My Reincarnation as a Chicken

The egg hatched. And, almost as if to prove the system right, I could see an intense number of frightened souls running out of the egg. I was too scared to even touch the souls. Scanning them too proved that eating those souls would be useless as that would lead to soul erosion.

Everyone in the room was frightened and put on high alert. Even Shiroi jumped in front of me; Amethyst ran behind me. I might have to fire her.

Once it all calmed down, we were met with a very odd sight.

I had to move Shiroi away to get a better view of it.

It had dark purple feathers… fur? No, feathers. There were wings coloured just like mine – golden with dark purple tips – attached to its body. However, it wasn’t a bird per say. If anything, it resembled a…

“Meow…”

Cat.

‘‘‘‘Eh?’’’’

We were confused while looking at the sight. There was a wet tubby cat with wings, sprawled all over where the egg was.

STATUS

[Name: Hyakkiyako

[Species: Twilight Hell Kitten 1/5

[Status: -

[Age: 0 days

[Rank: E

[Race Rank: Tier 0

[Talent: S grade

[Titles: [First Child of Hyakkiyako], [Hyakkiyako Familia Member], [Rare Species]

[Blessings: [Ancient Goddess Zatana’s Blessings], [Hyakkiyako’s Blessing]

[Level: 1 Exp: 0/20

[Health: 30/30 Stamina: 50/50 Mana: 30/30 Strength: 20 Speed: 70 Defence: 20 Dexterity: 35 Intelligence: 570 Luck: 99 Magic: 50

|SKILLS|

[Unique Skills: -

[Passive Skills: [Negative Aura], [Night Vision]

[Active Skills: [Tempting Purr], [Impish Gaze], [Nasty Bite], [Shadow Glare], [Shadow Demon Summoning]

[Affinities: [Basic Shadow Magic Affinity], [Basic Summoning Magic Affinity], [Basic Fire Magic Affinity], [Basic Dark Magic Affinity], [Basic Hell Fire Magic Affinity], [Basic Twilight Magic Affinity]

[Magic: [Dark Magic: Shadow Walk]

[Resistance: [Low Dark Magic Resistance], [Low Holy Magic Resistance]

Ah… its stats were way better than mine when I first hatched from my egg. How does one get born with 500+ intelligence? I-I didn’t even get 20 intelligence points.

Also, it knows magic already? Then there’s its name. Why is it called Hyakkiyako?

[You have been acknowledged as the mother of the [Twilight Hell Kitten]]

‘‘‘‘Eh?’’’’

[Would you like to give the [Twilight Hell Kitten] a first name?]

Ah… what was happening?

Just as I was trying to process things, the kitten got up and shook its wet body dry. Its feathers puffed up and it looked fatter than originally. Surprised by its easy and quick movements, I could only stare wide eyed in jealousy.

The kitten jumped up into my arms and rubbed its cheeks on my flat chest, purring joyfully.

‘How I’ve craved to be in your embrace, mother~’

It suddenly spoke to me in my mind. Startled, I fell back into my chair, throwing the kitten up.

DING!

[Your child [Twilight Hell Kitten] has developed the active skill [Flight]]

Just as I got an alert, I could hear fluttering. The little cut slowly descended on my body. He stared at me with his vermillion red feline eyes. Its feathers had a beautiful mix of golden and dark purple, just like me, but its ears and tail had red tips.

The cat smiled at me in all its cuteness and I could feel my heart skip a beat.

“Meow?”

It tilted its head, observing me curiously. I had to look away from its large eyes.

‘Jesus. Mitsuki, I’ll kill you for making me a cat person if I find you.’

I swore vengeance upon my sister.

‘Mother~’

I was brought back to the reality of the situation when I heard the kitten’s voice in my head.

‘W-W-What? St-stop calling me mother. It’s creeping me out.’

I tried to push the little kitten off, but it refused to leave my body. Amethyst tried to grab it, but got scowled at and backed away. Everyone else just watched us with frightened expressions, not moving even an inch.

‘But mother is mother~’

‘No, no. Who’s your mother now? I certainly didn’t give birth to you.’

‘But mother is mother~ meow~’

I clicked my tongue and tried to make heads and tails about it. This was the gift given to me by my sponsor goddess, Zatana. So, why did she give me a child? Why did it look like a kitten? Is it influenced by that devil it consumed? Even still, why is it calling me mother? It’s not like I cared for it while it was in the egg. If anything, it saved me instead.

Things were starting to get unnecessarily confusing and I was getting annoyed.

‘Ok, wait for a moment. Let me get this right. Who is your mother?’

‘You~ meow~ meow~’

‘Ok… do you know how you were born?’

Again, the kitten tilted its head.

Of course. There was no way a new born child would know such a thing. Also, there was no way a new born child could talk telepathically.

I looked behind the cat and for some reason, everyone had the [Fear Status] with the exception of me.

