I Reincarnated As a Tree

Low 40: G.i nose part 1

I can't feel my body.

It was painful, so painful as to die was better than to endure this pain for longer.

My eyes are gone, I don't know what really happened to me.

I try to remember as much as I can and why I am in this situation.

But it's so hard, I don't even normally remember my name. Like something's trying to stop me.

Bam! The punch was so hard, the four-armed woman continued to beat me in a row. It hurts, why he did it, what I did to him until he tortured me like this.

Like a monster, she was a strong woman there was no chance of winning against her. I wanted to apologize even if I didn't remember what I had done wrong, or at least I wanted to run away from that woman.

But I could not move my mouth and my body continued to fight even though all the attacks I gave it could not hurt it. My body kept getting beaten up, the pain just got worse.

Grab! One of the woman's arms clutched my neck so tightly that it sounded a crack, indicating that the steel plate that became the inner layer of the artificial skin had broken.

‘I am a robot with a body made of iron and steel, then how could I feel pain like this?.’

My body moved back on its own, both of my arms tried to burn the woman as I had tried before, and this time my efforts again failed.

Before doing anything the three arms of the woman ruthlessly smashed my arms. The mechanical arm just crumpled when squeezed. What a terrible power.

With my neck still in my grip, I could only stare at the woman with her face partially covered in a big hat, but I could see clearly she was smiling at me.

“You need to clear your mind, right?.” I didn't know what he was saying, until he smashed my face into the asphalt.

The harshness of the impact made some of the silicone that became my skin peeled off, the handsome face disappeared partly replaced with the face of the terrible machine ala Terminator.

“Is your head a bit clear now?.”

What are the two talking about after doing all this to me?.

“The brainwashing effect you received must be strong so you can't remember who you are after all the treatment I did.”

The treatments? What does he mean is beating me to death that is called treatment?.

This woman is crazy.

Braak! The woman's feet on my stomach made me unable to move. “Let me help you hear more specifically. You're a Soldier from the country of Mamarika (Paprika).”

“Heh!. I'm a soldier…. From.... pap.. pap. rika” the woman's words gave me my memory, but again something tried to get in the way.

“G.i nose and someone named Daniel Ironheat, do you remember anything about those names?.”

“G.i... nose.… Kuah! It's very painful. Please stop!.” I screamed out loud unable to bear the excruciating pain.

The woman showed me the face of a man named Daniel, I remembered the name and I remembered the face. He's someone from the top of the IRONice company that I have to obey. His orders are absolute.

‘You useless junk! Quickly kill that damn woman!’ his orders rang out in my head, my body moving on its own. Although it has no hands but there is the last weapon I used to kill it.

“You want to blow yourself up?.” said the woman boredly. How could he know my plan. “But you don't actually want to do it do you?.”

“.....” I cannot say anything, my mouth is locked, my body cannot be moved.

“Of course not? No one wants to die just because of an order from a fool.”

Bam! The hard punch landed on my face making my vision start blurry until I fell. Back I was able to move my own body after getting hit earlier, but you the woman held back by stepping on my body.

In desperation, I couldn't do anything, even crying. “Why did you do this to me? Please let me go!.” I can only beg for forgiveness.

Why does he want me to remember who I am, even if I want to remember, but something I don't know keeps that memory coming back.

“Haaa~ this is just a waste of time.” after saying it suddenly the wind blows strong making dust flying around making visibility very limited.

Ignoring about the dust, the woman had currently pointed her finger that formed a gun towards my forehead. Something that will not threaten considering it is not a gun but just an index finger. But somehow I feel like this is the moment I'm going to die.

“Bang!” he said it like a child who thought his hand was a real gun.

Then a ray of light shot out from the woman's finger, piercing through my head.

I can't describe how painful it is.

I just glared with my mouth wide open when something exploded inside my head.

I can't even say a word because the pain is so painful in my head.

The woman smiled broadly at me watching me dying. He pulled my neck closer. Now I can see fully the face of the woman who madly continues to torment me.

Those eyes were shining gold, a gaze that seemed to be able to see everything.

“Nolan Steve, that's the name I saw from your status system.”

Steve Nolan?

System status?

“Aaaaarrggg!”

My head hurt again as I tried to digest what he said. But this time it was different, no longer was my memory barrier slowly popping up. It was like a puzzle, so many memories I had to put together to get back to who I really was.

“You've started to remember it?.”

I just nodded small in response to the woman. He smiled at me and then my body was blown away, he turned around and started walking away from me.

“I'm sure after this I will get serious problems with IRONice company. But of course it depends on the decision you take.”

“No... I beg save me!.” I yell at the woman who keeps away. Two stopped and glanced at me behind. The look in his eyes looked bored, seeing that I realized that he would not help me.

“I've done what I can do so you can remember who you really are.”

“Now depending on yourself, do you want to continue being the slave of that person, or try to gain freedom.”

After saying that two walked away. The wind stopped making the flying dust calm down. Everyone cheered after seeing the situation in this place. It was clear the woman with four arms was the winner.

Daniel and company member IRONice came to me, clearly the anger that almost exploded from Danie's face. But as an official of a large company the man tried to be professional, he held back his anger as many reporters were around.

“Useful junkyard bases. Just look at what I will do to you after we return to Mamarika.”, he said in a low voice so that no journalists heard him.

I just stared at my hands that were starting to be re-assembled. Once all is done without anyone realizing it I can take full control of my body.

‘Yeah I'm really curious what you can do to me now.’

I remember it now, remembering everything about what happened to my body and my family. 'I won't forgive you after making me this way'.

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To be Continue.