-Crack!

A loud noise approached my house; a loud sound of thunder on a day of heavy rain in Tokyo; a loud sound of police shouting in front of my house.

"Freeze! Don't move from your spot! "

I feel bad about this. I came out of my house and I saw a man holding the beheaded heads of my father and my mother.

The shock makes my mind blank, my knees feel numb, and the tears in my eyes start to pour down. Everyone looks at me pitifully.

Why didn't the police apprehend the murderer and even try to kill him? I feel full of despair about this. Should I steal the gun from them? Should I have killed him?

-Bang!

A loud bang of a gun suddenly appears. One of the police looks angry. The other looks like me. A look of despair. This guy is doing the action that I want to see from these policemen.

"What the hell are you doing?"

A man with the look of an ugly bastard started to shout at the man who had shot the killer.

"We were ordered to hold him by our superior. What the hell did you shoot? "Are you stupid?"

This cretin slandered the police officer with an irritating voice.

" You didn't even see that killer? He killed a married couple, and he killed them brutally, and that kid looks traumatized. "

"That bastard is all open. I can't feel comfortable just looking at him. "

He rebutted his superior while looking at me with a sad look.

"You son of..."

"You are going to be fired as a policeman from now on."

He said this while taking his badge and his gun from him. The policeman came up to me and said

"I'm sorry kid, I didn't come on time. I didn't even save your parents. "

He sincerely apologized as he walked back, and the other cops approached the killer's dead body and placed my father and mother in the black bag.

I looked around our home; everything looked terrible, and I found sticky notes around the kitchen.

"Take care of yourself, Rio."

It was my mother's last word to me. I feel numb, angry, and depressed. Everything looks grey, a colorless world with many criminals and bastards.

I'm going to eliminate every bad guy in this world.

-15 years ago

"The Joker" killed another five people in the Saitama District. These five people are among the most wanted people in the Saitama District."

The news became wild about looking for "The Joker," the biggest serial killer in Japan. He killed over 20 policemen, 60 drug lords, and 70 murderers. His name became a hero for those who sought justice but were ignored by this corrupted justice system in Japan.

And that serial killer was me, Rio Hagumo, also known as "The Joker". I killed many corrupted people by assassinating them, and every time I did this it made me feel like a psycho, and I found this to be my favorite hobby. I killed them with a big smile on my face. I'm going to wipe them out of the world.

-Present

-Bang!

"Don't run anymore," "The Joker," or we can say "Rio Hagumo."

I felt a gunshot hit my hips and made me feel weak in the backalley of Tokyo. Is this the end of me?

"Tsk, you bastard!"

My irritating reply to him

"Don't make me look bad; this is just an order by our new leader of our country."

He said.

Yeah, today is the day of the proclamation of our new leader in our country. This new leader is insanely strict and a leader who seeks peace. Too bad I'm his number one target and I need to be eliminated as early as possible.

"Well, goodbye, Mr. Joker, and thanks for eliminating some criminals. It makes our job easier. "

-Bang!

After that gunshot, everything becomes black, a place with no sound, a place that you can rest, or is this what we call hell?

While my body was roaming around in this blank place, a sudden light appeared in front of me.

A mysterious woman appeared and was looking at me with a pitiful eye, a look that I recognized from my past. And then she suddenly talks to me and gives me a choice.

"Rio Hagumo, did you want to live and make a new life again?"

She said while brushing my hair with her warm hand.

"My brother chooses you and shapes your fate; he wants to turn you into a world-class public enemy so he can enjoy watching you kill someone."

"On behalf of my brother, please forgive him and take my offer to make your life happier in a world where I'm the goddess. I'm Omoikane, the goddess of wisdom and intelligence. Please accept my offer. Rio"

The anger I felt in my childhood is starting to return, and that bastard god who changed my fate. But with this one, I feel comfortable with her.

"I, Rio Hagumo, accept your offer, my goddess."

My reply to her offer.

"I'm glad you accepted my offer."

"The next time you open your eyes, the new you will be born, and you're going to have a good life in your new world, and this world of fantasy will be your new start of being a new person."

