I was really bored with my usual and mundane life. Everything seemed stupid, everything seemed mad and lacking meaning.

I wasn’t a hikikomori or lived in my parent basement or anything like that, I lead a normal life, went to school, got average grades, had average relations and skill. Come back home I played some average videogames and read some average manga.

Of all things, it was that average that bothered me, if I was way below average, if my grades sucked, if I hadn’t any relations, if I played and read videogames and manga all day, that would have been far better. At least there would have been something separating me from the next guy, at least I wouldn’t have been blank sleeve going from a day to the next, I would have been slightly unique…

So when a truck hit me and I was reincarnated in a fantasy world I had high hopes.

The deity of that world came talking to me.

“So… let me check a second… yes you would be:...” she told me

“Be a knight? A mage? Or a paladin? I can’t wait to meet a nice girl and go to ad-”

“A goblin mother spirit,” she said interrupting me.

“What… a goblin mother…?” I said perplexed.

“Not a goblin mother, a goblin mother spirit. Ehmm.. how can I explain it… have you present guardian spirits?”

“Yes,” I said not knowing where this whole talk was supposed to lead

“You will be a guardian spirit of a goblin, this goblin”

Suddenly a hologram of a goblin appeared.

“This is…” he paused “I don’t know his name… hmmnn a goblin, he would be like a child to you. You will need to care for him like a mother would do.”

“Like a mother would do?”

“Yes… hmmnn… like cooking for him, making his bed in the morning, listen to his boyhood rants, making sure that he doesn’t get kill.... you know all the stuff that mothers usually do.”

“...”

“Are you all right…?”

I was stared blankly at her, inside I was dead.

“OK, well, it has been nice to meet you, bye…”

As my vision began to fade I desperately asked questions

“Wait I don’t know how to be a mother!”

“You will learn along the way…” she responded

And so I got reincarnated as a goblin mother spirit. No dungeons to conquer, no harem, no monster to slay just being a mother…

“Gobo” that is how I named him “don’t go riding those war huns you will get hurt,” I said with a sweet and peaceful voice like any mother would do.

“DoNt TeLL me what to DO MoM!” He said in a horrible and defaming tone. How horrible of him.

He got brutally wounded by the war huns

“Mom,” he said with tears in his eyes and blood in his mouth “Mom!”

I came to him “Now come here, let me heal your wounds.” I healed his wounds and carry him back home.

“Mom, mom, what there is for dinner?”

“Soup of uns and carrots”

He looked shocked at me “I DONT LIKE THAT! THAT IS HORRIBLE! I WANTED TO EAT-”

I hit him on the head with the ladle.

“You will eat what I have prepared.”

“But mom…”

“No deal, eat the soup.”

“ok,” he said in a low tone of voice

It was a delicious dinner. Afterwards, I read him a story in bed.

“So once upon a time, there was an orc living in a swamp…”

As I told him the story his eyes gradually close

“And this is how an orc living in a swamp married a princess and the donkey had a child with the local castle dragon[1]”

I gave him a good kiss on the forehead, turn off the light and closed the door.

“This life is not bad after all.” I thought “Oh, the floor is really dirty, better clean it less Gobo get ill because of it.”

Notes from the text:

[1] If you got that reference let me know.