For Hanks to have survived until now was already no small feat.
As early as fifty years ago.
The Hanks Couple had already been nearing the end of their lifespans.
Even [Lifespan Pills] had barely any effect on either of them.
Back then, An Kai had asked Hanks once, "Do you want to keep living?"
If he did, An Kai had a few ways to make it happen.
Turning him into an undead creature, for example.
Yet faced with the prospect of something close to immortality, Hanks had simply smiled, shaken his head, and refused.
An Kai still remembered the expression Hanks had worn when he turned him down.
He had looked utterly at peace with his own fate.
Anyone who didn't know better might have thought Hanks had "achieved sainthood."
"I've lived a life exciting enough for anyone!"
"For the first half of my life, I lived for revenge."
"In the second half, I met you."
"Even now, I think the best decision I ever made was choosing to trade with you when you were looking to sell resources, paying you with [Lower-grade Magic Stones]."
"It was that trade that let a lonely old man like me see a completely different world."
"So magnificent, so dazzling."
"But it wasn't a world for me. Living in the world as it is now, I always feel like an outsider, out of place with everything around me."
"My strength, my perspective."
"The identity as a Seven Kingdoms' Spy that I once took such pride in is so useless in this new world."
"Descendants of divinities, divinities, the Lord of the Insect Realm."
"It's hard to imagine that the second half of my life would bring me into contact with these legendary beings."
"Thank you, An Kai."
"You're the one who let me