Chapter 2 [Meis Michael 2]

Meis Michael.

That should have been my name.

But that time I awoke from my seemingly never-ending slumber.

After I was pulled out from that cage of darkness

"This!! This is a miracle... Your Majesty!! Your Majesty is awake. Rejoice! It has worked!."

Murmurs and yells of joy like no other. And that irritatingly loud voice so near.

With his eyes opened, what he saw has given him quite the surprise.

WOAHH!! or so...

Well.. that ominous inscribed circle doesn't seem to deserve that reaction. The blood and those mummified corpse all around him.

Unbelievably, this looks like a ritual so illegal... Looking like it's supposed to be banned anywhere.

"Your Majesty?"

A familiar and unfamiliar voice called out again. It was the same voice calling to him again.

Meis focused his eyes to the man from that black ceiling. While Meis was lying on his whole body in the center of an inscribed bloody circle, this man was kneeling by his side with a fanatic and eager look.

'Who?'

----Snap

While slowly blinking his eyes, something snapped in his mind. It was akin to the sound of a broken thread and countless information raged to get inside his head.

"Urghh.."

"Your Majesty? Are you alright?"

"..Ah!! ..."

'Darn it... Is it a side effect of the ritual?'

The kneeling subordinate noticed the emperor in pain and in a daze. Seeing something wrong, he stood up and quickly called for help.

"Call the doctor immediately!! It's URGENT!!"

"Wait for me, Your Majesty. I'll make sure to get the doctor faster."

With an apologetic and urgent face, he stood up because of his impatience and the worsening expression of Meis.

Of course he didn't forgot to call for guards outside and secure the safety of the wincing Meis.

He was in a rush as he stepped on the dead bodies belonging to the sacrifices and the dark magicians who helped to do the operation of doing a taboo trial. It was all to revive the dead emperor.

________

'It's too much... This hurts like hell.'

Maybe he was going to die this day. But it's strange that he thought so.

In fact, the moment he woke up, everything felt like a dream. It's unrealistic and terrible as he saw gore the moment he opened his eyes. And he might even suspect that he became a king, an emperor, a ruler, or whatever because of the calling of 'Your Majesty'.

But that's impossible, ain't it?

Besides, it's unwanted. To become the center of attention because he was a witness to a possibly dangerous ritual or that because he was an emperor felt unacceptable.

It's gross. Maybe in the end, while Meis was given peace, he got a trauma of spotlight in exchange for it.

But..

Doesn't that mean that his efforts got ruined because he'll live a life like his 'past' now?

The 'past' would never become the 'present'.

But he wouldn't really need to worry about that cause this was all a dream and he was still sleeping in real life, right?

This is... It can't be the truth, right?

rIgHT?....!!!

But all the datas invading his head tried to prove otherwise.

His more than 20 years of life flashed by including his death, spraining his ankles and then drowning in the pool. But it wasn't the end...

Those 'datas'.... 'it' showed me everything opposing to the logic of my previous world.

This was another world.. A world of empire, kingdoms, magic, swords, knighthoods... a whole new world different from the modern world.

That's not all, it revealed countless important facts, whom is this body, what type of era is he in, and even the plot of this world akin to a novel that's cliché and boring.

"Just... what's happening to me right now?"

THE END