According to the anime's plotline, when Vance comes to sell his weapons with a swollen face in Lime town due to being beaten up by Rifle Dorman, he encounters Hikaru Fumiya, a rich merchant but not a noble or anything related to royalty.
Hikaru is a fully grown adult who was recently reaching his thirties due to which he came in Lime-town for medicines and a weapon to protect his-self from those who were eager to wipe off his trace from this world.
Vance had a good talent for hex forgery and hence was famous in Lime-town for his cheap magical weapons like Walmart (a mart which has same product available in cheaper price compared to the rest).
But he was poor and lacked materials to make a good weapon and sell it on high price so he made Bgrade weapons (weapons which are defected or not good enough for their task). And so, his talent was spotted by a few only and in those 'few'- Hikaru was one of them.
He's supposed to be a financer of Vance but if he catches me- a useless Vance, then what?
I guess, I'll just lie and say I have forgotten my memories. Since, he's coming in this market specifically for me, disappointing him will not do any good to me.
He will quit on me once he sees that how bad I am at hex forgery. And my ways will be separated from him. A simple plan which will work-is what I thought then, but I was wrong.
Funny thing is that I made myself believe that Naina is no one to me so I don't hold any responsibility for her forgetting the fact that the in the anime when Ry-yun reincarnated as Vance Sherman he took the beating with no regrets.
I intentionally ignored that part so that I can go over my regret...
But karma{a word which means that whatever you do/ your deed(good or bad) comes back at you in a different form, either sooner or later} never spares, does it?
I ended up meeting Hikaru Fumiya and lied about my memory loss but he insisted on dropping me at my house. Unfortunately, he gets the address by a man who works with Vance and he drops me there in his fancy car which resemble car from 19s
Hikaru was standing in-front of my door with me. I was about to open it but out of the blue Rifle Dorman comes out from inside while fixing his clothes. Inside I heard Naina's fragile voice calling "brother" repeatedly.
Eventually her footsteps noise was also heard and before I could process the situation I was in, I felt myself being enveloped by thin arms and a slight wetness right beneath my chest-it was her tears...
Her neck and shoulder had red marks all overthem, her hair was now in a bigger tangled up mess and her clothes were torn from a few areas.
"I knew it. You came back for me." She declared to herself, her voice stuttering out as she moved her thin dry lips.
Darn it! I can't even bring myself to hug her to comfort her. My hands shivered terribly as I tried to move them up to hug her.
And Hikaru was still here and watching all of this too.
And suddenly, I hear Rifle Dorman's scream behind me. I turned to look behind...
It was Hikaru, who was beating him up to death.
"What the heck you're doing!" Dorman yelled in fear.
"You just assaulted a little girl and dare to ask me that!" Hikaru said angrily, he was completely on his blood thirsty mod, stopping him would mean a death for me.
"I did it with her brother's permission!" Dorman roared between Hikaru's punches at him.
Listening to his words makes his punch hover in the mid and slowly he turns his gaze at me.
The next thing which I knew was the sound of the blade slicing through the flesh of my neck, separating my head from neck along with Rifle Dorman's beside me.
I saw the sorrow in Naina's eyes when Hikaru ordered his guard to behead me. She clutched on Hikaru's shirt and begged for mercy for me even after Hikaru told her that he'll pay for her education for her loss.
How can that girl still consider me her brother? I am a jerk and yet she still... was shedding tears for me. Why was she begging for my life even after what I did to her...? Just why?
To be honest, I was glad that this life ended up so quickly, because I won't be able to bear Naina's tearfulface anymore.
I realized that being the main character comes with a cost and unfortunately I could not pay that cost in this life at least.
And the moment I thought everything ended, it actually was the beginning of my new life, my new self.
Darkness again surrounded me entirely. No voice nor any noise, no smell neither any vision, no feel, no weight, no shape, if anything which I could possibly sense was just emptiness of this abyss.
