episode_0001

It was the summer of 1024 in the Riedel calendar.

Thud thud thud.

Rain poured down heavily between the clouds of the rainy season.

Rattle rattle.

There was a carriage running down a muddy road that was so sticky that horses could not run properly.

Kookbang kookbang!

To make matters worse, lightning was striking.

“Master. The weather is really bad. It’s even thundering… .”

John, the coachman of the Delun family, spoke into the carriage as he drove in the rain on the roofless stables.

“Last year, Mr. Gil, the woodcutter, went out to work on a day like this and got struck by lightning and died… It seems too dangerous. How about going back to the mansion?”

“What are you talking about! Riel Youngae is eagerly waiting for me… This Chris Delun can’t miss Youngae’s birthday party! ”

Chris Delune flailed his massive body and groaned.

‘I don’t think Miss Riel will be waiting for you, Master…’

John sighed and rode on.

‘I wish the rain would stop.’

Other noble families had their carriages modified to provide shelter from the rain by building roofs over the coachman’s bench.

However, the extremely stingy Delun family did not provide a roof for the stable even at John’s request.

Kookwakwang! Thud.

Contrary to John’s wishes, the weather was becoming increasingly stormy.

The sky suddenly lit up and lightning struck a large tree right in front of the carriage John was driving.

“Eww!”

As John pulled the running horse, the horse stopped with a neighing sound.

A stick.

A burning tree struck by lightning split in half and fell to the ground.

The road was blocked by trees, making it difficult for carriages to pass.

“What? What’s going on?!”

Chris leaned his head out the carriage window and yelled at the pig.

“Your Majesty, I don’t think it’ll work out. The road is blocked.”

John, looking like a drenched rat, pointed to a path blocked by trees.

“No! You absolutely must attend Riel Youngae’s birthday party!”

Chris refused in a firm voice.

“Why don’t you just go another way!”

“You have to go over the river bridge to get there, but you saw earlier that the water level is high and you can’t go.”

And there was no other road that large carriages could pass through.

“Don’t just say no, find a way! Liel Youngae is waiting for me!”

“There is no way? Think about it, Master. I can’t go.”

John was already driving a carriage in the rain after being dragged out on a weekend when he was already resting, and Chris was being unreasonable, so John started to look annoyed.

“You, the groom, must find the method, you incompetent bastard!”

John, who had been holding back, also exploded at Chris’s one word.

“Fuck… I can’t take this anymore.”

Chris is taken aback by the coachman’s sudden verbal abuse.

“What, what the hell?”

“I’m quitting today. Don’t hold me back.”

John turns around, spitting in the gutter.

“Hey, Imma! Over there. If you go, who’s going to drive the carriage?”

“It would be nice if a capable young master took care of it.”

I never intended to live my whole life as a servant anyway.

He was saving up money and learning to read and write so he could get away from his job as a servant and learn accounting.

I had already saved up enough money to pay the ransom. But I thought I needed more money to live alone in the city, so I tried to save up for another year.

Now it was the limit. John planned to return to the Delun family and tell the head of the household that he was quitting.

“Hey! Liel Youngae is waiting! Come back quickly!”

Chris didn’t know how to drive a carriage. Even if he had, there was no way he could get to the Hayes Estate when the roads were blocked by the heavy rain.

John continued walking without looking back.

Chalbang, chalbang.

I heard Chris get out of the carriage and run after John.

“Hey you little punk! Are you saying you won’t listen to me, your master!”

Chris grabbed John.

Chris was fat and weighed a lot, so it was hard to get out of his grasp.

“I’m sick of enduring your ridiculous stubbornness! Let go of this! I’m quitting!”

“This ungrateful bastard! He doesn’t even know the favor of hiring me!”

Chris strangled John.

“Keuk!”

John couldn’t get out as Chris, who weighed nearly 100 kg, crushed him.

The two fell to the ground and rolled around in the mud several times.

“The crime of insulting the nobility deserves death!”

Madness flashed in Chris’s eyes.

“Fuck! A noble should be noble to serve!”

Bam!

John kicked Chris hard in the chest.

“Kkueek!”

Chris was clutching his groin, making a pig-squeaking noise and groaning in pain.

“Leave me alone! I’m sick of it all!”

John who uses evil.

