"1160."
Edward repeated the year and looked around again. "So I've come nearly two hundred years into the past?"
What had Loen been like two hundred years ago?
The original novel had never mentioned it.
He did not know who the current emperor was, either.
He had never specifically studied the timeline of the Lord of Mysteries World, so he was rather confused for the moment.
But since newspapers existed, Emperor Roselle had definitely arrived, while Backlund did not seem to have undergone much of a technological transformation. That meant Roselle had not yet had time to make too great an impact on the whole world.
So I've arrived in the early days after Emperor Roselle's arrival?
For a moment, Edward was filled with emotion.
Many times, he had imagined when and in what manner he might meet this man he had long admired, the man behind "Demonesses really do taste good."
But he had truly never expected that one day he would personally arrive in the era Roselle lived in, with the chance to meet him face-to-face, to see a young Roselle, a "Roselle still growing" who had not been battered and crushed by reality or driven mad by ten thousand years of despair.
At this point, Roselle should still have had the mindset of an overpowered protagonist treating life as a game, whether he was inventing things, pursuing Advancement to a higher Sequence, launching a coup, becoming consul, or establishing the Intis Empire and calling himself Emperor Caesar...
He had done all of it with a transmigrator's protagonist mentality, freely doing whatever he wanted, trying in the process to find a little sense of belonging in this world and some meaning in his own existence.
Yet in the end, the more he did and the higher he rose,