Civil Servant (1)

It happened 6 years ago.

Whats happening? Where am I?

I woke up in a unfamiliar place, I had many questions about the situation I was in I looked around me only to see a person standing beside me.

"Who are you?" I asked feeling confused.

"YOUNG MASTER!"

"Doctor! call a doctor now the young master seems to have a memory loss."

"Young Master, are you okay? Can you see clearly?"

In five minutes, I was shocked three times in total. The first time was when I found myself in the center of an unfamiliar room. The second time, I found myself surrounded by people I didn't know. Lastly, the third time was from the reaction of the person whose identity I had asked for. That was the first memory of my possession life.

I could feel my eardums ringing when I remembered that memory. But thinking back, they had a reason to react in such a way, so I felt sorry. The first time the eldest son of the family collapsed, and the first thing he said after waking up was something that made everyone think he might have amnesia. If I remained that way, a few servants would have been made responsible, and they would have been beheaded.

"Are you really okay..?"

"Yes I just felt dizzy for a moment. That's all."

Thankfully, the memories of the original owner of the body came back to me, and that incident was considered solved. Thanks to that, I was able to kick everyone out of the room. I'm not sure if it was because of the desire of the original owner to protect the attendants that had served him. Or it was because of the generosity of the one who'd put me here. The second one probably wasn't the case. After all, if that were the case, that being wouldn't have put me here.

"Why me..?"

Returning in time, possession, transmigration. All of these tropes used to be new and fresh, but as time passed, they became so cliched that it was hard to find a novel without them. And among all of these, I became in charge of possession. Woah! How fun!

The problem was that i didn't know why I was chosen for this. I was plying a dating simulation, I played it for about 10 minutes and then got bored of it and was preparing to leave the game that i suddenly saw a notification, feeling sleepy i didn't read it and went to sleep.

When I woke up i was in this world. Lets say that up to this point, it was understandable. Possession was always something unreasonable and sudden. So trying to guess a reason made no sense. It wasn't that other possession protagonists did so because they wanted to.

'You should have picked up an pro player at least.'

The biggest problem was that I had transmigrated in a dating sim I knew nothing about. No, to be more precise, I knew it. But I hadn't taken my time to go through it properly.

The name of the game was 'The Baron's Daughter has many pursuers'...or something like that. After reading the news that a popular dating sim was released and everyone was crazy about it, I played it for some time but that was it I didn't even complete a single quest.

The only information I had about this game was from my friend who introduced me to this game told me about it.

Although I felt bothered by the fact that I had woken up in a game I knew nothing about it. It wasn't that a Demon King was trying to destroy the world would appear. There was also no risk op plague appearing because the characters of a dating game would be busy showing a sweet romance.

Huh didn't I wake up in a world where living was quite nice. Not only that, but the body I possessed belonged to the eldest son of the Empire's Count. He was a noble without blue blood.

"I unlocked an easy-mode life."

As I organized the memories that came back to me, I couldn't help but laugh. The original owner of the body, Austin Reinhardt, was a 15 year old boy. He was the oldest son of the Reinhardt family. He wasn't just a genius or somebody crazy out of control. He was just a normal noble boy.

The only thing that bothered me was what had happened to the body's original owner. But i decided to think that he died. because, after all, I had no way to return it to him. So from now on, I was Austin. 

That was how I began enjoying my life in another world.

"Our family's riches came from the grace of received from the Imperial Family"

Just for a year.

On the second day of the year I would become 18 years old, the patriarch summoned me. I subconsciously nodded to everything he said.

"In reality, our family's blood used to be red instead of blue. Blue blood refers to nobility where red refers to commoners but 300 years ago, our ancestor made a huge contribution to the Andals Invasion"

"That's why Emperor Ron offered our family a territory and a title. That's how we were able to become nobles. The one who followed him, Ron 2nd, made Reinhardt family Count of the Empire. The Reinhardt family's descendants have never forgotten that."

