A Chronicle of Life in a Different World

That night.

After returning to his home for the first time in a long time, Reurus, who had taken his bed early, walked out of bed watching when Eliza and the others were asleep.

Upstairs Eliza and Tina are sleeping in the living room and Natalia is sleeping in the guest room, but she leaves the house carefully so as not to wake them up.

"What, you didn't sleep? Or do you want to fight me? I think it's too reckless of you to challenge me one-on-one at night when you can't see."

And as I got out of the house, I heard a teasing voice coming from above. Looking up at the voice, Vaniel jumped down thinking he was on the roof.

"... I need to ask you something."

Reurus answers with less words and a hard voice tone. I put the "neck hunting" sword to my waist, but I didn't come to challenge Vaniel by mistake.

"Mm... I see..."

Vanille drops her shoulders a little unfortunately. But as soon as she regained consciousness, she looked at the face of Reurus and lifted the edge of her mouth.

"What does it look like? Was there anything you were worried about talking about during the day?

"Ah... can I change the location?

With that said, when Reurus turned to the outside of town, Vanille shrugged her shoulders without saying that she had no choice. There was also a desire in Reurus not to be asked about this time.

Through the gaps of the sentinel adventurers, jump over the earthen walls and go outside the town of Speranza. Vanille followed and set foot in the woods away from the town so as to be disputed by the darkness.

Then, some distance from the town of Speranza, make sure there are no signs in the surroundings, and then Reurus returns to the Vanier.

"Can I talk to you around here... quickly, Vanille? I have a lot to ask you about what I heard during the day..."

"I can only say that it depends on what I can talk about. Besides, am I obliged to answer honestly?

"... well, that's true."

Vanille talked a lot, but there's no reason to answer Reurus' questions. In that case, Reus tapped the handle of the "neck hunting" sword.

"Shit, I'm kidding. It's fun to fight you, but this time I'll answer your question by saying that you“ cleaned up ”the problem before I did... and that would be very welcome to fight."

"... as for me, if you think I owe you, I want your nails to be scaled without conditions. It may work better than it used to, but you can't die if you suck."

Reurus, who thought that Vanille's "mouth was about to lighten” would be fighting, said that he was just a little overwhelmed. I didn't think I could cross properly in my current state, but I wanted to make sure I had all the weapons and armor before I fought.

However, from Reurus, who has slipped through various battles, the battle against Vanille is at any rate an extension of the fight. If Vanille really came to kill, it would be impossible to win or even escape.

Because if you fly around the sky at high speed and use advanced magic like that used by Natalia, there will be no winning eyes and no dust.

"Speaking of which, a sword made of my nails and scales is no longer useful... I am impressed that it was often struck with a weapon made of“ that much ”material."

"I don't think it was that kind of thing...."

"I gave you broken nails and peeled scales decades ago? Still, I pride myself on being of better quality than a semi-life monster, but I am stronger now than I was before. Of course, the quality would be better now."

Hearing Vaniel's words, Reurus felt his heart shaking. Using the materials from the current vanilla to make a sword, it is highly likely that you will be able to use more weapons than Dragon Slash, which is no longer useful.

However, there was something I wanted to hear before the material as a reuse.

"It's a very fascinating story... but I need to ask you something first."

"Hmm... let me ask you something."

Although there is some moonlight, Vaniel nods in the dark closed forest to encourage conversation. Against such a vanilla, Reurus was slightly worried about how he cut it out. But silence doesn't start, or you open your mouth.

"The phenomenon that happened in the town of Lemona... Vanille said the space was cracked, but what do you mean it could cause the 'Rare Man' to come?

--Maybe it's connected to why I've reincarnated into this world.

It is a kind of complacency to try to find out. Reurus was asking why he was reincarnated and what it meant.

The Great Spirit Comona said, "Live as you please," but it is not a creepy story that everyone has no idea what they are.

"... you've got an unexpected question."

In response to Reurus, who asked, Vanille somehow blinked her eyes with a neat face.

"Seems like the 'rarity' itself knows, but what do you care so much about... oh, you mean" yes ”?

But the Reurus' attitude must have made a point. Vanille peeks down at Reurus' face and leans her neck with her hand on her chin.

"I thought it was a strange guy, but were you a 'rare man'? I didn't realize that because I was familiar with this world a lot."

"This world, hey... so there are other worlds."

After hearing Vanille's words, Reurus wondered what kind of expression to put on his face, but he firmly returned only the words.

"Soul or reincarnation?

"I understand the general meaning of words. Hmm... did you do it with that reincarnation? This is unusual again... no, as far as I know, I've never actually seen it."

