys rice sacks in bulk, so we don't need to go to the market for that as well. As for clothes, my father's hunt helps in clothing resources as well, as my mother uses the fur and the skin of the beast to weave clothes, so we don't go for that as well. Our sources of income come from the father's hunt, the mother's tailoring, and the creation of utilities by using remnant parts of the beast as well as selling beast meat on the market, but she never goes out herself to sell those as people would come at our house themselves to buy those materials. It's really hard to go out and explore when you have a family that mostly doesn't rely on others. Neither could I speak, and only if I could speak freely, I would have suggested visiting as I had never gone out of the house. Until one day