Aya Murazaki is a twenty-five-year-old engineer that has been leading a rather boring life.  Most of her time was spent working inside a factory for electronic goods, and whatever free time she has was spent for rest.  There were no fireworks, no milestones, no time for family and friends.  Youth is evading her quickly.

A certain beauty queen once said that she would want to go back to the past, not to change anything, but to experience it twice.

In Aya's case, if indeed she's given that opportunity, will she keep it the way it has been and end up the same, or will she change and re-write her story?

In the morning,Chloe and James woke up to 
a wonderful smell,getting up they saw spike 
cooking some eggs he brought in situation 
like this.

"Come and eat some eggs first,and after that 
we'll pack and countinue where we had gone.

After they ate,spike explained that if they go
deeper down the cave there will be a path to 
the water village,then deeper they go in the
cave.

A sudden aura suddenly appear making spike 
up his guard"kids becareful,i sense
a dangerous aura near us",as he looked from
side to side.

suddenly a beast appeared out of nowhere 
"who dares enter the cave of the beast of
war",upon hearing that chloe asked"is this
your house".

"no,but im a warrior with great status,almost 
every one knows my name but must i say it's
been long since i've seen a human in the
world of shrink"he said with proud,"BTW my
name is golly armor a gorila from the water village
and my weapon i carry is an axe and can .
transform any water to anything".
"then can you help us find a way to the water village"Chloe questios as he gave a thought first.


"can you tell me what your looking for first but if you dont trust me,i can tell you that i,golly armor would not tell any one this human secret and will follow them for the rest of my life and even in death!"as golly shouted,the three almost shivered.


Chloe smiled "then it be a great honor to tell you about it",james and spike nodded and began to roleplay the story.


After the show,golly was clapping his hands"wonderful,wonderful indeed i can help you search for the gems but only in water village since i cant leave my region do to a promise"he said sadly.


"Can you tell us about it"james said and golly nod"ok let me tell you a story of two love birds who made a promise with each other"


"long time ago,the four peaceful village declared war with the dark village because of them many lost their life but before that i was standing outside of my house raedy to go to the battle feild and my wife said that in the future what ever happend do not leave this water village and countinue to fight for the people's right and ofcourse i had to,i said proudly to her that you are my light and whatever happens you and i face it together,hahaha to tell you the truth i regret leaving that day and that was the last time i saw her alive,after the war,we had victory but as soon as i came back to my village the bad news spread and i couln't believe it,so i rushed in to see all my family member and my family in laws there and then they told me what happend while i was gone,they said that some of the dark troops made it throught and saw this house as a place of hiding but as they went inside they were face to face with my wife,shocked they had to kill her so that no one will know about an entery from the enemy but before they could kill her,she screamed help and i could tell you that when i first met her,she was singing in the top of her lungs,the scream can be heard all over the water village and luckily some police were patrolling and came there shooting their powers at them but as the police looked in the room they said it was too late so a decade yers later,i wonder the water village as a spiritual animal and well im happy to live with her again but i still cant break that promise since a promise cant be broken even in death".


Realising the story james ask "so does that mean your a ghost"and glory said"yep so dont worry about people seeing me only you can see me".


"Can you still fight"chloe said.

"yes i can still fight and kill people"he explained.


"then what are you waiting for let countinue with our journey"spike said excitingly.


After some twist and turn they finally made it to the water village.


Meanwhile the dark troop never knew that the two people they target brought a weapon worth keeping that in the future many of his mens would dissapear from thin air.

Chloe was mezmerized at the sight of the water village and didnt reaised that james was watching her,in his mind'damn why must you look cute today'looking at the sceanery james blushed beat red'no i must control myself,you know why you hate her its because of this thing i feel in my heart and ever since kindergarden too'.

Chloe was also thinking about james,'*sigh* why cant i look at him whenever we're alone and what is this new feeling that is in my heart,no this feeling was the one that brought thos mess in the first place ever since kindergarden'chloe didn't realised that while she was thinking,she looked at james and smiled softly causing james to spike to cover his face full with embarasment.

Looking at the two yougsters,he chuckled and mumbled"its good to be young again".

Spike heard that and nodded and said"yep it does feel good being young again".

"hhmm how can you say that,you know that your younger then me"golly explained.

