The First (Grand) Magician

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏: "𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝"

Arc 1: The Beginning

"Hmm, it seems the game store didn't have the game I wanted. Guess I will have to come back next time....."

Were the words I said before I realized that those were going to be my last. I was just walking through the road back to my house when someone came running at me and stabbed me in the guts.

The man ran at me before I even realized what was happening, I felt a sharp pain at my stomach, which was the last thing I felt before collapsing to the ground.

I thought, "Why did I have to die now, I still haven't done everything I wanted to do...."

It wasn't as if my life was totally empty, I was a normal high school student and I had friends who I hang out with. I live in my parents house and I play video games and write novels when I have time. But still, why now. Why couldn't I have died after I got a girlfriend or graduated.

And everything went black....

==Scene Change==

[Mysterious Voice: Hmm, this child... He shall be blessed...]
...
When I woke up I couldn't feel a thing, my eyes wouldn't open, and everything felt so distant. I heard a child crying and a woman trying to comfort them. It sounded as if she was speaking to me. Where am I. What is this place. I don't know.

Eventually I managed to open my eyes just a bit to see a Woman carrying me and a Man next to her, I can't see what they look like exactly but.... Why am I being carried by this woman? What's going on here?

"Hey, looks like he stopped crying", says the man

"He must have been hungry after all", replied the woman

"That must've been it"

Both of them seem to be talking to each other about something, I can't exactly hear the conversation, but I can hear some.

"I think it's about time but, what should we name him, dear?", she said

"I'm not sure, how about Vance, or Eric?", the man asked

"Those names are typical, and our first son's name is already called Eric"

"What do you mean? I think those are great names"

"Those aren't great names dear, though I have a better one. How about we call him Rim"

Rim? What are they talking about, are they talking about me? But, my name is not Rim, it's Izuma. Shizuko Izuma...

"Rim is a nice name I guess, though I still think my choices were better", the man said

"So he will be called Rim von Excelsior"

While they were still talking, I could hear another person enter a door, and from what I could hear, they sound like a child. Well, two children could be heard, a boy and a girl.

"Mama, has brother stopped crying?", the voice which sounds like a boy said

"Mama, have you named my little brother yet", the voice that sounds like a girl also said

"Fresca, What do you mean "your" little brother? He is my brother too"

"Well it seems he already likes me more, Eric."

"I highly doubt that Sister, he definitely likes his Nii-san more"

"Now, now, children. Stop arguing and bothering your mother and your little brother", the man said as he reprimands the children

""Yes, Papa""

Though the argument may have stopped for now, they continue to have a very "passionate" conversation, and from what I can learn, I am the 2nd son of the family of Excelsior, Rim von Excelsior, and these two, Fresca and Eric, are my older sister and brother, in which my brother is the eldest.