After [ The Great One ] gave Ras their final help, they had completely left this world, but currently, Ras was happy with each passing day.....
And for good reason. His wife, who had been on the verge of death, had returned alive and well thanks to [ The Great One ]'s help.
His wife's survival was more important to Ras than anything else, as he had felt nothing but despair every day.
And so, Ras was helping his wife Arais with her rehabilitation therapy today as well.
And the reason for the rehabilitation therapy here is that Arais had her brain exposed to an Ether crystal for a long time.
Though it's unclear exactly what happened, she is currently in a state similar to paralysis in her lower body, so through rehabilitation therapy
she is trying to recover the function of her legs. Even now, with the help of her husband Ras,
she is undergoing rehabilitation.
And whether it was due to the effectiveness of the therapy or the blessing given by [ The Great One ] before their final departure is unknown, but Arais recovered
rapidly. Before long, her condition improved to the point where she could walk on her own.
Ras felt joy at this fact and looked forward to the return of his ordinary daily life, but
the work for Ares Enterprises and the duties that came to Ras, known as a Hollow Hunter,
prevented him from living an ordinary daily life(?).
Even today, he had to constantly handle work related to Hollow suppression and
the paperwork he had to process as the chairman of Ares Enterprises...
And while Arais was undergoing rehabilitation, Ras began to have questions about
a memory he felt, as if it were obscured by something.
No matter how much he thought about it, the many things Ras himself had done
did not come to mind deeply, as if someone had blocked it.
He couldn't remember. However, he remembered that he was a Hollow Hunter and
what kind of work he had done, but the details just wouldn't
come to mind.
It was as if looking into a deep abyss was forbidden, and he could only see the shallow
water's edge.
When he tried to keep remembering, it only gave him a headache.
And all his current memories seemed packaged. Difficult or painful moments
didn't seem visible, as if obscured by something, as if someone was covering his vision.
Realizing to some extent that there was no point in continuing to think about it,
he just waited for his wife Arais's rehabilitation to finish completely while doing
Hollow suppression work suitable for a Hollow Hunter or handling work at Ares Enterprises.
Then, at a certain moment, a call came to Ras, and the one calling Ras was....
- The Hoshimi Family.
It was someone from the Hoshimi Family, who were acquainted with Ras. Ras, who was working, answered the call and
asked what the matter was.
"Uh... What is it..."
Answering the call as if greeting an old friend, Ras was
asked by the family to come to the mansion later, as they were summoning him.
When he asked again why they were calling him, the answer that came back was....
"What??? A first birthday celebration????"
It was an invitation to the first birthday celebration of Hoshimi Miyabi of the Hoshimi Family,
who would become the youngest Hollow Hunter in the future.
The invited Ras immediately relayed this news
to his wife and said he would go with her before hanging up.
A few days later, Ras truly went to the Hoshimi Family to see
the first birthday celebration of the young baby Siren, who inherited the Hoshimi blood...
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Ras, visiting the Hoshimi Family after a long time, exchanged light greetings with the family's members and
went to see Hoshimi Miyabi, the protagonist of this first birthday celebration.
While looking at Miyabi, Ras thought the child really resembled the 3rd Family Head.
Not long after, the highlight of baby Miyabi's celebration, the doljabi (item grab), began.
Baby Miyabi was doing the doljabi, passing between the various items spread out here and there.
Miyabi's gaze became fixed on one item, and she immediately approached it.
The item she chose in the doljabi was a knife.
Having grabbed the knife, Miyabi was being praised by the surrounding retainers, who said she had indeed chosen a knife.
Miyabi was happy, smiling brightly at the knife she had chosen.
Ras also tried to offer congratulatory applause to such a Miyabi when
he noticed it... the darkened faces of Miyabi's parents...
For some reason, Miyabi's parents wore expressions as if they wished Miyabi hadn't chosen the knife,
worrying and feeling anxious about Miyabi.
Later, from stories Ras heard from the Hoshimi Family while working, after Miyabi
chose the knife at the doljabi, she became curious about the cursed blade Mukuro-uchi・Muo,
which the 3rd Family Head had supposedly used, and kept approaching it. Hearing this, Ras tried
to recall the content of a conversation he had with the 3rd Family Head, but failed due to the memory seal.
After that, while listening to stories about what Miyabi does and what she likes,
he tried hard to remember memories so old he couldn't even recall them.
Enduring a headache to some extent, the memory that surfaced was about Miyabi.
In the memory Ras barely recalled, Miyabi had killed her mother due to some incident
and ran amok after being consumed by a sword. Only this memory surfaced vaguely, but trying to recall more
was impossible. However, with just this level of memory,
Ras inferred what would happen to the future Miyabi,
but there was nothing he could do for now, so he just stayed quiet, thinking later
he might try to change the conclusion of that story... But while thinking about how to change it,
someone from the Hoshimi Family made a request to Ras.
And the request the Hoshimi Family person made to Ras was.....
"You want me to become Miyabi's swordsmanship instructor???"
It was a request to become Hoshimi Miyabi's swordsmanship instructor. Hearing this request,
Ras, now having a pretext, said he would take on the role of instructor.
Around the time his wife's rehabilitation therapy was nearly complete, Ras decided to go to the Hoshimi Family
and become Miyabi's swordsmanship instructor...
And at this time, Ras didn't know why he wanted to save Miyabi.
He was completely oblivious to the fact that the reason he had tried to play Zenless Zone Zero, the worldview of his previous life, in the first place
was because of Miyabi's character banner.