Chapter 57: Returning To My Present, Despite My Fear...

  Guanyu: “Are you ready to go now, Vulely?” She asked with a serious tone.

  Narrator Vulely: “For the sake of our happiness… yes, I am.” I replied with a somewhat unwilling tone and expression.

  Kiss!

  Narrator Vulely: “???”

  Guanyu: “It wasn’t a romantic kiss, and I merely did it to your forehead, Vulely.” She lightly scolded, mostly in a joking manner.

  Narrator Vulely: “Okay… but why kiss me in the first place?” I asked while still in shock.

  Guanyu: “To be cautious. There is a chance you’ll die when you go back. With this, I’ve insured that, if that happens, I can return you to life.” She explained with a warm smile.

  This smile, though I didn’t have that deep of a connection with Guanyu… was what pushed me to accept my fate, and return to my true time. It would only be later… where, upon asking her about this, that Guanyu informed me that… she meant that she’ll have a child with my DNA, not that she would have some amazingly absurd method to bring me back to life. Aaaaa!!!…

  After I Returned To The Present!

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  Rather than go mad with grief upon returning to the present… I went mad for an entirely different reason! I was not met with a simply broken timeline, but… a decent one. The reason why I say that it is merely decent, is… well, while Home is safe, not an inch of it being damaged at all, it lacks the various renovations that I was starting to get used to…

  Snap!

  Celia: “Good, you made it here without any trouble. I was pretty worried about the… time being off.” She mused with a smile, forcing me via teleportation Magic to appear in front of her.

  She… was alive, that much I can be certain of. However… Celia had one fake eye, clearly some kind of creation of Nemu or Ruina’s. On top of that, both her right arm and leg were similarly prosthetics. Of course, they too looked very natural, and only people like Celia’s wives would notice them not being her original limbs.

  Celia: “Hey, hey. Vulely dear, please do not flip out. I need you to be aware, so that you can go back and fix the few mistakes that we ended up making in your absence.” She urged with a warm tone.

  Narrator Vulely: “You mean… prevent what happened to your limbs and eye?” I replied, shakily seeking clarity.

  Celia: “With Zelia, I now know that there are countless versions of us, in different timelines. In a sense; I do not regret losing them, as, it means my family gets to exist in this version of events.” She replied, not directly answering my question yet.

  Narrator Vulely: “…”

  Celia: “I’m sure you’ve noticed things aren’t… as they were the last time you saw the present. Rest assured, I will be remaking Home to our family’s preferences very soon.” She added with an even brighter smile than before, before tenderly pulling me into a hug.

  In fact, her comforting me was the correct choice. After all, my timeline is gone. My version of the family… I… from the meddling of the timelines, I have practically erased them from existence. This present was… obviously just a few years ahead from the time that I just left from…