Note: The translation was made by the site DeepL, I don't know English, that's why I used this site to bring the English version of this fic, I will do the same with Restarting.

Correction 3:00 A.M. 29/10/2023

Hello back, I have fixed the chapter back; I realized very late that there were some errors, I relied a lot on the DeepL page when translating the entire document to just copy and upload to Fanfiction, my fault. From now on I will do the same but I will correct the errors to repeat this same error, and last question. You use Wattpad to upload this fanfic also in its English version so that you, the readers, can see the chapters with images and that way you can know what each character that appears in the chapter looks like.

I just wanted to know that, if you use and tell me that you would like to see this fanfic in English with its respective images, I will do it, as it has already been corrected, I will only publish on Wattpad with its images so that you can see the fanfic.

Just in case, there may still be errors so I hope those errors are not too big, bruh.

Thanks for reading this correction :)

Prologue: Muramasa

Inferno: Gremory House.

The servants of the Gremory family are excited. The reason?

Today, the matriarch of the Gremory house: Venelana Gremory is going to give birth.

The demon doctor told them he was going to have twins. They waited months for the birth of the new heirs of house Gremory. They had been many years without an heir since the day Sirzechs left house Gremory to become the new Lucifer.

Sirzechs himself with his wife, Grayfia Lucifuge who is also known as the [Queen] of Sirzechs in the Rating Game.

They were on their way through the corridors of the great mansion with a brisk walk to his mother's room to see his new siblings that had him ecstatic from the first day he got the information.

As he was happily going along thinking with that, he came upon a servant coming out of his mother's room giving information to everyone around the room.

—The little heirs of the Gremory family are born.

Said the servant with a smile that betrayed his attempt to hide his emotion at the moment of reporting this fact.

The servants murmured with joy as he watched Sirzechs approach accompanied by his wife.

—My little brothers are born! —said Sirzechs without hiding his joy as he approached the door handle to push open the door and enter his mother's room.

As he approached his mother's bed he was lying down and saw in his mother's arms the little babies that would now be his younger siblings.

—Hello, Mother!

Sirzechs said as he happily greeted his mother, who started to look at him and smilingly said.

—Hello Sirzechs, these are your new siblings. Meet this little girl named Rias and this little boy named...

(Minutes before the arrival of Sirzechs)

When the new heirs of the Gremory house were born. One of the newborns had a confused expression; as if he didn't know where he was.

With his eyes he looked everywhere as if he was looking for an answer as to why he was in that place.

He kept looking for several seconds, but unfortunately he had given up looking for an answer.

He gave a small sigh that caught the attention of the beautiful young girl who carried him in her arms.

One of her hands was guided to one of his cheeks and was stretched slightly, causing him to look into the beautiful young woman's eyes.

(Who the hell is she?)

Wondered the little baby, as he tried to guess who it was.

(Mmm. I find myself in her arms, and I also realized that I am very small, maybe I am a baby? If so… she would be my mother?)

The beautiful young woman saw his confused expression drawing her attention even more.

—You're a weird baby, you know that?

Said the person who would be his "mother".

(If I could speak I would tell you no... I have no idea why I was born again, although I have no memory of my past, for some reason; I know I should be dead.)

「Sen... Muramasa

(Hey! How strange... a strange, incomplete and blurred name came to my head… Does it mean something from my past that I've lost?)

As the little boy's mind continued to search for more information, he heard the footsteps of an approaching person who interrupted his thoughts.

She saw a man with long crimson red hair, blue eyes, wearing an elegant white suit. He had a peculiar chin, like a "u" that caught her attention.

(Strange, there are still some rare beard shapes for men. Are there any normal ones?)

Thought the little guy of things that had nothing to do with the plot, we continued.

—Hello, my dear. I came the moment I felt the small traces of magic in this room.

Said the newly arrived man, the beautiful young woman smiled warmly at him as she lifted the little ones a little close to him.

—Meet your new children, this little one is Rias and this little one is Mikoto.

(Who is Mikoto! My name is!... My name is!... What is my name?)

The little boy was in existential doubt as to what his name was.

—If it weren't for the news that you would give twins, I would have made a deal with the Phenex for Rias to marry Riser.

(Why on earth would you do that, the little one has no due date and a bombshell of a marriage arrangement has already dropped if there were no twins.)

—But with you, little Mikoto, you will marry Ravel Phenex; thanks to you, you will save your little sister.

(Son of a bitch! Give me the freedom of who I'll marry at least! I don't care what other problems your family has!)

He inadvertently made an angry face that surprised the two adults a bit.

—Haha, what a surprise this little guy got mad at the last thing I said.

—This little one is very strange, when he was born he didn't cry like he did with little Rias. The comments made "Mikoto's" anger calm down.

(Damn, I have to act like a baby or else I'll attract too much attention.)

—Oh, well, he calmed down quickly. —said the man who would be his "father".

(Shit! What do I have to do so that he doesn't get suspicious!)

—It seems that little Mikoto understands our words. —said her mother.

(... They're insightful, what the hell do I do now.)

—Maybe Mikoto is a genius?

As if a ray of hope came to Mikoto, his father's comment ended up saving him from the stormy situation he ended up in because of his slip of wrong moves.

(You sir I don't know how the hell I came to that conclusion, but you saved me.)

—Little Mikoto will take the Gremory family to a higher level!

Said the mother excited by what her husband said.

(You, madam, do not come to that conclusion hastily.)

Mikoto thought as she felt nervous about her parents' actions.

(Why on earth would I take this family to a higher? I can't even walk now.)

—I'm sorry little Mikoto, but the burden of the Gremory family will fall on your shoulders as the new heir.

