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What is heaven?

They say that although it may be a bit boring in some places, it is a peaceful place with delicious food and unlimited refills of wine.

In some places, they say they’ll provide you with alcohol, meat, and a harem of beautiful women. Then, I wonder if there’s a separate heaven for those beauties.

In some places, it is said that we should transcend ourselves and attain the divinity within.

Although each religion has a different setting, what they have in common is that they are peaceful and never go hungry.

Oh, and. Of course, this is the afterlife. You will never go to heaven alive.

That’s why the world before I died was such a hell. What kind of cancer do you get in high school?

I felt sorry for my parents who were trying to give me hope, but why should I fight cancer when I was going to die anyway? And why should I study when I was a cancer patient anyway?

So, he told me to give up on going to college and do whatever I wanted. I did make a YouTube channel about a terminally ill cancer patient who lives on, and it did gain some popularity.

If you travel like that and don’t go to college, there’s no way to avoid being drafted. This is a country with a great army that takes people in even if they have cancer.

So, ever since I was in training camp, I lived with the mindset that I would catch just one guy, because if we went to the shooting range, we would both die.

Unfortunately, all the people I met were kind people.

The executives who tried to find out from various angles to somehow get me discharged, whether it was because I was unfit for active duty or for medical reasons, and the seniors and juniors who did my work for me even though it was annoying for them.

Thanks to that, I was able to work hard in the military even though I was sick. If there are good things, there should be just as many bad things to balance things out. And then the Gate incident happened.

As a passage to another world opens, a terrible thing happens where monsters from beyond pour in. When such an unprecedented situation occurs, the military is the one who has to step in.

In some places, beautiful women with big ears come out and ask if they can live together peacefully. But in our unit, horrible-looking monsters come out.

What can I do? My body was already in pain, and I didn’t want to be any more of a burden, so I shot a gun to buy time for the other seniors to escape, and then I died.

Then I opened my eyes and saw that this was all a big world. My body didn’t hurt. I could jump higher than my height with a little jumping, and I liked the fact that my pure white hair was thick and flowing.

It’s a shame that the masculinity that I’ve never used has disappeared. Rather, since I’ve never used it, I don’t even think about it.

I am satisfied with just having a healthy body. Thanks to the sacrifices I made at the end, I felt like I was sent to this heaven.

Of course, that illusion was soon dispelled. This was not heaven, but just a big world.

A world where the miniature beds and furniture placed around are all different sizes, and what you thought were cotton blankets are actually just gauze.

Above all, I can’t help but notice the rats and birds running around me, since they are the same size as me.

Fortunately, they weren’t wild animals, but large animals raised by humans. They would sometimes be kept in cages, and then taken out for a walk or something, and then come back.

So, it seemed like I hadn’t gone to heaven, but had become a pet in the world of giants.

I too was held in the hand of a giant in a white gown and given an injection. According to my memories from my past life, it was a necessary vaccination for pets.

Still, couldn’t this place be called heaven, if not in the literal sense, then in a metaphorical sense?

Even though everything around you is big, delicious food comes out before you even have time to get hungry.

Big people treat me with care and give me things like toys.

If you don’t have to worry about food, clothing, and shelter and can be happy every day, wouldn’t that be heaven?

“Hey, that’s my food! … … Are you hungry? Then there’s nothing you can do.”

There was just one guy who was particularly greedy. He would always hide somewhere and steal half of my food.

Unlike other mice whose entire bodies were pure white, this one had a blunt tail and brown fur on its back. It was clearly a hamster.

I wonder if he has a conscience, he didn’t steal everything from me. But still, I couldn’t really like him when he kept stealing from me all the time.

But he doesn’t hit me because I climb on his back and he obediently becomes his ride.

But other rats and birds would also bow down obediently when I rode on their backs.

Well, at that point, it might be a car that is not cost-effective.

“You’re on a ham diet from now on. You’re on a ham diet because you eat a lot. Got it?”

