Manga - Chapter 1

Reincarnation is the first chapter in volume 1 of the Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! manga.

Plot
In a wagon in the outskirts of the Kingdom of Brandel, Adele von Ascham is practicing her magic in a horse drawn carriage. While practicing, she exclaims her desire to study her magic more at Eckland Academy, where her new foster mother is sending her so she can make new friends. As they are passing through the last forest before arriving at the capital, a gang of bandits stop them. They spot Adele and think they could sell her for a healthy sum for her, but before they can grab her, an Orc walks up behind them and attacks the bandits.

Once the Orc turns towards Adele, she is paralyzed with fear and asks the nanomachines for all the water they can give her, even though she doesn't know who the nanomachines are. The nanomachines listen though and allow her to attack the Orc and bandits with water spears. She then realizes she can't control it and gets splashed with water from the spell and remembers her old life as Kurihara Misato.

Kurihara was a gifted child in almost every way. However this made her lonely, as she had no one she could relate to. On her way to her high school graduation, she noticed a little girl about to be hit by a truck. She gave up her life to save her life. She awoke in Heaven and met God, who explained that the little girl is gifted with knowledge that will save the world and that by saving her she did a really good thing. This makes Kurihara happy and God offers her a new life. When asked what she wanted in her new life, she had but one request: to be average.

After Adele reawakens, she asks the nanomachines why her magic was so powerful and it explains that her thought pulse translation is roughly half of that of an elder dragon, the strongest monster, making her approximately 6,800 times stronger than a normal human.