Chapter 3: Indeed, Multiple Choices Were Possible

Chapter 3: Indeed, Multiple Choices Were Possible

After understanding his own situation, Louis looked around the living room and noticed there were three rooms surrounding it.

One belonged to Ocris, one seemed to be Helen’s, and the last one was the washroom.

Louis’s expression suddenly turned strange. He looked at the items on the table and realized that the books, water cup, bag, and wand all belonged to Helen.

He quickly wiped Helen’s cup with his clothes, only to discover that the clothes were also Helen’s school uniform.

Louis rubbed his face, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

At that moment, he suddenly noticed what appeared to be a small room next to the washroom.

The door of this room looked odd; it seemed hazy, as if it didn’t exist.

Louis suspected this room was originally meant for Sister Stia.

When Louis approached the door of this room, he found the door had become clear, and a small plaque with the characters ‘Louis’ appeared on it.

After opening the door, Louis found it was a simple bedroom, about 15 square meters, with very basic furnishings.

On the bed were his wizard apprentice school uniform, wand, and other items. There was also an ‘Extension Bag’ commonly used by wizards. The bag looked small, but its actual space was about the size of a suitcase.

Louis hurriedly changed his clothes, then neatly folded the shirt and trousers from inside his uniform that did not belong to this era and threw them into the Extension Bag.

After finishing, he walked around the room, a look of confusion on his face.

He could confirm that this should be his room, but this room was originally prepared for Sister Stia in the Storybook.

‘But I am not Sister Stia, why was I set to live with Ocris?’

Puzzled, Louis searched through the ‘Fantasy Travel Story’, wanting to check his background setting. However, he found that the section concerning his background still had many blank spaces.

‘It seems this matter about Sister Stia has become a Bug… I myself am also a Bug… a Presence of only 0.2, does that mean I could vanish at any moment?’

Shaking his head, Louis put down the book and pondered his current situation.

He had passed the first hurdle of entering this world.

But now he seemed to be an extra.

According to the story setting, Ocris might possibly leave after today’s examination.

Once the main character of the Storybook changes locations, her extra student might very well be written out.

‘So, my screen time might only be one day?’

[It seems Louis realized a problem—he must now stick close to the main character to get more screen time, otherwise this extra would be ‘forgotten’ by this world…]

[Perhaps he should have chosen the identity of Sister Stia and gone with Ocris to Dragon Nest City…]

Louis automatically ignored the last sentence. He would absolutely not practice that self-castration technique.

‘Two things need to be solved now. One is to find a way to fill in my background in the book. Those blank spaces might be one reason my Presence is so low.’

‘The second is to find a way to help Ocris get through today’s difficulty, to let her stay at the academy. With my current ‘Presence’, I probably can’t stray too far from her.’

‘But for someone who hasn’t cast a Magic Spell in six years to suddenly pass the Wizard Examination… that’s a bit hard to believe.’

Louis felt a headache coming on. This second hurdle seemed a bit difficult.

Sounds came from outside the door. Louis quickly walked out of the room and into the living room, finding that Miss Helen had already come out. She was tidying her things, and when she picked up the cup, she gave Louis a strange look.

“Helen, I was just practicing the ‘Quickly Refill’ charm with that cup,” Louis said, looking somewhat awkward. He explained, “You know, the exam is coming up soon.”

“I know, I know,” Helen said, smiling as she threw the cup into the trash bin. “I believe you.”

[Helen Favorability -2]

“By the way, Louis,” Helen said with a sunny smile. “Could you please return my school uniform to me?”

‘…’

Louis patted his forehead, quickly took Helen’s school uniform out of the bag, and returned it to her. Helen then threw the uniform into the trash bin as well.

[Helen Favorability -3]

‘That’s a bit much…’ Louis rubbed his face, feeling speechless. However, he became curious about Helen and Ocris’s memories.

At that moment, Ocris also came out. Although she nodded politely to Louis, he could see that her expression didn’t seem too good. “Let’s go, Louis.”

After saying that, Ocris went downstairs.

[It seems your identity has been recognized by this world. But everyone’s impression of this ‘gentleman’ seems rather poor—perhaps this isn’t the first time Louis has secretly entered someone’s room to do those strange things.]

‘How dare they wrongly accuse an innocent person?’ Louis was utterly confused.

[That’s right, he always says that—how can reading people’s things be called ‘sneaking’?]

Louis rubbed his face vigorously, knowing this was probably some side effect of the ‘self-setting’.

‘But regardless, my identity as a time-traveler should remain hidden.’

On the way, Ocris said a few things to Louis. First, she said that Louis needed to change some of his habits. At the academy, he shouldn’t address her as Your Highness. He could call her Miss.

