So, now, I wonder what I should do first… The thing that came to my mind right away is getting close to my sister.
Even though I need to get close to her, indulging her every whim is no good. I must reform her selfish remarks again and again from now on.
At once, I call my servant to confirm my sister’s actions.
Jingle jingle
When there’s something I need, I ring a bell installed in this room. The first thing that I saw when I wake up was this bell near my pillow, and I didn’t understand the purpose, but when my servant said, “If you need anything in your bedtime, please speak to me using this.” I immediately understood.
“Have you called, Toru-sama?” Along with a knock, my servant Immortel bows and greets me.
“What is my sister doing today?”
“Blue Marie-sama… Today, she’s scheduled to study the language in the morning, history in the afternoon, and after 3 PM, her schedule is empty.”
When it comes to my sister, Immortel hesitates. I don’t know the exact reason to this very day, but whether he’s not good with girls in general or my sister in particular, he doesn’t approach girls at all. I have seen him talked to other servants, but he’s a somewhat strange servant.
Immortel is also someone who didn’t exist in the original game. It’s a given, considering I didn’t exist there.
Before there was a bell, Immortel’s face was what jumped right before my eyes. When I woke up, he would stroke my head with worried look in his face, calling “Toru-sama…”
What to do when a servant stroke his master’s head… I thought. Well, that’s probably the game setting, so I didn’t think about it too deeply, because it was way more important to sort out my own situation.
First of all, where am I!? as the starting point, I don’t even know things that should be a given such as my own name. I can say “Oohira Tooru”, but there’s no way I can actually say that in this situation. Then Immortel panicked, chose to call a medical officer on his own, and I looked at my own reflection in the mirror. In that moment, I immediately understood that my consciousness as Oohira Tooru had entered someone else’s body.
Afterwards, I replied to the medical officer’s questions and got diagnosed with “due to the trauma in his head, his consciousness is temporarily disturbed”. However, after realizing that this was the game’s world, my memory returned, putting Immortel at ease.
After a few days, I came to understand that if I didn’t establish the position that I was currently a different person altogether, I would head straight to the destruction end.
“I see… Then I probably should study too until Anesama is free…” I grumbled.
I was replied with, “Understood. Then I shall prepare the change of clothes and breakfast,” from Immortel, who already opened the closet’s door.
I changed into the clothes arranged by Immortel and headed over to breakfast.
I digress, but this act of changing clothes was first handled by Immortel as well. I had no idea whatsoever about being a noble so it was probably a given, but when he said, “Please excuse me,” while unbuttoning the buttons on my chest, I didn’t think over and reacted with, “Eeeh!?” Immortel put on an odd expression and asked, “Is there any problem?” indifferently, but I said, deeply embarrassed, “I…. I’ll do it myself!” and brought Immortel down.
After that, I changed the clothes by myself and told Immortel, “I will be changing my clothes on my own,” which made him look empty and sad while replying, “Understood.” There was a delight from knowing that I had grown, at first, but I wonder if he felt lonely because it didn’t seem to stop at that.
I have a feeling that Immortel was somehow aware of something beyond this existence that he called his “Master”. I didn’t have the proof, but from time to time, I kept feeling that in the mood.
“(Eh… This world is really an otome game, right…?)” I thought while feeling strange, but since I didn’t have the experience of being kissed or embraced, I tried not to put that in mind.
When I arrived at the dining room for breakfast, I received a “Good morning,” from each of my father, mother, older brother, and older sister. After returning the greeting, I sit in my chair.
“Toru, how are you feeling?”
The person who asked is my father, Oakmoss・Balsam, a 30 year old man who serves the royal family as the king’s right hand man… -ish.
This side was something I ignored from my real sister’s information, so I didn’t really remember. “The King x Close Aide is great too~!” or so she screamed, I only remember that much.
“I’m all right, Tousama. I recalled a considerable part of my memories. There are still tiny parts that I need to recover, but it’s simply a matter of time, I’m really sorry to cause you to worry.”
“I see… I’m glad, then. However, Toru is suddenly becoming so mature after that accident, I feel lonely, you know…”
“(Eeeh!? This way of talking is bad!? But it’s not like I can revert back right now…!)”
“Still, if you can properly speak from that, I won’t be ashamed no matter where I bring you to, Toru, it’s okay to take it easy.”
“Yes, Tousama.”
I answer like that and reach for my breakfast.
Translating Tidbits:
So I decided not to translate the honorific titles in direct speech. o)–(
At first I thought that for a toddler(?), our MC speaks really formally. But it’s a misunderstanding instead, haha.