Thoughts of native isekai? Like the isekai-ed MC is the reincarnation of someone from that world or was born there and somehow transported to our world and come back home?
New Year's fireworks symbolize new hope and togetherness. However, due to various circumstances throughout the year, fireworks are not lit.
Some places ban them as a show of solidarity with tragedies such as disasters or wars. Others prohibit them due to tradition. Still others prohibit them due to noise pollution.
And for me... being together with family is enough for the ending of this year.
You might dream your whole life of being a certain character, but that only happens for one night. The difference between dream time and real time is relative.
Often, what makes a memorable fiction is not a satisfying ending, an epic battle, or a plot twist, but rather that the story leaves wounds and questions that linger in the hearts of its readers because it resonates with the real world.
Which is better: sacrificing yourself for the world—for strangers who don't even know you and won't remember you—or betraying the world to ensure someone whom you love keeps breathing?
The Author narrates it, the author makes the readers feel it, and the author lets the readers decide for themselves. Fiction offers no simple answers, only moral gray areas.
Over 100+ chapters have been written. 22 chapters have been rewritten. Less than 8-10 chapters left until the epilogue of volume 2. Start the countdown! I hope to finish volume 2 before the new year.

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