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Chapter 1- A new body and shitty food
If someone asked Tommy if he reincarnated into a fantasy novel he once read, what would he do? He would have simply said that he would enjoy that life to the fullest and just have some fun. But now that it actually happened, he wasn't as optimistic.
Because one, the world he got reincarnated into was the same shitty novel that he finished reading before sleeping last time. Two, when he woke up, he definitely didn't expect to be in a room which looked like it belonged to royalty in mediaeval Europe. Three, he suddenly had memories and the body of the villain of that novel.
" Theseus"
"Theseus"
"Hey! Are you ignoring me?"
Oh. That reminds him the person standing in front him is the butler assigned to him. He is Theseus's age but just a bit taller due to Theseus not getting any proper food. He is a demon hybrid and has small black horns and a thin long black tail. He is wearing the standard black suit and white shirt with a black bow-tie in accordance to the butlers uniform. If Tommy remembers correctly his name was Eryn and Tommy hated his character in the novel.
Suddenly a pair of hands grip his shoulders and start shaking him like a child shaking a doll.
"E-eryn-yn s-s-st-op s-shaking m-me." Tommy said while being frantically shaken.
"Oh! So now you decide to listen. Did you even hear what I was saying?" Eryn said after finally stopping shaking Tommy.
"Um…yes?" Tommy said, which now out of his mouth sounded more like a question than an answer.
Eryn sighed and said "Your food is here and make sure to finish it all."
"Yes, I will." Tommy said which to Tommy's utter surprise made Eryn laugh. Only after Eryn left and Tommy looked at the tray lying on the side table beside his bed did he understand why Eryn started laughing.
The 'food' in the tray wasn't food. It was shit, not literal shit but it might as well be classified as such.
In the bowl in the tray was an unpeeled rotten potato floating in soup which looked just like mud but was most probably waste water from the kitchen. The bread had blue moulds growing in it and didn't even look edible. The only thing that he could eat which wouldn't make him sick was a half eaten apple.
He then remembered the reason for his deep hatred towards the servants in the novel. They treated Theseus as if he wasn't even human. They constantly bullied him,beat him and even embezzled the funds meant for him. The reason why Theseus was shorter and thinner than most boys his age even after being a noble was because they never fed him any proper food.
Now that he had remembered Theseus's memories he felt like throwing up as he remembered the same thoughts and feelings that Theseus held while eating this shit. How Theseus felt while chewing and swallowing this shit for years. How he felt while the servants laughed and beat him. He felt all the hate that Theseus felt.
In all of Theseus's memories of the servants the one who stood out the most was Eryn. Eryn was the only one who didn't laugh or hit Theseus. Eryn just simply did his job and ignored Theseus most of the time. Theseus even liked Eryn for this and thought positively of him.
This made Tommy furious. Now that Tommy knew and felt what Theseus felt, it only made him feel even more angry.
In the main story of the novel, Eryn was Theseus's most trusted and loyal person. Theseus would tell Eryn everything and thought of Eryn as his brother. But Eryn betrayed Theseus. Eryn took the main character's side and even went as far as to lie in Theseus's trial so that Theseus received the death penalty. Eryn did all that just for a noble title and money offered by Theseus's eldest brother. Eryn was one of the biggest reasons for Theseus's death.
Tommy hated Eryn for his betrayal in Theseus's time of need when Theseus never abandoned Eryn. Still Eryn was pretty low on his hate list compared to some other characters. Eryn was also the only person who wasn't hostile to Theseus at least openly after all.
Tommy grabbed the half eaten apple as it was the most edible if not the only edible thing in the tray and started eating it. As he ate, he thought of his and Theseus's memories.
He immediately didn't remember any of Theseus's memories but when he thought of memories of two days ago, he started seeing those memories. He felt as if those were his memories. He was able to see and feel everything that Theseus felt. He did this multiple times while still chewing the apple and he came up with a conclusion.
Theseus's memories felt separate from his own memories even if he had them. It was like playing a game while wearing a virtual headset but you could also feel the emotions and sensations that the character felt. Tommy did not remember immediately everything Theseus remembered but it was more like a computer. He could remember everything and anything that Theseus remembered but only if he wanted to.
Tommy didn't even notice that he had finished eating the apple. As he moved hind hand to grab a spoon. He noticed that the servants didn't even bother to give him a spoon. At that moment he swore that he would get revenge against these shitty servants.
When he looked at the tray he groaned and a deep scowl appeared on his face. How did Theseus even eat this shit for years?! He wasn't Theseus, he was the great Tommy Innit, the biggest man to ever exist. No way in hell was he going to eat that shit.
