6 Chapter 6: Getting over it

*MC POV*

"WATER! *Gasp*"

I panted heavily as I sat up after waking up. After making a quick observation, I found that I was alive and not drenched in bodily fluids.

"Whew. Thank G- Dio."

As the relief washed over me, I remembered what happened yesterday.

"Urgh."

I laid back down and put my hands over my face as I thought about all my actions since I reincarnated. After a while, I came to a conclusion.

"REGRET!"

I screamed. But then I noticed that Denki Onii-chan was sleeping in his bed. I should keep it down to not wake him up.

"Haaaa." I sighed.

There are multiple memories from my past life that remain etched in my head. Memories from significant events like my twelfth birthday, first kiss, parent's death, first video game I got addicted to, and so on. Not all of these memories are good ones. There are memories that I wish I could forget but unfortunately cannot. Memories that make me feel regret and cringe whenever I remember them.

After reincarnating, I thought that I should no longer feel that way towards these memories. It's my new life in a new world after all. All the things I regretted and all the people involved have been left behind.

New life, new me.

I should no longer hold attachment to my previous life.

AND YET.

Because of my stupid feelings of regret, history has repeated. Just like in my last life, I was so focused on 'gaming' that I neglected my relationships with the people around me. I treated my own family like NPCs and did not even try to make friends because I was too busy thinking up ways to level up.

As a reincarnator, I should have viewed my past life memories like a history lesson. Learn from my mistakes and failures in order to not repeat them.

But nope. I didn't do that and only insisted on 'playing the game.'

Why? Well I was reincarnated by THE VIDEO GAME GOD, for fu- his' sake.

Is it not reasonable to develop a mindset thinking 'This life is a video game'?

The [Level Up System] sure helped to reinforce that mindset on me.

Only now, I'm starting to realize that thinking of this new life of mine as a game is wrong.

Even though I'm only four years old, yesterday's events have become another memory that I will forever regret and cringe whenever I remember it.

Thanks for that by the way, 10 Mental...

Ugh, the thought of crying like a little girl yesterday... Wait I am a little girl right now so it's normal right?

Yeah, even though I have the mind and memories of an adult, I am now a child...

A young child...

A child who still has many years left to live and NOT regret.

A child who was given a second chance to make up for past life regrets!

It does not have to be all of them; only some of them is fine!

Just don't make any new regrets like yesterday!

I got up from my bed and headed towards my parents' bedroom. It was still early and Dad should not have work today.

One of my regrets from my past life is not being able to repay my parents for raising me. I was unable to be a filial son because they died too early.

So, in this life, unlike what I have been doing all this time, I will make sure to become the best son- err daughter in the world! How? I don't know! Which is why I'm going to ask the two qualified people who can answer this question.

*Slams door open*

"Mom! Dad! How can-"

I stopped mid sentence because of what I saw. In my parents' room, clothes that I'm sure they were wearing yesterday were scattered around on the floor. The top half of my Dad's half-naked body was hanging off the left side of the bed with a drained expression on his face. Meanwhile, my Mom who just sat up, stared at me groggily having been awoken by my sudden entrance. She was covering herself with the blanket, obviously naked underneath.

Yeah, I probably should have knocked instead of barging in so early...

A normal kid would probably apologize and close the door while trying to forget what they just saw. But as a reincarnator, I'm not normal now am I?

"Were you guys making babies last night?"

(Scene Break)

Here I am, back in the forest park for another grinding session.

As for what happened earlier?

After a scolding and long story short, my parents are spoiling me.

They basically told me to just live normally and don't cause problems to become a filial child.

Damn why can't they be straightforward with me and just say that they have no expectations for me! It's because they think I'm quirkless huh?!

Well I'll show them! If I can level up, maybe I can unlock my skill or vision. Then I will tell them that it's my quirk. Then they won't spoil me and will actually have expectations for me! Then I will exceed their expectations and become the best child in the world! Bwahahaha!

I just need to level up and to do that I need to kill these bugs. Good thing it rained last night because now, there's a bunch of them flying around.

Flying bugs are hard to kill. Since R4 Amos Bow is still in production, I brought this electric swatter that I secretly purchased online when I was using my Dad's computer. It looks like a tennis racket but instead of hitting balls, it will electrocute bugs I hit.

Is that a butterfly?

*Swish BZZT*

A cicada making noise on a tree?

*Tap BZZT*

A bunch of flies over a lazy morning jogger's dog's poop?

*BZZT BZZT BZZT*

I ran around the trees killing things for exp throughout the morning.

Even though it's not a lot, it's the best I can do for now with my current status.

As I was sitting on a park bench resting and eating some snacks I brought, I saw some kids entering the park. They were the same group I saw the other day; the main character of this world was with them of course. Honestly, the spiky hair kid seems more of a protagonist than the green hair guy. His quirk that I recall from my memories was cooler too. At least it doesn't break his bones when he uses it.

I observed them as they walked closer to me noisily chatting. I was about to take a bite of my snack when a fly flew over.

*BZZT*

'Thanks for the exp,' I casually thought and swatted it.