(... Because I feel it's not a problem? Maybe it happened in the past? Was I an heir of a known family? I am very morbid to know my past.)

While Mikoto was thinking of things to do with her past, Mikoto's father started to leave.

—Are you leaving already, dear?

—I have to report the birth of Rias and Mikoto to the councilors of the Underworld.

(Underworld? Now I want to know what race I was born into, I know I was a human; but now, what am I?)

—I understand, dear. —said his wife with a smile.

Mikoto watched as her father left the room, after a few seconds a servant came to watch him. He ended up retreating once he saw them, and a few murmurs of joy could be heard.

(Maybe he told them about Rias and me.)

At that moment the door was heard to open again, and another young man with long crimson red hair and blue eyes came in, but this time accompanied by another person, a beautiful woman with silver hair and eyes, wearing a maid's outfit.

—Hello, Mother!

Said the newly arrived man as he happily greeted his mother, who began to look at him and smilingly said.

—Hello Sirzechs, these are your new siblings. Meet this little one named Rias and this little one named Mikoto.

(So this would be my older brother, Sirzechs. All the people look very young, will they be immortal? A beautiful advantage I have now, I will be young for many years... for some reason I didn't like to call myself "young".)

Mikoto was confused by a simple word, as if the word "young" had nothing to do with him.

(... maybe he was an old man or an adult? But if so, why that simple word? makes me uncomfortable? I don't think there's going to be a word that can make a person uncomfortable… or maybe it does?)

—Hello little brother, you know that you are the new heir of the Gremory family.

(Yes, I was told a few minutes ago.)

Sirzechs watched as Mikoto made a bored expression at what he said.

—Mhm! Your face tells me you already know.

(I got bored of trying to hide my emotions, I'll let fate… surprise me?)

For some strange reason Mikoto felt a little tingle all over her body. As if some important information had come out of her thoughts.

(Ugh… seriously who the hell was I in the past, there are words I said without thinking that end up falling like cold water to my body as if it was something important in a puzzle. If I try to figure out my past I have no idea what might affect me today.)

(I'd better go to sleep, and stop thinking about things that will remind me of my past.)

Venelana together with Sirzechs watched as Mikoto began to sleep.

—He's a weird little brother.

Said Sirchez who was watching his little brother.

Venelana gave a little laugh. —I thought the same thing, although your father said he is promising. If he said so, I will quietly entrust the future of Gremory in his hands.

The chatter he was having continued without a hitch, as he thought of a prosperous future in Mikoto's small arms.

|One year later|

Mikoto Gremory's room.

Mikoto watched from her room towards her window, amazed to see the "sky" of that world.

(That whole place really only looks dark red, I don't even see a sun; but I can clearly see the outside).

(So a demon...)

Days after his birth he had discovered that he was a demon, which ended up taking him out a big surprise. His imagination of a demon was very different, he didn't think he would be... "human".

As well as being surprised by the underworld.

On walks that took his mother, whom he now knew as Venelana Gremory as well as his father Zeoticus Gremory.

He was taken in some parts of the acclaimed "Underworld" to reach several mansions of different families.

They were gatherings of mothers who brought their children to meet their offspring.

The "Underworld" was... like a big city; there were no terrifying places as he would have imagined, or maybe there were, but they were in a distant location. He thought about going to those places when he was older.

(This world is strange, it breaks people's dreams. My imagination of demons and underworld, fell to pieces.)

(Well, it only remains to discover the gods and other races; I just hope they are not a joke.)

(For now I try to remember the little information collected. I am Mikoto Gremory, belonging to an upper class demon family of the 72 Pillars. Sirzechs Lucifer, elder brother and Maou Lucifer. Position received after the end of the Civil War for the achievements made by him. Grayfia Lucifuge high class demon who served the former Lucifer, now married to my older brother. Rias Gremory, younger twin sister, as she is a newborn there is no information to highlight. Zeoticus Gremory, my father and main head of the family. Venelana Gremory, my mother and matriarch of the family, formerly heiress of Bael; another upper class demon family. Y… I guess Ravel Phenex, my fiancée? I have no information about her, I only know she's my fiancée, I can't be sure I'll form a relationship with her either; so I'll leave the title of fiancée with a question mark.)

(Mmm, I don't know if I'm missing any more information.)

(Perhaps, information from my past; although I'm thinking of leaving it for the future. Let my future self worry about that, not me.)

At that moment he hears the door to his room open. Mikoto watches the beautiful servant approaching him.

—Mikoto—sama, it's time for lunch.

(Oh! Time really goes by fast, well I'll enjoy my childhood, as I thought, I'll let my future self worry about that one.)

The servant went over to the little baby who was smiling and holding up his little arms for her to carry him.

—Haha! Mikoto-sama, you'll be a glutton if your taste for food overflows.

(You may or may not be right, haha.)

The baby's little giggle was heard, when the servant said that.

The servant closed the room, and continued his walk to the dining room, where the Gremory family was waiting for their children to be brought by the servants.

|One year later|

Another year has passed, and I found no more important information to highlight. Other than the fact that I can now walk, talk and write.

The servants and my parents praised me for this.

I couldn't find the reason why, until I saw my little sister; Rias Gremory. And I understood why she was praising me.

Right now I find myself watching her, she can barely walk well, and has difficulty pronouncing several words.

She is a normal little girl, the problem; it would be me. I already have a previous life, with little knowledge.

Rias, meanwhile, is a new little life.

She has no knowledge of any other life, other than this one that has just begun. That she should be compared to me is something they should not do.

