Fairy Tail

"Ah, ow, ow, ow!"

In a forest.

A little boy was clutching his head.

The boy had smooth, shoulder-length black hair, fair skin, and wore a loose black kimono. His dark eyes were filled with pain.

"Damn goddess, you never said it would hurt this much!" (*꒦ິ⌓꒦ີ)

The little boy was named Qian Guang. Not long ago, he had been attending a graduation party with his college roommates. Then, when he went out to buy cigarettes, an unidentified truck sent him on his way. Right outside the convenience store, he had been sent away!

After dying, Qian Guang had proven that people really did have souls after death. For someone who studied medicine, that was a complete blow to his worldview. Thankfully, he had studied traditional Chinese medicine. Otherwise, he probably would have gone crazy even after dying.

In his soul state, Qian Guang had continuously floated upward, feeling as though he was about to reach another dimension, when a goddess covered in holy light crashed into him and knocked him over, forcibly stopping his ascension.

The goddess called herself a goddess of the anime world. To make it up to Qian Guang, she decided to send him to a fictional world for free and give him a cheat ability.

Qian Guang thought it sounded pretty good. Ever since his grandfather had passed away a few years ago, he had been all alone anyway. Besides, he liked anime too. Who wouldn't want to visit a fictional world?

Then—

He got scammed. It was all random. Even the goddess did not know which world he would end up in, and his cheat ability would also be randomly selected from another world.

Qian Guang had been dumbfounded at the time, but the goddess had not given him any choice. She simply said he would find out his cheat ability and which world he was in once he got there, then stuffed his soul straight into a black hole.

"Fairy Tail? Come on, I wanted a slice-of-life anime. People die in Fairy Tail! Forget it, worst case, I'll hide out in Fairy Tail and stick with Natsu." As the pain in his head gradually faded, Qian Guang understood which world he was in.

"Let me see what cheat ability I got. Holy shit, a Sharingan? A Sage Body?" Qian Guang had not expected the goddess to be this generous. She had directly given him Naruto's broken abilities.

"I love you!" Qian Guang decided that he would never call her a perverted goddess again.

Only then did Qian Guang observe his surroundings. Unfamiliar trees, unknown fruits, and a small stream ahead. Luckily, there were no large animals around, or he would probably have been instantly screwed.

Qian Guang quickly walked over to the stream and looked at his current appearance. Even though he knew it made no scientific sense, he was still shocked all over again.

"Does reincarnation come with a de-aging service too? No, I didn't look like this as a kid either. Did I possess someone? If you're going to be this thorough, at least tell me the time and place!"

"Now that I think about it, why does this face look more and more familiar?" Qian Guang muttered as he stared at the reflection on the water's surface.

Qian Guang tugged at his face, then touched his shoulder-length hair. His eyes suddenly lit up. "I remember now. Isn't this my Itachi? Aside from not having nasolabial folds, I look exactly like Itachi when he was young."

"This goddess is occasionally reliable after all! So does that mean my Mangekyo Sharingan will have Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi in the future? That's awesome."

Extremely satisfied with his face, Qian Guang sighed. Everyone knew that the Uchiha curse meant that almost all of them, aside from young Itachi, had spiky hair. Clearly, long straight black hair was the absolute best!

"Growl, growl, growl."

While Qian Guang was still admiring himself by the stream, his protesting stomach pulled him back to reality.

Only after coming to his senses did Qian Guang realize how weak he was. He felt as if he had pulled all-nighters for an entire week.

"Damn it, really starting with nothing and leaving me to figure out the situation myself."

Feeling the discomfort in his body, Qian Guang could not keep admiring himself. He scooped up stream water and carefully replenished his fluids.

"I wonder where this is. And how do I use the Sharingan? Haha, she isn't expecting me to awaken it myself, is she?"

After drinking, Qian Guang felt a little more energetic and began studying his cheat ability again.

"Amaterasu!"

"You foolish little brother!"

After yelling at the stream to Zero effect, Qian Guang lay down in the grass and finally accepted the fact that he did not have the Sharingan at this stage.

Qian Guang's mouth twitched as he thought of that unreliable goddess. The light in his eyes steadily faded as he kept muttering.

"It's gone, it's gone, it's gone..."

"Uh, hehe, that idiot goddess must have forgotten."

Meanwhile, the goddess, far away in a prison cell, sneezed repeatedly.

"Really, how could a goddess sneeze? Someone must miss me terribly."

"Emmmmm, it seems like I forgot to explain something to that boy. But it was my first time being a goddess, so it was natural to be a little nervous. I'm sure he'll understand."

