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[phantom_earl]

Comments

[justasystem]

Are you alright?

[phantom_earl]

Of course. I was under the impression you had left us permanently.

1/?

[justasystem]

I-

[justasystem]

I left for just... two months in my world.

[justasystem]

But-

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[justasystem]

I'm really glad to be back.

1/2

[phantom_earl]

Two months ?!

2/2

[phantom_earl]

I see. So real time does not run parallel to time in this world.

[justasystem]

Mm...

But when I went back, I went right back to when I had left.

And if I go back again...

[phantom_earl]

What kind of state was your world in when you returned ?

[justasystem]

... Bad.

We lost. The war.

[phantom_earl]

Unfortunately, every game must have a loser, Your Highness.

[justasystem]

... The world isn't a game. The world shouldn't lose to someone like that.

It's too horrible.

[phantom_earl]

The world is what each individual makes of it. He who sees it as a game will carelessly knock off pieces without regret just to have his win. Even when his room is full of nothing but broken toys, he'll still smile because he gets the last laugh.

[justasystem]

... that sounds like that he became. I guess... what he may have been all along.

[phantom_earl]

Dire situations bring out everyone's true nature. Regardless, is that person within the city ?