Anime, starting from Re:Zero (Zero - Starting Life)

It wasn't until Rudy scolded me that I first realized it.

I'm a fool too.

In fact, I have always thought that I am a good wife. I am virtuous, hardworking, a great cook, and I also work part-time to supplement the family income. I have a harmonious sex life. I can accept and tolerate my husband's past and even his current lust.

I also think that I am a good mother. I have taken good care of Rudy since he was a child and have been supportive of his growth and future plans.

I also feel that I am a good employer. I treat Lilia as a sister, often share her work, and allow her to join in family activities. I don't treat her as an outsider.

But I'm a fool.

When I indulge my husband, I also indulge myself.

As a mother, she always makes her children aware of her shameless side, and as an employer or sister, she has never really protected or helped Lilia.

I was just playing the role of a good person, a good wife, a good mother, and a victim, just like living in a fairy tale where anything can be achieved as long as you have love, gentleness, and patience.

Thanks Rudy.

Let mom realize her mistake.

In the future, mom will become a qualified mother, a qualified wife, and a qualified family member.

I will admit that I have long since abandoned the teachings of Saint Miris, and no matter how great the punishment I will suffer in the afterlife, I will live for my family in this life.

[Reality]

A week after Lilia's wedding.

Senis offered to teach everyone intermediate detoxification magic, and advanced healing magic, which she only remembered the chanting and classroom theory but could not perform herself.

She completely broke her oath to Miris.

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Note 1: The ages of Senice + Paul are almost the same as Rudy's age in his previous life. I think this is an unreasonable and evil taste.

Note 2: I am personally quite satisfied with these chapters.

Note 3: By the way, please vote and collect. You are welcome to join the group to chat, although there are not many people.

Chapter 45: Ten Thousand Years

Everyone learned intermediate detoxification magic that day.

It was almost mid-afternoon to be exact.

Although the healing magic system is difficult to analyze, everyone has done theoretical decomposition on several magics that have been learned. Based on this, it is not difficult to quickly learn the chanting version of intermediate detoxification. Sylphy, who has the best talent in the healing magic system, can even release it without chanting immediately.

Senis looked quite shocked at the time, and her eyes turned towards Teacher Roxy with sympathy.

It was only then that she, as a mother, fully understood the extent of the freaks her son and his friends were.

However, the advanced healing magic, which only had chanting words and general theory, still stuck everyone for three days, until Gawain couldn't stand it anymore and stood up to explain the key points to everyone with an attitude of "I suddenly understand".

Yes, Gawain had almost mastered it just as Senice finished recounting her memories. No matter how difficult this thing was, it was not comparable to the questions he usually did. What's more, Gawain's high degree of control over his own body could be considered a talent for healing magic.

All in all, it was the eleventh day after Senesh broke her oath.

The four masters and apprentices all mastered the crucial advanced healing magic without chanting. In this way, unless it was an instant death or a fatal injury, it would be difficult to kill the four of them, or three, not counting Gawain.

On the day the new healing magic class ended, everyone simply used the remaining time to have a tea party.

Gawain is always inspired when he encounters new magic:

"I've been thinking recently about whether I can create a magic that can prolong life."

Rudeus immediately understood. Gawain must have felt that his lifespan was too short and wanted to spend more time with Sylphy. He continued:

"I think it's possible. Perhaps higher-level healing magic can delay aging. If we can successfully analyze the healing magic system, it might be enough to create it."

But Rudius couldn't help but mention it:

"Speaking of which, even if a short-lived species were granted a long lifespan, it would be difficult for them to endure the passage of time. For example, someone who managed to gain a five-hundred-year lifespan in order to uphold justice would forget their original intention and become a terrifying villain after only two or three hundred years."

[If there is a parallel world setting, Rudy's bad mouth will become a divergence point and turning point for many worlds, causing a lot of BE. This author has decided.]

Rudeus, who was interested in the topic of lifespan theory, continued to give examples:

"For example, Mr. Luo Qixi, you mentioned before that the Migrud can live for two hundred years, right? That's nearly four times the average lifespan of humans in the Kingdom of Asura. But do you think you could live well if you were asked to live for two thousand years, or even ten thousand?"

Luo Qixi thought about it and felt that this was a good thought experiment, so she told the truth:

"Forget ten thousand years. Two thousand or even one thousand would be a stretch. I'd be willing to live three to four hundred years, if I didn't have any terrible experiences. If I could have the power to make my wishes come true, five or six hundred years wouldn't be out of the question. Any longer than that, and I'm afraid it wouldn't be feasible no matter what."

Rudeus looked at Sylphy again, the real heroine of the topic, and asked like a host:

"Ms. Sylphiet, what do you think?"

Sylphy was a little confused:

"I'm sorry, I don't know. I haven't thought about it."

But seeing everyone's expectant eyes, the well-behaved Sylphy immediately pondered and answered seriously:

"If I have to answer a question, I think it's when the important people around me are gone. I don't want to live alone. However, normally, there will be descendants, including friends' children. Living to take care of them is a reason to persevere. But when it comes to grandchildren and great-grandchildren, their children's children will not have much to do with me anymore, right?"

Gao Wen couldn't help but interrupt and asked:

"What if there's someone important who can always be with you?"

Sylphy smiled happily. She probably thought her brother wanted to prolong his life to accompany her more, so she answered seriously:

"That would be so, so happy! We could do so many things together, and live for at least five hundred years... no... a thousand years, maybe! But ten thousand years or something like that is too hard to fathom. I can barely even plan what's going to happen a month from now..."

Gao Wen didn't respond, but just stayed where he was.

Everyone was used to Gawain's silence at the tea party, so they immediately started discussing this fantasy topic enthusiastically.

