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:

  Stolen story; please report.

  "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?

  been two days since I last saw my sister, whose name I've learned is Elena, and I've learned a few things about this world. First of all, the name of the owner of this body is Dan Noctine, the current heir to the title of head of the Noctine family, which is the second greatest family after the royal family. I thought this world was medieval, but I was wrong. This world has modern devices, perhaps even more advanced than those in my world.

  This world seems to contain non-human races of elves and dwarves, and they come from other worlds.

  There is a race of demons, and this race is hostile to all other races. I've heard that there are spirits that can be contracted, but it depends on who has the talent for contracting.

  Speaking of talent, I seem to have an A-rated talent. It sounded great at first, but then I learned that there are S, SS even SSS talents. The A talent might be great for others, but since I'm the next head of the family, it's considered low. I have to wait for the system to show up or something.

  It seems that people who have the talent are called awakened and the awakening begins at the age of fifteen and starts with rank E, I really began to think I had stepped into a world within a novel.

  There's a lot of opposition from family members to me being the next head of the family, and there are those who are demanding that the older sister become the head of the family, but she keeps refusing and supports me even with all the opposition. She seems to really care about her little brother even though he doesn't seem like a good person at all. It's enough that one of the servants accidentally dropped the tea cup, and he's crying and begging for mercy. Only, what kind of person is the owner of this body that others are so afraid of him?

  Then someone came up to me, the same girl with short black-colored hair and the same maid's uniform.

  Good morning, young master.

  Yes, good morning, Tia.

  The knight who hit me is called Tia, and while still wearing the maid's uniform, and she's a Nocturne knight ,she is a rank A . The big Sister removed her from her position as a knight and made her an official maid. In fact, I asked her to commute the punishment, but the look on her face made me shut my mouth.

  If you love your brother so much, why did you beat him? After all, she became my personal maid as punishment for her actions.

  Sir, I brought the measuring device as you requested.

  Tia grabbed a fist-sized device and left the room. The device measures the talent of the elements. In this world, there is more than one element, and a single individual has multiple elements they can use. He can focus on one element or more than one element, and each element has a talent and talent grades from E to SSS with the highest talent in an element determining the talent.

  There are several types of them. There are basic elements such as fire, wind, light, and darkness, and branching elements such as iron, ice, sand, shadows, and many others.

  Now let's see what my talents are. I put my arm on the device and pumped a little bit of what is known as Mana, which at first I thought was difficult, but it turned out to be easier than I thought. Then, a holographic writing appeared above the device, and for a moment I thought the system had finally appeared, but I was quickly disappointed when I realized it was from the device itself, and my talent stats were as follows:

  Darkness: 60%

  Shadows: 75%

  Blood: 74%

  Fire: 62%

  As said before, I seem to have a weak talent for Darkness, and my highest talent is for Shadows. There's Blood, which sounds interesting, and Fire as well. But there was more. When I saw it, I froze. There were two more elements. One was the 40% time element, and the other was what shocked me:

  Space: 100%

  This is an unexpected surprise. I've heard that there's another type of element called special elements, and they're extremely rare. It's really strange to have two such elements, but the fact that one of them is 100%, doesn't that make me a genius? Then why all these doubts about my lack of talent? Maybe I should ask Sister about it.

  Well, maybe there's something in the diary of the owner of this body. What surprises me is the diary book I found in the room. It contains information about the names of the people in the palace. At first, I suspected that the owner of this body knew that I was going to replace him, but when I saw on one of the pages in large print just one word, "I'm sorry," I began to realize that he knew I was coming. But why would he know that, and why would he leave me this diary? I hope he didn't take over my body.

  Okay, let's put the diary on hold. I have to prepare myself for the meeting Sister told me about.

  The reason? It's not hard to guess... surely their objection to me being the head of the family.

  I let out a long sigh as I open the wardrobe. I chose a black coat with silver trim and a dark navy shirt, and I wore a simple bracelet that I used to see on Dan's hand in pictures.

  I looked at myself for a moment... the face was his, but the soul was no longer his

  "Young sir, the car is waiting for you."

  It was Tia's voice from behind the door.

  "That's good, what about the older sister?"

  "I was told that she will join us in another car as she has some work to do.

  We went outside and what I saw was a limousine, a fancy, modern limousine like I've never seen before. Well, it's not like I've ever seen a limousine before.

  The limo was cruising down the road, strangely still, the sun touching the horizon.

  I sat silently in the back, while Tia sat across from me, looking out the window with a concentration I didn't recognize.

  "Tia?"

  She didn't answer right away. Her features were taut, wary.

  "This way... it's not the usual route to the family elders' hall."

  I raised my eyebrows. "You mean the driver changed the route?"

  I nodded. "Yes, and the road we're on now... it leads to a deserted area. No one comes here."

  I whispered, looking out the window: "Is it a mistake... or a trap?

  Our conversation was interrupted by the sudden stop of the vehicle.

  "Stay behind me." Tia said quickly as she took her sword out of her belt, her tone not the one I was used to.

  Then came the voice:

  "Open the door and get rid of them."

  The doors slammed open, and the first person rushed into the carriage, his face covered by a leather mask, his sword pointing straight at me.

  But Tia was faster. She blocked him with her sword and ran with him out of the carriage, screaming:

  "Run, sir!"

  I remained frozen in place, but before I could move, a second entered from the opposite side, his eyes filled with coldness.

  He raised his dagger high. I didn't have time to think.

  But he didn't reach me.

  A scream... then blood.

  Tia.

  She had lunged again, her body in the way of the dagger.

  She was stabbed.

  A scream came out of my mouth without me realizing it:

  "Tia!"

  She turned to me slowly, blood dripping from the side of her mouth:

  "Sir... survival... is more important..."

  She fell to the ground.

  I don't know exactly what happened next. My vision became blurry, and my body temperature rose suddenly.

  Then I felt something in my neck, and I looked up in shock

  "Blood?"

  My neck is covered in blood, my blood?

  "Accept my apologies, young master, but the family elder refuses to let you stay. If you want to blame anyone, blame the young lady.

  The voices of the assassins became distant... very distant.

  The earth was swallowing me, or so I felt.

  Tia...

  Tia died because of me.

  Everything began to disappear... light, sound, sensation.

  Is this… the end of me?

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