If all that remained of what was lost was the Void, then how could these hands ever grasp it again?
No matter how much time had passed, the man still clearly remembered that distant memory.
Back then, he had just awakened from death. Still dazed and confused, he had been chosen by his world as its World Guardian. Just as he stood at a loss, unsure of what he was supposed to do, a lovely figure appeared before him.
"A newborn Guardian? You look a little slow. Kind of like you're not very bright... Oh, right, my Dining Hall is hiring lately. Interested in lending a hand there? The pay is great."
With her hands behind her back, the Young Girl bent slightly at the waist as she looked at him sitting on the ground, her face brimming with smiles. Traffic flowed around them, and ambulances came howling toward them.
—This was their first meeting.
And so, a newly born World Guardian was sweet-talked, tricked, and dragged aboard the pirate ship by a shady Manager who simply could not find any Employees... and in the end, she withheld his wages for a full thousand years.
Starting from the first month she withheld his pay, his thousand-year fantastical journey as a World Guardian began.
Like the opening of some fantasy comedy, after dying while doing a good deed and being chosen as a World Guardian, he was dragged by a shady Manager into a Dining Hall on the verge of bankruptcy. Together with an energetic Maid who had likewise been dragged in, he began the great struggle of rebuilding the Dining Hall from nothing and restoring it to glory.
After working at the Dining Hall for two months, and successfully owing that shady Manager two months' worth of wages at the