1 Sleep

'What is death? Death is the separation of one's soul from its body, says some philosophers'.

'But if that is the case, then can it be said I have died even though I am alive here, in this world, where I thought i left?'

'I am not just back in this cruel world but I'm also back to my younger self in this cruel country!!'

'Now I can change what happens with my knowledge of the past, right? I can hit it big, eh?'

'Well, it didn't work that way, the fate of your world lies in your will, this world isn't the same anymore'

'This is the most tragic I've seen; this is tortue.'

'I woke up to my parents house on the year two thousand and four as a child and knowing that I've been reborn, all I could do with my feeble body was watch as things flow against my will'

'Things refused to go according to plan easily and instead proceeded to follow the old pattern it did before?'

'Little things didn't matter; the end of it is that I'm still running in a loop.'

'Something was different, though; I could see them? I don't know if I'm the only one, but I could see their spirits. Ghosts: call them whatever you want, but I'm sure I could see astral beings of different sizes, types and shapes.

'Walking together in the world along with humans, but the problem was, I'm the only one seeing them and the scary part was that, once you stare at them for too long, they stare right back at you'

'And trust me, you don't want them staring at you; they give off this ominous feeling that makes you know that nothing good comes from them to you.'

'Naturally, your danger senses kick off; in this case, my body went on autopilot and was immediately rooted on the spot, staring into space upon encountering that I almost got found out.'

'And so I started developing some kind of immunity to seeing them so much that I started to research them'

'Research them in the sense that, although they can roughly be said to be astral creatures and some of them even taking on human form, I'm very sure that they affect humans positively and negatively'

'Right from a child being reborn into his youngest self and growing, I watch these creatures on my parents, siblings, and also neighbors; in fact, every soul had one, and I also have one clinging to me at all times, but I don't seem to be burdened or affected by it.

'Later on in my research, I discovered that these spirits get stronger from negative influence and negative emotions; in simple terms, they leash off on the bad karma accumulated on a person's body, making the spirits themselves stronger.'

'They remind me of a manga I read before my other life's death, but alongside spirits are also angels, I think. Because I do see very few not-so-ominously-looking spirits from time to time.

'This went on for quite some time, and I took it as normal. I myself didn't care much about anything until that day came—the day I lost it all.