"Mr. Carmen, thank you for taking care of Xiaolang and Sakura in the Dream World."
In Miss Yūko's living room, Clow Reed first expressed his gratitude to Jerry.
Jerry merely smiled and waved his hand.
"Mr. Clow Reed, you're too kind. I also benefited greatly from your Clow Cards in the Dream World. It was nothing."
The so-called Dream World referred to the Cardcaptor Sakura World he had first arrived in, the world where Clow Reed had been born.
The Sakura and Xiaolang Clow Reed meant were not the Sakura and Xiaolang before them, but the Sakura and Xiaolang who had studied magic under him.
"Let me tell you everything. After all, I was the root cause of how all this began."
Clow Reed nodded. Though he wore a smile, everyone could sense the guilt in his heart.
"The dead cannot return to life. That is the most fundamental law of all worlds. Yet I was the first to break that law, causing the tragedies that followed—including those involving Sakura, Xiaolang, Fay, Kurogane, and countless people across many worlds."
"The dead cannot return to life?"
Hearing Clow Reed's words, Jerry could not help muttering inwardly.
Every world had many laws in common, as well as many laws that differed. There were ordinary laws that could be changed, and fundamental laws that could never be changed.
The dead being unable to return to life was one of this world's fundamental laws. It was the foundation upon which the Cardcaptor Sakura series of worlds had been established. Once forcibly reversed, distortions would occur, because all the Cardcaptor Sakura worlds resisted it.
Jerry actually understood this. He had comprehended the laws of so many worlds that much knowledge had become clear to him after grasping those laws.
At the same time, he knew