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I woke up.

I felt like I had seen a strange dream.

Sylphy and Roxy were there.

The dream of my death.

But it didn’t feel bad.

“Hmm?”

When I looked around, I saw a girl with a startled expression holding my hand.

Her right hand was holding my hand and in her left hand, she was holding the bracelet.

If you do something bad, you must apologize. I wonder if this was the result of education.

“Do you want this?”

“Oh.”

Of course, there was no hidden crest or something like that.

On top of the side table, I could see a pen.

“.............Sorry.”

That’s some amazing ability of trying to make your lies come true.

No, I should scold her here. Yep.

“Okay......”

When I lightly hit her on the head, Lara left the room with a dejected face.

Looks like Leo was keeping watch outside the room.

As I put my bracelet back on, my eyes were suddenly caught by the pen.

I’ll be turning 34 this year.

These 10 years were really peaceful.

He really came to a complete halt.

While being cautious for any attack that may come from any direction, I continued to prepare for Laplace’s return just like before.

There were places that were no good, but most of the countries had accepted our request.

Adding to that, we were coaching the military authorities of various countries about the countermeasures that should be taken against the tactics that Laplace would take.

And we were concealing the name 『Rudeus』 while making the name 『Silent Seven Star』 famous.

However, 『If a friend from the previous world does end up coming here, then I wish that something be done so that he can find me.』after accepting this wish of hers, we were now spreading her name around the world.

The first priority was to increase her popularity, and if it was someone from the previous world, then the meaning or the convenience that I was using her name to do it would surely be understood.

These days, we were researching a mana recovery medicine in hopes of increasing Orsted’s mana recovery speed.

I wonder if it’s because of the difference in the quality of mana between the Human race and Dragon Race, or was it some other reason?

Well, the potion itself was a great hit among the adventurers so it wasn’t completely in vain.

There were still a lot of things that needed to be done.

Lucy was now 17.

And did Sieg become 11 this year?

Roxy’s child - Lily Greyrat.

Both of them were girls.

It’s a large family.

That is to say, she enrolled herself in Magic University. After her graduation and celebrating her coming of age ceremony, she attended the Asura Kingdom’s National University for 3 years.

I had a huge debt towards Ariel.

If she said something like that, I’d obviously refuse, but I couldn’t say no if she just wanted to enroll my kids.

Her companion might get a hold of too much power so she didn’t marry.

Ariel currently had 5 kids, on top of which the fathers of 4 of them were unknown, Luke said with a greatly perplexed blue face.

I wouldn’t like it if she’s doing it for only political reason, but I’d permit it if the kids themselves consented to each other being their companions, or so were my thoughts.

In particular, Lucy had already become a fine adult capable of judging things herself.

Though I say that, it’s not like she simply grew older without maturing as an adult.

Honestly, even I didn’t understand about change.

And the one that had been already fixed would start deteriorating again.

Only my face could be seen to be getting older as the years went by.

Sylphy said ‘That part of you is good as well’ but Sylphy looks quite young for her age so I felt a little guilty.

Sylphy was aging quite well.

Since she’s the same age as me, she should be turning 34 this year too, but her body looked like she was about 20 years old.

Sleeping with her feels great as usual.

Neither her appearance nor her personality changed.

As usual, she still guides me as a master whenever I do something bad.

She was aging just like me.

Her s.e.x drive seemed to have dipped down a bit after giving birth to 2 children, but she still attacked me sometimes.

However, she started teaching the children swordplay, so it felt like her ferociousness had dropped down a bit.

Although she would still hit me if I touched her b.u.t.t or b.r.e.a.s.t.s without permission, that’s expected of her.

Lilia and Zenith had obviously aged.

Although it was cured by healing magic, it came back after about 1 year.

Zan.o.ba and Cliff had already become fine men.

And they helped each other out in times of trouble.

Aisha and Norn, both of them got married.

Well, they properly explained about those things and made me consent so there’s no need for me to say something this late in the game.

“...........”

Still, 34 years old huh.....

On the outskirts, on top of a small hill, a place where circular stones were standing in a row.

This cemetery too, saw a lot of new tombs within these 10 years.

At the other cemeteries, when an entire family was no longer around, their tombstones were demolished, but this place was reserved for the n.o.bles, and so even after an entire family died, their tombstones wouldn’t be demolished.

In addition to that, n.o.ble families were increasing as well, due to that gravestones were increasing too.

I stood in front of one of those gravestones.

It had gotten quite old compared to when it was first erected.

With the cleaning equipment I had brought along with me, I cleaned the surroundings and polished the gravestone.

I kept visiting at every opportunity I got and reported various things before but I ended up visiting less & less these days.

I wonder if it’s the problem with my feelings.

Looks like I was lacking feelings of grat.i.tude.

“Father, everyone’s lively and doing fine.”

The first thing that I told him was about the current state of other people.

It’s the age when I died in my previous world.

But I wonder why.

I wonder if it was because I had a lot of things to do.

Was it just a dream?

And I accepted my death with a satisfied mind.

Right, maybe the moment Lara removed my bracelet, Hitogami was able to intervene.

“If that was really true then.....”

If Hitogami made me see that, then it probably meant that it was the result of my hard work.

Maybe that was really the final battle and Hitogami lost any way of winning against Orsted.

There’s nothing anymore.

However, just as Gisu and Badigadi said, there was no news of him.

Then that meant my job was finished.

I could put effort into baby-making once every three days with my wives.

It felt like I could even start living in retirement.

“Just kidding.”

I laughed in disagreement.

So what if Hitogami had given up.

It’s not that harsh either.

It was quite fun.

There are still things that have to be done, there are also things I want to do and that I’m still doing.

That was a dream.

Or so I say. It’s not necessary that Paul was within this grave.

That’s why coming here might be an act with not much meaning to it.

But it was fine.

I’ll be working hard again from today onward.

I didn’t know what Gisu might think of this but.....well, it wasn’t like he seriously wanted to bring ruin to me.

“I’ll listen to your resentment in 40 years.....well, it might take bit longer than that or I could probably die before that.”

I had no intention of glorifying Gisu’s death, but if 10 years pa.s.s, things like that tend to fade away.

Gisu always laughed giddily while talking about jinxes.

It’s not like someone close to me had died because of Gisu, and I held no resentment towards him.

Nothing in particular would be changing just because I saw a strange dream.

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