Seeing the task completion prompt panel, Kamihara Tetsuya was stunned; he almost thought the task had failed.
That Akaza fellow is truly patient.
However, with Akaza's 32% rage, Kamihara Tetsuya estimated he wouldn't draw anything good, so he idly thought to himself, "Extract reward."
The surrounding space rippled, and the world in Kamihara Tetsuya's eyes suddenly changed.
Night shrouded the sky, and countless stars hung above the firmament, radiating incredibly brilliant light.
"What is this?"
Kamihara Tetsuya's eyes widened; he had never seen such a spectacle before. Had the novice protection period expired?
Whoosh!
A star streaked across the void, piercing into Kamihara Tetsuya's body at a speed too fast for the naked eye to predict.
[Congratulations, Host, for acquiring "Two-Tomoe Sharingan," a Bloodline Limit from the Uchiha clan of the Naruto world, greatly enhancing abilities such as eyesight, observation, dynamic vision, and the ability to cast Sharingan · Genjutsu.]
The system panel popped up again, and Kamihara Tetsuya was dumbfounded—a Sharingan, and it was a Two-Tomoe one!
The illusion caused by the system extraction disappeared.
Kamihara Tetsuya's eyes turned blood-red, and two swirling tomoe appeared. The deep night couldn't obstruct his vision; even an ant hundreds of meters away was seen clearly.
His heart swelled with ecstasy; this damn system had finally done something good.
Although the Sharingan wasn't considered powerful, it had strong growth potential. Later, there were Three-Tomoe and even Mangekyo, enough to give him the capital to protect himself.
"Akaza, that day truly won't be too far off!"
Unlike before, this time Kamihara Tetsuya's voice carried a hint of confidence and assurance.
Subsequently, Kamihara Tetsuya's gaze shifted to the corpse not far away, his emotions complex.
If he hadn't thought quickly in a crisis, his fate would have been similar to that Middle-aged Man's.
This couldn't help but make Kamihara Tetsuya feel a sense of shared sorrow. He dug a large pit and buried the Middle-aged Man who had been killed by Akaza earlier, then casually found a wooden board to stick in the ground as a tombstone.
"I can barely protect myself, so I can only do these trivial things for you," Kamihara Tetsuya said.
The bloody light in his eyes dissipated, and his sharp nails returned to normal. Aside from the fangs unique to demons, Kamihara Tetsuya looked no different from an ordinary person.
After doing all this, Kamihara Tetsuya entered the town and returned to his home.
The sun rose in the east, and a ray of sunlight pierced through the morning mist, shining on the earth.
Kamihara Tetsuya instinctively retreated into the shadows; a strong sense of danger emerged in his heart. If he touched that sunlight, he would die—this was the absolute natural enemy of demons.
To overcome the demon's weakness.
The known methods were Kamado Nezuko's special constitution and the mysterious blue spider lily.
Kamado Nezuko was out of the question; since Akaza was still out searching for the blue spider lily, it meant Kamado Nezuko hadn't overcome the sunlight yet.
It was even possible that the plot hadn't even begun.
Kamihara Tetsuya shook his head and sighed, "blue spider lily, oh blue spider lily..."
A mischievous girl popped out from behind Kamihara Tetsuya, "What blue spider lily?"
Kamihara Tetsuya didn't turn around, propping his chin with his hand, his gaze fixed on the sunlight outside the house.
Akiyama Rinka, the original body's cousin.
The Akiyama Clan was considered a prominent family in this town, involved in various industries such as real estate, food, and medicinal herbs. It was said they even cooperated with the Demon Slayer Corps.
The original body's mother was from the Akiyama Clan—a melodramatic story of a rich young lady eloping with a poor boy. The ending was equally tragic: both died, leaving their young child to suffer scorn in the world.
Half a month ago, the original body chose to commit suicide. Fortunately, he was rushed to the hospital in time and ultimately rescued, but the one who woke up was another soul, the new Kamihara Tetsuya.
"I'm talking to you!"
Akiyama Rinka put her hands on her hips, her beautiful eyes glaring at Kamihara Tetsuya with dissatisfaction.
Kamihara Tetsuya waved his hand dismissively, "It's none of your business. Kids shouldn't meddle so much."
Akiyama Rinka was the only person from the Akiyama Clan willing to interact with the original body, and it was also she who first discovered the original body's suicide half a month ago.
In a sense, she was Kamihara Tetsuya's savior.
If it weren't for this connection, Kamihara Tetsuya would have long since kicked her out. In the original body's memory, Kamihara Tetsuya didn't like the Akiyama Clan very much.
"And here I brought you something delicious," Akiyama Rinka mumbled softly, quietly taking out a lunchbox. She opened the lid, revealing three rice balls resting peacefully inside.
Kamihara Tetsuya glanced at them, and a sense of craving surprisingly welled up deep inside him.
"Strange..."
Kamihara Tetsuya frowned, his surprised gaze lingering between the rice balls and Akiyama Rinka.
Akiyama Rinka waved her hands repeatedly, "Tetsuya, we're blood relatives, cousins. You can't think strange things."
"You're thinking too much!" Kamihara Tetsuya retorted. Her scrawny body, he wouldn't want it even if it were given to him for free.
Getting back to the main topic, the strong instinct surging within his body finally made Kamihara Tetsuya realize that this girl's allure was no match for a single grain of rice in the rice balls.
He picked up a rice ball, threw it into his mouth, chewed twice, and swallowed it.
Immediately after, he felt a warm current flow from his abdomen throughout his entire body, filling him with strength, as if he could punch a cow to death.
"Could it be!"
Kamihara Tetsuya's expression was strange; he didn't need to eat humans, he could replenish his strength with ordinary food?
Just as there are no two identical leaves in the world, the constitutions of demons also vary. Some demons gain exponentially more power by devouring specific humans, such as infants or young girls.
But among a pack of hungry wolves, to have one that eats "vegetables"—his constitution was quite rare.
After a brief moment of joy, Kamihara Tetsuya calmed down.
Kamado Nezuko recovered her strength by sleeping and overcame sunlight; she certainly outclassed him by dozens of streets.
After finishing the three rice balls Akiyama Rinka brought, Kamihara Tetsuya felt no sense of fullness. He estimated that another twenty or thirty might make him about thirty percent full.
Kamihara Tetsuya lowered his head in thought; there was still much to explore about the demon's constitution, such as Blood Demon Art...
Seeing Kamihara Tetsuya devour three rice balls in one go, Akiyama Rinka bloomed into a cute smile.
Rumble!
Just then, dense footsteps sounded, and dust billowed. On the street outside the house, dozens of suit-clad thugs, armed with steel pipes and machetes, swaggered about.
Kamihara Tetsuya and Akiyama Rinka's gazes were drawn to them.
"It's the Black Dragon Society."
Akiyama Rinka's face changed, and she instructed, "Tetsuya, you hide in the house. I'll go inform the clan head."
With that, Akiyama Rinka, clutching the lunchbox, rushed out in a flurry.
Kamihara Tetsuya's gaze shifted. At this time, Japan was in the Taisho era, roughly the early twentieth century. Society was relatively stable, and it had fully embraced Westernization.
This Black Dragon Society was a yakuza organization that had recently arrived in this town. Its leader was said to be an elite cadre of a Western mafia.
They had come to contend with the Akiyama Clan for territory—one was a powerful dragon, the other a local snake.