Dream Life

The long day is really over and I'm finally going to bed.

I expected, but no bath, with a wet cloth - not a soft one like a towel, but a waste hemp cloth - I wipe my body and dive naked into bed.

I couldn't even afford to notice in the morning, but the bed just had a cloth hanging over it with straw or something on it. The duvet is heavy stuffed with wool or something and smells like a beast.

Tired I fell asleep quickly, with little concern.

And then I realized I was in a white light.

I knew it was a dream to that unrealistic sight.

(Now if you're back in Japan, that's hilarious. And that's dazzling)

I was narrowing my eyes to a bright white light. But the light gradually grew stronger, so much so that the glare could be felt even when the eyelids were closed.

I held my eyes with my hand and waited for the light to subside, but there was never any sign of it and it was a little irritating.

(My eyes are getting dazzled and sore. Come on, stop!

You heard my wish, the light slowly subsides.

When I slowly opened my eyes, it was about time I was okay, and there was a dozen giant human shapes there.

Big enough to look up, about a dozen meters on sight. It looked like there was a head, an arm, a torso, a leg in a contour, and that seemed to be what people looked like. It also seemed like there was no entity like a balloon used in some kind of attraction, but for some reason there was something barometric about its appearance.

The feeling of that barometric pressure was unpleasant.

(I don't know what the dream is, but I don't know if I'll wake up soon)

(Can we listen?

All of a sudden, something like a thought struck me, not a voice from one of the human shapes.

The idea, like a rough wave, weighs physically and hits me. I had a buttcake on before I knew it.

"That hurts! What are you doing all of a sudden!

I exposed my anger and was yelling at one of the people I thought had unleashed my thoughts.

(Sorry. Is that all right?

Instead of thinking like an earlier rough wave, it had turned into a resistant stream that remained like a running water pool.

"It's okay, but what the hell is this place?!?

I thought you wanted to talk to us.

I didn't know what they meant, and I said, "Did you want to talk to me? I just can't see the conversation," he says in a frustrating voice.

(We called that to this world. Didn't you ask for an explanation?

I'm finally starting to see things.

(Are you saying that the god or something who called me answered my wish?

(Exactly. We are the custodians of this world. Do me a favor. to avoid the annihilation of the world, I want to help)

(Administrator of the world? You mean God? Why me?

(I do not deny that I am called God. I called that because I wanted to. We gave you a second life, and in return, you want our help)

(Did you give him a second life? Zach, no, you mean a life called Zacharias Lockhart?

(That's right. Sora had a strong desire to start over in her life. That thought reached us)

(My thoughts... if in my dreams, it's not strange that my thoughts come out. But if God...)

I wanted to hear what they had to say, whether they were gods or not.

"I'm not sure, but I kind of understand what you're trying to say. So, what do you want me to do?

(Our world could perish between hundreds and thousands of years from when it was reborn. Send someone in to prevent it…)

"Someone?

(Send in the people of the world. Our enemies need to get rid of him. I want you to prevent that)

I had no idea why God wanted to help me be just a human being.

"If you're a god, wouldn't it be faster to do it directly?

(We are forbidden to interfere directly with the world, including our enemies. It is exquisite to send in influential people. The enemy is hundreds of years ahead of us. You have to do x x x x to cover it up)

I can't hear important words,

"I didn't hear you. Again, please."

(As for XXXX, yes, but I don't understand how many times I've heard it. to prevent our interference from becoming too strong)

(I wonder what I can't hear the good part. I have no choice, let's move on......)

I decided to find out exactly how to proceed.

"So what should I do? Specifically?

(Send in those who are two years from now. The man will have interference from the enemy's hands. Asylum from its interference, and if you can, teach it to pave the way for that person)

(paving the way? Is that John the Baptist's place against Jesus? I don't teach... maybe if you say it's for me)

I used to be used as a rookie instructor at the company. He was also slightly interested in the exposé role of a hero saving the world.

I'm trying to get information about the person in question.

"Where is who? If you don't know, I can't help you.

(I can't reveal it now. But when the time comes, the wheel of destiny intersects that person. Then you'll know)

I was going to enjoy my second life. However, I am confused by the fact that I can meet the person in the case "Kun" on my own account or something, and get caught up in it.

(Are you saying no? If I say no, do you have a penalty or something?

(You may say no. There is nothing equivalent to a ”penalty”)

I finally realize that God is reading my mind.

(Are you being read in your mind? Then why did you speak to me if you didn't have to... if you could say no?

(If so, I thought they would cooperate even if they didn't understand our purpose. I don't need to feel anything. If you live like you want to live, you will fulfill our purpose first)

I decided to keep God's word just in case.

(I'm not sure, but if that's okay, I'll take it. But I'm going to live the way I want to. If that person gets in the way of my life, I won't rule it out, but I won't help either. I'm not going to dedicate my life to that person. Still good)

(That's fine)

I had a few things to check.

