There is still one day left until the taboo-free summer solstice.

Although this day is not defined in this world full of Western fantasy feeling.

Since Sully's "disappearance", time has become meaningless to many people, just like it did in the past.

In a daze, good and bad, everything flows through the palms and fingertips.

Egbert attended the funeral of Elvy Bescemer, who was buried deep in the mountains of the Dragon Territory.

According to a common dragon: Victoria is buried with her.

When Leia later went to the mountain, she brought back a lot of white bones.

Upon asking, I learned from the mermaid that those were all bones of former mermaids.

Egbert thought he was ill.

Leia said, "Before that, the dragon used me, the mermaid governor, to exchange the bones of those old and dead creatures."

"At this time, what's wrong with me giving her a gift?"

"Victoria was killed by the previous water king under your command." Egbert retorted.

"What does it matter?" Leia raised an eyebrow. "You don't think a lousy merman like me would feel guilty about this, do you?"

"It's a pity if you think so."

"My only thought was that the war hyena eventually became a war dog, a story that even a third-rate bard couldn't tell - and I actually saw it."

"You're sad, but I won't laugh at you." Egbert looked up at the sky.

The sunlight was scorching, and no matter whether one's body was strengthened by the elements or not, Egbert still felt that humans could not look directly at the sun.

Leia was the most stubborn person in her body: "It's not sadness."

“It has nothing to do with being sad.”

"Besides, I would be happy if I could kill an opponent who could restrain me."

"Pfft." Egbert made the sound expressionlessly.

"By forcing those dragons away and taking Cyril with you to teach you, you have already exposed yourself completely." Egbert looked down at the rocks on the ground, the shadow on his face showing a lingering feeling of fatigue.

Leia still insisted: "I just want to prevent those dragons from secretly turning his little friend into a transformed monster when Suli is not around."

But after hearing this, Egbert did not reply.

Should those who save the world do something earth-shattering?

But at that time, everything was quiet.

What impressed me most was that the thunderstorm weather suddenly turned sunny.

Suddenly, the figure in memory disappeared.

All that is left is endless emptiness and shadow...

How could it be that after knowing the existence of the powerful monster, the nobles kept moving inward and trying to cause trouble.

Euphia began to adjust the rules of the mercenaries.

Diz was forced to take up the post, but the Holy See of Light was almost dead in name only.

Dean Asa is still hanging around in the academy. He is the former president of the Mercenary Union. He occasionally sits with him in the library where Sully once worked, discussing people from the past.

The name Charles was later gradually known to the younger generation.

Roy went back to Sriqing City. No one knew what happened during the trip. All they knew was that the two-star mercenary returned with nothing.

All that was left on him was a set of clothes.

When asked, he just said, "I met some acquaintances."

Egbert knew that the so-called acquaintances referred to other relatives of the real owner of the name "Roy".

Perhaps it can be said that they are the only relatives left.

The invasion of the Monster Forest at that time still left an indelible mark on the city.

Lan Zhe later went to Jisuo Town and bought a small house there specifically. The window with the best view was right opposite the place where the crystal pterosaur died.

He told others: "We can't continue to rent a house when Sully comes back."

Custer still spends all day in the laboratory.

He discussed with his team whether it was possible for a meteor to cross from one world to another, and Lan Zhe chose to provide a large amount of funds in the name of Suli.

Willard harassed his nominal sister, Ophelia, more than once.

The former always tells the latter as if he is sick: "I always feel like I have died once, but for some reason, I continue to live in this world."

Ophelia just rolled her eyes and replied: "You are sick."

Mavis went back to the Dark Church, and no one knew what happened afterwards, but the Dark Pope meant that she had completely left the Dark Church and would become a professional promoter of Sully's glory.

Julius had a private conversation with her. With some memories of the Pope of Light, he told Mavis: "If [Spirit] and [Tiger] are both so-called gods, then the former was created by Him and eventually gathered the faith of mankind. The latter was created by monsters, but in the end it still gathered the faith of mankind."

Mavis was somewhat unimpressed with Julius. She looked at him with disdain and said with a pout, "Speak human language."

