"This place really is nice."
Enjoying the gentle warm breeze, Su Ming sat on the grass, taking in the beautiful natural scenery around him. He almost did not want to move, casually smoking as he spoke to Farys beside him. "Long ago, I once imagined what retirement would be like. I'd find a place like this, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, build a house, grow some crops, and live self-sufficiently. No matter how stormy the outside world became, I'd just live my own life."
That had been in his previous life. Working as a night-shift security guard meant practically never seeing daylight year-round. The job was not especially demanding, but office workers could hardly help wanting to retire early.
Back then, he had thought about other things too. Like in Japanese manga, being summoned as a hero and transported to an Another World of swords and magic, then irresponsibly running away from the castle altogether, finding some remote place and living out a light-novel life like The Night-Shift Security Guard hero Runs Away to Farm in Another World and Lives a Slow Life.
And what happened? He did get transported, only to be thrown straight into Earth -11 of DC Universe Multiverse 1. From then on, his life had nothing to do with a slow life. Even when he lay at home doing nothing, his mind was always racing at full speed.
Whether he was making contingency plans or plotting for certain benefits, he had never had the inclination to tend crops.
Now that he had entered The World of Creation, perhaps seeing such an ideal natural environment had reminded him of a small dream from his youth. It was rather amusing.
But there was no point dreaming about a slow life as a hero in another world. Other