Chapter 1

. Can a God Change Their Name?

You’ve probably heard the saying that shamans are supposed to be pure and incorruptible.

But does everyone really live that way?

“Goodness, Young Master Seo! Did you see yesterday’s broadcast? You looked absolutely fantastic on camera!”

“Haha, did I?”

“Of course! I’ve always known Young Master Seo has such a handsome face, but after seeing you yesterday, I thought even actors would be intimidated by your nose! Oh, right. Here’s your offering.”

I barely managed to keep the corners of my mouth from shooting up as I casually accepted the thick envelope.

Heh. How much is this?

As expected of Madam. She sure is generous.

Hehehe.

Who says shamans aren’t supposed to care about money?

There was, without a doubt, the most successful shaman in all of present-day South Korea standing right here, making a fortune and living the good life.

Seo Woo-tak, twenty-seven years old. Currently the hottest shaman in South Korea.

I was doing so well that I had even conquered the major terrestrial TV networks.

“But Young Master Seo. Is that really true?”

“What is?”

“That you’re actually the child of some conglomerate family or something.”

Whoa. Why do rumors spread so fast in this industry?

“Well, it is true that I’m from a wealthy family.”

I deliberately gave a vague answer to dodge the question.

It wasn’t like I was a particularly important child in the family anyway. I was practically nonexistent as far as they were concerned.

After giving Madam a few efficacious talismans and sending her on her way, I tidied up the shrine.

This was the most important time of the day.

Taking up the very center of the shrine was a dazzlingly decorated ball-jointed doll.

I respectfully rubbed my hands together and prayed before reverently polishing it until it gleamed.

Why?

‘Because this is my source of income!’

That’s right. This was the Fairy Lady I served.

Not that this doll itself was her true form. It was a statue representing her.

Why was this a statue of a Fairy Lady?

Because our most exalted Fairy Lady loved pretty and flashy things more than anyone else.

That was why I always filled the space in front of her statue with photo cards of handsome male idols and all kinds of merchandise.

And on top of that, all sorts of jewelry and luxury accessories.

My shrine, glittering and dazzling from every angle, was a special attraction in its own right.

Thanks to my unique style and outstanding skills, word of me spread through social media, and that was how I had risen to where I was now.

And all of it was thanks to the Fairy Lady.

‘Ever since I listened to the Fairy Lady’s words, my era of success began. Ever since I listened to the Fairy Lady’s words, more and more broadcasts started looking for me. Ever since I listened to the Fairy Lady’s words, my life changed…!!’

Was it only success?

The Fairy Lady was the radiant goddess who had freed me from the prison without bars.

Therefore, to me, the Fairy Lady’s will was the law.

However…

“Fairy Lady. Do I really have to wear this…?”

In my hand was an unusually short top.

The garment looked as though it had been cut off halfway through production.

It was, unbelievably, a men’s crop top.

The Fairy Lady had recently developed a taste for idol styling and took great pleasure in giving me the full celebrity treatment. Unfortunately, she had become excessively obsessed with crop tops.

Going to a salon to get my hair and makeup done and putting on designer clothes? I was perfectly fine with that.

But… a crop top?

I was over 190 centimeters tall.

On top of that, I was a gym rat with muscles bulging all over me.

And she wanted me to wear a crop top…?

I suddenly remembered the lost, bewildered eyes of the customers staring at my explosively imposing crop-top-clad body.

‘Argh! The PTSD…!’

Because I hadn’t awakened my spiritual eyes, I couldn’t see or hear the Fairy Lady’s appearance or voice. But I could definitely feel her insistence that I absolutely had to wear it.

“…”

Fine. I’ll just wear it.

What else could I do? If she told me to do it, I had to do it.

I shut up and slipped my arms into the crop top.

Looks like I’m going to the gym in a crop top.

It had been a very long time since I’d exercised because of my busy schedule.

But nothing as trivial as a crop top could stop my determination to lift weights.

I steeled myself and stepped outside. The exposed skin around my stomach made the wind feel particularly chilly.

‘Is it especially cold today? Fairy Lady, could you—’

Huh?

I was about to ask her to keep me warm, but the Fairy Lady’s presence suddenly disappeared.

‘Heh. Did a celebrity come nearby?’

Whenever an idol or handsome actor happened to appear somewhere near my shrine, the Fairy Lady would mysteriously vanish from my side.

I assumed that was what had happened this time as well.

I kept walking and walking, ignoring the people staring at me.

No, but why are they staring so much?!

Sure, I was wearing a crop top, but this was getting ridiculous!

Some people even let out little screams and pointed at me.

Seriously, people.

Hmm. Was this road always this shadowy?

I slowly raised my head.

Something enormous and covered in shaggy fur was looming above me.

“Uh…?”

Before I could even process what I was seeing, a desperate scream pierced my ears.

—No!!!

“Guh!”

A burning sensation spread through my stomach as my vision suddenly went flying toward the sky.

The last thing I saw was a black body marked with a white crescent moon.

