Side Story: Earth?

As I opened my eyes, I saw a ceiling that was both familiar and strange.

A studio apartment, neither particularly big nor small.

It was my home on Earth.

…Was this a dream?

Normally, I might wonder whether everything I’d experienced in the other world had been a dream, but I was a Grand Master who’d reached near-demigod level.

I knew that world was real.

…The problem was that my Grand Master senses were telling me this was real, too.

“...Huh?”

I sprang upright and looked around. My apartment, which I hadn’t seen in ages, greeted me.

The furniture was exactly where I remembered it. The lights were on. And Ian was sleeping beside me...