Opening my hazy eyes a little tremor ran through me, as I looked around the bright white room before I slightly recoiled at the intensity of the room brightness.

"Where...?" Was all I could summon for a thought in my head, and what resonated out of my dried sore throat which felt like it had been lined with sandpaper. Moving my head around I saw my body, but something was amiss.

I was covered in a red liquid, blood!

But weird I wasn't panicking just astonished, as soon enough I found out why, with the memories flooding into my head, explaining why I wasn't freaking out or probably making a scene.

Ambushed at the front entrance of a bank, stabbed/beaten by a gang multiple times before being shot at the legs so many times. I had broken so many bones that it was easier to count the bones that weren't broken in my body.

Fortunately, my neck and my skull were a bit away from snapping and popping like a pop can.

So why wasn't I panicking? Because deep down I already knew I wasn't going to survive, or putting it straight I knew I was toast.

Which my brain suppressed and processed the memories slowly enough to protect the little sanity I had left.

But something else quickly caught my attention again as I looked down at my haggard body. The blood was clothing its way back into my flesh, and my bones filament slowly but miraculously merge it broken pieces forming a perfectly healthy body.

The rag clothes full of stabbed holes miraculously knit themselves back, the same way my body was doing as no more blood came off my damaged body.

Thinking this was me on the verge of insanity, I chuckled at myself before realizing I felt great with vigor once again.

Must have been me going into shock, right?

That was what I thought before a voice resonated loud enough to grab my attention.

"Sorry about that, my child, getting authorization to heal newcomers takes a bit of time." A soothing voice, almost like a melodic rhythm spoke out with an apologetic tone to it, "But now that you're healed, please follow the line, okay?"

I squinted my eyes a little before shifting my eyes, looking over at what spoke to me. But suddenly my vision went blurred for a moment, as to not being able to make sense of what I was looking at in front of me. Looking at the room, everything else was in perfect clarity except the figure.

So blurry to point that I couldn't make out its appearance. It was like looking at something, or someone in the corners of your eyes, on the edge of your peripheral vision, you just can't make sense of it.

As if sensing my utter confusion at his lack of discerned figure, the being flickered like a broken lantern before speaking once again.

"I'm sorry, but I cannot show you my true form. It may sound rude but you wouldn't be able to comprehend, and in the end, it would drive you to lunacy." For a second I felt annoyed, it's would think so lowly of me. But soon I calmed down hearing its magically soothing voice, the voice didn't sound like it was telling me a lie, nor did it sound like it was hiding something.

And why would it anyways? If it wanted me dead, it could take nothing or less to kill me instantly, and if it wanted to use me for some scheme, then so be it. There was no odd I could fight a figure that could mentally break me just by showing me its true form.

So along with the thoughts of helplessness, I just nodded my head before speaking, "If you say so, I guess I don't have any choice than to believe you. Anyway, can you please explain to me why I'm here? I'm pretty sure I just died, and there's a blurry figure in front of me!

So am I in the afterlife or something? Am I about to get reincarnated? Am I going to hell? Are you God? are you an Angel? Or are you the de...?"

The moment I started speaking out words, questions just kept on blurting themselves out of my mouth, that I had little time to stop my tantrums.

A sharp ringing sound filled my head before I could finish my last question. Opening my eyes the scenery in front of me had changed again.

The moment the ringing sound disappeared, I could see a vast space filled with whiteness but different from the previous one I had seen, this one had a colossal gate in front of me.

I was lost in my amazement, that I couldn't stop myself from gasping in a fluster at the sudden change of environment and the colossal gate with an engineering mechanism that was bigger than anything I have ever seen or come across in my entire life.

Not only its size but the glowing golden runes that were like large chains that were connected to the engineering mechanism colossal gate formed an intricacy set in style.

However, that wasn't the only amazing but also odd thing. My eyes swept the surrounding from left to right, as it seemingly appears there were countless numbers of inches ***** babies of various gender popping out one after the other.

Everyone appeared the same way, suprisingly this also included myself. As I looked at my tiny body still overwhelmed while I thoroughly examining their features, of harmonious delicate soft hands and exquisite tender baby skin. Pure and untainted of anything.

Still, in awe of my own body, just then a booming voice resonated loud behind me to almost make me yelp in fright.

"Children please move, and follow the line!"

Slightly turning over to look, what I saw was a human figure with a beast head and four huge wings. Its wore a bright white robe and its wings resonated in an exaggerated flashy rune pattern in milky-white. Its mane and muzzle had hairs of a lion but this time golden, only what seemed visible was its piercing golden gaze that ran a shiver down my spine.

