I first flew as fast as I could towards the forest. I had to muddy the situation further, if anyone happened upon the scene at the house, they would think someone killed Ergaran and took off with the kid or many other things.

No one would think that a low-class devil child, without any resources, could defeat any high-class devil. So, there would be a search for me by police to see what actually happened.

At the same time as I am not paying money to Jou the pack we have between us would be invalid and a complaint will be launched and I would be further down the road in legal standing.

At the same time, though Old devil faction would know what happened and they would search for me, they have vast and varied resources that I don't know about.

What I do know though is that every devil born has to register their magical signature. A unique trait that can't be changed. With that all police man had to do was to fly around their assigned area and any signature which belonged to the criminal was tracked easily from the database.

All this was a setup that had people more or less following the law properly, there were still people who broke the law of course but they now were open criminals and as such whole population knew where they were.

There was more than 70% chance that one of the old devil factions or the peerage of the devil that I killed would come looking for him; they would leave their signature even if they don't do anything. All I have to do is to lay low for a few months and they would assume that I am dead.

I had reached the edge of the forest so I retracted my wings and started moving among the branches to a tree that I generally use to sleep in when I am in the forest.

My thoughts are going all over the place not making any sense, due to blood loss; it looks like I have to be more careful in the future. Pushing the emotions and memories aside with some concentration, I looked all around me and after finding the tree, hop toward the area that I have made for myself.

It was a small area that could contain my sleeping bad and a few other items. I quickly put the false bark that was used to hide the entrance aside and after making sure no animal or insect is inside started covering the exit again.

I have faced this situation many times during hunting, as blood in the air attracted a lot of attention, I hollowed out an already present space to make it actually protected, then carved a gate from the bark of another tree to cover the exit. It was not a proper setup but it was good enough to bandage my wounds during a hunt.

When it was covered, I finally began to start extracting myself from the clothes, it hurt so much as the wounds were ones more opened. It took a lot of effort and after a lot of soft cursing and even more bleeding I was finally free of the majority of my clothes.

Taking out the medical supplies from the inventory, I first pulled out paste applied bandages. These were already prepared by the hospital and you just have to cover over the wound, it would attach itself to that area. I quickly began bandaging the most affected areas, a few minutes of the careful application later, I sighed in relief, now that was done, I pulled out a paste that would heal light wounds and began to apply it all over my body.

Ergaran was a special type of bastard; he was taking great care in evenly distributing all the wounds. After the paste was applied, I sat in a pulled out my sleeping bag and sat on it in a meditating position.

Taking stock of how much energy is left in my body, I found that both my chakra and magic was sitting at about a quarter. A large amount of my magic was being spent in regeneration passively. This didn't please me very much, but still, taking into consideration I just survived an assassination, I was quite happy in that regard.

Taking out some fruits from my inventory I began eating them for energy while thinking what to so now. Sleeping was always an option but I am not that big an idiot. Taking that into consideration, I began to pack my medical kit.

While the paste and bandages were within bound of my budget, as they cost about 10 to 20 gold coins. On devils, many types of healing simply don't work and tears of a phoenix clan member cost way too much.

Now that I have concluded that something would have to be done, let's consider all the options present.

I took out my notebook and began writing, this was a habit I had in my old world, whenever something had happened, I took out the notebook, I always kept with myself and began to analyze and making points. It was a good way to think fast and not get too sidetracked.

First points being enemy's, there I put the whole devils as I will have to start being suspicious of the whole lot. Taking out my map book, I looked all over the map and after thinking about making a point.

The underworld was first divided into 72 pillars but as half of them went extinct, some of that land was gone to major pillars but the majority of that land was used as land that went to current devil king and Satan and they made it a place for conman people not connected to pillars.

Not living in a city, even if I have to travel there, I can't live in city itself as there are rounds conducted in surprise per month which tracked all the signatures in a city.

I again looked over the map to see a forest that is near a city and not in any pillar area as they take security up a notch. I began looking at the map and finally concluded that the only area that I could go to was either more dangerous than current or were full of criminal activities.

Everyone knew the areas that were full of criminals, which was nothing new. In the underworld, it was Xaka, a place full of all types of devils that were wanted. It was tolerated by everyone to have actual place where all the deals can be conducted.

Devils, as a rule, would, of course, do things that are not legal, so those people banded together and made a city for them. There are no rules in Xaka, anyone can kill you in the day in front of anyone and no one would say anything. It was like an extreme Gotham with no batman. There was no police there. No rules. The Maou (Satan's) allowed it to remain there because of politics. The people there conducted various businesses that were needed to be done all over the world, from hunting people to fighting in death fights to entertain people.

Apart from there, there were a few forests that I could lay low but that posed a problem; I would just be an ant in this world where there was danger everywhere. I need trainers to actually polish my style, to help me in the magic department and various other ways.

There were also comforts to think about. I don't want to use leaves instead of paper or have no medicines in case of any problem. There are some diseases that are dangerous to devils too.

Now that I have selected a place to go, I began to look around the city to find it in the middle of grassland. Looking around the city I found a forest about 30 miles away from it. I marked it out, then thinking for a second, put a question mark as it may contain any gang or very powerful animal.

Looking at the distance between that and my current location, I estimated it to be about 3000 km. I can't take any vehicle as I don't have the money. Apart from that, any teleportation business can teleport me near the place and it would be cheaper than some fancy transportation. I looked at the book again and started to look at any place I could travel to; from there I would fly to Xaka.

Eqark and Jasa were both good places, but Jasa had a large forest that went toward Xaka and as such a good place to train, even I knew that as I was, I would be eaten alive by people in that area.