Anyway, there were so many rats and birds. Seeing the giants taking them away one by one and talking about going to a good place, I guessed that this might be a pet shop or a temporary shelter.

It seems that they gave them vaccinations and kept them entertained until they found a suitable owner, and then they put them up for adoption.

Although they couldn’t speak, they were children who listened to me well and played with me. I hoped that the children who were leaving would find good owners and be happy.

And then one day, the one who was the kindest to us among the giants saw Hamshik and put him in a cardboard box.

Even though he’s always hiding and stealing food, he’s still cute, so maybe there was a demand for him.

But it didn’t end with him, the giant even put me in a cardboard box.

As if the crumpled up toilet paper wasn’t enough, almonds were piled up as high as Hamshik’s body.

The moment I saw it, I had a gut feeling. Oh, that’s right. It’s our turn now.

It was a shame that this giant had been so kind to us, but I was also looking forward to meeting him again.

Since he is the giant who saved us, he will hand us over to a good giant.

You might say that living as a pet, or rather a pet dwarf, isn’t great. But it’s still a lot better than living as a terminally ill patient in my previous life.

Will the new person raise us well? But Ham-sik eats a lot. Oh, but even if he eats a lot, it won’t be as much as the giants eat, so it doesn’t really matter.

The giant who put us in the cardboard box, put the lid back on and put us in his arms. Judging from the thick clothes the giant was wearing, it must be cold outside.

And then it starts shaking a little, and when you see that the outside noise is less audible and it’s getting a little warmer, it looks like it’s put the box inside its arms.

The giant is such a warm person.

“Oh, hey. Are you already eating that? Hamshik, you’ll turn into a pig, a pig! … … Huh?”

Even though the light wasn’t very good, the sound of Hamsik eating almonds was clearly audible in the dark and warm box.

And then we felt like we were in a state of weightlessness for a moment, and then we suddenly fell down.

I’m light, and the hamster is light too. Above all, the impact wasn’t that great because there was a lot of crumpled up toilet paper underneath.

It’s a bit serious that a giant dropped us.

So I immediately pushed open the paper lid, stuck my head out, and saw the giant who had dropped us moving further and further away.

“Mister! You dropped us! Mister! Mistereeee!”

I know my voice won’t be that loud because of the size difference, but I’m sure you’ll be able to hear it from this distance.

Couldn’t you hear? The giant was walking away from us too fast.

I tried jumping out of the box to try and catch it.

“Ugh, it’s cold! Mister! I’m cold! It hurts!”

Because the ground beneath was a pure white snowfield, I couldn’t stand the cold as I wasn’t even wearing shoes, so I quickly jumped up and returned to the box.

Hamshik is too busy eating almonds to care whether the giant gets away or not. Am I the only one worried about what to do now?

Ah. Maybe the giant brought us out like this to abandon us. No matter how much I called, I couldn’t see the giant until I finally reached a place where I couldn’t see him. That was the thought that occurred to me.

Maybe the giant had a hard time living with us. Those toys, those food. If everything he did for us was actually doing it out of necessity.

I was grateful and sorry, but at the same time frustrated.

I was happy during that time. I thought it was compensation for the pain I suffered in my past life. I was so stupid.

It was just a sand castle that would collapse in an instant.

How am I supposed to live with this gluttonous hamster? I can already see birds sitting on the power lines and giant dogs running around, much bigger than us.

Will we be able to avoid them and find something to eat? No, this guy only has six almonds left. That’s our last food.

Before I could eat anything, I was starting to feel sleepy. I thought it was a little warm thanks to the bottom made of crumpled ham and toilet paper.

Was it because it was so cold that snow piled up? My body was shivering from the cold that quickly seeped into the box.

“Ugh… … . You shouldn’t be sleeping… … . Hamshik-ah, you ate a lot of almonds. You should stand guard and wake up if anyone comes, okay? ”

I, who had never resisted sleep since I became this body, laid down with my eyelids growing heavy.

It seemed as if a woman with dark hair was approaching from afar with light steps.