<h4>Chapter 281: Dreams</h4>


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    As I slept, I woke up in my dreams.


    Ah, now that I am a Daydreaming Dragon, I guess I can travel through dreams even easily.


    I found myself floating in the middle of a beautiful starlight sky. Was I in some kind of dream imitating space itself?


    I looked everywhere, and there was just an endless and beautiful cosmos.


    Stars everywhere the eye could see, nebs, and passingets of brightly colored tails.


    I began to dive through the endless cosmos, as I suddenly found somewhere else within it.


    Huh? A beautiful, blue-skinned ice giant girl… Of course, how can I not recognize her?


    "Bedann? Is that really you?"


    I wondered if it was her because this could be the fabrication of a dream.


    I checked her a bit, and it was indeed her, her soul flowed strongly from within her.


    "Drake? Am I dreaming? This is the first time I dream of something so vividly and lucidly… I usually am in a daze when I dream…" she said.


    "Y-Yeah, sorry about that, it''s my dream, I think you mixed on it because we sleep too close with one another," I said.


    "Ooh… That''s cool! I''ve never seen the dreams of another person before…" said Bedann.


    "You don''t mind?"


    "If you don''t mind, I don''t mind." She said cutely.


    "Alright then my princess,e with me," I said rather gantly, as I extended my hand towards her, and she held it.


    "Hehe, it''s funny when you act gantly…" she chuckled.


    "Geh… I-It wasn''t a joke…" I sighed.


    "Oh… Sorry, it is still charming…" she said.


    "I guess you can say that." Iughed.


    We flew around this cosmos-like dream, as we traveled towards the nearest neb. It was blue and azure-colored, floating majestically across the vastness of this imaginary universe.


    "So beautiful… I have never traveled to space before." Said Bedann.


    "Me neither, but in dreams, you can do anything you want… Anything on mind?" I asked, as I shaped the neb into a couch and we both sat over it.


    "Ooh, fancy…" she chuckled.


    She sat at my side and rested her head over my shoulder.


    "Hmm… I don''t know… Oh! I know." She said.


    "What is it?"


    "I have never seen how you looked in your previous life… Can I see it? You said we can do anything." She said.


    Ah… That caught me off guard.


    Ugh, this is a bit embarrassing now…


    I wasn''t particrly the prettiest guy back then, nor anything special…


    She''ll see how pathetic I was… Ahh…


    This is indeed embarrassing.


    But if she loves me… then I guess she won''t mind it too much?


    I hope…


    "Okay, but… promise me that you won''t judge me based on how I used to be…" I sighed.


    "Oh… S-Sure… I would never do such a thing…" she said, holding my hand.


    "T-Then let''s go…"


    I waved my hand, as a dream portal emerged. I shaped a new dream based on my memories of my previous life at random, and we hopped inside of it.


    Here we go then…


    …


    When I opened my eyes once more, I found myself inside my room.


    Hm?


    And I was… me?


    I looked exactly like my previous life self.


    And where''s Bedann?


    She''s nowhere?


    EH?!


    "Bedann?! Where are you?!"


    I began to walk around my room. It wasn''t messy because I was obsessed with cleaning, so at the very least it could be said I was proud of having a cleanroom.


    Ah…


    I stopped midway through as I admired it for a bit.


    It has… really been a while.


    How long now? Half a year since I died?


    It feels so long… like years.


    I went around the bookshelves, as I found my books… My manga, light novels, and so on.


    I grabbed them and began to read them


    All the pages were there?!


    I guess they are all the ones I''ve read.


    Those I left without reading… Yep, they were empty inside.


    Sigh…


    There was the TV and the Game consoles… Switch, y Station, Xbox… The games were there.


    Oh… I wish I could just sit once more and just enjoy a nice ythrough in one of my favorite games for a change of pace.


    Ah. But Bedann! Where is she?


    I walked into the next room, as I heard someone''s voice.


    Someone very familiar… which I had not seen in a long time.


    "Big brother?"


    "…"


    My sister…


    She''s… just a dream, I shouldn''t get emotional or anything.


    But I guess… It''s not bad to greet her, right?


    "S-Sister… how are you?"


    "Hm? I''m good… You got out early. Ready to go out?"


    "To go out?"


    "Yeah, you promised me we were going skiing!"


    "Ah… No, wait… I can''t…"


    "But you promised me!"


    "…But I will die."


    "Die? You won''t die! It is just skiing, stop being so timid ande hang out with my kids, let''s have a nice time together… How long has it been since we went out like sister and brother?" she sighed.


    She looked at me with her beautiful aquamarine eyes.


    Ugh… I am weak to those eyes.


    "Fine…"


    "Alright then! Come pack up things with us!"


    She held my hand and led me to the living room, where I greeted her husband and her kids. They were all there… I also kind of miss them. I saw her two kids grow up since they were babies, I took care of them for several days, so I guess I am a good uncle for them… I like to gift them games too. Well… I liked.


    "Ready for its buddy?"


    And her husband, she was a childhood friend of hers. A good guy. He used to be a timid nerd back then, but she chose him over other guys because of his honesty.


    "Yeah, let''s have some fun."


    "That''s the spirit man."


    I wonder if I could… see my parents or my big brother.


    "Let''s go!"


    "W-What about mom and dad?"


    "Don''t you remember? They went into a resort."


    "Oh right…"


    We went into her car, and we moved into the mountains after some time.


    It all felt so real.


    I wonder… am I really dreaming?


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