[1] Regr at the Wheel of Reincarnation
<strong>Chapter 1: Regr at the Wheel of Reincarnation</strong>
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There are three ways to kill a reincarnator.
Supposedly.
<span style="font-weight:400">Given that I have been reborn once again, I am unsure how much of that im is true.
<span style="font-weight:400">[<b>The Order of the Crimson Abyss</b><span style="font-weight:400">], the faction that bested me this time around, took pride in their knowledge of these three methods. Considering they did possess the ability to put me down once and for all, I feared it was the end when I was about to lose my life.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yet, of course, this great venerable one has outwitted death once more. Throughout all of heaven and earth, who dares to try and kill me?
<span style="font-weight:400">"..."
<span style="font-weight:400">Perhaps I should learn to change my internal monologues’ pattern a bit, since it may be unfit for the modern world I was reborn into. Which in itself was pretty exciting. Which in itself was pretty damn exciting.
Anyhow, back to the point. There are three ways to kill a reincarnator such as myself.
<b>First</b><span style="font-weight:400">, the most obvious one. To Soul-Kill them. As in, to destroy the soulpletely.
<span style="font-weight:400">The Order had tried that as I was just about to pass away, but it clearly hadn''t worked. Whatever technique they used to try and destroy my soul, it was far too weak to erase me.
<b>Second</b><span style="font-weight:400">, to destroy all their memories. Not the ones stored in their brain, but their soul. So if the soul kill process fails, the target won''t have any memories or sense of self left to know that they''re a reincarnator.
<span style="font-weight:400">There was a clear drawback to this path, as the reincarnator wasn''t technically dead, and would continue reincarnating. Though some philosophers argued that without the memory, the reincarnator would just be a different person altogether? In that sense, this method made sense.
<b>Third</b><span style="font-weight:400">, third… I don''t remember?
<span style="font-weight:400">I paled. What? <i><span style="font-weight:400">Dammit</i><span style="font-weight:400">.
<span style="font-weight:400">Despite my arrogance, it seems the Order''s second tactic worked to a certain degree, enough that I don''t remember the third method they used. Yes, the Order had tried all three of their methods on me, they truly wanted me dead, and two of them may just have worked.
<span style="font-weight:400">The process of the three ways was actually done in reverse, I recall that much. First they defeated me with an overwhelming number of Cultivators and Sorcerors alike, and then they tried the third method on me. Then they used their second, to erase my memories. Then,stly, they tried to erase my soul, which caused me to spring into another reincarnation.
<span style="font-weight:400">Though perhaps… I received more damage than I believed I did. No, it wasn’t just two of those tactics that worked, all three did – though seemingly not entirely as they intended, given I was still breathing.
<span style="font-weight:400">It seems I have lived quite a number of incarnations after dying in the Order’s hands without the presence of my memories. Only in this life did I regain my true senses. It was a pity, but I told myself everything turned out fine. I did survive, which makes everything else a minor inconvenience.
<span style="font-weight:400">It’s not good, though. I admit I am a little crazy in my head, living life so many times, making families, only to lose them again, building empires only for them to copse whilst I won’t ever know about them again. Life is… tedious when you live like this, your sanity begins to warp to keep you interested in living. To… not justmit suicide.
<span style="font-weight:400">All right, let''s wrap this up. Let’s see how much I remember.
<span style="font-weight:400">In the beginning, I was a normal human in a normal world where no such thing as mana, chi, chakra, or any other supernatural energy existed. Needless to say, no kind of superpowers existed either. I died at a pretty early age in that world, barely out of my teens, at the tip of the broken bottle of my drunkard of a father, when I tried to stop him from barging into my sister''s room. Quite the noble death in my opinion, and perhaps decided by God or whoever else was touched by that, or maybe just by pure luck, I reincarnated in some kind of medieval fantasy world.
<span style="font-weight:400">I lived the typical Isekai life there. Killed the demon king, bedded pretty girls, you know the usual. Then, I was stabbed in my sleep by one of my girls. She was the daughter of thete demon king, and she''d been waiting to take revenge for her father for decades. I spent <i><span style="font-weight:400">decades </i><span style="font-weight:400">with her, and yet she killed me. Demon bitches are scary.
<span style="font-weight:400">I’d still stick though.
<span style="font-weight:400">After that, I was reincarnated… again. Sadly, it seems the Memory Erasure technique from the Order had mostly erased memories of my 3rd life, I only remember the outline of it. Dammit. Anyhow, I remember bits and pieces that it was a rare world with no mana, and it was the 12th century.
<span style="font-weight:400">The funniest part is that I was reborn as Genghis fucking Khan. Despite theck of natural magic energy in the world, I possessed a few magical arts that allowed me to use my life energy, or others'' if I sacrificed them through the use of blood rituals, tomand magic. Funnily enough, it was a technique I learned from the same demon wife of mine who had murdered me.
