บท 209: Time to go home

"Sometimes I wonder if you're even real," Cristine said as she watched Strax.

"Huh?" He looked at her, surprised.

"I mean, look at you. Don't you think you should take this world a little more seriously? You almost died, you know?" Cristine glanced at the scene around her.

Strax was lying down with his arms spread out, while the mother-daughter duo hugged him on each side, and Samira was peacefully sleeping on top of him.

"Well, everyone needs to rest, right? Especially after almost dying," he joked with a comic tone.

Cristine sighed, crossing her arms as she looked at Strax with a mixture of exasperation and disbelief. "You always do this," she said, rolling her eyes.

Strax shrugged, still lying comfortably with a carefree smile on his lips. "Cristine, relax. If I start taking everything too seriously all the time, I'll end up exploding from stress. Trust me, I've been through way worse."