My consciousness became faint and clear.
The sunshine coming in through the window and through my eyelids told me how bright it was.
Feeling dazzled, I open my eyes and see a gorgeous, colored ceiling.
'An unfamiliar ceiling,'
As he spoke the standard lines, Kazuya sat up, feeling a little uncomfortable, and looked around.
Kazuya looked around the bed he was sleeping in, but it seemed that he was sleeping in a bed that was much larger than the single bed in his room, and the desks and furniture were tastefully arranged around it. A chandelier hung from the ceiling, and bright sunlight streamed into the room through a window and through a gap in the curtains.
I'm so glad you were able to survive in that condition. Where in the world was this hospital from? What kind of treatment are they giving you, putting you in such a luxurious private room?
As I looked around the room, I saw something start to move in the corner of the bed.
Upon closer inspection, I saw that the person who had been lying face down on the bed in a chair seemed to have woken up.
The person who got up still looks like a girl. And she's in a maid's uniform.
Their eyes are locked on each other, and they are both frozen in place. Next, the girl's eyes began to flood with tears.
''Cain-sama!
Suddenly, the girl jumps on Kazuya.
I didn't even know what that meant, but the girl was crying while burying her head in her chest.
'It's good to see you. I didn't wake up for a week.'
The girl only has to say that one word, and then she hugs and tightens her body.
'Hey, what's going on?
Flapping her body around, she tries to shake the girl in the maid's uniform off, but her opponent's body is too big to help her.
''Huh? Why am I smaller than you? But first, why not a nurse and a maid?
Wondering, Kazuya moved his own hand in front of him to look at it.
They were so small that they didn't look like the hands of a high school student by any means, and they were the size of what seemed to be the hands of an infant.
While he was looking at his own hand in a state of abandonment, the maidservant girl suddenly stood up.
''I'm going to go inform the Mistress!
The girl in the maid's uniform pattered and ran out of the room, opening the door.
'What the hell is wrong with me?'
He held and opened his hand, checking the feel of it.
'At that time, I was stabbed by a street criminal who left the convenience store, met with Aimi, and then I just lost consciousness ... now in the hospital? Before that, the girl from earlier called you Cain: .... It's me, Kazuya.
As I was gathering my thoughts, I heard a hasty sound from the hallway and the door to the room was opened.
'Cain! You're awake! I had a high fever and hadn't woken up for a week after I lost consciousness, so I was worried.
The woman who walked in was a beautiful woman with silver hair that reached her waist and looked to be in her twenties.
She wore a well-tailored dress with good style. Kazuya was in a state of abandonment when he saw someone he would not normally see.
And then the beauty suddenly hugged him, tears streaming down her face as she was happy to see him.
His face was caught between the soft things, and he felt both happy and embarrassed.
'Cain! Do you know who I am? Is that your mother? You haven't forgotten, have you?
Kazuya couldn't understand what the silver-haired beauty was saying.
It's a good thing that you're able to get a good idea of what you're looking for.
It's a good thing that you're able to get the most out of this article.
''Ma'am, Master Cain is still just waking up and his thoughts may not be working.
'You've slept for a week, now you have no choice. ─ Have a good night's sleep, and I'll see you later. I'll see you later. Rayne would have been worried about you.
Agreeing with the maid's opinion, the person who looked like a mother kept facing the girl maid, who still looked to be in middle school, and spoke to her.
''Sylvia. Watch over Cain today. Also, I'm sure he'll be fine with soup, so you can prepare it for him.
Very well. Ma'am.
The silver-haired beauty of her self-proclaimed mother and the maid girl left the room to prepare a meal.
Now that he was alone in the room, Kazuya dropped his gaze once more and tried to hold and open his own hands.
For all intents and purposes, it was still a toddler's hand.
''Is this a reincarnation or something? I'm not sure I could have saved myself then. It's a good thing that you are able to save your life. It's a good thing that you didn't have to see Saori's sad face.
Lying in bed, Kazuya looked up at the ceiling and muttered (mumbled).
In the school conversations, there was also the topic of novels, and Kazuya actually read a lot of reincarnated novels in books and on his phone. He was especially fond of Saori, so they also lent and borrowed books from each other.
''First of all, I need to check out this state of affairs right now .... And apparently it's been asleep for a week.''
She seemed to have been asleep the whole time and was killing time checking around the bed as her body ached in knots when she moved.
After a few hours, there was a knock on the door and the girl in the maid's uniform from earlier came into the room with a bowl of soup.
'Cain-sama, the soup is ready.
Kazuya lifted his sluggish body from the bed. He had the table next to the bed and sipped the soup he had been prepared for.
'---- delicious.'
Although the flavor was thin, it tasted gentle, with the meat and vegetable components coming out slowly.
As he sipped the soup, Kazuya became more and more convinced that he had been reincarnated.
Then he thought of the thing that bothered him the most. It was because of his reincarnation.
(Well, I'm pretty sure she was called Sylvia earlier.)
Sylvia. Do you have a mirror?
'Thank you, sir. But I've been bedridden and haven't eaten anything, so I've lost some weight, but I don't think you'll be any different.
Sylvia took the mirror out of the drawer and handed it to Kazuya.
The hand mirror that was handed to her was decorated with silver and gorgeously finished. Holding it with both hands, Kazuya looked into the face with determination.
The boy in the mirror was about three years old, a cute little boy with silver hair and a little blue mesh in his hair color, with curly blue eyes.