"Woah! What's that?"

Before I knew it, the spiky haired kid was standing in front of me, looking at my electric swatter with curiosity.

"This is an electric swatter. I use it to kill bugs with a shock." I explained.

The kid looked confused for a moment before yanking it from my hand and hitting green hair.

*pomf*

"Ah! K-Kacchan why-"

"Hey it didn't work!" Spiky hair said while looking at me like some sort of liar.

"Did you break it?" I asked glaring at him and taking it back. After checking it and seeing no problems, I hit green hair with it.

*BZZT*

"Awawawa!"

"See? It works." I pointed out and spiky hair took my swatter and tried hitting green hair again.

*pomf*

I took it back and tried again.

*BZZT*

"C-can you guys stop hi-"

*pomf*

"Why does it only work for you?!"

"Well maybe because it's mine and it only works for its master."

*BZZT*

At this point green hair looked like he wanted to cry. Don't know why, but it's quite fun to tease him. I can see why spiky hair does it all the time.

"Hmpf. Whatever. You're just an extra." He stated before walking away with his group. Green hair following along despite the treatment.

"If only you knew that the main protagonist is standing behind you..." I thought.

I quickly finished my snack and got back to hunting. When it was almost lunch time, Mom came to pick me up.

"How was the park Kirari? Did you have fun?" She asked while carrying the tired me on her shoulders. We are walking home for lunch. Half a day of running around committing mass insect genocide was too much for my young body. I should search up some exercises I can do to increase my Physical stat.

"Un! I killed a lot of bugs with my Skana!" I proclaimed while lifting my newly named swatter up high.

"Uh huh. That's great honey. But did you make some friends there? Remember what we talked about this morning?"

In order to get permission to go to the part today, I told my parents that I wanted to make some friends here. This was just an excuse of course. But when they heard what I said, they were surprised and looked a little relieved. I guess my attitude before caused them some trouble... It's alright. I've realized my mistake.

However, what do I say now...?

"Hmm. Ah! I did! There was a group of boys I played with for a bit." I said remembering spiky hair and green hair.

"That's great progress! Ah. I mean good job Kirari." Mom said in surprise. She didn't expect me to make friends so quickly after my change in attitude huh.

"What are their names? Maybe I know their parents from the neighborhood?"

"..."

Shit. What were their names again? They were basically screaming it out the other day? Why can't I remember?! 10 Mental why have you forsaken me?!

"... Spikey and Greeny..." I answered my Mom without much confidence.

"... Really? That's their names?"

"... Maybe?..."

"Well small progress is still progress. Try harder next time 'kay?" She said, coming to some sort of conclusion.

"Yes Mama..."

A short awkward silence. Mom looked like she was about to start another conversation when I spotted another fly close by. I instinctually swung Skana and killed it.

"Wow nice swing. I didn't know that swatter was still charged." Mom praised.

"What do you mean charged?" I asked.

"Hmm? You know my quirk right?"

"Un. Taser Hero: Spark Wire. Quirk: Shocking Love (at first sight). You can generate high voltage electricity from your hands which you use with metal wires to stun and capture villains."

"As expected of my daughter. You know mommy so well. Aside from what you said, my quirk also makes me sensitive to electric charges like your dad but weaker. And I do not sense any charge coming from your swatter."

"I see."

But I was killing things with it all this time. Come to think of it, this is the first time I'm using this and I never charged it. Finding this suspicious, I tried to focus on Skana while swinging it around. Nothing particularly stood out. I saw a mosquito and went for the kill. Right as Skana electrocuted it to death, I sensed a very miniscule movement between my hand and the swatter. I thought it was just sweat from my hand making the swatter shift while being held. If I wasn't paying attention, I would have missed the feeling. Mom looked at me curiously as well so she probably didn't sense it.

I asked her to let me down and I went around looking for nearby prey. I repeated the action while focusing on that feeling. After killing some more bugs while walking home, I got used to it. The extra effort caused me to become even more fatigued which made my mom take away Skana and carry me on her shoulders again.

I didn't want to stop yet because I can feel I was close to figuring it out. So, I tried to get that feeling in my hands again without Skana but nothing happened.

"What's wrong Kirari? You've been looking at your hand for a while now."

"I'm... trying to release electricity from my hand like Mama and Onii-chan." I said after thinking for a bit.

"Kirari..." I could hear the sympathy in her voice. "We talked about this already. Just grow up normally and-"

I didn't want to hear any more so I tried to reach down and cover her mouth. As a pro hero, she reacted fast and turned her head resulting in me only touching her cheek.

The moment my hand touched my mom's cheek, that feeling I had been building in my hand for a while gushed out.

"Ahhnnn!" Out of nowhere, my mom moaned aloud which made her stop in place and cover her mouth.

Chapter End

A/N: And there! Cringey character development over! Just accept it and move on so that we can get to the action already!

A bit of sad news but after this, I will be reducing chapter word count from 2000-3000 to around 1000-2000 words. This is so that I can release a chapter more frequently. One chapter still guaranteed every weekend~