“What do you usually call your mentor where you’re from?”

Louis was slightly taken aback, remembering his ‘exchange student’ identity. “Well… Boss?”

“Oh, right.” Ocris shook her head, her expression strange. “The wizards from the Forbidden Sanctum always like to be unconventional…”

Louis’s expression suddenly turned strange. He discovered that his background setting had suddenly gained more details. The description about the Forbidden Sanctum also became more extensive.

Ocris continued. She said that although she wasn’t much older than Louis, since she had become his mentor, she had the responsibility of a guardian. Louis should also treat her as an elder and shouldn’t do any strange things.

She spoke at length in the earnest tone of an elder.

But instead of looking embarrassed or annoyed, Louis’s face showed delight, because he noticed that as he conversed with Ocris, the description of Louis in the Storybook was gradually being filled in.

Seemingly noticing Louis’s pleased expression, Ocris suddenly stopped walking. She trembled all over and finally could no longer suppress her anger. She scolded angrily:

“Louis, the most important thing for a wizard is character. You’ve been getting worse lately—if next time I find you hiding under my bed again, then you can go back to wherever you came from!”

Helen also looked at Louis with that kind of look.

[The two young ladies seemed to remember more things…]

[But they also felt that something was not quite right…]

Suddenly, Louis noticed several new pages had appeared in front of the first page of the Storybook!

The Storybook currently started writing from when he suddenly appeared in the room, and these extra pages covered events that happened before Louis entered the bedroom.

For now, these pages were blank, being written as Ocris and Helen ‘remembered’ or ‘imagined’ them.

Louis suddenly realized a problem—the Storybook was fixing the Bug of Sister Stia and Louis!

He decided to take a gamble and suddenly exclaimed loudly, “Miss Ocris, I think you might indeed have forgotten some things—do you remember what you said to me when I went under the bed?”

Ocris felt a buzzing in her head. Helen also started rubbing her head.

Their memories were different. One remembered Louis staying under the bed the whole time. The other remembered Louis entering the room with her.

The surroundings suddenly became illusory. That book appeared before Louis’s eyes again. The pages flipped continuously, and many words filled in the plot concerning what happened in the bedroom before ‘Lu Yi’ appeared.

“Your Highness, you told me to clean the room. After I finished cleaning, I said, ‘Your Highness, I’ve cleaned under the bed. What else should I do?’ Don’t you remember? After that, you told me to find Helen, and I entered the room with her.”

As Louis spoke, he saw many words gradually appearing on those newly added pages in the Storybook.

And in the surrounding time and space, things like strings of a zither suddenly appeared. As the words were written in the ‘Storybook’, these strings constantly broke and reformed.

[The strings of fate were influenced by the ‘Book of Fate’, and this world completely changed…]

Suddenly, the memories of Ocris and Helen also became unified, and they remembered more things.

At the same time, Louis suddenly saw a small Pixie fly out from behind Ocris. She gave Louis a slight bow, then waved her wand at Louis before disappearing.

Throughout this, Ocris and Helen seemed oblivious to the little Pixie. After the Pixie left, Louis found he also held a small leaf with a picture of a Pixie on it.

[Sister Stia’s ID +1]

Looking at this small leaf, Louis was stunned. He thought for a moment, then handed it to Ocris. “By the way, Your Highness, I also found this under the bed.”

“Found it under the bed?” Ocris took the small leaf with some surprise, then froze in place. The corners of her eyes grew moist.

That’s right, Sister Stia really existed. She had been silently protecting her all along. She wasn’t just a figment of her dreams…

And Ocris remembered that she seemed to have dreamed of someone last night—he was tall and handsome, with neat short grey hair, three years younger than her…

Ocris suddenly looked up with a strange expression, gazing at Louis who was standing there in a daze: ‘When I dreamed last night, I actually used Louis’s image as the person I imagined…’

Ocris’s expression suddenly turned awkward. She rubbed her forehead, thinking to herself: ‘Oh my, how could I dream about my student…’

Louis couldn’t hear Ocris’s thoughts. He was staring blankly at a piece of Narration before him.

[Little Ocris has grown up. She is no longer afraid of the dark. Sister Stia felt she no longer needed her companion…]

[And what Louis didn’t tell Ocris was that the ID wasn’t found by Louis under the bed; it was given by Sister Stia to Louis to pass on to Ocris.]

[Besides that, there were some small gifts Sister Stia asked the Book of Fate to leave for Louis…]

[Master-level Faerie Lore1]

[Strength+1]

‘Indeed, multiple choices were possible! But what about Sister Stia? Is she real?’

Louis couldn’t help but stand there dumbfounded.

[Just like Sister Stia, Louis is also real.]

[Presence+3]

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