Clack…Clack…Clack
"Victor, how long until we're back?" Lev asked from inside the carriage
"We just arrived"
"Fantastic"
As Victor opened the door for Lev, he noticed a nervous look on his face.
"Young Master, is something bothering you?" Victor asked.
"Oh… it's nothing"
'Geez, it's not like I can just tell you that, especially since the thing that's bothering me is that I literally took his young master's body' Saito was a bit annoyed by that. Still, he had other things to worry about, like how to talk to Lev's family, aka the people standing right in front of him.'
Standing in front of him was a woman who looked to be in her 20s and a young girl.
The woman had long periwinkle hair and pale yellow eyes. She was wearing a Victorian styled maid's uniform with a small pouch at her side, and had elf ears. From the original Lev's memory, her name was Marie.
The young girl had dark blue hair in pigtail buns and soft light blue eyes. She was wearing a dress that had a light blue and white checkered pattern on it with a white base, she was wearing a light blue and white beret. She was also carrying a parasol with her. And according to Lev's memory, her name was Alice, she was the youngest daughter of the Griffins family.
"Welcome back Young Master"
"Welcome back big brother"
They both said in unison as if they had practiced that
"Hello Alice, Marie, how are you two?" Lev responded, wondering if that was an okay response.
"We are just fine, but how was your adventure big brother?"
"It was fine," Lev replied, wondering if Alice had asked the Og. Lev if he was going somewhere.
'The original Lev probably told her that he was going on an adventure.'
"Miss Alice I'm sure the Young Master is very tired, so let's go inside now so that he can rest," Marie announced, most likely to let Lev go get situated, and so that she and Victor could talk to him.
'Wow her real intentions are really easy to notice.'
"Young Master, we should also head inside now I'm sure you want to wash off," Victor added noticing the small amount of dirt on him
"Hm, oh yes that would be great"
'He was so quiet for so long that him talking kinda startled me,' Saito thought.
The both of them started to head inside, Saito wondered what Marie was wanting to talk to him about but he decided to worry about it later.
***
Inside the house was very elegant, in the long corridor they were in, there were paintings on the walls and flowers on window sills. Saito wondered if the Lady of the house had a thing for flowers and that if the paintings were drawn by an artist someone had hired, or if someone in the family had painted them.
At the end of the corridor, there was another hallway but before that was a painting. He stopped to look at the painting for a moment. The painting was of a family, Lev recognized Alice in it.
'This must be the Griffins family, hm you can practically tell that they're all related.'
Saito noticed a man on the left side of the painting, he looked much more different than the others.
'That must be…' Saito pondered for a moment on who that might be. He then noticed that the painting looked relatively new as if it was painted only a few years ago.
'I almost forgot, Lev was adopted by the Griffins family.'
He recognized the long black-ish green-ish hair that he noticed was Lev's hair color as he left the cave.
"It was a very memorable day when that painting was painted, I remember the whole house was very excited," Victor interjected.
"Was it, please remind me how long ago the painting was made," Lev asked, hoping that wouldn't draw suspicion.
"...My lord, is something wrong? You've been acting weird all day." Victor questioned.
'He must have noticed that Lev wasn't acting like himself.' Saito wondered if that was the case.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, after every trip you always come over to the painting first. You then talk about how happy everyone was that day. So it made me a little worried to hear you ask that." Victor said worriedly.
"Ah, I'm sorry my mind has just been a mess since we got home," Lev explained. He technically wasn't wrong so he thought that that would deplete all of Victor's suspension.
"You have nothing to be sorry about, but to answer your question it was painted 2 years ago," Victor answered energetically
"Ok, thank you for helping me remember"
They then started walking down the hallway on the left, with Victor in the lead. A few steps later they stopped in front of a door, Victor then opened it.
"I'll go prepare the bath now" Victor said as he went into a bathroom connected to the room.
'So this is Lev's room huh, pretty nice.' He thought, walking around, observing things, trying to see what this Lev person liked.
As Saito was looking around the room he noticed a mirror in the corner.
'A mirror, that'd be good to know what this person fully looks like' Saito said as he walked in front of the mirror.
In the refection that the mirror showed was a handsome man who looked to be in his mid-twenties. He had thin long black-ish green-ish hair in a low ponytail, and clear violet eyes. He had a bit of a pale complexion but over all he looked healthy. Saito then noticed long elf-like ears and a bit of red that made it look as if he hadn't slept for a few days. He was also wearing a dark green suit that looked as if it came from the victorian era.
'He looks quite healthy, other then the red around his eyes and the pale completion'
"Young Master Lev the bath is ready, i've also laid some clothes out" Victor said as he came into the room.
"Alright, thank you"
"Of course, ah i almost forgot. The Lord and Lady wants you to join them for dinner."
"What for?" Lev replied nervously
"They wanted to talk with you about your trips and succession, apparently Lord Ezra is stepping down from the position of Head of the House. So he wanted to have a dinner with the family to discuss it." Victor said nervously.
'Great i just had to transmigrate into Lev's body as they were about to talk about succession.'
"Aren't they going a little fast with the whole stepping down thing?" Saito asked wondering if that was ok to say.
"I knew that was what you would say, which is why i am going to advise you to ask to think it over." Victor replied hesitantly.
"Ok, i'll go into the bath now." Lev mumbled
***
Splash
'Wow this is surprisingly nice' Saito thought dipping into the bathtub.
'Lev is also surprisingly well built, i'm kinda jealous i looked like an old man before. I mean i was only 33 but still.' Saito complained
'Although i should probably be thinking about what to say during dinner and what to do tomorrow.'
Saito then remembered that Ezra was the Lord of the house and the Original Lev's adoptive father. He also remembered that his mothers name was Penelope Griffins, and that he had two more siblings. They were twins Callum Griffins, and Valarie Griffins. Then there was his younger sister Alice Griffins whom he had met earlier. As well as the main servants that Lev spoke to, Marie and Victor who he had also already met. Plus two more servants that he hadn't met yet, Ray Villin and Albert Reivault. He then also recalled from the Original Lev's memories that the house had a library.
'Perhaps after i talk to all of them, tomorrow i could go to the house's library to get some information. Yes that sounds good' Saito thought getting out from the bath.
After he put the clothes Victor left for him on he walked out the bathroom straight to the mirror.
'Y'know i've always wondered what it was like to have long hair. Maybe i should have Marie put my hair in a braid.' Saito pondered for a moment on what he should do.
'Eh, i'm to lazy to do that i'll just put it in a side ponytail.'
As he was about to go to the door he heard a knock.
Knock…knock
"Young Master if you are finished it's time to go to dinner"