I've always known that I have a repulsive personality.
One incredibly sleazy.
I'm only somewhat kind to beautiful women, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm a lazy, selfish man who was scheming to live off a wealthy woman.
My personality may be horrendous but my looks let me get away with it.
But even if I wanted to live like that, the times and the world wouldn't allow it—
Because…
Suddenly, I've been reincarnated into a different world, particularly in a land called "So no Kuni," a Japanese-style fantasy setting.
Starting as a baby with no freedom, I'm doing my best to grasp the current situation.
For now, the only thing I can tell is how incredibly Japanese it all feels.
What is this world...? Ancient Japan? Is this more like time travel than reincarnation? Am I "Time to Live"? Or maybe... could it be something like "Jipang" from Dragon Quest? What the hell is this place?
So in this ancient, incomprehensible world and era, I'm just desperately trying to survive moment by moment. I'm really giving it my all.
That's more or less the general flow, right?
"So no Kuni" or "Ka no Kuni"... I have no idea what those names mean.
(A/N- Apparently it means the "Land of This" and the "Land of That", quite literally. Was funny when I was reading the wiki.)
I don't think such a country exists to my knowledge. Not in history, not in manga. Though to be honest, I'm not particularly well-versed in history.
When I first heard the country's name, I wondered if it might be Danbaein, but the clothing and culture are clearly different, so that's definitely not it.
It's more of a fantasy vibe, really. The way they dress and style their hair... It's the kind of thing that makes everyone around me, including myself, feel like we might start chanting, "Himiko-sama! Himiko-sama!" at any moment.
Why couldn't I have just reincarnated in a world I know? Seriously, this is bullshit, I thought sadly. But in this pseudo-ancient Japan plagued by endless warfare, there's no time to wallow in melancholy.
After all, it seems I was born into a fairly powerful clan in this world. After receiving the appropriate education and training befitting my status, I've been thrown into ancient battles, leaving me utterly swamped.
Every day is a desperate struggle for survival, yet strangely, I can't shake the feeling that I'm playing some incredibly realistic VR game. I remain detached from this world, as if observing it from a step back.
My brothers and clan members kept falling in battle. My subjects and soldiers kept dying.
Enemies being slaughtered…
Perhaps my inability to feel genuine guilt over any of it stems from being immersed in war since childhood, numbing my senses. Or perhaps if I had genuinely invested any emotions I would've self-destructed.
Going from the luxurious 21st Century to this feudalistic world where war was rampant… the sheer stress and constant fear of death couldn't be explained in words.
So I decided to numb myself even further.
What brings moisture and colour to these brutal days is women.
In other words, sex.
In this world, this era, where entertainment is scarce... I drowned in the softness of women's skin.
Between battles where death could come at any moment, when I returned to my domain, I helped my brothers with politics... and then immersed myself in sex, sex, sex, sex.
I couldn't function without women.
"Haa, ah, aah... Lord Ryuzaki... mm... mm... ah..."
The nearest woman, relatively pretty, is the one currently bent over the wall, her ass presented to me as I fuck her from behind—Aino.
She's a moderately pretty girl with a bandana-like cloth wrapped around her forehead, her black hair gathered at the crown of her head.
Aino has served as my personal attendant since childhood, and she's incredibly useful in all sorts of ways.
Our relationship began when I was still young. After multiple attempts of coercion through status, she finally gave in. I didn't outright rape her, despite having the power to do so. Perhaps even after so much bloodshed this was the last shred of morality left in my heart.
Nonetheless, my heart had long been eroded.
Hence, I wouldn't take no for an answer.
I spent a long time melting her still-childish virginity with thorough cunnilingus before claiming her purity.
"No... Ah... Ah... Ah... Lord Ryuzaki... Ah... I've already... I've already come... Nngh... Ugh... Take it out... If you keep going like this... Ah... Ah... You'll... You'll make me... Nnhaah..."
After that first experience, I've been having unprotected sex with Aino ever since.
Despite living in this ancient backwater, the status difference between me, a member of a powerful clan, and Aino, my attendant, makes it a bit tricky to call her my official wife. But having her as a concubine seems to be acceptable.
Moreover, while both of us are still unmarried, our rampant unprotected sex might be a problem. But given the endless days of war and casualties, the other clan members seem to be turning a blind eye.
Despite all this, Aino still fears pregnancy, squirming and resisting every time she senses I might ejaculate inside her.
Her body's weaknesses have long been discovered and exploited. By the time I release my seed within her, both her body and mind melt completely. Yet she always resists. If this is her scheme to tease me and stoke my desire, she understands my temperament quite well.
Or perhaps she truly fears pregnancy. Either way, it matters little to me.
Even my deceased brothers kept multiple concubines besides their main wives, relentlessly impregnating them to create backup heirs outside the clan in case of emergencies.
...Though most of those young backup heirs have already died in battle.
Whether by assassins from the K Country or scheming relatives plotting to seize power, there were many suspicious deaths.
Every night, I spend my hours wondering if it's my turn next. And to forget such thoughts, I embrace Aino once again today.
"Ugh, ugh, ah, aah, aah~! Ah, huff, mm, mm, no, no... I'm... I'm going to come."
