Sardinia

The story starts a day after he transmigrated into this world. While cleaning outside his house, Kou receives a package from someone.

But it didn't name for him, instead, to his foster father.

However, his foster father is already dead since five years ago. He wanted to give this back to the owner but he doesn't know who is the sender.

Fortunately, there is a letter above it. Shockingly, there is no stamp or anything. It's just a letter who don't even have a mail envelope.

He read it. It says that the owner of this package is requesting to my foster father, to deliver this stone tablet by himself. It is written the address where his foster father supposes to deliver this package.

Since there is no address where the sender is, he decided to deliver this by himself.

He doesn't know if the sender knows his foster father died but as the son, he feels that he needed to take responsibility for it.

He lifts the package and goes into the house. He opens the box and saw a B5 sized stone tablet, on it was a childish drawing.

It should be a picture of a man with both his hands and feet locked up, distributed on the edges of this drawing were drawings of a bird with its wings spread out, the sun, moon, and stars. The tablet was well-worn in appearance and even had signs of being burnt.

Below that stone tablet is the flight ticket that has been dated to be flown tomorrow. He is surprised since he thought that he needs to use his own money. Fortunately, the owner of this package is very thoughtful.

A day after that, he immediately fly to his destination.

…

His destination is Sardinia. An autonomous region which consists of the island of Sardinia and the surrounding islands.

The capital city Cagliari where he is located right now is a port located on the south of the island and was first constructed by Phoenicians in the eighth century BCE.

This was a relaxing street in the countryside, near the calm Mediterranean. This was also Kou's first impression of Cagliari.

"...I'll have a stroll in this little town for today, then take the train tomorrow to the town where this addresses."

Kou was in the hotel room booked by his Fuji-nee in Japan.

Though it was just a little three-story inn, its facilities were well-provided, and extremely clean though not very luxurious.

This is free so he doesn't have really anything to say about it.

While he is in his room, he decided to stroll around.

In his past life, he often visited Italy so he is quite passive to interact with the locals since he knows how to speak their language.

It might be this is another world but it's surprisingly the same as his past world. However thinking it twice, anime are always based on real life whether it is a place or the norms. He decided not to mind this, shrugs his shoulder, and continues to stroll.

He walks to a coffee shop and decides to take breakfast since it's still morning in Sardinia.

After his breakfast, he walks whenever his feet take him and reached the giant church — the plaza of a Duomo cathedral.

He took a short stroll there, and then left the beautiful plaza. Starting from there, he could see Cagliari bay.

Looking into the distance, the sea stretched from one end of the horizon to another, beautiful as an emerald.

He decided to stroll here too.

…

It was while Kou was taking a stroll along the sea side when he encountered the youth.

A youth is wearing a probably once a white coat was leaning against the wall of a building that resembled a warehouse, looking towards the ocean that he faced.

Without any doubt, he was about the same age as Kou. Around fourteen or fifteen years in age, with jet black hair to his shoulders, skin the color of ivory, and most important of all, he was extremely handsome.

Suddenly, the youth's gaze began to shift. As if noticing Kou staring at him, he also looked straight back. And then he smiled.

He presumed the youth was saying hello to him, however…

"xxxx, xx, xxxxxx... xxxxxx."

He was using a language Kou had never heard before.

"I'm sorry, I can't understand what you are saying."

Hence Kou could only use Japanese since he is Japanese now. He could use English but decided not to do that.

"Oh, my apologies, then I shall use thy way of speaking."

Suddenly, he was answering Kou with fluent Japanese. Kou was speechless but could only stare at the youth's face.

"Well, hardly of significance, but a strange taste—no, dare I say smell—hangeth around thee, catching my attention, thus I spoke to thee."

The youth's voice was slightly lower than a tenor and was probably in the baritone range.

"A taste... I don't think I'm that dirty, does it smell bad?"

"Payest no heed to it, I assume I have made a fool of myself, to have asked such a strange question."

The youth spoke openly as he watched Kou checking himself out. To ask such an embarrassing question right from the start, but then the youth did not seem to be malicious.

Those words could have angered the other person, but somehow the youth did not cause a sense of displeasure, was it a question of character?

"Boy, acceptest mine apology for my misspoken words. Pray forgivest me, I mean thee no offense."

The youth smiled lightly. His narrow eyes became even more so, and his lips curved. A very classical smile. Rather it should be described as a smile as subtle as mist.

"You really don't sound like you're apologizing, and why are you calling me 'boy'?"

His features were very handsome, but his tone was rather arrogant, and felt like a superior talking to someone beneath his station. He was clearly about the same age, but he was calling me 'boy.'

Also, his mind is a 28 years old man so he felt a bit annoyed by the way he calls him. Also, is Japanese very easy to learn? What's with the way he speak?

"Though I think it's amazing how well you can speak Japanese, your usage is a little bit strange."

"Worriest not these little things. As long as communication is accomplished by speaking, it is agreeable."

He replied with a calm tone. The strange youth's explanation made Kou smile wryly, but he decided not to mind it since he will get irritated again if they started to talk about that.

"Then what is your name? My name is Emiya Kou. I think you already know, but I'm from Japan."

"Of course I remember, my name, my birthplace... Eh, what is it?"

The youth spoke very casually. But to this sudden unexpected answer, Kou was speechless.

Unknown to him, this meeting will make his new life a new adventure.