Chapter 3: New world
Right now, 2 months have passed since my transmigration.
As I already said, this planet is not Earth.
Why?... That's because it has 2 sun or I should say the solar system of this planet has 2 stars, one big and other one is smaller and 2 moons which are blue in appearance.
This is a totally different planet with different history but eerily resembles Earth. This civilization has resemblance to ancient Asia but with some differences. And the chronological order of the milestone discoveries and inventions are different from that of Earth.
This world has magic. 'Nen' is what people call it here. As for me, being a science person, I think it is a form of energy, just like electrical energy, sound energy, kinetic energy, chemical energy, radiation energy.
From what I have observed during my stay in this new world I can say that the people in this world have the ability to transform these different types of energy present in nature, into a new form,that is 'nen'.
They condense this energy inside their body and when needed they use it to boost their physical abilities.
This is not just limited to their 5 senses and physical strength. It can be used to enhance their skill whatever it may be, for example a blacksmith can use this energy to forge a weapon faster, making it more sharper and stronger. It can be used by jewellers to make more refined and finer designs in the jewellery. It can be used by soldiers to enhance their fighting capabilities and like that nen can be used to boost many skills.
But before using nen to do or make anything the person concerned must be skilled for that particular task. A non skilled person not knowing how to make necklace cannot just think about it and make it.
As for cooking, by using nen we can make dishes faster, can boil and cook things faster, can cut ingredients faster, but cannot make a dish tastier because that depends on what and how much ingredients your are using. Nen can be used to enhance your sight, that is visual acuity and field of view, can increase your hearing, smell, taste, proprioception, can heal faster, and for many other things.
From what I learned till now about it from my second brother Shou, I think nen can be used for only physical abilities.
Sadly, this ability to cultivate nen ( that's what they call it) is possessed by very few people, who are regarded like idols in this world. Around 20% of the population is able to cultivate nen and others are just normal humans.
In my family (now new family), only second brother is capable of cultivating nen. Actually he is the only one in our village. And so I have seen people from around our village going starstruck in his presence. Well he is somewhat handsome *inserts an eye roll*, plus I came to know that he is a one of the Captain in Prince Ryuu's army, having 500 soldiers under his command and is responsible to guard Prince's residence in the capital. As for myself …... I belong to the latter category ....normal…*sniff*..
Well what else can you expect from this sickly body of mine.
Yes, as you all may have guessed, I am possessing someone else's body or I should say resides in someone else's body. 'Possessing' is a little creepy sounding….
Her name was Aoi.
Coincidentally, my mother also used to call me Aoi as a pet name because of my bluish green eyes, same as the eyes of this body. The only thing that is similar between this body and my original body are eyes, bluish green in colour. She died on the day I came to this world.
I came to know that she was weak right since her birth and never went out of her courtyard. She could not play with other children of her age and always spend her time inside her room because of her poor health.
Three days before I came to this world, she insisted on going out of her room to have a stroll in the garden. She used to take few strolls in the garden time to time and moreover her health was better in those days so no one had any objection.
But unfortunately while she was walking in the garden, she tripped on a pebble and scratched her knees and elbows. On that very night she got a very high fever. The physicians of this world told her family that she may not live because of her poor constitution and surely, she went into coma for 2 days.
That's when I came into the picture.
Well according to my knowledge as a modern day doctor, I can say that she must be having some congenital immunodeficiency disorder which caused her to be vulnerable to numerous infections and hence frequently being ill, and restricting her from going out of her courtyard.
And when she got herself injured, her wounds must have gotten infected from microbes against which she did not have any immunity. This must have led to a disseminated infection and finally sepsis and coma. Ultimately Aoi died and I came or my soul came to this world and took over her body.
Thankfully, from what I can observe, this body currently does not have any congenital disorder. As for why is that so? I don't know, just like how I don't know how I transmigrated into this world….
As for the language…
The language they speak is totally foreign to me but mysteriously I can still understand it and can speak this language.
Too bad, that's not the case for writing their language. That's because the original Aoi rarely wrote anything. She spent most of her time reading books. The reasoning behind is that while writing their language you have to you have a straight posture and you must hold your brush straight and move your wrist only and that too while wearing these tedious wide sleeved clothing.
So for her writing was really very physically exhausting and that is why this body doesn't have any conditioned memory to write this language.
Really who was the one that said such a posture is required for writing. Imagine, me being a 21st century doctor, (and we all know that doctors are notorious for their bad handwriting), is now asked to write this ancient language while sitting straight and holding a brush…..
My first attempt was really horrible, it seriously looked like I was painting a white paper totally black with ink. Even now I have to struggle a lot to write their complicated language. According to my "now" second brother, my handwriting looks like ants crawling on a sheet of paper...( I am now having an irresistible urge to spank him….heh...heh..)
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