I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (LN) - Volume 1 - Chapter Pr

Prologue

The first thing that came to mind when I opened my eyes was how dark it was. “Hm. Is it night?”

The very next moment though, a bright light shone from my left. It felt inviting, so I turned to it. What greeted me was an incredibly beautiful sight: an infinite vista as far as the eyes could see, with something that looked like a bright halo surrounding the edges. It resembled a sunrise. The ascending light gleamed like a rainbow and I couldn’t help but feel touched by the sight.

Then I wondered what was on the other side.

I turned to my left. There, the moon was setting, a gigantic ring of silver on the horizon. Only a bit of the lunar body remained in sight, but its magnitude wasn’t diminished. It was a breathtaking sight to behold. I’d never seen anything like it in my thirty years of living. I found it odd that I didn’t break down into tears right away.

Hold on. Thirty years? Was I alive? Wait, was I dead? The last thing I remembered was a red convertible approaching me at breakneck speed. The flashy man in the driver’s seat was looking at his smartphone. Yep, he had been playing with his phone while driving, and boy did he look like he was having a great time of it. Well, I’m not having a great time, asshole! I screamed to myself while piecing together what had happened. But I was pretty sure I had died then. I must have.

“Hmm, what is going on…?”

“Hey, there. Are you finally awake?”

“Wha?! Who’s there?!”

A voice echoed from the darkness, though I didn’t feel anyone there. Actually, it felt like the voice came from inside my head.

“You’re in for a rough ride. Better strap yourself in.”

“Huh? What?”

“See you around.” Then the voice was silent.

“Uh. Hello?” I called out to the voice, but to no avail. What was that? A hallucination? It sounded very clear to me… I stirred in an effort to get a better view of things, and finally realized something:

I couldn’t move my body.

“Hm? What’s this? What’s happened to me?” I thought I was tied up, but it didn’t feel that straightforward. My whole body felt weird. I couldn’t feel my arms and legs, for one thing, and the rest of my body just felt off. “I can’t feel my eyelids, either. Or my eyeballs for that matter… Wait, so how am I seeing things, exactly?” I looked down to check my body. I was a bit worried at first, but it seemed I could move my vision to some degree.

“I… I’m a sword.”

My eyes found a sword, vertically rising from a pedestal. I somehow knew this sword was in fact my own body, impossible as that may be to understand let alone explain. But I understood beyond the shadow of a doubt that the sword was me, and I was the sword. My eye (or what was functionally an eye) was located at the hilt, somewhere between the guard and the blade. How could I see despite having a sword for a body? How mysterious.

“I died…and was reincarnated as a sword?”

What absurd light novel was this? I’d pinch my cheek to make sure this wasn’t a dream, but I lacked the ability to do so. “I think I have something like…skin?” I could tell part of my blade was stuck into the pedestal beneath me. I didn’t exactly have skin, but I could feel my blade buried in the pedestal.

“Is this really another world?”

It wasn’t Earth, that was for sure; there were too many moons for it to be. I looked up at the sky and saw six moons: red, blue, green, yellow, purple, and pink, all adorning the night sky with their dim glow.