The thing about being born early that most isekai forget to mention is that children are not born with fully developed senses or motor skills, so my first few months in my new life were spent meditating by focusing on my breath, but not controlling it while letting go of all distractions. I will admit that I started meditating in the hopes of gaining magic, and I occasionally focused on world runes that I remember to help with that, but no luck.
There were benefits, of course, of my meditating so much, such as being able to be far more lucid, and it helped me focus better to the point where I was able to speak in the first month, and was even able to stand up for a bit. I, of course, did not hide it because this world has a precedent for young geniuses after all Powder was experimenting with explosives as a fucking child granted with limited functionality. Mrs Talis, of course, got creeped out by it, so did many adults who encountered me. Now, on the topic of Mrs Talis, she was in a way a lot like an aunt to me after all, with my experiences as a former adult, it is very hard to see her as a mother.
Showing my intellect was, in a sense, a strategic choice to essentially make it easier to get sponsors in the future, but in truth, I did not think I would be able to keep the average baby act for long. It would be far more suspicious for a baby trying to hide their intelligence than being a genius.
Another reason for that choice was also because I would be introducing hex tech far earlier than canon, because of my first template, and I needed to have a precedent for being ridiculously smart.
[ Name: Jayce Talis ( John Bridge)
Template: Jayce Talis ( 20 % synchronization)
Skills: Intelligence ( Peak Human), Pan Amnesia( Absolute), Condition Retention ( Absolute), Power manipulation immunity ( Absolute), Hex Tech Mechanics ( Enhanced), hammer mastery ( basic)
Equipment: N/A
Inventory:
Store: Locked( can only open after the first template is fully synchronized)]
Now, of course, being a reincarnated person was not all sunshine and rainbows. What most isekai do not acknowledge is that being more intelligent than your peers isolates you. After all, how can someone with decades of life experience relate to a child? Talking with adults was not an option after all, they tend to automatically look down on children, so that was out of the question.
Another thing that isolated me from peers of my age was how utterly easy they were to manipulate. It took me just a few weeks to become 'friends' with all my playmates and classmates. I do not expect this isolation to go away even when I am an adult, after all, there are some things I would never be able to share with them. I guess I will be alone forever.