Mystifying

"Although I'd already made my decision, I still wanted to ask you a question, Teacher..."

Adam looked at Clow Reed. In response, Clow Reed merely shrugged, looking unconcerned.

"Go ahead~"

"Teacher, do you know where I came from?"

"...Where you came from?"

Clow Reed blinked, a thoughtful look appearing on his face.

"Did you discover something unusual in the world you were born in? Something about your origins? Was your family actually from another world and had somehow ended up there?"

What was all that supposed to mean?!

Watching Clow Reed grow more and more excited, even turning around to interrogate him, Adam knew he had asked the wrong person. Clow Reed probably did not know the truth about his transmigration.

That gossip-hungry expression really did not look acted.

"No, I've merely been investigating something myself..."

Adam cut off Clow Reed with a slight headache, then chose his words carefully.

"My previous life."

"A previous life? So that's what you've been hung up on? The rules of every world differ. Not every world has reincarnation."

At this point, Clow Reed turned serious.

"Even in worlds where reincarnation exists, there is usually no need to concern yourself with it. Just regard that person as someone dead and unrelated to you, unless..."

Unless it involved beings capable of interfering with the future or with reincarnation itself—beings who had secretly made arrangements behind the scenes for some unspeakable purpose.

For instance, Clow Reed himself had thoroughly arranged both his reincarnation and his successor in this world. He had even arranged for Sakura to fail her first trial.

And Adam clearly had not asked this question without reason. He must have truly discovered some clue and felt that his previous life could not simply be treated as someone already dead.

With that thought, Clow