His facial features looked a lot like the beautiful woman he'd seen earlier, who he said was his mother.
He wondered what he would do if he was ugly, but if he looked like his mother, he was going to be a handsome man in the future, so Kazuya couldn't help but sigh with relief.
He shook his face from side to side and was checking his face in the mirror when Silvia suddenly looked into the mirror from the side.
''It's safe to say that Cain-sama has a promising face. You're still this pretty.''
Sylvia, the maid, smiled and softly approached me.
Completely forgetting that Sylvia was next to me, I handed the hand mirror to her, a little embarrassed at the fact that I was so engrossed in myself in the mirror.
'Thanks for the mirror,'
Sylvia received the hand mirror and put it away in a drawer.
Kazuya then slowly drank the rest of the soup. It was so good that she couldn't help but take a second helping, but it couldn't be helped since she hadn't eaten anything while she was sleeping.
After that, he spent the next three days or so relaxing in bed.
I was already feeling fine, but my family, including Sylvia, had told me to rest.
There was one problem about living this life.
Kazuya had been able to convince himself that he would be able to reincarnate and live as Cain in the past few days.
However, since he was born as Cain, he had no memory of anything that happened until now.
Sylvia had confirmed that I was three years old when she asked me about it, but I don't have any memories of what happened before I was reincarnated.
It would be impossible to ask me to remember what I remembered when I was three years old in my previous life, but I'm three years old now, but I have a minimal amount of knowledge of this world, as I used to be a high school student.
I wanted the most information about this world, or even outside of a room I hadn't yet left. Living in modern day Japan, Kazuya was able to see information from around the world with his smartphone in hand.
Now, he didn't even know what was going on outside his room, and nothing was coming to him.
And although conversations were normal, including Silvia's, he didn't understand any of the letters.
The picture book on the shelf of the desk in the room was definitely not in Japanese. It was not in English and had a list of letters that I had never seen before.
While resting in bed, Kazuya decided to gather information from Sylvia about his home and many other things.
He was reincarnated and his current name was Cain von Silford.
It turned out that he was the third son of a frontier county family that ruled over the Gracia territory in the Esfort Kingdom.
The Esfort Kingdom was located in the middle of the Grunyud Continent and was surrounded by various countries. In the past, other countries had launched wars against it several times, but in the past few years, it had settled down.
In the Kingdom of Esfort, a frontier count was to be a baron with the authority to hold a territory in a place bordered by other countries, commanding an army on their own and being able to defend their own territory from other countries.
It was a little reassuring to hear from Sylvia that a frontier earl would be a senior nobleman.
My father's name was Garum von Silford Gracia.
Only the lords of that house are supposed to be the last to name their fiefdoms. Only the nobles would be in the middle of Von Von, and the commoners would be the only names. Last time I saw him for the first time since he returned to consciousness, he looked to be in his mid-thirties, with blue hair and a solid build.
Garum had two wives, and his mother was his second wife. She was his second wife, so she must be a little older than he was.
My mother's name was Sarah von Silford. She was a beautiful silver-haired woman who came right over when I woke up. And my sister's name is Rayne von Silford.
She's four years older than Cain.
Every day since I woke up, she came to see Cain's face. She had silver hair with a bit of blue in it, just like Cain, and her face was similar to Cain's.
His first wife was Maria von Silford. The first wife had two boys, Jin von Silford and Alec von Silford, and their two older brothers attended the academy in the royal capital, so they were not in this mansion, including the first lady, Maria, and were living in a separate residence in the royal capital.
The academy is attended for five years, from the age of ten to fifteen, and the age of adulthood is fifteen.
The Gracia territory is a week's ride east of the royal capital, and it seems that there are several towns and villages centered around the city of Gracia, where the lord's residence is located. And then, to the east is the fortress with the adjacent Byssus Empire, and to the south is the Forest of Demons, a forest where demons roam in its own territory.
Somehow, now that he understood the territory and his family, Cain thought about the future.
In this world, he was baptized into the church when he was five years old, and the priest would bring the voice of God to him at that time.
The state religion is called Marinefordism, which is a polytheistic religion and has seven gods. There is a country called the Marineford nation, which builds churches and sends bishops and priests to the royal capitals and major cities in each country. It is said that the churches are managed by subsidies from the country where they are built and donations from the residents.
The seven gods of this world are as follows
Xenom, the Creator God
Takegami, Thanos.
God of the earth, Bella.
God of Magic, Reno.
Grimm.
The God of Commerce, Panem.
Lime, the God of Life.
Six pillars have a role to play, led by the creator god Xenom.
And I learned that there is magic in this world.
In modern Japan, I was excited with the hope that I might be able to use it, something that was only a fantasy.
Since Kain was not the eldest son, he could not inherit this territory. That's because his eldest brother, Jin, will take over.
It is said that if you make some kind of achievement, you can be knighted by the state and build an independent noble house, but in general, you will either help the head of the family, join the army and become a knight, work in a trade association or become an adventurer.
'You're an adventurer after all,'
Cain knows that he won't be able to become the head of a noble family easily, which is why he wants to become an adventurer and look around the world in many ways. He had come to think about it even more because he heard from Sylvia that there are numerous races in this world, not only the human race, but also elves, dwarves, and beastmen and other races.
His willingness to do so didn't stop because of his knowledge of the landmarks in his previous life.
''First of all, about this world. I need to know more about the characters, history, geography and so on.''
That's what Cain thought.