803 Just because Im your friend (1/2)

'Should I try redoing this conversation again?'

Seiji thought that to himself as he watched Yui's car drive off after their conversation.

Should he load again and redo this conversation? Would that help him to obtain even more information?

After thinking about it, he felt that it would currently be difficult for him to convince her to give him any more information. Redoing this conversation again would likely be meaningless.

If it would have been meaningful, Seiji would have unhesitatingly loaded.

Compared to before, he was now more willing to use his save and load ability for more ”minor” reasons. This was his way of more proactively using his ability.

If he completely abandoned all inhibitions, he could… no, he definitely would become some type of existence that was different from ordinary humans.

For ordinary people, time flowed in a straight line, from past to present, from present to future, like a flowing river that couldn't be changed.

But if Seiji completely went all out with his save and load ability with zero restrictions whatsoever, even if he was able to maintain his sense of self, he felt that his sense of time would become warped. That was because time would become porous to him.

Seiji had the ability to keep as many save files as he wanted. Each save file was like a timeline. He could choose any point in time where he had a save file and start from that timeline, which would then create a new timeline when he reached a point where he made a different decision from before.

This was just like the different paths possible in each playthrough of a dating sim game. Except, this game was the real world, and there was an infinite number of possible timelines. Seiji could casually jump around, go to, or repeat any timeline that he wanted, with zero restrictions or cost…

If he really did such a thing, using his ability to the fullest to experience as many timelines as possible, then the world that he saw would become tremendously different from the world that everyone else knew.

At that time, even if Seiji was still able to maintain his sense of self, he would no longer be the same ”Seiji”. He would be more like a certain time traveler who called himself a mad scientist.

Besides, Seiji wasn't confident that he would be able to maintain his sense of self if he went all out with his ability like that. Even if he didn't have a mental breakdown like that mad scientist time traveler, he really might go crazy in a different way.

That was why he didn't want to use his ability wantonly.

Whether or not he needed to load was incredibly important to him.

It could be said that these were the ”rules” that he set for himself.

The first rule that Seiji just set for himself was how far back in time to load.

The farther back in time that he went, the more careful he would need to be.

The farther back in the past, the more he would consider how necessary it was to do this.

However, if he deemed it absolutely necessary, he would repeatedly load back to a critical moment as many times as it took until he achieved a satisfactory result.

Of course, he would also be careful about repeated loading. Still, he could be less careful after the first time.

Obviously, his conversation with his sister Yui was an important moment in time. If it had been necessary, Seiji would have loaded repeatedly until he obtained the result that he wanted.

But since he judged that it was difficult for him to currently obtain any more information from her, he decided against it.

Seiji still wasn't quite used to this way of thinking.

No… this way of thinking was more akin to different ways by which he could choose to play a dating sim game. It wasn't a matter of getting used to it or not. It was more of whether he accepted it or not.

Seiji hoped that he would never have to ”get used to it”.

He returned to his apartment and went to his study. He then sat down in his chair and took out his cell phone to make a call.

The call connected.

”Hey, my bro Haruta,” Kamitani's voice replied on the other end of the phone.

”Good evening, Kamitani-kun. Are you free now?” Seiji asked calmly.

”I'm actually rather busy. But since my bro Haruta is calling me, I do have some time to at least chat~”

”Are you busy with preparing to attack Soul Society and trying to steal the Yasakani no Magatama?”

Kamitani instantly fell silent for a while.

And then, he laughed.

”Haha, you're right! How did you know, my bro Haruta?”