"I've never left my hometown, but I can't go back?
"What separates me from home isn't distance, but... time?!"
As Klein repeated the startling news Abner had just revealed, he heard his own heartbeat. It wasn't real; it only seemed to arise with his shifting emotions. After all, he was only a spirit now.
At the same time, one familiar fact about the world after another sprang into his mind:
"A year has twelve months and 365 days, with leap years...
"A day has twenty-four hours, an hour has sixty minutes, and a minute has sixty seconds...
"This world has been confirmed to be a planet...
"There's exactly one sun and one moon in the sky..."
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Klein felt his spirit's imagined heartbeat quicken. Countless details he had never paid attention to erupted in his mind like a volcano:
"At the eastern edge of the Sunia Sea, before entering the God War Ruins, there were rusted, collapsed steel structures around that ancient well in the deep sea. They seemed to have been left by humans...
"The overall terrain of the Northern and Southern Continents looks a lot like North and South America. But a huge section where the two draw close seems to have been wiped away by some force, forming the Berserk Sea with its tangled, winding routes... And Sonia Island looks as though that large northern island drifted south in one piece... The inland sea resembles an expanded, interconnected Great Lakes, as if a massive meteorite struck the area...
"On the North Continent, many mountains and rivers have changed, but its overall shape is still just recognizable...
"That means the Western Continent, the homeland of the elves, and the East Continent, where the Forsaken Land of the Gods lies, are obvious!
"Also, legends of treasures at