I could live in the forest near Jasa for a year while training then starts flying toward Xaka. Refilling all the required items every month. But there was the problem of patrols in Jasa. Thinking some more, I thought about living in the forest a few days away from Xaka and going their every month. I don't think any gang would live that far away in the forest.

I would just need to make a trip every month for daily necessary items. Food and water are abundant in the forest. I can even make a room in the forest in the next month to actually have a place to live. I still have a room worth of things that I took from my apartment.

Writing it all down, I found a problem, who would transport a child, but that was solved by a henge. I would take my own form from the last world as it was my most solid. I knew the most about my own body and as such, it had to be convincing.

Taking a look at time from my watch, it was 8 at night, I knew I should not sleep and as such, I started taking power nap, a technique ninja learn to let their brain rest during missions or war time. I learned it to nap in comfort in a forest.

It was a good technique to learn as it was just a passive thing that anyone could do. I have already read all the book but there were many things that I just don't need currently. Like books on torture or cryptography as coding was necessary by a ninja.

I have not read the sealing ones properly though. Those books were about 10000 pages thick with various things that you have to test yourself and learn by heart. I can think of why Naruto would not want to learn that when he was young.

I should really take a nap not just attempt to that. I would need the energy tomorrow.

The Next Day

I woke up from my nap feeling refreshed; it looks like my passive healing is better than actually spending magic on the body to heal itself. Of course, I could make the active healing better, I would have to learn about the body and how my magic is interacting with it. Then increase the process while controlling my magic. I had already theorized that, looks like I will have to start training seriously.

I was not training hard enough, taking this world as a paradise while just experimenting on magic and chakra. Look how close that bought me to death. I was helpless when he attacked me with magic, didn't even know what he was going to do. I am taking the world to lightly, I have to remember this and continue to increase my power as something more powerful is always present in this world.

The powerful rule and the weak suffer; these words apply in this world perfectly. I have to remember that and continue moving forward. I didn't feel anything when I killed Ergaran; I am not going to think about that, my first kill was in a life and death situation that was good. I don't have conflicting thoughts going through my head.

I began to look around and after putting everything back in inventory apart from the waste, I began to convert the various waste products to petrol, the clothes that were blood-soaked and the towel were too used for this. I was getting good at converting things in petrol as that was the product that I generally used most alchemy for.

It was so easy to start a fire and keep it burning using petrol and a few sticks, I then started spraying the petrol in the space that I slept last night, taking another look, I took the false door in my hand and using chakra to enhance my muscle began tearing it into pieces. It would be a good way to keep the fire burning.

Taking out my lighter I started the fire whit it's help and looked for a few minutes while the fire started to spread and destroy the space proficiently.

I started hopping toward the city while taking into account of my energy, my chakra was about full while magic was sitting at the half. That was expected though as I am a low-class devil. I will have to increase my magical reserve. I concentrated on my surroundings and body. So, that any just healed wound may not open up.

I spent a quarter more magic in the rapid regeneration of wounds that opened up.

Taking into account that populated area was coming up, I henged to my old body and continued onward and started walking to not have wings pooping up at a different space, due to height difference.

I decreased my speed too, while keeping an eye on the surroundings, I thought about the technique to henge and thought about all the tell that a person could identify, thinking about it, first would be sound as while you can make the sound come from your mouth, the rest of the body didn't make a sound, even rustling ones that were normal in people walking.

The second was shoe imprint that gets left behind while walking, now that I think about it, you don't make motions in body that are generally made while moving, so while it is good at fooling for a short amount of time, if you are in someone's eye for some time they could generally tell there is something wrong there.

Devils have a better body than humans, in every way, and that increases with an increase in power. That is greatly enhanced when I use my chakra to enhance my senses and body, this was the reason that I was able to defeat a high-class devil.

Think it like this, devils magic passively increase my body stats while chakra is an active enhancement. While I am only at the genin level, I still have very good control of my chakra and genin status is because I don't have high-level ninjutsu or genjutsu.

Still there is a lot of ways in which I could improve, especially in seal less substitution as that is the most important Jutsu I know.

While I was thinking about it, the shop that I ones helped in appeared far ahead, it was a somewhat small shop with only a circle in the center of the shop and a table chair set up for people to sit at the side.

This is a somewhat popular shop, as you can't teleport anywhere, either you need a connection like a flier, or you can have someone that knows that place well enough, he can teleport you there. The shopkeeper was a good enough man and he knew about places all around the world. I can ask him about different places that would be better, but as I just thought about, henge was not good was to get information.

Taking that in mind, I made my voice slightly heavier and grunted good morning at him, he just nodded at me and asked where I wanted to go while returning my greeting.

Saying Jasa in the same way, I waited for him to set up the circle properly and then asked for 10 gold.

Giving him the gold, I waited for him to finish configuring the circle, after that, it was just standing in between the circle and waiting for him to finish powering up the device.

A bright light later I was in Jasa.

Thoughts from someone unimportant

Kyle thought about checking about his friend as he had not come back from going after the boy, but as he knew about his habits, he just cursed and went back to his work.

It was a shame that the boy didn't come quietly as now he would be a slave to someone in their section and there were a lot of them who would want a queen's potential slave.

Shopkeeper who just woke up

Jerry was surprised that there was someone that early in the morning and as such didn't pay that much attention to him apart from noting that the person was very still and obviously exhausted as there was so little magic radiating from him.

Work was work though so he just speeds up his work and sent his customer to Jasa, an odd place to go, but who was he to comment about it.

THOUGHTS

Well, no one voted in poll yet, I should let it remain there for some time. There is no reason to close it yet as for the next few chapters the SI is not going to interact with them.

I got some free time today so here is your chapter. I may/may not publish on Sunday, depends on the time I get this weekend.

Thanks, sevenvik, it looks like my new text editor creates some problems in the formatting, will have to correct that.