0 – Prologue
I opened my eyes and found myself surrounded by several people.
“Oh, it’s a success!!”
“He has black hair and black eyes! It’s a success!”
The atmosphere was bustling around me.
Wait, I clearly fell asleep in my dorm room last night…
Is this a dream?
“Do you understand my words?”
An old man with grey hair, seemingly of advanced age, asked me.
Even though I held a disdain for the Confucian old conservative,
I couldn’t ignore an elder who clearly surpassed my age in wisdom.
“Yes, I understand.”
I answered with a groggy voice, not fully awake yet.
“Hmm. It seems that all the magic has functioned properly.”
The old man chuckled, stroking his white beard.
On a closer look, the old man’s attire bore an uncanny resemblance of a magician’s robe that reminded me of Gandalf.
Standing next to him, a middle-aged man dressed similarly in a robe approached me.
Even though he had black hair and eyes, his features resembled those of a Caucasian.
“Hmm… Your age must be in the early to mid-twenties, a little older than expected, but still alright”
I’m actually in my thirties, but he seemed to perceive me as younger.
Not that I’d ever been told by my friends that I look particularly young.
Not that it’s unpleasant…
Wait, rather than all that, where the hell am I?
“Where am I? Who are you people?”
“Let’s move to a better place first, to loosen up that stiffness in your neck.”
As the middle-aged man gestured, two women dressed like maids held onto both my arms.
“Wait, I can walk on my own”
I tried resisting slightly, but they didn’t budge.
Despite me being significantly larger, they were much smaller yet surprisingly strong.
‘What kind of women strength…’
I was led into another room and sat down in a chair at an exquisite table.
Moments later, the middle-aged man and the elder from before entered the room and took their seats, and a dark-colored tea was placed before me.
The person who brought the tea was a man, dressed peculiarly in a servant’s uniform donning an apricot.
“First, soothe your throat,” the middle-aged man suggested to me.
I wondered if it was safe to drink, but my throat was quite dry from the recent situation.
Gulping, I found out that it was black tea.
I had tried commercial black tea a few times before, but compared to this one, they barely deserve the tea’s name.
It tasted that luxurious.
Until I drank about half of the tea, the room was dead silent.
Just as I was about to speak, the middle-aged man broke the silence.
“We summoned you for a reason.”
“……”
Was this the other world summoning or something along those lines I had only heard of in stories?
Wasn’t the norm to be summoned before the king and requested to defeat the devil as a hero?
Could one of these men be the king?
“It seems you are having trouble adapting to the situation.”
Who would instantly believe that they have been summoned to another world after waking up?
It is more believable that someone is pulling a hidden camera prank on me with a fully prepared set.
Or maybe it’s all a dream.
Firstly, I must listen to their purpose of summoning me.
“What is your purpose?”
I asked, trying hard to stay calm.
Are they going to request me to suppress the Devil King? Or maybe one of the Four Heavenly Kings?
I wonder if there are any cheat skills as a special perk of being summoned to another world?
In the midst of various thoughts, the middle-aged man, who had been silent for a while, opened his mouth.
“You’re to marry the duke’s young lady.”
“Excuse me?”
It was an utterly unexpected answer.