NOVEL WEB Chapter 1: Prologue
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In a room of a large house of a room that was rather dark we could see that someone or something was on the bed seemingly asleep due to the rhythmic up and down and the subtle shuffles here and there, however their sleep wouldn't last long.
A knock was heard at the bedroom door before it was opened and walked in a figure that couldn't be made out due to the darkness of the room, the figure navigating through the dark with practiced ease walking to a certain part of the room.
The curtains were opened letting the morning sun shine into the room, while also revealing the figure.
The figure revealed to be a young woman with a tall stature and a fair complexion, she had a slender frame with large breasts, waist length white hair with a french braid tied behind her head, and purple coloured eyes.
She's wearing a blue sleeveless maid dress with frilly shoulders and bottoms, a white frilled lace-trimmed apron wrapped around her waist with a long anchored themed-garter dangling on each sides, white stockings, black ribboned pumps and a maid headdress on top of her head. This was Alexis Head Maid of the Pendragon family and personal maid to Artorias Pendragon, Prince and only son to both the King and Queen of Britain.
Speaking of… Alexis sighed as she looked towards the bed, seeing that Artorias had completely submerged himself under the covers…again. Walking towards the bed she spoke softly "Young master it's time for you to wake up."
Seeing that Artorias made no move and was still sleeping she sighed once again shaking her head knowing how much of a heavy sleeper her young master was.
Firmly grasping the edges of the cover Artorias was currently under she yanked the cover from him exposing him to the morning sun as well as the change in temperature, both of which were enough to wake him up.
"Mng… Alexis couldn't you just wake me up normally?" Artorias said with a yawn while stretching. Alexis looked at her Master for a second before responding "I tried waking you up normally young master but you wouldn't wake up." She said before shaking her head.
Artorias Pendragon was a young boy of 5 years old with long shoulder length black hair, with 2 bangs framing his face, and dark gray eyes. He had a fair complexion and a cute androgynous face.
Reluctantly Artorias groggily got off of his bed and started walking to the dining room but was stopped by Alexis because he swayed side to side due to sleepiness. Grabbing his hand Alexis spoke in a soft yet strict manner.
"Young Master, you really need to start going to bed on time, it's unfit as the prince of Britain you must…" she went off on how the heir of such a prestigious family like the Pendragons should act.
Artorias heard absolutely nothing she said half due to his sleepiness and half due to because he had been hearing this almost everyday in his 5 years of living (of his second life).
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At the dining table a less groggy Artorias was sitting (on a couple of cushions) at the table and eating breakfast prepared by the head chef with Alexis standing behind him like a dutiful maid would.
"Hey Alexis, do I have anything to do today? You know besides the usual boring learning etiquette, like learning which knife to use on a certain type of food? Or maybe having a teacher come in and teach me things I already know?" Artorias asked boringly.
"No young master, you and your parents are going to visit your fiancé and her family."
"Hmm, that's news to me, since when did I have a fiancé…?"
*sigh* "Since last Friday when Lord and Lady Pendragon called and spoke to you about it…" Alexis said with a sigh knowing that her master wasn't paying attention that day, he rarely does when it's anything about politics or his responsibilities as a prince.
"Who was it again? My Fiancé I mean." Artorias asked curiously. Alexis looked at Artorias for a second before responding "Your Fiancé is Maria Mikhailovna Kujou, and her family are coming to visit today."
"Hmmm…and my parents? Are they going to show up, or are they too busy?" He asked after he finished up his breakfast.
"Your parents will be here, they should be here before your fiancé and her family arrives, which should be in 2 hours and 30 minutes."
"I see… Alexis, would you mind telling me more about my fiancé and her family?" Artorias asked as he got up from the chair and started walking towards his room, with Alexis dutifully following 2 steps behind.
"Not at all young master. Maria Mikhailovna Kujou, the heiress to the Kujou family, she is one year older than you, being 6 years old, and has a younger sister, Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou who is the same age as you, being 5 years old. Their mother-" Alexis then proceeded to tell him about the rest of the Kujou/Mikhailovna family to which he only listened to half of it.
~ POV: ARTORIAS PENDRAGON ~
After bathing I was now being dressed by Alexis. I looked at the large mirror in front of me and immediately my eye twitched, the R.O.B that reincarnated me had done this to him.
He had died in his past life due to Covid-19 and when he did die he had met a R.O.B a actual R.O.B.
I remember reading some FanFiction's some years ago and 9 times out of 10 always had R.O.B's in them and in those fanfictions the MC's of those fanfics always somehow managed to trick them. So you want to know what I tried to do?
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I let my greed take over and tried to trick the R.O.B sometimes using the tactics of the MC's I read. The thing was that when I was shot down everytime by the R.O.B.
The stress of me dying and being shot down on some powerful abilities that would let me lead an easy life I got angry and got into an argument about whether he was even a real R.O.B which led to him just reincarnating me with an androgynous looking body, no wishes, and an unknown world.
