Disclaimer: I don't own Magi. If I did, I would be rich and if I was rich, I wouldn't be an amateur writer. This is my first story, which has been swimming in my secret pool of creative for a while. I wasn't planning on writing it but I figured why not. OC Self-insert. So if you don't like, don't read! No warnings in this chapter! Constructive criticism is welcome but please be nice, people, I have a delicate heart, tee hee. Cheers!
Chapter 1
In this universe, there is no single world. There are different worlds, with different life forms, different time and different laws. Each of these worlds conforms to their own set of laws that can't be broken by other worlds; whether, it's physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual or magical. However, there are exceptions to all laws.
Those exceptions connect these worlds in different ways, whether it's imagination, storytelling, books, gateways, parallel dimensions, or other means. It was because of that exception, I became the exception to all the existing worlds. Where I, an average woman, became more than average in the all worlds. It was because of a broken law of one world that changed me from a working mother to the Cursed Knight King of all worlds.
The knowledge, the wisdom and the memories that I gain continue to build up, as my cursed life is reborn, dies and is reborn again. I can't fight back nor can I give up. The only thing left for me now is to run; living this empty existence to find a way to rest my soul in permanent peace. I have been searching and praying to find a way to be permanently free of being hunted by the soul hunters of the world that cursed my very existence. After 45 years of my last life, I am reborn again as the daughter of a servant and the ambitious younger brother of a kind king. This is this story of my life beginning in the Kou Kingdom, in the world of Magi.
I never remember the first three months of my new life. I don't know what the reason might be. Whether it's because my brain as an infant is underdeveloped or if it was part of my cursed existence; it's just the way it is for some reason. After the three months pass, my vision starts to gain clarity and I am granted two things that gives me an advantage over other children: memories and awareness.
The more memories that I gain in my previous life, the more time it takes for me to remember them after my rebirth. In the last world, it took me nearly 8 months to regain all my memories. This time, it was closer to a year. As I regain my memories, my personality turns 180, then another 180 and keeps turning until I have fully assimilated them. The first people who usually notice the change in me are usually my parents and it drives them nuts. In this world, it's only my mother, Hana. The woman doesn't say much about it but the way she looks at me is obvious, she's highly concerned for her only daughter.
She, being a servant of the palace, didn't spend much time with me. My odd behavior is not something she can give too much time to. Not that I'm complaining, seeing this as chance to not play pretend baby, especially as more and more memories mature me pass the point of being an infant. It's not much, considering my body is still that of an infant, and infants need rest and nutrition. So most of the time, as I regain more and more of my memories, I spend my time reviewing them, relearning languages and education that I lost in my death and rebirth, holding on to useful memories and knowledge.
There are several upsides and downsides to the whole re-birthing process. The downside is having no understanding of the language used in different worlds. Decoding the language becomes more of pass time as I age. Unfortunately, the set laws of the each world prevent mixing magic of other worlds into the one I am living in currently. So practicing magic or the other wonderful powers have I come across also becomes obsolete. However, the butterflies that flutter around give me a pretty good idea about which world I am in. Another downside, unfortunately, is that not all my worlds accept my values. What is important to me is obsolete in another world. In this world, women with no prestige or power are looked down upon.
The worse downside is when I am born into a world, whose timeline I am well aware of. The worlds that I previously read about in fiction or heard stories about exist. Preventing change in these worlds was a difficult task even now. However, I am not naive enough to think that my existence and pretense changes nothing. Whether, it's feelings, people or events; one existence can change a lot. This world of Magi is the same. My existence already changes the fact that Ren Kouen is not the oldest child of Ren Koutoku. He is in fact two years younger than I am.
Upsides are that I always learn new things, no matter what they are. I use the stories and knowledge gained in my previous lives to integrate and form new ideas. I have learned technology, magic, and other skills. The techniques I learn that doesn't involve magic or technology can be applied to other worlds, like horseback or dragon riding (that's a story for another time), and training my body and intelligence.
Another upside is the people of each of the worlds. Despite the difference in all the worlds, the humans or rather the intelligent life forms don't change. The personalities, the intelligence, the ideals, and the idiocy that is among humans, is also shared by the other life forms. Humans don't occupy all the worlds, just most of the worlds that I have been to. The one thing I always feel guilty about is that fact I am taking away the child my parents should have, which is why I decided early on that I would do everything in my power to love those families as if they were my own. I would give them my very existence to make sure they are safe and happy, even if I am not. It's the same for my current mother.
Hana is a servant in the palace of the Kou Kingdom. Ren Hakutoku, is the current king. His oldest son, Ren Hakuyuu is only one year older than me. Unfortunately, my mother fell for the younger, more ambitious brother of the king. My mother is aware that Ren Koutoku would never return her affections. In the Kou Kingdom, royalty is everything. Which means by default he would never accept me as his blood. Not that I'm going to cry about it, seeing how that man spreads havoc in other countries with his family in the future. I am an open secret in the palace, though without the restrictions of royalty, which is why the servants called me the unlucky princess behind the every important person's back.
Which is why, in the past five years, I have not met a single person from my currently blood family or any of the nobles or parliamentary officers (face to face that is). When I was physically able to I started exploring the palace. In each trip, I would venture out further and further until I got tired, then returned before my mother would. In one of those trips, I accidentally found the room Ren Hakuyuu was using with his instructor. It was an opportunity I was unwilling to waste. Fortunately, there was an empty storage room right next door to the occupied room.