Munch, munch, munch, th-this isn’t really that bad, it kinda tastes like eating egg soufflé, it’s a bit sweet and it’s really soft and fluffy. I continue eating the egg sac and before I realize I’m already finished and then as if being frowned upon by the gods I receive this notification.

[Congragulations you have achieved the [Kin Eater] title]

[You have gained 1 exp]

Kin Eater: Not only have you decide to cannibalize your own species but you have decided to eat your kin

I’m left with a bitter feeling after receiving this title and guilt starts to wash over me, I look to my siblings and wonder, do they receive these titles as well and do they even react to it I wonder. One of my tentacles starts to independently move to try to find another egg sac to devour, wait why is it moving on its own, and then I remember something along the lines that octopuses tentacles have minds of their own or was it they have more brains in it. Uhh, I can’t remember anything properly. I wrestle back control over my tentacle and I start to sulk remembering that I had taken a life so nonchalantly and to make it worst I got that horrible title because of it. I keep trying to reason with myself saying that what I did was out of necessity but I just keep feeling awful about it.

Mother picking up on my mood gently strokes me with her tentacle as if to console me. Did I have a mother before I became an octopus? The thought lingers as I wonder how she looked and if she was like my current mother constantly looking after me even if I was being annoyed. Welp, there’s no point crying over spilled milk I might as well just state my anger. I then swim up to another egg and get ready to sink my beak in when I realized it tasted sweet before I even ate it. What? I noticed that one of my tentacles was groping it. Interesting... I extended even more tentacles and start feeling around the egg. Most curious, it seems I can also taste with my suckers. After I confirmed that the feeling of taste was coming from my suckers as they felt the egg I got back into eating the egg. I say a small prayer and start to devour, I might not morally agree with eating my unborn sibling like this but truth be told the taste and the texture of the egg are completely different from what I imagine. It’s kinda sweet and fluffy. Had I not know what they were from the beginning I might have been eating them like my own siblings. After finishing the egg I receive another notification.

[You have gained 1 exp]

I looked at the notification with confusion, wait should I only get exp when I kill a monster or something along that line, why am I getting exp from eating eggs unless they’re also classified as monsters. Wait earlier I think I remember seeing another notification, could that have been for exp. I shout status just to confirm my doubts.

Name: Unamed

Race: Baby octling

LvL: 1/5 (2/10)

HP: 5/5

MP: 0

Strength: 1

Vitality: 1

Defense: 1

Agility: 1

Endurance: 3

intelligence: 3

Rank: O

Status: Normal

Titles: [Reincarnator] [Kin Eater]

Unique skills: [Multi-limbed lvl 1] [Posionous beak lvl 1] [Ink Cloud lvl 1]

Skills: [Acid shot]

Resistance: [Mental Resistance lvl 1] [Hunger resistance lvl 1]

huh, so I did get exp earlier when I was eating, I feel even more guilty knowing that they were counted as alive which made them give me exp, immediately I thought to myself maybe you can get exp from doing other things other than killing, the idea made some sense to me but I highly doubt that eating would be a way to get exp. you know what let’s forget eating I feel pretty full myself, let’s continue with checking my skills before I was interrupted. I’ve already familiarized myself with the titles let’s check the unique skills, [Posionus beak lvl 1] that sounds pretty straight forward, it even has a level, does that mean if I level it up the poison becomes stronger or something. How do I even activate this skill or do I even have to, I yell out poison beak and if something was meant to happen then it’s pretty anti-climatic. Should I go and test it out on one of the egg sacs, that idea got vetoed since I didn’t want to unnecessarily kill someone just to confirm a skill.

Hmmm, what does [Multi-limbed lvl 1] do? Does it improve my limb coordination or is it just the amount of limbs I have, if it’s the latter it’s gonna be a major boost for me since I don’t know how to move my limbs properly, but if it’s the former... Do I end up getting more tentacles, how would that work I think to myself, I’m already struggling with having 8 limbs I don’t think that the best solution for me would be that have more limbs. I wish I had the identity skill that people get in these kinds of situations but then again they were all fictitious characters. Ooh, [Ink Cloud], this looks like something I can do, I shout out ink cloud in my head and spectacularly... nothing happens. There has to something wrong that I’m doing, I’m sure as hell that I should be able to use this skill. I continue on shouting [Ink Cloud] over and over until I give up trying that and continue reading the rest of my skills.

