The region was a beautiful sight to behold from high above amidst the clouds and winds. Flat terrains full of grass and trees, vast forests that stretched on for kilometers without end, clear rivers with fishes roaming about—it was a fantasy world that Braun had dreamed of on numerous nights.

He dangled his legs on the edge of the moving cloud, mesmerized by the scene. For a moment, he sighed at the strange feeling that he still had a hard time accepting; he was relaxed, chill, without problems. It made his skin crawl over this feeling.

Maybe I did get traumatized in those four months. Eight straight years without conflict, just what kind of sorcery is this? Braun wondered thoughtfully.

“What are you doing all alone on the edge of the cloud?” Eira sat behind him, pulling the boy out of his thoughts.

“Nothing.” Braun dismissed her question and continued to admire the scenery. “Just lost by this wondrous sight.”

“I know, right?” Eira sighed, also bedazzled by the wondrous landscape.

The two didn’t utter a word for a while, enjoying the silence and the sound of wooshing winds. A few minutes soon passed, and Braun finally broke the silence.

“So, you’re leaving soon?” Braun brought up the elephant in the room, cutting straight to the point.

“Yeah…” Eira chuckled. “Sad to see your teacher go?”

“That…” Braun grinned. “And I’m also sad to see a fellow Earthling disappear from sight.”

The aeromancer nearly choked on her saliva and the cloud destabilized for a moment.

“Everything alright, Eira?” Dwobug asked from a distance after having almost planted his face on the solid cloud.

“Y-Yeah!” Eira quickly stabilized her spell and calmed herself. She looked at the young boy with surprise, before laughing aloud. “So I was right! You were too smart for a child! And your designs always had a modern flair to them.”

“I almost thought you didn’t suspect me at all. I’m glad to see that you’re not a dumbass,” Braun taunted, before looking back at the plains below. “But honestly, I’m glad that I was right. I thought I’d be the only one from Earth here, but I suppose not. It also means Arthur Pendragon was also transmigrated here.”

“Right?” Eira laughed. “Can’t believe that old European legend to be true! I mean, wow. You’re telling me Arthur Pendragon, thee Arthur Pendragon, wielder of Excalibur, had magical powers even back on Earth?”

“I wonder just how many of the old legends and folktales are true on Earth.” She sighed, unable to hold back her curiosity.

So she’s not a Super or had no involvement with Aegis. Braun smiled. “Maybe all of them are real?”

“I hope so.” She mumbled. “Wait, how did you even figure out I was from Earth? Yours is quite understandable since you’re too smart sometimes, but me? What gave it away?”

“You’re too entranced with Arte, the system, magic, everything that’s basically fantasy.” Braun smiled. “You’re just like me, but I hide it as childish curiosity. Yours? You’re just like a child, unlike the locals of this world who had grown accustomed to the existence of magic and the system.”

“I see…” Eira grinned wryly. “I guess that is true. This world is just way too different from Earth.” Upon mentioning Earth, she sighed softly, her grin faltering.

“You wish to go back to Earth?” Braun caught on to the underlying tone in her words and actions.

“Kind of.” Eira looked at the stars. “I mean, my life here is great, don’t get me wrong. I’m a powerful mage at such a young age and could easily live well over a century, but I also miss my family and friends from Earth.”

“Yeah…” Memories of him eating his own flesh and blood and almost destroying the world replayed in Braun’s mind. “Family and friends.”

“What was your name back on Earth, anyways?” The aeromancer waved her hand and made a soft cushion of wind behind her as she lay down on her back to better gaze at the stars.

Braun did the same and gazed at the endless expanse of space above them. “Freidrich… Freidrich Braun.”

Sigh, what a name.

“Freidrich Braun? You were German?” Eira wore a surprised look.

German? What the heck was a German?

“Excuse me?” Braun asked.

“You’re not German?” Surprise once again flashed on her face.

“German?” Braun held back his urge to ask as his habits of keeping secrets resurged. “Yeah, I’m German. What about you?”

“Just your basic American white girl.” She grinned. “Died just when I was about to finish my flight engineering degree.”

