1 Prologue

My first life was kinda shit

I was born in 1996 as Kenneth Brown, to a family that was stuck in the Upper-Lower class. We had enough money to live with minimal luxury along with the bumps that naturally come in life

But in accordance to that lifestyle - I never really had any fun. Old worn out comic books that your dad sent you in the mail really didn't cut it most of the time

School was easy and the other kids were weirded out by my lack of social abilities. Of course, I still had a group of friends but I knew they only included me to make themselves feel better

It was just boring

So, to combat that boredom, I fought

Street fights, Underground fights, MMA fights. Anything to alleviate that ever present need to find any sort of fun

Of course, it worked for a time. After a duration of 5 years, constantly punching and getting punched, I got a little too good at it

Fights would never last longer than a few seconds. Opponents would never Land any hits on me

It brought back the boredom

And then I discovered the pleasure of Anime and Video Games

I questioned how I never found this source of entertainment, but just ended up attributing it to the childhood I could never acquire

I binge watched anything I could get my hands on. Using the money I saved up from my days fighting, I built my own Mega PC

For a time, everything was fun. I wasn't bored or wishing for something interesting to happen. Everything was going well for once

And then everything changed a few months after I turned 28. It turns out, neglecting your health in favor of catching the latest episode of OPM2 even though you know it's going to be shit isn't such a great idea

On October 28, 2022, I died from two heart attacks back to back. The stroke that accompanied me when I got to the hospital didn't help either

And so brings me to my second life

Really, it wasn't too much better than the last. It was basically the same old Earth, only, I was born 13 years earlier in 1983. Strangely, my memories were still intact. It was and still is a question I have for whoever reincarnated me

In this life, I was a chemist. I experimented.

It helped that my family had money to burn this time around, which got me into Uni easily

Strangely, it was interesting seeing chemicals that, logically, should react safely with each other, explode and splatter everywhere

It brought a whole new sense of 'adventure' that I never felt before. Eventually I started trying to cure diseases and work on genetic modifications via different chemical cocktails

It took a lot of failed experiments but soon enough, cancer, brain damage, and even previously incurable crippling injuries were cured with a simple injection

I became a leading member in the scientific community, winning a number of Nobel Prizes and medals, raking in a fortune from the government and CDC for selling my creations.

Even still, it never brought me any joy to do this. It was just something I did in my free time, making numerous other cures and tonics that did numerous other wondrous things

I did it because I could

But you know what? Actions have Consequences

Eventually, I was discovered and arrested for experimenting on unauthorised cadavers and criminals. Something about violating a "Geneva Convention"?

They ended up sentencing me to 83 years and 2 months in prison. Did I forget to mention that in this universe, the U.K's law system is kinda fucked because it is

Anyways, I ended up dying only 2 years into my sentence. Why? I ended up pissing off the warden of the entire Prison so he starved me to death. We were in Siberia but still - "Violating the Geneva Convention" my ass

This brings us to my third, or previous life

I was born not on earth, no. This time I was brought up on a planet devoid of most human life in a small Tribe of about 14 others

On all sides of us was a massive jungle. Trees towered almost 150 meters above us, vines and bushes were poisonous to the touch and the wildlife was humongous. You were lucky if you encountered a gorilla smaller than twice the size of an average Silverback

All variables pointed to me dying as soon as I stepped even one foot out of the fencing, however I lived and even flourished under the teachings of the tribe and with the experiences of my past, I returned the favor and brought them from the stone age to the Bronze in almost 10 years

In that time period, however, from when I was about 12 to 22, I went hunting whenever I could. Let me say, there is no bigger satisfaction than bringing down an animal that is almost 6 times the size of you.

Of course, hunting also has its downsides when going after big game

Almost 7 months after I turned 22, an eagle dropped me towards the planet at a height of around 2000 meters in the sky

Dead on impact

Thus brings us to the present, or my fourth life

Right now, my name is Furuko Hoshi. It sounds like a Japanese name right? I thought so as well, but we'll get to that soon

I was born to a farmers family out in the country lands between the desert and nearby forests. My only sibling is named Furuko Sara, my elder half-sister by one month

At this moment in time, Sara and I are 8 years old, are standing behind some trees and are watching our farm burn down

Why is our farm burning down? Well, let me just tell you one more time

Actions have Consequences