Man-made Satan

Anyway, I was reborn to a Japanese couple who named me Akira with my last name being Ito I believe. Now from what I could tell when I was a few years older, I was born in 1980, or at least around that date. 

My parents were...decent enough people my dad had black hair alongside my mom, but unlike them, I had light red eyes and well dark grayish hair for some reason. However, that turned out to be something from my father's side of the family for some reason. My red eyes, courtesy of my mother's side which I suspect had a bit of inhuman blood in it. Something to look into when I was older, I mean I knew just from watching a few episodes of DxD that plenty of nonhuman creatures existed in the world.

Things like Youkai or perhaps the oddly uncovered creatures/gods in the Americas. I always wondered why they never covered that part of the glove, I mean entire religions and pantheons went unnoticed, creatures that were fascinating in their own right.

As I grew up, I tried to...love them or something like that but it was always hard to do, especially in my previous life. I think they could always tell, they could always feel my distance from them and that I wasn't like a normal child but they loved me nonetheless. 

When I was ten years old, they were unfortunately killed in a traffic accident, leaving me behind alongside a large sum of money. Enough to pay for school and the house, now it took quite a while but I was able to get my independence at the ripe old age of thirteen. Meaning I got more time with my research into magic, or more specifically adopting my form of it into this world.

While some things could be transferred over, like the bits of spells I was able to get from the Clocktowers alchemical department. Mostly the basic stuff like "Thought Acceleration" which was much harder to master than most people would know at least for me. 

I mean it would be easier now that I knew the proper components for the spell itself, alongside a new body to boot in a world where gods never left. Meaning the mystery of magic and everything else associated with it never left, I mean I could feel the mana in the air. This was another thing as both the Od produced in humans and the mana produced by the planet itself were more plentiful than in my previous world. 

Certainly helped with a few things as I started to gather more or less the plants I could easily use in my potions. I mean I was going to study a different alchemical field or perhaps dive a bit into chimeric research but the potions could help a bit. I know that the five elemental array or whatever the Clocktower called it could still be used/modified to facilitate mutations in them. 

They also are useful in creating my own homunculus, which was something I wanted to do in my previous life. Make a blank canvas and transfer my consciousness into it, did I know if it would work or not, no I did not but it was worth a try or at least I had hoped it would be. 

honestly speaking I tried to dive into that research hoping it would be a good way to prolong my life in my search for the philosopher stone. The one spoken of in legend and said to grant eternal life or perhaps a facsimile of it, something close to eternal at least. 

Well, it would be simple enough to gather the materials needed to create an artificial body, and I had quite a bit of funds for it. Mostly from investing in the stock market as certain companies went up in value-generating much-needed revenue for my research and my education which I rocked through as I suffered through school once more, this time pursuing a dual biology/chemistry degree which was worth it at least in my opinion. 

By the time I was around twenty-four or so, it was the year 2004 which would mean four more years until the anime began. Four more years before chaos quite literally overtook the world as various pantheons/factions duked it out somehow not revealing the supernatural world to the unsuspecting public even as several lives were taken because of it, both supernatural and I was guessing normal alike. 

I mean even the Magus in my old world tried their best to hide it and did a pretty good job as well as most people probably didn't want to acknowledge the existence of magic. They wanted to believe it was something mundane that caused such various tragedies instead of something more inhuman. 

Well, it didn't matter as it was no longer my problem, because I moved near Kyoto aka Leyline Central. The place with one of the highest amounts of mana in Japan and was kinda easily accessible. I had to basically construct a small shack that had a huge basement for a laboratory where I could conduct my experiments.

While I couldn't fully access the Leyline without getting the Youkai's attention, I had enough to use to mutate my plants and use them for my own purposes. Heck, I had actually begun making headway into Homunculus research even constructing an artificial human body. Nothing beyond that though as it was essentially a bag of flesh for right now and nothing more.

Still one of my first successes in this area as my failures lay in the corner ready to be disposed of or reused in some form or another. What made them failures, well I don't think a human is supposed to have hind legs or large canine teeth protruding from their mouth. Think I accidentally made an artificial werewolf with that one, nothing useful about it though beyond being a good piece of research material for the future. 

So I kept that one alongside a body that had somehow developed an ungodly amount of tumors that store mana in them. I'm not kidding it somehow mutated during the process and during its initial creation I was half-tempted to stop my research and dissect the thing to figure out how to mass-produce it. 

That would need to be saved for another time as I got another batch of materials delivered today alongside a nice investment opportunity. 

Honestly, I think I was starting to become more Magnus-like as time went on, far more so than in my first. Perhaps it was the newfound freedom I had as this world had a far less constructive grasp on Magus or mages as they call them, which no matter what felt weird.

Oh well back to buisness.