“American…” Braun digested the name as sparks clashed in his mind. Braun started to realize one thing.

“Ever heard about Dela?”

“No. Is that a country?”

So she doesn’t know Dela. “No, it’s some food from German…” Wait, is it Germa? Just like how Delans are from Dela? Or is it similar to Morans and Mory? In the end, Braun’s diverse knowledge led him to guess the most probable answer “…Germany.”

“Ah, I see.” She sounded intrigued by the name of the food. “I’ve always planned on visiting Germany when I finally have a stable job, but I suppose exploring a fantasy world is a nice exchange.”

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“What about Afril, do you know about it?” If she doesn’t know about Afril, the largest nation on Earth, then there was truly something amiss here.

“Is that also food?” She naively asked.

“It’s a show, a German show.” Braun lied through his teeth.

“Oh, what is it about?” Eira was quite curious about some of the shows from Germany.

“It’s a show about a giant mechanical robot saving Earth from alien invaders.”

“Ahhhh.” Eira chuckled. “I bet it was your favorite show from your childhood.”

“Yeah.” Braun feigned embarrassment, but his mind worked on overdrive processing this newfound truth.

Shit just went from normal to nuts real quick, and now he was trying to piece together multiversal principles.

First off, at least they had some sort of same general history with the existence of Arthur Pendragon being a thing. They even had the same name for Earth, and based on some info he managed to get from her, also had the same planets and the same sun.

The only difference was the planets, and that they had made significant progress in spacecraft. They even managed to send things out of the solar system and into the wider universe, so Braun assumed they didn’t have any barrier surrounding their solar system, or even had any access to superpowers.

Now, Braun struggled to understand why the only difference between both planets was the countries. They had the same seven days of the week, the same general normal history with all the supernatural bullshit excluded, and many more.

In the end, Braun decided that it was just some cosmological tomfoolery at work, and accepted it as that. He still had no means of multiversal travel, so he’ll leave that problem for future him.

Future me is gonna hate me so much. Braun lamented his future problems before he then looked back at his fellow ‘Earthling’. Well, at least they both lived on a planet called Earth, even if the Earths they inhabited belonged to different realities.

“I’m really glad that I’m not the only transmigrator here.” She let out a relieved sigh. “And more so when I didn’t have to reincarnate as a baby.”

“You didn’t?” Braun raised an eyebrow.

“Yep.” Eira wore a mocking grin. “I reincarnated into this body when she was dying out in the woods as a twelve-year-old girl.”

“That’s dark.” The young boy was speechless.

“At least I’m still alive. I even gained the Free Wind unique skill upon reincarnation.” She fixed her hair and got into a more comfortable position.

“And I became a Prodigy and Genius.” Braun flaunted his talent. “Perhaps reincarnating as a baby had its perks.”

“At least I didn’t suck my mother’s tits while being a fully conscious man.” Ah yes, Braun once again lied and told her that he worked as a barista and majored in history, a major which she laughed at with contempt. To think she would laugh at the efforts of Lucas Hum, what a witch.

At this point, Braun wondered why he was even lying about the small stuff. There was nothing wrong if he just said he was a high school student before he died and left out the four months of insanity in his previous life.

Maybe, just maybe, Braun was a pathological liar. Heck, his whole life was built on top of one big lie if he thought about it. Ignoring his own psychological issues for later, a word he began to love fondly, and a word he would hate soon enough in the future, Braun resumed his theatrics and continued to develop his fake Earth life.

Braun was a German barista who had studied history. He was about to get a job at a local university as a professor before he died due to a drunk driver. Pretty standard reincarnation stuff if he had to rate it.

“Oof, car accident, nasty.” Eira hissed. “It’s way worse than dying with just one big splat.”

“I think I finally know why you love wind magic so much.” Braun still found her death an absurd story. “Who would be so careless to have their parachute be replaced by their bag full of clothes?”

“It’s a careless mistake, okay!” Her face flushed red.

“A careless mistake that led you to die from falling from a height kilometers high in the air.” Braun had a deadpan look on his face.

“Okay, it was more than a careless mistake, but lookie here! I’m now a respected mage, and soon to be Professor of the academy.” She smiled.

