Reincarnation is a bitch

Reincarnation is a bitch

You know how everyone of those reincarnation stories have the main character just show up in a new world just fine and totally not on the verge of death? Yeah I didn't get that treatment. Instead what I got was one second making a deal with some weird blinding thing(I refuse to consider whatever that was a person) and the next I was screaming because it was like a truck hit me and I didn't have the good luck to die immediately. The next part got a bit .... fuzzy.-

Look I'm not making excuses or anything but I legitimately can't recall exactly what happened as panic set in and I tried to do anything I could to fix myself. All I know was I felt a surge of something rush out of me before I passed out. When I came to next I wasn't in pain anymore and was in for quite the shock. First thing I noticed was that I was half naked with only a simply pair of rough shorts on. When I say rough I mean it too as it was like burlap or something with literal rope holding the waist up.-

The second thing I noticed however was that on my chest and stomach were black markings like a tattoo I definitely didn't have before. It probably would have looked badass if I wasn't kinda out of shape and had a little bit of a belly on me not fat mind you. It looked kinda like a ring of flames with a weird symbol in the middle of it. At the back of my mind I somehow knew exactly what the markings represented, my cursed technique {Hell's Forge}. I instinctively knew what the technique did but that didn't mean I couldn't be a little irritated that I had no idea how to use it.-

With a sigh I could only choose to ignore that for now and take a look around to see where the hell I was.

'Trees, plants, and rocks as far as I can see. This tells me nothing beyond the fucking obvious, I'm in a forest.' I thought with a groan.

"What was it all those survivor shows kept saying about situations like this? I think it was to head west, maybe?" I muttered before checking the suns position.

To this I just looked at the shadows the trees cast. I watched the shadows for a good hour or so before I felt confident that I had figured out which direction I should go.

'Even if the sun sets in the east or north or some other weird shit in this world I at least know I have a direction of some sort.' I thought with a smile as I ventured forth.

"You can relax, if we wanted you dead you wouldn't even realize it before you hit the ground."

A female voice spoke from behind me causing me to leap away from the sound by reflex.

"Rather twitchy this one eh captain?" another female voice asked sounding amused.

From the shadows around me several woman walked out where I could see them in various types of clothing including metal armor and even some that were wearing almost nothing at all. Those ones I noticed all had dark hair and skin and were eyeing me in a way that made me uncomfortable. A woman who appeared twentyish like me with reddish brown hair and a green cloth shirt with no sleeves and brown leather pants with a sash and gloves spoke.-

"I am the captain of the Artemis familia, Rethusa! Why are you here in the forest? And why do you lack any clothes beyond those shorts?" she demanded with a serious expression.

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