I Became Famous in the Matriarchal World

"By the way, how did you know that I have memories of my past life?" I asked her.

"Mother's intuition?" She tilted her head. 

"Like hell, I will believe that." I yelled." Please, tell me. I am still worried. I haven't even told anyone." 

"Oh, well. Before explaining everything to you, let me explain about this world a bit and your life." She spoke while standing up. 

"Okay." I replied.

"To be honest, you're not the first person who remembered their past life. There have been such cases from time to time. The government keeps it secret from others because it might cause trouble." She started explaining." As you know, it's another world. Or it could be the same world you had lived. Scientists have their own theory too. Some people say that in the past, your world engaged a huge nuclear battle and humanity almost perished. After that, humanity started to build themselves once again from the scratch. Due to the after war effect, for some reason, male birth rate dropped drastically." 

"In some other research, it says that this world is a totally separated world. It says that our world was suffering from a low male birth rate from the beginning. Well, whatever it is, it's true that this world has a connection with your past world." She spoke while sitting in her own chair. 

"In the past, there have been cases where people started thinking that he is from another world. They even gave some strange proof and scientists can't really ignore them. So, we started researching this topic. But what we found was shocking. It's not like they have reborn or transmigrated. It's just somehow, a person's small portion of memories got replaced by the memories of someone else's." She revealed.

"What does that mean?" I asked in confusion as I don't really understand the meaning. 

"Let me ask you some questions. Do you remember everything about your past life? Like do you remember the names of your parents in your past life? Or do you have any happy memories in your past life? Well, let's ask you, what are your happiest memories in your past world?" She asked me directly.

"My happiest memories?" I thought hard for a while. But to be honest, I couldn't come up with something special. Really, no matter how hard a life was, there should be some happy memories, right? 

All I remember playing genshin Impact or watching anime. 

"You can't remember anything good, right? Wait, let me make it easier for you." She said." Did you have any girlfriend?" 

"Yeah. I had a girlfriend in my past life. But she cheated on me." I said in a sad tone.

"What about the moments that you guys have been together? Shouldn't it be memorable? Shouldn't you have any memorable moments with her, like you're confessing to her and she accepted or something?" She asked.

"Now that I think about it, I can't just remember any of that. Most of the memories I have about my past life are sadness and lonely self. Nothing else." I muttered. 

"That's what I am talking about. We call it [Memories Substitution Syndrome]." She spoke. 

"Memories Substitution Syndrome?" I tilted my head. 

"Yeah, [Memories Substitution Syndrome]. In this syndrome, a person's certain memories get replaced by someone else's certain memories due to some kind of trauma. Because of that, he/she started acting like a different person to cope up with their own life." She started explaining.

"I still don't understand." I replied.

"Just imagine this universe as a connection of networks and data. Just like the internet and your head is like a folder. So, for some trauma, Shirou wants to forget memories of a certain part of his life. So, he came up with a plan. His strong desire to go back to his usual life makes him down a Zip file full of another person's certain parts of memories from the internet and extracted it into the same folder. Which made his memories replaced by a person's (Shamim) memories." Mom explained the easiest way possible. 

"I kinda understand now. You're saying that, it's not a transmigration or reborn. It's just that I am still Shirou and I just somehow got the memories of a person called Shamim." I replied.

"Exactly. That's what I am talking about. It's true that getting those memories certainly made you courageous enough to lead your life again. But you're still the Shirou we knew. You're still a coward." Mama smiled brightly.

"What do you mean by coward?" I asked as I don't feel like it's a compliment.

"If you weren't a coward, you already could have had sex with Akari. You're still stupid and cowardly. Believe me." She acted as if she complimented me. 

"That's not a compliment." I replied.

"I was complimenting." She answered.

"Then you should learn how to compliment wisely. Have I ever told you that you're annoying? Even though I feel like leaving this place, I am still saying that I like to talk to you. You should have this level of dedication." I replied proudly as I was able to teach. My mother something.

"Do you want to get punished again?" She asked me while smiling and her hands were ready to punch. 

Scary... She is damn scary... 

"I was just joking. I knew that you were complimenting me. I was just joking. Y-you see, I thought my mama is so beautiful and kind that it reminds me of my childhood. So, I was being spoiled." I tried to come up with something to calm her down. 

Seriously, that punch she gave me still hurts. I don't want to get punched again. Even if I have to give her fake compliments.

"Why do I feel like you're criticizing me?" She looked at me with devilish eyes. 

"N-n-no way. Do you think I have the courage to do something like that?" I replied while looking another way. 

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