Teacher Roxy also remarked, as if receiving a revelation, "Having someone important by your side really makes you want to live to eight hundred, or even a thousand." Rudeus, on the other hand, felt that "if life is happy enough, I wouldn't mind a natural death. That's quite a profound realization, isn't it? I don't think of living life until I'm tired of it."

Gao Wen wanted to listen carefully to everyone's conversation like he usually did, and remember everything in his heart, but he couldn't do it today.

My ears and head are buzzing.

He felt that he was being alienated from the familiar scene before him, becoming very far away, so far away that it was out of reach.

I can't hear anything and I can't see anything.

There is no way to understand anything.

I... am so scared...

I... don't want to be alone again...

Nine hundred years of loneliness is terrible... Ten thousand years of loneliness...

It seemed as if someone was saying this, curled up, hiding, trembling, in the endless eternal darkness, a childish voice was whispering pitifully.

When the scale of your life is turned up by just one percent, you will have nothing. This is the ridiculous consequence of treating the quicksand between your fingers as precious.

And another, cold, cruel, arrogant, grand, and firm voice mocked.

Until everyone noticed that Gao Wen was not in the right state today.

Until, after everyone exchanged glances in tacit understanding, Rudeus and Teacher Roxy each made excuses to leave and handed the situation over to Sylphy.

Until, Sylphy worriedly took her brother's cold hands and held him in her arms, just like the countless times her brother had hugged and protected her, and then comforted and spoke in her usual gentle voice:

"Even if one day, my brother is old and gone, Sylphy will be able to work hard, live well, and live happily, okay? I will never, ever forget my brother, and I will definitely, definitely miss him all the time. Because I love my brother very much and don't want him to worry, I will definitely be able to do that."

She took Gawain's little finger and hooked it:

"So, if Sylphy is accidentally gone, please be sure to do these things, brother."

Sylphy resisted the urge to say something like "But please forget me as soon as possible, brother," even though she felt that her brother was actually sad that she couldn't accompany him long enough.

Not what everyone imagines.

"Ah."

Gawain's voice was hoarse. He forced an ugly smile, hooked his sister's finger, and promised:

"We'll make a promise and stick to it for ten thousand years."

Chapter 46: Saint Level

Recently, Gawain finally started calling Rudeus "Rudy," the last of the two families to do so.

After all, even Lilia Greyrat, who had just joined the Greyrat family not long ago, no longer called Rudeus "Master".

In order to change the way the two addressed him, Rudius also put a lot of thought into it. Miss Lilia tried hard to persuade her, and Miss Lilia, who had begun to change her mindset, was not opposed to it. Only Gawain was determined and had many roundabout debates with Rudius.

Rudeus: "This is evidence of intimacy."

Gao Wen: "Calling you by your full name is a testament to my respect for you."

In the end, Rudius could only beg Gawain: "Brother Gawain, you always know what you mean, but if you always call me like this, it will make outsiders think that our relationship is very bad."

Although he wanted to refute Rudeus and ask why he cared so much about other people's opinions, Gao Wen accepted it considering that Rudeus was a local after all.

The only thing was that when he called out the word "Rudy" for the first time, the relieved expression on Rudius's face made him feel a little regretful.

By the way.

Or rather, congratulations.

At the beginning of April in the 413th year of the Jialong calendar.

When Senis's belly was noticeably bulging, Lilia happily announced that she was pregnant.

Even Paul, the semi-castrated guard dog with the lowest status in the family, felt extremely satisfied and touched by this.

But because of this, the finances of the Greyrat family were almost ruined. Paul, who had been thinking of selling his old equipment again, was also thinking of selling his old equipment. As a member of the family, Rudius was always sighing recently. It was said that his plan to sell part of the glider technology in advance to subsidize the family was rejected by Paul.

The remaining three masters and apprentices now lack a good impression of Paul, so they naturally think that making money is Paul's obligation. Although Rudius also knows this, he still feels a little guilty.

But this time, the genie Gawain did not help.

However, Rudeus quickly forgot his troubles.

Half a month later, in mid-April.

The second classroom was completed.

That was the Water Saint-level magic learning and practice site that the four masters and apprentices had spent almost half a year to build on the edge of a plain near the mountains, about 20 kilometers away from the open-air classroom.

Taking into account the influence of Water Saint-level magic on celestial phenomena, the second classroom was built into a tall stone tower with a stable foundation, which can shelter from wind, rain, lightning, and possible mudslides.

Well, shelter from the wind and rain may not be very realistic.

After all, the casting site is the open-air terrace on the top floor of the tower. Of course, there is a roof above the head, but it is open to the wind on all sides, and its shelter during a storm is better than nothing.

But after the second classroom was built, Teacher Luo Qixi made an apologetic expression and announced to everyone:

"Because I'm not fully prepared yet, can you wait until the current course is over before teaching me about Saint-level magic? Please wait another six months. I'm sorry."

Rudeus and Sylphy immediately responded as if they had rehearsed it:

"Well, now that Teacher Luo Qixi has said so, there's nothing we can do, right? Brother Gao Wen taught us to respect our teachers."

"Teacher, you don't have to apologize. You have to prepare the syllabus for me every day. It's already tiring, isn't it?"

Only Gawain remained silent.

But he knew that he really wanted to accept everyone's opinions as indifferently as usual. Besides, what difference would it make if it was half a year later or earlier, right?

Gawain spoke, but denied it:

"That's not right, Mr. Luo Qixi, didn't you say half a year ago that you had prepared the syllabus for Water Saint-level magic?"

"As agreed, the glider has been built, and the new classroom has also been built, so the time has come."

Teacher Roxy retorted as planned:

"Gawain, don't you think it would be better to finish the current course before learning Water Saint-level magic? My previous syllabus was based on the current course, so it is outdated and incompatible."

Gawain was silent.

What should he say?