It has been three years since Henry Kellerman was born in this world.
When he was born, at first, he had no clue about what was happening. He did not understand why he suddenly transformed into a baby, he could not fathom what happened to him.
He even thought that he must be dreaming, that everything would return to normal when he woke up.
But after several months of drinking milk and shitting his bottoms, he finally reached acceptance.
He realized it would be impossible even if he wanted to return to his previous world.
It is unknown why and how he was sent to this place without warning, he cannot imagine what kind of power it would require to transform an adult man from Earth into a baby in another world.
Besides, if he were asked if he wanted to return, he would answer no.
After several months of care from beautiful maids, he hopes that everything will continue as it is. He could not imagine how great it felt to be attended by several beautiful girls in his previous life.
The clothes he wore, the bed he slept in, the food he ate. Everything was much better than what he had in his previous life. He did not regret coming to this world. If possible, he would like to see what happened to him back on Earth that made him sent here, but nothing else.
He is just an ordinary person. He could not gamble everything he has now just for a chance to return to a mediocre life. All he could do was accept everything passively.
"Ah, Young Master, please don't be mischievous..."
When he remembers what happened when he was born in this world, Henry finally reacts after hearing his maid rebuke him.
As a three-year-old boy, he is sitting on the lap of a beautiful busty blonde maid on a sofa. While thinking, his body unconsciously rubbed backward, feeling the comfortable bosom of a young woman from the back of his head.
The smell of books was mixed with a flowery fragrance. Henry relaxed and stopped moving, leaning back, with full of trust.
Seeing him finally calm down, the blonde maid, Alice, complained.
"Really, Young Master is too naughty. Now then, where were we..."
Alice continued what they were doing for the day, reading books. Listening to the gentle voice from behind him, Henry did not listen to what she was saying but continued to reminisce.
During the first three years Henry lived in this world, he did not have any pressure. His family seemed rich, with him living alone with dozens of servants.
Henry can have almost everything he wants just by ordering his maid. He really did not need to lift a finger, from changing his clothes to eating with a spoon; everything was assisted by maids.
There used to be male servants as well, but when he started showing signs of dislike towards them, they gradually disappeared from his sight, mostly working in places where he couldn't see.
After three years, Henry was raised as a waste.
While he wondered where his parents were, he was not that curious. He only met his father once and his mother twice.
Henry first met his parents after he was born when he first started to speak.
The first impression he had of his parents was that they looked pretty. It's as if they were photoshopped but in real life. Henry felt they were extraordinary at first sight.
Henry's father, Duke Kellermann, is a black-haired man with a handsome face. Henry found the words "arrogant noble" fit him very much, as expected from the head of the House Kellermann.
Henry's mother, Amalie Lichtenberger, has beautiful blonde hair, blood-red eyes, and a fascinating smile only magnified by the mole on the left corner of her lips. Henry never thought he would have such a beautiful mother.
The unfortunate thing he found out was that her chest was disappointing.
"No wonder she did not feed me before," Henry thought back then.
After speaking and looking at him for a while, they brought him to a wide hall and performed a ritual.
Henry could not remember properly what happened back then, but he became forgetful ever since. Anyway, he felt he was a few more times dumber ever since.
It took Henry less than a year to learn how to speak, but other than that, he did not have any difference compared to other babies.
Henry was disappointed that he could not become a genius baby as he first imagined how he would be like those reincarnated characters in the isekai novels he read.
But he was disappointed for too long. After more than a year, he decided to work hard. Yes. Work hard like the main characters in the isekai novels he read in his previous life.
With his slow mind, he started thinking of ways to improve himself.
When he was two years old, he started to learn how to read. His maid Alice started to teach him how to read stories like "Hero Defeats the Demon King," "The Villainess Counterattacks," "The S-Rank Adventurer Regretted Letting His Party Member Go," etc.
What surprised Henry the most was the book called "The Founding of Weizmann Empire."