This may turn out to be a big problem in the future, if she sees that she is seen as inferior to me, it may affect her psychologically. Tsk, I can't allow that. The only thing I can do is to help her, but it really looks exhausting to do that. But there's no other way, I'll have to lend a hand to the servants who are teaching Rias.

Unless she has a decent IQ level of a 4 year old girl.

...

Tsk, I sense another problem with doing this. A 2 year old teaching someone his own age will draw a lot of attention.

The only solution I see is to try to play like a toddler, with learning toys. At least that will go unnoticed.

|One year later|

—Mikoto-nii-chan.

I was sleeping peacefully at my bedroom window, until I felt someone nudge me a little and call my name.

I opened my sleepy eyes a little, to see who was calling me.

—What's up Rias?

I saw my little sister who was the one guilty of interrupting my dreams.

—Let's play Mikoto-nii-chan! she said with joy and bright eyes.

—I'm sorry, but as you can see I'm sleeping. I replied as I closed my eyes again.

—But Mikoto-nii-chan, she's always sleeping! She complained to me.

—Maybe he has a sleeping art. I said.

As I was closing my eyes again, but something happened.

—That hurts.

I said emotionlessly.

—I just have to take you to the playground to play!

She said, as I was carried across the floor outside my room. It really hurts.

—Well, let me go; I'll walk myself to the courtyard.

—Do you promise?

—Yes, I promise.

—Okay!

Rias let go of my arm, and I start to get up from the floor to walk with her to the hallway that leads to the courtyard of this mansion.

My body and mind are very sleepy, I really don't want to do any exercise; I want to sleep.

—Hello, Rias-sama and Mikoto-sama.

—Hello Misaki-san!

—Hello.

We greeted the brown-haired servant.

Seriously the people who work here are of high beauties. Although I don't doubt their domestic skills, they do a perfect job. But there will be a problem of taste, if I only see beautiful women every day.

I hope not to have that problem in the future.

—We are here!

Mmm. I didn't realize we had arrived.

I must be careful not to be lost in my thoughts.

—Well, Rias. We're going to play.

—Mmm?!

I watched Rias' joyful face as he thought of a particular game to play.

—To the burned ones!

—Mmm? How do you play that?

—We will play [Rock, Paper, Scissors], and the winner will count 10 seconds for the loser to run! Once the 10 seconds are up, the winner has to go after the loser and throw this ball so that it touches any part of his body!

I would have preferred the [Rock, Paper, Scissors]. Instead of running, and making my body more tired.

*Sigh* Well, this will be a start to exercise my body and stop sleeping.

—I'm in.

—Rock, paper, scissors!

I ended up taking out paper. Rias took out stone.

—I won.

I started running as fast as I could towards the mansion. She never said where running is allowed. So the whole territory of this mansion is a playground.

I focused my ears to listen to Rias' countdown, which was already over.

—Here I come, Mikoto-nii- chan! Heh, this should be fun.

|Several hours later|

*yawn*

I was in my room, it was already dark.

I really had fun playing for about 2 hours on that burn game.

Now my body is with fatigue, we were running all over the mansion. Although we were scolded many times for that reason, but we kept playing no matter what.

Until our mother arrived, and we had to stop playing.

*yawn*

I'd better sleep, I can't stand much sleep anymore.

—Zzzz.

|One year later|

Another year has passed, although this time it was very boring. There was nothing that could stand out as exciting or interesting.

I only have information that I will have a teacher who will educate me about many things of the Underworld.

I don't find it interesting.

|Six months later|

The people who will be my teachers arrived. They began to teach me the basics of what a demon should know.

I don't think much of it, though.

Just listen to the information of the Civil War, Pure Blood Demons, Reincarnated Demons and also the romantic story of my older brother and his wife.

It was a story that ended up being taken to the big screen.

I have no idea what Sirzechs thinks of that, whether he will be happy or uncomfortable; that everyone knew how the relationship with his wife began.

But I guess he won't care. Four Great Demon Kings. This one really caught my attention.

Lucifer

Beelzebub

Asmodeus

Leviathan

The names of demons and monsters with greater relevance in the bible. Although the original ones died.

I would have liked to know the originals, but well what can you do; I can't mourn in spilled milk. I heard someone opening the door to my room. Mmm.

It's the teacher.

—Hello, Mikoto-sama. Today, continue teaching us arithmetic.

—Understood, teacher. Well, another boring class.

|Months later, Christmas.|

This was weird, when I first celebrated Christmas. I didn't think demons celebrated this holiday.

Not that I have any recollection of celebrating this either. I found it confusing when I read information about Christmas.

It's like a birthday for everyone, as gifts are given and the family gets together while everyone chats.

—Take little Mikoto.

Sirzechs said, as he handed me a small wrapper. A scarf?

Why would I want a scarf in hell.

—Are you funny, big brother?

—Haha, in the month of Christmas in the human world it's always snowing, so I gave you that.

—But I don't go to the human world, because I would wear this scarf in hell where snow never falls.

—It's because this Christmas we will take you and Rias to the human world to meet the snow. Said my father approaching, along with him; my mother and Rias.

—Oh, what a thrill.

I said with boredom.

—Haha, you really never change Mikoto. Said my mother.

Well, I don't find it exciting to leave home just to find out what snow is.

—Rias and Mikoto, you should change into winter clothes. I was taken to my room while I was given winter clothes.

After a few minutes we went to a magical portal that took us to the human world.

There I got to know the snow and Kuoh City, a city run by the Gremory family together with the Sitri family.

And also something important that resonated in my mind. Japan.

There was a tingling in me.

For some reason my soul longs for this place called Japan.

