Reincarnated in a Light Novel

Eclair took his rest and thankfully, his instructions were followed the girl woke him up exactly six hours later, his alarms rang only to him as he set it up earlier just in case. 

He had to sleep sitting to make sure that in the worst-case scenario, he wouldn't be helpless. 

Anyway, after his rest, his Omi reserves were filled to the brim, feeling refreshed and he finally felt like taking care of the demon bothering the village. 

Once he was out in the forest once again, he started to track the demon he had marked. It wasn't difficult, though once he reached the location it was near the river. 

"What is it doing?"

Eclair wondered, the demon was the size of a child, with a single fin atop its head and a tail fin that of a fish, vertical.

Eclair observed it for a while, the demon, in the form of a child with cerulean hair and eyes, seemed more like trying to survive than anything else. Around it are gathered fruits and some half-eaten fish. 

The demon was still emaciated despite trying to eat as much as it could with what it had. Eclair didn't know what to feel, pity? Remorse? It's a demon… 

Eclair tried to remember what were the contents of the novel and tried to seek reason there. 

Not all demons are necessarily evil, some try to be amicable with humans, like Behemoth, an absolute class demon that just mows on grass for some reason. 

But could it be that? Eclair watched the demon again, not all demons are born from lingering human emotions, some were just born. Everything contained essence after all. 

Not every demon is made out of miasma. However, everything is categorized as demons simply because they can be a threat to humans. There would be no concessions otherwise. 

Eclair sighed, the demon didn't seem hostile anyway, the demon was trying to survive and that's all there was. 

Besides, the demon is a child, it's something he couldn't ignore. He stood up and walked towards it, making his presence known. 

The demon—child, stared at Eclair before standing up in a wary stance. Her head turned into a shark, bearing its sharp rows of teeth towards Eclair. 

Eclair tried to look as harmless as possible, raising both hands. Though, that only served to make the child more wary. 

"Are you hungry?" Eclair spoke. 

He kneeled down to the eye level of the child, he soon took out something from its pocket, a simple energy bar. 

He opened its packet and presented the food to the child. The child simply was more wary of him to take the food out of his hands. 

He almost killed her after all! The child didn't trust Eclair one bit. Once that was clear to Eclair, he sighed took a leaf nearby and set the energy bar atop of it. 

"I'll come back here. I'll give you more okay?"

Eclair didn't know if his words were understood, though just a precaution he used a technique in the food in case the child didn't want to be there anymore. 

He had to be stubborn, he couldn't let the child alone here anymore. Especially with a unique case like this, with that, Eclair stood up and left. 

The child was still wary of Eclair until he left but after he vanished through the woods, the child went up to the energy bar, grabbed it, sniffed, and scrutinized it before taking a bite. 

Its eyes lit up and started to munch the bar down its throat. Once it was gone, it felt disappointed and wanted more, though Eclair was already gone. 

… 

Once Eclair was back in the village, it seemed that he was in for a show. The fisherman was screaming at an old lady behind the butcher who was screaming back on behalf of the old lady. 

Eclair raised a brow over the situation, finding some villagers were watching. He couldn't help but scrutinize what was happening. 

He was about to leave when he found that the old village chief was there too, trying to find a way to stop the screaming match. 

Eclair sighed and flared his Omi, his aura blasting outwards and encompassing all villagers in his sight. He didn't place any feelings on his Omi lest he wanted them all to die. 

No, he only wanted to intimidate them, and sure enough, all of them paused. The fisherman stood frozen as anyone else caught in Eclair's aura. 

He walked forward now, in everyone's sight. 

"What's happening here?"

Eclair swiftly retracted his Aura, he didn't want them to be exposed for too long. They might die that way. The fisherman had his eyes widened and bloodshot before taking a deep breath and looking at Eclair.

"Sorcerer─" The fisherman started but paused when Eclair scowled at the fisherman, but since Eclair didn't tell him to stop he continued. "You see, this old h- woman, is my mother-in-law, she decided to take away everything after my daughter died, it wasn't even my fault!"

"You kept them away from going out all this time!" the old woman protested sobbing. "I have the right to see my daughter and my grandchild! Now that they're dead he wouldn't tell me where they are! So until he won't speak up I took away the inheritance."

Eclair sighed in frustration and held his head, so it was a family matter, he should've minded his own business. The others stayed silent, they didn't want to anger a Sorcerer despite not Eclair not clarifying he hadn't graduated yet for that title, they still did not want to mess with a sorcerer.

Once Eclair openly showed he had no interest in their affairs, he decided to walk away. Dismissingly waving his hand away. Though, the fisherman thought it was a good idea to speak his mind.

"I told you! You damn woman! They died because the demon ate them!"

'The demon ate them?'

Eclair stopped in his tracks turned around and took a good look at the fisherman, once he stopped walking, the fisherman shut his mouth. 

Somehow, a gut feeling rose within Eclair and he couldn't help but walk back and face the Fisherman, his mind recalling the Child in the forest.

"Hey, when was your wife and child died?" Eclair asked.

Eclair had investigated the demon sighting in the village, the 'demon' had appeared about three weeks ago when someone spotted it whilst walking at night.

"T-Three weeks ago."

'The exact same time the sightings began' Eclair noted. Eclair's suspicion started to spike up, the village was not that big but it wasn't that small either, what that means is that the old woman, the fisherman's mother-in-law could have the grandchild visit her without any problem.

"Since when was the last time you saw your granddaughter?" Eclair asked, facing the crying Old woman.

"T-Three weeks ago too! I saw her playing by the river as well!"

Suddenly, the image of the Child in the forest emerged in Eclair's mind.