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Chapter 3. The Exorcist

 "Magic-eater". That seems to be the symptom of that intense fever and pain.

I wonder what it is. I have never heard of this word.

Even if I wanted to find out, I don't have a smart phone, and I can't even use a computer with my body.

So, the truth is still in the dark.

But I do know that it's a very "bad" thing.

If I hadn’t been able to endure it, I would have died.

The horrifying realization almost made me start to cry. Oh no, I'm too old to cry over everything.

I stifled my tears and looked at the ceiling as I lay on the futon.

What would have happened if It had attacked a real baby? Even I, an adult on the inside, could only exert myself with all my might. If it had been a baby, it would have died because it couldn’t endure it.

Hmm? Then, could it be that the prayer that my mother had said, 'I want you to grow up safely until you are three years old,' was because of the ‘Magic-eater'?

I sighed unintentionally in my heart as I began to wonder if this was really Japan, even though I had just been born again. Maybe I wasn't just reborn.

I hate it. Since I've been reborn, let me have a more enjoyable life.

Thinking of this, I let my mind wander to my lower abdomen.

“......Umyu."

Something has been bothering me since a while ago.

It's a fever in my abdomen. I can feel it. It's a strange fever that I suddenly began to feel after "The Magic Eater" ended.

However, it’s not a bad fever like "the magic eater

Rather, it is a gentle heat that warms the body.

It’s such a natural heat that you might believe it even if you were told that it was there from the beginning. It’s as if my mother had put a hot water bottle on me, but I have already confirmed that there is no such thing when she took me down from her arms a while ago.

Well, it's good to be warm. but......

“Fumyu."

I can't sleep because this heat is disturbing me.....

In winter, you may have experienced that only your toes are cold and the center of your body is rather hot, but this is completely the case. The temperature is different between the center and the outside of the body, and it makes me feel indescribably uncomfortable.

So when I try to sleep, I can't because I feel uneasy around my stomach.

What should I do...?

I tried to think to myself, "Get rid of the fever!” but nothing changed.

Well, that's right. That doesn't change anything.

It would be easier if the heat went to my toes and fingertips instead of disappearing.

With that thought in mind, I turned my attention to the heat itself, and it moved.

“Eh?”

Huh, it moved!

I mean, does it move?

I was so startled that I almost cried out.

But if the heat moves, it's just fine.

I let the heat melt all over me, little by little, bit by bit. Like miso when you make miso soup.

After a while, I felt the heat that had been building up in my stomach begin to circulate throughout my body.

...... warm.

I found a solution in an unexpected way, I was about to go to sleep, wrapped in a warm and reassuring heat.

“I'm home!”

A ridiculously loud voice rang out from the front door.

I was startled by the man's sudden voice and woke up suddenly.

I thought I might start crying with this body, but I was too startled to cry.

“Where's Itsuki! Is he there!"

“He’s sleeping in the baby’s room."

The voice I heard with the sound of footsteps is clearly a man's voice, not my mother's.

Your voice is loud. ......

“I wish I could at least see his face!”

“Of course, you should see him. He’s your child.”

I felt my spine stiffen involuntarily when I heard my mother say, "Your child”. So the voice belonged to my father. Did I have a father? No, of course I had a father.

While I was thinking about such an unintelligible thing, the shoji that was closing the room and the porch was opened vigorously.

“Oh! Is this Itsuki?”

“Yes. Please hold him.”

"....mmm. He's so small.”

“He’s a baby.”

My head was still sitting on my body, so I can't move it freely.

So I only moved my eyes to see my father's face and I gulped.

There he was, a surprisingly large man.

His body was thick and overflowing with muscles that could be seen through his clothes.

He also had a face covered in scars, and one of his eyes was either crushed or even covered with an eye patch.

What's going on?

Why does he look like such a veteran soldier in Japan!

My surprise finally broke through my emotional dam and turned to tears.

"Mwaaaaaaa!!!"

“Hey, he cried....."

The sight of the stern, overly handsome man looking confused and bewildered in front of me as I cried was somewhat amusing, but the shock was still greater so the tears. I was still more shocked than anything else.

I felt relieved by the same sensation as usual, and my emotions gradually calmed down.

“He stopped crying.”

“Uh…hmm.”

“Here hold him properly. His head is not properly balanced yet, so please hold him steady.”

"Mm.....!”

Finally, my father, who only said 'Mm', received my body with trepidation. A burly, muscular body, different from my mother's. But as I was wrapped in the same tenderness as it was with my mother, I noticed something strange.

...... What is this?

I felt heat in the center of my father's body.

It was exactly the same heat as the one in the pit of my stomach.

“He's so cute....!”

“Because he’s our baby."

My father pinched my cheek, when I stopped crying completely. His fingers are thick, too. I wondered how he had grown up to be so thick. And even the tips of his fingers are covered with scars. What's going on? Really.

“Um, you're.....”

“What's wrong?”

“Today, Itsuki conquered to the Magic Eater.......”

“What?”

My father's eyes changed color when he heard my mother say that.

I wonder if "Magic-eater" is actually a common word in child-rearing families, just because I don't know it.

“It hasn’t even been up to a month he was born. Isn't that too soon?"

"But…. This baby had a sudden fever.”

“But he looks normal now. The magic has calmed down.”

......What did you just say?

Did you say "magic"?

As expected, I didn’t mishear.

I know what magic is, even I don't know much about parenting.

It's a word used in comic books and video games.

It's not the kind of thing that pops up in parenting.

“But I, too, was married to Kisaragi Totsu. I will not misjudge the ‘magic-eater’.”

"Hmmm..........  but rather, this baby’s magic power is spread all through the body. It’s as though he’s performing ."

Kaijutsu ...........?

What is that?

“That’s right. It’s a jutsu that is used from the age of five, right? I've never heard of it being used by a newborn......”

“Maybe Itsuki is a genius!”

My father laughed heartily.

But my mother didn't seem convinced.

“Quit saying strange things! If the ‘magic-eater' attacks him again, he might die this time! You'd better calm down his magic power right now ......."

“Don't worry, Kaede. He’s stable now. It's more dangerous to touch the magic power if you're not careful, especially if it’s a baby. Even you know that.”

Heh. My mother's name is Kaede.

I felt like I was getting something out of this, since I didn't know her name until just now.

“This child could possibly be the first exorcist since the beginning of our Kisaragi family!"

...... exorcist?

What’s that?

As I cried, I shouted in my mind.

Is this really Japan!?

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