[Eren POV]
People say that it gets easier to accomplish something after the first try. You learn from your mistakes and make small adjustments to create significant changes in results.
No one doubts this, they have no reason to. They probably never will unless certain people are included. People who could be reborn, like me.
At this moment, I was regretting it. I regret dying. If I knew that I would become a child again, I would've opted to teleport the hashiras to stall muzan until sunrise. Alas, my stupid hero complex had to kick in and go with a bang.
Holding my breath, I felt my small mouth getting stuffed with a nipple.
Wait, that sounds wrong...
I was being breastfed by a woman in her early twenties. The mother of this body.
I deprived a kid of his body.....let's stop brooding for now.
"You don't really like eating do you eren? Do you not like mama!" The woman....my new mother called out in a comically concerned tone.
Woman!... I mean mother! Do you know how close I am to yeeting you out of this house? Get your breasts off my face!
"...Gaa?" Unfortunately, I could not say that. A newborn should not even be able to open his eyes, yet I am here being a bundle of energy. I'm already lucky that they do not find this suspicious.
If I start talking now, I'm afraid she'll push me back inside the hole I came from for a supposed refund.....it might be possible, you never know!
"You rarely eat, yet your body seems unusually healthy.."
Great, she's suspecting me. "Ugggaaaa!" The embarrassing noises were my only saving grace, hence I cried out. The anticipated reaction came soon after.
"Kyaaa! MY BABY IS SO CUTE!" My mother squeaked in delight, tightening her hold on me.
....
The door closed and now I was outside, held by my mother. I squinted my eyes to block out the sun's light. My adaptation had kicked in before the light could even blind me, but some habits never seem to fade away...
What greeted my eyes was a narrow street, sparsely packed with people living their daily lives. Children ran around chasing each other, playing all sorts of games. The aunties were carrying baskets and chatting about some things which shall be left unsaid, the men were doing their jobs to earn their daily wages.
It was unusual, the feeling of being completely normal. From a shinobi who was always respected, a pirate always feared, a demon who had to always be in disguise, I now became a being hidden under the skin of a child.
The immense chakra, the demon powers, and haki all lay dormant within this body.
It was relaxing but also vexing. If I had to be a child, why wasn't I born normal? It would've been better if I had lost my powers. Have you ever seen a normal side character being put in danger? Villager 'A' will always be villager 'A'. But if that villager awakens some cool power, ambition will start festering in him.
This ambition will attract trouble which I have always been attracting till now.
If I had been a typical demon, muzan would've forgotten about me within a few decades. But I had to go all gung-ho and break common sense for him to start chasing after me like a hound.
"What's wrong eren? You seem to be down again. Do you want to have momma's milk again?"
"Tabuuuuuu." Shaking off these thoughts, I tried my best to imitate a happy baby to not go through that again. "Fufufu....there we go~ you should always stay like this. Mama doesn't like it when you start brooding." She said with a mischievous smile.
Did she just?
"Oh my! Is that you boy Carla?" The aunties rushed in when they heard me making noises and squeaked in delight in a way eerily similar to my mother as they enclosed around me.
"Yes! This is my baby eren Yeager!" She held me up for all people nearby to see me. It reminded me of an animated movie about a lion cub being held by a blue monkey.
Mom and the aunties kept talking about mundane daily lives and I eventually zoned out.
I wonder what those walls are for?
Huge walls, about 50 meters high, enclosed the entire town. The people above those walls wore a complicated contraption. It reminded me of a device modeled after a grappling hook I saw during the study tour at oscorp.
I don't know what came over me, but I used my haki to try and look past those walls. As expected, the target was too far. The pulses of haki fizzled out before they could reach the walls.
But I did find something interesting.
A parasite....no 'something' resembling a parasite was dwelling inside my spine. Not just inside mine, but everyone I saw through haki....huh?
This isn't right.
Since when was I able to do that?
Observation haki allowed me to vaguely sense the intentions of my opponents and if I mastered it, it would let me see the future in the form of memory.
Haki was never supposed to be used like a drone. It shouldn't be. At best, I was able to figure out the positions of the living beings near me, before I became eren. The ground, rocks, and inanimate objects should've been invisible!
I turned up the intensity of my haki by a few notches and saw it constrict its arms.
It was intriguing.....but also, highly disturbing.
Upon further probing, I grew restless about it. I didn't like the fact that there was something weird inside my body. Thus I slowly pushed in some chakra towards it.
That, however, did not work as intended. The chakra simply passed through the worm, making it more lively. Its size which was close to a few millimeters before had now become a centimeter.
I couldn't satiate my curiosity with just that, so I decided to see how it would react after getting a dose of my armament haki.
But not now, it would be too risky to do this in public.
Maybe at night?
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