The Eminence Of The Shadows Is Born

After finishing saving Nishimura, ah, my mistake, Nishino Akane, I realized that the sky had become completely dark. Walking home, contemplating how to get more power, my mind wandered toward magic. As long as I had magic, I could become the being I wanted to be during that fight with Soldier-san. I feel as if I'm on the cusp of grasping something mystical.

For example, if I focus hard enough right now, I can see a bright light flickering off and on inside my head, and my vision becomes unfocused. It's either magic or aura. It has to be the effects of one of those. I could feel a warm energy by continuing to focus on that light. Flowing through my mind doing an infinity sign, I concentrate harder, blocking out all the noise. As I do that, I can see that infinity sign shining a dark purple with what looks like atoms flowing within it. When I gaze upon it, I, for some odd reason, see a vision: thousands of nuclear bombs going off all at once. It's as if covering all of Japan and reaching the Philippines and the north, with almost half of the countries to the east being erased from the earth as if they never existed. My heart was filled with excitement. This was the power I always sought. As I was thinking that my vision had ended and I was now standing in front of the infinity sign, my energy was right before my eyes, yet as I reached my spectral hand out to claim it, the sound of a truck's horn broke my concentration and pulled me out of my mindscape. 

"honk," "honk,"

"Son of a bitch whose the asshole who's fucking honking their fucking horn? I'm gonna beat the living shit out of you!!!" I yelled out in anger. I nearly achieved the impossible now I lost my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity gone due to some middle-aged assholes' road rage. Isn't this Japan? It's supposed to be relatively peaceful. This isn't America, goddammit.

I turned to find the source of the honking to my left. A truck 6 feet away from me headed straight for me.

"ah,"

I see I was the cause of their honking.

"well shit"

'I was so close,' I think to myself before pain surges through my body that causes me to pass out. That was my final thought before death embraced me.

...

In conclusion, I did find magic.

When I awoke, my surroundings were filled with magic. It looked different from what I saw in my mindscape, but who cares about the insignificant details.

Oh, right. Another insignificant detail is that I apparently reincarnated. Perhaps it was because of that atomic infinity sign that the gates of reincarnation opened for me or whatever the hell it was. Who the fuck cares

At the current time? I am a baby of several years old. I became fully aware only recently, and my sense of time feels wonky. I don't know the details of the cause, but it should remedy itself.

Above anything else, I don't understand the language. All I know is that this world has a medieval European-like culture, which is good enough. I have finally gotten my hands on magic. That is the be-all and end-all. The process and other extra details are of no interest to me.

As soon as I came to, I had noticed magic. The sight of those glittering particles floating around in the air is precisely like what I had felt previously. This proves my training in the past contributed to my being able to sense mana despite being several months old. And that now I've become as proficient with it as with my hands and legs. This feeling was just like that time when I had affixed myself to a cross while buck naked... no, it is like when I had repeatedly converted religions and danced in prayer while bucking naked... I'm sure every bit of my training is now bearing fruit. 

I've already confirmed that physical strengthening is indeed possible.

Pouring all the free time that a baby is blessed with into training, this time, for sure, I will become the eminence of the Shadows... ah, gonna poop.

Speaking of which, I'd learned somewhere that birds are incontinent, but so are human babies. No matter how much my reasoning tells me to resist, my instinct screams to let it out. However, with the physical strengthening that I had spent days and nights training up, I constrict my anal sphincter to buy time, during which.....

"GYAaaaaaAAAA!"

... I call for help.