[ The man could feel someone gently tapping his body. The rough hand made the man think of the hands of an exhausted parent. It was that warm.

"Young master, it is morning."

But the voice was very profound. The man felt chills throughout his body and his eyes subconsciously opened. Rather than the bright sunlight coming in through the window to warm the man's eyes, what he saw was an old man standing there with a satisfied expression.

"It is surprising to see you wake up after a single attempt."

"Huh?"

"The master wishes to dine with the young master since it has been a while. It looks like it will be possible today."

The man could see a mirror past the old man's shoulder. Inside the mirror was a red-haired man who seemed to be confused looking back at him.

'I guess that guy is me.' ]

"He is quick to upfront. Young master Cale is quite calm," Taylor said.

"He ain't Cale Henituse if he ain't calm in crazy situations." Alberu answered him, "He passes me the most absurd thing either in a call or before he faints."

"Is that common occurrence?" Rok Soo asked.

"Human fainted a lot. The longest he have been out was ________"

"What the f-," Rok Soo tried to cuss.

[ "Young master Cale?"

The man turned toward the source of the worried voice to find the old man, who looked like a servant, looking toward him. But that concerned man was not the problem.

The man clearly heard it.

Young Master Cale. It was a familiar name. He slowly blurted out the name.

"Cale Henituse?"

The old servant was looking at him like he was looking at his own grandson.

"Yes. That is your name, young master. I'm guessing you are still a bit drunk."

Listening to the concerned response of the old man, the man naturally thought about a name that was even more important than the name Cale Henituse.

"...Beacrox."

"Are you talking about my son?"

"...Chef."

"Yes. My son is the chef. Do you need him to make something for your hangover?" ]

"First person he asked for is a chef."

"Poor Choi Han," Rosalyn tries to joke, Choi Han wants to get out of here.

[ The man felt his surroundings turn dark and he started to feel dizzy. He lowered his head and put it into his hand.

"Young master, are you still drunk? Should I call the doctor? Or will you wash right now?"

The man looked at the red hair that was falling in front of his face. It was a bright red color, much too different from his original black hair.

Cale Henituse. Beacrox. Beacrox's dad, Ron.

They were the characters that appeared at the beginning of [The Birth of a Hero], the novel the man was reading before he fell asleep last night.

He jerked his head up and looked around. He could see the bedroom that was completely different from a typical Korean design. It made the man think about Europe. Every single thing in the room was extremely extravagant and luxurious. ]

"Wow, the former Leader really lucked out."

"What's Europe?"

"It's a continent in our world."

[ "Young master?"
The man responded to Ron, the old man who was pretending to be concerned and worried.

"Cold water."

"Excuse me?"

He needed something to clear his mind. He could see the face of Cale Henituse in the mirror behind old man Ron.

'Still looks normal.'

'I guess Cale hasn't been beaten to a pulp by the main character just yet.' ]

"Why?"

[ His handsome face caught his attention. ]

"Thank you?" Cale* shrugs.

"Same to you?" Rok Soo thanked him.

"What's the 'same to you' for?"

"I got this body that's totally hot."

"Yeah, Rok Soo-nim, you look hot."  Rosalyn thumbs up at him. "If only young master Cale exercises."

Tasha and Cage agrees to it.

[ The man had become Cale Henituse when he opened his eyes.

Cale Henituse. The trash who was beaten to a pulp by the main character in the beginning of [The Birth of a Hero]. That was who he was. ]

"Does he have a grudge against you?" Cale* asked.

"Why me?"

"That's your body."

"Maybe?" Rok Soo answered him, "He was sent into that world, only with the knowledge written in a novel, he wasn't informed about the transmigration."

[ "Young master, I presume you will not be bathing in cold water. Are you asking for drinking water?"

Cale turned his gaze toward Ron. Ron may be pretending to be a benign old man, but he was actually hiding his true identity as a cruel and vicious individual.

He made the request to Ron.

"Please get me some drinking water."

