ACT 1 – Kingdom of Lies

ACT 1 – Kingdom of Lies
Seirei Gensouki 01 - Itsuwari no ōkoku (精霊幻想記 01.偽りの王国) are the first installment of the Seigensou Light Novel series, it tell the story about Rio just after he awaken his previous life memories, a Japanese university student named Amakawa Haruto, his out of place life in noble society and the level of rot inside Beltram Kingdom.

Summary
Haruto Amakawa, 20 years old, a college student from Tokyo university, died in a traffic accident when a truck crash into the bus his riding in, he died carrying regret where he failed to confess to his childhood friend, a promises that he work on his entire life.

One day in a slum somewhere in a kingdom called Beltram, an orphan boy Rio, wake up with Haruto memories inside him, he soon get involved with a kidnapping incident involving the royalty, and somehow repelled the culprit by using magic and martial art that awaken along with the memories, enabling him in saving the princess.

After he managed to proof that he's not the culprit in a duel, the king grant a chance him to enroll in the royal academy, something that he grateful for because he really lacking in that world information.

For a lowly orphan from the slum to enroll in aristocratic academy, he soon get in all kind of trouble from the rest of the student body, with only one people in the whole school that accept him, his own teacher Celia Claire.

Seeing how fast Rio learn something, Celia choose to teach all kind of thing to Rio, from magic theory, noble manner, to tea brewing, the times spent together bring both of them closer and closer.

Yet it didn't last long, another incident happen while in the school excursion outside, where even when Rio once again save the princess from falling to her death, the rest of the noble child tried to shift their fault in endangering the princess at him, that end with the king himself declaring him guilty and putting him in wanted list.

Though at first Rio indeed planning to leave the country after graduation, he have no choice but escape from the country and start his journey to his parent homeland because of the false charge.

Saying a farewell to a tearful Celia, Rio escape from Beltram kingdom on the same day, and start his journey to the east, not knowing that one of the noble sent an assassin to silence him for once and for all.

Character Debut

 * Rio
 * Celia Claire
 * Christina Beltram
 * Flora Beltram
 * Vanessa Emal
 * Alfred Emal
 * Aria Gavaness
 * Aishia (Dream)
 * Gustave Huguenot
 * Stead Huguenot
 * Alphonse Rodan
 * Lucius L'Orguille (Flashback)
 * Reiss
 * Roana Fontina
 * Garcia Fontina
 * Helmut Albou
 * Charles Albou
 * Phillip Beltram 3rd
 * Ayase Miharu (Flashback)
 * Ayame Karasuki (Flashback)
 * Latifa

Trivia

 * In the WN, instead of Minotaur, the one that attacking the excursion group are a horde of goblin instead