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“So, remember well his name, my dear, for he is our Lord, even in this far away land, and the strongest vampire in the world: Vlad Tepes Dracula...”(otō-san)

Huh?

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Huh?

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Wait. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

What did he just said, right now?

I misheard, right?

There's no way that a coincidence like that is possible!

No way!

Impossible!

Vlad Dracula is a person from Earth! He died six hundred years ago!

And he wasn't a vampire!

He was definitely human!

What the Hell is this all about!

…

But as I was thinking that, I saw the map that was now on the desk.

…

“Fufufu.

Fuhahahaha.

Fuahahahahaha!”(Abigaelle)

That's it. I've lost it. I've completely lost it.

I can't stop laughing, but THAT is not funny at all!

I begin to think there's someone up there toying with me!

Kami-sama, please, pretty please, stop messing with my mental health!

I didn't say anything when I was reincarnated.

I didn't say anything when I learned that I was a girl, and not a boy.

I didn't say anything when I learned there was magic, dragons and such things in this world.

And once again, I didn't say anything when I learned that I was a vampire, and I didn't say anything about the possibility of me turning into a bloody puddle if I were to stay under sun light to much.

But that!

THAT!

THAT is not acceptable!

I refuse!

I refuse to acknowledge THAT!

There is no way I could!

So, I ask you, Kami-sama.

Why?

Why do I already know this map?

WHY IS THIS A MAP OF EUROPE!?!

I want to know now! Is it fun? Is it fun to see how this pitiful ant react?

I hate you, you hear me? I! HATE! YOU!

“Abigaelle, what is it? Is there a problem? Are you okay?

Sylvia, could you come here? I think there is something wrong with Abigaelle!”(otō-san)

“Ufufufu. Ahaha. Aha. Aaaah. It's *pant* It's okay *pant* Let me just *pant* catch my breath, please. *pant* I'll explain myself.”(Abigaelle)

Crap, I forgot I wasn't alone. Otō-san must think I'm crazy now.

Well, while I'm catching my breath, let's think of an excuse.

Think. Thinkthinkthink.

Oh! I've got one!

“Aaah, sorry otō-san, I didn't want to worry you. It's just that, you see, even though you worked so hard to find this map for me, the truth is, I sometimes have a dream about someone who looks like a powerful man, maybe a king. And in this dream, he is looking at a map that looks nearly like this one.

So I'm sorry otō-san, it's just that I was so sorry to have you look so hard for a map, and all that for nothing, that it made me laugh nervously.”(Abigaelle)

Did it work? I hope it didn't show on my face that I was lying.

*Bing*

You have acquired the Skill: [Poker Face (Lv1)]

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [Deceive (Lv2)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [Deceive (Lv3)]

Ara? Was there such Skills?

And what is that? I already had [Deceive(Lv2)]?

I don't like the name.

But, well, I had to lie a lot to cover the fact that I am a reincarnated person.

And it's not wrong to have this skill: everybody lies. Just ask the doctor. Naaah, not this one!

Huh, you get it? Did you get?

…

I really might have lost it.

I'm talking to myself now.

Nobody can listen to my thought!

I hope...

And even if someone could, they couldn't understand this pun, they're not from Ea…

Aha.

No, they are.

Ara, just, stay calm. Don't start to laugh again. That would be bad.

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [Poker Face (Lv1)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [Poker Face (Lv2)]

Shut it!

But, suddenly, the door burst open, letting in two worried-looking maids.

“What happened Lucius-sama?”(Sylvia)

“Abigaelle-sama? Are you okay?”(Julie)

“Yes, it's okay, I am sorry, I might have overreacted a bit.”(otō-san)

“There is no need to apologise, Lucius-sama”(Sylvia)

“It is as Sylvia-san said, Lucius-sama. There is absolutely no problem. It is only our duty after all.”(Julie)

“But, if I may ask, could Lucius-sama inform us about what happened to Abigaelle-sama? I can't say I'm not worried now...”(Sylvia)

And then otō-san began to explain what just happened and what I just told him. The two maids looked really surprised, but I guess it's the normal reaction.

“So, that's how it is, Sylvia and Julie onee-san, I was just really surprised and shocked to see that I already knew that map, and when I understood that I made otō-san look for it for nothing, it made me so nervous and ashamed that I started to laugh nervously.”(Abigaelle)

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [Poker Face (Lv2)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [Poker Face (Lv3)]

Aaaah! Come on! Leave me alone!

“So that's what it was! We were really worried for a moment Abigaelle-sama! Please don't scare us like that again.”(Sylvia)

“Of course, Sylvia onee-san, Julie onee-san, I'm really sorry that I scared you that much.”(Abigaelle)

“Do not worry about it, Abigaelle-sama. But was it true? That you already saw that map in your dream?”(Julie)

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [Deceive (Lv3)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [Deceive (Lv4)]

I'm... not gonna say anything. I deserved it.

Ah! They may think that I already memorized it! Even though it's a map of Europe, the countries are totally different!

