10 Years After

I stare at the meadow, reminiscing all of the stuff that had happened.

"The confession… All of that happened 10 years ago." I said that within myself as I walk away from that place to resume my work in the fields.

To think that time had passed that quickly, can't believe that stuff happened here in this meadow.

Looking back at it, I never really answer their confession. I didn't even try to prevent them from leaving… All that I said at that time was to see whether their love would last or not, since I am sure that it would not. As they would surely meet another man that would be much better than me.

Thus I said that if their love would last for 10 years towards me, then I will give them the answer. I know it's a stupid thing to do but at least that way I know whether their feelings are real or not.

But it seems like their feelings for me have dissipated, as this is the last month of this year. So it would be 11 years already if this month is over.

That doesn't matter much, as long as I can live my life as peacefully here.

Funny how I was reincarnated here to save the world but I did the opposite of it. I didn't do much and all these years… I am just a normal farmer, continuing what my father does in the village.

Why? Well because I realize that I am weak… if I join the war. The chances of me surviving are zero. As I had no other special abilities at all as I was reincarnated with zero skill whatsoever. But that's my consequence of not choosing the other gifts and of course the OP system power.

If I had chosen those gifts, sure my life would be completely different from the current life that I had right now. But that's fine… I am liking this peaceful life that I had after all.

Still, I thought that I wouldn't be able to remember everything about my life in this world. But who would expect that just a night's sleep would fix everything regarding that stuff? So I learn pretty much everything about my past… on who's Ceonre is before I become him.

Nothing is special about me at all, as I am simply a farmer's son and my full name was Ceonre Almer.

Of course, all of that stuff happens when I first sleep the night after I get reincarnated here. Though it doesn't change much about what I am feeling toward my childhood friends even after I get my memory back.

…

"There you are Ceonre! I thought you would skip work for today." Jack said that to me.

"That has crossed my mind but if I pity you as you would be doing all of the farm work by yourself, so I had to come and help you," I said.

Jack, my male friend whom I would call my best friend in this village. He was older than me by a year but because we are pretty much similar, as both of us were the son of a farmer. We became quite good friends.

"That's so nice to hear hahaha!" Jack then paused for a bit as he then said, "But putting that matter aside, have you heard the recent news?"

"Recent news? If you are talking about how our kingdom is losing the war against the elf, then I have heard of that."

Our kingdom, The Bruna Kingdom is in the middle of a war with the elf due to some land dispute. Because rumors kinda say that we are trespassing their sacred forest and are trying to build a settlement there, taking the resource inside of that forest.

Of course, since it's a sacred forest of the elf, for sure they would retaliate.

But the higher-ups kinda denied the situation and said that the forest was part of the Bruna Kingdom territory and the kingdom has its right to use that land to build a settlement.

I don't know why both of them could be at war in times like this. They should be focusing on the demons instead… because even the war between the demons hasn't ended yet despite being already 10 years.

What was worse was that the demon seemed to have gotten a lot stronger and had taken several continents already. So the only remaining continent was the current continent that I live in, which is called Azone and of course, the Drafuth continent that was in the west.

But seeing how things are, I do think that our continent would be invaded first as from what I heard… Drafuth continent is hard to be invaded since they had a territorial advantage and that was the desert. Because most of the people there were lizardman and beast folks.

"It is related to that and that's why our kingdom decided to recruit more soldiers. So I heard that some men from the army would come to this village soon and inspect the people here…" Jack said that.

"Wait what!? So does that mean that we might be going into the war itself?" I said that in shock as I didn't expect this to happen.

All that I thought would happen was when this kingdom lost the war. Their ambition would stop there and would try to reconcile with the elf. I didn't expect that they wanted to resume the war by recruiting more people.

"Yep! Can't you believe Ceonre! That it is finally our turn to become famous and beat the elf that was denying our kingdom rights to that sacred forest." Jack said that excitedly.

I forgot that Jack is on the kingdom side of this war… but why would he be excited about this?

Shouldn't he realize that war would snatch his life there? It isn't a place that is going to make us famous. If he wanted that, he should be aiming to become an adventurer instead.