It was a mostly normal night in the middle of the woods, a thick fog enveloping the entirety of the area. A confused young baby laying there in a poorly crafted crib staring at his surroundings in a daze "What just happened?" The baby thought. Thinking back to mere moments ago a disheveled and haggard looking young woman dropped him off here whilst staring at him with no other emotions in her eyes besides hatred and contempt. The woman mumbled under her breath with rage and a tiny amount of sorrow "If only you were born with a power, even if you were given a useless power it would still be one nonetheless. Being powerless is an unforgivable sin in this world." Sighing the woman said, "Nine months I had to borrow rations from the neighbors, beg on the streets just to be able to feed you but in the end it was all just in vain. Vain hahaha. I guess if I had to give you a name that's what it would be."
The woman then started to walk away as if nothing ever happened. "What? What the fuck?" This baby who was anything but ordinary shouted out in confusion. To the surroundings and the fleeing woman it just sounded like an ordinary baby's screaming and nothing more. This baby was no other than Nameless. Nameless was an orphan youth that currently had absolutely no idea as to what was going on. In fact the last thing he remembered was..." HOLY FUCK" "Did I get reincarnated?" "Last thing I remember... that guy... no... did I die in my sleep? Eh probably. I was absolutely starving and being homeless wasn't necessarily a safe occupation to begin with. What does it matter anyway? I had no friends, no family, no job, nothing. Born as an orphan and died as an orphan..." "Born as an orphan twice hehe" "What name did that unfilial second mother of mine give me? Vain... welp...sounds pretty cool, might as well take it." "Speaking of my unfilial second mother, where the heck did she drop me? I can't see over the edge of this damn basket" "Basket???" "Oh no... oh no... OH NO" Indeed. After just a short while, Vain(as is his new name) realized just how much of a precarious situation he was in. Stranded, small, and scared, thats right scared. How could he not be afraid? Finally given a second chance at life and now it seems his second life was going to be over before it even started. He thought to himself "With my small hands and my small feet what can I even do? Even if I had my original body I'd still have no clue as for what to do. I don't know where I am and on top of that, the unfilial second mother of mine mentioned something about powers, and I just happened to be powerless. How wonderful. How absolutely wonderful. Two lives and two absolute shit cards dealt to both of them." Not having anything better to do Vain started to see what little he could in his surroundings. Surprisingly, he noticed a hole that was as large as half an apple in the right side of the basket he laid in and through that hole he saw a white and red rabbit slowly crawling towards him. Vain quickly noticed that the rabbit wasn't really red and white but that the rabbit was white and gravely injured, the blood causing the rabbits fur to be dyed a deep colored watery red. Vain panicked and thought to himself "No don't come over here, if whatever did that to you followed you here and tries to do that to me I won't stand a chance." At the same time, he didn't dare and try to scare the rabbit off. What if the thing that injured the rabbit heard him and thought it found a free snack? While Vain was stuck in his thoughts the rabbit kept on limping closer and closer and soon it was within three meters away. Then it was Two meters, then it was one , and then he suddenly lost sight of the rabbit. No longer could he see it through the half an apple sized hole. Panicking, Vain thought, "That stupid rabbit just had to leave a blood trail right to me, I'm done for." Right as Vain was about keep fidgeting through his anxiety filled thoughts he suddenly felt the whole basket he was in start to tilt to the right. "Oh no, stop!" Vain blurted out loud, the noise of a panicked babies' screams flooding the nearby forest. The basket continued to tilt further and further to the right until it suddenly regained its balance. *Thump* Vain let out a huge forced breath of air as he abruptly lost all the space in his lungs. Scared and confused, Vain quickly tried to figure out what was going on and soon realized that the severely injured rabbit had actually fallen on top of him covering the entirety of his chest and below. The rabbit seemingly had used up the last bit of its strength and was no longer moving, only it's chest trembling slightly, rapidly moving up and down in a shallow manner. At the same time, Vain was struggling to get his tiny body out from under the rabbit, but he couldn't even budge it the slightest. He was slowly suffocating and couldn't barely hold on any longer After all, he was a newborn baby. How long could he possibly hold his breath? A mere few seconds at most. Vain having realized that his second end was coming infinitely closer, started to go mad "Fuck, fuck this stupid rabbit. You just had to go and die on me, fuck! No no I can't die here. I don't wanna die. I don't want to die. I was just fucking born!" The world went completely black, but Vain didn't lose consciousness at all, he was still roaring mad, screaming at the abyss with all his might because he realized something. He wanted to live, he really, really wanted to live. In fact, he needed to live. At this point, it became his obsession. Vain finally realized how terrifying death was and he could not bare to go through it again. He swore to himself that he would not go through it ever again. All of a sudden, Vain felt a sharp, piercing pain rampaging through his mind but the pain went as quickly as it came. Suddenly the abyss like surroundings started receding like the tide and began to condense in the middle of what seemed like everything, where the darkness was became nothing but white and where the darkness fully condensed a figure was formed. This figure wasn't pitch black but was blood red. In fact, the words blood red might not even do the figure justice because this small figure looked just exactly like a pool of blood itself. Meanwhile, Vain was staring at all of this blankly in daze. This was not his fault. It all happened too quickly, an instant might not even be quick enough to describe how long it took for the former events to completely finish. Coming to his senses, Vain's anger was completely extinguished and replaced by bewilderment
"What just happened...? Where am I? I can't be dead again, this didn't happen the first time... and what is that thing? A baby made out of blood? "
Indeed, floating just a few meters in front of him was a baby completely made out of blood. The baby was extremely strange, it seemed alive but dead. Still, but moving. It could only be described as strange, Nothing else. At this moment, Vain actually thought of something "could this thing be me ? I'm a baby right now... and in those fantasy stories the miss told me, some people could see their inner selves... is this mine? But didn't that bitch second mother say I was powerless? Then what would be the point of an inner self? I'm thinking way too much. I just need to get the fuck out of here, I'm still dying under that stupid rabbit."
Just like that, Vain returned back to reality and at the same time, a few things started to miraculously happen. The white rabbit on top of him started to feel lighter and lighter, simultaneously Vain felt an inexplicable feeling enter his body, it was like an IV of dopamine started to trickle directly into his body, not being distracted by this indescribable feeling of pleasure, Vain began struggling with all his might to free his tiny body out from under the rabbit and finally, after just a short moment of coming out of the strange space, Vain had regained his freedom, well what little of it he had. Coming back to his senses and in the midst of all the pleasure, Vain began to hear a strange yet pleasant voice play throughout his head
"Rank 3 Mutated Ordinary White Rabbit blood absorbed, Rank increased to Ordinary Rank 2 from Ordinary Rank 1. Blood Essence acquired : Mutated White Rabbit,
Innate ability obtained : Camouflage."
Vain was completely dumbfounded, it was just too much to handle in such a short amount of time. After all, He had received what felt like countless blows directly to his brain. In a daze, Vain tried to figure out just what exactly was going on and he actually thought of something, "Blood absorbed? Is that why the rabbit got lighter all of a sudden? Is... is that what felt so good? But what's all this about rank increases and powers obtained? I can't even begin to guess, And why do I have a power? Didn't second bitch mother say I was powerless? This is just too much."