“Well, the geography was nearly the same, but the countries were not like that at all. There was a small river here, for example.”(Abigaelle)

I said as I point out the Rhône, a river separating France and Germany, that was now a huge lake measuring 500km long and 50km wide.

Well, you can even say it's a part of the sea now.

That's a huge change.

Germany and France, well, I mean the Sacro Imperio and Taovina, as written on the map, are now separated by that huge lake.

If I remember well what otō-san said, that must be the Great Rhur River, the Ondine's territory. Now that I think about it, “Rhur” was the name of that area in German.

The Ondine must have worked really hard to turn it into that huge lake.

Well, no, it's still called a river, not a lake.

“A small river? That should mean the map you saw in your dream was at least six hundred years old! Do you remember anything else? Another continent for example?”(otō-san)

Otō-san looks very exited for some reason.

Another continent?

Ara?

…

Ooooh!

I get it! He wants to know if I saw the Lost Continent.

And that would mean the Lost Continent is in fact America!

Ah, but then, what about Australia? I never heard about something in that direction.

That would mean they have another lost continent that they don't even now about.

But then, should I tell them about it?

No!

Of course not!

Even though I don't know what otō-san would do with this information, if I tell anyone where it is, someone's gonna try to conquer it, and I absolutely don't want to be responsible for another Conquista.

I already know what they did last time they went in America, and if there is even a small chance that there are still Mayans, Incas, Aztecs or Native Americans over there, I don't want to be responsible for their death.

So...

“Ah, no, I'm sorry, there wasn't anything else.”(Abigaelle)

“No, don't apology Abigaelle, it's not your fault, it's only a dream after all.

Well, I say dream, but it may be a memory from one of our ancestor...”(otō-san)

“You mean, like the fact that I should have known that I was a vampire?”(Abigaelle)

“Yes, that's a good example. Something like that.”(otō-san)

“I see. But I'm sorry otō-san, I don't really know...”(Abigaelle)

In fact, I know, because it's not a dream, so it's not a memory from one of my ancestor either.

Sorry for lying otō-san.

But I wonder how memories are passed down, from parents to children?

Is it because of genetic memories? I know it exists, since it was proved by searchers a year or two before I died, but it wasn't on that scale...

Magic then? It looks more probable...

And with that, you all in America owe me one!

Just kiddin'. I won't even need a favor, because I don't plan to go there.

But that should make enough brownie points to buy myself a ticket to Heaven, right?

Well, I don't believe in heaven though.

But, if there is someone up there, I ask of you, at least, stop messing with me.

Please.

But, once the commotion ended and the maids went back to do what they were doing, we began to really study the map.

To put it simply: Taovania has approximately the same borders as France, the Fae Kingdom is Great Britain, Hachūrudia is Spain plus Portugal, the Dragon Ridge Mountain Range is better known as the Alps, Frubedor is Italia, without the Alps, of course, the Sacro Imperio is roughly the same as the old Holy Roman Empire and the Vampiri Regate is East Europe.

Greece is separated in three territory: the South is the Harpy's territory, the Balkans are populated by Giants and Cyclops, and the rest is called Centaury Fields.

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The Frozen Lands are, naturally, Russia, Pandora is Asia, and the Demon Continent is Africa and Middle East.

Well, roughly.

Wait, then, the massive immigration caused by “The Event” from the East... They were Asians! That's why there's a bit of Japanese in this language then!

But I wonder why there isn't any Chinese or other language too... Is there a reason?

[...]

And, as we were talking about the Vampiri Regate, something struck me.

Vlad Tepes, in my world, is born in 143X-ish.

I know, 'cause I love history.

And when you love history, there's some people you can't miss.

Like Vlad III Basarab Draculea, aka Vlad Tepes.

So, he's born in 143X-ish, and is dead in 147X-ish.

But, well, if he was really a Vampire, with magic power, I guess death is something you can fake easily.

So, yeah, let's say he didn't die.

So, if I remember correctly, the ritual that wiped-out every non-magical beings, “The Event”, took place two centuries after Vlad's birth.

That makes it somewhere in the 17th century.

Before that ritual, they hunted magical beings. Even humans. Lots of them.

When you say humans with magical power, you think of course of wizards and witches.

So they hunted wizard and witches, along with other magical beings, to sacrifice them.

And, what took place on Earth, exactly at the same time?

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The European Witch Hunt...

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And well, I have to say that magic doesn't exist nowadays.

Soo...

That's only an idea. A very strange idea.

But to consider it, you have to believe in parallel universes.

And watch a certain british Tv programm.

Well, in my case, it's not really a problem, since I'm in one of those parallel universe right now.

And I loved this series.

So yeah.

What I learned here is that every non-magical beings were wiped out eight centuries ago.

But, what if?

What if they weren't?

What if the ritual had in fact succeeded?

I mean, I think it did.

I think it didn't wipe out the non-magical being, but instead separated magical and non-magical beings in two distinct universes.

With a HUGE Sealing Spell, maybe?

Separating one world into two.

One where I was born as a man, where magic doesn't exist anymore, and this one, where magic is everywhere and inside every living thing.

