New Beginning

"You are Maximillian Von Lexius, Milord."

"What? I am not Maximillian Von... I am Philip."

"Yes, you are Dumbass."

"Stop calling me dumbass... You piece of garbage."

"Oh... Sorry Lord Maximillian..."

"For Fuck's sake, who is this damn Maximillian?"

"It's you." said the maid.

"Milord, you are Maximillian Von Lexius, son of esteemed Duke Anslem Von Lexius, and Duchess Gracia Von Lexius."

"What? Why is that name so long? And who are they?"

"Your father and mother."

"He is not my father. My father's name was Jonathan, not some Anslem..."

"But he is your father."

"No, he is not."

"But he is."

Both Philip and the maid were now arguing with each other over nothing. Noticing that the conversation was going nowhere, Philip stopped and ask some logical question that would solve his suspicion.

"Wait... Wait... Wait..." shouted Philip.

Hearing Philip's loud voice, the maid abruptly stopped talking and looked at him.

"Yes, milord."

"Let's start from the very beginning. What's your name?"

"Milord, my name is Sophia. I am serving your family for the past 5 years and my mother also serves your family." said the maid Sophia.

"So Sophia, can you tell me, where exactly am I?"

"Yes, milord."

"Listen, stop calling me milord. I have a name just like you. Call me Philip."

"But... milord you are..."

"Whatever you are trying to say, I don't care. Just call me Philip."

"Yes..., Lord Philip."

"Just Philip not Lord Philip."

"Yes..., Sir... Philip."

Now Philip was getting a headache by just looking at her puzzled expression. Why couldn't she call him just Philip, but whatever, if they kept arguing like that, he wouldn't get any answers.

And about Sophia, she just couldn't process anything. She knew Philip from a very young age; they grew up together in the same palace, but due to him being the Duke's son and she being a maid's daughter; they weren't considered close friends or childhood friends, but they were somewhat friends and this was the first time she was seeing something odd with Maximillain.

"Whatever. Just tell me where am I?"

"Milord... I mean Sir Philip, you are in the Home estate of Duke Lexius."

"Wh... What Duke Lexius? I mean, in which country?"

"The empire of Witdeaory."

"And where is this, Witdeaory? In what continent, like in Asia, Europe, where?"

"I don't understand..."

"I am just asking, on what continent this Witdeaory country is?"

"What is a conte... nuent, Sir?"

These questions were getting too much for her to handle.

Seeing that the maid could not answer his question, Philip was getting impatient, but getting impatient would lead him nowhere, so he forced himself to calm down.

Haaaaa! Hooooo! Haaaaa! Hooooo!

After taking long breaths and calming down, Philip spoke again.

"So Sophia, what did you say my name was?"

"Maximillian Von Lexus, the firstborn child of the Duke and duchess of Lexus."

"And are there any other children beside me?"

"Yes, your little sister Iilina Von Lexus."

"..." These too long names were giving Philip a more intense headache than before.

Talking to Sophia only made the whole situation even more complicated. How and why the hell was he in some God forsaken country named Witdeaory ? And what about Featherless?

Featherless, a covert CIA mission to retrieve & destroy a biochemical lab, present in somewhere unknown. They did everything to complete the mission, but why he was killed then? By his own country, own people.

He sacrificed his everything for them & they gave him death by a Hellfire missile. What a pathetic way to die. Still, he didn't die, but was now here in this land out of nowhere.

And how the hell he even become someone named Maximillian?

"Just great, really fucking great..." Philip cursed out loud. Things were not making any sense and now his each and every plans were ruined.

Seeing the sudden outburst of Max, Sophia took a few steps back. It was not something new for her, but still she got scared every time. Nobody could get used to a sudden outburst.

Noticing Sophia's sudden movements, Philip realised what he had done.

"I... I am sorry... I didn't mean to..." said Philip awkwardly.

"..." The young girl just nodded silently.

But what now? What should he do? Was he going to spend his entire life here but... Was there anyone waiting for him back at home? No. Nobody would wait for him. No one even knew he was in some unknown land doing some illegal shit for the Govt. And it was a one-way mission to begin with. They didn't tell them about this but it was true & everyone knew it.

Philip's brain was working at full speed, but still nothing and with the ever-increasing headache, it was getting too hard for him to stay calm.

"Milord..."

"Yes... What is it..." asked Philip in an irritated tone. Those words came out instinctively as he was used to getting disturbed.

"You... You should wash your face." Said Sophia in a shuddering tone gesturing towards the bowl of water.

"Ahh! Right. I should wash my face." Though Philip was inside Maximillain's body, he was still Philip. And he couldn't go around shouting he was not Maximillain. It would cause a heck lot of problems for him, so at least for now, he would stay silent and find out more about this country and about the man named Maximillain.

Philip washed his face, and the girl went towards the enormous bathroom.

Moments later, she came back, and the bath was ready.

"Sir, the bath is ready."

"Oh. yes."

Philip reached the bathroom, where he closed the doors and stripped his clothes.

He carefully examined his body with an awe. He had a muscular body like this, but this body and the environment were very uncomfortable for him.

Philip dipped his toe into the bathtub to gauge its temperature before plunging his body in completely.

As he sat down to inside the tub, countless thoughts passed through his mind. There was a possibility that someone was playing a prank on him, but seeing the natural expression of the servant and the seer scale of the room he was in, it all just was too good to be true for a prank. Still, it wasn't impossible.

And wait, the thing called Lyson was gone when he was talking with the maid. Was it gone for forever?

"Yo... Missed me...?" asked Lyson & once again, the blue screen appeared before him.

"Nope." replied Philip in an irritated tone.

"Yeah... You missed me, I know... Why are you shy... Come on, tell me... you missed me, right?"

"Fuck's sake dude, can you shut up?"

Philip had played many games with things called system & from just the looks of it, this thing called Lyson was also a system but was too annoying.

"Sorry... Sorry..."

"So you are a system, right?"

"Yes."

"And you can tell me everything."

"Yes."

"Then tell me."

"Sure, but first agree to these terms & conditions."

Soon on the screen, two buttons appeared. One was a green button with agree written on top if it & another was a red one with disagree written. But there were no terms or conditions showed anywhere.

"Where are the terms & conditions?"

"You need those....?"

"What type of question is even that? I am not gonna agree with anything without reading the conditions."

"Pretty talented one, are you?"

"What?"

"You wanna know about the stuff or not?"

"I want..."

"Yes or No..." asked the system in a heavy tone.

"You are blackmailing me, huh?"

"Press yes to know about everything, otherwise fuck off."

"Yes Sure. Fuck you too."

And Philip disagreed with the system, by which it also disappeared above his face. He would not agree with anything without knowing what's written on there. He didn't want to be a slave after all.

After spending nearly thirty minutes in the bath washing away both the sweat and filth on his body and the mental stress, he finally stepped out of the tub. He found a set of nobleman's attire prepared for him. It was properly cleaned, which was the most redeeming quality of the clothing.

After donning the attire, he shifted his attention to his short, black hair. After styling his hair as simple as possible, he left the bathroom and saw Sophia waiting for him.

"Sir Philip, the Duke and Duchess are waiting for you in the office."

"..."

"Sir..."

"Yes, yes... Let's go then." Said Philip . At least he had to find out it was a prank or not.

Sophia bowed concerning his request

"Yes, Sir Philip"