Welp, my disappointment is immeasurable, and my day has been ruined. Even though I haven’t been able to use any of my unique skills, I try to use the only normal skill that I have. [Acid Shot], does that mean I shot out acids or something along those lines? Here goes nothing, I shout [Acid Shot] and surprisingly it actually works. All of a sudden it feels as if something is coming out of my stomach and then a shoot out some acid. I really wouldn’t know cause I didn’t see the acid at all, but I can indeed confirm that I can shoot acid cause one of my tentacles was right bellow my beak and got melted.

HOLY SHIT that stings, my poor tentacle. WHAT THE FUCK why did I hit myself, Aagh this hurts so much.

[You have taken 1 damage]

[Acid Resistance lvl 1 has been acquired]

[Pain resistance lvl 1 has been acquired]

At least I got some resistance, but it doesn’t do much to console me. I look at my badly burnt tentacles. Will it grow back? It looks as if it had been burned on fire but instead, the wounds have a yellowish tint instead of burnt black. At least the pain subsided. Ugh, note to self when using acid shot make sure my tentecles aren’t in the way. I start to feel my stomach rumble and instinctively I turn to face the egg sacs. Wow, it looks like two-thirds of all the eggs have either hatched or been eaten. I notice that mother had been looking at us and even encourage the newborn octopuses to join the others, mother sure is a good mother. I start to think about what really makes a mother a good mother, maybe a good mother is like my own. Everything she’s done seems to be to help us. While I was swimming to the ceiling I noticed that some of the octopuses look a bit bigger and some even have a meaner red tint near their eyes and around the base of their body.

Wait why do they look so different. I’ve noticed that some are slightly bigger or of a slightly darker or lighter tone of color but those differences were really difficult to spot unless you looked at them really closely. I immediately swim closer to one of them to see the difference. They’re about an egg sac size bigger than me. I’m pretty intimidated by them, I mean the largest octopus I’ve seen is mother and I don’t have to worry about her deciding to eat me, but these guys have been eating their own baby siblings so I wouldn’t be shocked to see if they decided that I looked more appetizing than eggs. This is why I want the identity skill or anything that practically does the same thing, I won’t have to risk my lives trying to examine my cannibalistic siblings

Despite my paranoia about them eating me, I let my curiosity and extend my tentacles to feel them. Let’s hope I don’t get killed by my own curiosity like the cat wherever the hell I heard that. I eventually gather up the courage to prod one of my bigger siblings and they immediately stop eating and turn to face me. Oh shit, please don’t tell I got myself killed because I got curious. I half expected him or her to kill but instead, they started to feel me as well. After that, I got more of my tentacles and started to feel them in earnest. I’m sure that doing something like the thing wasn’t a behavior encouraged from where I was from. Either way, it seemed that my tentacles could tell me more about something than my eyes could. For instance, it seemed I could taste with my tentacles, I could even tell the exact temperature although how I know this continues to baffle me.

my older sibling eventually stops and goes back to resume eating after they’ve decided that we were already familiarized. I too retract my tentacles and start to swim anyway.

[Congragulation you have obtained the [Curious] title]

Curiosity: Against better judgment, you have displayed a strong desire to satiate your curiosity. You learn things quicker but be wary to not let it get the better of you.

Intelligence 2+

[Inspect skill lvl 1 has been awarded]

Wait, did I finally get the skill that I wanted, YES YES YES. I finally got it, now I can identify anything. I immediately use to identify my skill [Ink Cloud], I immediately get another notification albeit a bit smaller, but I couldn’t care the slightest.

[A cloud of Ink]

That. Was. Short. What the hell! This skill is meant to be the one that reveals everything to me, the protagonist on my adventure in this new world. I’m left confused with what I’m ranting on about, protagonists in a new world? What was supposed to mean, but I’m too angry to indulge my self in that question? To make things worst I’m a fucking octopus, not a human being, but a fucking octopus. There are so many bloody differences between an octopus and a human, for one I don’t even have anyone bones in my body like a human, two they live on land and live in water and 3 they have four limbs while I have twice that amount, why is life so unfair. After about a solid 3 minutes of being angry about going depressed, I calm myself down and try to reason with myself. Maybe I have to level it up before I can do anything, yeah that’s probably it. Once I get it to a high enough level maybe I’ll be getting detailed explanations about everything. I eventually come back to reality when all of a sudden a cold chill goes down my non-existent spine and my instinct started to scream right in my face to run.

CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!