Especially because I was uncomfortable with the fact that I took a character creation method similar to TRPG for my abilities.

(Is that character creation your hobby?

God, with a slightly confused thought,

(I'm not sure what that means, but I was going to give you the ability to do what you wanted?

(So as for the person named Zacharias, does that mean it's what I want?

(Exactly. It's not our understanding of how we decided that)

Apparently, it was my desire to use the TRPG method.

(Then was it also possible to make it a better ability?

(Of course. But I didn't want that. I got a lot of protection from us, but I didn't ask for as much ability as a demigod)

I can finally think of what I was looking for.

I didn't want to be a hero. I just wanted to start over with my grey life.

In other words, you wanted the ability to live as a person with your peers, not as a lonely hero with absolute power like a superman of steel.

Whether you thought my silence was a sign of termination, or whether it was out of time, God announces the end of the talks.

(Enjoy your second life, then, but good. Never see us again... Farewell)

(Please wait. What is your name…)

My consciousness broke abruptly there.

When I wake up, it's still midnight and beside me my father and mother are asleep in a quiet sleep. I was remembering what I heard from my godly presence in my dreams.

(Two years from now? Be five years younger than me. If you want to teach me, shouldn't you be a little later? Or is there a reason for this age difference as well? Where and in what way do we meet that person? Well, God tattooed me to live as I please. Let me have a good second life......)

I immediately fell asleep.

From the next day on, I decided to invest in acquiring the knowledge, skills necessary to live in this world.

Language first.

As far as I know, the words we use here are close to English. The alphabet is much the same as what we use in English. Because there are so many unique things about the pronunciation of unique nouns of place names, maybe even close to words like Scotland and Wales in England.

As for words, everyday conversations quickly went away.

It was easy to remember because the alphabet is the same about the letters. The numbers could also be used without problems due only to some discomfort in the variant version of the Arabic numbers.

The problem is remembering words.

There was no dictionary in this house. Maybe something called a dictionary is so precious that it's only in places like the royal palace and the capital's library, but I shut up about the lack of a dictionary.

Because you have to ask someone all the words you don't understand.

You might think it's easy to ask, but there's no reason for a little kid like me to look up a hard word. Every time I asked, they asked me one reason, so I couldn't take much trouble.

I learned a certain amount of reading and writing in about three months and cancered the book.

In the beginning, I was given a thin book of simple stories, but in less than a month I get tired of that book.

We have a lord, my father's office, and a former lord, my grandfather's office, where books are placed, but I, the toddler, was not allowed to enter the office.

Still, I managed to ask my father to borrow books such as history, geography, etc.

And I finally know what's going on in this world.

Of course, I was listening and studying about common sense from my mother and my maids, Molly.

Twelve months a year, thirty days a month, twenty-four hours a day. The year began with the Winter Solstice, and by the way, I woke up at the beginning of June.

What I found out, combined with my geography studies, is that where I am is a small village with a population of about five hundred, called the village of Rasmore, and this is all the Lockhart family has to offer.

The village of Rasmore is a peripheral area in the northeast of the country called the Caerm Empire.

Latitude would be about forty degrees north. Because there was no more extreme difference between summer and winter sunshine times than in northern Europe, and it felt like Hokkaido was precisely.

For that matter, it's hot in summer and cold in winter. If you look at the map, it is a basin, and combined with the continental climate, it may also be such a climate at this degree of latitude.

This neighborhood was like a union of free cities called the Union of Urban States and a country called Fortis, a mercenary, and an enclave sandwiched in a kingdom called Kaum. It is a pitiful land that, when the Union of Urban States and Fortis was formed, remained as frog territory because it was too peripheral to be incorporated into their own country.

What they did not incorporate was land where monsters called demons travel, and it seems that the duty to protect the people was judged not to be caught with tax revenues.

The Caerm Empire had not originally adopted a policy of active protection of the pioneering villages of the border. For this reason, it was almost a good land to call a free border zone, but it was often given as a nominal territory to the prizes for nobility and knighthood, one of whom was our grandfather, Govan Lockhart.

My grandfather was described by civilians in his eighteen-year-old war effort, by knights, but some trouble seems to have led him to live in his own territory, the village of Rasmore, for fifteen years.

Neither my father nor my mother spoke in detail around here, and when I asked Walt and others who had served for a long time, they clouded their mouths and didn't tell me.

I just found out that I wasn't talking to my three-year-old either, and I never asked him any deeper.

To organize the story, the village of Rasmore is in the northeastern free border zone of the Caerm Empire and, going south, there is the Kingdom of Kaum, where the Dwarves are. To the north is one of the coalitions of urban states, the country of adventurers, Periclitle, and to the west is Fortis, the country of mercenaries.