"Farewell, Rio Hagumo."

After her last world, everything around me started to change. A new light suddenly appeared in front of me,and the voices of people surrounded me.

In my reincarnation, I'm going to make sure to protect my family with all my might and enjoy these new life chances.

After I opened my eyes, a beautiful lady appeared in front of me; a blonde, innocent, and angel-looking lady. 

And beside her, there was a handsome guy with a good body and a horrific aura that you could compare to a legendary knight.

"Look, darling! Our son looks handsome just like you. "

"Yeah, and he got your angelic behaviour just like yours too."

They compared me to themselves, with their happy expressions on their faces, and they began to hug me lovingly.

"Your name will be Yuiichi Nobunaga."

My new name is Yuiichi Nobunaga. What a historic family name I've got here.

And this family, I'm going to protect them with all of my might.

Five years later,

Five years have come and gone, and our peaceful life hasn't changed, nor has our happy family.

I can crawl on my own, and with the blessing of my goddess, I can read a text in this world's languages. In this world, mages,knights,heroes, kings, and queens exist here. It's a totally fantasy world, a world that is very unique to my old world.

My mother was a mage, while my father was a knight. They're both retired now because of me. But I'm glad that they're retired, so there's no danger that will come to them.

After five years, I roamed around our house. The house is a little bit better. It looks more like a little version of a villa, but with furniture from the old era. The current era of this world is not more advanced than the old Japan.

While looking, I found a library in our house. This library was my mom's library, and every book here was my mom's collection of magic spells.

When my mother left my room, I would sneak out and go to her library to read some books and learn some of the magic spells. I also learned a way to maintain my mana stable as early as I could.

I discovered a simple way to keep my mana in my body; it's more like I need to do some yoga and focus on my inner core, which means my heart and brain are imagining my mana flowing through my nerves.

There are five tiers of being a great mage: novice, amateur, veteran, king, and God class.

You can notice that if your tier is higher by casting different kinds of magic from different elements, every magic element has its own tier too. If you can cast magic higher than a king, you can be considered a living god. There's only one person who reaches a god tier, but after that, mages reach a god tier, he disappears and is nowhere to be found.

Well, there is such a theory that he seeks a higher level of magic, but that theory is still a theory and can't be defined as truth.

For now, I can maintain my mana at a stable level and I can cast some novice-tier spells in water like "Water Ball" and in the wind like "Whirlwind." This spell isn't very powerful in comparison to what I imagined magic to be. But at least I have some weapons up my sleeve that can be used in the future.

"Yuiichi?"

"Where are you going? Mommy is here. "

My mother called me with her angelic voice.

Not very long ago, my mother found out where I was.

"Oh my, you're just here."

She lifted me and squeezed me gently with her angelic smile on her face.

"Darling, dinner is ready!"

My mother called my father to start our dinner. And my father came to kiss and hug my mother on the cheek. What a beautiful couple we had.

"There's a bandit! Everyone run! "

The loud voice of a man outside, with many people rushing towards him, and the sound of a sword can be heard even inside of our house.

"Darling.."

My mother called my father with a worried look on her face.

Someone suddenly trespassed into our house with a long sword in his hand.

"Stand by, if you move some centimeters, you are going to die here!"

He warned my father with a menacing look. And other members of his group suddenly came in too.

"Hey, look at that girl. She's so beautiful. We should take her too. "

He said, with a perverted look at my mother.

My father looked annoyed by this bastard. But for some reason, my heart felt like being tightly held by someone, a feeling of irritation and a feeling of... DESPAIR..should I use some magic and try to harm them with all the might I had?

"I'm sorry,Yuiichi, but let mom loose a little bit. Those people are literally annoying me."

My mother said to me while a horrific aura suddenly appeared on her and she was ready to throw a spell, a spell with no chant. What is happening?

"Darling, be easy on them, or we can say, kill them as clean as you can."

My father's sarcastic advice on mom.

"Die!."

