True Self Special Brew-Flawless Return?

{Lots of little gluttons must want a drink, right?}

"Hmm? What did you say, little Pardo? A brewing vat?"

Aglaea looked curiously at little Pardo and asked.

"Lady Aglaea, this is what happened."

Castorice told Aglaea and the others about how everyone had awakened the sleeping Krydrla and Hysilens in the underwater city-state of Sterekstia, including Krydrla's feigned-death plan and the story of that brewing vat. Aglaea looked at Krydrla, who stood with her arms folded, in amazement.

"It's truly hard to imagine that the most warlike monarch, the tyrant Caesar, could have changed so much..."

Krydrla's transformation was undoubtedly shocking to Aglaea. The warlike monarch had actually changed?

"No, Aglaea. It wasn't that I deliberately changed. It was because, during those thousand years of slumber, I dreamed..."

"I dreamed of many past events I had once dismissed, of the subjects who died because of me. Combined with that deathlike sleep, it made me unable to help but reflect deeply..."

"I merely closed my eyes and opened them again. I did nothing more than dream a few dreams, yet a thousand years had passed..."

"And the story Cat Girl Titan told—why life slumbers... it inspired me greatly."

Krydrla began to ponder what she should do from now on...

"If possible, could Krydrla help me govern Okhema?"

Aglaea smiled as she extended an invitation to Krydrla.

"Hmm... I suppose that would be fine. I'm also rather curious about how the world has changed after a thousand years."

"I'm no longer the tyrant Caesar you all spoke of. This is the perfect chance to live under a different identity and understand what such subjects—no, what people—need."

Krydrla also wanted to mingle with Okhema's people and experience firsthand what everyone truly wanted.

"Hmm... Is there an open area near Okhema, preferably grassland?"

"I'm