Collin's Otherworld Adventure

A year has passed since I took the aptitude test and I'm still in denial about the whole thing, So I did the only thing I could think of, and grow stronger in the one thing I've always been good at, and that is physical training, from what I remember in my past life, is that I used to be a loner throughout my school years, for being socially awkward, silent, lacking confidence, easily intimidated, and spending most of my hours and days lost in the world of video games and because of that I was quickly made me into a huge target for bullying, until the end of high school days, except for Kazuya, who became my friend reluctantly when he started dating my little sister, since me and her were pretty close, he wanted to get along with me so that he can stay in the good graces of my sister. After graduating high school, Kazuya began taking me to take martial art classes at his dad's dojo to help improve my lack of confidence and self esteem issues, even though during high school he would always try to convince me to give it a try but I would always turn it down, due to not having any confidence in myself. On my free time whenever I wasn't helping my dad at the store, I would use it to train in the forest outside of the village where no one can bother me, I would run through the forest and jump over fallen trees in my path, I'd take quick stops to do push ups, Sit ups, and find a sturdy branch so I can do pull ups, or if felt like challenging myself, I would also do upside down crunches, and I've been doing this routine throughout the summer season non stop and I felt immediate results of my physical training, I look at myself in the mirror and take of my shirt to see that I'm in shape, and think to myself.

"I'm living healthy and staying in shape if I keep this up it'll be easier to add weight training to my routine to build up my muscles once I get older but for now I must do what I can until then."

but that wasn't the only thing on my mind, I also have to deal with the problem that my mana pool is very limited, without mana I can't cast any significant offensive magic and that is what I need to fight foes who can use magic, and if I can't do any of the easy spell then it will be impossible for me to join the adventurer's guild even if I'm physically strong, and because of this I've kept myself up every night thinking the same thing.

"I won't be able to grow or increase my mana pool by staying in Arce."

or I would think.

"even if I get accepted into the adventurer's guild, I would just end up as an errand boy for a group."

and because of these thoughts I made a vow to myself that I would leave this village and explore the world on my own, after turning fifteen, the age where an individual is already considered a full grown a.d.u.l.t in the standard's of the human region, and Its usually around this age where those who have enrolled in the magical academy when they were ten, graduate and become magic knights, and since enrolling into the academy is already out of the question for my age the only option left for me is to explore this world and search for any solutions to my mana problem, and the places I've considered looking at, are the many myths and legends passed around throughout the generations of the human region, that I must investigate for myself, there is one story in particular of a man finding a potion hidden while he was exploring an elven dungeon, and when he drank it, his mana pool expanded multiple times, this one is the story that interested me the most, and with that story in mind I made all kinds of crazy plans in my head about sneaking into the elven continent and explore their dungeons even if there is a slim chance of finding an item that rare. I made all of these plans for myself knowing that my mom and dad would not approve of my decision, but even so it doesn't meant that I don't intend to tell them it's just that I'm waiting to tell them when I turn fourteen, hopefully they will understand why I'm so determined to go to such extremes to increase my mana reserves in my body and I will make sure to not waiver from my decision,

because I know my mom will say anything to keep me from leaving, like she would try to convince me to keep working at the store, so that I can eventually run the family business once I start a family of my own, and while knowing my dad, he would probably not agree with my choice but he would be more understanding on why I want to leave, but he would do so reluctantly. After another long day working at store with my parents, I try to get a good night sleep, but for some reason I'm having trouble doing it, so I hop out of bed to put on my shoes and coat, and I sneak out of the house through the window, I put my place foot on the frame of the open window and I use my hands grab on to the edge of the rooftop and pull myself up, after a few minutes of doing so, I'm at the top of the roof of my house, and I sit down, to stare up onto the night sky, and while doing so I suddenly remember a memory of my past life, of how me and my little sister would sneak out of the house together and just sit on top of the rooftop of our house so that we can stare at the moon, I tear starts rolling down my cheek as I think to myself.

"hopefully she's living a good life at earth."

I wipe away my tears and fall asleep under the moonlight.