Chapter 20 - Making ?r?t?? sounds with my aunt? (1/2)

”I don't understand.” It feels like she is speaking gibberish. ”I wasn't supposed to be born? A special pawn? If we go by the original timeline, my brother was also not supposed to be born.”

She tears off a paper from the notebook and starts writing with a brush. ”In the original timeline, everyone except me died in the accident. The only reason why I lived because I was time-traveling for fun.”

She draws the second line. ”When I found out, I changed the future. A new timeline was created. where my family lived. In that timeline, your father only had one son. Then, I wanted to change more things because I knew that I could. I traveled to the future and the past many times. I might have changed history too. I attracted the attention of the timekeepers. You know about them, right? Special police for bad time-travelers? Anyway, I kept running from them. I traveled too far back in time.”

The lamp is getting dimmer. I don't know how to accept this information.

”A time-traveler with perfect control and a time-traveler with no control?” She eyes me intently. ”You were born to fix things. In a way, you are special. I am guessing that keepers will find a way to erase you when your job is done.”

I recall Kang Si An and the rusty knife. ”I am in a situation.”

***

My aunt listens to me solemnly.

”That person is a timekeeper who isn't awake yet.” She shakes her head at me. ”Why would you try to get close to your future murderer? That's the trick of time. He is the timekeeper chosen to deal with you. If you are close to him all the time, he will be awakened. Then, he can kill you easily.”

I rest my head in my hand. A special pawn of time? Rectifying my aunt's mistakes? A timekeeper who will be my murderer? Damn! I have been digging my grave.

”Timekeepers are the only one who knows how the original timeline was.” She takes a bite of the meat. She is eating like a lost soldier in nowhere. ”Soon, he will start having dreams. He will be able to see where you will end up when you travel in time. If things become worse, he will become your anchor. Timekeepers sort of lose sanity and become uncontrollable. You were perfectly controlled by time.”

”Aunt, can I stay with you here?” I ask her with a tiny voice.

”I don't mind.” She tilts her head and smile. ”But, can you? You don't know when you will be moved back to the future by time.”

She's so right. She is burned out because she used her ability on her own. I, on the other hand, is tossed here for unknown reasons. If all of my time-travels had a purpose that I don't know about, then this one also has one. My aunt must have changed something here that wasn't supposed to happen.

Why I am cleaning up after her poop?