My Turn

[The Demon King Has Been Defeated!]

After that message appeared, a flash of radiance flared for an instant.

The light that swallowed my entire body in a single moment gave me the sensation of floating, as if I were swimming through a dream, then carried me somewhere else over a stretch of time that felt both long and short.

“Where am I……?”

I was in some kind of tunnel.

To be precise, a wormhole—the sort that often appeared in sci-fi stories.

For some reason, I was looking down at it from an impossible vantage point, as if I’d become a ghost.

“I see. I’m going back.”

Once I understood the situation, I swallowed a hollow laugh.

Yubel, who had been the Demon King, had died, and I was returning...