And this village of Rasmore is about five kilometers off the main street, Als Street.

This “five km” is the crook, and this distance will take this village completely off the trading route. Travelers traveling the streets were traveling north and south without stopping in the village of Rasmore.

Besides the geography, it was also beneficial to understand a lot more.

This other thing I found out was the existence of the Alliance. The main guilds are commerce, mercenaries, adventurers, magicians, blacksmiths, etc.

I didn't know the details, but the guild is a mutual aid organization and has branches in relatively large cities.

They need to be in their respective guilds to be merchants and craftsmen, and that scrutiny is pretty hard, but I haven't looked into it in detail because it doesn't really matter to me, the chivalry class.

What I was interested in was still an adventurer.

I didn't really understand the difference between adventurers and mercenaries, but adventurers mainly defeat demons to get bounty money, but mercenaries say they mainly do escorts and stuff to make money. Of course, even mercenaries are amazing at specializing in massive demonic crusades, as well as so-called "soldiers” with long-term contracts with the state.

The Sorcerer's Guild was closed and had little information, but there was a headquarters in one of the Union of Urban States, the academic city of Doctus, where he said he would qualify for membership in the Guild if he entered the School of Sorcery.

As far as I'm concerned, I wanted to know the most about the Mage Guild in order to take advantage of my magical talents, but this village of Rasmore itself had very few magicians and only three healers who could use slightly healing magic.

I didn't know much about magic, but I was able to gain some knowledge from a lot of stories about God.

In this world there is Clare Thor, the Creating God, and Caerm, the God of heaven called the Three Lord God, Mons, the God of the earth, and Wita, the God of man. Furthermore, apart from the Lord God, there are eight pillars of attribute God, Ignis the God of Fire, Lucidus the God of Light, Wentus the God of Wind, Albor the God of Wood, Fonce the God of Water, Noctis the God of Darkness, Reams the God of Earth and Fermu the God of Gold.

They say these attributes God has a strong association with magic and is more believed than the Three Lord Gods.

I feel like I had twelve in my dreams too, but I don't know who I talked to.

By the way, there was no particular temple of God in the village of Rasmore, and there was only one temple dedicated to the Twelve. Because of their proximity to the Kaum kingdom, the clergy here says they are clerics of the earthly god Reams, but they are usually in Bogwood, the city of Kaum's border, and do not reside in the village.

It's like a country shrine, and they say it feels like a cleric coming to do the divine work at the festival.

There was little confusion about the weights and measures, also because they were close to the units of the original world and the MKS units using the decimal method were fundamental - the reading was subtly different, but the notation and the unit amount were about the same - thus.

Some information was also obtained about the ministers of the Lockhart family.

It turns out we have five squires.

First of all, Walt, the squire head, is called Walt Vassel, and he says he's a subordinate of his grandfather since before he rose to the knighthood rank.

Famous spear man, but extremely silent and never heard a voice except during greetings and training.

Enos, Walt's son, also serves as a squire, but he doesn't like martial arts and is always yelled at by his grandfather or Walt during his training. Enos says he's a childhood tame to his father, and sometimes, he seems to be drinking with him.

Mel's father, Hector Marron, but this man is a bow user.

He is a cheerful man and admired by the vigilantes who make it out of villagers. He said he knew Hector's wife, Mel's mother Polly, in this village, and around - an expression he wouldn't use in this world - he also looks like a lucky man who got a cute younger wife.

Nicholas Garland, the best intellectual in the Lockhart family, is an orthodox type of swordsman who uses one-handed swords and shields.

This person also participates in the training but does not fit the quiet atmosphere and uses intense swordsmanship.

Gene, Nicholas' daughter and maid of honor, is said to be engaged to Walt's son Enos.

Sharon's father, Guy Jakes, is not a soldier up, but an adventurous squire.

He joined his grandfather during the demonic crusade, a mutant who fell in love with his grandfather and became a squire at that time.

In order to learn more about demons and to be able to use swords and bows even more, I am in charge of vigilance around the village with the hunters and I am not very much in the mansion.

The Vassel, Marlon, Garland and Jakes families become ministers serving the Lockhart families.

I learned or remembered these things in a year.

And to move on to a new phase, I decided to reveal my secrets to my family.

Pretty troubled about this.

He thinks he had a good relationship with his father, mother, and ministers. My grandfather is difficult to get close to, so I'm not sure, but at least my father and mother think he'll accept it.

But these curse-like stories can be a different issue from trust. Because if we fit into emerging religions, we often hear about family ties becoming a bummer.

Still, I'm going to tell you.

Because it's an inevitable gateway to harnessing my knowledge and talents.

Worst of all, I don't mind being disposed of as a demon possession.

I think that's less likely than God sent me in, but it's still not zero.

May 25th, my birthday.

I decided to get ready and talk to my three grandfathers, my father and my mother.