Another piece of information from my past. Little by little this puzzle is coming together. And also my biggest fear.

Will my being change when I remember my past?

|Two months later|

Rias has gained a friend of the Sitri family: Sona Sitri.

The other day Serafall Leviathan had arrived along with Sirzechs for the two girls to meet. My perception of her bearing the title Leviathan fell apart. A magical girl.

*sigh*

Seriously, the Maou are weirdos. Or do they do it out of boredom?

If so, I am afraid of my tastes and hobby in the future if I get to the same level of boredom as the Maou.

Will there be a hobby that can kill that boredom for me in the future? Another problem for my future self to take care of.

For now I will go and see how Rias is doing with her new friend. Walk for a few minutes to Rias' room.

I slowly opened the door without making any noise to look inside the room. I found myself perplexed.

It seems that Rias and Sitri-san were in an argument.

Rias was pouting while holding the teddy bear tightly. And Sitri-san is talking to him with an angry face.

Mmm, I don't know what could have happened; but I'll leave it alone. They should sort out their own friendship problems themselves.

I closed the door without making any noise.

I started to walk away and let my own body walk to the place he wants.

There was nothing important to do today. So, now I will go to the courtyard; there is a tree where I can sleep peacefully.

Will there ever be a day where I can do something interesting? For now I'm having a boring life.

As I am a child my parents will not allow me to be in a dangerous exciting situation. I just have to wait patiently until that day comes that I can call interesting.

For now I will only follow my parents' orders.

Until the day comes when I get bored of following their orders.

Well, I'm going to be 5 years old in a few months, so it will be a while before I can do anything on my own.

So I will continue with my boring little boy life.

Time skip. —

Hell: Gremory House.

April 9, 2000. This day has arrived.

Today I am 5 years old, together with my sister Rias.

There is nothing new when it comes to celebrating our birthday.

But, these people are always very happy. As if they are looking forward to this day.

I don't find it very important to celebrate my birthday. But if they are happy, I will celebrate this day without any problem.

I'm not going to ruin her happiness just because of my whim.

—Mikoto-nii-chan!

I heard Rias' call behind me.

I gave a small circular motion to see it.

She wore a pretty white dress, with red buttons in the center; a red ribbon on top. On her neck she had another red ribbon hanging on a white cloth collar, and on top of her small head wore a white maid's style headdress; which gathered the small pigtails of the long straight red hair.

Mmm? An angel?

It came with a pure white ensemble.

—Hello, Rias. You look very pretty.

—Thank you, Mikoto-nii-chan!

Rias said, as more people came up to compliment Rias' beauty. Another birthday with nothing interesting really.

For now I will go to the kitchen, I hope the party sweets are ready.

(Kitchen)

Well, I've made it to the kitchen.

I opened the door just enough so they could hear it open. Thus attracting the attention of the cooks.

—Something is wrong Mikoto-sama. asked the cook closest to me.

—Nothing really, I just came for some candy.

—I see, Samuel-san prepared some Japanese sweets called dango; I hope you like it.

A cook with short blue hair, brown eyes. He approached with a tray of sweets called dango.

Pink, white and green.

They were three small colored balls, which was pierced by a skewer. While I was watching this sweet, another cook approached me with green tea.

—From the information seen, dango is accompanied by green tea.

I ended up assisting while I picked up the candy and green tea to eat it quietly outside the kitchen. I didn't want to interrupt her work anymore.

—Thank you.

They just nodded with a smile.

I closed the door and looked for a place to enjoy the dango and green tea.

|More later|

Well, the party has started.

We all sang a birthday song, and then the blowing out the candle. But, still, so that a large cake in the shape of a castle.

He had to go on tiptoe to get to blow out the sail. Rias almost fell because of that. A joke perhaps?

His way of having fun is a bit strange.

That aside, the party went off without a hitch. They are all dancing and laughing.

As I would say this.

Youth? Or old age?

Since they are demons, they can live many years and stay young. I guess it's a demon thing.

I looked at the time on the big clock on the wall behind me.

23:42 P.M.

—Mikoto...-nii...-chan...I...am...very...sleepy... Mmm, things of fate.

—It's all right. I'll take you to your room. I was going to go to sleep anyway.

—Come get on my back.

—Under... stood.

Said a sleepy Rias.

He climbed on my back slowly, and settled in to his liking.

—Mikoto...-nii...-chan...your...back...is warm...and...comfortable… zzz.

She fell asleep on my back the little princess.

I ended up smiling, being a sibling I think is a rare thing for me.

—Haha.

I gave a little laugh.

—I guess this life is not bad.

Although I must also search for information about my past. I will go step by step in search of my past.

If I rush I may make many mistakes, in the course of my actions. Maybe when I get out of the underworld I will start looking for information.

For now I will do nothing.

|One year and three months later|

*sigh*

There are 5 months to go until the end of this year. And I am already 6 years old. I have no idea if time is passing slow or fast.

...

I have a very boring life.

What should she be doing at 6 years old? Mmm, Rias had her first friend when she was 4. And me at 6, I don't even have a friend.

Shall I start looking for a friend?

Maybe next year, for now I will enjoy my solitude more.

—Mikoto-nii-chan! Will you join us for a game?!

Rias opened the door without concern for my privacy. Don't teachers teach you manners?

Behind her came the heiress of the Sitri family, and now a childhood friend of Rias.

—May I decline the offer?

Ask if I can reject this idea of playing.

—No! Now let's go!

I ended up being raked on the floor as it was some time ago.

—Is it really okay to force your brother to play?

Sitri-san asked while nervously watching Rias' actions. I like this girl. I wish Rias was like her.

