The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World: Volume 1 (eBook)

Kiichi Kosuzu (Autor)

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2024
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-1850-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Betrayed by his allies and on the verge of death, the strongest exorcist, Haruyoshi Kuga, desired only one thing-to be happy in his next life. Using the secret art of reincarnation, he was transported to another world. Reborn as Seika Lamprogue, third son of a distinguished family of magic scholars, he's found to have no magical power whatsoever, which is an unacceptable shame in a family of mages. However, he soon comes to realize that his new world's magic is nothing compared to the sorcery he mastered as an exorcist. With his control over divination, curses, and legions of youkai who serve him, his life in this new world should be a breeze! The only question is: how can he make use of those powers while laying low to avoid another untimely demise?

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Chapter 1

Act 1

I opened my eyes and slowly inhaled. I was alive. My line of sight was close to the ground, and my hands were small. I was in the body of a child, probably around three years old.

It had worked. I’d been reborn. I was relieved, though the integration of memories that began a moment later made me feel ill. I’d had confidence in my success, but obviously, I had still been worried, as failure had meant death.

Now, what’s going on here? I sat in the middle of a dim room, with a magic circle drawn on the floor around me. It wasn’t the magic circle for the Spell of Reincarnation I had seen at the end of my past life. It was hexagonal, unlike any magic circle I’d ever seen before. Unusual stones were placed at each of the hexagon’s vertices. They appeared to be minerals of some sort, but I didn’t recognize them.

Then I felt the presence of people behind me—several of them. I could hear what seemed to be a spell incantation as well. The magic circle was faintly glowing, so I assumed I was at the center of some spell. I was unsure if I should run away or not, but I didn’t feel anything negative in my body’s memories, so I decided to stay put. I didn’t want to act strange and cast suspicion on myself.

“In the name of Blaise Lamprogue, I beseech you! Show me the power this child possesses!” I heard a man’s deep voice, and the magic circle glowed brightly—then faded away. Nothing happened. Everyone behind me was quiet. Had the spell failed?

“Pft! Ha ha ha!” Childish laughter broke the silence. “Ha ha, seriously? Is that even possible? Ha ha!”

“Don’t laugh, Gly. It’s not over yet.”

“We already know the results, Luft. Look! None of the elemental stones are glowing. That means what I think it does, right, father?”

I looked over my shoulder. There were three people, two of whom were children slightly older than me. One wore a mocking smirk, while the other appeared sincere. It was difficult to tell due to how dark it was, but it looked like they had golden hair and blue eyes. Were they foreigners? Was I in a Western nation? They were speaking a language I’d never heard before, and their features resembled those of Japanese people, so I couldn’t be sure.

“It does. The ritual is complete,” said the last of the three—a middle-aged man—as he closed his book. His disappointment was readily apparent. “Seika has no magical power whatsoever.”

Seika. That was my name in this life. My body remembered it.

“That’s too bad,” said one of the boys.

“Heh heh heh! Ha ha ha ha! That’s hilarious! How could a member of the Lamprogue family of magic scholars be born without magic?! They say mages without magical power are destined to be failures. Did you know that, Luft? Even father’s blood can’t save him! You’re a total disgrace, Seika!”

The three people—presumably my family—looked at me with disappointment and ridicule. It was the first time I’d ever been treated in such a way. I was at a loss. Magical power was likely a means of utilizing spells, which meant they were saying I had no talent for sorcery.

But that couldn’t be the case. My reincarnation spell automatically selected a body capable of recreating the structure of my soul. It was guaranteed to resemble my old body. That included looks, build, and aptitude for sorcery as well. I could feel the power flowing through me. I didn’t even need to confirm it—it was greater than I could have possibly imagined. How could they say I had no talent for sorcery? My body was overflowing with cursed energy.

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Ten days had already passed since I’d reincarnated. The sky was clear, and I was in the manor’s courtyard, holding out the hem of my shirt to gather falling leaves. By all appearances, I was a three-year-old boy. Yet as I gathered leaves, my head was filled with entirely different thoughts.

I had come to a conclusion: this was a different world. The night of the ritual, after emerging from the basement into a luxurious manor, I had looked up at the sky to check the constellations—only to see two moons overhead.

According to ancient Greek scholars, the Earth was a rotating sphere. That being the case, if I were on the other side of the sphere from Japan, I should have seen different constellations in the sky. It was supposedly possible to see the moon from anywhere, but there was no reason for there to be two of them.