He needed to drink some cold water and clear his mind first.

"I will prepare it right away."

"Great. Thanks."

Ron flinched for a second and had an odd expression on his face, but Cale did not notice it. ]

"We ought to teach him how to act trash." Rok Soo replied. "Our trash reputation didn't last for 10 minutes."

[ Ron had to leave the bedroom as there was only warm water in the room. Once he was left alone, Cale got off the bed and headed to the bathroom. If he really was inside of the novel, he knew that there should be a large mirror inside.

As expected, the full body mirror was inside the bathroom. Cale Henituse, who had a lot of interest in his appearance and physique, had this mirror set up in here. Nobody else in the household had such a mirror. ]

Both Lily giggled, Cale* wish the ground would open and swallow him.

"That was a gift given to me by Eric* hyung."

"You kept it." Eric* sobbed, "My dongsaeng kept my gift for him."

Now, Cale* wants to dig a hole and stay in it. 

"We want to thank him," On answered. "I used to braid Cale hair and he would to go check it out in mirror, nya~"

[ The man in the mirror had red hair and a pretty fit body. It wouldn't be wrong to say he had a body that would make any style look good. ]

"He likes his looks."

[ "I really am Cale."

The man in the mirror indeed was Cale Henituse from the novel. [The Birth of a Hero] was very descriptive about each of the character's appearance. That was why the man had no choice but to agree that he had indeed turned into Cale Henituse.

Do people usually become calmer when they are surprised and shocked? Cale, no, Kim Rok Soo, calmly thought about the night before. ]

"No, no one except you would give that reaction. Not everyone will be calm after knowing they are some else in another body." Bud commented.

[ It was a typical day off. It had been a while since he had read an actual book instead of on his phone, so he went to the library to check out some books. He borrowed the entire series since he planned to read all day long.

The name of that book was, of course, [The Birth of a Hero]. He managed to finish the fifth volume before he fell asleep. But when he woke up, he had turned into Cale Henituse, the individual that the main character mercilessly beat up in volume 1.

'Will things go the way they did in the novel?'

He felt unnaturally calm. Once he got past the point of shock, his mind had calmed back down. He started to remember the contents of volume 1.

[The Birth of a Hero.]

This novel was about the birth of the heroes in the Western and Eastern continents, as well as their trials and growth. The main character was, naturally, Korean. He was a student who had been transported into the world when he was a freshman in high school. Furthermore, his lifespan became as long as a dragon's lifespan, making him pretty much never age. ]

Choi Han* can't believe he will outlive his friends, and he hates being alone. Rosalyn* and Lock* took his hand caressing it.

"I age very slow." Choi Han answered.

"How old are you, master?" Hannah asked him.

"110 years, I believe."

"Wow you old." Bud replied.

"This punk is older than me?"

"I'm still older than everyone here." Eruhaben chuckles, "Other than Lord Sheritt."

Alberu* stared at the elf who called himself the oldest in this room. A dragon? Then what's the elf ears for, and who is Lord Sheritt.

"Should we call you grandpa strong Choi Han?" Raon asked him.

"No need"

"Why not grampa Choi Han nya~" Hong asked, Cale* stifled a laugh.

Lock asked Choi Han, "What's a high school?" Choi Han answered, "It's like an academy where we learn."

[ "... This is bad?"

He was going to be beaten into a pulp by such a person. The important thing, however, was that he had not been beaten up just yet.

Cale took his eyes off the mirror and walked into the tub that was full of warm water. He leaned against the tub and looked up at the ceiling. It was that expensive marble that was described in the novel. The estate that Cale lived in was actually full of marble.

Cale started to mumble as he looked toward the ceiling.

"It's not like there's much I'll miss." ]

"He lives in complete normalcy, where he just goes to work and sleeps and does the same thing everyday."

[ His life as Kim Rok Soo. There really wasn't much to it. He was an orphan and didn't have much money. He also didn't have a person he loved to death, nor a friend he would give his life to save. He only continued to live because he could not die.