"Child, follow the line," The lion man said, in a low voice yet it sounded more like a loud growl to me.

Out of fright, my little figure jumped, but it seemed like I was rather floating than walking"What's happening?"

Looking over at all the babies, they all looked dazed or flustered as well. As if unaware of what was happening, all they seem to know was that we were being ordered to move towards the colossal gate.

It didn't take long before we arrived in front of the colossal gate, looking from its feet there were figures with huge wings and bright golden faces as well.

At the center of the colossal gate, I saw the being that made my vision blur. I felt like I was looking at a humongous person, despite its size being an ant in comparison to the colossal gate.

"Hmmm, now where do I start..." The being thought for a few seconds before speaking again, "Yes, Children welcome to the Crossworld" The being said, not moving its lips but its voice was miraculously enhanced and loud.

"You are here, at the transportation realm.

So, let me put it this way, this one of those scenarios where you get some wishes when you reincarnate? I chose a world that suits you, you pick some wishes and I send you children away with a merry-go-round, understand?

Use your time wisely. I hope all of you succeed in whatever world I chose and your wishes"

After the being finished speaking, he waved his hands as I grunted from a burning sensation, with his actions I heard some babies shriek as the pain was like being stamped by a hot iron.

In my palm, was a crescent Moon shaded with black and white, making my head buzz a bit.

A few seconds later, the burning sensation stopped so did the buzz. Before my ears piqued from the murmurs around me.

"Transportation realm?" Said a random fat chubby baby, his voice was audible enough but didn't sound like babble words I expected babies should use, cause I didn't hear the baby say Gugu-gaga?

So I wonder who the hell came up with that?

or was it because am also a baby?

Realizing something new, that we could all talk. I turned around to ask the other baby what he could remember before a feminine voice spoke inside our heads.

"Children, please gather around according to your world. Focus your mind on the symbol on your palm."

Though it was a strange request to a few stubborn babies, it wouldn't hurt trying right? Would it? As soon as I did so, I felt something crawl up within my body and a symbol on my palm lit up like some sort of Zuma game and showed various words on mid-air.

[Baby: Tobi]

[Male, unborn]

[World - Originals]

[Ticket - 19]

Everything appeared to be reverie and unreal no matter how much I thought about it, looking at the floating words it was like a mix of a movie baby boss and system in novels I had seen before and had always wanted. I didn't know the afterlife would be this cool, this feeling was just giving me some motivation to die again.

Getting to think about it? I wonder about my new world Originals. What ability would I get...

Thinking about it...

Gave me joy and excitement, which left me filled with anticipation. But then I felt the whole world was shuddering so fiercely as though an earthquake, the atmosphere of the babies became tensed when strange numerous pillars of white light struck down like thuds of lightning on several babies. Including myself.

It was so bright, I felt my eyes become void of light, I had gone blind!

Suddenly, some kind of compressed force slowly pushed me outward from the cramped wet space I felt I was in, and the light pillar which endowed me.

It seemed to be a slow, and yet painful process, that brought pressure on my whole body.

Sometime later, the world of darkness clouded my eyes due to the intensity of the light pillar slowly toned down, though not to the point of perfect sight clarity.

Strangely, I could hear voices speaking in an unknown language that soon became a bit familiar to me.

'Am I blind?', I thought to myself as my eyes couldn't make out anything clearly except blurry images. 'Where are the babies? Almost panicking while in my thought, I became flustered at what was touching my body, a blurred hand that seemed a bit rough yet slightly fat, lightly touched my chest.

The weirdest thing was that the hand seemed to cover my entire body, and I was sure, it wasn't those wings being.

'What the heck happened?'

My line of thought was made short, as the blurred hand turned me around to the side. As it lightly rubs my butt! For crying out loud, I felt irritated. As if that wasn't enough it slapped my butt that I felt it jiggle.

But for some reason, I felt pained from both the light slap and my heart. Cus that was the first time I had such a weird experience and feeling.

'What heck do you think you are doing?'

I said, yet what came out of my mouth was a terrified shriek.

Meanwhile, when everyone heard the shriek, the faces of everyone in the room were a bit perplexed.

"He is alive. And it a ba..by boy!" The old midwife said with a low gasped, before proceeding to rub the baby back as she gently held him in her other hand.

"Xinlloc Zniarb Charmon."