Actually, I was sick of it. But still, I had served my master for nearly ten years. Even though I hated him, I didn’t want to attack him any further.

John turns away.

But Chris’s eyes, which had been shining with madness as he stood up after enduring the pain, were wide open.

“You dare insult me…!”

Chris pulls out a dagger from his waist.

It was a decorative dagger that the noble Yeongsik always carried around, but it was still a dangerous weapon when wielded.

Tata-tat!

Chris runs towards John, who turns around and walks away.

Phew!

Chris stabbing a dagger into John’s back.

“Keuk!”

John vomited blood.

Chris’s dagger pierced John’s heart.

John looked at Chris with a longing look.

Christ looked bewildered and fearful at the sight of John spitting up blood.

“Yes, you were wrong! How dare you talk back to me, a nobleman!”

Chris’s appearance was like that of a child who blamed everything on others and tried to avoid his own sins.

John’s vision is blurry.

I felt my whole body cooling down.

‘Is this how I die in vain?’

After quitting his job as a servant, he planned to learn how to work in an accounting office in the city.

And I planned to become an accountant, have a decent social status, marry a pretty wife, and have three children.

To think that I would die in vain without even achieving that dream.

‘A dog’s life. It’s going to be like this until the end.’

Well, if I hadn’t held onto hope until the end, I wouldn’t have been this upset.

This fucking world finally took all hope away from John.

At that moment.

-Kururung.

The sparkling sky.

A bolt of lightning struck John and Chris.

-Flash!

A flash of light engulfed the surroundings.

#

When John opened his eyes, a familiar yet unfamiliar situation unfolded before him.

A soft silk quilt. She was lying on Chris’s bed.

“Ah.”

Chris’s personal maid, Lily, was startled to find herself awake.

“Lily… ?”

A look of disgust passed across Lily’s face for a moment.

John is momentarily taken aback by the expression on her face that he has never seen before.

Lily checked John’s condition and then quickly went out to inform the head maid of the bar.

“Your Majesty! Are you awake?”

The old maid comes in and starts making a fuss.

What on earth does ‘Master’ mean?

John, who is at a loss in a sudden situation.

That’s right. John was struck by lightning and his body was switched with that of Chris, the eldest son of the Delun family.

But it’s a difficult situation to accept right now.

John, no, Chris, just looked blankly at Countess Delun, no, his mother, who was tearfully picking at his face here and there.

#

John, who was examined by a doctor and was told that there was nothing wrong with his body,

No, it was Chris now.

“He was clearly struck by lightning, but he is completely healthy with only a slight tan on his skin. Perhaps you are lucky.”

The old count’s doctor smiled flatteringly.

Should I say I’m lucky?

It was clearly John who was going to die after being stabbed by Chris’s sword. His heart was pierced and he was in a situation where he could not survive.

But now he’s alive and possessing Chris’s body.

In addition to coming back from the dead, he couldn’t have been luckier as he ended up in the body of Chris, the eldest son of the Delun family, the most powerful family in the Might region.

However, the people involved, John and Chris, felt uneasy.

His former master, the 100kg, noble-clothed orc (John knew that was what the girls at the Academy called Chris), whom he had loathed, had become Chris Delun.

‘Now that I think about it, if I entered Chris’s body, what happened to the original Chris?’

Logically speaking, Chris would have originally entered John’s body.

But it’s clear that John was stabbed in the heart by Chris’s dagger.

It was only then that Chris began to worry about what had become of his body.

At that moment, the maid Lily, who was attending to the matter, was guarding the outside of the room.

-Tink, tink.

Chris rang the bell to call Lily.

“Did you call, Master?”

Lily asks with a cold face what the matter is.

It was so awkward to see Lily, who always smiled at me, have such a stiff expression on her face.

“Excuse me, Lily. Didn’t John get struck by lightning just like me? What happened to John?”

A faint look of contempt appeared on Lily’s face.

An expression of contempt so faint that it would be unrecognizable to a nobleman who had no interest in maids.

But Chris himself, who knew Lily well, could recognize her.

“John… is dead.”

Chris felt as if he had been hit hard on the back of the head.

“John is dead?”

“Yes. He was struck by lightning and was taken to the hospital with the master, but he passed away yesterday.”

Lily speaks in a blank tone.

Chris was so shocked that he couldn’t think.