Having been here once, it already feels familiar.
As the door opens, a white tree and a white library are straight ahead. Overhead, hundreds of millions of stars repeat annihilation and birth.
Jioh felt arms wrap around his waist from behind. Before he could shove that solid arm away, his body was whisked up.
【You seem thinner than before.】
“…Put me down right now. Do I look like a sack of rice to you?”
【How unromantic.】
With that customary arrogant face, the star smiled.
【Say you missed me.】
“I didn’t.”
【I see. And I, too, have missed you to the bone.】
They parried like an old fox, and then, for a moment, they gazed steadily at Jioh’s face.
Pretending it was nothing, he darted his eyes here and there to avoid it…
In the end, unable to withstand the persistent stare, Jioh thumped their…