“Sir Eugene, Sir Eugene…Are you not going to wake up, Sir Eugene?” Mer shook him.

“I’m up,” Eugene answered as he sprang up from the bed. He wasn’t someone who usually slept for very long. It was a different thing if he was camping, but when he slept in a familiar place where some level of safety was guaranteed, then he would always wake up before daybreak. He actually woke up on his own, even if no one woke him. However, someone had started to wake him up a few days ago, even though Eugene didn’t ask for it.

“Did you sleep well?”

Mer was standing beside his bed when Eugene turned his head, rubbing his dry eyes.

After throwing a glance at the long wall clock, Eugene came down from his bed and said, “I told you you don’t need to wake me up. Why do you wake me up ”

“I can’t help it. I can’t even sleep, so I’m so bored at dawn.”

“You lived like that for hundreds of years. You must have gotten used to it.”

“I earned my freedom with difficulty after living like that for so long, so I don’t want to waste a minute or even a second of my life.” Mer sheepishly smiled as she followed Eugene.

Mer had stopped wearing her trademark robe and witch hat. Instead, she was wearing clothes that an ordinary ten-year-old girl would normally wear. However, the clothes themselves weren’t ordinary in the slightest. They were very expensive…not that Eugene cared, since he was not the one who had purchased them.

“Still, I like it here more than in Akron. There are a lot of beings to talk to while you sleep.”

Mer trotted behind Eugene and chattered. Listening to her cheerful voice, Eugene stood in front of the mirror. With his hand, Eugene roughly combed his disheveled hair backward and gestured to Mer. “Give me some space.”

“Okayy.”

Mer didn’t go far, she just leaned...