—It's okay! He's my brother, so there's no problem; whatever actions I do with him! That one...

(That's a very evil way of thinking!)

These were the unison thoughts of Sitri and Mikoto. I was nervous now because of what Rias said.

...

For now I will let what he said pass and go on with my life without worrying about meaningless things.

—Okay, Rias, but what are we going to play?

Sitri-san asked. I also looked at Rias, she is the one who always chooses what to play. Since there are three of us, we'll play hide-and-seek!

Rias said excitedly.

Mmm... well, maybe I can start playing.

—All right, I'll count; you hide.

Rias and Sitri-san nodded, as they began to hide.

—1... 2...

I started counting, I'm going to start playing more often. Maybe someday something interesting will happen.

Being locked up in my room would just make me bored all the time. From today I will try to change a little bit.

|Seven months later|

We are February 25, 2001.

Less than 2 months before my 7th birthday. Today a teacher will arrive to teach us magic.

Rias was super happy about the news.

In my case, it was the opposite. It didn't call much attention to me. These months they were playing with my fists and legs.

For some reason this was more interesting and exciting.

I will learn to use Destruction magic, but I will also train my body as a professional fighter. Hand-to-hand combat is more exciting.

—Mikoto-sama, Rias-sama; I am his magic teacher.

My thoughts were interrupted by the person who had just arrived.

I was meeting Rias in the courtyard to receive the teachings of handling our destruction magic, and more spells that I may not use.

—Magic is very simple to learn and use, you only have to follow 4 steps: Imagination; what you want to do, Concentration; to imagine in detail what you want, magic formula; would be what elements and right amount of magic to use, and Will; would be how to materialize the spell with will using in conjunction with magic. By following those 4 steps and with productive training, the day will come when you will use your magic as if it were breathing; Fire.

The Master summoned a small fire in his palm, and underneath it was a small magic circle.

—Now you try to use your magic.

|Six months later|

I am already 7 years old.

Since we had received a magic teacher, I have been practicing every day in my spare time.

I also practiced hitting a tree, with fists and kicks. And I started to exercise my body, I realized that my body was very weak, maybe from spending too much time sleeping made my body very weak from the average demon child.

So I find myself running in Gremory territory every day.

It is 200 km², it is very exhausting; I can barely reach the tip of the other side and faint from exhaustion, if it were not for the servants who are watching over me, my life would have been in several critical situations.

He had heard of a reincarnated demon who had gone mad, and was going around killing any unfortunate demon who happened to be on his killing radar.

He has killed 115 demons; pure blood and reincarnated alike.

This demon didn't care who you were, he would only kill you and quench his bloodlust with you.

The Gremory territory is very large, maybe this demon is hiding in dark places or maybe in normal places while pretending to be a normal demon and not an assassin.

If so, the demon is very confident of his abilities to pass unnoticed by the demons who were always watching, looking for a trace of him.

For now I hope, never to meet him.

I can't imagine standing up to him and fighting him. I'm still too weak.

Mmm, I'm already approaching the middle of Gremory territory.

The only reason I know that is because of the store I find staring into the distance.

I looked at the geography of the territory when I started running every day, I looked for the middle of the territory and also a house or area that was well known to keep track of my finishing time.

That's how I got to know the dining room that I am approaching in a dead end of my tiredness. The lady who owns the place ended up watching me fall to the floor from exhaustion.

—Fufu, Mikoto-chan. You have improved your time in getting to my dining room.

Said the owner of the store as she used her arms to carry me and led me to a piece of furniture.

—I'm sorry... I'm full of sweat... I'm sorry to get you dirty...

I responded with shortness of breath and dizziness in my head. Wearing this type of exercise is bad ass.

—Fufu, don't worry. I've gotten used to doing this since you started coming to my place, at a standstill.

—Thank you... Elisa-san...

Elisa-san is a beautiful woman with short light blue hair that reached her shoulders, she had braids gathered above her ears that led to the back of her head; where a lock of hair was sticking out, she has beautiful dark violet eyes; she was wearing a light blue sweater, and dark blue pants that reached 12 cm below her knee.

In the left fringe of her hair she wears a bincha of a star with a wing, it is something I had given her for the kindness of having taken care of me.

She has no obligation to be taking care of me, so I am grateful for her kindness.

—How... long... did... I... take...?

I haven't recovered yet, I will be resting on the furniture for several minutes.

—You have lowered your time a lot. Watch your eyes for the answer.

—This time it was 30 minutes less.

She said smiling.

Yesterday it took me 4 hours and 30 minutes. Now it is 4 hours.

It is a great progress. The first day it took me 8 hours to get there.

Although that first day I used strengthening magic on my body to increase my speed, performance and endurance.

I had a lot of trouble using my magic, I couldn't perfectly concentrate the strengthening magic on myself, I ended up falling many times on the way to Elisa-san's place.

She ended up healing my minor wounds.

I really need to have a stronger body. A body that cannot be hurt, a body with an iron hardness. A body like that I need to get, so as not to worry the people who are important to me.

For now I will sleep to recover energy.

|Thirty minutes later|

—Ahh!

My body was alarmed by Elisa-san's scream of terror. I looked at Elisa-san's horrified look, while using her hands to cover her mouth, Elisa-san's whole body trembled with fear.

At that moment I smelled the smell of iron contaminated with blood.

I focused my ears to hear footsteps approaching this place, more precisely; approaching Elisa- san.

That set off alarm bells in my head.

Elisa-san was in great danger.

My eyes saw a demon smiling like a maniac while in his right hand he held a katana that expelled bloodlust, which also surrounded the demon's body.

