"Wh-who are you?! and where am i?!" i yelled as i asked agitatedly with a trembling voice while showing a panicked and confused expression.
"Oh!" the woman exclaimed, seemingly surprised from my response.
"Okay.... i will answer your questions, but , could you please calm down first?" she told me while reassuring me.
"And what about you? are you ok now? You were screaming so loudly while holding your head, is your head ok?" she then proceeds to ask on top of my questions.
"I-i'm fine, a headache just suddenly popped out of nowhere, a terrible one..." i answered her weakly whilst touching my temple.
"Oh that's not good! you have to drink water first, wait for me i'll get some- Ah!" she told me as she starts to get up to go fetch some water until suddenly i held her wrist to stop her from walking away.
"Wait! just tell me what is going on here!" i yelled at her demandingly as i stopped her from walking away.
"Ok ok i will answer you in a minute, i will just fetch you some water to help with your head and to help you calm down" she kindly reminds me while she gets rid of my hands holding her wrist and proceeds to exit the room.
As I lay there waiting for her, i started to recall all the events that happened prior from now.
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"Fuck! that God really did not give me any breaks at all huh.." i cursed at Prometheus out of anger from the restlessness i felt from the situation i experienced.
The pain that i experienced must be 'my' memories forcibly resurfacing right after my accident. I must've hit my head so bad during the accident which may have caused a temporary amnesia. And as immediate as the pain, so was my amnesia, 'something' must've forced back my memories into my brain.
While i was drowning in my thoughts the woman suddenly entered the room again but this time with a glass of water, stopping my train of thought.
"Here" the woman said as she hands me te glass of water.
"Thanks" i responded gratefully.
I took the glass and begins gulping down the water, as i do these actions, she just stares at me with eyes full of concerns, as if i was her child. Though, i wonder if i really was, so i just straightly asked her.
"Are you my mother?" i asked in a curious tone as politely as possible.
"Unfortunately, young master, no, but i could become your mother if you want to"
she answered kindly and offers me if i wanted her to become my mother.
(OH SHIT! Ok that's what i get for jumping the gun....) i thought to myself as i realized my impulsiveness.
"Hu-huh? no you don't have to! i-i just asked, because i thought you were..." i responded in an embarassed tone.
"A-anyway i apologize if it offended you when i assumed you were my mother.... you see, i really don't remember anything much about my life before this.... except for my name and some knowledges that i must've learned in school..." i apologized while proceeding to tell her of my memory loss.
"Oh no young master!....." she reacted with a worrying tone as she covers her mouth with her hands.
"I'm really sorry to hear that young master.... you-you were in a pretty bad shape when we found you so, i guess it would be normal for you to have amnesia..." she apologized as she told me that she mus've found me after my carriage fell from the cliff.
*Sighs* she sighs in a sorrowful way while thinking about my situation.
"No it's not-it's not your fault." i responded reassuring her that she shouldn't feel at fault for my situation.
Right after i said that, both of us looked down disheartened as the atmosphere in the room becomes blue.
"Okay! let us not be down about that anymore! it's the past, i can just make new memories as i live on in this second chance of life" i said in a cheerful tone as i break the atmosphere.
"Oh! oh yeah! that is a good mindset young master!" she responded cheerfully.
" So you said you only remember your name, may i know of your name then, young master?" she asks while smiling warmly whilst holding out her hand for me waiting for me to respond.
"My name....my name's Chris and you are?" i answered as i hold her hand.
"My name is Martha! Nice to meet you young master Chris! oh and we are currently in The Holy Roman Empire, in the region of Euclidene at the far edges of the empire, we are in a wonderful village called Don" Martha responded as we both held and shook our hands to celebrate our formal greetings with each other, we both smiled at each other as this happened.
"Wait what?!" i asked in a surprised tone.
"Young master Chris? what is what?" she also asked confuse about my reaction.
"Oh-oh i just remembered that Euclidene is a place near the Eucledene wall right? You know where monsters are close by?" i answered trying to hide the fact that i nearly had a heart attack about her answer.
Don? i'm not really sure if it was one of those villages i listed in the novel, villages that will be destroyed by the monsters rushing out of the 'gate'. But what i'm sure at is that all of Euclidene and the surrounding provincial republics will be affected by the monster rush, though at some point, an adventurer named 'Purger' will beat the gate, rendering it unable to send monsters outside, making it a 'dungeon'. The Empire will then reap benefits and profits from the resources they will acquire from this dungeon that they will eventually start to call the 'Bloody Christmas Dungeon'.
The MC will hate the Empire from reaping benefits at the deaths of his parents, friends and fellows at the village, and also to all the people that will be killed by the monsters. Oh and also, yeah, they call the event 'Bloody Christmas' because it happened exactly at the day of Christmas.
