2 #2 First time in the Town

*heavy breathing* I was gasping for breath, and only after 3 seconds, it struck me. I can breathe?

I instinctively opened my eyes but I was instantly forced to close them by strong sunlight. After a few attempts to open my eyes, I was able to clearly see what was in front of me. Blue sky without any clouds, I am lying on the ground but I don't even know a reason why. My memories are all cloudy and blurry, I have a problem to remember who I am.

Who Am I? Where Am I? These were my first questions, yet I couldn't even answer such simple questions.

It took me around 15 minutes of lying on the ground digging in my blurry memories to finally remember who I am. I can remember my name, Felix and that also started a chain of "few" painful memories. I recalled how my family had a car accident, how I changed into a cold introvert, I skipped school a lot and got into fights. Then I recalled all the hatred after I was betrayed and killed by my own uncle and aunt.

I took a while to regulate my breathing, after all, I swore that I will let past be past. I won't get any chance for revenge so there is no need to live by the past. Since I am alive it means that I got my chance, I looked down on my own body but what I saw wasn't a body of the newborn, neither it was my old body. My body was quite tiny if I were to guess my own age it would be around 6 years old.

Unfortunately, I had no memories of this new body which was quite a scary experience for me, after all, everyone fears unknown.

"*sigh* I am sure I will remember sooner or later" I reassured myself by saying this aloud.

I got up and finally took a look at my surroundings.

"Nothing but trees huh?" My expression became a bit ugly. I have no idea where I am and civilization nowhere to seen, JUST GREAT. I showed a sarcastic smile.

First of all, I have to find food and water, then I will be able to think further about this problem.

----FEW HOURS LATER"

It was already getting dark and I was fortunate enough to catch a sleeping wild hare. After I apologized for the appearance's sake, I forcefully twisted it's neck without any hesitation. I had no problem finding a river. I set my "camp" near it and created a campfire to roast the hare.

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"Ehh, this is an awful taste." I complained aloud, I had no spices or sauce and to be honest my culinary skills weren't the best. Awful but at least edible, I said to myself while swallowing tasteless meat.

----NEXT MORNING----

I opened my eyes and saw that I was still in one piece. I had a dream where I saw a lot of memories, most of them were mine but some of them weren't mine, they probably belonged to this body.

I learned that this body was indeed 6 years old, also that I am somewhere in Japan but where exactly? I will probably have to wait to recover more memories.

I went to the river to freshen up myself but when I saw myself in the water's reflection I stopped for a second. Why do I look like the small "Accelerator" from "A Certain Magical Index" anime show? And why I can remember some random anime show, yet yesterday I couldn't even remember my name clearly. My memories are truly fucked up. I tried to make an excited smile I used to wear in fights and I truly looked a lot like the "Accelerator".

Am I in the "A Certain Magical Index" universe? Nah, that's bullshit, I would have some kind of superpower if it was true. For now, I will throw away all thoughts on my appearance away, I have to start training my body if I want to stay alive for some time in this wildness.

Like that, my daily life started. Jogging, stretching, meditating. I did everything I could to strengthen my body and mind. Meditating even helped me with the recovery of my memories, I learned a lot of a different kind of martial arts. For now, I only practiced a few common moves, after all, my body was still 6 years old so it might not be able to bear it.

I also started to explore surroundings and after 2 hours of walking straight, I finally discovered civilization but I decided against the idea to go explore the town. I had no experience in living within Japan civilization, what would they thought if they saw 6 years old kid wandering around the town all alone? I heard that Japanese people were mostly kind and polite so I am afraid they would try to talk to me and find my "parents" plus I don't even have any ID card or something to show my identity. At least now I know where the town is.

I went back to my camp and resumed my daily life of training.

----1 YEAR LATER----

It was already 1 year since I came into this "world" and I was able to recover most of my memories of my past life but there seemed few memories that were locked away from me. I was able to deduce why my memories were so messy, It was perhaps because of 2 kinds of memories fusing into 1 and also because I seem to have obtained photographic memory.

Today I turned 7 years old and last night I had a dream about the really strange breathing technique. It reminded me a bit about the cultivation techniques from novels and all that shit but I doubted it had such effect, however, I still tried it in the afternoon, I had to get into very strange and embarrassing position and just breath in regular intervals. By no means it was easy, if I didn't stretch my body for the entire year I wouldn't be able to even get into that position and even then it was very hard to maintain it for a long time while breathing slowly and silently.

After an hour of training that breathing technique I collapsed on the ground while heavily panting. I was drenched in sweat.

"What to hell is that?" I complained aloud because my stamina should be really high thanks to my daily jogging, yet I was still dead tired after an hour of practice. I was able to feel little difference in my body like I had better control over my muscles but it was only imagination, I had no proof.

After a long rest that continued even through the entire night, I was able to feel energetic once again.

I should make some money, I hunted almost all hares in my surroundings and it's getting harder to find food. I will also need some money to make a fake ID card or something, I still have close to none memories of this body so I don't have any idea what kind of family he had if he had any that is.

I decided that if I want to live I have to make contact with the outer world, which means going to the city. I run in the direction where the city was located even after an hour of running I wasn't heavily breathing.

At least that breathing technique helped with something. I went towards a nice-looking neighborhood and resolved myself to knock on the door.

*knock knock* Just when I knocked on the door I recalled that I don't even know how to speak Japanese, I panicked a little but I was still confident in my English.

When the door opened, they revealed a lady that looked kind and mature.

"Oh? What is it, little boy are you here to play with my daughter?" When the lady saw me she smiled kindly and asked me a question that caught me a bit off guard, however, the good news was that I was able to understand japanese.

Me play with your daughter? How could I play with little kids but I guess I look like one too.

"Hello, big sister don't you have any light work for me?" I asked with beaming smile while trying to sound as innocently as I could.

Of course, no matter how innocently I looked she still got suspicious.

"If you need money why don't you go to your parents, little boy?" She asked me with a patient smile.

"Ah, my parents said that this is a test or something like that. Something about socializing, I didn't really understand it but they said that with the money I will get from work I will be able to buy a lot of candies!" I answered her while showing her happy and naive smile that showed my white teeth.

"I see, you must have a really strict yet loving parents. Hmmm, how about you help me with a few small things in the house and then you can play a bit with my daughter? You will definitely take a liking to her, unfortunately, she doesn't have many friends." She asked me once again to play with her daughter which made my lips twitch a bit.

Why do you want me to play with your daughter so much..ugh, not like I have many options. At least she offered to pay me without any further questions about my parents.

"Please take a good care of me!" I lightly bowed while saying that. I still have no idea about Japanese culture so I hope it was polite enough.

"Don't be so polite and come in already, hihi" Lady invited me in while chuckling upon seeing my unnecessary politeness.

While I was taking my shoes off, I noticed a sign on the door with name on it: "Karuizawa"

Japanese people really have strange names...