Out of the darkness - a consciousness rises to the surface.


    I - Eric thinks about the current situation while his mind is fuzzy.


    Why ... am I alive?


    I''m dead, I''m sure of it. I would have lost my life with a dagger to the neck next to Irene.


    So why am I waking up now?


    I tried to open my eyes to assess the situation, but for some reason I couldn''t get up.


    I tried to look around, but my head was too heavy to turn my head sideways.


    When I managed to muster up enough strength to tilt my head to the side, what I saw was a wooden fence, and the view from the fence was a view of the outside. And the view from the fence is not of the outside, but of a wall. It looked like the inside of a house.


    Hmm?　A fence?　The wall?　Wait, I don''t understand the situation at all.


    The feel of the ground against my back doesn''t seem to be hard earthy ground either. It''s more like soft and feathery.


    And my hand that I could see by turning my head to the side - probably my own hand in my senses, but it''s an insanely small hand.


    Huh?　Is that my hand?　You have baby hands!


    Afterwards, I did my best to lift my legs and flatten myself with my little hands and realized that I was as good as a baby.


    ''Aww, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh''


    When I try to raise my voice, my body''s vocal cords don''t seem to be that well-developed right now, and I can''t speak.


    When I finally noticed my situation, or rather my body''s anomaly, I tried to understand this change somehow.


    I''ve heard somewhere that reincarnation is the reincarnation of a dead soul into this world once again.


    But.......I remember everything about my past life?　Doesn''t this kind of thing mean that the memories are gone and you get a new life?


    Why do I remember my entire life as Eric in a previous life?


    .... no. No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn''t find an answer.


    But - I resented the fate that set up this reincarnation.


    Don''t be silly........I already wanted to die.......


    There is no meaning to my life in this world anymore....


    I didn''t have any energy to live in this world now.


    If I''m going to be reborn, erase the memories of my previous life.........


    If I had a razor blade in my hand right now, I could have cut my own head off without hesitation.


    If there was any other way to die, I would have died at once.


    But with this baby''s body, he couldn''t die on his own.


    If he tried to hold his breath, he could die if he tried hard enough... but it was a new life.


    The parents who gave birth to this baby, especially the mother, had to endure the pain of tearing her belly apart to give birth to this child - me.


    I''m sorry to let it die for the sake of my previous life.


    But - what am I going to live in this world for?


    I''m going to live in this body from now on, and no matter how many people I meet or what I get, no matter how many new things I get, it''s as if I''ve lost Irene and I''ve lost everything.


    That''s how much Irene was everything to me.


    I''ll try to live my life as positively as I can, but - will I ever be able to get anything?


    As I think about it, something about the area between my legs gets warm....


    Oh, that''s right. You''re still a baby, aren''t you?


    I''m still a baby, so I peed my pants without thinking about that part at all.


    ........really?　You didn''t know you''d just shit your pants.　I''m not, because I''d be a pervert if I shat on purpose.


    But while it felt nice and warm when I was letting it out, it''s starting to feel a little weird now.


    ''Ughhhhhhhh...''


    For now, I''m going to try to cry.


    This is a cry, but not a tear, because it''s intended to come out.


    They say that babies are supposed to cry. I''m doing my job now, and I''m doing it right.


    Maybe it''s in response to my cries, but I hear footsteps coming from outside the room.


    And the door to this room is opened.


    Now, what do my reincarnated parents look like?


    I look at the face of the person looking at me with that thought.


    --Huh?　..........well, wait.......


    ''Eric, what''s going on?　Did you go pee-pee?　I''ll change your pants for you now~


    The person in front of me - long blonde hair bunched behind his head, a well-defined nose, and sky blue eyes. The way she spoke in a relaxed manner was soothing, a soothing voice that I had heard many times before.


    Yes - I''ve seen this woman in my past life.


    My mother in my past life - Serena.


    Why...?　There''s no way I could mistake her for the mother I dreamed of.......right in front of me....


    But..........she should be dead.......


    While I was thinking this, my mom in front of me changed my pee-pee pants and I felt better with no sick feeling underneath.


    Mom.........is it really her.......?


    I reach out my undeveloped hands towards her, wanting to know if the woman in front of me now is really my mother.


    ''Hmm?　What''s the matter with you, Eric?　Do you want a cuddle?


    The woman gently picks up my body with both hands and holds me with her ample breasts.


    I bury myself in her soft body as I sink into it.


    I can feel her warmth and scent all over my body as I am received by her breasts, which can be described as a mass of female motherhood.


    It''s that warmth and smell that I felt when I was a small child in a past life - it''s that warmth and smell.


    It''s my mother........my mother, who should be dead, is right in front of me, holding me close......


    I felt that warmth that I lost when I was little all over my body, and I clung to her so that I would never lose it again.


    I cry inside my mom''s chest and this time I cry out firmly.


    ''Oh my goodness, Eric. What''s really wrong with you?


    Mom wondered how I was doing and would try to stop crying by shaking her body in small increments.


    But I wasn''t crying for that kind of babyish reason, so I was crying in Mom''s chest forever - forever.