I Was Reincarnated as a Marquis in Another World – Chapter 1

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Bobto
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“Young master, young master Ciel. It’s time to wake up.”

Suddenly, I heard an unfamiliar woman’s voice.

What was this situation? I was sure I had been hit by a truck and died…

Why was I hearing the name of the protagonist from a novel my younger sibling had only vaguely done?

“Young master Ciel von Kreutel, the Marquis is calling for you.”

When I opened my eyes, there was a woman in front of me, dressed in a maid’s uniform that you would only see in comics.

“Is this a dream?”

When I pinched my cheek, I felt the pain of being pinched on my face.

Since I could feel pain, it didn’t seem to be a dream.

Then what exactly was this situation? Why were they calling me young master Ciel?

The maid in front of me looked at me with eyes that seemed to say, “Why is this person acting like this?” and spoke.

“Young master Ciel, I will help you change your clothes. After changing, let’s go see the Marquis.”

… If I was young master Ciel as the maid said, did that mean I had become the protagonist of a novel my younger sibling wrote?

Standing in front of a large mirror, my reflection was completely different from the me I had known until now.

A pale and slender pretty boy who looked like he was drawn… I couldn’t believe this was me.

With the maid’s help, I changed my clothes and moved to the Marquis’ office to meet the Marquis, who was this character’s father.

The Marquis, who was sitting inside the office, smiled brightly when he saw me and welcomed me.

“You’re here, Ciel.”

Seeing how the maid kept calling me young master Ciel, this person must be my father.

“Yes.”

And the Marquis, with a face that smiled brightly as if he had the whole world, not the solemn expression he had before meeting me, looked at me and said,

“The acceptance letter sent to you from the Knight Academy, the most prestigious institution in the Elaine Empire, just arrived.

Congratulations, Ciel. The entrance ceremony is in a month, so prepare to leave in two weeks.”

If the situation unfolding right now was the world inside the novel that my brother wrote, Ciel von Kreutel’s life began to fall apart after going to the academy.

The Marquis in front of me would follow an incompetent lord and fall with him in a few years.

And I would be sacrificed in a rebellion within the academy, branded as a traitor, and stripped of my title.

If that happened, I would live a miserable life in this world and die.

“Haha, Ciel… My proud son.

You always sang about wanting to go to the academy, but now that you’ve heard the news of your acceptance, you must be so happy that you’re surprised.

The Marquis kept congratulating and encouraging me, but I couldn’t focus on his words.

Because right now, my head was filled with worries about how to survive without failing like Ciel in the novel that my brother wrote.

So I grabbed one side of my stomach as if it hurt, frowned, and said,

“I think I ate something wrong yesterday and my stomach hurts.

May I go to the bathroom for a moment?”

“Go ahead.”

Then, while pretending to use the bathroom, I began to organize my thoughts.

First, to avoid the death flag, I won’t go to the academy.

Next, with the power of my modern knowledge, I will develop this territory as much as possible and become strong,

strong enough so neither the Marquis nor I will have to see ourselves falling apart within a few years.

Fortunately, this world was an otherworld similar to medieval Europe in my world, without magic or fantastical elements, and my current life was a graduate student who had studied “how a modern person can survive in medieval Europe.”

In other words, the current world I am in now was the best place I could wish to be reincarnated into.

After coming back I went to the Marquis And said to him,

“I won’t go to the academy.”

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