Chapter 4 - How To Explain?

My depressed concentration was broken by a cough and a knock from behind.

Startled, I looked back to see the same girl from before and two other man with her. It seemed she brought the doctor and an older butler with her.

"Yes"

The old doctor in his sixties, wearing old leather clothes which seemed to be in fine condition walked two steps and moved the rim of his thin glasses as he said.

"It seems your consciousness is back, young master, Henry."

"Do you think there are any lingering effects from before?" The old butler standing behind asked.

"Well, Henry is able to walk so I presume there isn't any, but still I need to take a look at him before I can be sure." The doctor said before pointing towards the bed, indicating Henry or me to be exact to sit on the bed.

The previous shock of my new body didn't leave me but I still obeyed the doctor and sat on the bed's end as he examined me.

It was a simple examination. Hearing my heartbeat, cough, checking the eyes, tongue, nose. Simple look here and there and it was done for him as he collected his equipment's while saying.

"Well I can at least say that he is physically fi- okay." The doctor corrected his words before continuing.

"Now some routine questions."

"Tell me Henry, who are you?"

Now that was the million-dollar question.

I racked my brain but nothing seem to come to it. It felt like I only got a machine filled with materials without any mechanism of it working.

"I guess… Henry."

"Nice joke." The doctor thought I was joking… if only he really knew what was going inside my head.

"What is my name?"

"… I don't know."

"It's not nice to joke about this, Henry, now tell me the truth."

"I really don't know." I said to him with complete honesty.

"Come on Henry, I know being asked childish questions like this doesn't feel nice and is time consuming but you must answer me truly."

I sighed not knowing how to answer the man. I was speaking the truth but they didn't know that, they didn't know what I had just went through.

"I'll be totally straight with you doc, I don't know who you are and I know it seems total crap but I am serious."

The doctor seeing this new style of way Henry talked, felt confused. Overly.

Henry might have been many huge things, he ate a lot and certainly made fun of others a lot too but… he felt that this time might not be the same as before.

"… are you serious?"

"Total"

"Then how about them… do you remember any of them?" He pointed behind to the maid and butler.

I looked at the old butler first and shook my head. His face was not one bit common to me.

Seeing me shake my head, the butler gasped in shock and looked at the doctor, but the guy kept looking at me.

"And her?"

I checked the maid up and down completely and try to remember her but nothing came to mind.

'She's quite the beauty.'

I looked at her innocent brown eyes, black luscious long hair and black-white maid outfit, still the answer was the same.

"No-"

I stopped as a sudden thought came to me and compared that to my current appearance and looked at the maid who seemed to be praying very deeply as she tightly clutched her hands in front of her chest.

I felt I needed to ask the question. I was 70% sure that it was not what I thought but… if it was then…

I looked at her, my curiosity peeked to the highest and asked, "Are you… Anna?"

The maid who cried slightly, looked up and into me as she nodded her head multiple times and said, "Yes! Yes Young Master, I am your maid, Anne. You remember me, young master."

"Hmm..." The doctor wondered.

"Can you tell me anything else about her?"

I tried but this time it was absolutely blank… besides the thing I knew from my past. I gave him a shake of my head as the bubbly maid's happiness died down again.

"Hmm…"

"You know her name, that's good… but you don't know anything other than that, right?" I nodded.

"Well then… I need to ask some more before I can come to a conjecture." The doctor said and continued asking me questions. Mostly it was simple, who was he or she, do I know this place or that thing but sometimes he would go a little deep.

Where is the treasury? Who is my secret love? Why was I so fat?... I think the last one was intentional.

But after a very long while, the doctor finally came to a conclusion as he sighed, "It is not good… not good at all."

The doctor stood up and said to the maid and butler, "It seems Henry has lost his memories."

"Completely?"

"No, not completely. As you have seen, he knows fundamental things, other non-fundamental ones and… the girls name." The doctor said eyeing Anna for a moment, "But other than that he doesn't seem to have any recollection of who he is."

"… Will he stay like this forever?" The old butler said as he clutched his hands in pain.

"With the way he had gotten the sudden illness, I can't really say."

As if his most painful nightmare had come to fruition, the old butler said, "Oh- Oh! My… young master."

"What can you do? It's not everyday someone hears that their fiancé is about to attack them."

'Fiancé?... attacking me… it seems what I didn't want to happen, just up and fucked me.'

A knock from the door resounded gaining everyone's attention as another servant came and gave a letter to Anna.

"It's master from the capital." She took a look at the old butler and he nodded. Gaining the permission, she opened the letter and started reading it.

'If I'm as fucked as I thought than its probably that.' My guess was right as Anna's eyes widened in horror as she read the letter.

"The master… has been killed."