ノエル: すべてをやり直すために (第二の並行世界にて)

リプライズ ‐ パート3

　About another month passed.

　It felt like that, but it could have been longer.

　I can't really tell. I've just been in bed the whole time, being cared for by the sisters. Aelaria periodically comes and uses her healing magic on me.

　But of course, it does nothing. I still feel like shit.

　All I've been able to think of is the faces of those I've left behind.

　People from my party. My parents from Japan. Sazanami-chan even crosses my mind.

　How does time affect them? Did it continue like normal after my death? If so, then most of my peers I knew in Japan would be in their 30s. My parents might be dead also.

　Or is this a different timeline? What I perceive as the passage of time isn't what they experience.

　I wonder if Sazanami-chan would be married now.

　...

　That's a silly thought, why did that even cross my mind? Though I suppose it would be good if she was happy...

　Seeing me get stabbed and die right before her must have been pretty traumatic. It was rather un-gentleman-like of me to bleed everywhere.

　Just kidding... not much else I could have done.

　But enough of that, I should be thinking about where to go...

　I keep watching what happens around me, and it all seems the same in one way shape, or form.

　Even with me lying in bed all this time, nothing changes. I hear conversations I can recall parts of, I hear about events I already know.

　So I'm in a time loop? That is the logical thing to call this. I died... but instead of seeing the Goddess again, I just rewound my life here.

　Then, how do I escape it? Can I even escape it? I don't want to live the same life over and over until I clear that stupid dungeon...

　I wish I could renounce my reincarnation.