I had listened to my family’s conversations for several days, and not once had I heard the name of any place or country I was familiar with. I could only assume that I was in another world. The sole condition for my reincarnation was a body capable of recreating the structure of my soul. I’d had no idea where I would be born, but I certainly hadn’t expected it to be another world altogether.

The spell had likely been unable to find a suitable reincarnation vessel in my world, so it had expanded the scope of its search to others. That wasn’t something I had foreseen, but there was nothing to be done about it now. Collecting my thoughts, I went back over what I knew.

In this life, my name was Seika Lamprogue. The head of the Lamprogue family was a count, making us nobility. Although I was the third son, that was still a fortunate position to be in. Had I been born as a commoner like in my past life, a simple plague could have been the end of me.

It was a land of abundance and progress. Much more so than Japan, at the very least. It was likely on the same technological level as the Song dynasty or Eastern Roman Empire, if not greater. There was still much I didn’t know. I needed to gather more information.

I carried the leaves I had gathered to the shade of a tree. Letting go of my shirt, I watched the leaves slowly fall to the ground. That should be enough for now.

I recited a short Sanskrit mantra, and the leaves floated back up into the air, exposing their veins to me. Gathering them together, I wrote characters on them with my cursed energy. “There.” I gave an order, then checked the quality of the leaves flying in all directions. It was decent. They were simplistic, but I had successfully created shikigami—pawns that served as my eyes and ears.

I would have liked to make them out of hitogata—paper cut into human shapes—but paper was valuable in this world as well, and I couldn’t ask for such a luxury. I would have to prepare them little by little.

I turned a third into the shape of crows and released them into the sky, then turned another third into rats and released them on the ground. I had the rest turn invisible and remain nearby. Shikigami were used as mediums for spells in place of talismans, which made them handy to have around.

“Hey, Seika! What are you doing out here?”

Startled by a loud voice, I turned around. Standing behind me was a child with ill intentions clearly written on his face—my older brother by three years, Gly.

“I saw you playing with those leaves, weirdo. What are you collecting them for? Wait, where did they go?”

Watching Gly look around in confusion, I let out a sigh of relief. He hadn’t seen me make the shikigami. I had to keep my past life a secret, no matter what.

“Say something, failure!”

Seemingly annoyed that I had remained quiet, Gly kicked dust at me. I wiped myself off without a word. He was just a snot-nosed brat. My disciples in my past life had all been good kids, which made the disparity between them all the more stark.

Our daily lives were generally tended to by maids. Our father didn’t look after his children very much, while our mother spoiled Gly. Maybe that was why he was so incredibly selfish. Yet despite that, our eldest brother was respectable and well-behaved.

“Knock it off, Gly.” The moment I spoke, Gly’s lips twisted into a smile.

“Don’t you mean, ‘please stop’? Watch your tongue. You don’t think you’re in the same position as Luft and I, do you?”

“I’m not?”

“Obviously! You’re not even part of our family!” I tilted my head in confusion. What did he mean by that? “I heard the maids talking about it! They said you’re the son of a mistress! That’s why you don’t have any magic, failure!”

That explains it. Finally, it all came together. For a while now, I had felt like my mother had been ignoring me. So that was why. It was no wonder the maids treated me like a nuisance. That must also have been why my father and eldest brother were so cold to me. Thank you, Gly. That was very useful information. Though given I’m being raised in this house, I think that does make me part of your family.

“That means you have to do what Luft and I say! Got it? Actually, I was just practicing martial arts. You’re gonna be my training dummy.” A smirk on his face, Gly backed up to make room for a running start. “You better not move!”

Immediately after shouting, Gly started running at me. Was he planning on drop-kicking me? It wasn’t something I had ever seen someone do in a real fight, and I wasn’t interested in letting this be the first time.

I slipped one of my invisible shikigami under his foot, causing him to trip and fall flat on his face. Ouch. That looked like it hurt.

“Bleh! H-How dare you!” He still seemed intent on coming at me, so I called back...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2024
• Reihe/Serie: The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World
• Illustrationen: Yuunagi
• Übersetzer: Jarod Blackburn
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: action • familiars • Isekai • Magic • Magic Academy • OP protagonist • Reincarnation
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-1850-2 / 1718318502
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-1850-2 / 9781718318502