"Nh..."

Like a sleepy summer night, I open my eyelids with a groaning voice.

I often feel uncomfortable with my eyes. Your sight is seeping.

Still, after repeated flickering and blinking several times, the focus finally fits.

It feels like you've been dreaming for a long time, waking up from deep sleep.

I feel strange and calm, and my sleep is not unexpectedly bad.

And yet, when were you asleep?

I can't remember what happened last night.

"Looks like you slept a lot, Gil. Sleepyhead."

"Become..."

What do you mean, there's someone in my bedroom!?

What the hell is going on!? Robbery?

I try to get up vigorously, but my body doesn't move as I think, and I can't get up on my own.

"─!"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey."

With that, the Lord of the Voice embraces my body and lifts me up.

Black long hair, sharp eyes.

Even the dancers in the city look back on their slightly stretched arms and feet in glamorous shape.

There's no doubt that this...

"What is it, Kuro?"

"Sorry about that. Who do you think you're living for?

So Kuro looks down at me like he told me to.

Was Black this big?

No, was my voice higher than that?

I have a bad feeling about it, and I look around in a hurry.

If you look closely, it's not my room in the first place.

It's some kind of ruin, a dim stone private room.

This bed I'm lying on is more than a bed.

"What's going on?"

I put my hand on my forehead and try to remember calmly what happened before I went to sleep.

But then I looked at my hands, and I panicked and stared seriously at both hands.

Whoa, whoa, what is this?

Why are you shrinking so much?!

Look at my stupid face, or Black opens his mouth.

"Looks like I've used my vitality to heal your wounds. I'm laughing at this cute kid. Well, that's about it."

"Hey, hey, Kuro. Wait a minute, please explain. Why is my body back when I was a kid? And why are you here? I mean, it heals wounds!

"I'm going to sleep with a lot of questions. Good morning first, right?

"That's fine now. Don't waste it. Tell me."

Kuro exhaled gently and put his arms together.

"Well, it's impossible to question it. There was little consciousness back then."

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"Well, let's be brief. Gil, you're dying in that final showdown. [M] And I brought you here, and with the help of Gifflid, I used resurrection magic. Over the years, Gifflid made up a cure for the wounds."

The final battle is imminent.

At that time, an electric shock runs through your brain so that you can play something.

I remembered everything.

"Yes, Elena helped me... the others..."

"You're dead, they are. Well, you survived, didn't you?

My nose twitches.

Your nauseous feelings gush up from the bottom of your body.

--But I couldn't help but get angry with Kuro.

Because vampires are not interested in humans in the first place.

There's nothing offensive about this guy.

I take a deep breath to calm my mind.

"They're doing it for me."

"Well, if you say it human, you'll have to live the rest of your lives to avoid wasting their sacrifices."... you're smelling like me. "

"No..." That's right. The facts haven't changed since I regretted it. Elena, everybody else, and Chloe and Gifflid gave me life. I'm honestly surprised you're in the shape of a kid like this, but you can't be selfish. "

"Exactly. The struggle is over, a peaceful world. I hope you'll live as you like from now on."

Yes, it's over.

Now let's be happy about it.

"Anyway, was I pretty much asleep? It's been a long time since my body retreated, right?

"Well, I wonder if it's been a long time since I've felt like a human being.

"I knew it. Five years... after ten years, it's no wonder."

"Thousand Years"

What is it?

Apparently my ears have also deteriorated.

I can't hear the words well.

I slowly turned my face towards Kuro.

"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. How many years have I been asleep?

Kuro has a nice expression, and now she opens her mouth firmly and makes a voice.

"So, a thousand years. It is said that it has been repeated ten times a hundred years, and if it is still difficult to understand, the sun has risen about 365,000 times. Does that make sense?

I look at the extra shock.

Something I don't know very well grabbed into my throat and my breath stuck.

Completely, the motion stops.

"Kukukuku. Gil, it's unusual for you to be surprised. I saw something interesting when I was surprised that a magician who had been said to be totally innocent had fallen asleep for a thousand years."

I finally breathe.

"Bye, asshole! I won't be with you! A thousand years!? Instead of everything changing, it will be harder to find something that hasn't!

"What are you talking about? At least I haven't changed, have I? Take a look, it's my little sister."

"That's not what I'm talking about! --- Oh, no!

Damn, that sucks.

Then there won't even be a king for me to report, not to mention Elena and Sieg's relatives, who died a long time ago! No, my descendants will survive, but... You'll never know me.

I mean, no one in the world knows me anymore.

"... No, you were there."

Unconsciously, even after a thousand years, Claudia feels strangely reassured that she's still there.

Damn, it's humiliating.

I sigh loudly.

This is not the level to live for them.

Isn't it a complete restart from the kid in the future?

If no one knows me, it's almost a new life. This is a rebirth.

"Well, it's been a thousand years since we got here. The world has changed a lot, and I think you can enjoy seeing this new world."

"It's easy for me to say. I'm admired and confused by the fact that I was caught up in all sorts of shocks."

"Ha, are you such a naïve balls? Tomorrow, she'll be cheering and singing a new life."

"Don't say anything you want to say, but..."

It's hard to deny it.

This vampire has an old relationship with Date.

Well, I can't help doubting that this is a thousand years from now. Kuro is not such a shitty liar.

All you have to do is get hungry and walk a second life.

It only deals with magic, and, well, even after a thousand years, it still works.

"You have my house, right?

"Of course. --Ah, but of course your family died a long time ago. That makes it useless to watch. Everything's crazy. Instead, there's a treehouse in the woods nearby that I've worked so hard to make fun of. Let's just relax there for the time being. You're not gonna do it alone, are you?

"I loved that house a lot, but... it was cruel. Well, let's just relax and think about what we'll do in the meantime with the treehouse."

In the meantime, let's thank this raw one.

Things are going to take too long to swallow, but I'm definitely alive.

When Kuro laughs nicely, he puts his arm under my leg and neck and hugs the princess.

"Nh... hey, idiot! Put it down!"

"What are you talking about? You still can't stand up properly? I'll take you home like this."

"No, but... oh yeah, it's humiliating! Get back to adulthood!

"Fufufu, I like it pretty much."

"I don't know what you like!

This is how I started what I should call my second life.

The world in a thousand years.

Can I do well? [M]

"--hah, I'm going to miss you."