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 8: Training Begins

I was going to start receiving onmyoji instruction.

Having been told this by my father, I was now wearing kariginu, the traditional clothing that onmyoji wore, and had come to the basement that apparently existed in our house.

“Well then, let’s get started, Young Master Touya.”

The person teaching me onmyoji was supposed to be my father… or so I had thought, but it was actually the housekeeper who would be teaching me.

“Now then, the very first thing we’ll do is release cursed energy. You release the cursed energy inside your body to the outside.”

Releasing cursed energy, huh. The housekeeper handed me a bucket filled with water as she spoke about doing this.

“Please flow cursed energy into this water. If the water ripples, it’s a success.”

This kind of training existed in the other world too. They were doing exactly the same thing in this world.

“First, you start by becoming aware of the existence of cursed energy within yourself…”

“I did it.”

This much was no trouble at all. I succeeded easily.

“Huh?”

The housekeeper looked blank-faced at me having done it so easily.

“W-w-wait please… nothing, nothing has started yet? I was going to start with an explanation of cursed energy…”

“Hehe. Since I did it, there’s no problem! What’s next!?”

“J-just wait a moment please? …Eh, huh? I-is it okay to just proceed normally like this?”

“Probably fine! Keep going!”

I wanted us to keep progressing. I’d learn the systematic stuff later by reading books. I think that was better. No matter what, the housekeeper was teaching children…

“U-um, you see… next is lifting that water. This is fundamental for being able to manipulate objects infused with cursed energy—”

“I did it.”

I smoothly lifted all the water that was in the bucket.

“Huh?”

“What’s next?”

“…This time please circulate cursed energy throughout your body.”

The housekeeper, who had frozen up again, nodded in a thoughtless manner to my words urging her on to the next step. Next was body enhancement. That was also easy.

“Hup.”

I flowed magical power throughout my whole body and succeeded at body enhancement without any problems. This was the foundation of the magical power manipulation that I’d been doing since I was a baby. There was no way that I’d fail.

“I did it!”

I declared energetically, then deliberately jumped on the spot and clung to the ceiling with all four limbs, looking down at the housekeeper in that position.

“Well, next then. If you can already do those three things, the fundamentals are finished, so we’ll move on to handling techniques… Wait, no no!? This is obviously strange!”

The housekeeper had been giving off an atmosphere of thoughtlessly going along with my words again, but she came to her senses partway through and started shouting.

“Hah… hah… hah… um, this is your first time doing this, right?”

Then, after catching her breath, she threw a questioning word at me again.

“It’s my first time.”

I was three years old. I could only answer like this.

“Wh-why are you able to do all this so well?”

“Because I was watching TV! They show it on TV, don’t they?”

I had learned details about the existence of onmyoji over these three years too. First, onmyoji referred to beings who used cursed energy to handle sorcery and fight demons. And the demons that these onmyoji fought were monsters born from people’s negative emotions. The existence of onmyoji who fought these demons seemed to be kept secret from general society along with the demons themselves. Onmyoji stuff didn’t normally appear on regular terrestrial broadcasting.

But now was the golden age of streaming platforms. There existed specialized channels that onmyoji used. On those channels, they properly broadcasted footage of onmyoji fighting demons.

“I imitated the cursed energy manipulation of people on TV! Since I just had to imitate the flow of cursed energy I saw, it was easy.”

“Wait please. What do you mean you can see the flow of cursed energy?”

“Just what I said? You can see it, right? The flow of cursed energy.”

“I-I can’t see it…”

“Y-you can’t see it…?”

“I can’t see it… I see, so that’s one aspect of Young Master Touya’s talent. You really are beyond standard.”

Normally one couldn’t see magical power, right. That was indeed true, but I could see something. This had been the case since my previous life as a hero. For some reason, I had the peculiar constitution of being able to see magical power that normally shouldn’t be visible. It was because I had this talent that I had been able to rapidly become strong as a hero. Because I literally just had to see what the opponent was doing and imitate it.

From here on, when faced with the question “why can you do that?”, I planned to bulldoze through everything with “because I can see magical power”. I could see it, therefore, I could do it. I’d convince everyone around me about magic with just this one weapon.

“Next! Next is onmyoji techniques? I want to try using onmyoji techniques like I see on TV!”

While also being conscious of acting childlike, I appealed to the housekeeper.

“…No, for Young Master Touya, we should start with studying letters. If you’re going to learn sorcery, being able to write and read letters is essential. Let’s start by studying hiragana.”

“Ehh…”

But such wishes of mine were somewhere far away. What the housekeeper told me was a proposal to study letters.