When I stepped out of the dimensional gate, I came into another modernised world, one that wasn't that technologically advanced but was sufficient enough to earn the moniker of modern.
But the specifics of where I am was a wreck, you could see charred rubble and broken train cars crashed to the ground.
I walked across the broken concrete, my form unnoticeable due to the fog, as I traversed past fire fighters and EMT's that were desperately trying to search and heal survivors.
And there, lying against a charred piece of concrete was a very familiar young man, impaled in the chest with a giant rod.
I crouched down and looked into the soulless eyes of the man who had just passed on.
As I watched as the arriving EMT's confirm my death and carry my lifeless corpse away, I had only one thought going through my head, 'Hello Simon.'
I thought deprecatingly as I watched it all unfold. I had thought that I had come to terms with my death, especially considering that it lead to a better life, but seeing that weak boy getting carried away like the garbage it is, it just made me bitter.
But now was not the time to be nostalgic. I had to investigate.
I came here to investigate the problem with the cause of my death, I went to the broken bridge and investigated the burnt bridge that hadn't fallen, "This area has the darkest burn print, this is clearly the centre point of the explosion."
Now that I found the centre point, I used Universal sense to search for any gunpowder or bomb fragments… but found none of that.
But I did find something else, "Magicules?" I had found lingering magicules from where I was.
I couldn't go back in time due to the rule that two of the same soul couldn't exist in the same spacetime but I could use the fog to give me a projection from history.
I anchored my fog to specific points in the area and then initiated the projection. I watched as the train went by and then the explosion ruptured the tracks and the entire train flew off.
I watched the whole experience happen first and then rewinded back to the exact moment the explosion went off and then freeze framed.
As I examined the empty space where I was expecting some world trespassing mage use abyss cores to blew up the bridge, I instead found something that broke my mind and made me re-evaluate everything about my death
"I knew that there wasn't a bomb… but is this… stardust?!" The power of the starking dragon had appeared out of nowhere and blown up the bridge.
I took down the projection as I kneeled down onto the floor and tried to comprehend what I had just seen, why did stardust appear there and why did it blow up the train.
'This shouldn't be possible, why was there stardust on the train tracks.' I had just layed there, invisible to the world around me trying to make sense of everything around me.
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I got up and went somewhere else, the place I was most familiar with in the entire world, this world Atleast.
When I rematerialized, I was in a bedroom, the bed wasn't made and dirty clothes were strewn across the floor.
The walls and bookshelf were covered with plaques and trophies, showcasing awards for engineering and physics achievements that would make anyone surprised.
'I'm home.' I was not happy seeing this place, it just made me uncomfortable to be back here in my life.
They say that you always have to move on from the past, in fact that's a phrase I love by but now…I'm just acting like a hypocrite.
I went to my computer and began searching into my browser history, I went searching through every anime website that I use, every anime playlist that I have, but I couldn't find it.
I tried to search for any mention for what I was looking online by searching for it directly but there was no mention of it, it didn't exist.
" That time I reincarnated as a slime doesn't exist?" My mind went blank when I puzzled it together. I went still, my mind went into chaos and I couldn't keep myself in control anymore.
I collapsed to the floor as I went into a seizure, my mouth foaming at the ends and then it all went black.
My body lay there in the middle of my previous bedroom as I fade into the only unknowns of my subconscious.
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As I drowned into the recesses of my mind, two voices began speaking over me, in a manner that was unhearable and Incomprehensible from my point of view.
"Well then, he seems to still be a mess." A male voice spoke with great amusement and malice.
"…"
Male voice: "You still not gonna talk to me, but I'm so lonely and bored just constantly… burning."
"…"
Male voice: "You know that there's a chance that he might not recover from this right."
"You're being awfully talkative all of a sudden, why is that?" The opposing voice finally gave a response. A female voice that sounded extremely cheery yet extremely tired.
Male voice: "Are you not seeing this, your saviour has fallen unconscious just because he couldn't handle some semblance of truth."
Female voice: " Doesn't matter to me, he'll bounce back from it and maybe evens come back stronger."
Male voice: "Atleast we can agree on one thing. You're too hung up on him though, why don't you just let that go and let me out-"
Female voice: "I. Said. NO!!!"
The female voice sounded very annoyed and angry but the male voice just giggled at her outburst, " Do you believe that all of this will go down as you want it to? You know at some point, I will be released out into the world and the first thing I'll do is takeover his existence."
Female voice: " No you won't, no matter how long it takes for him to realize, no matter whether he dies and has to reset in his next reincarnation. I will hold you here for eternity, no matter how much we burn."
Male voice giggling: " Fine then, as you command… Elysia."
Elysia: " Oh fuck off Pravild. Since you're so chatty, why don't you explain why you hate Simon so much?"
Pravild seemed puzzled, "Hate him? How could I hate him, he is everything I have ever dreamed of, he is… perfect."
"As long as I live, I'll never allow you to intrude onto his soul. Cause we can agree… that he is perfect." Elysia said with a detached tone
" The final iteration will let me in naturally, he was made for me and I will not let it go to waste. He is perfection, he is everything I have ever wanted in life, everything I have ever needed." Pravild said with fervor and obsession.