And then, I 'felt' 'weight', then 'shape', and then the smell of soggy wooden furniture similar to the furniture of Vance Sherman room when I first got reincarnated as him.
Soon, I felt the weight of my eyelids forcing me to open them up.
Uh... the similar throbbing head pain which I felt when I woke up as Vance Sherman...
Before my eyes, the same wooden chandelier with lush leaves on it was hanging on the ceiling with the pain in between my head still being constant.
"No!" I panted, my head seem to still hurt but just like before the pain slowly lessened.
"It can't be..." I scratched myself to test if this was my ultimate reality now-and it was apparently.
My heart pounded hard inside. To think I would need to face her again made me anxious.
I was doomed. I did not know what to do or what to not.
Shall I run away from the start this time?
Get beaten up by Rifle Dorman to repay for my sin?
Run away to Lime town or somewhere else where no one can interrupt me?
Hang myself-yes... that would do. I can escape if I just die, right?
Unfortunately, no!
I hung myself using a vine of the chandelier when it fell like it was supposed to. But I ended up being reincarnated again with that throbbing pain in my head.
This time I ran off the window to find Naina before Rifle Dorman could catch her, but I failed and...
Did not agree to his filthy deal this time and received his beatings and eventually lost my one eye like in the anime.
My motionless hand felt little rain on it-it was Naina who was crying out silently. She was way too small and weak to drag her brotherto a bed so she used her powers...
Yes, Naina has healing powers. She's a homo-mazis (humans who are weaker than average human since their body utilizes the nutrients for magic and mana. Homo-stealzis body possess magic but the nutrients are used for both physical and magical growth which is why they cannot use their powers unlike homo-mazis)
Homo-mazis have all kinds of magical abilities which a homo-stealzis does. Just that they are very weak and require more care. Homo-mazis have different power types and can possess more than one powers, maximum types of powers which they possess are only three in number.
And Naina possesses three types of powers, which are healing, water element and divine shine.
More powers means more fragile body; which is why Naina is so thin even after eating double the amount of an average human daily food requirement, it's not like that Vance does not feed her properly.
But if Naina tries to heal my severely injured and wounded body with her current health condition she will collapse in less than three seconds.
In the end, again I am hurting her...
She gently grabs my arm and makes my hand lean against her forehead-and the magic begins.
My hand's tip glows in white and soon that white glow envelopes my whole body turning into red and a slight blue as it does so.
I could still partially see her, and the red glow on my hand told me that the intensity of her healing is very low. Like a flame, a healing spells intensity is determined by it color and blue has the least intensity.
The red glow meant that she definitely exhausted her all mana on me.
A chill feel washes over me as if cool breeze caressed my whole body in a gentle flow. I close my eyes with an unknown feeling of relief.
And, before I could realize, Naina's head falls over my shoulder, she was completely collapse or more like a living corpse should I say...
Thanks to her thirty percent of my wounds healed up which enough for me to get up and lift her up in my arms.
I sit straight on the ground and then carefully make myself stand on my two useful legs. I bend down to pick her fallen figure on the land and scoop her tiny frame in my arms.
She looked like a lifeless corpse in my arms but I knew that she's alive. If not then... I don't wish to live anymore.
I gathered my courage up and slowly stepped towards Lime town since there I can found a maze doctor to cure her. I trusted the plot, according to which she will live. And she must.
That's what the Vance Sherman in the anime got so I should be able to see her alive smiling face too...
Or so I thought...
The doctor declared her dead; and so, me to myself.
But I got reincarnated again.
This time, I did not take her to the doctor after being healed by her since I knew that my fate does not include her.
So, I buried her there and placed some grass on her grave since no flower was available and went on the opposite side of Lime town-in Lizard fort, yeah I know that sounds stupid, no-scary is a better term for it since everyone hates lizard except paleontologists (people who study about dinosaurs).
I forgave myself and set out to a new journey.
...
