chapter 1
1 – Servant of the Taurus Family
When I woke up, it was an unfamiliar ceiling. The bed was hard, unlike the bed I was used to, and the blanket over my body was rough. In case it was a TS, I hurriedly felt it between the crotches, confirmed that it was running, and sighed in relief.
I got up on the bed and looked around. The height of the ceiling and the small room, the large window behind the bed. And there was only a small table, chairs, and a full-length mirror.
I stood in front of a full-length mirror and looked at myself. Shoulder-length long black hair that I don’t know when it was cut, and yellow eyes that seemed to glow in the dark without a single fire. And scruffy cloth and short stature.
I put my bare hand up like a leafless branch in winter and touched my face. I pinched my skinless face, felt the pain, and realized the reality.
I came into this child. I don’t know why, but I just lay down after reading a novel and commenting on it, but I was possessed by a character who had never appeared in a novel.
…At least I’ll possess a body similar to my age. Each step of this small body was too short, and even if I walked big, it was less than half the step I had when I was in my original body.
It was difficult to walk because my legs were shaking every time I moved, perhaps because I still lacked energy.
“Oh, are you awake?”
I was startled by the voice of an old man behind me, and I fell backwards. I felt a sharp pain in my wrist, as if my skinny arms were too heavy to support my body. What did the previous owner of this body do to make it so weak?
“Oops! Are you okay?”
The old man hurried over to me and looked after his wrist. Fortunately, I didn’t see any serious injuries, so he sighed and stroked my head. I guess I’m quite young.
“You probably couldn’t sleep properly due to malnutrition, so shouldn’t you take care of yourself?”
Except for his body being weak from malnutrition, his mind was clear. Even though I slept every day, it was my body that was tired, but it’s been a long time since I felt that my mind was sober.
“Now, here’s some soup and bread, so why don’t you try some?”
He put the soup on the table and pulled out a chair. I nodded in agreement with him and sat down to take a sip of the soup.
The corn soup must have been properly seasoned with salt and pepper, and the unique scent of pepper and slightly salty taste went in smoothly. I even dipped the bread in the soup, admiring the moist texture, as if it was freshly baked.
“hahahaha, I won’t steal it, so take it slowly.”
Perhaps I ate in a hurry, but the plate showed up on the floor after a while. I bowed my head and thanked him.
“I enjoyed my meal. Thank you.”
“Hmm, are you talking about the foreign people? I don’t know what’s going on. Anyway, they must be saying that they ate well.”
I still couldn’t speak. His eyes twinkled as I sighed and pondered what to do.
“Would you like to wake up?”
I nodded at his words and immediately stood up. With a voice of admiration, he gave the following instructions.
“Look to the left”
As expected, I followed the simple instructions and looked to the left. After he gave some instructions, he noticed that he was talking and stroked his chin.
“I understand the words, but I can’t… Is there some kind of magic?”
My head tilted at the sight of him sobbing and worrying. In the first place, when I wake up after sleeping, I am in the world of novels.
If it was moved, wouldn’t it be necessary to let it go through until the end? Why did I come to this place when I only slept after commenting? Her head was messed up.
With that kind of thought in mind, he said he would take a look at my body for a while, and looked at every nook and cranny as if he was looking for something while lifting his clothes. Perhaps it was to find evidence related to the magic I mentioned earlier.
“I can’t see anything related to magic… Is it just because I can’t learn the language? Other than that, I have a good understanding of the language…”
Muttering a lot, he rested his chin on his chin and stared at me as if he was worried. I almost averted my gaze because of the burdensome light green eyes.
“I’ll teach you words slowly. The important thing for an attendant is to be silent. First of all, you will become an exclusive servant who will take care of Lady Europa in the future. The lady needs grooming and education, so I’ll teach you the things you need right away starting tomorrow. . Have a good rest today.”
I nodded at his words. I didn’t know that not being able to speak would be so uncomfortable. He nodded, William gave a nice smile.
And that smile was the last one for me.
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“You walk slowly and you can hear the rustling of your collar. I need to teach you how to walk.”
“The speed of pouring the tea is too fast. And it jumps out of the cup, isn’t it nice to look at?”
