1 The New World

Max stood on the balcony of the roof of his building, ready to jump down.

Now anyone would wonder what happened for Max to take such a drastic step. Well nothing much really, he just made a mistake that prevented the entire financial market of his country for five hours, after which he was fired from his job.

Well, that's not to bad you may wonder, after all, he could just find a new job. But you see it was not that simple for Max, his entire reason for existence was his job, he didn't have a girlfriend, had no friends, no parents, no siblings, he had no motivation to continue in his life except his job and when that job went away he lost his entire reason for existence was now.

Now there was nothing to do he took a deep breath and jumped.

After he jumped an intense pain crossed through his body, the pain was so much that he could feel it in every inch of his body. He then started losing sensations in all the parts of the body, from his leg to his neck, after which he saw a bright light and then he lost consciousness.

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Some time passed and Max suddenly gained consciousness again and soon one by one he started gaining the sensations he had lost first his hands, then his legs, his eyes, etc.

"What is this, I can move my hands, my body, but it seems different like its off-balance somehow. I thought I jumped from the building high enough to kill me, and even if it didn't kill me it should have still made me paralyzed for life, then why can I feel my body and why does it feel different." thought Max

He opened his eyes and saw that he was staring at the ceiling, he tried to move his eyes to see more of the place he was in, but he couldn't see much. He then tried to get up but after many tries, the best he managed was to roll on his back.

After some time when he realized what condition he was in, he yelled what the fuck but only a loud crying noise came out of him.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck. Where the fuck am I and why the fuck did I turn into a fucking baby. What the fuck is this shit, did I fall in a pool of cocaine, am I fucking hallucinating." he yelled loudly

After continuous crying noise coming from the room, a woman dressed in gray, worn-out drab clothing came in, picked him up, and started rocking him in her arms to calm him down.

Max was thoroughly surprised by this, he thought he was yelling but all of a sudden a woman came and picked him up, as a 26-year-old man he felt extremely embarrassed and the temperature of his body started increasing.

The woman got worried as his forehead suddenly felt warm to the touch, so she put him down and rushed out of the room.

Max was very embarrassed by all this and couldn't process what was happening, but he now felt tired and slowly dozed off.

Some days passed like this, he would wake up every day, make a little noise after which the woman would feed him her milk, and then he would sleep.

Now he had been in this state for a long while, he was now sure that this wasn't a hallucination otherwise he would have sobered up by now. Now he had a new idea in his mind, it seemed that he was now a baby and by looking at the condition of the room, he was sure that this was not from the era he was from, so now there were only two possibilities he either reincarnated in a previous timeline, or he reincarnated in an alternate universe like in the books he had read so much in.

Therefore now he put all his attention on understanding the environment he was in. Slowly as time passed he began to understand his surroundings, although he could not understand the meaning of the sounds that came from outside his room, he could make out that they were not just noises but rather people speaking to each other in words based on the fact that the sounds were predictable and in harmony, and from the fact that there were at least two pair of sounds coming all day, and the fact that whenever he cried, the woman would come rushing in, he came to the conclusion that he was probably born into a well off family, he did not know how rich they are but at least they were not poor.

This delighted him greatly since although being born rich does not guarantee richness throughout life, and poverty is around every corner, he still knew that being born rich gives you certain privileges and particularly in a more primitive society.

He now started going in deep thought as there was nothing to do while just lying there, although he slept a lot he still had a lot of free time, given the fact that all he to do was eat, shit and sleep.

He now started getting very bored and getting into the same quagmire that he had been stuck in his previous life.

But this time he felt a little different, he was curious to see what this world was, will it be the same society with the same problems, or will it be something different, what will this world be like.

Therefore he contemplated a lot in his spare time, and like this what seemed like months passed, and by this time the amount of time he had spent in his contemplation could even outshine old monks.

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One day the woman in grey clothes came in, she picked him up but this time she started walking and took him out of the room. First, she went down the hallway, and then she entered a very large room, where a woman was sitting on the bed.

The woman looked young about 24 or 26, she wore what looked like an expensive nightgown.

The woman handed him over to the woman on the bed and then went out of the room. After the woman walked out of the room, the other woman raised Max up to her face started saying

"My little darling, how I missed you" and then she started hugging him lightly as if she was making sure that the baby does not get crushed. She then put him beside her and fed him when he was hungry, after which she laid him down beside her on the bed, and Max slowly dozed off, he noticed that the woman was keenly staring at him as if making sure that he falls asleep.

Some more time passed. He spent more time with the woman who called herself his mother. Little by little she started teaching him some common words, like her name, the name of his father, the house they belonged to, and like this Max started picking up the language of this world. Maybe it's true what they say about children picking up language instinctively because Max was learning the language at an incredible speed.

Like this some time passed, he had picked up much information about the world by listening to the people around him, he had figured out how time in this world worked, it was pretty much like earth, with an hour made up of minutes and a day made of 24 hours, and a month of 30 days, but in this world, all months had 30 days and there were twelve months in a year.

After learning this he had ruled out that this was earth just in a previous era, rather he was now sure that this was another world. This was furthermore confirmed by the different types of animals they talked about, the food they eat, etc.

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He was now two years old, and he had grown a lot loser with his mother, they were together all the time and it looked she also loved him enough to spend all her time with him.

He had now even started to walk a little, which came as a huge surprise to his mother and all the other people in the house. Although he could walk like an adult if he wanted to now itself since the only thing he required was getting used to the body balance of a child. But he decided that it would be best to not show off, after all some people in the house already found it weird that he only cried rarely.

Another thing bugging him was the fact that his mother had not named him yet. This was very weird since no matter how you look at it he was way past the age where his name should have been decided, even though it was true that it was not the modern world where the baby's name had to be decided instantly to put on the birth certificate. It was still very late, he concluded that there could only be two reasons, first that his mother did not get to decide what his name was gonna be or she was waiting for something to happen.

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He was now three years old and could now run, jump, climb, etc. and his mother had already hired a tutor for him and he had begun his studies, he was now properly learning the language of the world, and the other facts about this world.

As he finished his classes a maid came up to him and said to him

"Sir, your mother has called you to her room immediately"

Hearing this Max went to his mother's room wondering what was so urgent.

As he went into the room, he saw that a man was sitting on the bed with his mother and he noticed that his mother's face did not look as cheerful as every day but rather it looked a little sad.

He went towards his mother while maintaining eye contact with the man.

His mother picked him up and sat him down on her lap and said look son, this is your father, he has finally returned to meet you.