Yes, he could not die. ]

Lee Hyung Soo* look at Roo Soo*, "We will not die, we plan to stick to you and get your slacker life that your counterpart can't get."

Choi Soo* smiled back, "Cale gives us a chance to be together, we should take it."

Rok Soo* nods and quietly ate the cookies placed in front him.

"What do you mean you don't have much money?" Rok Soo retorted. "That man owns a lot of money. He can buy a company or a luxury apartment or two."

[ He completely hated the thought of death or pain.  He became an orphan after both of his parents passed away from a car accident when he was little.

He didn't like pain or death. No matter what it was, even if he was rolling in a pile of dog shit, it was still better than being dead. ]

"Oh Leader, you suffer even before the cataclysm  starts."

[ 'For that reason, I need to first make sure I don't get beaten up.'

Cale did not know what day it was in the novel right now, but he was sure that he had not met with the main character just yet. The reason was simple.

'I don't have the scar on my side.'

Cale Henituse, the trash of Count Henituse's family. A few days before meeting the main character, Cale was drinking and causing a ruckus. He was flinging things around and got stabbed on his side by a broken desk leg, resulting in the scar.

What an interesting character. He didn't get the scar from fighting someone else. He got it because he got angry that the alcohol didn't taste good and threw a tantrum. He meets the main character after he gets the scar, and, after a short discussion, he gets beaten to a pulp. ]

"I swear he had something against us."

Mhm....

[ "Mm."

Cale crossed his arms and started to think.

He did not know what happened to Cale after getting beaten to a pulp in volume 1. All he knew was that the main character, Choi Han, has many fateful encounters and overcomes a lot of trials to grow into a hero along with his party members.

Thus the era for him to prove that he is a hero will begin. The Roan Kingdom that Cale currently lives in, as well as many other locations in the Eastern and Western continents, will be filled with war. It truly will turn into the time for the heroes to show their full potential.

Cale started to frown. Kim Rok Soo, the man who became Cale. His life motto was pretty simple.

Living long without pain. Enjoying the small joys of life.

Living a peaceful life. ]

"He did fit in our family." Deruth answered, "He knows our family motto."

Cale* replied back, "There is no reason to recorded in history. Live for peace and happiness instead."

"Tho he didn't take the not history part seriously," Rok Soo answered. "Sad Cale."

HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Rok Soo laughed, "He really can't stay still."

[ "... As long as I make the story proceed like normal while taking out the fact that I get beaten up, the main character will take care of the rest." ]

Choi Han wants to cry. "Me, Cale-nim... I can't plan out my day without following you around, you expect me to command others?"

"You can command others but not in a way my dongsaeng can."

[ For some odd reason, he could recall every single line in the book without any issue. ]

"He is downplaying his abilities." Kim Min Ah replied, "Do you think he didn't know that his abilities come with him?"

"I bet he didn't notice he still had his abilities with him."

[ Cale relaxed in the warm water while coming to a final conclusion with his now clear head.

"It's worth trying."

It was worth trying to avoid the continent's war and living peacefully. This trash's situation was much better than when he was Kim Rok Soo. The location of this estate was also in the corner of the Western Continent, making it an ideal location to avoid the war. In the novel itself, there were many nobles who managed to avoid the influences of war. Even if he could not completely avoid it, he should be able to at least reduce the damages to a minimum. ]

"He says that when the North targets Henituse terror first." Rok Soo answer, "I wish to see the battle again that lunatic or at least what they do to him."

Ron and Beacrox reminisce the torture session they did to the lunatic. "Young master Rok Soo, you might enjoy what young master Cale did to him."

"How bad was it?"

"Worse than you expect."

Mhm... Rok Soo will asked The System later.

[ "Young master, are you inside the bathroom?"

He could hear Ron's voice coming from outside. Cale thought about Ron's true identity. Ron was an assassin who crossed over from the Eastern Continent by sea. He pretended to be a benign old man, but the true Ron was a cruel and merciless man. ]

"Young master did know it."

