2 Roland (1/2)
The heat from the fire woke Ryth up. His head still hurts a bit but it was not as intense as before. He looked around the room until his eyes landed on a muscular man standing near the fireplace.
He remembered what had happened earlier before he went unconscious.
Ryth touched his forehead and said to himself, ”How come I am still alive? Didn't I got hit by a car earlier? Not only that, even if I am still alive, whose body is this?!? What happened? Did I just transmigrated to another world?? And who is this big guy?!”
Ryth tried to understand his situation as sanely as he could. He suddenly coughed, which caught the attention of the muscular man near the fireplace.
”Cough, cough.”
The man turned his head and then said. ”Awake already, eh boy?”
The man looked like he is in his forties, with his sharp eyes and brown skin like silverq*een chocolates. Even though, he is bald, but he has a long beard, similar like the features of a dwarf that you can see in most games and novels.
Ryth tried to get up from the bed but the man suddenly said ”Don't move your body, just rest for now.”
Ryth stopped, nodding his head as he asked, ”Where am I? And who are you?”
The man turned his head, smiling as he took a pot, filled with water and placed it above the fire. He said, ”There, there, boy. One at a time... But firstly, can you introduce yourself first? Do you remember who you are or where you came from?”
It seems like this guy was the one who found the original owner of the body and helped nursed him to health when he was unconscious.
He remembered that the original owner of this body was ambushed by a group of bandits, and the last thing the leader had said before he fell from the cliff was. ”You can thank your stepbrother for your death in the afterlife after spending so many money in killing you! Hahaha!”
Memories of the original body's owner resonance into his mind, telling him that he was actually a son of a lord. His father was a ruler that ruled a city called Myrad. Like in most ancient times, nobles usually have many wives and concubines and it is the same for his father. His father had two wives. The first wife was his stepbrother's mother, whereas the second wife was his mother.
The struggle for the rightful claim to the power first began two months ago. This had happened when his father had chosen him as the successor to the Lord position, instead of his stepbrother.
His stepbrother protested vehemently against their father's decision but their father was adamant in holding on to his decision.Thus, it created two factions among the family; which was his and his stepbrother's.