MC POV
When I regained a bit of my consciousness, I could feel warmth, but also a pressure, as if something was squishing me.
And suddenly the feeling was gone, and I felt cold and uncomfortable. I think someone actually slapped my ass. The next thing I knew, I started crying involuntarily. And guess what, it sounded like a baby crying.
'Oh yeah! I'm reborn!' I wanted to say it out loud, but as you can imagine, it is difficult to do that with the undeveloped vocal cords of a baby.
When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was a cute nurse looking at me with curiosity. I expected to see my mother, but I guess she's too tired.
And finally, she handed me over to my mother. During the process, I saw some of my body parts, and it was not a pleasant experience. My hands were small. And worst of all, my color was not white or black. It was different shades of pink. And the last straw was my pee pee. It was so small, I could barely see it. And with the emotional stability of a baby, I started crying again.
That was until I saw my mother. She was beautiful. Sweaty and slightly disheveled, but the pure love she was conveying through her eyes was intoxicating. She was saying things in Japanese, but I could only understand a couple of words.
Maybe she's calling me cute. Who knows. The only Japanese I know is from anime. So can't understand a thing they are saying.
Then she handed me to someone else, a big man with a proper beard and a smile on his face. He looked menacing and cute at the same time. But all I saw was the love and care in his eyes and voice. If I'm not mistaken, this should be my father. Guess I did end up in a good family. And as expected with my baby body, I fell asleep in my father's embrace.
Hakuōki Asahi POV
I was working in the workshop when I got the message. "The baby is coming." And I started running towards my car, leaving the rest of the work to my assistant.
I wasn't stupid enough to exceed the speed limit, but I still drove as fast as I could. When I reached the delivery room, Amaya was already in labour. I could hear her screaming and grunting with effort. But I know she could do it; she is a very strong woman.
I don't know how long after, but I finally heard the cry of a baby, and I rushed inside. I saw my beautiful wife holding the life we've created together. When she handed it to me, I felt the world disappear; there was only my son in my arms. When I looked into his eyes, I knew at that moment that I would do anything for him. For his safety, I am ready to give my life if I must.
As I brought my finger closer to its face, it actually grabbed my fingers, and man, was he strong for a newborn baby. He is my son after all. Hahaha (proud father laughing)
When it finally fell asleep, still holding my fingers tightly, I handed him to his mother. And they both fell asleep. They looked so cute together. I felt like the happiest man in the world.
Guess we'll name him as we had decided beforehand.
Arata, Hakuōki Arata.
MC POV
I woke up by my mother's side as she was asleep. It's night right now, and nobody is here to see me do anything unusual. So I decided to check out my wishes.
As I wished for the omniverse shop (OS) to appear. An almost translucent screen appeared in front of me. It had three options.
OMNIVERSAL SHOP [SP:∞]
{HOME SCREEN}
Very simple interface. I thought of clicking the first option, and a new page appeared with various items being shown below different tags
OMNIVERSAL SHOP [SP:∞]
{BROWSE}
The 'Items' option is filled with items ranging from a toothpick to a sword that can cut space itself. cool.
'Skills' page seems to have various techniques like ninjutsu from Naruto, and cursed techniques like black flash. I can even see Kamehameha here.
'Template' looks like a collection of different characters' abilities and experience, bundled together into combo packs.
Damn, it seems I can even buy systems too, like the gamer system and solo leveling system. I should try them out in my free time.
The 'others' section seems to be filled with all kinds of mysterious objects like a living, breathing knife that likes to kill old people. These items would fit right into worlds like Rick and Morty. Chaotic as hell.
That's cool. Now let's see how the search function works.
As I mentally clicked on the search option, a new page appeared with only a glowing ball in the middle.
"Hello, sir. I'm your personal AI. I'm here to assist you in any way I can, you can ask me for anything you need, and I can help you search and find the perfect skill/Item according to your requirement," said the glowing ball in a female voice as its glow fluctuated according to the words spoken.
I could hear it in my mind, That's not good. I am not letting anybody mess with my mind. That's an absolute no-no for me.
'So you can read my mind?', I asked the A.I., Cautious of its abilities.
"No, sir, I can't read anything from your mind unless you allow me to. And I can only convey words to you by sending you encrypted psychic signals that only your mind can understand." The A.I. replied in that same feminine voice with zero emotions.
"Ok, that's enough for now. We'll talk later.", I said as I went back to the home screen since I'm yet to see the third option, quests!
Let's see what kind of quest I'm getting.
OMNIVERSAL SHOP [SP:∞]
{QUESTS}
The main quests wanted me to do things that changed the plot in some ways. I could either kill or save someone to get different rewards.
Side quests had me do minor things like earning a certain amount of money or killing a certain number of cursed spirits of any rank.
Both had proportional rewards for me in SP, items, abilities, etc, and both had penalties for failures. Luckily, they are nothing serious, as they only deducted a certain amount of SP from me for failed quests.
Although the whole quest system seems useless with my infinite SP, the world quests and the daily quests are still very interesting.
The daily quests wanted me to drink a certain amount of milk from my mother every day. And in return, it'll increase my physical abilities.
Since I have nothing to measure my current strength, I don't really know how much stronger I'll become from these quests. And if I'm not mistaken, the quests should change depending on the situation.
Lastly, l inspected the world quests and I was delighted to see my first means of multiverse travel. For every world I visit, I'll get a world quest for that world. Upon completion, I'll get the opportunity to travel again.
Although I could easily buy an item or the ability to travel the multiverse, it's much more fun to earn that. It would make this world much more enjoyable.
The world quest for Jujutsu Kaisen is that I have to kill every special grade curse known to the Jujutsu society.
That's enough exploring, now it's time to go on a shopping spree to ensure my survival in any and all situations.
Even though I want to enjoy my second life, I am not doing anything reckless until I am sure of my absolute safety. When I am sure nothing I do can actually kill me, then I can have as much fun as I want.
So my goal will be to have as much fun as I want without any moral boundary, but do all that after making sure that I'm absolutely safe from death, getting hurt is fine, losing a limb or two is ok too, as I can just buy new and better ones. Also, I won't make myself OP from the very beginning, as that will make everything meaningless and boring.
So, setting up my future goals and imposing some self-restriction now is the time to act on it and be virtually immortal, but not invulnerable, that'll just make me like dull.