Sainz lay in a medicine pool surrounded by circles, candles lit on the ground, and a magic lamp hanging above his head, emitting a soft glow. He breathed slowly and heavily, his eyes closed, his brows furrowed, his teeth clenched every now and then, and the expression on his face was always painful.

A figure approached, and Sainz slowly opened his misty eyes, his eyes drifting from time to time, his gaze cloudy.

After a while, he could distinguish who was coming, and said in a hoarse voice: "Booth...... Is that you?"

"I'm coming to see my old friend, he's going to die......"

The candlelight illuminated the figure by the medicine pool, the man dressed in a traditional Dharma robe, the candlelight imprinted on his vicissitudes of life, his thick hair falling haphazardly, his beard neatly groomed, and his beard completely white. His eyes were like torches, but they contained deep sorrow.

Sainz turned his gaze to the glimmering chandelier overhead, his cloudy gaze flickering in confusion.

"When you face the last moments of your life, when you live peacefully with death, you will seize the time to remember the life you have walked. Those...... What you once deliberately forgot now gnaws at you like a vicious beast, even if you only have your thoughts left, even if you think about it painfully...... But it seems to be trying to make you ...... Die with a grievance or everlasting regret. ”

The man was silent, standing silently.

"I found ......"

After a long silence, Sainz spoke slowly.

The man was slightly moved, and said with some doubt: "Are you sure?"

"We've been looking for it for most of our lives, but we didn't think it was always around us, but the time was never ripe. Until...... We are all dying, and it has come solemnly and silently......"

"I don't want to question my old friend, but I want to make sure of it, because it's too much at stake......" The man looked into Sainz's eyes and said solemnly and slowly.

The man opened his mouth again and asked, "Did you really find it?"

Sainz slowly turned his face, stared into the man's eyes and said, "The empire and the Holy See have spent a great deal of money to hang my life, and I, a lifeless person, should have died in peace, but I must tell the real knowers about this fact...... I saw those eyes. ”

The man's eyebrows furrowed and his expression solemn.

"Those eyes, ancient and solemn, beautiful and gorgeous...... I...... I can't put into words the full description of those eyes. That's ...... Looks...... ”

The eyes in the mirror were translucent and clear, and Zero could clearly see the lines in his silver-gray pupils. He looked at his young self in the mirror and felt as if everything was a dream. He touched his face, feeling the palm of his hand glide over his face, a clear touch that reminded him of the reality he was in. He looked at the 7-year-old child in the mirror, his skin was white, his appearance was immature, his expression was serious, his eyes were focused, and he had a maturity that he should not have at his age. For a moment, he felt that he was a monster in the mirror......

"Zero ......"

He was suddenly alert, and his name was being called. The voice seemed to come from somewhere in the abyss, as if the trapped people were screaming in despair in the endless darkness, and as if they were pressing down on the fury of the furious beasts.

"Zero, Zero......"

"Zero !!"

"Ahh

"Arnold!" Leah held his arm to keep him from falling, her face covered with worry.

"It's you......" he breathed a sigh of relief and stroked his chest, "Why are you here?"

Leah looked at Jeno with a smile and said, "I'll sleep with you~ We've agreed." ”

"Huh?" Zero looked at the little girl in front of him, her eyes as clean as a clear blue sky.

"You'd better go back to your room and sleep. Zero said and looked at the dark sky outside the window, "It's almost dark, and you're tired after a day of playing." ”

"But I see what you just looked like......"

"I'm just a little out of strength, I'm ...... I was confused for a long time, and now I suddenly woke up, and I was still a little uncomfortable...... "Zero didn't know how to persuade a simple little girl not to do what she insisted on doing, so she could only explain as best she could." He needed someone to think quietly now, he had never experienced such a bizarre thing in his short, pale and inactive life, he just wanted to clear his mind and come up with a reason.

"Can you go back to your own room and sleep?, I just want to be alone......" Zero stubbornly persuaded the little girl in front of him.

Leah's face looked disappointed, as if she was about to cry. Zero noticed that her eye sockets were slowly moistening, and tears began to roll in her pretty eyes.

"Don't ...... like that," Zero was deeply helpless. He didn't know how to get along with a child, and his own mind was already messed up.

"What's wrong?"

Nasha suddenly appeared at the door of the room, and Zero was relieved to see this beautiful and gentle woman. Mothers will be able to soothe their children.

Holding back tears, Leah turned and trotted towards her mother, and Nasha half-crouched down and hugged her, and Leah threw herself into Nasha's arms and sobbed.

"Hey...... What's wrong Leah, did you quarrel with your brother? You have to be considerate of your brother, he has just recovered, you are a sister, you have taken care of him so many times, you will always take care of him, right?" Nasha stroked the back of Leah's head, and said softly, Leah nodded in Nasha's arms.

Nassa let go of Leah and looked at the girl standing in front of her with red eyes, she gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and continued to say to her softly, "Will you go out and wait for me first?" ”

"Don't blame Arnold...... Leah forced her cry, "it's me who is not good. ”

"I know I know, I just want to coax him to sleep, go ahead~" Nasha wiped away her tears and persuaded her to get out of the house. Leah turned her face to look at Zero standing there in the doorway, and he coughed in embarrassment.

