"My future self?"
Klein immediately asked in return. His expression remained unchanged, but inwardly, a storm was already raging.
If what this Angel Gray before him said was true, it meant she was something akin to a "Time Transmigrator." Unlike him, a survivor of a bygone era who had traveled from the past to the present, she had traveled in the opposite direction, returning from the future to try to change the present.
The Terminator, Dragon Ball, Steins;Gate... Many works featuring time travel that he had once watched instantly sprang to mind. Coupled with having witnessed Angel travel through different times using the marks the City of Calamity had left in various places, this made him believe Gray to some extent, though even more questions lingered in his mind.
Angel had once said that her Mirror Person believed traveling into the past through the City of Calamity's unique properties was actually impossible, because it required meeting two conditions: leaving an "imprint" in advance and possessing sufficient spirituality...
If Gray was a transmigrator and considered herself Angel's "original," did that mean she was the future Angel Granger?
"That's right. Once I've finished telling you everything I experienced, you'll understand."
Angel Gray nodded. Rather than give Klein time to continue thinking, she leaned back against the high-backed chair and spoke in a relaxed, unhurried tone:
"When I regained consciousness, I was already lying in the basement at 6 Daffodil Street in Tingen City. The owner of that house, Cole Granger, had lost control and died after failing to advance to Witch. But before his Beyonder characteristics could separate out, his body became mine...
"So I inherited this Witch's body, the Sequence 7 Beyonder abilities of the Assassin pathway, and most of his memories. Of course, that included his relationships, such as the