Chapter 13: Being Benjamin Lithur
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The night passed.
"Master Benjamin, it’s time to wake up, the madam wants you to go down to have breakfast."
The voice of the butler and a knocking sound dragged Kubei, who was still lying on the bed, back to reality.
It is already morning?
He laughed bitterly in his heart. He did not think that absorbing Benjamin Lithur’s memories would have taken him from midnight until dawn, leaving him with no time to rest.
But it was not the system’s fault, the System did simplify the memory to a point where he could fully understand the situation in half an hour. But the problem was that it was too simplified. Kubei searched it a few times but still found no clue about who could have hired the assassin.
He had to narrow down his search, so he began asking the System all the small details within the memories.
This method of searching was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and the system’s tendency to go haywire didn’t help. The process ended up going all the way to dawn when the butler came to call him to breakfast, but he still did not have any results. In other words: he still did not know who wanted him dead.
Kubei felt defeated, it was like he wasted his whole night for nothing.
Nothing could be done, time was up, he could no longer continue looking through the details of the memories. The butler was waiting for him, and he had to go meet the Lithur family members ----It was more important than what he was doing right now.
Would he be able to manage to deceive his "own" relatives?
But from this point of view, he was not actually wasting his time. He remembered the simplified memories, and even revised many of the details, which would a big help in trying to pretend to be "him".
Relying on these memories, dealing with the butler was no problem.
"Alright, I’ll be right over."
He said this to the butler.
"Jeremy isn’t feeling too well, so I’m here to replace him." Surprisingly, the butler opened the door and walked in while saying this.
"It…...it’s fine, I’ll get ready on my own." Kubei hurriedly replied.
To let a middle-aged man wash him and change his clothes was rather weird. No, to be exact, as a teenager of the new generation, he was no longer a three year old, and was no mommy’s boy, letting other people help him put on clothes is never a normal thing.
After hearing this, the butler seemed to make a weird expression.
Kubei realized something was off.
"Hey, you didn’t tell me last night that all the nobles are used to their servants helping them put clothes on, and to wear it yourself is odd." He asked the system.
"It’s not really, even though it is a habit, recently there has been a trend that one would do their own washing up and clothes wearing, it’s not strange at all." The system explained.
"I see..."
After hearing this, Kubei was rather relieved.
The system had already said so, he should not be acting out of place. Maybe Benjamin decided to change in habit one day, it probably was not much of a problem.
He was just feeling guilty from what he was doing.
Kubei acted as if it was supposed to be this way, and told the butler: "It’s fine, go about your business, I’ll head downstairs in a short while."
The butler did not suspect anything and bowed, leaving behind all the things he was carrying and went away.
Kubei was relieved.
Every move after returning here is like a war without smoke!
He crawled up from the bed, then looked around. He wanted to see his surroundings as he was not able to see properly last night due to the absence of light.
His room was rather huge, it could match the living room of a family that was well off. The furniture was elaborate, the window was rather wide, but it was covered by gracefully designed curtains, and a European style clock hung on the wall. Everything in the room made it look like a western noble’s room, there was even an oil painting hanging on the wall on top of the bed.
And that pot that was the highlight of the night that day was probably left by the butler by the door.
Kubei walked to the dressing table, and used the water left by the butler to wash up, then tidied up his hair. He followed the System’s instructions to put on a shirt and pants taken from the closet.
In the mirror, he saw himself for the first time.
A blonde young white man with light blue eyes, a thin-looking body, pale skin with faint freckles and a light blush. He looked like someone with jaundice.
He was not disappointed. He did not ask for much, as long as he did not look that ugly. He believed his weakened state right now would not last.
He tried his best to remember this face, to remember how "he" looked like.
A voice came from the depths of his heart: From this moment, he was not Kubei anymore, he was Benjamin Lithur.
He ended his previous life on the twenty-five year mark, from this day onwards, he was no longer "Kubei". He had to pletely bee Benjamin Lithur.
He looked at the pletely unfamiliar face in the mirror, then made a decision.
And then, Kubei pushed open the door…...No, it should be said: Benjamin pushed open the door, then walked out.
Benjamin referred to the map given by the system and went downstairs, arriving at the living room where the Lithur family was used to dining at. Two servants stood at the entrance of the living room and bowed. he nodded back at them.
Everything was as "usual
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