“If you are an attendant serving a lady, it is not only the lady who sees guests when they arrive. Always maintain dignity and be polite.”
William without a smile, no, the butler’s strict education. If I didn’t measure my actions accurately, as if measuring each one with a ruler, I would get tired of the stern voices flying in.
Miss, that is to say, while waiting on Europa, whenever she entered her class, I also received instruction from the owner of the house.
I made notes for wrong answers one by one in such a way that I was pointed out one by one the mistakes I made while serving and received training again.
Now that the young lady has entered education, she is full of fear about what she will be pointed out this time, grabbing her pounding chest, moving her steps and arriving at the office of the head of the house.
The butler stared at me when I arrived, looked at the books on the desk again, and said.
“I still have nothing to point out this time. I’m gradually getting better, so I don’t think there will be any problems. I’ll teach you the words soon. Sorry for not being able to teach you important things while you’ve been busy for a while.”
The crisis passed and he breathed a sigh of relief. I shook my head at him and showed a smile. Finally, after a week of coming here, I was able to learn to speak.
If it were normal, I would have been taught the language first, but since I was able to hear, it must have been his choice to adapt to work first.
Still, I wanted to be able to speak now, so I slowly studied with him, and somehow, this was more difficult than waiting for a young lady.
He could hear it, but when he said it, it was perceived as a completely different language, so he shook his head.
“Pronunciation isn’t the problem, the language itself feels different. What the hell is the problem…Is it a curse? Then, should I go to the Starlight Church and ask for purification…Um…”
Looking at the head of the house holding his temple as if he was quite worried, I felt uncomfortable too. Who can’t speak
…Yes, that’s me.
Still, I didn’t know how to speak, but I learned how to write, so I showed it in writing.
[It’s okay. Thank you.]
It was a simple thing I just learned. It was the first sentence I completed by comparing the contents I had written a little to see if I was wrong. The butler looked intently at my writing and opened his mouth.
“The sentences and words are well written, but the handwriting is messy. Let’s correct it until it’s written neatly. Let’s memorize the necessary words.”
Ah, so what are you going to do about this? Seriously.
I gave up on grumbling in my heart and had to receive handwriting correction training until the end of the lady’s class.
“It’s almost time for the lady’s class to end. Go ahead and go. Use the notebook there when you talk to the lady.”
As I raised the frame of my spectacles, which I don’t know when I was wearing them, the butler, who was examining my handwriting, pointed to the notebook he had put on his desk and said,
Since the way he writes is different from Hangeul, he writes a single character as if he were drawing a picture, so his eyes became more gloomy the more he looked at my handwriting.
I was afraid of what to say, so I took my notebook, bowed my head as I always do at the end of class, and hurried out of the office.
When I checked the notebook I had brought, I was amazed at the luxurious material even though I didn’t know anything about it, and headed to the lady at the end of class.
On the way to the place where the lady’s class ended, servants greeted me with bright faces. Christine, a maid with short orange hair who looked to be about 15, took me out of a basket and said,
“Are you on your way to learn from the butler today? You’re working hard.”
I received the cookie I handed over and nodded. In addition to Christine, she greeted other servants warmly whenever she met them.
Contrary to the description in the novel that the atmosphere is cold like the winter sea, like her blue eyes, the atmosphere was warm enough to melt even the winter snow.
When I ran into the chef, he said that since I was skinny, he would prepare it for me when I came to the kitchen later, and the maids handed me something to eat like Christine whenever they saw me.
I wanted to lament that I was so thin, but I couldn’t speak, so I just took it and ate it from time to time.
It wasn’t just servants who showed such an appearance.
“Oh, you’re here!”
The lady I serve, Europe, also showed a similar appearance to them. Even though my steps were slow and I came after her class, I greeted her with a smile as bright as the sunlight coming down through the window and waving her hand as if it were nice to see you.
Where in the world is a servant who keeps his master waiting?
Yes, here it is. He ran to the lady and bowed her head in succession. The lady who saw this was embarrassed and pulled her arm.
“Ah~ It’s okay! It’s okay, so let’s go! What shall we do today?”
Since I came, when she is not in class, she always asks ‘what shall we play with?’ Her tongue stuck to her mouth and she opened her mouth again.
