Chapter 5 - The Sword Master’s Second Life

‘Could it be that I have transmigrated into that novel?’

Leo stared at the young face that the lake reflected, questioning his memory of that one book that reminded him of his current situation.

He had already confirmed that his main identity was that of Leo, despite the young face of Arthur that was reflected by the lake.

Although he had accepted both identities, clear order had to be established, and ‘Leo’ was prioritized over ‘Arthur’. After all, now that his memories were clearer, he could remember that he was ‘Leo’ before he was ‘Arthur’.

He still remembered hearing the strange voice in his mind before everything went blurry as he fainted. By the time he woke up, he was already in a different body that came with its own set of memories.

It was like he had truly lived two lives, but he wasn’t that perplexed by it that much. As a reading veteran and a special one at that, he already thought of a plausible explanation.

‘I guess this can count as a mix of both transmigration and reincarnation…’

Both transmigration and reincarnation were popular genres that most fantasy novel authors liked to use, almost every fantasy reader had read a book like that.

Originally, young Leo who read his first transmigration book understood that it was nothing but fantasy. However, senior high schooler Leo, who recognized how special his ‘reading’ was, didn't completely refuse the possibility.

Naturally, it was illogical no matter whether he believed it or not, but Leo decided to ignore logic for now. He had even found the book that ‘Arthur’ seemed to belong to from his memory.

‘The Sword Master’s Second Life…’

Ironically enough, it was also a fantasy transmigration novel…

However, that wasn’t the end of irony, he hadn’t transmigrated into the main character who was already a transmigrator. Instead, he had transmigrated into a side character.

Moreover, the side character known as ‘Arthur’ was supposed to die within two weeks.

‘Am I supposed to turn this into a challenge-like story?’

Although he found it quite unfair, Leo had also read his fair share of novels about getting transmigrated into a supposed ‘side character’. In the end, this ‘side character’ would use his or her knowledge to turn into the actual main character.

‘It’s a bit harsh though…’

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Other than maybe one or two titles, the dozens of novels that he read of that genre weren’t given such a bad start as him. Most of the fatally threatened one usually had a huge head start, whether that be wealth, family, connections, or even a secret ‘grandpa’.

In his case, he was merely an orphan that lived in an Orphanage that barely kept its doors open. Even the only point that could be considered a positive one was actually the reason he was supposed to die within two weeks…

‘At least I’m not a fatty…’

Arthur was none other than the ‘friend’ of the main character, who as most main characters started his new life as an orphan, he was one of the ‘siblings’ at the Orphanage.

Unfortunately, Arthur’s character wasn’t the friend that the main character would take around the world for adventure, throwing him the ‘bones’ that would be enough to make him the second strongest after him by the end of the novel. Instead, he was the scapegoat type!

At this point, the only point that Leo could rejoice about was that the author didn’t use the ‘fatty friend’ stereotype in this novel!

‘Why did it have to be this edgy novel out of all the novels that I read before?’

Leo couldn’t help but feel wrong, this wasn’t even the usual scenario of sleeping after reading a novel only to wake up in it. This wasn’t the novel he read before fainting!

It was a novel that he read a few years earlier. If not for his boredom, he wouldn’t have touched his cousin’s edgy novel.

Now, it seemed that he had to suffer thanks to the author’s plan of raising an edgy main character…

‘At least I was given some… time.’

Leo finally stopped complaining to himself since it didn’t seem like he could ask for a reroll, how should he find the transmigration service that transported him here to issue a complaint?

While two weeks didn’t seem like much, Leo didn’t think it was impossible to survive. After all, his skills and memories weren’t normal. As long as he thought about it seriously, he could probably figure out a path of survival.

Leo couldn’t help but wonder if this was ‘head start’ as a side character aspiring to be a protagonist, perhaps that was already taken into account?

‘There are still 13 days left to be exact.’

Remembering this part of the novel, Leo started considering his options. Thanks to both his perfect memorization of the novel as well as what he learned from reading, these options weren’t few at all.

Regrettably, that was only before taking the limited time into consideration. As he started eliminating the options that didn’t fit the time criteria, Leo found that there weren't a lot of options to consider from.

‘Simply running away isn’t an option to begin with...’

Regardless of whether he was low on time or not, Leo immediately crossed out the easiest plan, this was because his survival chance would instantly drop down to zero if he enacted this plan.

‘The Fanged Wolves weren’t known for their persistence for nothing.’

As the enemies of the protagonist who decided to target the people closest to him for revenge, the blades of the Fanged wolves were what took Arthur’s life in the original novel. Analyzing their traits and acting according to them was the first step on the path to survival.

‘I’m not that Arthur!’

Staring into the heterochromatic eyes that were exactly that of his original body, Leo reaffirmed his resolution to survive, he was no longer just Arthur!

It was exactly at the moment that a change took place!

[ Complete Awakening has been confirmed. ]

[ Entry point: Chapter 26. ]

[ Issuing the main task… ]