I don't have any proof, but it would explain lots of things that I couldn't explain before.

Like, why did Taovania's language was a mix between French, English and Japanese.

It would explain why we had legends about dragons and the such in my old world.

It would explain why the Sun and the Moon looked exactly like the ones back on Earth. Even though I didn't notice it until now...

And it would explain Vlad Tepes existence.

I mean, if those two world were, despite being Earth, completely unrelated, then, what is the chance for two very well known people having the same name? And Vlad is the most famous vampire in my old world, even if it is fictional. And he is the most famous vampire here.

What are the odds for it to be a complete coincidence?

After all, just the fact that a caveman chose to hunt a deer instead of a rabbit back in Stone-Age could change all the following events and History itself.

Like, let's say that caveman got killed by an animal while hunting that deer instead of a rabbit. And let's say he was the great-great-great-great-great... grandfather of Winston Churchill...

See what I mean?

That's why, I think there is as much chance of me dying of a sneeze right now than there is for it to be a complete coincidence.

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Figures.

Ugh... Maybe I just watched to much TV?

Is this something realist, or did I just watch too much of this show talking about a madman and his blue box?

But, I don't know why, I don't think I'm wrong. I feel that it's exactly what happened.

Otherwise, that would be one of a heck coincidence.

And I don't believe in coincidences.

Not on that scale at least.

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [6th Sense(Lv2)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [6th Sense(Lv3)]

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [6th Sense(Lv3)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [6th Sense(Lv4)]

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [Feminine Intuition(Lv2)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [Feminine Intuition(Lv3)]

*Bing*

Your Skill proficiency has reached the required level.

Your Skill [Logical Thinking(Lv7)] has evolved.

Your Skill has evolved into [Logical Thinking(Lv8)]

*Bing*

You have acquired the Title: [Mystery Solver]

*Bing*

Required conditions cleared.

Your Title: [Mystery Solver] has evolved.

[Mystery Solver] has evolved into [Ancient Mystery Solver]

*Bing*

Required conditions cleared.

Your Title: [Ancient Mystery Solver] has evolved.

[Ancient Mystery Solver] has evolved into [Seeker of Truth]

*Bing*

You have acquired the Title: [Unparalleled Knowledge]

*Bing*

You have acquired the Skill: [Sense Lie (Lv1)]

*Bing*

Required conditions cleared.

Your Title: [Unparalleled Knowledge] has evolved.

[Unparalleled Knowledge] has evolved into [Lost Truth Holder]

*Bing*

You have acquired the Title: [World Origin's Discoverer]

*Bing*

Required conditions cleared.

Unique Spell: [Atom Manipulation (Lv1)] was unlocked.

Oy! What is that!

There is so much stuff I can't even read half of it!

But from all those Titles, I think I may be right concerning this world's origin.

I mean, you know... [Lost Truth Holder] and [Ancient Mystery Solver] are what I would call proofs of me being right.

Wait.

“Atom Manipulation”?

Really?

How?

Why?

How?

Isn't that a cheat?

Can I change lead in gold with that?

Ugh. I won't know until I'm at least three!

Well, even though it was quite disturbing for me, otō-san was still teaching me about the Vampiri Regate, so I can't really worry about that now. Let's just focus on this, and think about what just happened later.

And so I did.

I then learned that Vlad was a really great ruler, but he has a really bad relationship with the Church of Light, both parties hating each other, leading in skirmishes and even wars between the Vampiri Regate and the Sacro Imperio.

Well, I say they hate each other, but basically, they just want the lands. Religion is nothing but an excuse.

And even though it's called the Vampiri Regate, it's mainly populated by humans. I was really shocked by that, but it seems they were people who originally migrated because they were followers of a “God of Darkness”, and since Vampires are basically Darkness-based beings, they worshiped them, and the Religion started to spread in the Vampiri Regate.

Since they were a lot from the beginning, and that humans tends to have many children, they soon outnumbered the Vampires, but they still worshiped them, and Vampires kept ruling the country. Well, both party seem to be pretty happy about the current situation. Humans grow crops and run the economy, while the Vampires deal with politics, administration, education, and protection.

That, of course, is a very rough sketch.

The Humans work and the Vampires protect them.

That makes Vampires sounds like the Mafia!

Should I say Don Tepes from now on?

Well, jokes aside, lesson's finished, and it's time to sleep now.

While in my bed, I decided that even if I am right about this world origin, I should just keep quiet about it.

I mean, I don't want to alienate every religious organisation in this world. I don't want to end my life under house arrest like Galileo.

Wait, do they even know about Heliocentrism?

Ugh. That could be bad. I should refrain telling stuff like “Earth goes around the Sun, not the other way around, you moron” until I figured that out.

I'm saying that because I had to say it sometimes back on my old world.

At least, they should know Earth isn't flat...

I hope.

Ugh. Old world, current world, it's an annoying thing to say. Let's say Earth α for my past world, and Earth β for this one.

Aaah, I'm getting tired of thinking.

Well, I'm really tired.

And sleepy.

Let's just sleep.

Think... later.

*yawn*

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