You know my life wasn't so bad, I had a pretty good family before this whole reincarnation thing. I grew up as an only child for 9 years of my life, which was pretty nice.
Though I did get abused and life without a sibling was lonely at times. I still enjoyed my life. Like it wasn't all bad, I think they call that character building or whatever.
Anyways as you can guess I had a sibling at 9 years old, and well he got sent away to private school in another country. So I never really got to know him.
High School was fun, meeting new people, trying new things, it was all a blast.
Even after I turned 25 years old, becoming a truck driver wasn't all bad. I got to meet new people, got amazing views of snow covered mountains and clean blue shining rivers and lakes, nature is a real beautiful thing to watch.
Even after my mother went insane from stress, so she spends her time talking to herself and screaming at night.
Even when my father developed a hooker problem and went off to become a passport bro. I still enjoyed life.
But this reincarnation kinda sucked. like first off why am I so hungry? I'm super dizzy right after regaining consciousness. How did I get here? Is this a bad prank? Shouldn't I be the hero?
Or at least welcomed? I know I'm not in my original body since my fingers and arms are so small and skinny. I'm probably around 12 years old now.
I tried remembering what I was doing in my previous life to be sent over here, but all I got was a massive headache. It took me a while to gather myself. Like why am I in a forest? Caught in a net, Upside down?
Like when you reincarnate, aren't you supposed to have a warm, lovely mother looking at you as you were just born, and a father smiling like an idiot.
While you try to talk but only make baby sounds, where's my soft blanket and warm milk? Where's my new loving family?
Here I am in a dim forest in the cold, dizzy, hungry, crying, all alone. This isn't fair at all. I want a refund! I didn't even get to see truck-kun, or an omnipotent old man. Where are my blessings for a new life?This is one of the worst reincarnations ever!
As I calm down from my small mental breakdown, I look around and at least I'm wearing some clothes. Well they look more like dirty old rags, you use on the floor full of holes and missing patches of cloth.
Well at least I'm not naked. While checking out my new outfit, I quickly check to see if I'm still a male by pressing my thighs together....
Ah yes, I still have an egg roll and two grapes. At least I won't have periods, while trying to survive in the forest of nowhere. So I'm lucky in that department.
I started trying to use my hands, but they were stiff from the cold air. So I brought them to my face, and started exhaling warm air so I could feel them. As I'm warming my hands I look around and the sun seems to be going down.
I'm short on time. I can hear bushes ruffling, and tree branches whistling from the wind. I shiver from the cold air or maybe, the fear of the unknown. I start to get nervous because I don't know what's out there.
I start huffing and puffing, like a big bad wolf. After a while I get my hands back to working order, I grab the knife from my hip and try to cut myself out. It's a rusty, dull knife. It's better to call it a metal stick in the shape of a knife.
But it's the only thing I have at the moment. So I cut and cut. I hold on to the net with my left hand and with my teeth. Kick my legs and try to spread the net to create some tension. I can feel the nets fibers coming apart, then finally I hear a crisp snap and I cut through the net.
After cutting the net, I fell down on my back. I guess I didn't really plan for the falling part. The fall wasn't so bad, since I was only about a meter high, I probably got some light bruising. At least I didn't stab myself while falling.
"I'm free!" I look around, and it's almost completely dark, the sun is fully setting. I reattach the knife to my hip with the leather strap.
Then, my stomach rumbles and I'm once again reminded that I'm cold and hungry. That I'm in a dangerous place, where potential predators roam, I don't know if there's magical beasts, but I don't want to find out just yet.
I just spawned, and I don't want it to be game over already.
So I cover myself with mud and I find a big tree to climb. My plan is to sleep on the branches for the long night. As the wind blows past the tree, I find the whistling wind kinda soothing in a creepy way. As I calm down and close my eyes I finally get some rest from the hectic day. At least I'm still alive.
The end of day one, in this new world.
I'm woken up by a screaming animal. I don't know which, but now I don't need to go to the wash room anymore. I need to find a water source or I'll be the next animal screaming in this forest.
Note to self never tell anyone about this embarrassing situation. I really smell. I'm scared the predators can track me down with all of it in my pants.
As I walk, I walk some more, then keep walking.... I realized I don't know how to find water.
"Haha." I laughed to myself, holding back my tears. Fear runs through me.