"Oh yeah... you must be scared, But no worries! there's barely any monsters here, and this place is very flat! so we have the advantage of seeing if monsters are nearby!" she assured me trying to convince me to not be afraid.
"No i am not scared of that, i also know that the 'Euclidene Wall' must be protecting this place from the monsters from Fantasia! so i'm not worried at all, i was just surprised that i was here!" i reassure her that i am not afraid and that there is nothing to be afraid of when the almighty 'Euclidene wall' is protecting them and the rest of the empire, though it couldn't prevent the 'gate incident'.
For context, the Euclidene Wall is an extremely colossal wall erected 200 years ago by both a Human Supreme Mage named 'Magi' and an Elder Elf named 'Aeneas', it was built starting from the southern tip of the Ural Mountains all the way to the northern parts of the Caspian Sea, which took 30 years to be built. It was erected for the purpose of ending the Demon-Human War that started 300 years ago. The wall is measured to be more than 500 feet(more than 152 meters) in height, and 66 feet(20 meters) in thickness, made up of the combination of various earthly metals conjured up from the ground (such as Iron, Nickel, Gold, Silver and more).
"You are absolutely right, young master! The high and mighty Euclidene Wall! Oh! and there are also lots of passing by adventurers here, so we're pretty much safe" Martha added to complete my statement.
"Yeah but even they couldn't do anything" i whispered to myself trying to prevent her from hearing.
"Oh and may i know what date is it?" i asked her. Seeing that this village is not destroyed yet, i must be a few years back before the incident that will forever change the MC, so i couldn't afford to change the plot.
"Oh it's March 13, 999 in the Clavian Calendar, why?" she answered seemingly confused why an amnesiac person asked the date. She then gave me a faint suspicious look.
Ah yes, even if she was really kind to save me, as a normal person, she should still be wary of me. I mean she barely knows about me, and me saying that i lost my memory will not really help erase her suspicions.
"Oh i just needed to know the exact time and date i woke up, for remembrance hehe" i explained to her, so that she lowers her suspicions. But internally, i was screaming for help while cursing at Prometheus, telling to him internally on why did he have throw me in this world at this dire time, and here of all places.
(YOU FUCKER, YOU DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME TIME TO PREPARE FOR THE DISASTER!!!) i internally cursed at Prometheus.
You see like i said, December 25th was the time of this disaster, But the year of 999 was also the year of the disaster, So fuck! he gave me some months to get out of here. But no! deep inside i am really grateful for Martha! so why would i just leave her here to die?! I'm not some cold-blooded person to let the person who saved me to die! So i need to decide now on what move will i make! Will i tell her about the incoming disaster? Will she even believe me? Will i just do something behind the scenes to help defend against the monsters? Am i even strong enough to do that? What do i d-
"Oh that makes sense..." she responded with a warm smile, relieved that her suspicions was wrong. This response also stopped my train of thought from going further morbid.
"But young master Chris? are you ok? you look like you saw a ghost.." she asked me in a concerned tone.
"Uhh? no-no i'm ok Martha" i answered reassuring her fine, though not at all.
(Maybe i'll decide tomorrow but not now...) i thought to myself with resolve.
From what i observed from her, she is a really kind person but she probably has people to protect, that is why she probably feels responsible for deciding to bring me here to her home. And i think that she also feels responsible for the possibility that i might be someone bad, though she also doesn't want to suspect me of being bad and is probably guilty about that too.
"So miss Martha i am really grateful that you saved me from dying there from loss of blood or even worse, i could've been eaten by monsters there, i really could've died (again). You are truly a beautiful and kind person, i could never thank you enough so i will do everything to repay you and please don't be burdened, you desserve it!" i thanked her wholeheartedly as i tell her what might've happened to me if she hadn't saved me and making her feel that i will forever be grateful and that i will never hurt her and her family.
"Oh god! that is pretty morbid of you young master! But thank you and your welcome and don't worry, i don't think that you are a bad person" she reacted concerned at how i just described my own death if she hadn't saved me as she also assures me with a warm smile that she no longer suspects me.
"But then again, you're right young master, that is possible and by the way it wasn't just me who saved you, there's also my husband, wait i'm just gonna call him" she told me as she proceeds to walk to the door, as she then yelled out.
"Honey!!!!!! Chris he- i mean the person we saved! He's awake!" she yelled out for her husband.
"REALLY?! wait! i'll go there right now!" her husband responded shocked and happily.
I could here hurrying footsteps coming from outside the room as it goes up what must be the staircase from the groundfloor, and then suddenly a handsome man walked in from the already opened door.