‘…A bear?’

What the fuck is a Asiatic black bear doing in the city?!

And that was how I got torn apart.

Then I opened my eyes.

Huh?

“Eua-bu?”

—Kyaa! He opened his eyes!

In front of me was a girl with twin tails who looked both unfamiliar and strangely familiar.

Eeeeh?

“Abu-beu-beu bue-beu?”

‘A shaman reincarnated into another world starting from zero years old?’

If this were a web novel, no one would read it.

Because, literally, I was reincarnated into another world the moment I died.

—Kya-haha! Woo-tak is still so funny!

And the floating girl with twin tails in front of me was none other than the Fairy Lady I had served in my previous life.

She looked about fifteen or sixteen.

No wonder she was obsessed with idols.

It all made sense now, and memories of her spending days wandering social media in search of rare photo cards to trade came flooding back.

Hmm. My eyes suddenly filled with tears.

“Uweebbe….”

“Oh my! Whatever could be wrong with our young master? Why does he look so sad?”

Oh, dear.

My nanny picked me up to comfort me.

—Woo-tak, did you really become a baby?

‘My mind is still that of an adult, thank you very much.’

What was there to be embarrassed about?

I was a complete newborn baby!

From what I had observed, this place resembled medieval Europe, and I had been born into a wealthy household.

Once again, I was the child of a rich family.

Well, being born into a wealthy family was certainly a good thing.

But perhaps the greatest blessing of all was this.

—Woo-tak! I heard people talking earlier, and apparently they’re going to give you a name soon!

She giggled happily.

Could there be anything better than the Fairy Lady smiling brightly in front of me?

I had no idea how she had managed to follow me after I was reincarnated into another world.

But having the Fairy Lady by my side meant that wealth and prosperity in this life were practically guaranteed.

Long live the Fairy Lady!

‘Fairy Lady! Will I be able to walk the path of money and jewels again this time?’

—Who knows? If I regain my former strength, then probably?

Huh?

What was that supposed to mean?

‘Where did all the merit I worked so hard to accumulate go?’

—It disappeared when you reincarnated. Obviously.

What?!

“Bwaaaaaa!”

‘Nooooo!’

“Oh my! What on earth is wrong?”

A shaman’s power came from the deity they served.

Then where did a deity’s power come from?

It was created from the merit accumulated by their shaman disciple through diligent prayer.

There were also cases where a god would go to a spiritually potent mountain and recharge on their own.

But our Fairy Lady wasn’t that type.

She preferred idol concerts to mountains.

Regardless.

That meant the entire tower of merit I had spent more than twenty years painstakingly building had come crashing down!!

‘If you’re going to reincarnate someone, shouldn’t you at least give them a reincarnation buff…?’

Damn it.

If I had possessed someone else’s body instead, at least I could have wandered around here and there.

“Euaaaaah!”

‘I’m a newborn baby!’

Even when I tried to move, all I could do was helplessly flail my arms and legs.

Good grief.

For the next several months, I would be trapped like this, unable to speak or even move properly.

At least I had the Fairy Lady beside me, so I wouldn’t be bored—

—Kyaa! But Woo-tak! You’re so adorable! When you grow up, you’re totally going to look like an idol!

Wouldn’t—

—Your hair and eyelashes are blond! They’re so gorgeous! And your eyes are blue!! Kyaa!

Wouldn’t—

—Your arms and legs are so long, too! You’re going to grow up nice and tall again!!

Argh! She’s so noisy!

This wasn’t merely a matter of not being bored. My ears were practically ringing.

Maybe it had actually been better when I couldn’t see or hear her.

The image of the mysterious and spiritually powerful Fairy Lady I had held in my heart was crumbling to pieces.

‘This is a complete shock.’

But as they say, every cloud has a silver lining.

Although the Fairy Lady was a scatterbrain who chattered incessantly, she did relieve the suffocating frustration of being trapped inside a newborn’s body.

And although she had lost her power, she had not lost her divinity. Her greatness only made my faith in her stronger.

Right. Power could be accumulated little by little.

I was a baby, after all.

Besides, after observing my surroundings for several days, I realized that the place I had been born into wasn’t merely reasonably wealthy.

Even to my eyes, which had grown quite accustomed to expensive things, the enormous wealth of this household was obvious everywhere I looked.

This is doable. This is definitely doable…!

‘Hehehe. Even if I just get some support from the family, that should be pretty lucrative.’

At this level, they had to be some sort of aristocratic family.

I didn’t know what family it was or which child I was.

But I had no desire for power anyway, so couldn’t I just ask them to give me a decent allowance?

There was one thing bothering me, though.

I still hadn’t seen my parents’ faces.

‘Seriously, why do they always come when I’m asleep? I sleep fifteen hours a day!’

Still, it was fine.

I had the Fairy Lady.

Even if she lacked power, as long as she stayed with me, I could somehow work on building their affection for me.

And so I waited for the day I would finally meet my parents.

