"Haah….haah….what was that?"
Orion thought as he found himself standing in the boat. His back drenched with sweat as he took deep breaths.
'Am I not dead? I saw my own headless body with my own eyes.'
He vividly rembered hearing the boss say sothing when he saw his headless body, and then everything turned dark for him.
'Did I daydream about it because of all the stress I am having due to Isis's divination?'
He didn't know if he would believe that. As far as he could rember, everything felt so real to him, like it had just happened a while ago; therefore, he had a feeling that everything that happened must be true.
He died. He truly died without even knowing how. He didn't even see the boss move before his head rolled down to the ground.
'If I am dead, then how am I alive, and what am I doing here?'
He found himself back in the boat, and as he looked around, he saw a very strange scene.
Everyone looked normal, going about their own tasks. But what caught Orion off guard was that everyone seed to be preparing for battle. They cleaned their weapons and armor, and he saw Runo planning sothing with his team while others prepared themselves by resting, getting ready for the battle ahead.
This was the exact scene he had seen previously when he went to the middle of the boat to ask Jarth to stay here and have a lookout for Famir and the other two before going to battle.
'Did I co back in ti?'
This was the only thought that ca to his mind when he saw the situation; otherwise, he couldn't explain how he, who had just died a while ago, ca here.
'But how?... Did Isis help ?'
At this mont, he could only think of Isis—the Goddess of Immortality—who could have the power to reverse ti. But he didn't feel very sure about that.
However, as Orion observed him carefully, he noticed that the guy had beco sowhat thinner compared to the last ti he had talked to him when he underwent the sa transformation.
Isis had been trapped by the tree demon on the other side of the pond, and what he saw in the temple of souls could very well be just a soul of hers. So, he thought that if she couldn't help herself out of there, how would she have the strength to help him?
As Orion pondered deeply about this, he suddenly caught sight of the fat guy he had seen previously before going into battle.
What caught his attention this ti was that after the transformation was over, unlike last ti, the guy stopped doing anything and sat down on the boat, deep in contemplation with furrowed brows.
However, as Orion observed him carefully, he noticed that the guy had beco sowhat thinner compared to the last ti he had talked to him when he underwent the sa transformation.
He rembered that the previously fat guy said the transformation was related to his curse, but Orion had his suspicions about that last ti.
'Could it be related to this guy?'
Suddenly, this thought ca to Orion's mind, and as it did, he couldn't help but feel that everything that happened to him, from dying to coming back in ti, must be sohow related to this guy.
'I ca back in ti at the exact mont when this guy was going through his transformation. What are the odds of that? I could randomly be back any mont in the ti I have spent in this dungeon, but why the exact ti when he was going through his transformation?'
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his assumptions were more or less true.
Also, as he looked at the gloomy expression on the guy's face, Orion felt sure that it must definitely be related to him.
'Let's go and ask him directly.'
Now, there was one thing for him to do, and that was to confront him to see if all of his assumptions were true or not.
As he thought of that, he started walking towards the fat guy, and a mont later he arrived in front of him.
The fat guy, who had his head down all this ti, turned to look at him with his barely visible eyes when he noticed soone had arrived in front of him.
"Could you join for a mont?" Orion asked casually. "I'd like to discuss sothing regarding the boss monster we're about to face."
As Orion ntioned his purpose, the fat guy narrowed his eyes, which made his barely visible eyes practically vanish amidst his chubby cheeks.
The fat guy nodded at him after much contemplation.
"Alright, follow ," Orion said, leading him to the only cabin on the newly constructed boat that the pirates had assembled.
A mont later, they arrived in the cabin, where only two of them stood looking at each other.
Sensing the increasing tension in the air, Orion directly asked what he wanted.
"It was you, right?"
The fat guy shook his head at him.
"I don't know what you are talking about," he said in confusion.
Orion frowned at his answer.
"It was you who used ti-related talent to help , right?" He asked again. "Otherwise, I would have been dead by now."
"How did you…?" The fat guy couldn't complete his sentence, for he felt shocked at Orion's ability to know about him and his ti-related talent.
When he used his talent, only he rembered what had happened last ti. There had never been any situation where anyone other than him rembered what had happened.
But now, seeing Orion standing in front of him and asking him about it made him wonder if he still hadn't co to his senses after he used his talent earlier.
anwhile, Orion felt sure of his assumptions as he looked at the shock expression on the fat guy's face.
"So, what happened that ti?" he further asked about the situation at that ti. He knew he had died, but what about others? Did they also die, or was only he the unfortunate one?
"As far as I can tell, everyone died there," he said, his face turning aghast. "I was in the last position, equipping my shield, when everyone died, including and you."
Orion was confused for a mont as he heard him.
"You said everyone died that ti, right?" He asked, puzzled. "Then why don't they seem to rember anything at all?"
"About that," the fat guy appeared puzzled as he said. "Actually, my talent erased the mories of everyone before reversing the ti so they wouldn't know anything about it. So them not rembering anything is normal. But it's you who are the problem here. You appeared to have rembered everything."
Orion pondered the words of the fat guy and could only think about one reason why he didn't forget anything like others.
'The mory erase thing must be done with mana, and since mana doesn't have any effect on my body, it couldn't erase my mories.'
Now that he understood everything about what happened, his face beca solemn as he asked the most important question he had in his mind.
"So, how many tis can you do what you did previously?"
He understood that such a god-level power must have its limitations; consequently, the curse related to it would also be fatal, if not life-threatening.
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