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<p>Though it may be a dream weathered, crumpled, fading,</p><p>I held on without surrender.</p><p>Through each repeated day, running toward tomorrow’s light,</p><p>I became a knight, resolute and bright.</p>

<p>The hearse with the weird odor slowed to a stop before the entrance. The sound of pebbles could be heard bouncing on the ceiling.</p><p>There were footsteps coming from the corridor, and there seemed to be someone sawing next door.</p><p>The door knob to the room rattled slightly, and the faucet in the bathroom kept dripping even though it had been screwed shut.</p><p>There was a rubber ball that rolled on its own underneath the bed.</p><p>Wet footsteps started to surface one after another on the floor.</p><p>At 3 am, Chen Ge held a cleaver in his hand as he hid beside the room heater.</p><p>The call he was trying to make was finally answered.</p><p>“Landlord, is this what you meant by ‘the house can be a little crowded at night’!?”</p>

<p>Three Days of Happiness is a novel by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo. It’s a rewritten version of the story originally posted to 2ch.</p><p>The premise of the story revolves around a shop where one can sell away the remaining years of their life, and the consequences of doing so.</p><p>“I Say A Little Prayer” is a short related story which was posted along with the novel’s release. It spoils some things about the main story, but nothing major.</p>

<p>Zorian is a teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, attending his third year of education at Cyoria’s magical academy.</p><p>He is a driven and irritable young man, consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, whom he resents for favoring his brothers over him.</p><p>Consequently, he has no time for pointless distractions or paying attention to other people’s problems.</p><p>As it happens, time is something he is about to get plenty of. On the eve of the Cyoria’s annual summer festival, he is killed and brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take a train to Cyoria.</p><p>Suddenly trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, Zorian will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery before him.</p><p>And he does have to unravel it, for the time loop hadn’t been made for his sake and dangers lurk everywhere…</p><p>Repetition is the mother of learning, but Zorian will have to first make sure he survives to try again — in a world of magic, even a time traveler isn’t safe from those who wish him ill.</p>

<p>Suddenly, high school student Subaru Natsuki has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. With the biggest crisis of his life being summoned to another world, and with no sign of the one who summoned him, things become even worse when he is attacked.</p><p>But when he is saved by a mysterious, silver-haired girl with a fairy cat, Subaru attempts to return the favor by helping her track down something that was stolen from her. When they finally manage to get a clue, Subaru and the girl are attacked and killed by someone.</p><p>Subaru then awakens in the place he was summoned and notices he gained the ability “Returns by Death” and has become a helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time to a certain point by dying.</p><p>Beyond the despair, can he save the girl from the fate of death?</p><p>Note: v3 epilogue 2 part1 (or interlude as written on the translator’s web) starts after the anime’s episode 25</p>

<p>Determined to survive, he resolves to overcome all obstacles and become a wizard. However, in this terrifying world, both apprentices and official wizards must constantly face the threat of death. Worse yet, Saul finds himself a prime target for persecution.</p><p>Fortunately, he acquires a diary that can predict the future.</p><p>But every prediction reads:</p><p>[You turned into fertilizer and found great satisfaction in your new form.]</p><p>[You laughed yourself to death.]</p><p>[Three years later, you became someone else’s potion ingredient.]</p><p>Saul: (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ I don’t want this cheat anymore!</p><p>Wait… Saul’s eyes suddenly lit up—Did I just rule out another wrong choice?</p><p>Before long…</p><p>Diary: (╯#-皿-)╯~~╧═╧ This isn’t what a diary is supposed to do!</p>

<p>I want an S-Rank skill too! I want it so badly, I could die for it!</p><p>[You have awakened an S-Rank skill.] [But it only works when you die.]</p><p>Eh !? WHAT IS THE POINT OF GETTING ONE IF I DIE !?</p>

<p>He was an addict, a loser, a despicable human being.</p><p>But, one fleeting dream that may not have been a dream at all reawakens his once-lost senses.</p><p>Possessing a very unique ability, he would use that, and the dream, to forge his path in the world now known as the Lost Paradise.</p><p>....</p><p>“The son of god Gula has returned.”</p><p>I was lost in the world of gambling.</p><p>I turned my back on my family and even betrayed my lover.</p><p>I wasted every day of my life.</p><p>It was a life of trash.</p><p>The reality told me thus:</p><p>That I would amount to nothing no matter what I did.</p><p>In order to change my pathetic life, I chose fantasy, instead.</p><p>Even then, it was the same story.</p><p>I wondered if salvation would come at the end of the long road.</p><p>But, I was forced to kneel down in defeat in front of a powerful entity.</p><p>The tower I built up with my own hands crumbled into nothingness.</p><p>Just for once, I dearly wished to know the truth about myself.</p><p>– Come closer, my child...</p><p>I will not hold back this time.</p>

<p>A lowly child beggar, a noble prince, a monster viewed as the enemy of the entire world. If you possess all three identities at the same time, which identity would you choose to help you earn a better ending?</p><p>Thales did not have the answer.</p><p>He only knew that he came to a different and magnificent world, and he had to face a future that was as difficult to handle as a nightmare.</p><p>The glorious Empire had already been destroyed for one thousand years, the dying royal family suffered many problems, the legendary sacred battle had plenty of conspiracies, the divided world was in chaos.</p><p>But Thales had nothing.</p><p>The only thing he had left was an unswerving determination to preserve his own identity, bravery which would allow him to survive in a perilous situation, and a belief that he would never submit to principles he did not believe.</p><p>“A King does not gain respect by virtue of his bloodline. The bloodline’s glory rests on the deeds of the King.”</p><p>Darkness will baptize light. Fire will create true steel. The forbidden prince’s story starts here.</p>

<p>Along with him, there were four others—they’re the 25th round of lab rats. Rich people are watching them live, placing bets on who dies first and who makes it to the end in this twisted survival game.</p><p>In the apartment, there’s:</p><p>- A psycho who likes skinning people to make kites.</p><p>- A modern-day Jack the Ripper who only targets women.</p><p>- A highly educated, high-IQ criminal mastermind.</p><p>- And a chainsaw-wielding maniac with a thirst for blood.</p><p>The system bound to Jiang Ran keeps screaming alerts:</p><p>【Ding! Host is detected in an extremely dangerous zone! Run!】</p><p>【Ding! Dangerous person detected nearby, RUN!】</p><p>【Ding! Extremely dangerous individual detected nearby! Seriously, RUN!】</p><p>Jiang Ran scratched his head, totally fed up:</p><p>“System, you’re talking nonsense again. The neighbors are clearly all super nice and friendly, but you keep throwing dirt on them! You’re the worst!”</p><p>“And anyway, there’s a gorgeous woman right next to me right now. How could she possibly be ‘extremely dangerous’?”</p>