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 ~ - Chapter 7: Three Years Old

“Touya, happy third birthday!”

“Congratulations.”

“…”

In a simple but carefully decorated room, I was being celebrated for my third birthday surrounded by my mother, the housekeeper, and my father. Incidentally, my tongue-tied father just applauded and stayed silent. Yeah, that was just like my father. My father was basically always like this.

“Thank you.”

Surrounded by such a family, I returned their words with a smile. I was now already three years old. I could speak words without any problems. Well, actually I had been fluent since before turning one. I was currently studying English.

“Touya. You’ve grown up healthy and safely to three years old… Mama is so happy.”

“Yeah.”

Growth… Yes, growth. Three years had already passed since I was born. I’d grown up splendidly, or so I’d like to say, but honestly, not really. Only my magical power had grown. In terms of magical power quantity, I’d surpassed my previous life amount as a hero, and I could use magic at about the same level as I could have in my previous life.

But could this really be called growth? No. I’d just simply returned to where I was. With new power.

Yes. For example, shikigami techniques. I hadn’t made any progress in mastering those at all. My innate technique was still unknown. I hadn’t learned any of the sorcery unique to this world either because the books had disappeared from the library.

Incidentally, the books had disappeared from the library because they were being cautious of me. Ever since they’d seen me once with books spread open in the library, they’d thought that even though I couldn’t read, I might grasp something just from the illustrations drawn there.

Like the flame sorcery I had produced on the day of the shikigami descent ritual, it would be dangerous if I had started activating sorcery on my own by chance.

My parents seemed to understand the reason I could use flame sorcery as followed: when the housekeeper was reading a book about flame sorcery in front of me, I might have grasped something from the illustrations I had glimpsed. I couldn’t read it at all though?

‘Shikigami techniques…’

【Aah!? …Wh-what!? It can’t be helped! There were no such things as shikigami techniques in the era I know! Basically, onmyoji used innate techniques. I don’t know anything about using shikigami! Are you still bringing this up!?】

Ah, and after three years, I’d completely gotten along with the Oni inside me. Well, she was dere all the way from our first meeting, with no tsun elements, so even though three years had passed, nothing had really changed in our relationship.

‘I don’t have any complaints about you on that front anymore.’

【Anymore!?】

Oni was energetic today too.

“Touya, can I talk to you for a moment?”

While I was thinking about such things, my father suddenly called out to me.

“What? Papa.”

My father spoke? What? Would it rain spears tomorrow?

“Should we start onmyoji training soon? You should be able to do it now.”

“Eh?”

“What do you think?”

“I’ll do it!”

I nodded quite eagerly to my father’s words.

“Please teach me!”

“Ah.”

What! Finally, finally I could make some progress! The stagnation of these three years was finally ending, and the time had come when I could learn this world’s sorcery! In response to my father’s words, my excitement reached its absolute peak.