“Urgh... Why do I feel so sleepy?”

  I let out my complaints to the world as my vision slowly comes back to me, as my sleepiness slowly leaves my eyes, I’m finally able to see the angel in front of me, or should I say the reaper?

  “Did you sleep well Hero? Were you enjoying the comfy bed with her by your side once again?”

  Man, I just woke up, why is she still mad at me? But it more than seems that, I’m back to that world, one where apparently Miranda is or was waiting for me as she still is sit down right in front of me. Did she know that I was about to wake up? Or was it forced like the previous time? A whole month has gone by and only now, they’ve decided to bring me back? Wait, now I’m wondering something… A month went by and I don’t feel hungry at all and to be honest, I’m not even thirsty at all! For how long was I actually in there?

  “For how long have I been sleeping? A month has gone by, and I more than doubt that you were waiting for me for that long.”

  From all the things that I could’ve asked her, this was the one that for some reason is bothering me the most. Huh, am I worried about her somehow? Impossible, I doubt the Void Empress would force her to stay still for an entire month watching me sleep.

  “It has been 140 minutes since you first went to sleep.”

  She actually gave me a normal answer not only that, she’s not angry at me anymore, although I still have no clue for what reason she was to begin with… So, it’s all good? I think? Anyway, 140 minutes she said, 28 days in Kiana story or in other words, 5 minutes per day... She waited for 2 hours and 20 minutes and now that I think about it, 2 hours is not that long so it can explain why I am not hungry or even thirst- actually now that I’ve talked about it, I’m getting hungry... Huh, sometimes the human body works in an odd way, if I didn’t think about it, I don’t think I would feel it. Time to get to business, I guess.

  “I’m hungry.”

  “Eh?”

  A simple phrase with a meaning as simple and yet, Miranda slowly looks at me and opens her cute mouth slightly as she was not expecting me to say this. Not only that, this simple word came out of her mouth involuntarily as she was not able to contain her shock. Although, I have a good explanation for what I said, for what I affirmed to Miranda, an update of my current status, yes, I have a really good explanation for it. Just think with me, when you are hungry you are not yourself so! Doing any type of business in this state of mind and body, is asking for trouble for yours truly therefore, I need to eat something before progressing forward.

  Logical, don’t you think?

  “I-Uh-Yes of course… Follow me.”

  She stutters quite a bit as she fully processes what I just said after that, she abruptly gets up and tells me to follow her, something that I do in an instant after all, death itself might make me dinner. Or lunch as I have no clue what time it is. Anyway, after walking for a few moments towards the kitchen, once we are there, I slowly but elegantly take a seat in one of the stools while she actually enters the kitchen. I really don’t know what I was expecting when I said that I was hungry and when I said that death would feed me, I was actually joking and yet, it seems it will become reality in the very near future.

  Alright, imagine the scene then. In front of you, there is someone that you could easily mistake for the reaper not only thanks to how she looks but also from the sheer amount and density of her magic energy then, imagine said individual where she’s using an apron and ready to make you food…

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  What!?

  What the actual hell did I get myself into? Why is she even doing this in the first place? Seriously, while you can somewhat debate my random request, her willingness to do it is on a whole different level. Alright calm down and access the situation in hand with a cold and calm head.

  First of all, the apron she’s using is rather for the cute side, something that I would never expect for her to use, maybe it’s from someone else? Impossible, the other person that I know that would be here or has been here, she would never have something like that... Right? The apron has a few teddy bears all throughout it, ones that are for the cute and anime side even, coloured in their corresponding brown colour. The apron itself is coloured mainly in white, a snow-white to be precise. Like I said and while I don’t believe I will say this from someone that looks like her, she does look like a housewife, one that I would not mind being married to.

  There, I said it and I mean it.

  “Hero, tell me, what do you want to eat? A fine and well-done sandwich made by myself? Or do you want something more… Delicate?”

  Ah crap, I knew this was going to turn out like this. As you can expect, she starts this with a long tone of voice, what I mean by this is that, she extended my name as she calls me, rather than being a simple “Hero” it was a rather “Herrooo” while of course, saying it with a rather teasing tone of voice or was it a mischievous one? Aren’t they almost the same? Why does that even matter right now? What did I get myself into? The rest of her sentence was said with said teasing tone of voice or in this case a mischievous one should describe it better. Ah, so there is a noticeable difference between those two words. Maybe? However, if it’s a well-done sandwich I do accept that and I would be quite happy to have it although she got me when she said that last word… What the hell does she mean by delicate? I have to ask. I’m quite curious now.

  “Delicate? What do you mean by that?”

  Am I going to regret asking this? I don’t know, only my future self-will but let me say that, when I asked this, she slowly faces me and at the same time, her rather voluptuous lips extend to the side as a smile creeps on her face, to make even worse somehow, she brings her index finger from her left hand towards her chin, a little bit above that, right between the lower lip and the chin.

  “Oh? Do you want to know? Are you sure about it?”

  Once again, with said mischievous tone of voice she says this, asks me, while also getting closer to the balcony in front of me. She gently leans forward towards me, she’s nowhere near close to me or anything like that but, she’s definitely as close as she was way before when she sat down in front of me when we were in the chessboard area.

  “I mean, you got my curiosity up there, so yes, I want to know what you mean by that.”

  I’m fully committed to my future demise but, if for some reason it’s something rather nice, I have to know it. Although I doubt that is the case as I said this, she quickly flashes a smile at me. And yes, one that is not good at all. Something is about to come out of her mouth, something that is not good at all, I can feel it. Call it Hero intuition or maybe in this case, it’s man intuition.

  “How about a full course of Black Magic?”

  “Oh? You two sure are getting along rather well.”

  Seriously, what’s the problem of “death” getting behind my back without warning me at all? As you can expect, not only Miranda was about to say something really nice to me, something that probably involves Black Magic, the voice behind me, a female voice, one that it’s familiar but also one that I haven’t heard in a long time, she expresses what was on her mind with a rather Tsundere tone of voice?

  Wait, what!?

  Nah, I’m imagining things, hearing in this case.

  It’s impossible, I may have watched a little too much anime recently...

  “My Empress… I-He-We were… Uh…”

  She’s at a loss for words, unable to explain this situation and it’s understandable so after all, just look at me and at her, she has an apron put on while I’m casually sat down in the stool waiting for whatever she will make, if that alone does not tell you the wrong impression then, you need to have your eyes checked, like, for real. But, as I see her struggling to get her words out of her mouth, I slowly turn around to see who is behind me even though I already know damn well. The moment I’m somewhat fully turned around as I used my upper body to do so rather than my entire body, my suspicions were right and my Magic Sense skill is still working perfectly or in other words, it’s The Void Queen.