"What I mean is that the God of Light and the God of Darkness exist because people believe in them. If people don't believe in them, then they are nothing. But if enough people believe in Suli's existence, then his consciousness may be reunited."

Julius himself didn't know what he was saying, but Mavis believed it.

She even found Matilda, who was not dead but had lost all her powers.

The Queen of the Feather Tribe sat on the wheelchair Addison had made and asked her, "What's the point of cooperating with a piece of trash?"

Mavis vowed, "But it is precisely because you are no longer capable of continuing to serve as queen that you can devote all your time to promoting Sully."

Matilda choked.

Her Majesty always felt like she was meeting another Bartholomew.

That's the kind of...

The same characteristics of a scumbag.

Thinking about what Bartholomu said now, I feel that at that time the unicorn simply regarded her as an artificial shield that could be used many times.

As for Mavis... this human gave Matilda the feeling that: you are of no use anyway, so you might as well use the remaining flame to continue to illuminate the darkness.

The three most powerful beasts of the Feather Tribe are Adonis the Gray Crane, Asgari the Snowy Owl, and Addison the Butterfly.

The former is committed to developing the Gray Crane clan; Asgari is thinking about how to kill the transformed monsters reasonably when his purpose of killing the transformed monsters has been exposed, and at the same time attract like-minded teammates.

Addison said: "I won't get involved. If I have the time, I might as well make a few more wheelchairs in different colors for Matilda so that she can have more suitable combinations when promoting different portraits of Sully."

Egbert himself didn't know how he knew all this.

It was only now that I suddenly recalled it that I felt inexplicably: "...everyone seemed to be forgetting Master Suli little by little."

Leia looked at Egbert in surprise, who had just said this after a long time.

“What makes you think so?” the mermaid said.

“In fact, no one has forgotten.”

"Before Matilda came, Barthalom took the initiative to say that he would lead the entire beast tribe to convert their faith in Clemens to Suli. I also gave the same instructions to the water tribe."

"I haven't been able to choose a suitable monster for the new king of the water tribe, so I decided to leave the position to Suli. Come to think of it, didn't I say this before?"

Leia looked at Egbert with a strange expression.

The latter's expression gradually changed from tired to gloomy.

To some extent, Egbert, who is equivalent to the unicorn's direct disciple and is one of the strongest light elementalists among humans, is aiming at Leia's fatal weakness...

The mermaid swears, "I really mean it!"

"It's because you really mean it that I can't do it!"

"What else? Do you want me to give him the identity of the Water Tribe Governor as well...? Actually, this is not impossible, but if you want to replace my identity, you have to at least give it to another water monster, so that he can defeat me. For example, hang my scales around his neck, or on his head?"

Egbert smiled and said word by word: "Kill you!"

The day I disappeared...

Only Sully's body disappeared, his consciousness did not disappear.

In other words,

After finding no suitable body to carry his soul in the other world, Suli returned to the time before the time travel.

He has an adult body and is over 180cm tall. Judging from the length of time he has been conscious of the figure in the mirror, it has only been over a year since he last saw her.

But looking at it again now, the figure in the mirror already seemed strangely familiar.

"Meow……"

The big orange cat, which was heavy enough to make a person fall to the ground, charged directly at the poop scooper's fragile stomach.

His body language was faster than his thoughts, and Sully caught the fat cat smoothly.

until--

It suddenly said: "You are back."

Suli:?

Suli: ???!

The house was later sold through an agent, and all the proceeds were donated to a stray animal rescue organization.

The remaining balance in the card was also withdrawn at once, most of which was left to the orphanage that had raised him, and a small portion was given as a summer surprise in the form of red envelopes to some planning friends with whom he still had contact.

He left a message saying: "Although there is a world in my heart, I also want to see it with my eyes."

After a friend responded to her message in seconds, saying "Speak human language", Suli took out his phone and typed a sentence much slower than usual: "Although my heart is full and happy, I also want to see the world up close."

The friend finally replied with an OK.

After many years, the gray figure of the young man photographed sitting on a rocking chair in the garden, holding a cat, squinting his eyes and smiling, with his whole body illuminated by golden spots of light, never lit up again.

Suli stood outside the city of Sadina, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt with the cuffs slightly folded up. He held a cat in one hand and placed the other hand on his eyelids, looking at the moat in front of him.