"Hey!! Your awake! we're truly glad that you're awake sir!" he told me while smiling as he approached both me and Martha, he then sat on the side of the bedside beside Martha.
"This is my husband Renz, and Renz this is Chris the young master we saved from the broken carriage beside the cliff" Martha introduced us to each other.
"Hello! Sir Renz! nice to meet you!" i greeted him as i shake his hands.
"Hi! nice to meet you too!" Renz he responded to my greeting with a smile.
As we were greeting each other earlier, i observed how handsome Renz is. He's a man that must be in his 40's like missus Martha, he has a short brown wavy hair devoid of any split ends paired with brown eyes that has a hint of goldness into it. He has a thin beard, presenting himself as a manly man, but don't get me wrong, he don't smell bad, if not, he is actually very clean, like he came straight from a shower bath, though i guess this world has magic, so cleaning magic should be possible.
As i proceeded to look at him, he gave me a weirded out look as i looked at him up and down so i hurriedly look away. But i still remember that i saw good body build that i could see through his thin purple long sleeve shirt, he must be the wood chopping typa husband. I looked back at his face and saw a sharp noseline and he also has a jawline so sharp that it could kill.
(Wow... so far both the only 2 people that i met in this world are both beautiful, i wonder if i could find more) i thought to myself amazed by the beauty of the couple, what a good pairing.
"So handsome..." i unknowingly muttered while still looking at Renz's face.
"Hey there! Young master Chris! i know that he is handsome but i'm sorry he IS taken.. we already have a son too...." Martha told me with a hint of jealousy directed towards me because she also heard my response.
*Chuckles* And there also Renz reacted with a chuckle, probably happy from her wife getting jealous over him.
"Oh no! i'm sorry i'm not interested in having sir Renz missus Martha, i was just merely astonished by his beauty, just like your beauty Missus Martha, hehe" i responded while awkwardly smiling denying her claims.
They both seem to buy my response.
" So sir Renz and missus Martha, why have you been calling me Young master" i asked curiously.
"Oh it's because we saw that your carriage had an insignia, though it was throughly smashed, but we were still able to recognize the insignia, but sadly, not from which family it was from..." Renz answered but with a sad face in the ending of his sentence.
"Oh that's unfortunate..... But! from my situation, you no longer have to call me Young master, i seem to have already lost my memories regarding etiquettes and such, and trust me I don't mind if you couldn't recognize it!" i told them to stop them from having depressing thoughts from sympathy of me.
Though i am sad that i can't go back to my 'real' family right now, i still have things to prepare here to save these people, so..
(I'm really sorry! MOM! DAD! BRO! SIS! AUNTY! UNCLE! GRAMPS! AND GRAMS! i have hings to do for now so i just wish that all of you are okay! AND YOU PROMETHEUS LET ME SEE MY FAMILY IN THIS WORLD! THIS IS THE LEAST YOU CAN DO FOR ME!) i thought to myself and 'prayed' for Prometheus to not let my family be in danger.
Once i go back there, and i know they're gonna be worried sick, so i'm pretty sure they will scold me.
"Okay... But are you really sure you don't mind us calling you with just your name?" Renz asked with a concerned expression as if he was afraid of offending me, while also giving me faint suspicious looks.
Martha glared at Renz a little bit, as she also felt that her husband still doesn't trust me, though she immediately retracted her glare, as she finally realized that it was natural for her husband to be suspicious of me because he also wants to protect her.
"Yes i am really ok with it..." i asnwered back and looked at them with a sincere expression.
They both nodded at each other while smiling, so at this point i'm pretty sure that even Renz has dropped his slight suspicions about me, as they finally agreed that i'm a trustworthy person.
"So i guess Chris, you would be curious as to how we found you?" Renz asked as if he already knows the answer.
"Yes!" i answered excitedly.
And then they proceeded to tell me that they found me because they paid a visit to their relatives that were living in the city of Warsaw, the capital city of the Kingdom of Poland, a nation adjacent and is dependent on the Holy Roman Empire. They then told me that after staying there for 5 days, they decided to go back, on the way back, they saw me lying at the foot of the cliff, bloody, with parts and materials of my carriage in pieces, they then carried me to go back home out of morality.
"So you are telling me that it has been a month since you found me?" i asked concerned.
"Yes you are right" Renz answered.
(Dang.... my accident must've been so bad that it took me a month to wake up...wait-) i thought o myself as i suddenly realized something.
I looked at my wrist and hands, and saw that it is basically skin and bones, with barely any muscle in it. I also felt that my lips were so dry that it started to crack in some places, and also i now noticed that my voice was so hoarse. I also looked at my body inside the shirt, it was very skinny, i could see my ribs poking through my skin. As i was observing and checking my body Martha responded.