"how old are you again"spike question.
"hahaha about a dozen years old" and hearing that answer made spike think about his life and the adventures he will be having with chloe and james into the world that is full with fun and joy and as he thought about that,he took out his book and wrote a title saying the adventure of spike and his humun freind in the world of shrink.....

chloe and james were always in bad terms with each others and when they got shrunked a new beginning was made

follow the journey of two competive people in a world of magic and discover something else between the wall of hatred slowly turning to love?

how will they get back to their world?

will they confess?

how will they handle the obstacle in front of them and will their hidden powers finally revealed?

"…And then, now here I am, living a happy and satisfactory life, surprisingly."
Dad ended his flashback narration with those words, and for a short moment, I thought that he was boasting his achievements.
However, after knowing his back story and all, I thought he deserved to be proud of what he managed to gain this day. He earned everything, and to me, he deserved them.
 
"A… Ah, thank you so much for sharing me your story, U-u-uncle…!!" Iris bashfully replied as she nodded gratefully. I could tell that she was looking at Dad with eyes of admiration.
 
 
…Which reminds me that it all began with the revelation of Iris being an illegitimate child… Also, the fact that Dad was actually an illegitimate child shocked me!
No wonder that I didn't feel any air of nobility whenever I saw Firis' pictures. There were only a few of them, too. No wonder I didn't feel like she was familiar… If she were a noble and the legal wife of the previous Duke Hartmann, my past self should have met her at least…
I should have noticed if only I thought things more, but I didn't even bother.
Now that I think about it, was I too scared that I might make things get complicated?
…Nah, it was probably since it wouldn't be natural for a little kid like me to poke my nose in these kinds of things.
 
I couldn't help but glance at Firis' one and only photograph that was displayed in the room along with our family pictures. There, she was wearing a simple dress and was smiling in a garden. Her figure looked to be thin and on a closer look, she looked a bit pale. Was this taken when her disease had already progressed?
Still, she was beautiful in that picture.
Not noble and elegant, but simple and lovely.
 
Perhaps noticing how I was so fixated on a picture, the others seemed to set their gazes towards the same picture, and…
"Is that her photograph?" Carbuncle approached the small photograph and took it along with its frame.
Currently, Firis' photograph became our focus. Nobody uttered their comments, including me. Perhaps we all had the same thought in our mind after hearing Dad's story.
This person was the one that made Dad the way he was now.
Without her, Alt-nii and I might not be here on this very day.
 
"…She didn't even know her own background?" Carbuncle was the one who broke the silence.
"No… She also stated it explicitly in the letter she wrote me," Dad answered.
Letter from Firis.
In the end, Dad discovered the things that Firis left behind for him.
He didn't really explain the full details, but in short, everything went well after he met King Titus.
 
"Oh? Based on your descriptions of her, I think your dragon bloodline might have come from her, after all. Yep, it totally matches the description of that frail water dragon's species," Carbuncle concluded after assessing Firis' photograph.
"Though it isn't necessary for them to have blue hair and eyes, it still adds to my conclusion. Then… good affinity with water magic, frail body that ends up developing the incurable illness… Unknown age…"
"I don't understand!" Alt-nii's words cut Carbuncle's sentence off.
"What is it, Tair?"
"If Dad's Mom is really a dragon, why didn't she just use her amazing power to live peacefully? To settle everything? And dragons are supposed to be strong, right? What's with that illness?"
"Well, this frail water dragon is unique, I told ya. They require to grow up in a very pure and clean environment, or they might end up… yes, developing that illness or having shorter age than the rest of us. I heard that she didn't grow up in a good environment, so that must be why," Carbuncle shook her head as if to say, 'it was so unfortunate.'
Dad bitterly smiled, but his gaze seemed to say that he finally understood why Firis caught that kind of strange illness.
"As for why she didn't use her superior power to live freely… or peacefully, well… maybe she just didn't know that she could do that?" Carbuncle tilted her head.
"But she knew she could use water magic, right?" Alt-nii asked.
 
"U-uhm…," I timidly tried to enter into their conversation. Luckily, they noticed my small voice and quieted down to let me speak.
"I read this story before, but it might explain her situation… It was about an eagle's egg that fell into a hen's nest and hatched along with the hen's children. The eagle child was raised along with the chickens, acted like them, and believed that he was also a chicken. He looked at the eagles flying so high up in the sky and only wished he could do that, too, not realizing that he actually could. His siblings all said that they were just chickens, so it was as if they were dreaming to go to the sun. …Eventually, the eagle child died without the experience of flying in the sky as an eagle he was—he believed that he was a chicken all his life."
I finished retelling the whole story that I read… when I was Reinst, actually, but it didn't matter as it was also a story for children.
When I closed that book, I felt somehow sad that the eagle child missed his opportunity because he didn't know the truth.
Now that I think about it, it's weird that nobody told him he looked different and that he looked more like an eagle than a chicken, but oh well. As long as we got the moral of the story.
 