"Don't hold back. I'll fill you up plenty tonight."
Aino's toes stiffened, and her hips trembled.
"No, inside, no, mmn! Ah! Ah! Aaaaaah!"
"I'm gonna shoot! It's about time you got pregnant, Aino!"
"No! Pregnancy is... I'm scared... nnn! Nha! Ah! Ah! I'm coming!"
With a gush, I emptied my seed deep inside her, idly thinking, Maybe Aino's afraid that any child we have will be killed.
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My brother, my relatives—they're all dead. How laughable.
Before I knew it, I, the "Emperor Ryuzaki," was the sole surviving member of my clan: strong, resilient, and at the perfect age to lead.
After repeated dates and trysts with Aino, I managed to impregnate her several times, but the results were truly heartbreaking.
Twice, Aino miscarried, and the third child died of illness shortly after birth.
This world has lax sanitation, and who knows how many assassins are lurking in the shadows?
...Haaah... I thought I'd finally be free to do whatever I wanted, but this world is surprisingly harsh.
Well, for someone like me who died doing something utterly stupid, this second chance at life feels like a lucky break.
Moreover, in this life, I've witnessed the brutal deaths of children in wars fueled by the ruthless power struggles of cunning strategists. It has left me unnervingly jaded, with my brain permanently activated beyond its limits. I can practically feel my brainpower increasing.
"Reincarnated as a scavenger... This is like a game. Well, since I'll be gone soon anyway, I might as well go out with a bang."
"What are you saying?! You can't just die!"
It's Aino.
Even after losing three children, she still smiles and cheers me up but does she really think she can hide the hollowness in her eyes from me?
"Still, though... We've been pushed deep into K's territory, and even our own ministers, looking like our own crap, are openly siding with K. It's over for S. No doubt about it! Let's run away together, Aino." I joked, perhaps by keeping this flippant personality active my humanity might be kept from crumbling.
If I stop talking I'm afraid I'll become an emotionless killing machine, a perfect monarch.
But that's not what I want.
Fuck this land and fuck its people.
Why am I forced to do this?
Why! Why! Why!
I—
"Hey! Lord Ryuzaki is the Emperor of this country now! If the ministers hear you talking like that, we're finished!"
"My dead brothers are seriously haunting me, huh?"
"...That's why, for the sake of clearing their resentment, Lord Ryuzaki—"
"Huh? You want me to impregnate you? You're out of your mind, Aino-chan."
"That's not it at all. I didn't say 'impregnate'—I meant 'purify'... Besides, even if you did impregnate me, it would be pointless. Even if I were to conceive, I'm already..."
Aino (probably due to some poison she'd been given) had suffered two miscarriages, leaving her with a stubborn, ingrained aversion to childbirth. To make matters worse, her third child, the only one she'd managed to bring to term, died of illness.
She'd completely convinced herself that she was fated to be childless.
"Alright, alright. I'll make you pregnant again! And when that happens, I'll expect you to raise a proper heir!"
I flashed her a flashy, two-fingered, pretty-boy salute, flashed her a beaming smile, and delivered my signature brand of encouragement. Aino chuckled a little.
Seeing her giggle a faint smile surfaced on my face. Maybe I'm not as heartless as I imagine?
"Instead of clinging to a woman like me, you should take a proper wife."
"There's no one like that around. If there are, you should introduce them to me, Aino-chan."
"...Well, if you stop with that flashy, silly behaviour, I'll consider it."
"Or better yet, maybe a goddess will descend from the heavens and marry me. Bonus points if she uses her divine powers to bring peace to the world haha,"
"Enough with the fantasies. Put your real self away now. You have an audience with those 'Ku no Kuni Faction Ministers' that Lord Ryuzaki hates later."
"Ugh."
A strange, twisted laugh escaped me, my face contorting.
It's already night, yet those ministers want to advise me to flatter Kunokuni again. Let me sleep! I'm about to have sex with Aino.
But there's no choice. I slap my cheeks to steel myself, transforming my face into that of 'The Emperor of the Ancestral Kingdom, Ryuzaki.'
This burden is ridiculous. I'm the king of this backwater, hick country. It's almost laughable.
The real me is a stupid, cowardly, flashy sex man, so why do I have to suddenly deal with this politician, soldier, and symbol stuff? Aren't those things supposed to be done by elite Tokyo University graduates and stuff? I'm just some guy who got into a school nobody's ever heard of, where they'd probably let me pass just for putting my name down.
I always think that, but I have to play this damn 'game' until I die. There's no way to reset it, no way to open the status menu, nothing. I don't even know what's going on. But hanging myself and committing suicide feels like I'd be losing something.
Muttering my endless grievances inwardly, I headed toward the country bumpkin, unnecessarily large conference room. But on the way, I looked out the window and was startled.
"Hey, isn't that a meteorite?"
Damn it. I did it again. My true self slipped out, but well, it's only Aino, so it's probably fine.
Aino ignored me.
"Huh?"
I pointed in the direction. In the distant sky, a comet-like light streaked across the night.
"Hey, Aino, in situations like this, you're supposed to make three wishes! Hurry up!"