As even rare beasts in the world have discovered, Vanille walks around the Reurus and gazes slowly.

"Humans from other worlds fall through the cracks of space," he said, "in the rare event that they live for a long time. However, it is famous that the person who is said to have traveled with the Great Spirit is a" rarity, "and I have heard about it in a few other cases."

"So few?

"Mm-hmm. In the Central Paradian countries we talked about earlier, it seems like they drill holes in space over a decade cycle and pull the 'rarities' at the same time, with the exception that 'it happens naturally' very rarely."

So Vaniel finishes his observation or returns to the front of Reurus.

"So, what do you care if you're a 'rare man'?

"What bothers me... is some of that."

Even though Reurus knew that he was a 'rare man', he didn't seem to care - he didn't even say 'is there such a thing', but in the light air of the vanilla, Reurus suddenly wanted to hold his head.

"... do you know why I was reincarnated into this world?

"I don't know. I have some trouble with the continent by promise, but I don't know that kind of detail."

In the meantime, the question I tried to bump into was quickly disconnected. Reurus sighed, and Vernier smiled a little bitterly.

"Well, perhaps, there are times when the space is ripped to such a size that the 'rarities' come through. Isn't your soul passing through there and coming to this world?

"When I hear that, it sounds like I might be physically connected to another world... No, if people are actually coming in the form of 'rarities', are they connected...?

It was because the worlds were connected so that they could come and go, that they themselves were reincarnated into this world. Is it because of the “connection” that the words that you should have known on Earth are used in our world?

(But then, my memory...)

Reurus has thought about it before.

Even though human memory is supposed to be engraved in the brain, what does it mean to have a memory of the previous life even if it is reborn into a new body?

In the abandoned city of Madalo, I ate rice for the first time in this world, but it didn't taste as good as it used to taste. There may be the quality of rice itself, but it is “different in body”, so you can't have the same taste as the previous life. Rather, if you feel the same taste as in the previous life, you doubt your sanity as to whether your tongue and taste have also been regenerated together.

However, even though the body is different, only memory inherits from the previous life. It is a memory that has already faded and become worn out, but I can still remember things that are impressive.

(After I died in my previous life, someone just caught my soul and threw it into our world with my memory... no. I can't find a reason to do that, and I don't remember doing something like that.)

It was because the space cracked and connected to another world - the Earth - that we were reincarnated into this world.

As for your own memories, there may be parts engraved not only in the brain, but also in the soul. The fact that the world and the earth may be connected means that there may be magic on the planet without Reurus knowing it.

With that in mind, I wondered if it was strange to have memories engraved in things that might or might not be called souls.

Reurus thinks about why it is him, but decides that it is probably just a coincidence. Even Japan, which was ostensibly peaceful, lost hundreds or thousands of lives per day.

You're saying my soul accidentally broke into a crack in space on its way to hell or heaven? Honestly, I thought it would be a life without meaning until I ran into the abandoned city of Laval....)

Hmm, Reurus roars. I learned the reason for my reincarnation from an unexpected opponent, but when I think it happened by chance, I have feelings that are difficult to describe.

Nothing particularly dramatic happened, but he was reborn when he died and noticed. Should I be happy to spin new life, or should I raise my middle finger and curse at the thought of 15 years in Shenna Village? I can't help it if I don't have someone to scold at first.

"... by the way, don't monsters enter another world from this world?

I try to ask such a question while thinking. Transformation, not reincarnation - this is the magical phenomenon of Ogata, but it is likely to be catastrophic if monsters suddenly appear in all of Japan.

"It depends on the size. Was the crack in the space you saw in the town of Lemona the size of my passage?

"It wasn't that big... I see..."

All of a sudden, a catastrophe like monsters running around the town would have been avoided. Vanille leaned strangely as Reurus thought about it, leaving feelings without a place to go.

"I don't know what kind of person you were, but what's the point of being a 'rare man' to you now?

"That's right... don't you see?

Take Vanier's question, look for answers for a few seconds and come to a conclusion.

It's after he's already reborn. He is living as an adventurer in the abandoned city of Laval and an adventurer in the town of Speranza.

There are many things I think about the “present body”, and there are aspects that Reus himself cannot grasp, but you can think of it as a profit even if you just know the reason for his rebirth.

(When I reincarnate into this world... even if there was a crack in space and a “thing” going through it, I don't think I can do anything about it right now.)

Reurus laughed bitterly that it was probably a product of coincidence and was worthy of himself, who had been ordinary in his previous life.