“Your Highness! Wake up! Wake up!”

  A man yelled loudly, with the first coming from somewhere outside, then the second came after the sound of a wooden door opening. My entire body bounced up and down as someone grabbed my shoulder and shook me; yelling one last time.

  Just a few moments ago I sat in front of my overly bright screen with my eyes battling sleep deprivation. Where am I? My head hurts. Ughh. It’s like I drank for a whole day, but that couldn’t be right, the last time I drank alcohol was years ago.

  “Shit!”

  The man yelled close to me again, followed by some thumping sounds. I couldn’t see properly what was going on in front of me, but my body was bouncing up and down like I was on a malfunctioning carousel. With the few bits of color and imagery that managed to pass through my half-open eyes, I could see a very tight room with a metal-like armor chest piece in front of me.

  “Your Highness! Please get your shit together!”

  Ughhh! The man yelled again in front of me, his constant yelling wasn’t helping with my headache. The backlash wasn't this painful even when I spent an entire week with no sleep. I couldn’t even think properly anymore.

  “Your Highness!”

  When the man yelled again, I instinctively tried to yell at him too-

  “Sh-!”

  Then, a loud bang of metal clashing passed through my ear. I automatically blocked my ears as my head rang like thunder.

  “Commander!”

  “Harry! Carry the prince out of the carriage immediately!”

  Huh? Carry!? My eyes were closed shut, I was in so much pain that I couldn’t even fathom how I was still conscious. Hands slid through my back and lifted my thighs until I felt like I was being carried by a forklift. What stiff arm- Ughhh!

  “What are you doing Harry!? Get going!”

  “But the prince doesn’t seem to be well.”

  “It doesn’t matter what he’s feeling right now, jus-!”

  “Shit!”

  My body was once again being disturbed in ways that just made my headache worse. As much as I wouldn’t wanna admit that I am being carried like a princess as of the current moment, I realized it wasn’t really as comfortable as how romantically portrayed the scenario was. I was like a spring endlessly being thrown around.

  “Sorry Your Highness, I can’t really carry you comfortably in this situation.”

  Ughhhh… It was a different man. I was sure of that, but I don’t even care what he is saying, or what anyone will say anymore. I just want to pass out from pain, exhaustion, or whatever, cause this fucking head hurts!

  *Zing.

  “Huh.”

  “Your Highness! You’re finally awake! Are you okay!?”

  “My headache… it’s gone…” I immediately opened my eyes and stared at the face of a young man with green-colored hair. At that moment it was made instantly clear in my mind, I died and was reincarnated into another world. There was no need to question the why or how in the current situation.

  For some unknown reason, my headache disappeared like it was never there in the first place. Not a single linger of it remained in my head, I felt like my brain was placed in a blender and thrown back into the ocean.

  “Prince Daniel… you really think you can go and covet my daughter and run away like that?”

  “Shit!”

  While I was trying to assemble my thoughts, I was dropped back down directly on my butt. “Ow!”

  “Sorry!! I thought you would stop your fall with your hands. Ahh! Don’t mind that! Please run away Your Highness!”

  I shook my head quickly and looked in front of me. I sat on dirt in the middle of a lush full forest where the sun passes openly through each leaf. Other than the man who was carrying me, there was someone else blocking our path.

  The man stared at me intensely. The first thing I noticed was his fit build badly covered by ripped clothing, along with multiple scars scattered across his entire body. Then, I saw his messy hair that looked like he just woke up from a really long sleep. However, there was one thing I couldn’t look away from his face…

  “Ughhh… what the fuck… is going… ooon~” I held the back of my neck and spun my head.

  “You disrespectful prince!” The man before me was needlessly enraged. He placed his sword forward and held it tightly with both hands, charging in an instant.

  “Wo- Wo- Whoah! Wait!” As my face widened further than the universe, I closed my eyes and lowered my head. The sound of metal clashing once again rang through the air, it made me remember that a moment ago I heard the same sound much closer.

  “Run!”

  Shit! Shit! What the fuck is going on! I opened my eyes and immediately jumped away from the man who was just carrying me like a princess, and a beggar who had no teeth fighting with swords.

  I tried to question things in my mind while being in awe at the display of swords in front of my eyes. Okay! Shut the fuck up! Get your shit together! I slapped my face with both my hands and looked ahead.

  “Stop!” I remembered the first line the beggar said when he appeared. “How dare you accuse me!” Then even if it is a surprise, if it is true, this is a life I probably wouldn’t want to immediately die in. “A prince of this country! To coveting the daughter of a beggar like you!”

  “What!” The man’s face squished, he was looking more like a zombie than a human. “How dare you call me a beggar! You son of a bitch prince!” The man charged forward, facing Harry’s sword without fear, pushing him down to the ground, only leaving a small cut on his shoulder. How brave…

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  The man continued to charge straight at me. Oh shit! No time to be in awe! What the fuck! Do I run? Or do I face him? Run? Or? What? Fuck? Decide! My body won’t move! His sword was coming straight at my face. Sweat covered my eyes, my mouth constantly breathed heavily, and my hands couldn’t stop fidgeting.