So I keep on walking until I hear some rustling from the bushes behind me and start running.
"HAHAHAH!" I laugh out loud with tears, flowing from my eyes. With snot sliding past my cheeks
After what felt like hours I hear a low hissing sound, I brighten up and know that's a sound of water. Or a snake monster…..
Luckily I was right, just a small river flowing with some medium sized fish.
I first scoop up water to my mouth, and drink till I'm full, and then jump in. bathing myself and washing my embarrassment away. The water is cool and refreshing. It brightens my spirits and lifts my morale.
"I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Fish, I can only hope you guys are okay." I say to the fish in the river.
After taking a nice wash, the sun peaks through the tree canopies giving first days light and much needed warming from the cold river water.
Now that I have a water source, I need food, I'm still starving. So I head over to find a flat rock and try to sharpen my rusty knife, because you can't hunt if you don't have an effective weapon.
I sharpen your knife to the best of my ability. I then make marks on trees and dig branches into the ground to make a guild, for my way back the river. The river shall be named fish river.
I spend hours hunting, but find almost nothing. And when I do find something which is a small but brown bunny rabbit I lose the bast***, since he's so fast and I'm so weak I can't keep up.
"I'll catch you eventually Mr. Bunny" I swore to myself.
After the failure of the hunting trip. I make my way back to Fish RIver. I drank some and watched the swimming fishes.
Then I remembered something called spear fishing. So I broke a few thick branches to find a good strong stick and tried to carve my own wooden spear.
Well it took me the rest of the day but eventually. I produced a somewhat sharp wooden stick.
"Hooray!' a new achievement. A monkey with a stick. Yeah I'm that monkey, since when I tried spear fishing for a few hours left till sunset, but I got nothing to show for it. It was a waste of time and energy.
It was an exhausting day, but at least I was safe. I have to stay positive.
I drank some more water then covered myself with mud and climbed a big tree and went to bed.
End of day two, still alive and somewhat sane.
After a good night's sleep I woke up to the sounds of birds crying and chirping. You know nature is really beautiful if it wasn't so dangerous.
Once again I took my daily bath, drank some water, then thought of how to find food. At this point, I realized that I need more time and experience to live out in the wild.
As I watched the fish swim around I noticed that at some points deep into the river the fish can only swim straight. Then I thought if I could force the fish to swim in a straight line I can most definitely. Catch one with my sharp stick.
"I'm a genius!' I scream out a loud dancing around. With this goal in mind I get started.
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Thinking of making a funnel like dam where it forces the water to funnel.
I spend all my waking hours trying to make this dam. I sleep, bathe, then wake, drink, and move rocks and large logs day by day.
On my sixth day, I'm mostly skin and bones.
I seem to have forgotten why I'm moving rocks and logs.
I'm just doing these actions now because I'm used to it. I think I might have lost it.
Day eighth, still alive just barely.
I don't sleep anymore, or maybe I can't sleep? I don't remember. I sat down in the river. Everything is spinning. At some point I feel a fish approach my hand.
"Huh?" I hold on to it and pull it out of the water. Then I drag it with all my strength and leave it near a tree and watch it struggle and flap around.
When it stopped moving. I grabbed it and bit into it. Blood dripped from my mouth.
It tasted terrible, a really strong fishy flavour and metallic tang of the blood. It was uncomfortable to chew. The fish got a second wind and started flapping in my hands. As I was trying to consume it. After a fierce struggle, I bit harder into it, I think it dislocated my jaw. After a while it finally gave up. And I had my first meal.
After that fish, I think I passed out. I don't remember falling asleep.
Day ninth my first meal
Waking, from the warm sun shining down on me. My stomach rumbles, I head over to my fish river. And appreciate my fortified dam.
It just looks like a bunch of rocks and logs stack on each other a complete mess. Super unsafe with lots of leaks. I can see at least 6 water leaks.
I grab some mud and small stones and fix them into place to fill in the leaks. Then I head to the end point of the dam and wait with my spear.
I caught four fishes. From 400 grams to 2 pound fish. I got a decent hall and I started gutting them and descaling in the river.
I cook up the 400 gram fish roasting by the fire and then make a makeshift smoking rack, with 3 large sticks set up in a triangle. And a few stick in between to hang the fish to smoke, preserve.
now I got some food I'll to make a fish net. so I can have unlimited amounts of food.