The katana had a signature near the hilt.

Muramasa

I felt a small connection to the name and the katana.

Maybe I'm closer to finding my past than I imagined? I'll stop thinking about it for now.

The bastard had started to raise the katana that was aimed at Elisa-san. My mind went blank.

He could watch the bastard's movements in slow motion as well as Elisa-san who wanted to save her life by moving away from him.

I have no idea what's going on, but I'll take advantage of this. The bastard's body is very defenseless, I just have to strengthen my arms to pierce his chest...

His chest has no more chance of survival. To kill it quickly I have to pierce its heart.

The moment I brought my right arm close to the bastard's heart, I received a strong kick.

—You're amazing little guy, if it wasn't for my instincts I would have been certain death! I saw the maniacal grin as he readies his body in a battle pose.

I was lying close to Elisa-san.

Tsk, he dislocated my right arm. I received the full force of his kick.

—Mikoto-chan! You must leave this place, you're going to die!

I listened to Elisa-san with a frightened expression as she worried about me.

—You're going to die too if I don't do anything.

The demons after the Civil War now lead a very carefree life. They are weak now.

Hard times create strong people; strong people create easy times and easy times create weak people.

Tsk, I would have taken seriously training my body more than a year ago, instead of slacking off.

(Nothing interesting this year, maybe in the future something interesting can come for me.)

Ha, I always thought so. Now I'm getting what I've been looking for.

—Even if you're right, you're a child; you can't endanger your life! Tsk, I'm too

Weak.

—Hahaha! If you've said your last words, now DIE! Here came back another killing spree from the bastard.

My perception saw back in slow motion the movements around me. I'll think about why that is later.

Now I have to think fast about a move.

Should I grab Elisa-san and escape? Attack again? Be a decoy? Hold out until my bodyguards arrive? Fight and die?

Several actions came to my mind. Even one I didn't like.

Run away and abandon Elisa-san?

This thought ended up torturing my head.

Why would I abandon her, if she has helped me many times without receiving any obligation to take care of a silly child who is always running around every day.

I have to repay their gratitude for taking care of me.

I strengthened my body with magic, I didn't care if I broke a bone.

If I attack back straight to his heart I would receive an attack that would deflect me back to the ground.

If I attack his head on the right side, he will try to defend himself with his forearm or the same hand.

And if he can't defend himself in time I'll just crack his skull with the full force of my kick.

—But thanks to my instinct I can defend myself from your kick-AAAHHH! It hurts, it really hurts.

My right foot was also broken.

But now he will no longer be able to use his right arm that held the katana. I must go quickly and grab that katana.

As I was running, I almost ended up falling. Tsk, having a broken foot left me off balance.

But I must quickly reach for the katana before he grabs it.

—I WON'T LET HIM GET MY KATANA!

Shit, shit, shit.

The damn bastard is just a few inches away from reaching the katana. There is no other choice.

I will have to sacrifice my left foot.

I strengthened my left foot to an exaggerated level that I could feel the blood circulation stop.

It didn't matter, now I have to kill him.

His body was helpless as he bent down to grab the katana. A strong kick to his head would kill him instantly.

I have to go faster, I can't let him get away or fight back now.

...

I watched as my kick came closer and closer. There was no escape for him, it is my victory.

KRACK!

My head carefully recorded the horror event in front of me. The force of my kick...

It was loaded with more power than I imagined.

The bastard's head had exploded and all the brains fell on my face and soiled all my clothes with his blood.

I could see well... the brain smashed to pieces, the tongue in the open air and how the blood came out of his throat... and how it made a pool of blood around the dead body.

A disgusting scene... that I committed myself. But the most disturbing thing was...

I didn't feel anything the moment I realized I killed him As if I was already used to doing this.

I began to tremble with fear at this fact.

Elisa-san finishing, hugging me from behind while using her hand to tenderly stroke my hair.

—Already, already, already, already. Calm down Mikoto-chan, I know you are shaking because of what you have done. But don't think what you did is wrong, you just saved the lives of many demons as well as my life.

Elisa-san said with an uncomfortable smile.

The idea that a 7-year-old boy killed a strong demon can be terrifying to people.

Elisa-san I end up coming up with a wrong idea why my body is shaking, afraid of having killed. But this was not the case.

My fear was to feel nothing, no particular emotion; an emptiness.

I had no doubt, remorse or sadness about killing someone.

A person without a feeling at the moment of killing is a dangerous person. Will I become a dangerous person too?

Will I be a danger in the future?

Questions that tormented in my head. I am afraid of my future.

|Astaroth Territory|

Zeoticus had traveled to meet an old friend. Lord Astaroth. They had talked about many things in the past.

Also valuable information on how to lead his family to gain more power in the underworld. And they ended up reaching their son: Mikoto.

—Your son is an exceptional boy, a great future awaits him and your family.

All the demons around Mikoto always thought she was a genius demon. She was a fast learner and quick to execute the teachings always given.

As for his sister Rias.

They thought he was a decent demon, his IQ was that of a normal child, he was always distracted and looking to play. That's why his learning was mediocre compared to his brother.

The demons felt confident about the person who was to inherit the Gremory family. They had high expectations of Mikoto Gremory.

—Thank you; my wife feels the same as I do. Mikoto as an heir was a blessing for Gremory. As for her sister, her learning is slow but sure. You still have nothing to worry about, Mikoto is the one who will get more attention in the future as Gremory's Leader. Rias just has to enjoy his life and not make mistakes that will lead to big trouble for the Gremory.

—It's a pity for your daughter that no one has high expectations of her.