A gigantic fireball suddenly appeared and burned every bandit until they became ashes and magic level that can be considered as King Tier. Is this mom's true power?

My father suddenly went out with a light sword that suddenly appeared at her waist, a sword that could cut everything. He sliced everyone, one by one, with a psychotic look at him, and just a few minutes later, all the bandits suddenly died in the most horrible way of death that you can imagine.

"Thank you very much, the great hero and the great mage of the capital."

"Our gratitude to you will not be enough for all of the protection you gave to us."

said by the elders of our village.

"That's okay, Mr. Counselor. We are a little bit annoyed too. We wish to hold them, but our patient is not that long as everyone thinks. "

My father's sarcastic reply while holding the leader's head of the bandits

But wait, did I hear about a great knight and a great mage? My parents were heroes in this world. ... ehh.....

After a big mess that the bandits made in our village, everyone cleaned the villages and put every corpse of a bandit in the incinator.

While my parents were walking around, a group of knights suddenly came into our village, and both of my parents were walking towards them.

"I think both of them didn't control their temper."

The elegant knight said to the other knight.

"Don't make us look like monsters, Arnold."

My father's sarcastic comment to the elegant knight

"Yeah, Arnold, don't give us weird nicknames."

My mother replied too.

Even in their sarcastic comments to each other, it looks like they know each other.

"Hahahaha, my bad, my bad."

"Well, it's true that both of you were monsters in your day, though."

"A great knight who is almost a God Tier and a Mage who can also be considered a God Mage."

Arnold tells us that my mother and father are great people with extraordinary power, and both of them can be considered heroes in this country. What a shocking revelation it is.

"That was an old title, Arnold. We had already quit being heroes and were living as a good married couple. "

My father said, while my mom nodded to him.

"Yeah,yeah, by the way, is this Yuichi?" It's been a year since the news came in the capital that you already have a child. "

Arnold changed the topic and focused on me.

"Yup, it's been five years. Some more years, he can become an adult too, and leave us with his girlfriend and have a family too. " *sniff

"Don't overreact, darling."

Yeah, he's just five years old. He's still growing slowly, so you can have fun with him. "

I nodded at Arnold and Mom, while Mom made Dad calm down a little bit by wiping away his tears.

And after a weird moment, both my parents and Arnold looked serious for a minute.

"So, Arnold I'm sure you're not here just to protect the village. I'm right. "

My father changed the topic, with an intense look at Arnold.

My mother looked at my dad, and she left them while holding me.

"Mom, is dad okay?"

I questioned my mom, while looking worried at her.

My mother's knee was in front of me while patting my head. She explained everything to me in an easy way that a kid could understand.

"Yes, dad is okay. He just needs to talk to Arnold privately; maybe it's an important thing. "

"Were dad and mom awesome? Are you a hero like in the story book you always read to me? "

While looking inspired at Mom, I changed the subject.

"Yeah, yeah, both Daddy and Mommy are awesome people. We can fight a bad guy without getting a sweat."

My mom replied to me while holding my hands and walked back to our home.

-11 years later

There were many events that happened after those 11 years. My parents still look the same, didn't even change, and I'm glad about it.

My father taught me how to use a sword as my self-defense when I was 7 years old. And when I was 8 years old, I found out that if a kid knew how to use magic at an early age, they could be considered a great person in the whole country.

So to avoid trouble, I didn't show my capability that I know how to use magic and how to control it.

My mother taught me some lessons on controlling my mana as a bond for both of us. The great mage rewarded me for teaching my mother how to control mana. I'm so lucky that I was reborn into this family.

On my 10th birthday, my birthday party was a big one where all the villagers celebrated it as a special event in the village. I found many good people, and we had fun while interacting with them.

On my 15th birthday, my parents told me that we were going to live in the capital, so I could attend the biggest school in the capital, the Agartha Magic Academy.

An academy where all kinds of inspiring mages and knights can be enrolled there and special treatment for a noble so a commoner can come in too.

My parents could take advantage and enroll me there without getting an entrance exam, but my parents didn't take that advantage and let me study hard so I could be enrolled there and they put me in a higher section.