The heat of the summer solstice caused sweat to seep out of Suli's forehead.

The young man who didn't know how to operate, only knew that he had become shorter again... No, the boy asked in a low voice: "So, why is the so-called world consciousness a cat?"

The fat orange dog, who was not affected by the natural temperature at all, lazily swung his tail and said, "I don't discriminate against dog people. I chose to be a cat only because you can't raise a small dog, and you can't sleep with a large dog in your arms."

"Of course, the most important thing is that I have never seen a child who, at the age of twelve or thirteen, clearly saw the hardships of life, but did not pray to God like the director of your orphanage, but chose to talk to the globe..."

The summer breeze blew past my body, making me feel hot and stuffy.

The young man's clear voice was like a gentle breeze that blew away the dullness.

Both said in unison:

"——If the world really has thoughts, then you must learn to love yourself."

The pure black hair, which is completely different from everyone else's in this world, is more eye-catching than platinum hair under the sunlight.

Those black eyes were filled with mystery and a gentle smile.

Afterwards, we entered the city in an orderly manner.

A familiar street that seems a little more prosperous.

as well as--

All kinds of people were saying, "Thank you, Suli-sama."

Many people, many people are repeating this sentence.

Before Suli showed his shock, Fat Orange said first: "Faith is belief itself."

The voices of countless people were drawn to the cat in arms.

——"I hope Lord Suli can come back to this world."

——"I drank barley wine today, and my brother kicked me and told me that I couldn't put wine on my altar, saying that I was not yet an adult... I had already drunk barley wine when I was just learning to walk."

——"If you don't come back, the new king of the water tribe will be chosen."

——"Can you see the new system of the Mercenary Alliance?"

——"That idiot Willard is getting more and more annoying. When can you come back and get rid of him? Let him chase you instead of bothering this prince."

——"It was agreed that the treasury would only lend it to you temporarily to help you store your gold coins. But how come it's piled up to the point of overflowing? It's a headache..."

——"Leia said that there is a high probability that I will become a strange new species that is half human and half dragon. I don't care much about that, but I left you my most beautiful piece of dragon scale... When will you come back?"

——"The weather is so hot. If you don't come back, you won't be able to eat the shaved ice I made this summer. Come back soon?"

——"Barsalom accidentally revealed before that his horns can repair broken bones. Well, I have an idea..."

Sully's forward steps paused.

His fingers holding the cat moved slightly, but in the end he just said: "I seem to be back late...!"

"So it's back, not come?"

A faint smile hung on Suli's face.

That oriental face is completely different from this world.

The elegant man is profound and thoughtful, with a bright and clear moon.

The small red building is right in front of us.

The window on the second floor was half open, and it looked as if a pure black crow would fly out at any moment.

Inexplicably, the voices that were so easily blocked by the orange cat were heard again.

Two of them, with a firmness far beyond that of others, penetrated deeply into Suli's heart.

——"If this world is not what you want, what should I do?"

——"If you become a god, you can return to this world. Then I will believe in you forever and ever, and stay here, quietly waiting for your return."

The wooden door creaked.

The man inside the door lowered his head with a lonely look in his eyes. The black crow above his head also lowered its head, making his melancholy look even more prominent.

Until the crow's beak hit the man's head, again and again.

The blue eyes lifted up, and slowly, bit by bit, the blue spread into the mist.

Sully held the cat in his arms and glanced at the crow with annoyance.

However, Fat Orange, who took the initiative to make the choice, glanced at the crow whose fur was about to explode and said, "Don't even think about it. The place in Sully's arms will always belong to me."

Egbert rushed to Sully at high speed.

Despite the different hair color, eye color, facial features and stature, Egbert could still recognize Sully at a glance.

"Lord Suli..."

Suli did not offer his hand to help him, but said calmly and firmly: "I really want to patiently look at this world, whether it is the elements or those strange magic circles."

then……

Sully stretched out his hand toward Egbert on the ground.

He smiled lightly, his voice as gentle as jade: "Hello, I'm Suli, I'm back."

This is a brief story that happens in just over a year in the life of an ordinary human being.

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