"From what you can see, as i was nursing you, i couldn't feed nor make you drink anything, your mouth was shut tight and your body wasn't moving at all, like a log. The only thing that i could do was use the 'Hydration' spell that i use on my plants, and thank goodness it works on you!....." she told me with a bitter-sweet expression, expressing that she feels guilty for not properly nursing me.
"I also used the 'Clean' spell on you from time to time to clean you, but after that, it was all on you... your body must've been using the Aether constituents to supply itself in alternative to food. Though, I've heard of some people using that technique, i've never tried nor experienced using it because from what i know, you still need food to stay alive" she further added.
"But for some reason, i stayed alive for a whole month just from Aether....." i responded with amazement while continuing to look at my body.
"Yes, your body, it's incredible! so be really thankful not only to us but also to your will to live! and also to the benevolent God!" she told me seemingly amazed by the miracle that happened to me.
"God has helped you get a second chance, so whatever you did back then, it doesn't matter anymore! you can start anew!" Renz further added to Matha's statement.
"Yeah i guess you're both right, thank(fuck) you benevolent(asshole) God!" i said as i was looking up at the ceiling while holding my hands in a prayer gesture.
All of us laughed amongst each other, celebrating about the idea. We then continued chatting about their life this time, they told me that they have been living in this village for as long as Martha was given birthed to by her now passed mother. She told me that her family came from Poland, their family were nobles in that kingdom, that was probably why she and Renz visited a relative there and then found me, because her ancestors came from there. Once her mother was given birth to, their part of the family was kicked out of their noble's house, her mother and her family then moved to Kievan Rus' capital, Kiev, then proceeded to move here in Eucledene as farmers, and here her mother found her true love and gave birth to Martha.
For Renz's case, his family and ancestors has been in this village for hundreds of years as hunters of both monsters and animals, (Ahh so that's why he's ripped! he's a hunter! maybe i could learn how to fight from him if i asked).
They also told me that they have a son named 'Ciel', he just left to 'Academia' last week. He knew about me and told his parents to say hi to me for him once i wake up.
"Oh your son must be very talented! to be able to go to such a prestigious school!" i praised them and their son for being able to go to 'Academia'.
Mind you, i created 'Academia' to be like 'Harvard' in this world. It's a really big school that teaches from Highschool all the way to college. And it's an isolated school built on an island named 'Malta' in the middle of the mediteranean sea, for the purpose of giving a feeling 'out of comfort zone' to it's students. It's the biggest and most popular school, but, it is really hard to get in there. A week prior from the first day of your school, you have to pass through the 'enrance exams', and i made them really hard when the MC was participating, i'm just not certain if it is the same for the other rounds. The tests will test your talent, skills and experience, plus, they only let students be enrolled every 4 years!
"Oh yes! he really is! He is even stronger than Renz in terms of strength" Martha told me while looking a Renz.
Renz must've felt somewhat offended by that so he told me.
"And he is even smarter than Martha!" Renz told me while looking at Martha menacingly.
And after he said that, they then used their compliments for their son to get back at each other. This couple argued for a whole 30 mins, but i broke it up as i already got sick of it. I told them that they're being way too much to each other and that their son will be very angry at them for using him for their arguments. They then stopped after i seemingly convinced them and started laughing telling me that he might actually like his name being used for arguments 'cause that was how bloated his ego was.
They then asked me if i wanted to stay here, they told me that i am more than welcomed to enter their family, but i said that tomorrow i will decide and tell them. They told me to eat dinner with them and then told me to stay the night here so that tomorrow i could tell them immediately if i want them to be my adoptive parents.
I tried to decline, saying that i would just sleep in the hay for the night, but they told me that how could i even sleep there when i'm this sickly looking. I then thought that them saving me would be in vain if i was just to die by the cold near their house if they let me sleep me there. So i politely accepted their offer, i ate dinner with them and now i'm back in the room where slept for the whole month, it's night time.
"Wow... a lot really happened today.." i spoke to myself amazed asking myself if what i felt today was real or not while looking at the window. Observing the quiet nightscape of the flatlands while also thinking about other stuffs, especially regarding on what i will do about the 'Bloody Christmas'.
I also took into account the fact that saving the MC's parents will forever change the personality of the MC, and also the way he approach this world and maybe even strength and his role in this world, which made my process of deciding way harder. Several questions about the limitless possibilities that may occur on this world if i save his parents started popping up in my mind. But one question surfaced above the others.
(Am i even capable enough to do any of this?)
*Sighs* i sighed when i thought of that question.
When suddenly a blue light appeared in the front of my face, forming a square-shaped what seems to be an 'interface'. Suddenly, a series of letters typed itself on the blue interface saying:
[Ofcourse you are strong enough]