"We t again at Alice's grave…"
"Oh… I am sorry… I didn't an to remind you of that—"
"Uh-huh. It's fine. I can't just forget it as if it never happened. It doesn't work that way."
"But that happened in another world! You are in a different world now, and you have already saved everyone and changed their fate! You saved Alice, Rize, Angelica, Rebecca, and .
Whatever happened in that life shouldn't be your concern anymore! You redeed yourself, so move on. You can't cling to the past forever!"
Eleanor's words were true, but they didn't seem to have changed Rudy's mind.
"It's different for you all. The people of that world belong to that world, but I am from the other world who is living in this one. It's different for . I am the sa person I was in that world. Nothing has changed. I may have saved everyone, but no one can save ."
"I have been wondering, what if you are not Rudy from the other world? What if you are the Rudy from this world? Don't you ever wonder what happened to the soul of this world's Rudy if you actually transmigrated to this world?" Eleanor asked with a knowing look on her face.
"The soul of this world's Rudy rged with the universe when I transmigrated into his body."
"So you are saying that another Rudy from the third world can transmigrate into your body and kick you out? That doesn't make sense! And how did this world Rudy get his soul again?" she asked with a judging glare in her eyes.
"My soul split into two in 1990 after fighting with Asura."
"So it was your soul, to begin with, am I right?! And it's your body! Right?! So doesn't that an you are Rudy from this world?!" She shouted at Rudy in frustration.
"..." Rudy was left speechless by the sudden realization.
"This world's Rudy's body and soul belonged to from the very start. But this body wouldn't be mine if I had not been transmigrated to this world. In fact… this body shouldn't even exist. But it existed even before I transmigrated to this world.
That… doesn't make any sense. I think you are wrong, Eleanor. We are missing sothing we don't know. And we are talking about ti travel and transmigration, which neither has any lore or logic behind it."
"I do. I have an explanation." Eleanor said with a proud look on her face.
"What if you simply gained the mories of that world's Rudy after he died? That would solve all your doubts and answer your questions. No logic or lore needed."
"...that's… possible. And I don't have any previous mory of this world because the kid Rudy did sothing." Rudy nodded with an impressed look on his face. "Well done, Elena. You just solved the biggest mystery. It wasn't my soul that transmigrated it… it was the mory of that world's Rudy."
"So now you don't have any relation to that world… except for the foreign mories. Stop feeling guilty and blaming yourself for what happened in that world. You are not that guy who was Rudy."
"Well… it doesn't necessarily make feel happy, but I do feel a bit better knowing I wasn't the one responsible for the tragic fate the girls t in that world. Thanks, Elena. I am truly impressed. I don't think I would have realized that without your help."
"Oh, believe , after your disappearance in 1990, all I did was find answers to your question. And you are right, the Rudy I watched grow up must have done sothing with his mories.
Perhaps, he did that so the mories of that world's Rudy could transmigrate? Otherwise, you would have had two different mories from the sa tilines," Eleanor shrugged.
"You could be right, but I don't think that was his doing. He was planning sothing big. Angelica might know it, but I won't get my hopes high. There is a high chance that the kid Rudy expected Angelica to spill the beans.
He was the one who transferred Jessica's mories into Angelica so she could be born again. So he had access to Jessica's mory, and he was in control. He might not have transferred the mory fragnts that contained crucial information that could spoil his plan."
"What could he be planning? I don't think it would be sothing evil, but still… would it not have been better if he had just told you everything?" Eleanor wondered with a curious look on her face.
"It must be sothing I shouldn't know yet. Sothing related to the unsolved mysteries, the power of the Lord, and how I gained it. Nyxia might have answers, but I can't track her even though I have her marked."
"Rudy… and the Lord…"
"Rudy and the Lord."
After a brief silence, Eleanor looked into Rudy's eyes and uttered, "Since I have lessened your guilt, I want you to continue your narration. What happened after Rudy t Eleanor at Alice's grave."
"Uhh… let's stop referring to ourselves in the third person even if we are a different version of them. It will make the narration confusing."
"Okay, if you think so."
"So… the news of Alice's suicide had shocked . Had I paid more attention to her on the night of the 'get together'... had I taken her seriously when she confessed to that night… maybe she would have been alive.
I blad myself for her suicide. I was already going through a lot during that ti. When you had called a few months ago, Elise was pregnant at that ti— although she wasn't aware of it.
She had decided to take a break from the university after the sester exams, but she had a miscarriage a week before that. And then she had an infection that spread wilder than a wildfire.
The doctors had told that if Elise hadn't had a miscarriage and given birth, then there was a high chance that they both would have died. I was happy and sad at that news… more of the sad side… tough.
The infection also wasn't sothing that could be cured. They had managed to stop it from spreading but couldn't treat the already infected parts. I was so depressed that I didn't even study for the exam.
And then the news of Alice's suicide. I was… at my lowest point of life at that ti…"
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