1 I'm Dead Again
In an environment of vacuum, there is only darkness.
Suddenly a white orb of fire appeared illuminating a bit of darkness.
"Hahhh... I died young again. Why do I always die young in my every reincarnation? Am I cursed or something?"
The white orb rang out someone's helpless moaning voice. Because the voice was so flat, it wasn't clear whether the owner of the voice was male or female.
"Soketto's prophecy was correct, I can only live to be 13 years old… I'm sure Yunyun will be saddened when she hears the news of my death."
The soul orb remembered the only sane girl in Crimson Demon Village and felt pity.
The soul orb's mood was melancholic for a while, then it recovered its composure.
"Hopefully in my next reincarnation, I will be born as a male."
He shuddered to remember that in his third reincarnation, he was reincarnated as a woman. Because he had a beautiful face compared to other village girls, his chastity was almost sullied by a noble who happened to see him.
Not wanting to be tainted by the fat noble, he chose to commit suicide. Although he was born a woman, his soul is still a real man. He would rather die than have intercourse with another man. After all, he knew he would reincarnate once he died.
"There's still one more day before I'm reincarnated... It's so boring every time I wait to be reincarnated."
How could the soul orb tell time when there was only darkness around and no way to determine how much time had passed.
Simple, just count!
One day and one night have 24 hours, 1440 minutes, and 86,400 seconds.
In order to pass the time, the soul orb counted every second wrapped in this darkness.
"I've always wanted to know how I came to have this reincarnation ability."
The soul orb remembers its early life before being reincarnated.
The questioner is Brandon Nahlan, aged 20, and just out of college.
He comes from the largest country in Southeast Asia, namely Indonesia. He lives in the province of Jambi, which is a province that is not well known compared to other provinces.
Brandon always thought his life would go on like other people's usual routine, namely finding a job, buying a house, getting married, having children, living old age with his wife, and finally dying surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
Unfortunately fate said otherwise, and an ordinary and boring life never came.
In 2025, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine finally started the third world war after NATO accepted Ukraine as a member.
The Russian president, who found out that America had placed missiles and other weapons on the Ukraine border, became furious. Especially European Union countries that openly supply weapons to Ukraine.
Furious by the behavior of NATO and America, the Russian president dropped a nuclear bomb, the Tsar Bomba, on the Ukraine capital, Kyiv.
This event triggers another chain of events, and various countries start to launch their nuclear bombs and trigger a third world war.
Although Indonesia considers itself a non-aligned country. In the end, Indonesia and other non-aligned countries were forced to get involved.
Especially Indonesia, which has the main material for nuclear energy, uranium, and is the target of America's greed.
America accuses Indonesia of having weapons of mass destruction to support Russia, just as they accused Iraq a few years ago. As a result, many civilians were killed by the bombardment of American warplanes.
Brandon is just an ordinary civilian, his family comes from a middle class family. They had no bunkers and had no chance of escape like the officials and rich families.
The result was clear, he and other civilians were killed in America's attempt to control Indonesia.
When Brandon thought he was dead, he woke up here, in an environment where there was only boundless darkness.
At first, he was anxious, restless, scared, and other emotions as he faced this inexplicable situation. He also knew he had lost his physical body and was only in the form of a floating soul orb.
He had tried to find a way out of that place, but no matter how far he walked, he couldn't find the end of the darkness. It was as if this place had no boundaries.
As time went by, Brandon lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was shocked to find himself in a luxurious room decorated in medieval style.
What astonished him the most was finding out he had become a baby!
As an otaku who has read manga, and watched anime, he finds himself reincarnated in another world!
Even though the maidservants in charge of him spoke a language that Brandon had never heard of, he was strangely able to understand the contents of their conversation and found out that his identity was that of a fourth son of Emperor Diseld of the Arcadia Empire.
Brandon was very happy to know this fact, and thought he would reach the pinnacle of life with the status of a prince. However, his fun turned to disappointment and anger when he was poisoned by a maidservant at the age of one month.
And so it was in the first reincarnation, Brandon died before even starting anything.
He thought his luck had run out. However, he was surprised to find himself in a place filled with darkness.
After a while, he was reincarnated again into a world based on the anime [Shingeki no Kyojin].
How could Brandon believe he was reincarnated into the [Shingeki no Kyojin] world?
He was born to a prostitute in the Underground, Mitras City. Brandon even made friends with Levi Ackerman, because their status was similar and they often met.
But once again, he had to accept the bitter fact that he died at the age of 7 for helping a kidnapped girl be sold as a slave.
Brandon still has a high sense of justice as a young man living in the 21st century, he can't pretend not to see the kidnapping in front of his eyes.
His good deeds even led to his death.
The kidnappers didn't care that he was still a child, one of them stabbed him in the stomach with a knife.
Brandon finally died from loss of blood, plus no one wanted to help him even after discovering his condition.
After his death in his second reincarnation, he returned to this dark place and was reincarnated again.
Subsequent reincarnations confirmed his theory, he would always be reincarnated into a world based on an anime.
What makes Brandon the most helpless, he will always die at a young age. No matter what precautions and preparations he took, he would always die at a young age.
In his sixth reincarnation, he was reincarnated into the world [Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo] before the main story begins, born as the second child of a shoe shop owner and Bukkororii's little brother in Crimson Demon Village.
When Brandon found out that Suketto, the most beautiful girl in the Crimson Demon Village, had the ability to predict, he knew that his age limit was 13 years.
He has tried to change that destiny. However, he failed, and his sixth reincarnation ended.
What annoyed Brandon the most was the fact that he didn't have any cheating abilities or golden fingers in every reincarnation.
Just look at the other protagonists, they have systems, rings that hold the souls of peerless experts, abnormal talents, masters of all elements, and so on.
Brandon has nothing but the ability to reincarnate whenever he dies. He even had to fight and always be careful not to die young, even though his efforts were in vain.
"I have memorized the Advanced Magic formulas in the Red Prison Academy, it can become my capital to survive my seventh reincarnation."
"This time I should be able to survive to the age of 20!"
Brandon sets a small goal, which is to survive to adulthood!