According to it, more than a hundred years ago, a group of great men followed the Hero to defeat the Demon King in the Demon Continent. After the Hero returned to his world, his followers united and started the great unification of the world, The Great Continent.
From repairing the Great Rift created by the invasion of the Demon Continent that increased the land area of The Great Continent to creating a unified empire that continues until now.
Henry was most shocked by the fact that his father, Duke Kellermann, was a character in that book.
Henry also confirmed from the maids that serve him. He learned that his father was more than a hundred years old, and had been a Duke for more than a hundred years.
Realizing that, Henry's determination to work hard dwindled, but he still tried.
After thinking for more than half a year, Henry finally recalled. Magic.
"Yes, magic exists in this world," Henry thought.
With that as a trigger, he recalled how the main characters would train themselves.
He tried to sense his mana with the intention of draining it to increase the maximum mana volume, but he was stopped by his maid.
Henry did not have the intention to hide what he wanted to do from his maids.
In the first place, after being a waste who can't do anything by himself for a few years, everything he wants to do must be assisted by a maid, or else, he cannot do it at all.
When Henry tried to use his mana indiscriminately, the maid attending to him stopped him from doing so.
According to her, it was very uncomfortable and even painful to drain one's mana volume completely.
In Henry's case, being a son of Duke Kellermann and the Witch of Zeiphira made him very resistant to mana sickness, but it is not recommended to train one's mana while one is very young.
The mana in this world also has attributes, and each mana attribute will affect one's thinking to a certain extent. Mana also affects the body, including an increase in longevity, beauty, tolerance to diseases, etc.
If the main character from a different novel trains the way they did by draining mana as soon as it recovers in order to improve the maximum mana their body can hold, they would either become insane first or become insanely powerful but with a body full of defects.
Spending a long time with a mana-drained body would make a young child's body get sick very easily. It is not necessarily fatal to a noble-born child like Henry and at most makes him feel weak often, but if a commoner child without the blood of a magician, it would only result in death.
Henry's maid explained that to him for several hours. Only then did Henry decide to give up working hard.
After all, while explaining that, Henry's maid mentioned that he was the 16th son of the duke and the 2nd offspring of his mother.
More importantly, she praised him for having an extraordinary volume in mana despite his age, but only to continue praising his family, making him realize that his more than a dozen older siblings must be at least as good as him or even better.
Saddened by the realization that he might be mediocre in this life as well, Henry decided that the maid who made him realize that must accompany him to sleep at night from then on to heal his young wounded heart.
But despite so, Henry did not stop working hard completely. He would come up with an idea from time to time, only to be disappointed again after trying it.
After receiving a report that he was interested in magic, Amalie, Henry's mother, visited him again, but he only met her briefly.
She checked Henry's body, and after telling him that he was still too young to learn magic, she left after giving him a few hugs and kisses.
Now, he is three years old.
A few days ago, the maid who accompanies him whenever he wants to try something suddenly told him.
"Young Master, would you like to try to be a good waste next time?"
Henry could still remember her grumpy voice when she said that.
Maybe he was at fault because the last time he asked her to do something, she needed to go to several territories to search for what he wanted. But it was still too much.
Henry felt angry when he remembered that.
However, what made him most depressed was that he felt he could easily do that.
He could stop being mediocre and become a good waste.
A good, waste.
"Young Master...? Are you alright?"
Hearing Alice's voice, Henry stopped reminiscing and looked up at her.
"Oh my? Was the story too sad for you?"
After putting down the book "The Princess Avenges Her Beloved Dragon Kidnapper" in her hand, Alice gently touched Henry's hair and smiled kindly.
Henry's eyes were filled with tears without realizing it.
Henry didn't care despite knowing that she misunderstood, Henry turned his body around and buried his face into her chest, keeping her in a tight embrace.
It was the easiest way he knew how to seek comfort.
"There, there, Young Master, please don't be sad."
Alice hugged back, softly whispering to her young master.