woke up suddenly, sitting on a huge bed in the center of a room he
couldn't remember how he got there. Dim light filtered through half-closed windows, and the scent of expensive perfume hung in the air... both familiar and strange.
"What? Where am I? This is... not my house. This is not... my room."
He slowly gets up and looks around, examining the furniture and décor that seems familiar, yet at the same time strange. He touches his face, and feels that his features are not as he remembers them.
He feels something strange in his body. His movements are slow, and he feels something completely unfamiliar in his actions.
"This is not my body. Something inside me is telling me that this is... not me."
He looks at his hands, trying to remember. His eyes widen as he tries to make sense of what's happening.
"How am I here?"
He gets up and looks in the mirror. He sees him in the new body he doesn't recognize, with strange and unfamiliar features.
"Who is this... who is this person?"
He finds himself in someone else's body, but where is he, and how did he get there?
Did that person die? Am I now in his body? Wait, what happened to my body? How do I get back to it? What's going on?
He looks around and realizes how big this room is and how expensive the furniture is, and he wonders where he is right now, Then he hears a knock on the door.
A young woman with short black hair and quiet features enters the door, but what is most striking about her is the maid's uniform she is wearing.
"Good morning, young Mr. Dan."
Dan? Is that the name of the owner of this body? She thinks I'm tbody. What should I say? Well, don't screw it up, maybe if I talk to her I'll know where I am or what I'm doing here, and maybe how to get back to my body. Since she called me "young master," that means she's my servant, I should speak to her in the manner of noblemen as I've seen in novels .
"You there, maid — what time is it?"
Suddenly the maid's features changed and her expression became angry.
What's the matter? Did I say something strange? All I asked was what time it was. Is asking about the clock an insult in this place?
Suddenly, very quickly, the maid was in front of him and punched him so hard that he hit the wall and passed out.
When he woke up again, there was another face staring at him. This time, it was a large old man with a bushy beard and a deep scar on his cheek.
He said with a sigh: "Young master... it seems that asking one of the knights to dress as a maid was... overkill. And treating her like a maid? I think you've crossed the line."
What? The maid was actually a knight? How the hell should I know, what kind of person would ask a knight to dress up as a maid, and if it pissed her off so much, why did she agree in the first place.
"Anyway, I hope your health is fine, young sir, and as for the knight, she is currently in prison and will be punished for what she did."
Yes, I think I'm fine... wait, did you say prison?
"Yes, sir, she attacked her master and should be punished for it."
"No, there's no need for that, it was my fault. Please release her."
When the servant heard this, his expression changed slightly and he asked:
"Pardon my rudeness, young master, but are you sure about this?"
"Yes, of course, there is no need to imprison or punish her."
"Also, what's wrong with your outlook?"
"In fact, I expected you to call for her execution."
"What? Why would I do that?"
"Well, it's because you always chastise the servants and despise the knights. The fact that you were attacked by one of them, I expected you to be very angry."
Wow, the owner of this body seems to be total scum, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, the first person I saw was a knight in a maid's outfit.
"Also, you ordered me to cut my face, young master."
Forget everything I just said... the owner of this body is first-class scum. There's no need to think about anything else.
"I'm really sorry for what I did, I don't know for what reason, but I think my memory is a little fuzzy. Of course I don't think it's because of what the maid did... I mean the knight."
The servant gave me a strange look and said:
"Anyway, young master, your older sister is waiting for you in her office."
It seems that the owner of this body also has a sister. I wonder what kind of person she is... maybe she can help me find out something about what's going on.
"Okay, let's go see my big sister."
I went to the door and opened it and started to walk out of the room, but after a few steps I stopped and turned to the servant and asked:
"Where is the office?"
The servant looked at me quizzically, then asked:
"Young sir, are you sure you're okay?"
I told him:
"I told you I think so, but I'm not sure... now let's go see the elder sister."
The servant looked at me puzzled, then led me to a room with an oversized door, and when we entered it, another lavish room, where a girl with black hair and stern features was waiting for him behind a desk. He looked at her, and felt a kind of closeness... perhaps because she looked a bit like him.
"What am I going to do with you?" She said in a firm tone. "You make us a laughingstock among the families, and you act crazy. And now you're losing the support of the elders because of your weak talent of dark element Isn't it enough the betray of our elder brother? You're the current heir of the Noctaine family... act like it!"
Wait, wait... that's a lot of information to digest: Betrayed brother, family lord, dark element, weak talent... Am I in a novel? Am I in one of those novels where the hero wakes up in another world and has a super system and great talent? Well, she said something about weak talent, so let's try not to get our hopes up too much.
But the issue is: How do I get back to my world?
"Anyway, the knight will be punished, but don't expect a big punishment"
"Uh, speaking of which, I don't think she needs to be punished at all"
What? you ask for that? That's not like you, I thought you'd ask for her to be tortured.
I've said it before, the owner of this body really is scum. Well, at least she didn't think of the execution, I think she has a slightly, very slightly, better impression of me.
"Anyway, how's the training going? If you don't get accepted into the academy, even the elders who support me won't agree to you remaining as the head of the family."
"Young miss, young master has stopped training for about two weeks, in addition to the week he was unconscious."
What? I've been passed out for a week? I take it back, that knight should be severely punished.
"So that's it."
The sister's face became a bit creepy with a smile that didn't seem to mean well.
It looks like you're slacking on your training. Let's go to the training ground.
"Hey! I just woke up after being unconscious for a whole week, and you want me to go to training?"
No excuses, Uldrick, get the arena ready.
Yes, young lady.
The old servant named Uldrick heads to a large yard, containing various equipment such as swords, spears, bows, and even daggers. It seems that I am truly in another world. After we entered, the old servant went and brought two swords and gave one to me and one to my sister. The sister then raised her sword at me.
Wait, is she really serious? This sword is real? Does she want to kill me?
What happened next, Let's just say it was torture…, she wasn't attacking me at any of my vital points and she didn't even cut me, but other than that, she attacked me everywhere, she seemed to have some resentment towards me.
After ten minutes of constant beating, she said, "Your level was disappointing," and left the arena with a sad face.
Honestly, I'm the one who should be sad. I've never been beaten so badly in my life, and what's worse, it looks like I'm somehow at fault. What kind of person is the owner of this body to make his sister so upset?