Chapter 1

"…ward.....Ed….Edward!"

Awakened by the call of his name, Edward groggily woke up. He calmly rubbed his head and yawned for a few seconds before slowly turning to the owner of the voice.

"...Hello, Alice."

The girl named Alice sighed and gently placed her hand on Edward's head.

"Come on, Edward, go wash your face before Mom gets here, or she'll lecture you again."

Edward flinched at the thought of his angry mother and quickly left his bed. Before leaving the room in the direction of the bathroom, he turned to Alice with a big smile.

"Thank you, big sister. I love you!"

Alice smiled gently before feigning anger. "Go hurry up instead of talking nonsense!"

Edward also smiled back before leaving the room laughing.

Arriving in the bathroom, he took the bucket of water he had prepared the day before and quickly cleaned his face.

As he finished cleaning his face, a ray of sunlight shone on him, forcing him to squint for a moment to adjust. Finally, he turned his gaze to the window where the sun was coming from and saw a large tree in bloom.

'So it's spring. Time flies… It's already been three years since I reincarnated into this body…'

Edward smiled sadly, remembering the confusion he had felt in his first year about being in an infant body.

Eventually, Edward went back to his room and got dressed quickly. He then walked to the garden where his sister Alice was hanging out the laundry.

"Alice, where is Mom? Didn't I see her in the house?"

Alice turned to him and sneered, "She's already gone to the fields a long time ago, you know. It's already 9 o'clock."

Edward's eyes widened. "Nine o'clock already! I slept so long!"

Alice laughed. "Yes, Mom tried to wake you up unsuccessfully. Prepare for her fury later, hehe."

Edward swallowed heavily. "But you told me earlier that she hadn't arrived yet…"

"Did I say that? No memory."

Edward sighed. "Actually, it doesn't matter… Well, I'm going outside. Have a nice day!"

Alice smiled. "Yes, have fun and make friends!"

Edward responded with a small smile and quietly left.

'No chance of me making any friends since my brothers described me to everyone as a demon or whatever…'

Edward was reincarnated into a large family and, since birth, he had always behaved differently from other children. Even though he tried to look normal, it was hard to hide his intelligence and the knowledge he shouldn't have at his age. As a result, his brothers spread rumors, making him an outcast among the village children.

'I'm really in a medieval world. To think that people treat a 3-year-old child like that only…'

His new family is quite large, even in this world where large families are common. He has five brothers aged 5 to 17 and two sisters aged 9 and 12, respectively.

And in this big family, the only person who does not treat him differently from the others is Alice, his 12-year-old sister.

Edward sighed and walked towards the forest, admiring the beauty of nature, observing the flowers and the green trees populated by small squirrels.

Smiling at the sight of the resplendent nature he would have struggled to find in his old world, Edward walked further into the forest and eventually came to a small clearing in the heart of the forest in which a single giant tree stood in its center.

He walked there calmly, tilted his head back to observe the buds of the tree, which were not present the day before.

'It is really beautiful.'

A moment later, Edward walked around the tree and picked up a wooden sword he had left the day before. This sword belonged to one of his older brothers; it was an old toy, and the tip of the sword was broken, but Edward didn't really mind.

Edward then began to swing the sword in the air, up and down. For him, it was practice, but from an external point of view, it seemed rather cute to see a child swinging a sword not adapted to his size.

A few minutes later, Edward dropped the sword and lay on the ground, exhausted. His training may not have looked like much, but he had asked an adventurer passing through the village to show him how to do it, and after a few compliments, the adventurer happily showed him.

Edward slowly caught his breath and raised his arm in front of his face, palm outstretched to the sky.

"Come to me, beautiful ball of water!"

…Nothing happened. Edward flashed an embarrassed smile at his failed attempt to perform magic and sat with his back leaning against the large tree, enjoying the shade of its leaves.

In recent years, Edward has discovered that he lives in a world of fantasy where swords and magic exist! Finally, swords existed in his old world as well, but the swordsmanship here was the real thing.

Edward smiled as he thought of all the stories the villagers and his sister told him about this world. The stories he always heard seemed somehow familiar to him, like green-haired demons eating children, for example.

But yesterday, while strolling through the village, he came across a face that was really unusual among the villagers of the region, and intrigued by the blue color of the stranger's hair, he had come close enough to see his face.

And to his great surprise, he had recognized the face! It was Roxy, the private guardian of Rudeus, the protagonist of an anime he had watched in his previous life!

The realization that he was now part of this world as an unnamed figure had kept him up late at night, hence his late awakening this morning.

With this information, his desire to learn magic and sword skills greatly increased, and now he knew more or less where to ask to learn.

Right now, in this village, a sword expert, Rudeus' father, and a magic expert, Rudeus' master, are present. It's a truly golden opportunity.

'However, even though they are both here, how do I get them to teach me…'

Edward closed his eyes and sighed.

'And especially, what to do at the time of the teleportation accident…'

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My native language is not English, so I use a translation site. If the story is too complicated to read, I apologize!