The summer practically flew by.

Eugene didn’t spend even a moment of time enjoying any of the activities that characterized the season. This wasn’t just a behavior he had picked up since coming to Aroth; after he had been reincarnated, he had never once turned his eye to having some fun.

While he was staying at the main estate, Cyan and Ciel had repeatedly tried to persuade him to go on vacation with them in the summer, and in the winter, they had conspired to get him to go skiing with them, but Eugene had never once gone along with their plans. Eugene also didn’t hold any intentions of doing so in the future.

The sea that Eugene was familiar with was a haunting place where shipwrecks and floating dead bodies could be seen wherever you turned to look. The area of the sea that connected Helmuth to its neighboring countries was filled with the nests of terrible and powerful marine monsters.

The snow that Eugene was familiar with...