MPBAGS Chapter 2

I think I've been reincarnated.

When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was a magnificent chandelier. By the way, it looked very expensive. While estimating the chandelier's price, I pondered how I had died.

Since I was originally healthy, it wasn't death by illness. I hadn't even gotten a job yet, so it wasn't death from overwork, and I hadn't been hit by a car while saving an animal or child. I'd never met a god or encountered any suspicious fortune teller. No matter how much I thought about it, I seemed to have just been reincarnated while sleeping.

Even though reincarnation is all the rage these days, is it okay to choose someone to reincarnate this carelessly? Well, since it's done, it's not that important.

I've already been reincarnated, so there's no point dwelling on my past life. What's important is this body I've been reincarnated into.

Is it because the reincarnation was half-hearted? Memories of the original body's owner didn't come to mind. Looking at my hands, I don't seem very young...

Couldn't they have put me in a younger body? Since I don't know anything about the body's owner, I'll probably have to go with memory loss.

Looking at the white hair and fine hands, she's definitely a noble, but I don't recall any particular character. Usually, isn't it standard to enter a book you were reading or your favorite work?

I don't have a favorite work, and what I'd been enjoying reading lately was a martial arts novel about a heavenly demon returning to the past. It was the most recent thing I'd read so the memory was most vivid, but just looking at the chandelier, this wasn't martial arts.

If I had been reincarnated into a martial arts world, I would have died a horrible death, so I guess this is rather fortunate...

This won't work.

I didn't think I'd get answers by myself. At times like this, I need help from my surroundings.

I should ask that man sitting blankly next to me something. The clothes he's wearing and the thick scripture he's holding make him look exactly like a priest. If I've been reincarnated as a sickly character, it wouldn't be strange to have a priest nearby. That would make it easier to pull off the memory loss technique.

Come to think of it, where am I? I quickly scanned the surroundings.

I was shocked for a moment. Why are there so many people here? I wondered where I was sensing people, and all the people in the room were looking at me.

They were all dressed in black clothes and quietly holding their breath. I only noticed this now - am I not in my right mind either?

I was distracted by the unfamiliar ceiling and didn't realize this wasn't a bedroom. The floor was soft so I thought it was a bed.

Looking closer, it's full of flowers. Cherry blossoms? Or plum blossoms? No wonder I could smell something fragrant.

...Wait. The place I'm lying on looks familiar somehow...

Is this a coffin?

Was I lying in a coffin? Then am I in the middle of a funeral right now? Is that why everyone's wearing black clothes?

My head was spinning.

It's not uncommon to be reincarnated into a dead person's body. If you're reincarnated into a body that was living well, readers would pity the original owner, so it's often seen that they reincarnate you into a body destined to die or already dead.

But no matter what, what are you supposed to do if you're reincarnated during the funeral?

No wonder people were looking at me like I was a ghost!

They should have reincarnated me right after death at least! Since they're this careless, they showed consistency.

The priest next to me looked like he was about to faint.

From the priest's perspective, wouldn't this look like a corpse coming back to life?

I think I need to handle this situation somehow. What should I say?

Ta-da, you thought I was dead? It was a hidden camera? I don't know. I should just say something random.

Oh right, I need to say this first before anything else.

"What is my name?"

By the way, since I'm definitely reincarnated as a noble, I left out the honorifics.