‘What’s wrong with them? Sure, that display of souls going away was a bit extra, but still…’

<<That is due to the kitten’s skill [Negative Aura]. It’s purposefully scaring off anyone who isn’t you.>>

‘Eh?’

I glared at the little fella. It just tried to absorb me into its eyes, so I looked away.

‘Of all the things, why a cat!?’

While I was thinking about it, someone finally spoke up.

“What is the issue, Hinotori?”

The rusalkies who currently weren’t in the room asked. Since they couldn’t feel the aura, I guess they were the luckiest of the bunch.

The kitten turned its head to glare at them and they did the same.

“It’s nothing important, please give me a moment.”

I jumped up behind the throne. Diane walked up to me, sweat streaming down her face.

‘Diane?’

“Hinotori. You must flee. Now. Get everyone out of here.”

‘What?’

She just popped up out of nowhere and was kicking us out.

“I do not feel so well. You need to go.”

‘Oh, it’s probably because of the kitten.’

“No. It’s different. M-My space is being ripped apar-”

Before she finished her sentence, large hands pierced through the top of the space.

“What!?”

<<Warning! Intense divine/spatial energy detected. A breach in space is being formed>>

These large hands separated the tree, revealing the night sky of the outside world. We all jumped up from our seats, in high alert. I put on my [Sinuous King Adamas Armour] in an instant and readied my blade.

Everyone else got up, anticipating an attack from the heavens. From the night sky, a container dropped down on the table, smashing it to bits.

Diane herself, had already crumpled to the floor and her sprites were hiding behind us. This container was big, bearing a red cross on it. Truthfully, it resembled a coffin. I got a really bad vibe from it and gulped.

The coffin creaked open and from it, a little boy walked out. This young boy had matte black hair, pale skin so white I could compare it to glistening silver. He wore a butler uniform, white in colour with a black handkerchief in his pocket and a golden chain on his belt. He had one hand to his head and one on his waist, striking a dashing pose. Both hands were covered in black fingerless gloves.

The boy looked up at me, his hungry eye glowing viciously as he opened his mouth that possessed to protruding fangs. Then, he pointed at me.

“Thou hath been chosen to take up the mantle of the fiendish Lord of demons, by the Empress of Eternal Night!”

He declared powerfully and swung his arm around the room, declaring his presence more than he already did.

“Me?”

I asked and he dropped both arms. He glared at me, then walked up to. He was about my height, taller by merely a centimetre or two, but who’s counting? Definitely not me. I didn’t have insecurities about my current height… even though I used to be taller.

He reached his hand towards my shoulder. Before he could though, Shiroi reacted, ordering one of her mist wolves to bite his arm off. The wolf did so, but got dispelled with a simple muscle flex. I hated to admit this, but this guy had the highest physical stats I’d seen of any humanoid till date.

I took a step back, making him miss my shoulder. From his thoughts, I could tell that he wasn’t here to harm me. In fact, he didn’t know both Ulva and Grimm were present.

But I had a very big issue with him.

He tried to get closer to me, but I took another step back. In that moment, everyone else in the room jumped at him to protect me as I’d been identified as his target.

Dulk hadn’t come with his weapon, so he charged in with his bare body. The leader of the kobolds drew the knife he’d hidden and attacked. Dulk bounced off the boy’s body as if it was an immovable mountain and the knife shattered on his skin. The boy waved his hand and a streak of blood sent both of them flying with several lacerations appearing on their body.

The next to attack was Zana’s fog. The fog tried to suffocate him and I could see lightning bolts strike from it. How the hell mere fog created lightning bolts, I wasn’t sure. Maybe it was a cloud instead of fog, but I wasn’t sure. Unfortunately, it got sucked in, doing absolutely no damage to the fellow.

Unmei stayed put, refusing to attack recklessly. The hob-goblins were also paralysed, but after a few seconds they broke free and attacked.

One by one as they charged, they got curb stomped with zero effort on the part of the invader.

“Fall before the might of unholy blood swipe.”

He roared and sent a wave of blood shaped like a sharp blade that threw everyone back. Yokino managed to avoid it, threw a volley of water spears at him and charged head on with her legs out.

Multiple illusion clones of herself popped up as did illusionary monsters like tigers. She threw them all at him, but the young boy grinned.

“I did not wish to do this, but I shall put the might of my evil eye on display for the entire world to see! Bow, before the greatness of the Great Blood Emperor!”

He removed the eye patch covering his left eye. A great red light shone from it and a powerful blast struck Yokino, wiping out her attacks and killing that clone of hers.

I cringed up once I heard it and backed up. He cornered me and slammed his hand against the walls of Diane’s tree. With an expression that resembled the face of absolute madness, he closed the gap between us.

This bastard… he… he had 8th grader syndrome. Of the highest degree at that!

He was a chuunibyou.