The Henituse family didn't expect that the butler they put for Cale was an assassin.

[ "Yes. I'll be right out."

His natural response was to talk informally to the old man. Cale realized what he was doing and made up his mind about what to do in the future.

He needed to push that old man to the main character and send him away. ]

"He failed so badly."

"He still has both of them behind him."

[ That old man could easily kill Cale with a single blow, but treated Cale like a puppy you left alone because you felt bad for it. He was smiling gently, but there was not an ounce of care about Cale on the inside. In the novel, Ron leaves with the main character and his son after Choi Han beats Cale to a pulp. ]

"Oh really?" Ron looked back at his counterpart, and they left their young master. He knows he has done it to Rok Soo in his timeline but still seeing it makes him furious.

Ron* glances at Cale* who didn't dare look at the screen, when On pats him in his lap. Did he do the right thing and left him alone in the Henituse territory.

[ Cale put the bathrobe on as he quickly exited the bathroom. Ron was standing there with a smile on his face and a tray with a cup in his hands.

"Young master, here you go."

Cale picked up the cup and walked past the old man. He did not want to make eye contact with such a dangerous old man.

"Great, thanks." ]

"My trash reputation..."

[ Ron's expression turned odd once again, but Cale had already walked past him. Cale took a drink of the cold water as he started to think.

'There are too many strong people here.'

In fact, there were too many of them. No matter where the main character went, there were either strong individuals or individuals with hidden secrets. These individuals were both human and other races. ]

"And he is connected to most of them."

"Huh-"

"They know him, and he knows them. He is the most influential person in both continents."

"Both?"

"You're right, that man doesn't know how to stay still." Cale* replied.

[ 'I at least need the strength to protect myself.'

In order to live long without pain in the continent that will soon be filled with war, you needed a decent level of strength. Of course, you could not be too strong. Then other complicated things will happen.

Cale thought about the different fateful encounters that occurred in the beginning parts of the novel. The powers that strengthen the main character and his party members. He was thinking about the ones that would help him live long without pain. There were a couple that came to mind. He just needed to pick one of them. ]

"One," Alberu laughed, "He meant everything."

"He picks up ancient powers like they are rocks on the road and strays everywhere." Rosalyn answered.

"The moment we left our eyes at him, he come back with a stray." Choi Han added.

"If not stray, he increasingly added enemies."

"There's more than White Star and the North?" Alberu* asked them.

"Yes, his highness, there's _____." Rosalyn answered him. "What is that bastard a spoiler?"

Rosalyn* stared at her counterpart, did she call someone a bastard, her counterpart is free from her royal duties and expresses herself well being. She didn't mind taking shit about others, she does because she's a hero.

"_______" Rosalyn tried to say 'Mogoru Empire'.

"This System likes playing with me." Rosalyn sneered, "The bastard of the western continent. There."

"Who?" Alberu* wants more information about that. Rosalyn* tries to think who she thinks her counterpart considers a bastard.

[ "Young master, we will start to dress you now."

"Oh, right. Thanks."

The door soon opened and couple servants entered to help Ron dress Cale. Cale did not notice that Ron had a stoic expression unlike his usual self as he looked at the clothes the servants were bringing in.

"Ah, something simple today."

He hated really complicated attires. Simple clothes that let you relax comfortably were the best. ]

Cale* likes putting the most complicated attires, and no one notices the change between two Cales.

"What happened to my wardrobe after he transmigrated?" Cale* asked the kids.

"He does wear them but the black ones are always part of it, nya~" Hong answered.

"So, he can wear colored clothes."

[ "Yes, young master."

The servant in charge of the attires quickly pulled out some simple clothes and Cale changed into the simplest of them all. He lightly frowned after finishing getting dressed. Even this, 'simple,' attire was extremely extravagant and not to his liking. ]

"But that aint extravagant?" Lily replied.

"Well considering his previous wardrobe that only included black." Rok Soo answered, "I added more colors to his