"Gonzi, can you please tell me what’s happening? I’m still in a state of shock right now!" My big brother was panicking.

"Can you just stay calm? You've been walking a lot. Wait until mother and father are here, and then I’ll fill you guys in on everything." Geez, I need to organize my thoughts so that I won't forget any detail.

"Gonzi, my baby! Are you okay? We were worried for days! You slept for 2 days!" That’s the empress.

"Yeah, I overused my mana, mother," I replied in a sarcastic tone.

"What happened to my quiet and innocent baby boy?" That’s the emperor, crying.

"Mom, dad. Let’s discuss the important things first, shall we?" Oh god, this is one of the reasons why House Benevolencia failed to stop the revolution.

And then, I told them everything.

"All of us are going to die."

They were so shocked that silence filled the whole room.

I didn’t tell them that I got reincarnated here from another world. I mean, Gonzi didn’t die; I can still feel him inside my body. His memories and emotions are still here. Let’s just say, there’s a huge chance that my soul and his became one. It’s not like it’s impossible to happen anyway. It’s a common trope in reincarnation novels these days.

So instead, I told them that Bathala appeared in my dreams to show me the future. I laid out everything about the 4 Ducal houses. What they’re aiming for, what they’re plotting. The events that are going to occur, the people whom to trust. I also informed them that House Honesto and Adinerado will play the biggest part in our downfall.

"So, how did you reawaken as well? You didn’t undergo the baptism," the crown prince asked in a worried tone.

"If Varalan blood combines with another Varalan blood, it’s as good as a baptism. When you pricked your finger, I pricked mine. When you raised your right hand, that’s a gesture of sharing a part of your blood with mine. Unknowingly, you gave me a little bit of your power to reawaken."

"So that’s how it is," my father, the emperor, said in a very sad tone. He might be blaming himself for the fall of the imperial family that is about to happen.

"Father, even if you don’t tell us, please stop blaming yourself. We still have a lot of time. We are going to prepare." A little encouragement will hopefully lift him up.

"Are you really my brother? You are not usually this talkative. Your aura is very different too. My baby brother is usually shy and cute." What the heck is he talking about?

"Let’s say I experienced the things that I’m telling you right now. I felt everything that Bathala showed me—the torture, the pain, the death itself. Maybe it changed my personality somehow.” Like, how can I explain that all of us are inside a novel? That I’ve read everything that is going to happen? I know I’m in a real world, but still, my transmigration happened so quickly, and it’s just been a few days. The reason why I’m still composed until now is that I was trained to be like this in the army.

The Emperor suddenly looked at me with a serious face.

"So, son, what should we do?"