A few days later.

‘Holy… Are these two really my parents?’

Holy, holy…!!

They were truly holy.

What was so holy about them?

Their faces!!

Both of them practically radiated light!

‘Gah, they’re blinding…!’

No wonder the Fairy Lady went crazy whenever my parents came and left while I was sleeping.

There was a reason.

My mother, in particular, looked as though she had an actual halo shining behind her.

Shimmering blond hair and a benevolent smile.

Ah, could you truly be my goddess?

—Woo-tak, pull yourself together.

‘Ahem.’

Even after taking all my previous lives into account, their beauty was so shocking that I temporarily lost my mind.

My father was also an incredibly handsome man.

Rather than ruggedly masculine, he had delicate, refined features.

He almost looked like an idol…

—Kyaaaaa! Woo-tak! Your dad is so handsome!!

‘Fairy Lady, please pull yourself together.’

He looks like an idol.

I could practically see hearts shooting out of the Fairy Lady’s eyes in real time.

Damn it. I could already picture my future, with her screaming every time my father came into view.

‘Wait. If my parents look like this, then what will my face look like…?’

Was this the reincarnation gacha jackpot people always talked about?

The Fairy Lady had always been so excessively enthusiastic that I had more or less guessed it.

But I never expected my parents to have such unrealistically beautiful faces.

Seeing the two faces that would probably resemble my future appearance made my anticipation grow and grow.

‘I want to see a mirror…!’

And so, instead of a mirror, I became distracted by my parents’ faces.

Then I suddenly realized something.

Both of them looked incredibly holy.

Even their auras felt sacred.

‘Huh? Now that I look at it, their clothes…’

…?

They looked somewhat like clerical robes.

“Oh, that’s right. The date for the child’s naming ceremony has been decided.”

“My goodness, congratulations, Your Eminence.”

“…What?”

I looked up at my father with trembling eyes.

‘My father is a cardinal…?’

My gaze naturally shifted to the Fairy Lady, who was flying around my father in circles while squealing excitedly.

So much for being lucky.

Looks like I screwed up the family gacha.

‘The Shaman Reincarnated into Another World from Zero Years Old Was Actually the Cardinal’s Son…’

That really sounded like a web novel title I’d never want to read.

‘Fairy Lady, if they find out I’m a shaman, will they kick me out of the family?’

—I don’t think these people will even notice that you’re a shaman.

I sighed as I watched the Fairy Lady floating upside down in front of me.

For now, I would put my plan to use her to build affection on hold.

Who knew what would happen if I got caught?

I didn’t know much about what kind of world this was yet, but if the cardinal’s son were exposed as a heretic, then regardless of the outcome, it would probably be the worst possible situation.

So what should I do now?

That wasn’t my only problem.

‘Fairy Lady, are you still unable to recharge your divine power?’

—Yeah. This place seems different from Earth.

Because her divine power wasn’t replenishing, the Fairy Lady’s appearance was gradually becoming fainter with each passing day.

‘Damn it….’

I anxiously gnawed at my fingernails.

Of course, I didn’t actually have any teeth yet, so I couldn’t really gnaw on them.

But still.

I can confidently declare this:

Right now, I was completely dependent on the Fairy Lady!

No, no. I mean, think about it.

What could I possibly do right now?

I was a newborn baby who could do nothing except babble and flail around.

And the Fairy Lady was going to disappear!

To be honest, I was somewhat tempted by the wealth and glory she could bring me.

But that wasn’t everything.

In both my previous life and this one, the Fairy Lady had stayed by my side from the moment I was born.

I simply wanted her to continue being with me just like this.

I couldn’t even imagine a life without her.

There had to be a way.

Let’s form a hypothesis.

If I thought about the fundamental issue, the current Fairy Lady was an existence that had absolutely nothing to do with this world.

In the end, wasn’t it because her frequency didn’t match that of this world?

Then what if I matched the frequencies?

Wouldn’t her divine power naturally recharge?

‘The problem is, how do I match them?’

Ultimately, I needed to somehow connect her to this world.

Just as I was racking my brain over the problem, two servants entered the room to tidy up and began whispering to each other.

“Is that really true?”

“What?”

“That Lord Elysian has disappeared.”

“Ah, I’ve only heard the rumors. But judging by His Eminence’s reaction lately, it does seem to be true…”

“They say it’s already been several months since the Saint last heard Lord Elysian’s voice, too.”

“A Saint who can’t hear the word of God. How ironic.”

The two continued chatting nonstop as they made the dust in the room disappear.

‘…A god disappeared?’

—Wow, so the god here is named Elysian? That’s pretty!

‘The Fairy Lady’s name is pretty, too.’

—It’s not that my name isn’t pretty, but… Elysian. Elysian. Doesn’t it sound sophisticated? I want a name like that, too.

‘!!’

That’s it!!

‘Fairy Lady!’

—Hmm?

‘Let’s change your name!’

—Huh?

‘To Elysian!’

—Eeeh?