"yes, so you remember it well."

'Someone who cant remember something he hears every week isn't worthy of being called a person.'

I brushed past it while while looking at the Patriarchs prideful expression. He was probably going to say something like 'work hard for the Imperial Family from now on', and then he'd probably send me back. It was obvious.

"An opportunity to answer that grace has came."

"Yes?"

This was an unexpected development.

Regardless of my inquiry in surprise, the patriarch took out a document.

"An incident has happened in the south. Naive people that don't know how scary the Empire can be have been causing a stir. The size of the stir isn't one that can ignored. So the Emperor has called us."

"That's too bad."

"Yes. That's why the the Reinhardt Family, as vassals of the Emperor, have decided to contribute to rooting out the troublemakers that have been bothering him."

"Are you moving?"

The Patriarch nodded. The Reinhardt Family members were direct vassals of the Emperor. They had the title of Count of Sanders.

If the Patriarch took the soldiers of Sanders and decided to contribute to calming down the situation in the South, the Emperor would accept. He was probably going to ask him to administrate the Count's territory while he was away.

'Well, it's nothing important. The butler is going to do most of the work, after all.'

Successor, Count's representative. The only thing he had to do was to stamp documents. Even the Count left most of the work to the butler. Because the topic of the conversation changed suddenly, he became worried. But it wasn't a neccessary one in the end.

As if if the patriarch had read such thoughts of his, he changed the topic once again.

"It's about time you become a government official."

"Huh?Me?"

"Yes. You know that at 18 years old, one can choose to attend the Academy or become a government official, right?"

"If I'm not here, who's going to deal with the Counts's work?"

"Most of the work is done by the butler, so it doesn't matter."

You low ranking lord, how can you say something like that with your mouth?

"I already found a position. You just have to go there, and they'll teach you."

'You mindless Emperor's follower..."

It was possible to become a government officer at 17 years old. But it was preferred for someone to go to the Academy.

What would a 18 years old who'd just become an adult do even after becoming a government officer?

It would be better for me to go to the Academy to learn about numerous things, become friend's with other noble family's sons and daughters, and build relations with capable normal people.

But the patriarch was trying to ignore that and send him to government. Why? Because the Emperor had a headache. So he had to use the family's workforce to help him.

And then he would confidently say, 'Our family's heir, who just became an adult, already became a government officer to serve the Imperial Family and the Empire' It was obvious how the Emperor would receive that news.

'I guess it might not be that bad...?'

Maybe it wasn't as bad as he thought. Academy? In his previous life, he'd gone through primary school to the university and became a Hacker. In short I spent my whole life working without taking a break. Thinking about how he lived studying to become a Hacker made him not want to go to the Academy.

Even without going to the Academy, most important nobles receive tutoring. Not only that, but they also have the opportunity to build connections before and after the 3 years that the Academy lasts.

On the other hand, this was a job given to him by the patriarch of the Reinhardt Family. There was no way the patriarch of Count's family, that served the Emperor of the Avalon Empire directly, was waiting for a 18 year old to achieve great things while working for Empire.

Because of my background, I am probably going to work comfortably. It sounds good. At last it's going to be worth to have transmigrated in this Dating game.

"I'm going to work with everything I have for the Emperor."

 The Patriarch smiled upon hearing my words, and I too smiled in response. Both Father and Son smiling for two different reasons unknown to each other's thought.

The patriarch joined the forces that were in the South. And I went to warm up the comfortable place the Patriarch had found for me.

3 years had passed.

"Heck, I should've gone to the Academy."

The job the patriarch had found for me wasn't a comfortable one it was a position where you couldn't help but shed tears and blood. A place where you could hear people agonizing.

These past 3 years had been enough to make a naive 18 year old into a 21 years old adult that already dreamed of retiring. For example, I had just spent two hours listening to the Minister scream at me for two hours.

"This damn civil servant life."

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