CH 3

"Master Rid, it's morning. Wake up."

"Good morning, ......."

Hmm? What the matter ?"

Danae looked at me with a doubtful expression.

I was surprised to be awakened in the morning by a woman dressed as a maid.

I couldn't say that I had been admiring her maid's outfit, so I looked away in embarrassment.

She tilted her head at me.

When I rose from the bed, she offered to help me change my clothes, but I was indeed too embarrassed to do so and refused.

But I didn't know how to putting on clothes I had never seen before.

With my face bright red, I eventually asked Danae to help me get dressed.

When Danae told me, "It's nothing wrong with asking for help ," I almost cried.

After changing, I went to the dinning room to have breakfast.

I sat down at a long table in the dining room, and dishes were served one after another.

The life of an aristocrat is amazing.

The butler Garn, who told me his name yesterday, was standing by my side.

I looked around as I ate, but there was no one else in the room except for me.

"Speaking of which, where is everyone else?"

"Master Rainer is in the capital, but he will be back soon."

my father, is the Count of Rainer Bardia.

For this reason, he occasionally goes to the imperial capital to take part in government work.

I nodded at Garn's words.

I nodded my head at his words

'Where is my mother?"

"She is not feeling well and is resting in her room."

I"'ll visit her later, then."

"I'm sure that would please her."

I was worried about my table manners, but it turned out to be all right.

After the meal, I tried to return to my room to make plans for the future.

But then, for some reason, I became very concerned about my mother's health.

I asked Danae, who was waiting nearby me, to take me to my mother's room.

Danae looked doubtful at my request, since she was expected to know my mother's room, but when I told her that I was a little shy to go there alone, she smiled and said, " couscous," and immediately guided me there.　　

By the way, Nanae Bardia doesn't even mention in the game.

What kind of person is she?　As I walked along, my heart began to beat with a strange feeling of excitement and anxiety.

Danae led me to the front of the room, saying, " Here you are," and when I stopped in front of the door, I instantly gasped with nervousness .

It was as if my body and mind were refusing to enter the room.

Danae noticed my state and called out to me with concern.

"Master Rid, you are still not feeling well, are you?　You don't look very well."

"What?　Oh, no, I'm fine. I just want to visit my mother, but I feel as if I haven't seen her in a long time."

The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that the two of them are not only in the same room, but also in the same room at the same time.

" Are you sure you're feeling fine, ...... Master . Rid?　After Nanae got sick,

you had been avoiding her for a while. You used to ask to see her every day, but you has not been visiting her at all recently."

"Eh.........?　Yes...is that so ?"

"...... Yes. people at the mansion were all distressed by the state of affairs.

"I see."

Danae looked sad as she finished.

Why had Rid stopped visiting, his mother?　

When I tried to remember the reason, I felt the memory of Rid in me was very nasty .

Now I would rather see my mother than trying remember it .

I knocked on the door of room, suppressing my feeling of anxiety.

A few moments later, I heard a small voice inside the room said , "Come in ......."

I entered the room with all my willpower.

When I entered the room, I found a slightly slender woman with long red hair and purple eyes sitting on the bed with only her upper body upright, reading a book.

The moment I saw her, my heart beat with a "thump" in my chest.

At the same time, various emotions flowed into my heart like a running light.

"I loved her wanted to protect her, I wanted her to be with me all the time.　Why?　I feel frustrated, sad, unforgiving.　Me?　Don't disappear, please ......"

Words cannot describe the complex emotions that came to me along with many other thoughts.

I stood there, unable to handle my emotions.

At that moment, for some reason, my eyes began to warm up, and tears naturally began to roll down my cheeks.

I wiped my tears with the sleeve of my clothes.

Mother noticed my tears and exclaimed in surprise, " Rid, are you all right⁉".

Mother tried to get out of bed to get as close to me as possible, but I coughed, and she put her hands on the bed on the spot.

I quickly approached the bed and rubbed her back.

Looking at her up close, I could feel her vitality fading , and my hands naturally tightened as I rubbed her back.

She looked at me with a worried expression and said softly, holding me close to her chest.

"Thank you, ...... Rid. But I heard you collapsed in the garden. I tried to go to your room too, but I'm sorry my body is too weak . ...... I told me about

this case , but are you fine now ?"