But as he looked back on Theseus's memories, he knew that this was the best of the 2 meals given to him. He wasn't even given lunch and the dinner was much worse than this. If he didn't want to die of starvation, he had to eat this.
He took a deep breath and grabbed the bread. At least half of the bread was covered in moulds. He removed the moulds from the bread and only half of it remained. Even the remaining bread looked like it would give someone food poisoning. He put the moulds back in the tray and felt like throwing up doing so.
Even if he had Theseus's memories it didn't stop him from gagging while doing so. How could Theseus do this every single day without throwing up or even being disgusted?!
Tommy mentally cursed every god in existence that he knew of and even the gods Theseus knew of as he grabbed a piece of bread. He stared at it for a good couple minutes. Finally getting the courage, he put the piece of bread in his mouth and started chewing it. And man Tommy wanted to throw up at that moment.
The bread in his mouth tasted like anything but bread. It was the worst shit he had ever eaten and believe Tommy when he says he has eaten pretty weird shit just for stupid dares from his friends. Having memories of eating that shit and actually eating it were two completely different experiences. It was much worse actually eating it.
Tommy finally swallowed the bread in his mouth and looked at the remaining pieces of bread in the tray. He stared at the tray for a good five minutes and then took a handful of bread, closed his eyes, put it in his mouth and quickly swallowed it without even chewing. He repeated the process until no bread was left in his tray.
After finishing the bread, there was a bigger problem. There was still the shitty soup left and no matter what Tommy wasn't going to even touch that. It was simply too horrid to even think about putting that in his mouth. No matter how much Tommy felt hungry, he wasn't going to drink a single drop of that shitty soup.
He put the tray on the side table. He now tried to come up with objectives. The first thing he needed to do was write down everything that he remembered about the novel somewhere. Fortunately for him due to Theseus's memories he was able to find an empty notebook in one of the drawers in the side tables.
He started writing down everything he remembered in Spanish so only he could understand what was written and thanked his mum for making him take Spanish classes. At least he hoped that nobody in this world understood Spanish and if there was someone who did understand it then he would simply worry about it later as he had more important things to worry about at the moment.
The first thing he remembered about the novel was its title 'The lost boy of love'. Even the title was so corny and cringey that it made him think about how such a novel got so popular in the first place and what went inside his brain that made him buy and read it until the last fucking chapter.
The second thing was how cliché the plot of the novel was. It was literally every otome novel cliché compressed into a single book. The title should have been 'every shitty cliché ever compressed into a single book'. The only thing that wasn't cliché was that instead of romantic or sexual love it was all familial and brotherly love.
The third thing was how every supposed 'good character' was super cliché and you could guess their whole life almost immediately. The only decent character in the whole novel was Theseus. He was the villain but he had such a sad story that it made Tommy cry the whole night after reading his backstory.
After Tommy finished writing everything he remembered, he put the book in the drawer where he had found it. When he looked outside of the window beside his bed, he noticed that it was already noon so that means a servant will come to take the tray. He prayed that the servant who comes will be Eryn and if not then he was quite simply fucked.
Soon enough the door opened and a servant came in. When Tommy looked at the servant, he recognised that it was the servant who most actively took part in bullying Theseus. His name was Jared or something similar. Which was a really stupid name and who names their child Jared of all names.
Suddenly memories of Jared beating Theseus and mocking him appeared in Tommy's mind. In the memories Theseus never fought back because it only made it worse. The one time he fought back he had been punished by the Duke by being confined to his room for a week. And that was the worst week of Theseus's life. He was barely given any food and the beatings got worse. But the thing that hurt Theseus the most was that the Duke did not believe him.
But Tommy wasn't Theseus. If someone harassed Tommy, he was going to fight back. So when Jared kicked Theseus in the gut, it was only right that he beat Jared just as hard if not harder. Tommy stood up and punched Jared right in the face. His punch wasn't as strong as he would have liked it to be but it still did some decent damage to Jared's face.
"So the trash has started fighting back, huh?! You are gonna regret this!" He said as he tried punching Tommy but Tommy dodged and Jared fell onto the wooden floor causing a sound which Tommy was sure was heard by every servant nearby. Great cause that is what Tommy needed. More people trying to punch him.
" How dare you! " Jared said as he stood up. He had a manic look on his face which quite frankly was starting to scare Tommy a little but he was too much of a big man to be scared. Jared's nose looked like it was broken and some blood was dripping from it onto the floor.
"Well it was your fault for trying to hit me bitch!" Tommy said as he dodged again when Jared charged at him like a bull.Suddenly both him and Jared stilled when they heard the door opening. In the doorway standing in all his pink haired glory was the Duke's second son and Tommy's older brother, Techno-fucking-blade Craft. The person Tommy wanted to encounter the least at the moment.
His day just couldn't get any better.