Everything Alex Fiennes had experienced, Anton had witnessed as he floated through the chaotic river of time.
His expression complicated, he watched "Great Villain" Fiennes begin tormenting "Transmigrator" Anthony Weasley, as harshly as ever, as was his habit with his apprentices.
Beside him, the broken Golden Snitch—the "self" represented by the little heart created through the Ritual Magic of the Flight Charm—had already vanished into the river of time.
The reversal of Time Magic was a particularly wondrous thing.
It scrambled the order of events, filling everything with paradoxes within paradoxes.
Anton didn't know whether he had first transmigrated as Fiennes and then used magic to be reborn in "Anthony Weasley's" body,
or whether he had learned the Flight Charm, and the "self" that came into being had turned into Fiennes.
Everything about Time Magic was always beyond his understanding.
But his studies of the Ego, the mind, and existence had taught Anton that he was himself, and Fiennes was Fiennes.
They might have shared a common origin, but they had split completely into two individuals. On the level of "existence," they were two lives.
Unlike the self he had resurrected before, this Fiennes had even completely separated himself from everything belonging to "Transmigrator Anton," achieving an existence of his own.
How interesting.
He, Anton, had completely fused "native Anthony Weasley" and "Transmigrator Anton" together, then fused them with "Anton from his previous life." Step by step, he had explored his own Ego and delved into "Life Existence."
Fiennes, too, had completely separated himself from "Transmigrator Anton," attaining his own "true existence."
No, all of this should also include Fiennes's complicated Resurrection Ritual later on, which ultimately sent him down his own path in life.
And the most interesting thing of all was...
Anton had completed the Ritual Magic of