DXD: A Church Exorcist

(MC pov)

You know, waking up as a kid after taking a nap wasn't exactly how I imagined my day to go. Oh sure, I didn't have much of a plan either way, just attend classes, study a little, read tons and tons of novels or fanfics and chat with some friends about how wacky the world is.

So you can imagine my surprise when I found out that I'm in the body of a kid, from the memories I got, it seems my name in this life is the same as the previous one, Samuel and I'm a 6 years old kid.

I realised that I'm not in a simple drama or normal world or even my original one. Want to know how I came to that conclusion? Well it's simple really, I manged to figure out from the fact the we have Vasco fucking Strada visit us from time to time, and we are often told by the sisters of all his stories and the supernatural in general.

So yeah, I can safely conclude that I am in DxD, and I'm in the Vatican currently being raised and trained to become one of the church's next generation of guard dogs.

Now I'm not going to lie, I didn't take being thrown from my old life to this seemingly crazy hentai hiding as a Shounen world. Oh sure, it's everyone's wet dream to get this chance and we all fantasize about it, but considering all the danger, all the efforts, all the modern luxuries, friends, relationships and the like that I will be sacrificing it just didn't seem ideal.

I am not an ambitious person, in fact I am quite lazy, always procrastinating my work, doing the bare minimum in most things, ignoring my flaws and people I general until it comes and bites me in the ass.

So I spent close to a month just acting mechanically after my reincarnation, just broading, thinking of just ending it all together, no need to try, cause honestly I was already suicidal before so it didn't seem that much of a bad idea.

But in the end, I just thought to give it a chance, this is a supernatural world, there is magic, crazy swords and guns, super humans walking around, so it will be a waste if I atleast didn't try to see and do it all.

So I resolved myself to become strong, not to protect anyone, not to serve anyone, just out of simple honest curiosity and desperation for power and a goal for my new life.

That's how I started my journey to get true strength. So I begin training my young body and meditating regularly.

For the physical training, I just run around in the training ground of the facility we are living in, doing all kind of stretches, squats, push ups, sit ups,etc. .

. Yep, we aren't actually living in a normal orphanage, it seems this is the famous Sigurd Institution of the church.

Apparently, besides trying to create and mass produce clones of the legendary hero, it also functions as a training and raising facility for promising individuals, which I apparently qualify as such.

Now for the meditation part, what I am trying with this is 3 things. First, to try and feel my magic reserve or core.

From what I found in the library, which is a thing in this institution apparently, every living being has a magical core. It's a spiritual organ that stores and channels mana if the user can activate it and I'm trying to sense it with all my mediation.

Second, I'm trying to delve into myself, my consciousness and my soul to try and achieve Touki and Senjutsu easier. Oh sure, it's hard for every other being besides Yokai to even do it, and there is the world's evil that can corrupt you.

But I'm not exactly going to focus on Senjetsu, my main goal is actually Touki itself.

To unlock it, you either can have a Senjetsu master do it, be a Yokai with talent and affinity, or train your body to the absolute limits possible. Meditation to be able to twist and manipulate your own Ki, life force, Touki, whatever you may call it, is just to make the process easier and leave some foundation to learn Senjetsu if possible in the future.

This is how I spend my everyday life after my reincarnation. Waking up, cleaning my room, eating, training, meditation and studying in the library.

As mentioned before, I was surprised by its actual presence and contents, apparently from what the sisters told me, the library was just a regular library that is more focused on the religious, supernatural and normal studies, until a group of veteran and retired exorcists, who now work here as the teachers and trainers, decided to add books about magic, history and the like for any possible magical talent they could find here.

So I of course start reading them with gusto, that is when I noticed that I seem to be fluent in Italian, which I totally wasn't before, and reminded me that there is a language barrier that I need to overcome in the future. But back to the books, from what I found, similar to the Original canon, the great war is still the same, the devil civil war happened around 500-600 years ago, the new Satans appeared, how human magic works by calculations and equations.

There wasn't that much of magic books in the library, not that surprising since, from what I remember it's still debated if it is heretical or not. What I found most interesting however is rune magic, apparently the magic itself doesn't need calculating, just writing or materialising a sequence of runes, with the corresponding mana, intent and comprehension, and the runes will do the rest.

So I started writing, copying and memorising the runes and their meanings as best as I can while formating sequences to try in the future, which isn't that hard with all the free time that I have and there are only like 24 runes, based on the Norse magic system. Although I didn't interact much with the kids in here, choosing to not really dump my intelligence and waste time with conversations, since I myself wasn't that much of a social person, even in my last life, so I quickly got Isolated, kids are like that, the innocent monsters that they are.