You came back from the future, didn't you!

Neph faltered.

Her impression of the characters came from the novel she had read, but that impression encompassed everything, from beginning to end. What she faced now, however, was only a stage in the middle.

-Was Klein, as he was now, really that willing to sacrifice himself?

Neph felt a little dazed. She tried to piece together an image of Klein as he was at this moment, only to find it difficult, because his later image kept intruding and affecting her judgment.

...Klein at this point, Klein who had only just left Tingen City, Klein who was still a "Magician," Klein who had yet to become a "Faceless"...

What kind of person was he, exactly?

"...I don't know." Neph looked at him in a daze. "Once I get to Backlund, I'll come find you. I'll also tell you some of the secrets behind our transmigration while I'm at it."

She paused, then sighed. "Though, actually, I should probably tell you online when the time comes, too. But online... I, I always find it a little hard to feel that any of this is real..."

I always end up treating you as a character in a book... Oh, actually, it isn't just that... Maybe I ought to adjust my attitude toward the Tarot Club... And toward this world, too.

After all, once I leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods, I'll have to live out there... Ha, ultimately, it's because the Forsaken Land of the Gods is cut off from the outside world, Moon City got so little attention in the book, and the Tarot Club, as a channel of communication, feels so disconnected... Subconsciously, I keep treating everything outside as a story in a book... Hmm, another reason is that, actually, I've been afraid all along...

Transmigration...

Neph clenched her