“To think in five years, you’d become a teacher,” Braun smirked. “I thought you’d continue your life as an adventurer in the wild.”

“Of course, I’d remain a free spirit in the future, but not now.” For her plans in the future, working as a professor was needed. “I still need to amass some wealth, buy myself properties in the capital, rent them out, earn some passive income…”

“You’re a fucking capitalist.” Braun accused the woman.

“And you’re the capitalist child who enlightened your parents about it.” Eira rebutted. Oof, Braun had no counterargument for that. “Anyways, after earning a nice source of money to live comfortably, I’d continue to pursue my life as an adventuring mage. I even plan on traveling the entire world. Visit the elves, have drinks with the dwarves, watch the gory battles of the gladiator demons, live among spirits for a while, sightsee around the floating isles.”

“Damn, you have the same plan as me!” Braun laughed. “Sucks to be you, I was born into a rich household.”

“Ugh, nepotism.” She groaned. “Heh, I wonder if you’d be my student in the future? In seven years, you’re going to start studying at the academy too.”

“Would you even still be a teacher there?”

“Give or take, I’d say ten years, so yes, I’d watch you graduate from the academy.”

“Seven years, huh?” Braun had to admit it, he had grown fond of her. After years of learning magic from her, she was basically family. Heck, she was part of the family party, along with Uncle Dwobug, so she really was family. “I’m gonna miss you, Arya.”

She was surprised by the statement but wore a warm smile afterward. Dragging the boy closer to her, Eira hugged Braun and said, “I’m gonna miss you too, Lucas.”

“Take care of my sister, okay?” Braun looked at her dead in the eye.

“I will.” She nuzzled her head in his hair. “I will. If you guys want to, I could even let her stay in my house in the capital with a special family discount.”

“I would appreciate that. She barely even knows how to cook since she’s practically in the forge all the time.” The boy looked at his sister who was mingling with her family, and family included Uncle Dwobug, on the other end of the cloud.

“Sure, sure. Any more requests, my dear student?” Eira teasingly questioned.

Braun contemplated for a while, before adding another request. “Don’t die.”

“Oh wow, pretty direct.” Although a strange request, Eira accepted it nonetheless.

“You should be pretty grateful that I’ve grown fond of you.” Braun rolled his eyes. Years of living as a normal boy had allowed the other side of Braun to grow, and no threats had forced him to sharpen his edge yet.

“Yes, yes.” Eira tightened her embrace. “See you in seven years, Braun.”

…

The day passed, and Braun stood at the edge of town with the rest of the Dolus Family plus Uncle Dwobug.

“See you in seven years, Eira.” Braun glanced at her teacher sitting on a mass of clouds, having worn her classical green robe and pointy green hat, appearing just like a mage from fantasy. What had replaced her wooden wand from before was a high-quality staff with a spiraling end, where a green gem rested.

“Safe travels, Eira!” Delmore shouted.

“Don’t forget to eat your meals!” Erna reminded the mage.

“Take care of that staff!” Dwobug smiled.

“I’ll take care of Windy, Miss Eira! I promise!” Mina waved her hand, with the young wind spirit hovering around her shoulder.

“Hehehe, don’t be too sad, guys. I’d visit whenever I’m on vacation!” Eira bid farewell from her cloud, which slowly flew into the sky. “The academy has very generous work conditions.”

“You better do!” Braun shouted. “And don’t forget to bring presents from the capital!”

“I will!” Eira slowly flew higher and higher into the sky, disappearing from view.

“BYE!” Everyone shouted.

“BYE BYE!” She shouted back, blending in with the clouds. She then shot off, leaving a trail of white in the blue sky.

…

Well… That’s that. Braun sighed and brandished his blade. A four-legged creature, a strange mixture of fox and goblin, rushed at him while shrieking. Just a week left, and Mina is going to leave for the academy.

But the closer that day approaches, the more this foreboding feeling grows. Braun swung his blade absentmindedly, and he could vaguely smell the scent of blood from destiny. Or maybe it was just the blood coming from the monster.

Whatever it was, something was going to happen soon, something that he didn’t like.