A Former Police Officer Who Died And Get A Second Life!-Chapter 32: Only Qiong Xing

What had he ever done to humans?

Treated no better than livestock, kicked and beaten while being told he couldn’t even do something so simple and still, he couldn’t resist.

He could only endure.

How many times had he wished to die and be free?

If death was the only way to gain freedom, then why had he even been born?

With no hope left in living, he had been nothing more than someone waiting for death.

And then there was what Qiong Xing gave him.

Qiong Xing saw him not as a beastman, but as an individual.

Even when he nearly hurt him, Qiong Xing said it was fine and told him they would become family, and gently patted him.

He invited him to eat luxurious food together, food a slave would never have been allowed to eat in their entire life. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

He asked him to become his mate, someone who otherwise would have died alone.

He could declare, without hesitation, that this moment was the happiest he had ever been in his life.

Elias had believed that he would be alone forever, until the day he died and yet, in just a single day, he had gained three family members.

He did not want to admit it when it came to Leander, but if Qiong Xing said so, then there was no helping it.

Humans in general no longer mattered to him, and if Qiong Xing were to die, he felt that dying himself would be fine as well.

As long as Qiong Xing was there.

As long as Qiong Xing alone was there.

His most beloved, destined mate.

With all the life he had left from here on, he would devote it to loving Qiong Xing.

Qiong Xing seemed oddly detached at times, yet also strangely careless.

If left alone, he looked like the type who might cause something outrageous, and so Elias thought he would have to keep a proper watch over him.

"Ah, I forgot to talk about the heat."

While carrying Qiong Xing who had fallen asleep from crying, Elias lay down beside him together with Leander, thinking that it would be fine.

Whether tomorrow or the day after, there was plenty of time.

With that thought, he closed his eyes.

...

This was bad.

His body would not move.

Was this sleep paralysis!?

No, did sleep paralysis even exist here too?

Doing a clumsy solo back-and-forth joke like that meant he must have been quite groggy.

As his mind gradually cleared, he realized that the reason he felt fixed in place and unable to move was because Leander and Elias were holding him tightly from both sides.

Their strong arms would not even allow Qiong Xing to turn over in his sleep.

If he thought of it as affection from the two of them, he did not dislike it, even if it felt a little overwhelming.

He was happy that they needed him.

He had planned to try hard to find a partner, yet it had been fulfilled on the very first day after arriving.

It was not that he wanted to become a woman.

He had never thought of himself as so weak that he wanted someone to protect him.

It was simply that, just as men love women and women love men, Qiong Xing saw men of the same sex as romantic partners.

But even after realizing that, it had been difficult to act on it, and he had been afraid of telling others and being seen as disgusting, so he could do nothing.

As he grew older, his defensive walls only became stronger, and he resigned himself to it, thinking it could not be helped.

But then he met them.

In the second life newly given to him, he had finally found someone he loved.

And now, he had two people who conveyed their love to him with their whole bodies.

"Hya!?"

"!?"

"?"

As he was thinking how happy he was, something suddenly touched his foot.

At Qiong Xing’s surprised voice, the two who had been sleeping beside him also woke up, wondering what was going on.

"...Cari."

When he cautiously looked toward his feet, Cari who should have been sleeping beside Elias was pressed against Qiong Xing’s foot and rubbing his cheek against it.

So cute.

He was so adorable, but it was unbearably ticklish and it was bad for his heart right after waking up, so he really wished he would stop.

"Cari wanted to sleep with Mama too, huh."

"Even so, the foot area is dangerous, you know."

It was fine only because he could not move, but he might have reflexively kicked him otherwise.

Cari seemed to be sleeping soundly, he showing no sign of waking even when he was picked up.

He just sniffling softly and rubbing against his chest, Cari was, to put it mildly, incredibly cute.

He wanted to let him keep sleeping, but since he needed to wash his face, he headed to the washroom, however...

"...Eh, who is this?"

Someone he had never seen before was reflected there.

For a moment, he truly did not recognize who it was, but then he remembered.

Those two Gods must have worked very hard.

"This is going to take quite a long time to get used to."

After that, once they finished breakfast, they discussed what to do from here on out.

"As for what comes next, do you have any good ideas?"

He did not think they would have trouble finding food even if he did not work, but since he had decided to live in this world, he also wanted to try doing some kind of job and earning money.

If Leander and the others were only ever receiving things from Qiong Xing, they would surely feel uncomfortable and find it hard to live that way.

That said, he could not imagine that there would be job opportunities for beastmen like Leander and the others.

"Both Leander and I can fight to some extent, so I think we could support you by becoming adventurers."

"Adventurers?"