LV999 Villager Volume 3 Chapter 11 part1

NT: And with this, we start with a new chapter.

『Hey, hey. Do you think Kagami-san will come back today?』

『Sorry, but it doesn't seem like he's coming back today. But don't worry, I'm sure he'll come back tomorrow. Yes… we just have to trust him』

It was the world she wanted. It was what she always wanted to see. Thanks to Kagami, Alice was able to spend her days calmly while enjoying the dream she had always pursued. However, she wasn't satisfied with that.

『Let's wait… I'm sure he'll come back』

『Huh, I'm sure he's making us wait on purpose. It's him we're talking about after all』

『My Master will return. And at that moment… I'll be someone worthy of standing next to him』

『Don't you feel like something is missing… when Kagami-chan isn't here?』

『Alice-sama… I understand you feel worried. But Kagami-dono said he would return. So we have no choice but to trust in him and wait』

She had already understood it. It was impossible that her dream was really to be fulfilled while Kagami was not here. No matter how much the world changed, or that humans and demons are finally able to shake hands, she was unable to feel satisfied with an end he wasn't part of. She was unable to suppress her desire to see him again.

Of course. The world had become a very pleasant place, and every day that passed, Alice, a Demon, was able to experience numerous happy and fun events. But even though that was the world she wanted, she couldn't help feeling that something didn't feel right.

Then she realized that it was because Kagami was gone. The days she traveled with Kagami, the days she followed his back, the days when he taught her about human culture, that everyday life in which every morning she would wake up Kagami. That's what she wanted, it was the place she belonged to. However, Alice had already lost that place.

The world had become the world she had dreamed of. But it wasn't the place she belonged to.

『… I know I'm being selfish. I'm being accompanied by everyone, but… it's not the same without Kagami-san here』

When did she have to get up in the morning without being able to talk to that person?

How long has it been since she started feeling lonely after Kagami left?

He was the most important person for her.

Then Alice decided. A world with Kagami. The day where she could spend each day with Kagami. She was determined to retrieve it.

Being able to be with Kagami. That was the kind of life Alice wanted.

『Please proceed. Please proceed』

Alice slowly began to open her eyelids at the moment when an inorganic voice began to repeat itself over and over again in her head. She was surrounded by a pleasant white light, which was neither too bright nor too dark, which covered everything around her.

「Where am I?」

『Please proceed. Please proceed』

Alice, with a mixture of shame and confusion on her face, looked around as the voice echoed in her head.

Alice was sitting on some kind of white spherical device that was located in the center of the place. The spherical device had remained closed while she slept, however, it opened immediately at the moment she woke up, allowing Alice to get out.

In one of the corners of the room where she had woken up was her clothes, carefully folded, which seemed to be there to tell her to prepare before continuing to the hallway behind her.

「… Why am I naked!?」

Alice couldn't understand what was happening. She was supposed to be talking to the Dark Dragon just a few moments ago, but before she knew it, she had woken up naked in an unknown place.

「Is this… the next stage?」

Alice tried to understand the situation she was in while she hurried to put on her clothes again. Alice could not remember what happened after the Dark Dragon sent them to the Next Stage.

「And the others?… Where are the others?」

After putting on her clothes, Alice hurried to the door at the bottom of the hall, just as the inorganic voice had indicated. Then, the door made a strange sound as it opened, sliding to the sides.

Alice, surprised by the way the door opened the moment she approached to it, walked the door.

「… Eh? What is this!? Uwa—…!」

On the other side of the door was a corridor that extended from left to right, and a wide window through which the exterior could be seen. Alice's eyes began to shine the moment she saw the landscape that stretched across the door.

There was a vast space covered with rocks that rose to the sky. However, it wasn't dark, on the contrary, it was so bright that it seemed as if the sun was just above. It was possible that Alice was in a very high place since she was able to see the whole place, including the numerous structures similar to simple and thin buildings in which numerous people could be seen interacting inside.

However, that wasn't what had surprised Alice. Alice was surprised by the numerous tools and objects, which she had never seen before, that could be seen even from where she was now.

NT: As always, if you find something weird, whatever, just tell me in the comments

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