(A/N: MC doesn't know about Roshidere, which is why he doesn't recognize Maria, or Alya's name.)
After reincarnating I tried to see which world I looked up by typing in some names of people and/or schools like Kuoh Academy but that yielded no results, but that was until I saw the name Ai Hoshino floating around on the internet from time to time.
So he knew he was in the world of Oshi no Ko but that didn't exactly,akd him happy due to not reading nor watching the anime, the only thing I knew was that Ai Hoshino dies, when she dies eluded me so I couldn't save her even if I wanted to.
(A/N: spoiler he's gonna save her, Don't worry.)
Back on topic is that I couldn't even be mad at the R.O.B I had disrespected him first and started arguing with him. I mean imagine this. You bring someone who recently died, give him 3 wishes, the chance to make his dream body, and reincarnate him into a universe of his choosing, basically fulfilling the wish of every weeb/otaku (along with his.)
Only for said person to try to trick you (Multiple times), disrespect you when you only tried fulfilling a dream of his, and start an argument with you simply due to you shutting down those his tricks. Who wouldn't be pissed? I know I would if I was in his position.
'And due to my idiotic actions I got literally NOTHING I wished for…along with this body.' I thought while looking at myself in the mirror. 'And I can only blame myself for this. Seriously did I really think I could try and trick a fuckong R.O.B!?'
"Young Master?" My thoughts were interrupted by my personal maid Alexis, who resembled Belfast from Azur Lane, a game I played for a while in my past life. "I'm fine Alexis, I was just thinking about my fiancé and her family."
"I see, well your parents should be here any minute now young master, we should greet them when they get here."
"Yeah, let's get this over with." Out of the corner of my eye I see Alexis with a small smile on her lips, because she knows how much I dreaded meeting my parents. 'Why' you ask? Well you'll see.
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After waiting on the couch watching…documentaries for half an hour, the living room door opened revealing 2 people, one looked like an older, and more feminine version of myself, and the other looked like an older version of Fate Arthur from FATE.
'Dammit, why couldn't I inherit his looks!?'
They both had stern faces and looked ready for business, but I knew better because as soon as the living room door was shut they waited for a few seconds before they fully sprinted straight towards me.
My dad Alexander Pendragon who had river tears streaming down his face seemed like he would get to me first but my mom Evelynn Pendragon beautiful, gentle face suddenly resembles that of the devils as she literally picked up my dad over her head and flung him towards the other side of the room, so she was the first to get to me.
I watched all this go down with a deadpan expression. Yup, my parents were those types of parents, they would be professional and rarely show emotion in public but in private they wore their emotions on their sleeves…especially when it came to me they were the overly doting type.
My mom picked me up and pushed my head into her modest sized breast, now while she wasn't as stacked as Alexis with her only having C-cup breast, her beauty more than made up for it.
"Oh my baby! Did you miss mommy? Oh, I know! To make up for lost time, why don't you and I go shopping together, we can even buy the whole mall!" Mom said with a beautiful wide smile.
However as I was about to answer my dad pushed her away so hard that she flew over the couch I was just sitting on. It was now my dad's turn to lift me up as he held me high above him while laughing "He doesn't want to go shopping with you Evelynn! He wants to go get ice cream with his dad and go to a gaming center, right son?
However once again as I was about to answer I was interrupted by my mother tackling my father down to the ground, they both started wrestling each other both trying to get the high ground.
I sighed and looked towards Alexis who was standing in front of the door. I could see that she was trying so hard to hold in her laughter only letting a few giggles escape here and there.
Seeing the desperate look I was giving her, she nodded and let a loud *Ahem* gaining both of my parents attention.
"Lord Alexander, Lady Evelynn, I ask that you please cease this unbecoming behavior as you both are King and Queen of Britain and may I remind you that today is a very special day as Young master Artorias' fiancé and her family shall be visiting today." She said in a stern and scolding manner
I had to resist the urge to smile, I mean it's not everyday you see a King and Queen being scolded by a maid.
Both my parents were on their knees with their heads down as they were being scolded on how a King and Queen should act, however the moment they heard that my fiancé was visiting they both let out an audible "Tch".
My dad due to him having an apparent rivalry with my fiancé's father back in middle and high school and my mother due to the fact that I have a fiancé.
As they were about to start (no doubt) yelling again there was a knock on the living room door, which caused us to look towards it. It opened revealing a butler he stepped in and whispered something into Alexis ears, she nodded and the butler left.
"Lord Alexander, Lady Evelynn, Young Master Artorias, it seems your fiancé and her family have arrived." Alexis said as she bowed and left, presumably to escort the family here.
I looked towards my parents and sweatdropped. They were sitting down elegantly, not a single hair out of place. It's like they weren't just wrestling each other on the ground a few moments ago.
Not even questioning it I just sat down in between them waiting for my fiancé and her family to arrive.
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(A/N: Complete rewrite, I didn't like the direction it was going in, so it getting a rewrite.)