I came to the Other World, but I can only Use Lifestyle Magic - Chapter 1 - Do Not Be Content with Poverty

Volume 1 – The Elementary School of the Royal Academy

Chapter 1 – Do Not Be Content with Poverty
 
 
 

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The north wind rattled the window glass. And a cold breeze entered the room.

“Cold…”

I woke up in the middle of the night, all of my body shivering.

“I’ll freeze to death if I sleep like this.”

Just a few days ago, I was supposed to be an office worker in Japan, but for some reason, when I woke up, I had become Patience Granger.

This Patience Granger seemed to be a noble, but she was poor, or rather, very very poor, her living conditions were so low that if it continued, it would affect her life and death.
 

When I first woke up as Patience, I was so weak that I thought, “I’m going to die. Help me!” and tried to call an ambulance. But when I looked around, it wasn’t my room, and there was no phone.

“Patience-sama, have you come to your senses?”

A red-haired maid greeted me happily. I somehow knew that the maid’s name was Mary, and I also somehow knew that I was Patience Granger.

“I seem to be very weak. Call a doctor for me.”

I asked the maid Mary, but she gave me a troubled look.

『Don’t call a doctor for my sake.』

The Patience inside me protested, 『No way!』

“We called a doctor yesterday… and it seems that your fever has gone down…”

Mary gave me some water with a spout cup and I felt a little better.

I learned from Patience’s memory that calling a doctor was a very luxurious thing to do, and it was impossible unless it was a serious illness that threatened life or death. In other words, I (Patience) was in a life-or-death situation yesterday, and somehow I had become this Patience Granger, whether by possession or reincarnation.

『Did I die? Patience seems to have died, but what is this memory?』

That was the problem.

I, Kaoru Aoyama, was a 25-year-old office worker who lived alone after graduating from college. I had no health problems and lived normally. I didn’t have the memory of being run over by a truck like in reincarnation stories, nor did I receive any cheat abilities from any goddess inside of a white room.

I came home from work, had a simple meal, took a bath, played on my computer for a while and went to bed. That’s all. Why did this happen? Was there a fire or an earthquake in the middle of the night?

What was strange was that Patience’s memory was very clear. Thanks to that, I could speak and understand the language here, which was helpful, but it was troublesome that Patience’s common sense dominated my actions.

Patience was proud as a noble and had a strong spirit of sacrifice.

It seemed that Patience’s mother had also died of pneumonia because of her similar sacrificial spirit.

This Granger family had a viscount father named William and two younger brothers who would inherit the title: eight-year-old Nathius and six-year-old Henry.

The brothers in my memory were angelic children, and Patience had always given them thin slices of meat on the poor table. That might have been why she was so skinny and had no resistance against illness. She probably died of pneumonia in the cold winter.

It was bad enough that the memory was clear, but it was even worse that it tried to make me act noble.

『A young lady of nobility should sleep gracefully with her hands on top of the blanket and her fingers crossed.』

Maybe I was dead because I slept following the teachings of my deceased mother, even in this room without any heating. Furthermore using only this thin bed? It was mind boggling, but apparently the body was still sleeping as per Patience’s habit. The only correct place to sleep as well behaved as the Sleeping Beauty I saw as a child would be in a well-heated room. Not here.

“It’s cold! Maybe it was because of the way Mother slept like this that she died from pneumonia. I’ll have to find out in the morning if we only have this flimsy futon.”

And until that, I defied mother’s teaching and covered myself with the blanket from head to toe. I curled up like a cat and tried to sleep.

“It’s a little warmer now… I wonder if my angelic brothers are okay?”

I had a bit of shotacon tendencies. Oh, I want to delete the shotacon manga on my computer left in Japan… but there was no point in thinking about that.

According to Patience’s memory, the brothers under ten years old slept together in the children’s room, so they should be warmer.

Anyway, I had to sleep and recover some strength. It didn’t matter whether it was reincarnation or possession, my life would be over if I didn’t eat something better than watery porridge.

And I had to do something about this Granger viscount family. My brothers were too pitiful. This was the agreement of both me who was shotacon and Patience who loved her brothers.
 
 

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Translation Notes:
1. Futon is a traditional style of bedding. It consists of mattress and duvet (quilt). Wikipedia