<span style="font-weight:400">ording to my leftover memories I took over at least half of Asia and was sure to go down the pages of history as a legend, just like the original Genghis Khan. Though sometimes I do wonder if the Genghis Khan in my first life <i><span style="font-weight:400">was</i><span style="font-weight:400"> actually just me. Anyhow, I am side-tracking.
<span style="font-weight:400">Right after that, another few nk spots in my head. However, for whatever it counted, I did remember my 9th reincarnation clearly. It was the one where I was killed by the Order. It was also my longest life. I was reborn in a wuxia cultivation world, with flying swords and arrogant young masters, with power scales touching the heavens, etcetera you get the deal. Though the cultivars were also called martial artists as per usual.
<span style="font-weight:400">The Order that I speak of is an organization spanning the multiverse. Though there is most likely arger verse, an Omniverse maybe, beyond us.
<span style="font-weight:400">As one would expect from a multiversal organization who hunted me down, I myself was a multiversal deity. I was not a God in the usual sense, no faith and divinity bullshit, but I was indeed an ultra-powerful entity who’s so great that he could go against any celestial being from other worlds.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was it, that''s where my memories end. It wasn''t as "whole" as I would have liked it to be but I can live with that. Whatever memory erasure technique they used, it was quite effective and managed to erase most of my memories of those past lives. Which was all I needed to confirm to let out a massive groan.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uaaua-"
<span style="font-weight:400">"..."
<span style="font-weight:400">When I realized all that came out of my mouth was a gibberish baby cry, I quickly stopped. Dammit, I always hate this part of my life. So defenseless, so <i><span style="font-weight:400">weak</i><span style="font-weight:400">. So… pathetic. Being an infant wasn’t a fun job.
<span style="font-weight:400">All right, enough crying. Not that I have cried at all, mind you. I''m a reincarnator, and as long as I live, all memories can be retrieved over time. Besides, I do have a lot of important memories anyway, spell books, martial arts and stuff. It would take some years, perhaps decades, but that''s such a small time for my eternal self, and I am confident in healing all of my memories.
<span style="font-weight:400">Instead, this was a <i><span style="font-weight:400">good</i><span style="font-weight:400"> ce for spending a few decades. I''ve been reincarnated in a modern world, I can see therge TV in this room, just beside the other baby casket beside mine. This was my 10th world, and it was my first modern world since my first life. Oh, and I have decided to call it my “10<span style="font-weight:400">th<span style="font-weight:400">” since the uncountable reincarnations after I met the order don’t have any memories-
<span style="font-weight:400">I suddenly stopped.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Huah?"
<span style="font-weight:400">A confused baby sound came out of my lips. No, there is a new set oftest memories that I have ess to. It wasn''t very exceptional, so I didn''t notice at first, also since I hadn’t regained my true consciousness in that life. Still, I did well. In the life right before this, I was a doctor.
<span style="font-weight:400">As expected of this great venerable that is I-… hm, I need to learn to stop. This is a modern world; this type of speech will be seen as a clown’s philosophy.
<span style="font-weight:400">Gorou Amamiya, that''s who I was in myst life. My 10th life; looks like I have to consider my current one my 11th. In my 10th life, I was a doctor in my early 30s who… oh, damn, that''s an interesting death for a modern world. I was murdered, that too on the day when I was supposed to deliver the children of a famous idol. The recent memories before this death are filled with quite the emotions,pared to the rest of that entire life.
<span style="font-weight:400">I was Japanese then, by the way. This room too had signs of belonging to a Japanese person. What are the odds that I''d reincarnate in a modern world twice in a row, being my first modern world since my first death, while also being in Japan both times?
<span style="font-weight:400">Fun.
<span style="font-weight:400">I yawned, my baby body not siding with me as tiredness took over and I decided to take a nap. I would enjoy this life. Maybe.
<span style="font-weight:400">* * *
<span style="font-weight:400">Aquamarine. That was my name now. <span style="font-weight:400">If that hadn''t rung any bell in my ex-anime addict self, the next scenarios fell into an unsolved puzzle perfectly.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">This</i><span style="font-weight:400"> was interesting. Nothing like this had ever happened before.
<span style="font-weight:400">It''s been a few months since I woke up in this world, and I had realized some key things. This world that I was currently in, was the same world where Gorou Amamiya died. What''s wrong with that? It meant I have been reincarnated in the same exact world twice. That was a new and odd development.
<span style="font-weight:400">The weirdest part was that this was a world I <i><span style="font-weight:400">knew</i><span style="font-weight:400"> of. This was a world based on an anime. I knew that because my memories have grown sharp over the years, and while I couldn’t recall everything, I could recall most. There were characters of a particr anime all over this ce, and over time I had no choice but to ept that I’d been reborn in a world that I previously thought was fictional.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, the multiverse existed, so the chance that the multiverse theory is real isn''t weird.
