Surviving As The 5Th Prince Of Hellman Kingdom [EN]: Chapter 1

Surviving as the 5th Prince of Hellmanguk – Episode 1 (1/203)

I am special.

From the moment I started having memories, a semi-transparent right hand wearing a white glove floated around me.

I conveniently call it the Ghost Hand.

And besides the Ghost Hand, I see strange… well, what should I call it? Anyway, I see things that others can’t.

Fortunately, the first person to realize I was seeing strange things was my nanny.

– Prince Evan! You must never do that again!

I was probably engrossed in trying to catch the Ghost Hand floating in the air, like a cat chasing a fluttering butterfly.

The scary face of my nanny, who noticed something was wrong and warned me, and the Ghost Hand shaking its index finger behind her, are the starting points of my memory.

– You must never let anyone find out that you can see strange things. You must hide it well.

My nanny reminded me often.

Even though I was too young to understand properly, I felt like something terrible would happen if I didn’t follow her words. Being a good boy, I always nodded, and thanks to that, no one has noticed my special ability until now.

And.

– Olivia Einberg. I arrest you on suspicion of attempted poisoning of the royal family.

After my nanny was executed, everyone who knew the truth disappeared.

“……”

Perhaps because it was the anniversary of my nanny’s death, I felt restless tonight.

Mourning her soul, I closed the curtains by the window where moonlight was streaming in. The weeping moon hid its face, and darkness settled in the bedroom. But my secrets shine on their own even in this darkness.

“…… Annoying.”

I turned my back and lay down on the bed. The Ghost Hand disappeared from view, but the other one stealthily followed me.

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Emperor Raising Simulation

《Lost Saga》

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A semi-transparent square window, just like the Ghost Hand.

What could be written there?

It looks like ‘letters’…….

“…… Prince! Evan…… Prince!”

I opened my eyes to the sunlight tickling my eyes and someone’s voice ringing in my ears.

At the same time, I realized once again that I was not ordinary. Ah, it wasn’t because of the things I had seen since I was a child.

Just now, I remembered my past life.

– Vroooom!

The loud noise I heard while walking in front of the elementary school, nose buried in my smartphone. When I looked up, a car was about to hit an elementary school student just one step ahead.

I don’t know if it was a sudden acceleration or drunk driving in broad daylight. Before I could even think, my body moved first, and I managed to push the child away.

Why did I do that?

I never thought I would be the kind of person who would risk my life to save a stranger.

Anyway, the child lived.

– Crash!

But I didn’t.

– Ahhh! A person!

– What do we do! What do we do!

– Call 911 quickly! Call 911!

– The child? Is the child okay?

Maybe it was because I died doing a good deed, but I was reborn as a human again, in a completely different world from Earth.

Evan Lionel.

Full name, Evan Sol Philip de Lionel.

Evan, son of Philip of the Lionel family.

The fifth prince of the Lionel Kingdom.

That was the new life given to me. A truly remarkable rise in status compared to my previous life as an orphan.

However.

“Prince! Prince! Prince Evan! Are you awake?”

Whether the child I saved later became a traitor who sold out the country or not, the situation surrounding me is not very good.

I tried to recall the face of the child I saw in the fading consciousness of my past life. Boy? Girl? Strangely, I don’t remember well.

What is certain is that they were smiling.

Shouldn’t they have been crying or looking surprised?

“Prince! Can you see how many fingers I’m holding up?”

Blinking, blinking.

I moved my eyelids and adjusted my blurry focus. A familiar face was shaking three fingers in front of my eyes.

Boy? Young man? A youthful face somewhere in between. Perhaps because of his narrow eyes where the pupils were barely visible, he had a strangely suspicious atmosphere.

‘His name is…….’

My head was in a mess as my past and present lives were intertwined. Maybe that’s why his name didn’t come to mind right away.

I stared at his face.

“Prince! Please say something!”

Ah! I remembered.

My personal attendant, Alfonso Heimdall.

“Alfonso, you’re making me dizzy, so get your hand out of here.”

I pushed his hand away and got up.

Throb.

I frowned at the splitting headache. I carefully brought my hand to my head.

‘Bandage?’

It wasn’t just feeling like it was broken, it was actually broken.

‘What happened?’

The reason why I lost consciousness came to mind. It was because of the beating disguised as a sparring match by my half-brother, the 4th Prince. The scene before I lost consciousness began to replay vividly in my head.

– Thwack! Thwack! Smack!

I was beaten like a scarecrow and accidentally blocked his attack once.

– Block? Blockkk?