Mother's arms were warm with compassion as she embraced me.

I felt all the emotions that had been swirling around me from earlier calm down.

But Mother's voice was very shaky.

"......Yes, it's all right now. I was concerned about your health , so I am glad to visit you ."

I smiled and spoke softly to calm her trembling voice.

"I am glad to hear that ....... I'm sorry I put you through such a hard time. ......"

I shook my head at the apologetic look on her face.

I took her hands in mine to reassure her a little, and replied strongly.

"It's all right. I am your child . who are frontier counts."

Upon hearing my words, my mother smiled at me with a happy expression on her face.

After that, I had a chat with mother and left her room saying, "I'll be back later."

I thought back to the emotions that flowed through me when I saw my mother , and I suddenly muttered to myself.

"I wondered if the feelings I felt when I saw my mother were Rid's feelings that had been building up in his heart.

My mother was slowly weakening, and no one could do anything about it.

Mother was full of love and affection an never showed me her weakness and cared about me and loved me dearly.

That was so painful that I wanted to scream and my heart would have been ripped open.

I think Rid held on to these feelings for a long time, unable to tell anyone about them.

At that time, I vowed to help mother with illness so that she I could live a normal life.

When I came back to my room, I decided to write down what I needed to do.

Fortunately, paper seems to be a thing in this world, and there was note paper and ink on the desk.

I immediately started writing in Japanese.

Future plans to prevent expulsion and condemnation.

1Be friends with the characters in the game and avoid the routes of ruin , death, and banishment.

Improve ability to survive alone in case 1st idea is not possible.

3 Save money in case first idea is not possible

4 Cure Mother .

When I wrote down the above plans (1) to (4), I let out a deep sigh.

"I don't know how , but 1st is impossible to do on early stages . ......"

Yes, the characters in the game are located in the imperial capital and other countries.

I'm in the territory of a frontier count, and it's impossible for me to make contact with them now because I don't have any connections or anything.

As you can imagine, Rid is a person who has little to do with the main story of the game.

I'm about to cry a little, but I can't let this get the better of me.

I promised myself that I would live a straight life.

For now, plan number four is my first priority, followed by three and two, I think.

I rushed to my room and called butler .

When I asked him the name of my mother's illness, he looked very stern and reluctant.

I stood in front of the door, staring at him with a desperate look on my face, and shouted, "Until you tell me about it , I won't leave that room ."

"Until you tell me about it , I won't let you go ."

'Master Rid, .......'

He must have understood my thoughts, because he told me that the name of mother's illness was "magic depletion."

When I asked him about the symptoms , he told me that all the inhabitants of this world have a small amount of magical power.

Magic is also life energy. Even if magic power is depleted, it naturally recovers, but if a person have "magical depletion disease," person ability to recover naturally is severely reduced.

As a result, the patient gradually declines and eventually dies.

He told me bitterly that there is currently no treatment for the disease.

Originally, he had not intended to tell me the name of mother's disease.

I looked at him with a desperate look and determination in my eyes that he told me that it was a secret between us.

I had an idea of the name and symptoms of the disease he mentioned.

I remembered that in a game there was a debuff called "magical exhaustion"

The debuff, "magical exhaustion," causes MP to decrease little by little, and when it reaches zero, HP begins to decrease after that .

Naturally, if left unchecked, the player's HP would drop to zero and player won't be able to fight

In game that are not that much of a threat because there are ways to recover HP and MP , but in real life, there is nothing more terrifying than this.

It is like a deadly disease that cannot be cured .

"I need to do some research , but did they have a library or something?"

That was my first comment when I finished listening to butler .

After that, he showed me to a large library in the mansion.

"Please use this place for your research. If there are any other materials you need, please let me know and I will get them for you. But please note that it will take a few days to get them."

"I understand. "

When I expressed my gratitude, he bowed lightly and left .

I looked around and saw that there were quite a few books in this place .

"But, can I read books in the first place?　"

I could read it just fine.

Thanks for the reincarnation bonus.

Now, let's get to search !"

I said strongly and slapped both cheeks of my face with my hands, then started to read the books in the library .

As I read various kinds of books, my reading speed increased rapidly.

I noticed that I could memorize the entire contents of a book after reading it once.

:Rid...... you are such a super high spec, how did you become a followers of the villainess......?"

I muttered .