Surviving the Reverse Harem

2 – Getting Started

I put the oil on the frying pan over the fire. Then, when the oil boils, the chopped vegetables are placed on top of the oil and mixed. While listening to the bubbling sound of oil, I made a sauce by mixing spices and fruit juices. When the color of the chopped vegetables changed, I put the minced meat on top of it. A delicious scent tickled his nostrils.

I put the sauce I had prepared, turned up the heat, and put on a fire show out of the blue. Readers must be watching the cooking scene now as a cartoon, but it’s because it has to show a great scene. The cook who was watching from the side said with a surprised expression.

“Ohh. The boy cooks like that!”

I smiled and scooped up the minced meat with a spoon and handed it to the cook nearby.

“Is the liver okay?”

“……. Perfect.”

It may not be to that extent, but I prepared soup, duck meat, and pasta while listening to the chef’s compliments over the taste.

When I brought out the food I had prepared, I saw Irelle sitting at the table with a nervous expression. In a world made of black and white, the light from the chandelier illuminated the dining room. Despite her black-and-white background, her beauty goddess approached her, glowing as if she had just combed her self, set her food, and smiled, she said.

“Try it. I made it for you.”

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“Wow… Really, really, really delicious!”

I said to Robert, who warmly watched me eat without even eating. It was strange to see someone paying attention to my every single action like that.

Can I accept this kind of luxury? It must have been love towards the original body owner. Wouldn’t they hate me if they knew that my body changed?

‘Ahhhhh, I can’t wake up because I look at me too much

After the hectic meal was over, I didn’t even know what he was talking about, and I collapsed on the bed from exhaustion.

I was so pathetic that I was fooling around like an idiot, so I was hitting a pillow with my fist when a letter came up in front of my eyes with a ringing sound.

– The message window is updated.

I pressed the message window while recalling the information about the message window that popped up in my head.

[Now every guy you have a crush on will fall in love with you and become involved.]

[Slap the man you no longer want to meet. Excluded from your destiny.

* Caution: If you love too much, there may be side effects?]

‘What I’ve been given is the ability to be loved… Shall I try it?’

There is a nice cafe near the mansion.

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At least twenty or so people gathered in the Imperial Knights vacant lot. In order to maintain public order and accurately know the military power of the empire, imperial law requires examination from the expediency. And, although rare, this kind of screening is also an opportunity to enter the knights.

The evaluation method of Expert was simple. The first is to exude sword spirit in front of a crystal ball that transmits images and several knights. The screening ends with this, but only those who apply can have a second sparring. Most of them even go through the second screening because there are not many opportunities to compete with someone stronger than themselves.

You have to go to the designated examination place in the empire, but if nobles live in the capital, you can go through the examination at the 1st Knights in the capital without having to go far. I know that usually a mid-level knight of the knights comes out, but strangely, the vice-captain came out in my review.

“Robert, the second son of the Marquis Albert!”

“Here it is.”

“Come out.”

Since the other party was the vice-captain of the 1st Knights, I bowed my head slightly and went to the center.

In the center of the clearing, there were two knights, an imperial official, and a crystal ball besides the vice-captain of the knights to judge me. In my last life, I reached Expert during the war, so I didn’t have this kind of examination. Suddenly, I realized that I had returned.

He pulled out his sword and spewed sword energy in front of the crystal ball and the knights. I could see the official at the end scribbling letters on a piece of paper.

“Would you like to fight?”

“I will.”

During the 2nd Dalian, the strongest among the judges was in charge of the 2nd Dalian. The opportunity to fight against a sword master and vice-captain of the 1st Imperial Order was rare, so he accepted.

Heading to the arena in the vacant lot, a larger crystal ball than the one in the vacant lot and the wizard who manages it were waiting. Around the training ground, the knights who came to see the spectacle while training were seated. It was a slightly burdensome situation for sparring, but I didn’t mind. I’ve been through too much to be conscious of these gazes.

