My Uncle and I Choose the Life That Will Not Be Ruined

>Sister…
I think it's my own fault.
I looked up to you, and was grateful about it.
She was the first one to accept that I wanted to be a manga artist for real, and a shut-in.
I knew she was trying to get me out of the house.
So, sis.
If I die, don't feel responsible for my death.
Finally, I felt the car colliding head-on with me at a high rate of speed…
no sound of brakes.
Then my thoughts were cut off, and I lost consciousness.

“Umm…”

My head hurts, my cheeks feel hot, and I can hear the faintest of birds chirping.
I rolled over, wanting to stay in bed, but then I came to my senses, woke up with a start and found myself in a soft, fluffy bed.

“I….ha…”

Something's wrong.
Something's definitely wrong.

“Who am I?”

“My name, my age, my family.”

“I can remember.”

I can remember it, but there is another memory that exists inside me, layered with it.
It's very faint, and blurred, it would disappear, so I hurriedly put it into my mouth.
(crying in a very loud voice)
“I'm Leon Faulders.
The brother of the Duke of Faulders, the head of the House of Faulders…”

Again, this time, but this time more firmly.
“My name is Leon.
This is the Duke of Faulders Palace.”

I rolled up the covers, muttering what comes at my thin memory with interruptions.
A white lace cloth draped over the canopy of the bed, and when I turned it over, I could see that the room was surrounded by floral wallpaper.
A writing desk, a chair, a small low table and two sofas to go with it.

There was a heavy wooden chest of drawers and an almost no decorated mirror stand next to it.

Gently, I walked over to the mirror stand and looked at my face.
The silky red hair, the blue eyes like a summer sky.
…
A tall young man with a thin but soft atmosphere, unlike the face I knew….
That was reflected there.

“Yes, that's me.
It's Leon's face.”

At the same time as I thought so, I recognized this face in another way.

Isn't this the face of Leon-sensei, who was a “target character” until just recently?

Isn't this the world of “Honey-colored Rhapsody”?

“No, no, no, no, wait a minute.”

Influenced by manga and anime, when I was in junior high school I longed to be reincarnated in another world.
But it was a fantasy of swords and magic, or a world where people lived with guns in their hands.
Yes, I did but…

I held my aching head in one hand while I took a deep breath.
“… Why is it an Otome game??!!!”

I yelled out in a fit of anguish
“Gehhhh Gehhhh!”

And maybe I was too japanese-conscious, but I was speaking in Kansai dialect like a comedian.
A few moments after I screamed, I heard a discreet knock at the door.
“Come in!!”
I urged, and one of the maids came in.
“Leon-sama, your voice just now……..
Are you all right?”

With those words, I could vaguely remember that “he” – Leon – was lying down with a fever, but unfortunately I couldn't remember the name of the maid in front of me.

It's not that I don't know her at all, but my awareness and memory of her as “Leon” is blurry anyway.

“Thanks…
I'm fine.”

As I responded, I looked down at the window and saw a little girl drinking tea on the terrace of the courtyard.
A maid was standing at her side.
A small girl glanced up at me.

Immediately, her eyes were turned away, and she didn't notice me because our eyes didn't meet.

The girl's face is familiar, too.

Gently wavy strawberry-blonde hair, gold or pale pink, depending on how you look at it.
Also visible, her strong-willed red eyes were distinctive and clearly recognizable even from a distance.

Most of all, she was very familiar with the bright red ribbon that she wore right above her strawberry blonde hair.

That's right, that girl is the main character's rival character in the otome game, the duchess Miriella!

But “What?” I twisted my head around.

Miriella and Leon are uncle and niece, so it's no surprise that they are in the same house, but she looks much younger than the characters I know.

The main character in Honey-colored Rhapsody is fifteen years old.
The rival young lady, Miriella, is the same age.

However, the girl I saw under the window is, for all intents and purposes, a schoolgirl or younger.
She still looked less than ten years old.

So I hurriedly returned to the mirror stand.

I hadn't noticed it earlier, but apparently this Leon's face looks about the same age as I was.
However, Leon is the oldest character among the attack characters, and I'm sure he's in his late twenties.

So, that means….

“So this world at a point some years before the official story of the game begins?”

At my muttering, the maid who seemed to have been standing by for a long time, even not understanding nodded her head.

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