—You may be right, but no one can know and control a person's destiny, it's like a dice game, you will have good numbers or you will have bad numbers. Mikoto rolled the good numbers and Rias rolled the bad numbers, their lives will have different successes in the future, it can be good or it can be bad. Only fate itself knows that answer.

Although Zeoticus said that, years ago when his son was months old. He had forced the doctors to draw his blood to look for the best genes to put together in a marriage to have a better lineage.

From so much searching to form and create a powerful lineage for the future. I had come to the same answer he had thought of in the past.

Phenex family.

They had called him crazy. But when they saw this result, they changed his twisted personality to a great success for Lord Gremory.

Destruction + Immortality.

Two words, two powers; in one person. Also known as Gods.

Gods are immortal and destructive. Mikoto Gremory's next lineage with Ravel Phenex, will bring a Demon with the same level of a God.

This person who said that no one can control a person's destiny. He was playing with the very destiny of his own son.

Lord Astaroth watched as Zeoticus wore an evil grin.

(I feel a little sorry for his son, but I can't say anything. We demons are like that, if there is an advantage of getting more power, we would take that advantage without blinking an eye. Haah, it's a pity that Ajuka has become a Maou. For now I'll be seeing if Diodora is someone I can take as Astaroth Clan Leader, I hope she doesn't become a headache in the future.)

Lord Astaroth never realized that his children were the same as the children of Zeoticus.

One was blessed by a good future, and the other by a tragic future and blamed for the downfall of his clan.

Time skip. —

Hell: Gremory House.

I was in my room, a few days after the accident. People were surprised that I had killed a strong demon.

But I don't care about that now.

I have more important business to attend to. I had taken the katana of the mad demon with me.

I had started to search for my past, I asked my older brother Sirzechs Lucifer for help. I asked him to look for information about Muramasa.

Although he asked me the reason for that, I told him I was interested in the katana so he wouldn't ask too many questions.

He didn't ask any more questions since Muramasa was a blacksmith, maybe he thought he was interested in blacksmithing and with the information he was looking for he was going to start learning how to forge.

But if he came to that idea, he was wrong.

Muramasa is somehow intertwined with my past that I have lost. So I read the document given by my brother, while I was at rest. As I am a demon my recovery was higher than humans.

So after 4 days I am putting in order the information I have read.

I went in search of my slate and drew a straight horizontal line, with several short vertical lines where I filled in the names and date that was very important, while in my mind I thought about the other details I read.

Starting with the 3 generations known about Muramasa.

Muramasa I (Shodai Muramasa) later known as 'Myōhō Muramasa' for the katana he forged. It was active from 1489-1521.

Muramasa II (Nidai Muramasa) the most famous generation for the beginning of the legend of the cursed katana.

It was active from 1532-1539.

Muramasa III (Sandai Muramasa) the decline of the Muramasa School, the rumors of the cursed katana was taken seriously after seeing people murdering and committing seppuku.

The straw that broke the camel's back was the death of the Shōgun: Tokugawa Nobuyasu.

He had committed seppuku with a Muramasa katana. He was active from 1573-1592.

In the years of Muramasa III there was a Masashige attached to him (Muramasa III) (younger brother, disciple or son?).

There was no way of knowing that.

But with that we trace another distant line from Muramasa I, reaching 1456, Musashige I; he dies that year.

Known as Musashige Senko.

His birth was in 1403, and it is said that he was the first disciple of a Muramasa (?). The first school was then already established in the 1300s.

Maybe the school was born in 1380?

Draw another line away but this time from Musashige I.

I wrote down the name and year of another person who was in the Muramasa information and it was...

Gorō Nyūdō Masamune (1264-1343)

Another important name in Muramasa's information. It is rumored that he had a Muramasa (?) as a disciple.

But the years do not come to become a disciple of Masamune. The answer is that he was never his disciple.

Perhaps the blood descendant of this Masamune met Muramasa (?) who later founded the Muramasa School.

...

Wait...

Masamune did not have a blood descendant.

He had an adopted son named: Hikoshirō Sadamune.

He was born in 1298 and died in 1349.

Even this adopted son could not meet Muramasa (?). Tsk.

...

...

In that moment of uncertainty my mind came to another logic that I didn't want to think about. Leaving my face with an expression of surprise.

Maybe... just maybe, the fantasy that he was a disciple of Masamune was real and not a silly legend.

And if that were true, the Muramasa School would have existed before 1350. Masamune died at the age of 79 (1343).

Muramasa (?) may have been 69 years old at the time of his death. The legend spoke of a competition between the two of them.

If true, the competition had to be in the golden age of the two blacksmiths. Masamune would have been 40 years old and Muramasa (?) 30 years old.

If so, Muramasa had to open his own school at the age of 26 or maybe 30. Leaving with 2 dates, 1300 or 1304; the creation of the Muramasa School.

Like Muramasa (?), he was a blacksmith, just like Masamune; his lifespan could not be more than 75-80 years. Or it could even be less.

If all this were true. Then there were 4 or 5 generations of Muramasa.

...

But why is there no name of these generations of Muramasa? Did they exist or did they not exist?

There is information of the first active Muramasa beginning in 1489.

Musashige said that he was a disciple of Muramasa (?), he was in the years 1403 (his birth) to 1456 (his death).

Let us suppose that Muramasa (?), died at the age of 80 which would be in 1354. Then the first successor of the Muramasa School would begin.

Since Muramasa had no descendants, the best student had to become the successor of the school...

Did Muramasa (?) really have no descendants? There's something that doesn't enter my head.

His master Masamune did not have a descendant, he did not have his own descendant either.

The Masamune school after 1400 ceased to be important. There are 2 lost generations of the Muramasa school.

