Chapter 4: Who am I?*

'Who am I?'

I sat quietly for a while pondering.

'Considering the fact that this body is full grown, there's no doubt that it had a previous owner.....what was it that those isekai novel MCs did in these cases?'

I snap my fingers when I remember.

'I probably inherited the memories of this body! In that case all i have to do is dig into my own brain a bit...'

I close my eyes, and focus on finding the memories of the previous owner....and when I finally do....

....I'm stunned!

Apparently, I, Akira Okitsune, am a Prince.

The crown prince of Atlantia to be exact....In other words, the son of the Beastman king, King Avalon Okitsune.

'....okay, calm down. Honestly, with everything that's happened so far, I don't even know why I'm surprised anymore...'

Turns out my father, King Avalon, was a special species....he was a silver wolf. It was a species that only existed in the royal family.

My mother, Queen Aiko Okitsune, was also a special species....a nine tailed heavenly fox. She was the last of her kind.

Her entire family had been hunted and killed out of the jealousy of a certain noble when she had refused to marry him. When King Avalon heard of this, he rushed to save her and In the end that noble was exiled.

Following that, the two of them had fallen in love and gotten married...the perfect happy ending for the perfect couple!

I had learned something else about them that surprised me quite a bit, but I would put that aside for now in favour of catching up with the rest of my memories.

Anyways, I who had inherited traits from both of them, became a nine tailed silver wolf....and was the only being in the world possessing this species.

'....that correlates with what I learned earlier....'

Oh, Also, I had a cute little brother named Ai. He was 2 years younger than me.

'....I had died thanks to that brat!!'

Shocking right?

It seems he was jealous of all the attention I got.

However, that attention wasn't because I was a unique species... no one outside of my family itself knew about this fact.

My incredible performances in academics, my combat prowess and many other talents caused people to believe I was a prodigy of some sort.

To top all of that off, I was incredibly beautiful.

'I can't exactly look at myself right now, so I won't be able to validate that but....looking at my skills the others seem about right.'

All of those things only stoked the jealousy of my brother....

One thing caught my attention though....it seemed that this change in my brothers attitude came quite abruptly a few years ago.

Until then we were actually extremely close.

'Ah!....Looks like a scheming minister was responsible for warping my innocent little brothers thoughts?....seriously?....how dare he do such a cliché thing!'

Ever since that minister arrived, he began to plant seeds of jealousy in my brothers mind, purposefully misinterpreting everything I did and said for him, making him grow to hate me, until finally, he hated me enough to kill me!

I look at the half eaten plate of cookies.

'Looks like he poisoned my snacks...but wait a second...I'm looking through my memories right now....that means that I'd known about the ministers schemes all along and still chose not to do anything about it?!'

It seemed that I had one major flaw....

....I was too kind.

I had wanted my brother to understand what was going on without causing him anguish. I felt There was no point in me trying to tell him because I thought he would misinterpret me again....I wanted to believe in the goodness of their hearts, that they would understand their wrongdoings...

"WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!"

I slap my hand over my mouth, hoping that no one heard me, while continuing to seethe and cuss out the previous owner in my mind.

'For a guy so freakin smart, he's exceptionally stupid!'

I ate the snacks that I knew were poisoned, thinking that there must've been some truth to Ai's jealousy, if he had gone this far....thinking that I had actually been a bad brother and hoping that atleast this way my brother would be happier...

I can't help but facepalm at that.

'This idiotic prince....he's too selfless for his own good!'

The previous owner of this body apparently never wanted to rule the kingdom...he wanted freedom. However, thinking it was too selfish of him, he gave up. He came to the conclusion that this was a satisfactory end to everything.

'Satisfactory my ass! How could you give up on your dream so easily?! Plus That scheming minister is still around! As a prince, it's your duty to make sure that the kingdom is in good hands! A puppet king is not 'good hands'!!'

I sigh in exasperation. But unknowingly a small smile creeps up onto my face...

'Looks like I'm gonna have to fix this huh?'

I can already sense the change in the air...I was finally taking the first few steps in my new life....

'Goodbye my previous life....From now on, I am Akira Okitsune.'

I get up and head into the palace, following the memories in my head.

And that, is how my adventure began.