As he was getting close to the bridge of despair, he remembered that it reflects the previous life of that person so what should he do.
But as soon as he stepped on the bridge some memories of the soul he replaced started coming to him. now the remaining guilt of takin place of someone else also vanished.
As he learned the story of the soul he replaced,
born to the humble middle-aged couple who survived on farming a couple of types of grains and some vegetables. The boy started working on the farm from an early age of 10 to 19, where the whole village lost their lives to a vile cultivator who wanted to refine an evil weapon.
many souls were destroyed but some still survived and some became trapped in the weapon.
The soul he replaced was destroyed and sent to the river of soul and then he took the place of that soul in 'The Book of the Dead'.
So as he did not do anything harmful to the person he replaced the remaining guilt also vanished into smoke as he now confidently braved the bridge over the path of the yellow river.
Now all that was left was to drink the soup act like dazed and go through the human gate of the six paths of reincarnation.
As the line moved forward more the excitement grew in the heart of Leo even Dream was also affected by his enthusiasm and was looking forward to the new family of her master.
After waiting for a long time on the long winding ever-progressing path, the six paths finally came into the view of Leo.
now that the wait was over Leo finally took notice of other some had a dazed look, some were gazing at the paths the lead to six portals and some were quite frightened at the thought of reincarnation in ghost or anima path, though Leo knew with the slightly above-average karma all he could get was a happy human family just like he asked that being.
Just thinking of that powerful being a shudder ran through him and he knew he made a good decision getting away from him.
As he waited for his turn, he observed the six paths of reincarnation the deva, the asura, the human,
the animal, the preta ghost and last the hell realm. Soon it was his turn to drink the soup from a granny who looked old yet pretty, then he remembered the name 'Granny Meng' after drinking the elixir of forgetfulness.
Then pretending to be dazed he went forward guided by forces of nature to the mortal path of humans to be reincarnated in 3000 major worlds.
As soon as he took a step his world went dark and he lost all his senses.
When he came to his senses and opened his eyes what he saw startled him to shout," aah!!!"
Which sounded like the cry of a baby.
What he saw was a giant lady staring at him with a passion, after the whole fiasco of his crying, he was given to a normal but gentle-looking woman with whom he felt a connection to be his mother.
Even before his death, the family held a special meaning in his heart, though he was lazy at that time he would still care and loved his family very dearly. Cause even when he failed, most of his friends who called him a genius left him and though his family yelled at him they still supported him in his decisions.
So, as he stared at his mother he knew that he will be loved very much in this new life of his, through the look his mother was giving him and without any worry went to sleep.
As he slept Dream began to gather information on his new family and after finding no danger hidden in the darkness she was also relived.
Now as he slept the mother of Leo took him out of the room and suddenly surrounded by a small crowd of people whom she recognized every one of.
Then she showed him to his other relatives. They were his aunt uncles and cousins and most importantly his big sister who herself was only 2-3 years old so all she did was in awe of the little guy in front of everyone and said, "why is he so small and wrinkly?" hearing this from her the whole crowd laughed causing the small girl to pout at them, this drew another bout of laughter from them, causing the baby Leo to wake up.
As soon as he woke, he curiously wondered his eyes all around the world about him. seeing him wake up crowd gave him and his mother a little space to look around.
Then their attention was drawn from the hurried footsteps coming towards them was a young man who was in the military getup. as he came close his friends which were already here said, "Stone, now that your youngest son is born, can you not take a vacation from duty for a day to be with him, eh?"
"Brother Song, please don't remind me of that," said the man who just came.
Getting near the baby mother and the little girl, "Let me see my son, dear are you okay, Star did you see your little brother."
"hmmm, I shaw him sho shmall and all winkly(wrinkly)" said Star the sister of Leo. "But what ish hish name? mama, papa."
"His name will be 'Leo'," Said the mother glaring at the man who was sweating purposefully under the impression of the woman, "Since, your father was late I get to name him."
Stone just said, "Of course!! Bluegrass, Of course!!" watching the drama of the couple everyone had a laugh, even Leo felt that his mother was awesome.