"AHHH!" I had woken up drenched in sweat, breathing heavily, "Bloody hell, not again."
When I looked around, I saw that I was in my old room and in my old bed, I got up and walked to the door ready to open it but for a second… I hesitated.
I threw that hesitation away in a flash and opened the door and entered the living room.
"Hello there, it seems that you didn't have the best sleep?" Ava greeted me from the couch while reading a book.
I looked down to what she was reading and saw it wasn't a book but a family photo album, specifically the section on me.
I saw as Ava's gaze went to the door occasionally, looking both confused and worried, "You wondering why SWAT hasn't come knocking at your door?"
She looked up at me in realization and evens more concern as Jason walked into the room, "Did you do something to them?"
"Nothing lethal, I just erased the memories of everyone who was involved and deleted every digital record of myself. It's as if I don't exist anymore."
Ava listened to my explanation and compared to what she's seen so far, this didn't surprise her. Yet it was clear that there was something else she wanted to say.
Yet sensing her hesitation, Jason asked the question that was on both their minds, "Who are you Pneuma… who are you really?"
'So that's why they brought me back.'
"Ok then, Jason, would you mind explaining to my mother what an isekai is?" I said to Jason.
"O…k well Ava, an isekai is a story genre where the main character is transported to another world. Why am I explaining this? Wait, are you saying that you…" Jason went from explaining confused to getting all excited.
" Yes, Jason, I was originally from this world and I got transported to another world… and yes, a world of magic at that."
Ava was confused but played along, " So why did you come back here?"
" I told you before… I came to investigate Simon's death… or more accurately, I came to investigate MY death."
" Wait, what do you mean… your death but you said…"
I looked at Jason trying to make sense of what I said, " Jason, it's not exactly hard to figure out what I'm implying. Do I have to spell it out for you?"
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Jason pointed to me in disbelief, trying to desperately mouth what was on his mind, " Yo-you're S-Si-Simon?!"
" In the flesh, young padawon." I raised my hands in the air to show myself off.
But before either of us could react anymore, Ava jumped at me and hugged me wrapping me up, " Jeez, calm down mom, this was supposed to make you less emotional. There's no need to strangle me."
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It took a while and a bunch of tears for them to finally settle down, " Are you good now, you finally let it all out? This is the kinda reaction you have to someone dying, not coming back to life."
" Dude, shut up! My best friend had the isekai experience and can do such cool stuff. I've never been happier and more envious of you in my life!"
I looked at the excited manchild and shock my head, "I've died, come back to life and spent a lifetime becoming what I am today and you're still an infuriating piece of shit."
"Hey! That's offensive!"
" Doesn't mean it's not true, you insufferable bastard!" I materialised an AK and pointed it to his head, " Get down you heathen. I will bring this world salvation by ending the life of this devil."
Seeing the interaction between the two, Ava was now sure that this is her son, 'Only Simon would react to Jason with death threats. He really hasn't changed.'
" Simon, are you hungry or anything?" Ava asked me.
" No need mom, food isn't actually a requirement for me anymore, nor is drinking and breathing." I said with a smile while still holding a gun to Jason's head.
Jason: " Wait, what do you mean you don't need any of the essentials that humans desperately need. Don't tell me… you isekai'd as a non-human?! NOW I'M EVENS MORE JEALOUS!!"
" I did isekai as a human, I just evolved beyond that through a lifetime of hardwork."
" And what could be characterised as a lifetime to you?" Jason asked confused, since it was technically a day since I died he assumed it has been a day for me and my reincarnation.
"Well, I said before that I didn't just travel through space back here but I also traveled through time to this worlds past. It's only been hours since you last saw me… but for me it's been… about 150 years."
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Mom and Jason looked at me with awe, this man is older than his own mother, it made no sense.
" Simon, is everyone in your world as powerful as you are?" Jason asked suspiciously.
" Oh hell no, where I'm from, I'm considered a god, I have a whole religion and shit. And all of that is hard work."
" Simon… are you leaving any time soon?" My mother asked which I just looked to her with a sorrowful look.
" I'm sorry mom, I never intended to stay. I never evens meant to tell you or evens meet you… I'm sorry mom but if I stay, Nyx is most likely gonna kill me."
" Who's Nyx, is she your girlfriend?" Ava could sense the fondness in my voice for this individual.
" No she's my daughter." I said which I got stunned gazes from both of them, " Not biologically, I… created her."
Jason: " You created her?"
" Yeah, despite being in a fantasy world with magic, I never really stopped being an engineer."
Mom just looked at me with an indescribable emotion, " You built a daughter?"
" Well it wasn't intentional." A voice sounded from above that I immediately recognized.
" Nyx!? How long have you been listening to us?"
Nyx: " I just got here, what did I miss?"
I opened gateway from fog which revealed her form and brought it to this spacetime and Jason immediately began listing over the gentle beauty of her