“Oh, I can’t talk… I’m sorry. I forget it when I’m with other people…”
She stopped in front of her room and spoke to me as she used to talking to other servants. She shook her head at that expression, smiled, and took out the notebook her boss had asked her to take and wrote down her contents.
[I can’t speak, but I can write.]
The lady who saw that, her eyes twinkled, grabbed my notebook from her and pulled it right in front of her nose. She stared curiously at my handwriting and then handed me the notebook again.
“Oh! You’ve learned to read! But why can’t you speak?”
[Well, I don’t know that either. Saying something completely different comes out, but the butler said it’s better not to just say it, but to write it down.]
“Umm…You’re not lying? Just say it!”
“I can’t.”
She tilted her head as she spoke according to her instructions. I guess it doesn’t work either.
“…I don’t really know what you mean…But we can finally talk!”
She smiled broadly and danced and dragged her around as if she were dealing with her little brother. I am the only child of my age in this spacious house, so it may be that I am dragging it around even more.
[So what shall we do today, lady?]
“Then…I’ll give you a name today! Even if you can’t speak, you can write it, so if you give it a name, you should be able to write it!”
I haven’t had a name since I’ve been here. Thanks to her clamoring to build, I was called ‘Hey’, ‘Little’, or ‘Hey’ briefly by other servants.
I was frustrated because they wouldn’t understand me even if I tried to say my name.
[Okay, lady. Please give me a nice name.]
“Okay! Look forward to it!”
After saying that, it wasn’t long before numerous name candidates began to emerge.
“Alkyone, Estelope, Arega, Altair, Deneb, Vega…Are these names too grandiose?”
[Yes, that sounds grandiose.]
As if trying to name the stars, the young lady listed some familiar names in the book. Although one was not even a star name.
How come the name of the star is Arega?
“Well, maybe there’s at least one? Let’s continue!”
As if she didn’t get tired of it, as she spoke persistently, the most familiar name came in.
“Sirius”
The name of the most famous star that shines the brightest among the stars and has the name of the wolf’s star in the sky called Celestial Star.
It was ironic that I, with black hair, was the brightest star in this world, but even so, I couldn’t get out of my head as if I was stuck in my heart.
[I think Sirius would be nice.]
“Yes! I think so too. Sirius, now your name is Sirius!”
I finally got my name. It was a name given to me by this little girl, but I was thrilled.
[Thank you lady]
“But it’s a bit disappointing. There are still a lot of pages left in the book.”
“Please stop…”
It’s enough if I decided on my name, I was surprised at the thought that came out to me to stop, and I covered my mouth.
Even the lady wouldn’t be able to hear it anyway, but I just kept my mouth shut because it was a self-talk that came out because of a habit I still have.
It was the moment I picked up a pen to write down my words in my notebook.
“What did you just say? Stop it?”
I dropped my pen. My reflection in the eyes of the lady staring blankly at her was also staring at her with the same eyes.
I shook my head violently and tried to pick up the pen that had just rolled away, but a long, thin but powerful hand grabbed my shoulder.
“Huh? Say it again! No, say anything at all!”
He shook my shoulders wildly, his eyes twinkling. There is no distinction between men and women before secondary growth.
Especially, my body couldn’t win against her mighty strength, who had grown up with enough food compared to her skinny body that barely escaped from malnutrition.
“That… Stop shaking it!”
“Oh, you can talk! You were just making fun of me!”
“No! You said that earlier! That’s why you didn’t understand!”
“But why are you talking so well now! You’re making fun of me!!”
“Oh no!!!”
As the shaking intensified, so did my tone. She kept wiggling me to see if my reaction was funny, and it wasn’t until about 2 minutes that she felt the shaking stop. Contrary to her expression of having fun, my mind was spinning and I was not feeling well.
I couldn’t stand the dizziness and passed out.
“Sirius? Sirius! No, someone help me!”
She stopped calling for Sirius, who had now become my name, and ran out of the door.
A little over a week after I came to this world, I was given a name.
And as soon as I received the name, I was able to speak like a lie as if the world recognized it.
What is it, give me back my hard work.