<span style="font-weight:400">Aftering to terms with that, the first thing I did was search for my name on the, the original name that I had in my very first life. I did some research, and sadly I didn''t even exist in this world — which only further confirmed that this wasn''t the same earth as my first life and truly an anime world.
<span style="font-weight:400">Perhaps <i><span style="font-weight:400">that</i><span style="font-weight:400"> exined why there was quite a load of mana in the air because this was a fictional world, where maybe Gods existed too if my memories weren’t betraying me.
<span style="font-weight:400">Back to the situation at hand, I slowly looked ahead.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Say ahh."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ahh."
<span style="font-weight:400">I ate my porridge with a spoon while observing the pretty purple-haired little girl feeding another blonde-haired little girl. Though I say little girl, there is arge contrast between the two’s ages. The first is 16, and the second is a toddler.
<span style="font-weight:400">Ai Hoshino and Ruby Hoshino. My mother and my twin sister. Don''t ask, why in hell''s name is your mother 16?
<span style="font-weight:400">Honestly, I wasn''t really surprised, having lived in a cultivation world for so long. People there did so much worse, this was nothingpared to that.
<span style="font-weight:400">The most interesting part is; this 16-year-old is the exact girl that Doctor Gorou Amamiya – my previous incarnation – was supposed to deliver the children of. I have been reborn as my own patient''s son, whom my previous incarnation had also been a big fan of.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">What a mess.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Japan was crazy for things like this; I used to like the culture back when I was still a youngling, but over time I realized the harsh truth. In my current situation, that truth just hit home.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Aqua,"
<span style="font-weight:400">Suddenly, Ai Hoshino turned to look at me, who hadn''t been eating for a while.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What''s wrong? Do you want me to feed you too?"
<span style="font-weight:400">I was once again reminded that my new name is Aquamarine Hoshino. Dammit.
<span style="font-weight:400">I, the great immortal venerable, feared by stars and nebs, was now called <i><span style="font-weight:400">Aqua</i><span style="font-weight:400">. It hurt, but I had made a promise to myself in one of my earlier incarnations that I won''t change my parent’s given name ever. Unless it was too silly, like Dick Gayson.
<span style="font-weight:400">Unwilling to cause her trouble, I just shook my little head, lifted a spoon, and ate.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Aww,"
<span style="font-weight:400">Ai smiled at me.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m still surprised how you can do that at this age. My little genius. Must be gics, huh?"
<span style="font-weight:400">I just ignored her adoration and the jealous re of the other toddler.
<span style="font-weight:400">That toddler girl was my twin. That kid was a weird one too, she was a reincarnator herself, except not a celestial being such as I. From what my memories say and what I have observed in the past few months, she''s an in-world reincarnator, someone who was a normal human in her past life.
<span style="font-weight:400">Some God had gifted her a second chance, unlike my limitless reincarnation powers, and this was likely herst chance. Still, it was very fun to have a fellow reincarnator, even though I have yet to introduce myself to her. She was honestly bothersome.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Even if</i><span style="font-weight:400"> I knew who she was; she was a girl who died at my hospital in myst life, due to cancer. We were close, and I recall myst incarnation had fallen into depression due to her death. That was odd for a doctor who had seen so many people die, so it went far to say how much my previous incarnation liked her.
<span style="font-weight:400">That part of me, and the true part of me that had watched this anime in the past, felt happy seeing her alive again. Thanks to the God who caused her reincarnation, she was getting to live her dream.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Though really, Gods…"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hm? Did you say something, Aqua?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Oh shit. Indeed, even a mortal such as her can notice my transcendent intelligence sometimes, so I ought to be more careful about what I say.
<span style="font-weight:400">I quickly made baby sounds and titled my head; I had identally spoken out loud. After Ai just smiled at me, ruffled my hair, and went back to feed my sister, I frowned.
<b>Gods</b><span style="font-weight:400">. Gods were a thing in this world. I hadn''t managed to roam the inte that much, but I was fairly sure from the bits I saw, along with Gorou''s set of memories, that the existence of Gods or other supernaturals was as vague as in a normal world.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, Gods <i><span style="font-weight:400">did</i><span style="font-weight:400"> exist. I knew that from the somewhat blurry memory of the manga I had read. That meant I had to grow stronger, living in a modern world was going to be fun after so long, but that didn''t mean I nned to die a mortal.
<span style="font-weight:400">I am [<b>Monarch of the Brightest Night</b><span style="font-weight:400">], the supreme overlord of stars who never bowed to Gods and even heaven itself, after all.
<span style="font-weight:400">The air was rich with ambient energy, and that meant I could grow. There wererge gaps in my memories, but countless of my techniques and martial arts were unharmed. So, there shouldn''t be any issue to be the God King of this modern world.
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<strong>| Master4thWall - Author Note |</strong>
<strong>I know I shouldn''t be adding more to the ever-growing stories, but I just couldn''t hold back the urge this time. Chapters are 2.5~3k words long, so enjoy!</strong>