Fever in my veins

What a tiring day. I just wanted to laze around but then this unstable demon pops out, five minutes later a demon slayer arrives.

While they aren't much of a threat with my current level, they turn out to be a pain to deal.

Stepping forward, I came to stop upon a clearing. It was quite out of place. The area was in stark contrast to the deep forest behind me. There was a small hut there but it seemed to be uninhabited.

As I stepped inside, I didn't find any mysterious boxes storing ancient treasures promising powers beyond imagination like those cheating protagonists did.

Few pieces of cloth scattered on the floor, one mattress...or at least what's left of it. Some crockery in the net cabinets and a small lamp.

This place is very much out of place but I won't complain about free lodging. The sun is about to rise soon anyways.

Taking a look at the night sky I tried to empty my mind, stop the thoughts from emerging but it gets harder every day.

A dry laugh broke out.

I suppose it really is impossible to be completely detached from emotions huh...

What am I supposed to do? As far as I know, I was immortal before even becoming a demon, while my demonic body did give me some hope for escaping from this world once I get bored, my chakra is constantly trying to eradicate this weakness.

What then?

Do I just live in this world for eternity. I'm not delusional. It would be easy to gain company from other demons but even that wouldn't solve the eventual numbness.

Turn her into a demon too?

That would just be cruel. Loving someone for eternity is impossible. At some point we would forget about the feeling. That is the reason they say love is life a flame. It would burn out eventually.

Life isn't just dreams and rainbows. No girl would actually agree to be the 3000th harem member like they portray in the books nor would they be eternally devoted.

Well some do but let's not talk about the outliers.

I was able to hold myself up by the idea if transmigration. Even if I live for eternity at least I'll be able to learn something new from another world.

But now?

How do I even kill myself. Even without my demonic body, my vitality is abnormally huge. The oldest planet [PSR B12620-26 b] is 13billion years old and it still has an active core.

This was a planet housing no life or anything special other than it's ancientness while the planet's vestige I assimilated with, had chakra.....

Although it's quite depressing, it doesn't stop me from being me. I won't start crying and begging for a miracle. I've given up on hoping for miracles even before all this began.

What I need to do now, is fix myself.

It was hard to notice during my time in naruto's universe but observation haki from the other world helped me quite a bit. I'm not proficient enough to see the future but I can sense my surroundings....including myself.

It's like watching yourself in third person. Closing my eyes I focused deep inside me hoping to see something. Something tampering with my mind but I got no results like that. Instead, I saw a huge glass wall with countless shards. Cracks formed and continuously mended together but every once in a while, the wall would shake and the shards would get thrown off. This however didn't make the wall shrink, it simply regenerated the lost shards.

As I looked at the wall I realized something. That I had no idea what the hell this thing was.

What?

You expect me to miraculously know everything happening inside my body or something? There's only so much I can figure out by instinct alone, and this was something even weirder than my immortality. There is a glass wall inside me....

Deciding to ignore....whatever the fuck this thing was, I searched deeper and saw countless grotesque beings getting washed away by a blue stream. The pressure emanating from the stream ripped the creatures to shreds as it marched forward regardless of the waves of creatures trying to push it back.

The resistance however wasn't futile as it managed to slow down the stream to a snail's pace.

Looking ahead, I saw two orbs on the other side. Both of them red except one had a darker shade. Nests of snakes were surrounding those orbs as if they were on guard duty.

This time however, my guts didn't give me the middle finger. I felt everything resonating with me, the creatures, the charka which I imagined to be a stream, and the orbs acting as the core of my demonism.

Without hesitation, I leaped forward and landed in front of the orbs.

The snakes didn't try to stop me. Probably because I am the owner of the body, even though muzan has control over my demonism, the snakes wouldn't go out of their way to attack me without orders.

The darker orb was still, as if it was inactive, it only sent out pulses once in a while. It felt like a part of me. Foreign, but still accepted while the other orb was like a bull. It continually shook while sending out tiny extensions towards the stream.

I didn't know what it does but I wanted to destroy it...and so I did, or at least I tried to. My fist bounced off the orb upon impact.

The orb sent out a pulse in a different rhythm, almost as if mocking my attempts. But I wasn't done. This is still my body, so I should have the advantage when it comes to control.

As I focused on my arm, a dark metallic coating formed on my hand, but I wanted to make sure this gets over in one punch so I pumped as much haki as I could and my arm started becoming slightly red.

Just a bit more...

𝙐𝙧𝙧𝙣𝙜𝙜𝙜𝙜!

Aura started to coat my fist. It seemed the orb recognized the threat as it sent out a pulse to direct all those creatures towards me.

That however, was a mistake. The chakra rushed into me once it had no more obstacles and condensed inside my arm. Probably unneeded at this point but still helpful nonetheless.

The creatures and snakes couldn't make at as my fist made contact with the orb and I felt a weight get lifted off of my body. As the cracks started spreading, I felt my strength increasing.

This was probably a limiter muzan used to make sure his demons didn't find a weird way to surpass him.

A bright light spread out and wherever the light reached, the creatures vaporized. The other orb thrummed in excitement as if finally being woken up from a long slumber.

Opening my eyes on the real world I saw that the sun was already out and I was basking in sunlight. I really missed the sun. Thank god the curse got lifted!

Flexing my arms, I felt more energized than usual. Stronger, not a colossal gain but a small increment by a factor of half.

I bet I could match up with all those pesky admirals even if they ganged up on me now. Still don't think I'm on par with the yonkos yet but who cares. They're not here anymore so I become the strongest by default.

I went a bit far away from my house and...

"Demon arts."

Everything in a 10 meter radius turned into ice. It didn't end there as the ice slowly started vanishing taking all the trees and shrubbery with it.

"Frozen vanish? No that doesn't sound cool. Meh, I'll think of the name later. Let's go back for now."

As I went back to the clearing I sensed two....no... three people. If it was before, I would've had a mild temptation to kill them but now there were no such desires.

I guess muzan did a lot more than just put a limiter huh?

Well, I'll just pull a genjutsu on them and make them leave. No need for unnecessary bloodshed.

As I stepped forward the door opened and a man with a mark on his forehead came out and stared at me with fish eyes.

He's strong. I could tell. His observation wasn't inferior to mine, probably better by a slight margin but it wasn't haki. Something else, but I couldn't tell what.

Are humans in this world generally this strong? Even yumeko was stronger than the average human, quite close in terms to that demon's strength.

Well it doesn't matter if they are.

"Hello. May I ask who you are?"

The man spoke? He doesn't seem tense. He's shocked but not afraid. Well I guess it's fair considering his strength. He can't demolish mountains but his demeanor is exceptional. Coupled with his observation he would be a pain to deal with. Not impossible to defeat but definitely annoying.

"Shouldn't you introduce yourself first, also this is my home so pack up and leave."

There, that should rile him up. Strong people are quite prideful. they'll start seething once you don't give them face like those young masters in xanxia.

"Forgive me for my rudeness. I am Yoriichi Tsugikuni. My wife is unable to greet you as she is resting at this moment. She is currently pregnant and we have no place to stay at the moent. Would you please allow us to stay with you until she wakes up?"

....What's happening right now?