After my belly was filledwith milk, I trained my muscles while lying down; I want to stand up with myown feet as soon as possible. I moved my short legs up and down, and swung myarms left, right, up and down. These were the only physical exercises I, whocanāt roll over, can do.
āNicole, youāre reallyenergetic, arenāt you? If you just fed more, Iād have peace of mind, butā¦ā
Maria disciplines meā¦Actually, sheās just on a rampage, poking my cheek while smiling. From herperspective, I guess I do look like an active baby.
Although, Iām differentfrom ordinary babies; I receive nutrition from cowās milk. In other words, mydiet is in a very unbalanced state. It also leads to lethargy. I succ.u.mb tooverwork easily and eventually fall asleep as if Iād fainted.
Continuing to lead dayseveryday by training my muscles, finally, I became able to roll over and stir.Little by little I could creep with my hands and legs to my satisfaction. Then,in order to make my other dream reality, Iād decided it was time to takeaction.
My other dream: Magic.
Unfortunately, I had nomagical talent at all in my previous life. I had studied under Maxwell who wasan expert in magical arts, but he briefly drew the conclusion that I did nothave the apt.i.tude for magicāso I have experience in giving up learning magic.
However, Iām Mariaāschild now. Thus, there is a high possibility that I have magical talent. Mariahas a good command over sacred techniques based on religious faith, but sacredtechniques are still categorised as a form of magic.
I have never studiedunder Maria, but the knowledge which I learned from Maxwell still remainswithin my mind. If I closed my eyes and entered a meditative state, I couldthen explore the existence of the magical powers dwelling within myself. Icould sense something like hot energy emanating from somewhere inside of mybody; the area below my navel.
āOoo, is this magical power?
Feeling this unknownsensation that I had once been unable to no matter how hard I tried, my tensionrose on its own. To manifest magic, I have to release the magical power from mybody, transform it into the shape of magic circle drawn in my mind, and theninput a magic spell into the magic circle which should specify its power, rangeand anything else, butā¦ā¦I had a hard time manipulating the magical power.
I reached for the magicalpower in my abdomen and tried to shape it, but the magical power slipped frommy grasp and vanished. However, Iām not about to give up just from this. Tobegin with, my tenacity to persevere was stronger than others. Since I amunable to move my body well, the only thing I could do was magic practice.
Unlike former times, nowI can feel my magical power. At the very least, I should be able to manifestmagic. And Iām living in a body which has the makings for wielding swords thatshould be handed down from Lyell in addition to the combat experience from mypast life. After thinking about it, I have the qualities to become strongerthan anyone so I could not simply stop my training here.
I received warmed milkfrom Maria. There was a very humiliating time when she replaced my diaper, andfor around half a year, I held a grudge against that G.o.d again. On that day, Iwas able to hold my head steady and erect and began to look around at mysurroundings. Putting my strength into my body, I was able elevate my torso andsaw the lower half of my body for the first time. The thing that appeared fromunder the diaper which was cleaned by Mariaās hands wasāno, it was not lovelymale genital organs at my ageāit was like a plain; there was nothing there. No,there was a valley there.
In short, I am a girlnow.
āAuuuuuuuuu!?ā
āKya! Nicole, whathappened to you? Suddenly crying out.ā
Maria gazed at me, whohad suddenly fallen into a state of panic, wearing a concerned expression. Although,there were no abnormalities with my body itselfāno, for me, everything that hadhappened to me was full of abnormality, but to her it was nothing more than anordinary sight.
Maria quickly changed mydiaper, and I lay my face down, sobbing. The a.s.sa.s.sin who was once feared andwas even called āShadow Feather, the Disasterā, āSpider That Lurks inDarknessā, and othersā¦ā¦has becomea girl? What kind of joke was this!?
I, who was proficient inhandling wire made of Mithril1 whichwas said to be sharper than sacred swords, and even killed the evil dragon,Colchis, was reborn a girlā¦
āDaauuuuuuuu.ā
āFor some reason, Ireally don't understand, butā¦are you crying? I wonderā¦ā
Maria comforted me bypatting my back. It was the same as in my previous life, but now, her kindnessmakes me sad. Come to think of it, Nicolewas a unis.e.x name but this name was acommon name for women. Am I so stupid for not noticing it until now? ā¦No, also,thereās no way I couldāve confirmed my own gender by myself under my presentcirc.u.mstances as a baby.
In other words, it wasinevitable. For half a year, I was unaware of the fact that I was born a girl.
In my previous life I,born a man, was frustrated due to my inability to wield swords, and reached thepinnacle with a means of combat called SteelString Technique.
In my current life I,born a girl, have inherited blood from parents who are brimful of talents, andwill probably receive special education from The Heroes.
It can be said that mycompletely reversed life began from this point.