And I like that attitude. I study hard and focus on my sword fight with my father. And so is my magic, but I secretly practice my magic so no one will notice.

And after my 16th birthday, I celebrated it in the village as my last birthday there. Many felt emotional and the same with me, but I promised that if I get a family, I'm going to live there too for my peaceful future with my own family.

The next day, after that party, we left the village with a carriage and went to the capital. And after an hour, we are already in the capital, and we go towards a mansion.

And, as I imagine it in both heroes, the mansion is enormous, possibly five times the size of our previous residence.And, as I imagine it in both heroes, the mansion is enormous, possibly five times the size of our previous residence.

"It's been 16 years, the mansion is still the same and a little bit annoying for no reason."

My father comments in our home, and my mother agrees with him.

"This is our new home, Yuichi. Have a look and, if you want, go and explore the capital first.

While speaking with the maid, my mother said that I should look around first.

"I'm going to look around the capital first."

After choosing my mother's suggestion, I rushed towards the exit and started my little journey in the capital.

"He's pretty excited, is he not?,Darling."

"Yeah, he is."

I looked around the capital, and as I expected, it's pretty crowded and you can hear everyone talking to each other.

After half a minute of exploring the capital, I go into the back alley to get some time to breathe. The capital is really exhausting to explore.

While taking a rest, I heard the voices of a group of men. And looking for that sound, I found a group of men and started annoying a girl.

"Hey, miss, want to join us?"

A perverted look at her really has the intention of doing something bad to her.

The girl simply stared at them with piercing eyes, and then a black aura appeared at her back.

"Holy, crap, this one is bad news, guys. Let's go out here. "

The group looked panicked and left the girl.

"What an annoying bunch of pigs, tsk."

Her comment on their actions while looking pissed

After watching them, I started to go back for now, but unfortunately, while walking back I stepped in a can and made some noise.

"Who is there?"

"Show your face, you little eavesdropper."

This is bad. Maybe I should excuse myself.

"Uhmm, hell--,"

After showing myself, a little knife suddenly appeared in my front. I dodged it reflexively, but that was a bait, and she attacked me in the front too.

I dodged the knife and countered her attack, but before I held her shoulder, she used a wind barrier and countered my countered attack.

"Wait, wait, let's talk about this."

I begged her desperately to stop the fight. And she stopped attacking me, and she was willing to hear my side.

"My bad. After seeing your aura, my self-defense suddenly reacted, and I forgot to calm myself. "

She apologized to me while bowing her head to me.

"No, no. It's my bad for eavesdropping on you. "

I apologized too and bowed my head, so we can be even.

"Uhmm, please don't tell everyone that I can use magic."

Her sincere request for me

"No, that's okay, I'm not that kind of person."

I replied.

"By the way, are you still a student?"

My perplexing question to herMy perplexing question to her

"Yup, I'm still enrolling in the academy."

Her reply to my question.

"Eh?" With that skill, I thought you must be a young knight, or even an adventurer."

I'm a little bit shocked, but there's something about her.

"Can I question you one more time?"

"Uhm, sure, no problem."

"How can you see my aura? I thought I hid my aura in my full power. "

"I can see everyone's aura, even with God tier blocked. It's a gift from God to me. It's more like God's eye from others' perspective. "

"Woah, that's cool!"

She answered me without hesitating. What a brave woman.

-Clang!!

The bell of the capital started to clang, and it means it's already 5 in the afternoon. Maybe I should leave now.

"Oh my, it's already late."

"May I leave first, uhm..can I ask your name?"

"I'm Natasha Takahashi."

Her response.

"Then I'm Yuichi Nobunaga."

"Nice to meet you, Takahashi."

I replied to her and left her first.

After walking back home, I realized that there are many amazing people in this world. I'm going to do my best in the entrance exam tomorrow.

"Updating the system."

"Huh, what was that?"

For some reason, I collapsed and felt empty for some reason after hearing that mysterious voice in my mind, and a mysterious light suddenly appeared in front of me and then.

—Continued in the next chapter.