"Maybe… Lyra's story held some truth. Firis might not know how to properly use her magic to its maximum power," Dad gently patted my head as if he was proud of me—I was only retelling a story, though.
It was nothing deserving of praise nor pat, but… hehe, I won't reject it!
"Firis only used her water magic for survival so far… she never thought of using it to fight, and eventually, she tried to use her water magic to entertain me…," Dad added.
"Also, perhaps her magic power also weakened as her body deteriorated within time," Carbuncle chimed in as well.
"That's unfortunate…," Alt-nii was being a bit sulky.
 
Indeed, it was unfortunate. But… if things didn't go the way they were, the current "present" won't be like this, I think.
The past forged the present, and the present will decide the future.
Changing one thing will lead to greater changes in the future.

A duke’s daughter wanted nothing in her life but the sweet nothingness of death, as she felt like her life served no purpose. Her wish was granted when she was killed in an unfortunate accident, yet in a sudden turn of events, she was forced to reincarnate.

As fate has it, she was reborn in her original world, but not directly after her death. As she is living her new life, she tries to forget the pain of her old life. But, what exactly is behind her reincarnation? Will she be able to live her new life to the fullest?

This is a slow-paced life journey of a reincarnated girl who's trying to find the meaning behind her past life and reincarnation.

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I dashed into my kitchen like a mad man and instantly started searching for scissors. After finding them, I dashed back outside and straight into the water. Not sparing another single glance at the WiFi people, in order to preserve my embarrassment. The merman was still there. Staring at me. I showing him the scissors before demonstrating on the tiniest strand of hair. I moved closer to his tail before clipping the net slowly. His tail shook vigorously. I quickly went back up for air before continuing. After a few seconds, he swam out of the net on his own, his eyes glowing with happiness. I smiled to myself. I just saved a life! What a good person I am.


He then came back up to me. I looked at him confused before his hand touched my face. I was extremely confused but wanted to go up for water, but before I could, he held me down. My heart dropped.

"No,no, no, I just saved your life! Now your going to kill me!" I wanted to say, but I knew I shouldn't waste my breath. His hands held my face in place as I tried to wiggle out of his grip, my goggles flew right off.

"God no! Please! Wait! Let me at least leave a note for my-" I was interrupted when the merman kissed me. 

I instantly stopped moving in his strong grip. My face starting to burn and my mind went a bit fuzzy. I was so confused. He finally parted and stared at me. I wanted to smack him! 

"How dare you-" I instantly paused. I then realized I had been under water for more that a minute. Why hadn't I passed out? I stared at the merman who was staring back at me. 

"You didn't, you couldn't-" I instantly looked down and made a sigh of relief when I saw that I still had two legs. I looked back up at him.

Without him being stuck in a net, I was able to scan him properly, he had dark black hair yet his skin was extremely pale. That being said, he wasn't scrawny looking and he had some, muscles to him? Oh wow, I blushed. I was checking him out. He continued to stare at me. 

"Thank you." I said breaking the silence, hoping he could hear me, bubbles floated out of my mouth. His eyes widened before he's tail waved a bit.

"You are welcome." He said. My eyes instantly brightened as I smiled happily.

"Wow, this is... Beyond what was expecting." I said, carefully examining his tale. He passed me a small brown nut of some kind. I looked at him confused.

"For saving my life." He said. I scoffed and brushed off the imaginary dust on my shoulders.

"It was nothing, ya know. I just saw something bad happening and my gut told me I had to help-" he passed the nut into my hand.

"And maybe I wasn't as willing the the beginning, but then I thought about it and-"

I blinked and he was gone. I blinked again.

"W-What?! I was in the middle of my story!" I said. I then realized how much I was talking, I covered my mouth and blushed.

"Did I just talk to an actual merman??" I thought to myself, I then quickly stood up from the water. The sky had already turned dark again. 

"What.. I didn't know I was down there for so long." I said quietly. Rushing out of the water, I made a dash back to the house. Not sparing a single glance at the dark blue water. That crashed a bit more violently. I sighed, at least the WiFi people were gone. I died while thinking about how crazy I probably looked.
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