  At a moment’s notice, my head turned to the left, then I watched as the sword ran past in front of me. It’s slow…? I slowly moved my gaze to the man’s face. Along it, his hand held the sword tightly, and then he turned it, making the sword’s sharp edge, face me. Wait… face me?

  I ducked down and jumped forward to the ground, grazing my arm through dirt, turning over causing bitterness to enter the crevices of my teeth. “Pleh! Whacha fak!” As I turned back to the man, a sword pierced through his left calf, and it swung upward to the right, severing his right leg from the thighs.

  Blood spurted out from his legs like a broken faucet. The man fell to the ground with a loud scream. He caught his body up with his hands and turned it upward. “You bitch knig-!” Before he could even finish his sentence, a sword went through his chest, slicing it up, and splitting his head open.

  “Are you okay Your Highness?!” Harry yelled with a high shift in his tone.

  I sat there on the ground, staring at the blood coming out. The man’s severed leg, his split open head, I couldn’t move my eyes away. My heart tightened and my gaze fixated, I couldn’t point out what I was feeling. My blood was burning hot from the adrenaline, but at the same time, I was fighting my own demons who had imagined such scenes before.

  Harry then walked up to me, blocking the body with his ironclad armor. “That was a really close one, thank you for that Your Highness, but you could have endangered yourself by provoking him like that.” Harry inserted his hands through my armpit and raised me like a newborn baby. My eyes, despite not even seeing the body anymore, still printed the dead body connected through the river of blood going down the road.

  “Why are you smiling Your Highness?” Said Harry.

  “Huh?” I raised my hand and tried to squish my lips, but no matter how much I tried, my smile wasn’t disappearing. I’m smiling? Oh God, did I… no, I was… already…

  “We should get going Your Highness, Commander might have already died and the others are probably chasing for their leader already.”

  “What?” There were so many things to process, but I didn’t have enough time to let every thought find its seat for the amount of time I had. Harry held my arm and dragged me along as he ran.

  “There is a nearby village just a few Zoa away, Your Highness.”

  While I ran, I began to digest what just happened. However, the one I started on was something I should have just left at the end.

  “Shouldn’t we go back for the Commander?”

  “No, Your Highness, your safety is more important than anyone.”

  Is that really how a prince’s value is? I thought to myself.

  “But with your skills, you can definitely fend off everyone, is the amount bandits really that much?”

  “Bandits? What are you saying Your Highness, this is no time for jokes, your provocation may have worked earlier but there is no need to keep it up now.”

  “What? Wait, are you saying I did fuck that man’s daughter?!”

  “Well that’s a direct way to put it, but yes, Your Highness.”

  I have read and watched many reincarnated and transported in another world stories, but for some unknown reason, I don’t remember any of this body’s memories. Is it something that would come later?

  My hand jabbed down subconsciously. “We need to go back!”

  “What? But, Your Highness!” Harry yelled with his face shocked. “What are you saying right now?” Harry said, however, at the same time I don’t know what I was saying either. I’m not some nice man, even in my past life I don’t think I was ever someone who would go and save someone like some oblivious hero.

  Based on my memory of coming here, the Commander and this Harry knight were the only two soldiers with me. Whatever the reason was for someone as important as me to only have two people guarding me, that didn’t really matter more than what in the fuck was coming out of my mouth.

  “I don’t know…” My mind was imagining the battle that was happening from where I woke up.

  “You’re smiling again, are you okay your highness? Did you take another weird drug again!” Harry slapped his face. “I know I’m in no position to say this, and you may beat me up again, but please stop getting yourself in trouble! Now that the commander is dead! Who else would protect you but me!”

  “That’s why I said we should go back!” I had no idea what was going on, or what he was saying, but the words just came out of my mouth. Whether it sounded natural or was the feelings of the original soul of this body, what’s important was… actually… I really don’t know anymore.

  “That…” Harry clicked his tongue and walked past me. “I don’t know what is happening to you right now, Your Highness, but all I can say is…” He stopped. “Even if it is just some after-effect of some drugs, I don’t think I’ll ever get into a situation to say it, so I’ll say it now, I wish you’ll be like that forever, Your Highness.” He turned around with a bright smile on his face, his eyes showed more humanity than I have ever seen in my entire life.

  “Let’s go, Your Highness, we can’t waste any time!”

  Harry grabbed my arm again and ran in the direction where we came from. Uhhh… Aren’t I gonna die… wait! Wait!

  “Just how many bandits, I mean, enemies, are there again?”

  “I don’t know the exact amount, but based on what I saw earlier, there are around 20 of them.” In an instant, my mouth was drained of every bit of saliva that rested inside, gulping so much I almost choked. Wait! Wait! I don’t wanna go! Say it! Say turn back! You were able to talk just now! So why won’t you say it?!

  We then ran past the dead body my eyes couldn’t even turn away from. As my head locked onto the river of blood, almost snapping my neck from the fixation of my eyes, there and there I understood. My body felt like I was flying in the sky, above the clouds where nothing was on my path. From the left and right, I had an infinite world I could run.

  I lived for almost 40 years, but it was weird, that was the first time I had ever seen a dead body with my own two eyes, no less, that much blood. I… didn’t even know there was something I still haven’t seen after living that long. Just a few minutes into this world, and I… I… already feel free.