Strange.

I still didn't understand what was happening to my body.

"Is this... reincarnation?" I asked while feeling my face.

I rushed straight to my uncle and wanted to ask him some questions.

"Uncle!" I exclaimed.

"What's wrong, Arthur? You're acting strange today." Uncle said.

Did he not notice the changes in my body? He should have asked me why the color of my hair, eyes, and skin had changed.

"Didn't you see it?" I asked.

"Saw what?" Uncle asked back.

"My appearance!" I exclaimed.

"Hmm? You still look the same as always. Come on Arthur, what's wrong with you today?"

Huh? What's going on? He didn't realize something as obvious as this? And what does 'you still look at the same as always' mean? Something was not right.

"But my appearance has obviously chang—"

"Ahh, never mind. It's already time for you to go to school. You want to be late?" Uncle interrupted me.

By the way, it's true that I still have a schedule to go to school today. But I'm still curious!

"B-but uncle!"

"Never mind, never mind, don't get hysterical like a child! Hurry up and go to school, I'm not paying for your schooling for nothing." Uncle said while pushing me.

Then after pushing me back to my room, he immediately closed the door to my room.

"Huft, this is weird!" I said in an annoyed tone.

I walked to the large mirror in the corner of my bedroom and once again looked at the changes that had happened to me.

"These blood-red eyes... I think I've seen them before, but where?" I tried to remember.

Instantly a flash of memory crossed my mind.

"Ughh ...." My head became dizzy.

I saw a beautiful woman with the same black hair and blood-red eyes in my mind and she was laughing at me.

"Perhaps... it wasn't a dream?" I started to get suspicious.

That woman must have done something to me. My body felt strange after having that 'dream'. I need to investigate this but there doesn't seem to be time for that right now.

I rushed to get my school uniform and took off my clothes but I was surprised again when I saw the drastic changes in my body.

"Huh!? What the hell!?" I was shocked.

A beautiful muscular body with two cross-shaped scars on my chest and stomach, I guess this second wound is on my liver?

Wait, come to think of it that woman stabbed me in my heart and liver didn't she? This made my head even more full of questions.

"Arthur!" Uncle called me in a high tone.

"Y-yes! Wait a minute!" I replied.

I hurriedly put on my school uniform then I went downstairs and put on my shoes. Then uncle came to me and handed me a lunch box.

"Here, don't forget to eat it." Uncle said.

"Okay uncle, I will definitely eat it." I said.

"Then hurry up. You can't be late for school!" Warning from my uncle.

"Yes, uncle." I said as I closed my eyes and smiled a little.

"Good. Then I'll go bathe Lucy first." Uncle said.

I was surprised to hear his words. Lucy? That horse that left me yesterday? She's back?

"Lucy? The black horse?" I asked for confirmation.

"Of course. You think Lucy is a woman? Son, I'm 68 years old and no woman would want an old and fat man like me." My uncle explained.

This was not right. I had to check it out myself. I rushed out of the house and headed to the stables next door.

"Hey, where are you going!" Uncle asked.

"Just a moment, I want to confirm something with my own eyes!" I replied.

I rushed over and opened the stable door and saw Lucy, the horse I rode yesterday, in the right corner of the stable.

"Depraved horse!" I said in an annoyed tone while approaching the horse.

I looked at the horse, I wanted to make sure if it was the same horse or not but it turned out to be real. The black horse that I rode was here.

Did he come back here by himself? No way. If a horse is out of control, it will run away.

"Arthur, what are you doing?" Uncle arrived while raising his tone.

But I didn't answer and continued to stare in confusion at the horse. Then my uncle tapped me on the shoulder and said.

"Didn't I tell you to go to school? Why are you here instead!" I asked.

"Uncle... do you remember what happened yesterday?" I asked.

"Hmm? A lot of things happened yesterday." I replied.

"Don't you remember when you told me to deliver things somewhere?" I asked.

"Huh? Delivering goods? What are you talking about? I didn't tell you to deliver the goods last night." Uncle replied.

Wait, what? What really happened? There's so much weirdness going on. It's like I'm having a dream but it's not a dream, it's like... reality has changed?

I didn't utter any words after hearing my uncle's answer and was just shocked by this weirdness.

"Never mind what are you daydreaming about!? Hurry up and go to school!" My uncle said while pushing me.

Strange, this is really strange. This must have something to do with that mysterious woman!

"Already, hurry up and take this." My uncle said as he handed me a food box.

"Eh? Why is the lunchbox a little bigger today?" I asked.

"Haha, I made a special meal for you today. I hope you like it." Uncle said with a proud smile.

I looked at the lunchbox carefully. I didn't expect that there was still one person who was so kind to me until today. Ahh, even just one is more than enough.

"Thank you uncle. Then, I'll leave first." I said.

"Alright. Have a safe trip!" Uncle said.

"Unn, I will." I replied.

With that I left for my school with a happy heart and tried to forget all the strange events that happened. It was just a trivial oddity.

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With that Arthur left for his school. On his way there were a lot of people doing their activities.

"It's so crowded ...." Arthur said.

Arthur looked right and left looking for a gap to get through the crowd.

"Excuse me, excuse me ...." Arthur said as he passed through the crowd of people.

It was now seven in the morning and it was only natural that the city of Logos which was the capital of Symphonia was very crowded. On the way there were several people who saw and talked about Arthur.

"Hey that's the guy who doesn't have mana isn't it?"

"Right, I heard he goes to St. Antoniette's academy."

"St. Antoniette!? That famous magic academy!? What did he go there for? It's not like she can't use magic?"

"Hmm? There are people talking about me...?"

People were talking about Arthur in whispers but Arthur could hear their conversation from afar.

Arthur turned his head right and left to see who was talking about him but in the end he didn't care and ran straight to his school.

"Damn it, I can't be late on the first day!"

She ran so fast that she even broke the traffic sign.

"Hey, don't cross the road carelessly!"

"S-sorry! I'm in a hurry!"

He was almost hit by a car but the car had time to slam on its brakes. Arthur continued running to the other side. But suddenly an image appeared in Arthur's head.

A truck at high speed came and hit Arthur.

"Ugh, w-what was that!?"

Arthur was confused while looking right and left to make sure if it was a hallucination or not.

"What the hell was that!? It looked so real... but it seems like it was just my hallucination."

He didn't really care and moments later, TINNNNN* but a truck at high speed was heading towards Arthur.

"Huh!? Ahhh!"

Arthur had no time to dodge and could only scream in resignation but just before the truck hit him it suddenly broke into pieces but did not cause an explosion.

"Eh?"

Arthur was confused by what happened. The truck shattered into small pieces but the driver was fine and only fell near Arthur.

People immediately swarmed the scene and the fire department and police arrived after a while.

"What happened...?"

Arthur still didn't understand what happened. He tried to look all over his body while groping his body and there was not a single scratch on his body.

"It wasn't a hallucination!?"

Arthur's previous vision was not a hallucination but a reality.

"If it wasn't a hallucination then what was it...? A vision of what will happen in the future?"

So many questions plagued Arthur's mind. The strangeness continued to get to him. He had no idea what was really going on.

"It's true... I need to find out about all this." Arthur said.