A Wish That Turned into Reality

"Ugh... My head hurts so much..." Yuuya groaned in pain, slowly forcing his heavy eyelids open.

An unfamiliar yet oddly familiar ceiling entered his view, making his expression tense.

"Where am I...?" Panic surged through him as he hurriedly sat up.

His gaze swept across the room—spacious, luxurious, and completely unfamiliar.

On either side, a large closet stood tall, accompanied by a pair of long sofas facing each other with a rectangular table in between, along with various other extravagant decorations.

This place... it looked just like the rooms of noble families he had seen in drama series on television—definitely not his own.

Just then, a sharp, electric-like sensation shot through his body. His limbs trembled, and a searing pain pounded inside his skull.

At the same time, fragmented memories of someone surfaced in his mind, accompanied by an unbearable noise—like a bass speaker blasting at full volume right beside his ears.

"Argh..." Yuuya groaned, curling up from the agony.

A few seconds passed before the pain gradually subsided, then vanished completely.

Panting, his eyes wide with shock, he stammered, "I... I... I transmigrated!"

Yes, he had really transmigrated. The body he now inhabited wasn't his—it belonged to someone else!

Even more shocking, that someone was Arthur Vanitas—the most pathetic character in The Monarch Mage's Journey to Conquer the World!

The pain he had just experienced was the aftermath of Arthur Vanitas' memory transfer—and now, he had completely become him!

"Damn it! How did this happen? Is this a dream? A prank?"

Yuuya's heart pounded violently. Cold sweat trickled down his back and neck.

He wanted to deny it, to convince himself this was nothing more than a dream. But deep down, he knew—there was no escaping reality.

It was real. He had actually transmigrated into Arthur Vanitas!

"Damn... How did this happen?" Yuuya let out a small sigh, collapsing onto the bed.

His blank, dazed gaze remained fixed on the ceiling of the lavish room.

The last thing he remembered before transmigrating was reading The Monarch Mage's Journey to Conquer the World—a novel with an utterly unsatisfying ending.

After that, he cursed and silently hurled a few aphorisms at the author.

Then… after that, he—

Yuuya's eyes widened in shock. His breath hitched.

"Candy... The wish-granting candy!" he exclaimed in horror.

Before falling asleep, he had eaten the candy and whimsically wished to transmigrate as Arthur Vanitas in the novel "The Monarch Mage's Journey to Conquer the World."

The wish had merely been a passing whim. More than that, he had simply wanted to see Arthur get a real chance to grow and become one of the bosses who would challenge the novel's protagonist.

That would have made the story far more interesting.

But he never imagined that his fleeting wish would actually come true!

Now, he had become Arthur Vanitas.

"This is absolutely ridiculous..." Yuuya muttered with a wry smile.

What was done was done—there was no point in dwelling on it. His only choice now was to focus on survival.

After all, as he had mentioned before, Arthur Vanitas was the most pathetic character in the novel.

He was the unwanted result of Duke Jacob Vanitas' drunken mistake—born from a fleeting night with an ordinary woman.

After giving birth to Arthur, his mother passed away, leaving the newborn completely alone.

To cover up the scandal, Jacob Vanitas hired an old woman to care for Arthur until he turned ten.

Only then did Jacob bring him to the Mansion of Duke Vanitas, officially recognizing him as his third son.

Unfortunately, that was the beginning of his nightmare.

Elizabeth Voundel, Jacob's legal wife, despised him and saw him as nothing more than a stain on their family name.

Her three children shared the same disdain, looking down on him and subjecting him to relentless cruelty.

"Arthur has no magical talent, no remarkable abilities—aside from his good looks… So, where do I even begin?" Yuuya pondered deeply.

His greatest advantage was his knowledge of the novel's storyline. If he could use it wisely, he was confident he could change his fate.

"Hah~" Yuuya let out a small sigh. "I'll take this one step at a time."

But just then, a mechanical voice echoed in his mind.

"[Ding dong! The Beautiful System of a Thousand Worlds is now bound to the host! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡]"