Return to the Fantasy World

The Count Harbilta family controls the underworld of the great empire of Alcant. There lives the completely ordinary second young master, Ent Harbilta, who has no talent at all.

Yes, that was how it was.

Then one day, following the will of a "god," Ent’s soul suddenly swaps with that of a child from modern times. Even as the whole world rejects him, he endures and endures until he finally reaches the age of twenty. Then, by chance, he finds a book bearing his family’s name. As he turns the pages of what reads like a prophecy, describing the future of the empire and his family, he is again returned—by the will of that same "god"—to his original world and original body...?

"Why am I... that demon-like pig of a young master?"

Ten years later, the reputation he finds is that of a foolish noble young master who buys slaves as if that were his hobby!

Can Ent repair his relationships with those around him, change the ominous future, and keep living without giving up?

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"You seem to be getting thinner as time goes on."

"Your father is right. Are you eating properly?"

"Ah, yes..."

Ent awkwardly nodded at the two of them. Something about this felt strange.

'...I don't really feel like I'm in a situation where I'll be killed.'

The conversation was completely different from what he had expected. Hearing words that sounded as if they genuinely worried about their family, Ent recalled the image of his family from his memories.

'If someone like you ever left this manor, you'd be cut down in one stroke! Just stay in the garden!'

Once, when he said he wanted to go to the library in the territory, his older brother had answered him like that. He remembered how frightening his expression had been, and little Ent had cried, thinking, 'My brother is embarrassed to let me out of the manor!'

And a few months later, when he heard that his father had ordered a library to be built inside the manor, he had been incredibly happy. In truth, his older brother mainly used the academy’s library, and the only one who visited the library built inside the manor was the young Ent Harbilta.

'...Maybe I wasn't hated to the point of being killed after all.'

Ent scratched his cheek. It felt as if only now, facts he had not known as a child were coming into view.