Immediately after, pronouncing those words, like a magical spell. Soon the entire room became quieter as everyone stared at the baby's back anxiously.

In the next seconds, slowly on the baby's back depicted a rough dark wiggling outline of a little snake biting its tail.

After seeing this, she furthered furrowed her brows. Followed by the low gasps and murmurs behind her, everyone began taking a peek at the baby in her arms, as their faces showed various expressions.

But none looked pleased some even seem to be afraid, disgusted and eyes filled with inconcealable contempt as they instinctively shifted from the baby, they all stared at the baby weirdly, akin to looking at something disgusting or an hideous.

The midwife slowly turned the baby, he was only a few inches and light weighted, for a baby of only an hour old he wasn't too skinny, neither was he too fat, instead he seemed to have a perfectly healthy baby pink body.

But that couldn't be all, or at least the midwife hoped for that. Otherwise, everyone wouldn't have stared at the baby like some hideous monster.

The most eerie thing about the baby, was despite the fact it was no hidden mystery about how he looked perfectly like any other baby would.

However, firstly that changed when the the midwife saw the ouroboros demon mark, secondly everyone either became disgusted or afraid the moment the baby slowly opened his little eyes, from what everyone could see he was no different than a monster, since what could explain why a baby had a pitch black eyes, only meant one thing the baby was a demon child.

Meanwhile, the baby lied limp in the arms of the fat old midwife, though his eyes couldn't see clearly. It could still make out a thing or two, as his eyes swiftly adverted from left to right instinctively, trying to make the best of how bad his current situation might have become.

Within the large room, a bedridden woman was pictured in a view, she was a young woman with black silk hair and black color eyes.

She seemed like out of a masterpiece painting with a dark skin, which complemented her beauty, if it wasn't for her disheveled hair, the blue lines under her eyes, and sweat beads covering her exquisite oval carve face, her beauty would have been made more obvious.

Everything within her periphery, including the bed sheets, was stained with a mixture of yellow urine and blood. Which made her, needed an urgent warm bath.

While his eyes were void of light, the room had become pale and quiet. The Old midwife had carefully finished cleaning his body and had wrapped him up in clean clothes.

*****

Previously-before the delivery.

"What's wrong with the baby? I thought it was meant to be a girl?"

The old midwife nana had a worried and gloomy expression at the same time, earlier she had told Christine it was going to be a girl seeing a baby boy was a strange occurrence. How would she explain herself to christy?

She knew Christy from her childhood and had delivered all her babies. So she could not deny that this delivery had been strange.

The labor had been the weirdest one she had ever seen, cause it lasted for more hours than she had expected that she had no choice but to stop multiple times to avoid over bleeding. When she could finally see the baby's head sprout abruptly, she knew something must have gone wrong.

Christine was fighting with all her strength, but the baby had appeared limp. Leaving her with no other choice but to pull the baby out herself as gently as she could, only to discover that he had grabbed his umbilical cord.

After severing it, Nana had immediately followed the old rules of every male born child 'Casting a demon born detector spell', after her incantation the situation went from bad to worse, but she still tried to explained to Christy it was a baby boy, not a girl and even worse unfortunately a demon child. For a few minutes, Christy had remained silent after her delivery of the baby and sudden news.

The midwife could not help but heave a sad sigh, as she left Christy to process her emotion.

While still caught in her inner conflict, she had nonetheless still handed the mother her child. As the midwife observes to witness a miracle.

Strangely, he felt a soft and tender touch of a woman as she brought him closer to her chest region. She began to slowly embrace his little body into her arms, resonating loving words to him, that warmed his heart.

"Oh my little prince, Mommy loves you so much. I'm never going to stop loving you. Your mommy is gonna stay with you for life, and never..ever am I gonna leave your side"

The woman's voice sounded exhausted, as she quietly mumbles these words to his ear, and closed her eyes. Soon she began to slowly rocked him back and forth in her warm embrace.

But the only trace of happiness that could be seen, was from a bedridden woman that seemed exhausted with pale eyes.

Meanwhile, he lied limp on her hands, as he felt the strange thing that was amiss inside of him as if he had been punched hard in the stomach, but this only made him cursed inwardly as a liquid flowed into his mouth that left him constantly hyperventilating for air to fill his lungs, his face couldn't help but turn pale from the nausea feeling but he could barely restrain himself before puked.

After struggling for a few seconds, he finally gave up, as he felt his orifice went through the process of being blocked and then opened again, letting his flushed face and flustered mind calmed down a bit, from the fresh air that was filling his lungs.