The goddess, who did not think she had done anything wrong at all, lazily lay on her bed, swinging her legs that one could admire for years as she flipped through her notes.

"Making people reincarnate is so fun! Let's see which cute little one I should pick next."

Under the Flame-Flame summer sun, the sun hanging high in the sky continuously radiated heat.

In the vast forest, a child who looked eight or nine years old was slowly walking along while carrying fruit wrapped in enormous leaves and dragging a cleaned winged fish behind him.

"Phew, this thing is seriously heavy. I really have to say, this is an isekai after all. A fish with wings that's this huge is completely unscientific."

"But it's pretty stupid. It practically delivered itself to me, flying right to my feet. I couldn't even be bothered to catch fish."

"I hope it tastes as good as it looks."

At last, the boy dragged the fish into a cave and set down the enormous leaves in his hands.

"So how exactly am I supposed to eat this fish?" Looking at the fish, which was more than half his body length, Qian Guang could not help feeling troubled.

Five days had passed since his reincarnation. Back then, after muttering curses about the goddess by the stream for half an hour, Qian Guang had finally been unable to endure his stomach's protests and started searching the area for food.

Whether it was because of the Fairy Tail world or the Hashirama Cells, Qian Guang felt that his body was incredibly strong. At the very least, Grandpa would never have to worry about him falling out of trees again.

He had also found a cave beside the stream. He did not know why there were no people or animals inside. But when night fell, Qian Guang had not thought too much about it and simply moved in.

After eating vegetarian food for four days, Qian Guang felt his physical fitness steadily improving. To keep his nutrition balanced, he decided that he should eat some meat.

It was definitely not because, as a carnivore, he was Zero able to bear seeing fish swimming around in front of him.

"I don't know whether this fish is edible, but Natsu often eats strange fish, so there probably aren't that many poisonous ones. My luck can't possibly be that bad, right?"

Qian Guang gathered a pile of dry firewood and began showing off the wilderness survival skills he had learned over several years online.

Half an hour later, Qian Guang looked at his reddened palms and the pile of wood that had begun to smoke, then wiped away his flowing sweat.

"I strongly demand that I inherit the Uchiha's Fire Style."

He found a wooden stick, gave his dinner a thorough piercing, then crushed the fruits he had picked into seasoning and spread it all over the fish, inside and out.

"As expected, the creativity of Chinese people when it comes to food won't allow me to just roast it crudely. Behold, my unknown-fruit-flavored grilled unknown fish."

Qian Guang looked at his masterpiece with an inexplicable sense of achievement. After placing the prepared fish beside the fire, he began thinking about his future plans.

Over the past few days, Qian Guang had explored the entire area around the stream. There were no powerful creatures around. The strongest was a giant bear that stood three meters tall. Although that would already have been powerful in his original world, it could not even count as combat power in the world of Fairy Tail.

Thinking about it that way, could this be the legendary beginner village? Wouldn't that mean I can do whatever I want?

But Qian Guang only thought that to himself. Although his physical fitness was constantly improving and he was already a little stronger than he had been in his twenties in his previous life, he was still within the limits of humanity. No matter how he looked at it, he could not beat that three-meter-tall bear.

While Qian Guang was still complaining, he suddenly smelled a fragrant, delicious aroma. The fish had already roasted to a golden brown, and fish oil dripped into the fire with a sizzling sound.

"Good grief, I can barely stand the smell alone. How good must it taste?"

Unable to control himself any longer, Qian Guang ignored the heat, picked up the wooden stick, and took a bite out of the fish's belly.

"Mmm~ So good, so good."

"Now I finally know why Natsu and the others love eating fish so much. It's so delicious that I'd gladly eat it every day."

After taking two or three bites and finishing the fish's tender belly, Qian Guang set his sights on the "fish wings" again.

"Wow, what kind of ingredient is this? It's so delicious!" Qian Guang bit into the "fish wing," his eyes shining as he involuntarily praised it.

At that moment, Qian Guang felt a long-lost sense of happiness!

Soon, Qian Guang finished the grilled fish in a few quick bites. He wiped the grease from his mouth, sucked his fingers, and still felt unsatisfied.

"Ah, this is what life is all about." After filling his stomach, Qian Guang cleaned up the remains and prepared to toss them farther away so that the bear would not catch the scent and come looking.

The moment he stood up, Qian Guang's vision blurred, and he could no longer keep his balance. To keep from cracking his head open, he forced himself to feel along the wall and sit back down.

"Poisonous!!!"

That was Qian Guang's final thought before darkness claimed him.

Poisonous! (ﾟ⊿ﾟ)ﾂ

Fairy Tail: Double Kamui at the Start, by Qianwei.