Levelmaker

"Sae-no."

"Congratulations!

A large number of humans said so in the castle at the same time.

Mephirado Castle, in the castle. It was on this day that various people gathered at Arim's suggestion. Anasm and Earth differ in the month and day of the year. But this New Year's Day coincided miraculously. What's going on at the scene is the festival itself.

"Hey, that's the most exciting thing I've ever done"

"Right! I can't believe there's a day like this."

All the decorations and everyone's costumes, of course, were prepared by Alim. It feels like the castle has been taken over by the Japanese New Year, but the Kings embrace it happily because they want to know about different cultures as well.

"It's been a long year."

"Especially when dreams were stalked."

"That's more or less what you need to say."

Alim bruises and swells her cheeks. Looking at her like that, Micah turned a worrying eye.

"... I don't know, I have a dream"

"Hmm?

"It feels like something's almost over."

"I really feel that way, too."

They nodded, not saying anything about smudging. It's like a sports festival that takes place somewhere, its venue is announced… the years leading up to it being executed are soooo intrusive, roughly four years and months. Slowly repeat this past year and a little bit in your head that makes you feel like so much time has gone by. I felt like I was on my way to New Year's four times.

"It was a long time, I don't know"

"Indeed."

"I have to thank you, for everything. Look, I've come this far."

"Yeah, yeah."

Alim and Micah looked forward to seeing the acquaintances enjoying venues like this festival. Like stroking each person's face.

And turn to each other again.

"Maybe a little more, but nice to see you again this year!

"Yeah, thank you!

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Congratulations.

Thanks to you, Levelmaker celebrated his fourth New Year's Day. I also owe it to all of you to continue so far. Thank you so, so much.

By the way, I stopped posting every day and it's been a year and a half since I posted every other day. It depends on whether I'm wondering if this is an impossible base at the moment. This is a really busy year for me too. Probably next year. I will continue to do so so as not to be forced, but only to stagnate posts.

Each year, we wrote about what we plan to do within a year with this postscript, but this time we will write about it in the activity reports on each posting site and in what I said is a status note. Be sure to check that out, as we'll also include things about the new work.

That's it. Best wishes for me and my work this year.