Imperial Reincarnation: I Came, I Saw, I Survived Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 10] by Masekinokatasa

Author:Masekinokatasa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, magic, isekai, reincarnation, politics, drama, royalty, male protagonist, hard mode
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Silver Killing Intent

I turned six. Let me update you on the many changes that’d happened in the meantime.

First, Herc the butler had lost some of his duties. More precisely, the regency had entrusted their in-between work to someone else. Served him right, if you ask me.

Since he was still officially my butler, the regency’s people still needed to go through him—unless they created a new position for the same purpose. It was a signature move of theirs, after all.

As for this new person, they would be my “chief attendant,” a position that stemmed from House Agincarl’s cultural sphere. Apparently, in addition to Herc’s old duties, they would also be my poison tester.

But I’ll leave the job explanation for later. The issue at hand was the individual they had picked: Timona Rouxnen, a nine-year-old boy so pretty he could be mistaken for a girl. He had silver hair and literally never stopped glaring daggers at my back.

Turns out, I was simply not allowed to catch a break.

Apparently, the regent had wanted to provide me with someone who could be a close aide in the future (or even, dare I say it, a friend), and the prevailing general opinion was that my poison tester should be someone similar in build. Rouxnen fulfilled both qualifications well enough for the regency, and thus he’d been foisted upon me.

The part about poison I understood. A person was best off with a poison tester of equivalent body mass—too heavy, and a dose that might kill you could pass them by unnoticed. However, that wasn’t the reason behind Timona’s perpetually murderous aura. That had to do with a certain other duty expected of a chief attendant—or at least, the Agincarl interpretation of the role.

You see, in Agincarl lands, there existed a formal tradition of male nobility being intimate with their male attendants. This tradition didn’t exist in the Bundarte cultural sphere (the lands around the imperial capital as well as Duke Raul’s territories), nor the Rotahl cultural sphere (pretty much the rest of the Empire), but regardless, to House Agincarl—or culturally adjacent nobility—a chief attendant was one’s “favored lover.” In other words, Timona had been chosen to be my partner.

Yeah, I was just as incredulous as you are. I certainly hadn’t asked for anything of the sort, nor did I have any interest. Timona had been mentally throttling me to death from the moment we’d met, and honestly, it had pissed me off. I was on edge enough as it was; now my stress levels were through the roof.

At first, I’d wondered why he hadn’t just turned the role down. Why was he looking at me like that if he’d agreed to it?

Count Palatine Vodedt had shed some light on the situation for me. As it turned out, Timona’s father—an Agincarl noble—had been aware of his son’s contempt for the practice and had refused the “invitations” from other Agincarl nobility. However, since this was a “request from the emperor,” his hand had been forced.

In other words, somebody had used my name against my will and trampled all over my—and Timona’s—dignity.

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