Vol 1 Chapter 2 (1/2)

“It doesn’t seem to be a dream.”

Seated upon the bed, Kail muttered while his head and chin were still throbbing with pain.

“A dream shouldn’t be this painful… then what the heck’s going on?”

He was fully conscious, however he couldn’t grasp his current situation.

I should be in the Demon King’s castle where I was battling the Demon King and just barely won, I should have even received a fatal wound but if this isn’t a dream then what’s going on?

The first possibility that floated to my mind was that I was under attack via magical hypnotism or illusion from the demons.

I immediately looked out the window but the same gentle town of the past spread out towards the horizon.

There’s no mistaking it, this is my hometown, the town of Rimaze.

Also, I saw Lize walking back home with her shoulders perked up and an angry pace so I tried to call out to her, but I didn’t know what to say so I just saw her off.

It’s possible for large-scale illusion magic to recreate a town like this, but only a high level mage would be able to create an illusion close enough to mistake for the real thing.

However, in order to reproduce the appearance you’d have to know what the original looked like.

I tried to look for any differences, but on the bed were the same scratches, and in the books were the same doodles I made as a kid. It’s impossible to make such a realistic illusion with this amount of detail.

It isn’t hypnosis or memory tampering as I’ve already heightened my magic resistance so those things won’t work on me. Even if it was hypnosis once the target becomes aware of it the magic is destroyed, it’s that kind of thing.

(In the first place, they shouldn’t have felt the need to use such an attack on me in that situation.

I was so gravely injured that, even if they didn’t finish me off, I would’ve just died….)

After I thought about all that, I checked my left arm. The result was that there weren’t any particular wounds that would make it unusable.

The injuries were to such a degree.

“It has healed…. No, it’s different.”

Even the world’s greatest healing spell shouldn’t be able to heal it, it’s shocking.

and there should be a scar. Speaking from experience it shouldn’t be wrong…

However, my left arm wasn’t injured at all. Of course I can move it without a problem. It was as if there was no injury from the start.

“Even old injuries have disappeared.”

The scar from last year that should have been there was gone. Further examining my body the wounds on my arms and legs were gone too.

Trying to move my body was abnormally nice. Things like fatigue and pain that were bothering me had all cleanly disappeared..

“But my body’s ability has somewhat dropped… I also feel as if my arms have gotten thinner.”

I jumped trying to confirm it but compared to before, it felt as if it body’s ability had significantly dropped compared to half a day ago.

Kail decided to try to leave the room after thinking a little.

Heading for the first floor’s living room, where there should be a mirror.

For the time being I left the room while checking my surroundings but nothing happened, after leaving my room I understood this was exactly as I remember my old home.

After checking the mirror in the living room I became even more certain.

It´s certainly my face, but all my facial scars have disappeared, but above all else.

“Like I thought…. I’m young again.”

I had completely forgotten my birthday because of my day-to-day battles, but I should have at least been more than twenty years old.

Yet reflected in the mirror is a face that’s of someone in his mid-teens at most.

That means, that was… no this was a thing for rejuvenation?”

Taking out the red gem that was inside his pocket.

Like always it gives of an otherworldly beautiful glow that’s as mysterious as ever, but I don’t feel any tremendous magic like that time.

Certainly rejuvenation magic exists however it’s a forbidden art that needs a tremendous amount of magic power.

“No, even if it was rejuvenation it shouldn’t need that much magic. Also it wouldn’t explain this situation…”

Kail had been holding his head while in front of the mirror.

My hometown that was supposed to be destroyed, my childhood friend that was supposed to be dead and my rejuvenated body….. There is only one answer to explain this all.

But I shook my head to that foolish thought.

But Lize certainly said that today was my sixteenth birthday.

“Sixteen years old… Then it’s that? I came to the past?”

Although it’s not impossible. Just like a story out of a fairy tale.

Those four years, it would still be more believable for those four years to have been a dream or a delusion.

But there is the red gem that could be called material evidence. Above all, the experience of fighting with the fierce demon tribe, there is absolutely no way that could have been a dream or a fantasy.

But common sense denies it by saying there’s no way it could have happened.

“s.h.i.+t, something like this…. It’s more convincing to say that I’m crazy.”

Kail had been holding his head for a while but made a wry smile when his belly growled out in hunger.

“No matter what kind of situation it is, I still gets hungry… No I should think of it as proof that everything’s normal.”

Kail went to the kitchen hoping he’d find something.

But a decent meal was already in the kitchen when he got there.

On the table was freshly baked bread, dried meat and vegetable soup. There was also scrambled egg with salad and also a dessert.

For breakfast they were all elaborate dishes.

“Seems like Lize prepared all of this.”

In a family where everyone sucked at housework n.o.body could stand up against her who cooked all the meals.

Tempted by the nice smell I reached out my hand, in that instant the possibility of poison entered my head but I lightly shook my head and began eating.

It was a nostalgic taste.

This soup was said to be a specialty that was handed down in Lize’s family as a special recipe.

She pa.s.sed away before I got to ask her so when I was free I tried to reproduce the taste but it didn’t work.

“I should eat it…. before it cools down….”

Kail began to eat furiously while tears involuntarily welled up.

Warm food after a long time of only eating preserved food was really delicious.

“As expected I ate too much.”

There was a considerable amount, but not being able to control myself I ate it all.