My fuzzy head gradually becomes clearer. I can hear someone calling out to me. I mean, my head hurts. Who's that, He sounds so young. At least, it doesn't sound familiar.
I opened my eyes with a wince and saw a boyish face with fair skin. Beyond that, there is a piercing blue sky.
「Hmm? 」
「Oh, she's awake! Oh, thank goodness. ......」
The boy let out a relieved breath when he saw me blinking my eyes, unable to take in the situation.
He's a cute little boy with a pretty face. His indigo eyes are rolling back in her head. His hair is a dull brown.
Obviously, neither the hair colour nor the eye colour is typical Japanese. What caught my eye more than anything else were the cat ears on this boy's head.
「What? 」
「Are you all right? I was worried ...... when you collapsed suddenly during a break.」
The boy holds me up with his ears twitching. His neat face and well-defined eyes get closer and closer to my face.
But my eyes are riveted on the cat ears on the boy's head. I stick out my hand in front of the boy holding me. I feel like my skin is white too, but I don't have time to worry about it.
「Uh, wait. I'm really sorry, but just wait a minute.」
「Yes, what? 」
The boy tilted his head slightly at me as I raised my voice. I pinched the cat ears on the boy's head with my fingers frightfully. At the same time, a slender tail growing from the boy's waist stood up.
「hiyahh」
「Eh, it's soft, it's warm and ...... eh, is this real? And the tail? 」
I don't care about the boy who screams in embarrassment, My finger pinched his cat ears. It's soft and warm with proper blood, It's not a fabrication.
What does that mean? How does this boy have a body like this? I mean, I just realized that we're in the middle of a meadow. I was supposed to be in a small conference room at work before I collapsed.
It seems that there were other people by his side. An elderly man with a tail covered in horns and scales and a woman in a maid's outfit with feathered ears looking at me in disgust.
「What are you doing so suddenly, Lady Eleonora」
「Even though you and Benjamin have known each other for a long time, you're still playing around too much.」
When the elderly man sighed and said, the woman in the maid uniform also spoke while lowering her eyebrows as if she was troubled. Of course I'm the one being looked at, of course I'm the one being spoken to. Lady ? what are they saying, the boy in front of me must be Benjamin. But I don't remember the name Eleonora.
「Eleonora?」
「Yes. Duchess Eleonora van Oylsterhout, Duchess of Oylsterhout. It's your name.」
I asked back and the older man said to me as if it were a matter of course. I probably have my eyes wide open and my mouth gaping open right now. I don't understand. How could a stranger call me by a name I don't know, in a place I don't know? I'm still confused, and the woman in maid outfit calls out to me with concern.
「Are you all right? Did you hit your head or anything when you fell earlier? 」
「Benjamin, take the scroll of restorative magic you may have wounds in places you can't see.」
Behind the woman, an elderly man gives instructions to a boy named Benjamin who was rubbing his cat ears on me. Recovery magic. Scroll. My eyes widened more and more as I heard that word. Don't tell me there's magic here. That kind of magic that appears in novels and anime.
「Oh, uh, I want you to wait but before you do that one.」
I raised my voice as I involuntarily stuck out my hands. I suddenly raised my voice and the three of them looked at me. At any rate, I'm a duke, apparently. Then they must be the people who take care of me. Then he must have some kind of tool for me to use. In anticipation of this, I called out in horror.
「 is there a ...... mirror?」
「Mirror ...... Oh, yes. If you don't mind using a hand mirror for makeup.」
At my words, the maid lady looked satisfied and put her hand into the bag in her hand. From there, she pulls out an antique lavish hand mirror and shows it to me.
「Here you go.」
「Huh.」
When I saw “my” face in it, I couldn't help but scream. Wavy, carefully tied up chestnut hair. The high, sleek bridge of the nose. Pearly white skin. above all her eyes, which are disproportionately dark to her skin tone.
It was a typical Japanese face no matter how I looked at it, not my original face. It's a different person. I just let out a few words.
