"Reincarnation?! Time reversal?"
Perhaps my proposition was too vast; the little Witch stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
And the means of realizing this conjecture was probably related to Aldebaran.
After all, she had indeed said she could give me a chance to start everything over, but the prerequisite was most likely finding the Morning Star Crystal...
Without magic, how was I supposed to turn back time?
Mono asked as well:
"So, you've reincarnated several times already?"
"More precisely, it wasn't me who reincarnated, but the Morning Star Crystal... and you too."
"Me?"
"Don't you find it strange? Although you're a Witch Persona, you've been inside the Morning Star Crystal from the very beginning. You're a Great Child formed from the darkness that continuously accumulated within the Crystal. You just fully awakened during this cycle of reincarnation."
That also explained why the Morning Star Crystal and I had such extraordinary compatibility. We had already gone through countless periods of adjustment together, growing stronger through reincarnation until we could finally save that one and only "her."
"As for me, I was probably torn apart by some kind of law when the time reversal ended. I only had enough time to hand the Star Crystal over to my next self in the Past."
"So, did you remember something?"
"It wasn't remembering. Aldebaran showed it to me herself. Her attempt to awaken my intense emotions was to make me watch what I experienced on those worldlines that had already been restarted."
The second round of simulated experiences was clearly different from the first.
That brutal environment, those cruel scenes—everything felt as though it had truly happened... or perhaps it really had happened. It was precisely because they had all failed that time had to be reversed and this world restarted.
Back then, that mysterious Magical