Chapter 1641 Hydra Kingdom Founding Festival ⑥
Chapter 1641: Hydra Kingdom Founding Festival ⑥
At Alice’s suggestion of adding Neun-san and Hapti-san, our group of four decided to look around together. Well, strictly speaking, half of the members are just Alices……
[Which way are you planning to go, Kaito-san, Alice-sama?]
[We were just roaming around before watching the Sea Dragon Parade.]
[I see, that’s nice. The Sea Dragon Parade is somewhat reminiscent of a lion dance, and it’s fun to watch.
[Have you seen it before, Neun-san?]
While I can’t really picture Neun-san participating in such festivals, when I think about it again, Neun-san is also over a thousand years old, and considering that she’s best friends with Hydra Kingdom’s King Laguna-san,? it wouldn’t be surprising if she had come to watch it many times.
[I have seen it several times. This year too, Laguna gave me a ticket, so I thought I’d go see it with Hapti-san……]
[Having a friend who is a King certainly makes it easier to secure seats at these kinds of events, doesn’t it? Rather, I’m changing the subject a bit, but when I looked at the list of attendees for the ceremony, I saw the name “Fors” on it, so it seems like Fors is also attending huh.]
[Fors was? That is…… I wonder if she actually managed to arrive?]
[Yes, that’s the case. When you have acquaintances you haven’t seen for even longer periods of time, a few years of not meeting can start to feel like it’s not that significant. I used to think that the time intervals for long-lived beings like Fors and Laguna were far too imprecise and different from mine, but as I lived longer, my perception of time also changed…… When I’m not being consciously aware of it, those time intervals would turn out that way.]
[I- I see……]
For someone who had lived for up to about a century, even if one says they hadn’t met someone for a long time, they would typically be talking about just a few years or at most a few decades. However, when you live for a very long time, you start to have acquaintances you haven’t seen for several decades, or in some cases, even centuries, and that’s when their perception of time begins to shift…… Come to think of it, even though Sieg-san in her 30s is considered a long-lived species, her sense of time intervals is normal, similar to that of humans, but Rei-san and Fia-san have a more casual sense of time intervals and don’t consider several years to be a long time.
[This is something that you’ll also experience once you’ve truly lived for a long time. Your perception shifts without you realizing it, before suddenly noticing it one day…… I think when Kaito were to live for about 500 years, you yourself should start to feel it.]
[She’s right, Kaito-san. That really happens to people, so be really mindful of it. If you don’t consciously keep it in mind, there may be some among your acquaintances with whom you wouldn’t be in touch for more than a hundred years……]
[I- I’ll be careful.]
Neun-san also strongly agrees with Alice and Hapti-san’s words…… It certainly seems that a shift in the perception of time intervals is something more likely to be experienced when one has lived for a long time.
Being immortal myself, I guess I have to be careful not to have that happen to me later on……
<Afterword>
Makina : [Ahh, I get what they mean here. I also have World Creator acquaintances that I haven’t talked to in about 13 billion years, haven’t I? I just keep on forgetting about them.]
Serious-senpai : [Nah, yours feels more like on a completely different level.]