He seemed very angry, and the momentum of the guy whose mouth was trembling changed.

– Block this too! Mountain Split!

His attack came down as if to split my head.

I managed to lift the wooden sword to protect my head, but.

Clang-! Crack.

The wooden sword, unable to withstand the impact, broke, and my crown cracked as well!

Throb, throb.

Perhaps because I remembered the impact at that time, the headache became more severe.

“Prince! You’re suddenly speaking so clearly! You must be out of your mind! I’ll bring the healer again……”

“Stop!”

Alfonso’s fussiness made my already aching head hurt even more. Only then did he shut his mouth at my firm words.

As the surroundings became quiet, the pain that had been stirring in my head subsided a little.

“W-Prince. Are you really okay?”

Alfonso was still fidgeting with his fingers, as if he hadn’t given up yet.

“That’s three. So don’t be distracting and get out.”

“Yes? B-But.”

“Quickly.”

The hesitant guy got up from his chair, faltering.

“Then I’ll be waiting. Call me anytime if you need anything.”

“Okay. I’ll call you if I need anything.”

I watched Alfonso carefully close the door and leave, then got out of bed.

Throb.

The moment I stepped on the ground, muscle pain that I hadn’t been able to fully recognize due to the splitting headache rushed in.

Swaying, my legs gave way against my will. I barely avoided falling by quickly grabbing the bed.

‘Damn bastard.’

The plump face of the 4th Prince, who comes to harass me whenever he’s bored, came to mind, and my expression naturally contorted.

Step by step.

I endured the dizzying screams of every muscle in my body and approached the full-length mirror.

A boy with black eyes that seemed to suck you in stared intently at me. The black hair sticking out between the bandages was still silky and glossy.

His appearance alone advertised that he was of the Lionel royal family.

The 4th Prince, who strongly inherited the blood of his maternal line and had fiery red hair, came to mind again. The fact that he is the only one among the brothers who does not have black hair is one of the reasons why he harasses me more viciously.

I erased the unlucky bastard’s face from my mind and raised my head. A semi-transparent hand wearing white gloves greeted me.

Others can’t see it at all, but I can see it even in the mirror.

The Ghost Hand, which used to just float around and sometimes do finger exercises on its own when I was young. At some point, I became able to control it at will, such as making fists, flicking foreheads, and raising middle fingers.

I moved the Ghost Hand, which was moving here and there, to the table and grabbed the cup that was half-filled with water.

Swoosh, the Ghost Hand passed through the cup.

As expected, it couldn’t exert any physical force at all.

According to what I’ve learned during the approximately 13 years I’ve spent with the Ghost Hand, there is only one thing that can interact with it.

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Emperor Raising Simulation

《Lost Saga》

ID :

Password :

[Login]

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The semi-transparent window floating like a hologram.

‘Korean, English.’

It’s amazing.

The identity of the letters that I had searched for in so many books turned out to be from my past life. It was normal that I couldn’t figure it out.

“Lost Saga……”

A hollow laugh escaped my lips.

It was the title screen of the game that was on my smartphone screen just before I jumped in front of the child being hit by a car in my past life.

I’ve never actually played it.

Is it because my head is a mess? I don’t even remember how I installed it. What is clear is that I was just about to finish signing up and log in.

I brought the index and thumb fingers of the Ghost Hand together to the login window and spread them up and down. The palm-sized window expanded to the size of a laptop.

Then, I tapped the space next to ID.

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ID : │

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A bar indicating the typing position, the cursor, began to blink.

And a virtual keyboard appeared.

I realized this now that I was aware of my past life, but it was almost identical to the one on smartphones, which was made easy to type with one hand.

I always got stuck here and couldn’t proceed any further.

‘This time will be different.’

There was no need to try to remember the ID and password. In my past life, I always used the same thing when signing up.

I typed accurately using the Ghost Hand.

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ID : Kicker505

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Next is the password.

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Password : sdd230****

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Finally, I brought the Ghost Hand to [Login].

Will it work?

If it does, what will happen?

Excitement, anticipation, anxiety.

With a mixture of feelings, I pressed Login.

「Connecting to the Arcana System.」

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「Connection complete.」

Whirr─!

A vast universe covered me.

For a moment, my mind went blank. When I closed and opened my eyes, I was in the center of a place where countless stars were twinkling.

I felt like I was being watched by beings I couldn’t recognize.

「Identifying visitor.」

「Evan Sol Philip de Lionel.」

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「Welcome to the world of Emperor Raising Simulation 《Lost Saga》.」

The event that would shake my destiny came to me like that.