Chapter 8 - Nikokado Sakito Sighed

Self-edited

“Sigh…”

As if breathing out purple smoke 1 , the man let out a long exhale. Nikokado Sakito adjusted his glasses and rubbed the corners of his eyes.

“The characters are flickering… It must be my age.”

He let out a frustrated sigh, shaking his head and scratching his scalp. His hair, already streaked with white strands, gently waved and swayed as he moved. Despite being sixty years old, his tall and lean body moved with surprising agility as he stood up, accompanied by the cracking of his shoulders.

“Sigh….”

However, his expression was dull.

His heavy expression seemed as if he were grappling with the crossroads of life, sinking into a swamp of conflict or resignation, evoking anxiety in those who saw it.

It was as if he had found a philosophical question in the paperback book in his hand. An air of contemplation surrounded him.

However—

“Elf, huh…”

In the next moment, those words were woven from the mouth of the Japanese man, who had reached his sixtieth birthday, as if they were carefully selected. Moreover, these words were spoken with a strong sense of realism.

The title of the paperback book he held in one hand was “The Otherworld × Me”, a light novel.

In the lodge, resembling a mountain hut, with the warm glow of the setting sun seeping through, this scene would have appeared surreal. Normally, that is. However, this was not Japan.

He shifted his gaze towards the sofa where he had been sitting just moments ago. His eyes focused on the long side of the L-shaped sofa, the area where he hadn’t been seated.

“… Saki… to…”

Ambient Gale Shaft. A female elf.

With platinum blonde hair, dyed in the color of the setting sun, and emerald green eyes that were currently closed as the owner was deep in slumber.

“…”

Sixty-year-old Nikokado Sakito is now living in another world.

1 In raw, it was written as 紫煙を吐き出した, translated as “exhaled/spit out purple smoke”, which is a figurative expression used to express exhaustion or weariness.

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