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I start poking the person I thought to be Ren’s shoulders

His body convulses for a second, before he slowly starts re the helmet

“… Who is it? Mom?”

And as he turned around and saw us, he was at a loss for words

At the same time, I moved my hand to my chin

“Sorry, I got the wrong person Goodbye” (Naofumi)

Raphtalia and Atlas have a questioning expression on their faces, as they bow and prepare to leave

Ias Ren, his appearance was completely different

No, I’ his face was bad

It’s not like he caame character

The person I thought was Ren really did look like him, but he was a head taller than him in stature

From what I can see, he’s a bit different than Ren, who still had a hint of his youth He seems older

And his physique is better than the Ren I know It looks like he’s never

There’s no doubt he’s Ren’s brother, or some other relative

Where did that guy go?

I know for a fact that he isn’t dead yet…

And when I was preparing to juh dimensions…

“W-wait…”

The Ren-like rabbed my hand

“You! You’re Naofumi, aren’t you! And there’s Raphtalia-san… and there’s even Atlas-san, who’s supposed to be dead What’s happening?”

“What?” (Naofumi)

The one who lookedsomeone of their childhood

Eh? Could it be that this is Ren?

“Wait a second, you’re… Ren?” (Naofumi)

“That’s right More importantly, I’d like you to tell me Why is Naofumi in my world?” (Ren(?))

So it really is Ren

I spent a large amount of tiotten big

Right now, ot back my shi+eld

Andme that not much time actually passed

“Urown so big?” (Naofumi)

“Why, you ask… because two years have passed since I returned here from that world, of course” (Ren)

… Ren’s story goes like this

As I thought, after he was killed in that world, it seems he was sent back to this one

And after various things happened, he tried to see if there was any way to go back

But in the end, the Sword remained silent

Luckily, it still had enough power left in it to be used as a weapon if necessary

So for the past two years, he did various things, and while wondering if the time would ever come, he continued to train for the day he would return

Or so it seems

This is a failure… before we entered his world, we should have looked into its perception of time, and taken that into account I’ll bet the Spirit of the shi+eld was doing various regulations for me in that aspect

“And… why is it that you people haven’t changed in the slightest? Well… it’s possible you just didn’t grow in that tih” (Ren)

“The Spirit Dwelling in your Sword is…”

Atlas starts talking to Ren’s Sword

“Without enough power, the distance was just too far… it aiting for the time when the worlds would approach one another” (Atlas)

“…”

With that distance, wouldn’t it take quite a while for Ren’s world to get there?

Perhaps they were on a path towards each other, but…

I wonder just how much time that would take

And wait, two years… the flow of time in Ren’s world seems fast

“Uo, you know” (Naofumi)

“What?” (Ren)

Ren is dumbfound

“Then is the final battle already over?” (Ren)

“No, the flow of time in your world is just fast” (Naofumi)

We explain the circumstances to Ren

Of hohile crossing through worlds, ere able to work out the mechanics of various powers

Ren fell into his chair, and sunk his head

“Just ere my two years for…” (Ren)

It’s not like I don’t get where he’s co from

If me and Raphtalia had to spend two years in that world, it would probably feel like this

But perhaps that would have been okay in itself

“Okay, then we’ll juot here Is that fine?” (Naofumi)

With the poe have as Gods, and the Spirits abilities to change cause and effect, it’s not impossible

It will take a bit of power, but I don’t think anyone will complain about it

It’ll be like rewinding Ren alone

“W-wait!”

Ren calls out again to stop me

“What’s wrong? You hate the fact that you wasted two years of your life, right?” (Naofumi)

“I’o! So please take me with you!” (Ren)

“That , but is that alright?” (Naofumi)

On my response, Ren’s eyes fill ater for a ly

“Y-yeah! If I have to wait two years to go back, I’ll bear it!” (Ren)

Well, for this Ren, I think he would hate it if we abandoned him for a Ren two years prior

There’s no guarantee what’ll happen to him if we do that

Andwith cause and effect is messy In the worst case, he’ll wait here forever

“After that, I experienced various things I’er than before! I mean I even went to another alternate world once!” (Ren)

“Hmm…” (Naofumi)

So the progress I saw in that field from the outside was no lie

And Ren was dragged into that

If I just go about dragging Rens from the past, perhaps the amount of Rens will just increase

And he’ll just becoh Ren will become him one day

“I got it, I got it Then I’ll be taking you to that world now, but are you alright with that?” (Naofumi)

I think he’ll be of help, but Ren has a place here

He has the right to live peacefully in a world without war

I ask Ren the sa the Spirit of the shi+eld asked me

“…Yeah If it gives everything I’ve done up to this day a , I’ll nod without hesitation I will return to that land!” (Ren)

“I see… are you prepared?” (Naofumi)

Ren nods right away

das like me

It’s a bit late, but those are so out

Though I said so quite similar

“Then let’s go” (Naofumi)

As if to rips it without hesitation

I activate our dimensional transportation ability, and we cross the void with him

The current me and Ren are different sorts of existences now, so whilelike this, we can’t hold conversations

Next is Motoyasu, right?

He’s apparently in a space parallel to that world

But by the world’s order, or so like that, I can’t enter it

“What should we do?” (Raphtalia)

“Fumu…” (Naofumi)

I tried to touch the barrier surrounding his world a few times, but I was repelled

Is it because it’s a parallel world? I also get the feeling I’ my oer properly

I can’t get a grip on what the rules are

If I get to close, I’m sure the Goddess will notice us

On the other hand, Raphtalia can enter it just fine

“Okay, in order to hit the lynchpin, I’ll leave Motoyasu to Raphtalia” (Naofumi)

“Understood, Naofumi-sama” (Atlas)

“Naofumi-sama, I’ll pursue you after I retrieve the Hero of the Spear” (Raphtalia)

(TL: And here starts Raphtalia’s days of uish)

And so we put off getting Motoyasu, and prepared to enter the world

“Atlas” (Naofumi)

“Yes I’ll strengthen the power of the Spirits as much as I can, and try to conceal Naofumi-sama” (Atlas)

Atlas changes to a ball of light, and returns to my shi+eld

… The girl anted to beco me

It’s worthy of praise just how far she stuck to her words

In the world we’re going to, what sort of form will she take?

Ren was able to sense her ere in his world, but each world operates on different principles

So on’t knoill happen until we go and see for ourselves

Anyways, Melty’s in trouble right now

We were able to quickly recover Ren

I strengthen my resolve, and broke into the other world

(TL: So is he her type now?)