The Reincarnated Onmyoji Who Returned From Another World ~ I Was Reincarnated Into An Onmyoji Family On The Verge Of Decline, But Thanks To My Experience As A Hero Who Fought In Another World And The Magical Power Training I've Been Doing Ever Since I Was Born, This Life Seems Like It Will Be Easy ~

After sleeping once at night and waking up in the morning, I had fully recovered the magical power I had lost the night before. The symptoms of magical power depletion from yesterday had completely disappeared, and I was in perfect condition. My body was overflowing with magical power. That said, the total amount wasn’t much at all.

“…Bawuwu.”

And thinking about it again, my magical power amount was far too little. Naturally, I was currently a baby, so it was completely natural that it was less compared to when I was a hero, but even so, it was too little. I had no choice but to increase it… my magical power amount. I was sure it was said that magical power would increase along with growth until around three years old. That was only talk from the other world, though. However, it should be the same in this world.

Basically, it seemed that the amount of magical power stopped growing at around three years old. How far it would grow was apparently determined by genetic factors. When I had been summoned as a hero, I’d possessed the world’s greatest magical power from the moment I had set foot in the other world. It was common knowledge in the other world that the amount of magical power was determined by talent, not effort.

However, thinking back to the other world, there had certainly been madmen who increased their magical power through effort. According to a certain madman, if you squeezed out magical power until you caused magical power depletion and emptied it completely, your magical power vessel would become larger.

He’d claimed the magical power vessel would grow slightly larger so that such a thing wouldn’t happen next time. Magical power depletion was something that normally shouldn’t occur, and consuming magical power to that point placed a large mental burden and could even result in death in the worst case scenario.

Normally, no one would do it. However, that madman had continued doing it every day for nearly fifty years, and had ultimately increased his magical power from a state of almost no talent to somewhere close to mine.

“Babuwu.”

I had been reincarnated as a baby after all. I should aim to increase my magical power. Having more power never hurt. The weak were culled without being able to do anything, and only the strong could enjoy life. That’s what I had learned in the other world. This second life I had obtained, I wanted to live it happily.

I still didn’t understand well what kind of dangerous place this world was, but it was a world with cursed energy and jujutsu. Having power probably wouldn’t cause any trouble.

Even if I did nothing, my amount of magical power would probably increase smoothly along with my growth until I was three years old.

But should I be satisfied with that? Of course not. I should aim higher… I should also increase my magical power like that madman. I had heard from the madman himself about techniques to avoid dying even if I caused magical power depletion, which meant I probably wouldn’t die.

Yesterday, when I had caused depletion and woke up today, my magical power had increased quite substantially. If I continued causing magical power depletion during this period when my magic was still growing, it would surely become a tremendous amount of power. What I should aim for was surpassing the magical power I had when I was a hero.

“Okay, Touya-chan. It’s time for milk.”

At the time when I had made such a resolution, my mother showed her face at the baby bed where I was sleeping, said it was time for milk, and picked me up. Then, my mother began removing the upper half of her clothes.

“…”

Even now, the time when I sucked milk was still embarrassing. If possible, I’d rather drink from a bottle from the housekeeper than suck milk directly from my mother. That would reduce the embarrassment. Alright.

“Auu~”

I extended my hand and activated the whirlwind magic that I hadn’t been able to activate earlier. Then, exactly like last time, magical power disappeared completely from my body, and my consciousness grew distant.

“Oh my? Going to sleep?”

Dynamic napping. I caused magical power depletion in an instant, lost consciousness, and executed a nap in my mother’s arms.

■■■■■

I could use magic. I had declared that magic couldn’t be used because the conversion methods between this world and the other world were different, but I could actually use magic normally.

“Bawuwu.”

I never thought that it was simply my magical power was too little and I was just failing to activate beginner magic. When magic suddenly activated, I was so startled that my legs gave out and I was scared out of my wits.

When I had been a hero, my base amount of magical power was so great that I didn’t feel like my magical power decreased at all even when using beginner magic, so I thought it didn’t use any power at all, which prevented me from reaching the very natural conclusion that I couldn’t activate it because I had too little magical power in my current body.

It had already been one month since I began magical power depletion training. In this one month, my amount of magical power had improved dramatically. My current magical power was already at the same level as the magicians from the other world.

“Wabuwu.”

That’s why I could use magic as much as I wanted like this. When I raised one hand and activated magic, flames overflowed from my palm. Intermediate magic also activated quite naturally like this.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaah! Flames from your haaaaaand?!”

While I was activating intermediate magic and feeling quite pleased, my mother’s scream suddenly flew into my ears. Since when had she been there? The door to the baby room, which I thought had been closed, was opened, and my mother stood at the entrance with an expression of shock.

“Bawu!?”

Ah, crap. She had seen me using magic as though it was normal.