"I didn't want to bully her," Zero looked at Nasha who walked into the house and stood in front of him, "I just want to sleep alone......"

"I don't blame you, I believe my children are kind and sensible. Nasha looked at him and smiled softly and said, "Now it's just you and me, can you talk to your mother about why you insist on sleeping alone?"

Zero felt a little uncomfortable, this mother standing in front of him, for him who had always been an orphan, was a little strange.

He reluctantly explained: "I just ...... I want to lie down quietly by myself for a while, I'm a little tired, and if she's around me I'll feel ...... A bit of a stressful ......"

"That's right...... Then you should explain it directly to your sister, and she will listen to you. In the days before, my sister took good care of you. Nasha said patiently to him.

"Oh...... Got it. Zero could only vaguely agree.

"Hey...... Are you okay?" Nasha squatted down and put her arm on Zero's shoulder, "You just woke up today, the doctor checked for you and said that you are fine, you don't have to worry about your body, if you have any troubles, you can talk to your mother, I believe my children are cheerful and lively." ”

"Don't you have any doubts?" Zero hesitated as he spoke, staring into Nasha's eyes.

"What?" there was a hint of confusion in her gentle eyes.

"I'm your son...... he said earnestly looking into Nasha's eyes, "your son was a fragile, incompetent child before. But now he's back to normal, as if all the bad things in the past have disappeared, do you think that's normal?"

Nasha looked at the child in front of her, he stood motionless and looked at herself, her eyes clear and her eyes blazing. He seems to be abnormal, but his normality is what everyone expects. She looked at him carefully, as if trying to see him through.

"I never doubted it. Nasha said firmly.

Zero was slightly startled when she heard her words, and she walked up to him and crouched down to look him in the eye.

"There are many possibilities for mental awakening itself, and there have been cases of children who are mentally deficient after birth and only enlightened after the awakening of the mind, even if it is rare. Nasha stroked Zero's cheek, "Besides, I never doubted that my child wasn't born to me. The whole family was ecstatic when I first learned that he was in the world, I stroked my belly and watched it grow bigger day by day, and I could feel his heartbeat in my belly as he was fully developed. He appeared in my life like a miracle......"

Zero looked at the beautiful woman in front of him, her soft voice easily touched him, he felt in her a maternal love that he had never felt before, and his eyes were red.

Nasha gently wiped the tears from Zero's eyes, she looked at Zero and continued, "Child, I have never been upset about your stupidity for the past seven years, I have never been like the elders of the family who have been mourning all day long, I just feel unfair...... My child should be the happiest person in the world, he has a complete family, parents who love him, and a lovely sister, God shouldn't do this to him, he is even so stupid that he can't feel happy. I prayed all the time that God would make him whole, and everyone was looking forward to it. And now, he's finally complete......"

Natha's red eyes hugged the muffled and tearful Zero into her arms. Zero turned his face to look at the room, tears blurring his eyes.

He gave up his intention to confess, he felt that it would be too cruel to confess directly to the woman in front of him, who was a mother, that he was not her son but a ghost who had crossed over from another world. The mother had been hoping that her son would return to normal, and if he confided the truth now, he was afraid that she would not be able to bear it. Besides, his current body was indeed conceived and born by the mother in front of him in October, and he had no way to prove his mysterious claim.

"Forget it, whatever......" Zero suddenly felt that he didn't need to worry about this.

In his previous life, he lived a mess, and regret filled his life, but now fate has finally given him another chance, why don't he grasp it well and start from scratch? Now he can choose a different life, a colorful and different life.

It's getting late. Nasha looked at Zero, who was already lying on the bed and sleeping peacefully, and after folding the quilt for him, she leaned down and gently kissed Zero on the forehead, then got up to look at his quiet sleeping appearance, smiled softly and turned to leave the room.

In the middle of the night, Zero opened his eyes, the moonlight shone on his face through the window, and he looked at the full moon in the night sky outside the window and fell into deep thought.

Although it was the first place for him to feel the warmth of home, which was something he had always longed for as an orphan, it did not mean that he had fully accepted it in his heart. He is an outsider, who is supposed to be a ghost in another world, but he retains the memories of his previous life. He was used to being lonely, and now he was suddenly reborn here, and suddenly had a family and relatives, which made him very unaccustomed. It's like Nasha coaxing him to sleep like a child, he listens to Nasha's concern as a mother, which makes him very uncomfortable, he feels that these beautiful things don't belong to him. He was an orphan...... He never knew where he came from, and in disappointment after disappointment, he gave up looking for his loved ones. When he had already decided that he was alone, fate suddenly gave him everything he wanted, which made him feel very uneasy.

A thought began to haunt Zero's mind - he wanted to figure out how he got here.

"Books!"

Zero's mind suddenly remembered the book, the last book he had touched in his original world.