Lizard fort is a big city famous for its fights. Yes, those fights which happened in coliseums in Roman Empire. These fights are arranged in a ring, coliseum or a simple bald square land which has borders made of white chalk. Only, homo-stealths do these kinds of brutal fights here. Oh yeah, forgot to tell you that in this world humans are of three kinds and homo-stealths are one of them.
They just possess physical power and nothing else. You can call them buffed up average human. That's it, nothing special about them.
And if you think that 'stealzis' in homo-stealzis is a word made by mix up of 'steal' from homo-stealth and 'zis' from homo-mazis then you're correct.
And if you think 'mazis' from hom-mazis is inspired by the word 'maze', then congratulations, you're correct.
And... if you think 'stealth' is supposed to signify the word 'strength' in homo-stealth then double congratulations, because you're correct. But if you did not guess it by now, then my friend, congratulations, you need to study harder.
Unlike, Lime town, whose, each corner seem to have a blooming flower, Lizard fort has stones, pebbles and rocks in its each corner. Even the entrees board is just a giant thin rock (thinness=1 meter) with Lizard Fort carved on it with a knife since, the words lacked depth.
Rather than just royal rumbles, this place also has a lot beautiful sculptures carved with passion from every inch till head to toe.
Unlike, Lime town whose houses have a roof which has a moss carpet over it, the houses here had dark wooden planks not chopped by passion. House walls were made of stones instead of planks. And they had normal fire lanterns unlike Lime town which had lanterns with magical stones in it.
And you won't believe how I died....
Pfft....
I died by being forcefully participated into a rumble. I did not even last for ten seconds thanks to Rifle Dorman. By the way did I mention that he's a homo-stealth too?
And why the heck do they wear their boxers while fighting? I was even forced to be in that only.
So, I reincarnated so many times that I lost the count of rebirth or respawns. Funny, right?
Since, I was end up being reincarnated no matter what I do, I spent a few lives of mine just training myself for a particular skill.
Skills like- horse riding, Pegasus riding (yes this world has Pegasus), hex forgery, my academic skills, gathering more courage and getting rid of my cowardly self, my body language, manipul... I meant multi-tasking and a lot of other skills like kil...I mean kissing, yeah kissing.
*coughs in the background*
Don't get suspicious. It's not like I got a hit by reality and learned all bad stuff and committed all kinds of crimes possible after losing my mind. Oh wait; did I have any to begin with? If not then I did not lost anything, hehe... :)
Also, did I mention that it took me four lives to perfect my horse riding? And I died once by getting suffocated in a poop tub which is used to collect horse poop? Nah? Ok.
I must say, I got bored after sometime and missile my phone. How in the world these people live without it? Like it's so boring!!
And though, there was time when Naina did not valued to me. Countless reincarnation made view people as puppets of life rather than people.
Though I must admit that I started missing my phone at a point. But that feel vanished the day I encountered a giant Lizard monster in Lizard fort.
But!
I was preparing myself for something big-bigger-biggest-great-greater-greatest-greatestest!!
I had made my mind and gave myself a false hope-I will definitely find my way back to my original universe.
Yes, I was still hoping to go back. Why? Because this is not theoretically possible. A man being reincarnated into another world after waking up!
Sounds like a pathetic crap and a kids ideology.
I reincarnated multiple times but never reached those gods which originally Vance did. Means I am still stick somewhere...
*is stick correct to say here, hmm.....
I wanted to reach those gods since they were my final hope. After all they are the creators of this world, right?
Not like they are just pawn used by someone else who's even tougher to reach to.
And after another self death(a better version of suicide) I reincarnated again....
This time I just hoped to have a person to call my family at least. I know I am that emotional anymore-is something I am telling myself not you.
I just want an end to this shit that's all. Is that too much ask for?
Yes I am greedy man who just wnats to go back and wants to watch some anime again and make sure to never do it night so that I don't get reincarnated again. I miss the TV, I muss my mom, my annoying creepy big sister, my stern dad, my annoying whatever the god had given to me only to steal it and make repeat this cycle of death again and again!