「..... not me.」
「Mmm?」
As I muttered, I moved the hand mirror away from me and checked the top and sides of my head to see if I had any ears, horns, or wings that I hadn't seen before, and the old man's eyes widened.
Both the boy with cat ears and the woman in the maid uniform look at me with a look of disbelief.
「This is a strange thing to say. How can the Lady Eleonora be “not me” when she is none other than the Lady Eleonora? 」
「As you can see, your hair, your skin, and those damned lustrous black eyes have all been with you since the day you were born.」
The woman in the maid uniform spoke, wrinkling her brow slightly. What a look of disgust in her eyes.
I'm sure that the three of them work for this Eleonora girl but to show such a reaction to their master, is it a sign that she’s not so good? I was more and more confused. Thoughts that I don't want to think about cross my mind.
「No, um...」
「Are you all right Lady Nora, can you tell me your name and the day you were born? 」
Benjamin-kun, who had brought some scrolls kneeled down beside me and looked at me worriedly. The look in his eyes is not repulsive, but it is very worrisome. No way, No way. I scream in panic as I hold my forehead.
「Uh, uh, uh, sorry, wait a minute, you don't think this is...」
And at that moment. I heard a voice from overhead, pouring down.
「It seems you're awake, kaege Akira」
「Huh.」
Kaege Akira. That's my name. I looked up as if I’ve been played.
「Who? 」
I couldn't help but let out a raised voice. I look at the three of them in embarrassment but they are also looking up over their heads, mouths gaping open. A voice from overhead called out to us in a wind that didn't care about our reaction.
「Buniwanoan. It's enough to be recognized as a so-called “god.”」
Buniwanoan. While I was puzzled by the unfamiliar name, the three people around me clearly had a twinkle in their eyes. One in the maid clothes, kneeling on the ground with her hands clasped.
「Oh, ......! 」
「I didn't expect Lord Buniwanoan to bring his voice to us! 」
Let's leave aside the three who are clearly impressed. Once again, it's me looking up at the sky. Speaking of which, the sky seems to be sparkling within my mind.
「God ......? 」
「yes, I was the one who invited you to this place when you were wandering between worlds.」
And then Buniwanouan or something like that replied to my words.
Between worlds, God, Magic, nobility and fantasy. I had one word in my head that I could derive from it. It's called “Otherworldly Reincarnation”.
「 Is this the one I saw in the novel or the anime or something like that! 」
「Naovel ...? 」
「Anime...? 」
I shouted loudly then Benjamin and the old man curiously blinked back at me. Quite so, If this is another world there might be no such thing as light novels or anime. woman in a maid outfit said as she looked up at the sky.
「Dear Buni-Wanoan, Does that mean that Eleonora-sama has someone who has drifted over from another world? 」
「That's what I mean. A soul named Kaege Akira, who had drifted down from the other world known as 'Earth', awakened in Eleonora van Oylsterhout. 」
Buniwanoan replies to her in a matter-of-fact manner. Hearing this, the eyes of the three of them widened even more. My soul was awakened in the body of this girl named Eleonora. That is to say, the Eleonora that had been residing in this body until then is gone.
「Oh, ......」
「What ......how.....」
With a stunned expression, woman in a maid outfit and the elderly man speak up. Benjamin, who was by my side also looked at me with a sad face.
「Well then, Is Lady Nora no longer ...... 」
「Sleeping in the flesh. Eventually, it will mingle with Akira's soul.」
Buniwanoan answers Benjamin-kun’s words in a flat tone. I see, I don't know but it seems that they are in me. If it’s mingling, then it will eventually become one with me. The three of us sighed a little and then the voice came down from above us again.
「But its body remains the same, Eleonora van Oylsterhout. She is the infamous 『lustrous black Witch』 herself.」
「 Lustrous black ...... witch?」
My eyes widen at those words that Buniwanoan told me. Witch. Eleonora is a notorious witch, is that what you're saying? I was more and more confused when I’m confronted with a startling revelation.