Musashige met a Muramasa and became his teacher.

I can think of another logic as after Muramasa's death (?), the school was closed, if so; there is more than half a century lost until another Muramasa who was Musashige's teacher is known again? a descendant who went into hiding or was hidden?

And because it is named after the founder Muramasa (?). Why he did not give himself another name.

Identity theft?

Is there a race that can change its appearance to that of a human and take on the appearance of another?

Damn it I really need to get the hell out if I want to find more answers!

...

Tsk, for now I can only wait until he lets me out of hell.

...

But when will that day be?

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|Year 1298, Japan: Kamakura city; Sagami province|

On a dirt path with several trees around, a silhouette of an adult male person with short red hair and eyes the color of his hair could be seen, he had left the path to go into the vast forest.

After a few minutes we reached a small river with a small waterfall.

He approached near the river and sat down on a large rock that was big enough even to lie down on and look up at the vast sunlit sky.

He brought his legs to a cross style while stretching his arms touching his knees, and at thathe closed his eyes.

He had begun to meditate. Or maybe not.

—And now why are you meditating, Sengo.

A voice had been heard coming from the way the red-haired man had come.

At that the red-haired man opened his eyes again to look at the person behind him.

A beautiful woman of maybe around 30 years old. She has a nice long white hair, beautiful golden colored eyes hypnotizing to her sight. She was wearing a beautiful purple elegant kimono, with cherry blossom designs. And on her face was a beautiful smile.

The background of the cherry forest further enhanced her beauty, as if she were a goddess.

—Mmm, thinking why on earth would I accept that deal in our competition, Masamune.

—Seriously, it's been 1 year already; I can't believe you can't get over that...

At that moment, the small cry of a baby was heard on Masamune's back.

Masamune carefully moved the baby to hold him in her arms and began to gently move him from side to side while humming a soothing melody that had an effect on the baby to relax him and put him back to sleep.

—Do you want to hold your child?

Masamune said as he watched Sengo in amusement.

—Tsk, get that brat away from me. —Sengo grimaced in disgust. —Seriously, why on earth would I accept that competition from the loser who would obey an order without objection.

—Sorry for your arrogance, you wanted a challenge, although I could understand why you were confident of winning, but you still have years to go to beat me. I'm 32 years old and you're 25, I'm 7 years ahead in terms of blacksmithing skills.

Sengo had become confident of his abilities and had challenged his master: Masamune. Where he ended up losing, and after his defeat Masamune's order had arrived.

A son... seriously I have a fucking son, apart from having a son; I'm also married. Tsk, now I don't know which is worse, being married or having a son.

—Now, now, calm down, you can't go on forever denying what has already been done.

—Tsk, why wouldn't I be, after all you chose to have a child with me, a cursed being. There were better people with a better lineage that you can contract for a better future for your family, but you ruined that prosperous future for someone cursed and disreputable.

Masamune gave a small chuckle as she watched Sengo's scandals of how she worried about a better future for herself.

He might be right, there were better men with a better lineage to marry into and raise his family up the ranks. But Sengo had forgotten that he himself raised his family to 5th Rank, making the Muramasa a Noble family, equal to the Masamune. In terms of power the two are equal.

At that moment as she carefully laid the little baby on her lap sleeping, she brought her hands to Sengo's cheeks and forced him to stare into her golden eyes.

—It's because I love you.

—Huh?

Sengo ended up letting out a confused and amused groan.

If a person's face could fall to pieces because of something unexpected, then at that moment Sengo's face would have fallen off because of how surprising Masamune was.

After a few seconds, Sengo had recovered from his surprise.

—Tsk, love is a troublesome and annoying thing. —Sengo said while holding his right hand where his heart is located and where he felt the heartbeat that began to beat a little fast.

Masamune smiled a little at Sengo's actions. —It's okay, I won't force you to fall in love with me... but I might start making moves to make you fall in love with me. —he finished with an amused smile.

—I'd rather talk about something other than romance. —said Sengo with a grimace. Masamune took into account what he said, maybe another day it will keep bothering him.

So he thought of another topic he could talk about, arriving in his head a certain Clan.

—By the way, Sengo, how is the Hōjō Clan doing?

—For now they are calm, but it is rumored that they are controlling the Shōgun: Prince Hisaaki.

—Are you planning to wage another war?

—Haah, I hope not, if there is another war; all of us blacksmiths will be forced to forge weapons for them. They really don't get tired of committing atrocities just to get more power. If they continue like this, in a few years this clan will be overthrown.

—They are crazy, the Hōjō Clan eliminated even their only ally: Adachi Clan. —said Masamune.

—What can I tell you, when someone is obsessed with power they are capable of killing their allies.

(Although rumor has it that the Adachi Clan had already thought of attacking the Hōjō Clan to take all the power themselves.) Sengo thought.

—Did you get information from the Emperor? —asked Sengo.

—They are like the calm sea, although a storm may come up at any moment. They have internal problems of who is going to become the new Emperor.

—I would like them to take it easy about the successor, 8 years ago they almost killed the current Emperor.

Masamune sighed. —Becoming the Emperor of Japan is the most coveted power in the imperial family, they would commit atrocities of killing their own brother just to have that power.

Sigh. —Is there going to be a year where you can enjoy life peacefully? —Sengo asked as he gazed at the skies.

—We are blacksmiths, I don't think our work is the most peaceful for life, and we live in a place where they always want to go to war as if they were the strongest men in the world. —said Masamune.

At that moment, Sengo and Masamune's eyes had seen something strange in the waterfall that ended up falling and was carried away by the current near them.