I came up to the arena with the vice-captain. Before he could pull out his sword and take a stance, a sword suddenly flew by. The power of experience came in handy at this time.

I dodged the sword with an urgent roll not befitting a nobleman. After that, I squeezed mana into my sword and rolled it on the floor of the arena to dust, blocking the sword coming towards me. It was natural. No matter how relaxed the opponent was, he was a sword master.

How many times did he swing his sword? My palm, unable to withstand the shock, tore, and before I knew it, his sword stopped in front of my throat.

“To be diligent”

I inserted my sword while watching the vice-captain waving his knights’ cloak and turning around.

Usually, when you become an expert, you get drunk with your own strength. So there are people who are stronger than you in the world, and I heard that they sparred fiercely in the sense of not being conceited, but it ended more blandly than I thought.

Watching the disappointed knights at the sparring that ended disappointingly, when they were torn apart, they gathered energy in their palms to stop the bleeding and followed the officials. Because there is still a lot left to fill out the paperwork and receive training on precautions and obligations.

Among the two knights who were walking down the hallway next to the vice-captain, the taller knight suddenly cried out as if to complain.

“Ah~ Vice-captain, isn’t the discrimination too severe!”

“What?”

“No, during the judging, even if I shouted surrender, they beat me, and even if I passed out, they beat me to wake me up and keep beating me. What is this?”

“The vice-captain deserves to hit you like that. You look ugly and arrogant.”

“Crazy guy? No, it’s been 10 years since all the nobles went to the outskirts for an examination to avoid the vice-captain, but that guy taking the test in the capital is more arrogant.”

“That’s right.”

“No way. You’re not going to put him in the knights, are you?”

“I like it because he rolls around so well. Being an expert at the age of 19 is amazing, but his swordsmanship skills are even more amazing, and he’s the second son of a marquis family, so it’s amazing that he rolls so well. That’s why the vice-captain didn’t want to include him in the knights. Didn’t you hit me?”

“Still, I’m against it…”

“Why?”

“You’re handsome.”

Vice-captain Louis came to the office and took out a piece of paper, ignoring what the tall knight and the handsomely mustache were talking about. He found a talent he liked after a long time, so he wrote a letter of recommendation for the knights.

It was only after the sun went down that we arrived at the mansion. As soon as I arrived, I went to wash up. When I put warm water on it, it washes away a lot of dust from rolling in the arena. It takes three or four more pours in succession to make the soup clear.

“Whoa. It’s good.. Huh?”

I was embarrassed that the bathroom was suddenly dyed black. In the past, I would turn my body toward the wall or cover myself with a towel at times like this, but not anymore.

His shoulders wide open, his hands biting, his young hair tossed back. While washing, I showed off my nakedness by making various movements that appealed to my physical attractiveness. Soon the light came back into the dark world.

Was it a service cut in a comic book? I hope to be satisfied in the eyes of the readers. There are still poses that haven’t been taken yet. Leaving the regret behind, I wiped my body and left the bathroom.

In my room, I was going through the correspondence that came to me when I heard a knock on the door.

“Come in.”

With the sound of the door opening, the butler of this mansion congratulated me.

“Brother, I sincerely congratulate you on reaching Expert.”

She handed me a letter from the family along with a red flower called Tuprera, which means success. In the last life and in this life, as always, I smiled and said to the butler next to me.

“Thank you.”

“No. I am very sorry for the late greeting. I have received a letter from the family and the 1st Knights. Then I will see you again tomorrow morning.”

“At the Templars? Okay.”

I greeted the butler leaving the room and first opened the letter with the family seal stamped on it.

Like his reticent father, the content of the correspondence was concise.

It was about congratulating them on reaching Excelrd and asking them to come down to the family in time. And I was surprised to see a letter from the Knights behind me. It was embarrassing to hear a letter of appointment as a knight to the 1st Knights.