"Huh? What?"
"We're gonna miss it!"
"Uh, okay... I wish to marry Lord Ryuzaki, I wish to bear Lord Ryuzaki's heir, I wish for the world to be at peace!"
"That's not right! You're supposed to repeat the same wish three times. Ugh..."
"Maybe it's Lord Ryuzaki's fault for not explaining clearly?"
Watching the shooting star that had already vanished, Aino and I engaged in our usual pointless banter.
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And now, before my eyes stood an outrageously beautiful goddess.
Apparently, according to my subordinate, the shooting star had fallen within our territory last night. We sent soldiers to investigate, and this stunning beauty was what they found. Ah, I see.
...Somehow, this beauty seems familiar... No, not just some pick-up line.
"...So, are you a goddess who descended from the heavens?"
As usual, I adopted a pompous tone, pretending to be an Emperor, but the moment I started speaking, I thought, If this person is really a goddess, this tone is probably inappropriate. Trying to adjust mid-sentence made my speech sound awkward.
Hey, you there, Aino! I heard that! You snickered behind me just now. Watch out later—I'll punish you properly tonight!
"I am Kaguya."
Kaguya?
Kaguya-hime, right?
So that's it.
A fairy tale.
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.
Haaah... Finally, it all makes sense. I was reincarnated into the world of a fairy tale. Haaah... That's a relief. It's like having a difficult bowel movement finally pass—it's that relieving. Knowing something, no matter how minimal, was better than being in the dark.
"I see. So you are Kaguya-hime."
"You... you know of her, Lord Ryuzaki?!"
I calmed my subordinate, who was desperately brandishing his spear at Kaguya-hime, and spoke with a smug expression.
"Hmm, there's a princess named Kaguya who lives on the moon. This woman must be a goddess who came from the moon. Treat her with the utmost respect!"
"From the moon...? Lord Ryuzaki, what exactly is the moon? Which foreign land is it?"
My subordinate asked with a blank look on his face. Are these fools idiots? Don't they even know about the moon?
"Huh? You don't know about that bright, round sphere that shines in the night sky every fortnight? You country bumpkins are always—"
I stopped mid-sentence, realising something.
Come to think of it... this place... doesn't have a moon, does it?
The clarity I'd gained came crashing back down on me.
It was only now that I realised... this world... this place... doesn't have a moon at all.
"Hey, where exactly are we?"
"Huh? W-Well, this is the Kingdom of So, specifically Lord Ryuzaki's palace, its central seat."
I ignored my subordinate, who was only spouting obvious remarks, and frantically racked my brain.
When was the last time I worked this hard? Probably when I was staring at the pins in a pachinko parlour.
She couldn't have fallen from the moon, could she, Princess Kaguya?
And that silver-haired beauty with pale eyes—she looked so familiar. I've seen her… I've definitely seen her. Is she really not Princess Kaguya from the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter?
I racked my brain desperately. I stared silently at Kaguya-san, thinking so hard that my subordinates grew restless and started fidgeting.
"I've seen your face somewhere before... you..."
I'm really, really trying to remember here!
"...Ah, You… Why are you staring so intently?"
Kaguya-san averted her gaze.
What's with that reaction? Holy shit, she's cute! A beastial hunger dominated my heart. Even if I was in a foreign land, even if there was a chance I could die at any moment because of these wars…
I…
…This is the kind of woman I want to devour!
I kept staring. It was like playing the Sharingan-imitation game from my foolish school days—
Sharingan?
Hmm?
Wait a minute…
Kaguya...
The moon... It's gone.
White eyes...
Wait a second. Aren't those the... Byakugan?
It's completely different from the manga… so white, so pure…
I'm pretty sure... she's the sudden, final boss that everyone was talking about—the one that had appeared suddenly and kept everyone buzzing, from my friends to the internet.
Because of my college exams, I never got to finish Naruto. I was even smug about my decision considering the massively hyped Madara was suddenly replaced by a strange female alien making fans worldwide furious.
As my thoughts began to slow down, a sense of calm washed over me.
"The world of Ninjas…" the faint whisper that escaped my left everyone confused.
After surviving in this world for almost three decades, and enduring countless hardships…
I finally understood it.
My eyes drifted towards the ethereal woman again.
This was the world of Naruto.
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A/N- A new month a new work. The familiar feeling of writing... How invigorating.
As always, evil protagonist. Not completely inhuman like Tatsuya but in some ways much more cruel than him. Lots of lemons, lots of women yet a balanced harem of lovers and slaves. (I know it sounds impossible but I have a way)
Also if there are any obscure females in Naruto that aren't popular please tell me their names so I can include them somehow.
And despite seeming like smut, this isn't a story that's focused on it. The major plot will revolve around scheming, revenge and reviving his wife Kaguya, no matter the cost.
I've written 60,000 words in the past two weeks already and I feel pretty good so expect regular updates (sounds crazy I know). Chapter length will be around 2k words.
DxD will continue, Blackmail will be halted for now, until the DxD arc of Tatsuya is over. Naruto is easy to write so it probably won't stop.
Lastly, enjoy.