Reincarnated as Enemies [Prologue]

Celta

As the boulders got near Steve's face, everything slowed down. It was something that had happened to him before, before he died for the first time.

He didn't have the time to undo something to create another platform.

He was in the air, falling, about to be crushed.

His heart was racing.

He wasn't able to look where the others were because a boulder obstructed his view, so he wasn't able to see their faces.

"I want to see them one more time", thought Steve. Everything started coming back to him. He remembered the time he trained with his mother, how his siblings taught him how to read and write in mao' handwriting, and how his grandpa was distancing himself from him. He also remembered his father, how he always wanted to be Steve, but he always ignored him, making him regret not spending time with him.

He remembered his friends, Mia and Louis, who he couldn't look for. He wondered how they were doing. Steve said goodbye and sorry to them, for not being able to meet.

He could feel his heart pumping blood all over his body.

Steve had already given up.

『Aura comes from the heart』

Steve was slowly closing his eyes.

...

Nothing moved. Everything was static

Then suddenly the old woman screamed: "BOY! DONT YOU DARE TO DIE!!"

Steve looked to his side where he saw three new aura balls which filled Steve with confidence on the chance of surviving, fastly creating a platform which he used to jump out of the danger escaping, hitting the ground with his head, just before the boulders hit the wall lifting a huge could of dust, at the same time that the Kobu brothers stabbed the goblin on his head and heart.

Steve was sweating profusely. He couldn't belive he had survived. He saw how Celta and the other two ran to where he was as his eyes closed and his consciousness faded away.

***

Steve opened his eyes. He was yet again on that dark space, surrounded by a comfortable nothingness.

『You owe me a big one』said the voice as Steve opened his eyes by the smell of meat.

"Ugh...", he growled while sitting down. His head and chest hurt, maybe due to falling to the ground.

He saw how they still were on the same room, but he didn't see Celta. In the middle, near to where they were, the pot resided. It smelled really good. There was a spoon by the side of it, and next to the spoon was the book which had written on a messy handwriting "you can eat everything but the snail".

"A snail?", wondered Steve looking at the pot. "Well, I'll stat eating", he thought while sitting at the pot's side.

While he ate, he resented his decisions. Even if he had died, he didn't value his life. He decided to change that. He had lost his only family in his previous life. He couldn't loose his new one.

"It's really tasty", he mumbled. He couldn't speak loudly due to the pain he felt on his chest.

He remembered that when he was falling, the voice said "Aura comes from the heart". "Aria said that, but I thought it was metaphorically", he said as he realized that it was both literaly and metaphorically.

He kept eating the tasty food, untill he found something that resembled a snail's shell. "I guess I don't have to eat that", he said as he left it aside.