"Let's et again, Azrael. Before that, take this with you." The older Azrael threw his pocket watch toward Azzy.
As the latter caught it in reflex, the older Azrael then said, "Press the top button if you ever wanted to see . And when we et again, I will adhere to one request of yours."
"Thanks." As Azzy looked at it curiously, the demigod added as an afterthought, "I'm sure that our eting will happen, a lot sooner than you think. Then, I will take back my tempus."
"I'll be waiting, Lord Garcia." A voice escaped from the pocket watch in response to its master's words, startling Azzy for a mont. Azzy then saw a cartoonish face appear on the dial. Its eyes were blinking and its mouth was moving on its own. "Hey, kiddo. Nice to et you, I'm tempus, the most aweso being in the entire universe."
As Azzy flinched at the sudden surprise, the older Azrael waved his hand, "you don't need to pay attention to that thing."
"Hey, I'm not that thing. I'm tempus. I have 142 billion years of ti record of all the…" As the pocket watch appeared to be flared up by the older Azrael's comnt, the latter snapped his finger, "shut up."
The cartoonish face disappeared from the dial and it appeared like a regular pocket watch from the analog era.
Soon, Azzy's surroundings changed to a familiar cliff and a floating island. The Reaper was still there, but instead of the black lotus, there was a little girl that have a near-human appearance except for her hair, which was ford by its black petals. She also doesn't have any pupils and her eyes her pitch-black.
"Pui Pui Pui…"
Upon seeing Azzy, she made her usual 'Pui' sounds, scurried forward, and hugged his legs. Azzy felt like his connection with Ruby beca stronger than before. He picked her up and observed her for a mont. His eyes widened in surprise, "A celestial grade?"
"It looked like Ruby's familiarity with the Protos Energy had helped her to make the foreign energy, a part of her own." The Reaper comnted, being happy with the situation. He then added, "However, we shouldn't forget that she is still a newborn and doesn't have the capability of holding back the Protos energy. From ti to ti, she will be influenced. Hence, there are possibilities of going out of control. You should be careful."
While cautioning his host of the side effects of this enormous power boost Ruby just received, the Reaper also accessed the mories of Azzy and found out what happened in the Ti Stream.
Seeing that Azzy isn't blaming him in the near future, the Reaper refused to give any sort of explanation for locking those mories. Fortunately for him, Azzy wasn't also silent about his eting with the future counterpart.
Azzy proceeded to tell everything to the Reaper, who patiently listened until the end despite already being aware of it.
Once Azzy was finished with the story, the Reaper finally said, "Well, now that you are at 7-star realm, isn't it the ti to return?"
Azzy didn't respond to that. He stayed silent.
From the start, he was prepared for it but just didn't know that it will co this sooner. In fact, he expected to spend with his family, his friends, and Claire, maybe, a couple of years but the invasion from outer space pushed his soul power to high-rank-6 and the unexpected ambush from an unknown person now pushed his soul power straight to mid-rank-7. Even his Invincible Divine physique received a significant boost.
How could he just say goodbye to everyone, all of a sudden, knowing their mories of him will also be erased?
The Reaper understands Azzy's reluctance but he cannot let him do what he wants. Hence, he tried to convince him by reminding him of a few facts, "I know what you are thinking but you don't belong to this tiline. And did you forget your future self? Do you think he will show sympathy for you and let the tiline gets damaged? Moreover, your original intention was to save your parents, wasn't it? After spending with their past selves, did you forget them too? You are the heir to the Death Clan, Azrael. You shouldn't let your emotions affect your path."
Each statent or question from the Reaper struck him deeply. Azzy didn't have anything to defend. He was only thinking that he will miss them deeply, especially Claire. It hasn't even been a year since they beca a couple.
It was at that mont the Reaper thought of sothing. He pulled out his trump card to convince this stubborn kid, "how about this? Didn't your older self give you that tempus? Contact him and ask him for help. I cannot remove the secondary seal placed on Agatha but he can.
Once the sword of Michael returns to her pri, she would be able to help out Claire in retaining her mories of yours. Additionally, you could et her once in a while now that you can ti travel freely. It won't affect this world's tiline."
Azzy's eyes lit up imdiately as he found the solution to the biggest problem that is bugging him. "No wonder that guy said to that we will et again sooner than I expect. I guess this must be it."
He clicked on the top button on the pocket watch as he was instructed and the surroundings changed to the Ti Corridor once again with hundreds of his versions roaming around. As the Demigod appeared before him, Azzy asked, "You knew that I was going to use this?"
"Of course, as the guardian of ti, there's nothing that can't escape my eyes." The older Azrael nodded in response. He then added, "But then again, you can make a different choice. Your actions won't bring any significant changes to the tiline. Anyway, now that you are here, speak."
Azzy then took a deep breath and requested, "Please remove the last seal on Agatha."
"The request is accepted," replied the older Azrael and took back the pocket watch. "Once you return to your original tiline, I will do my job."
"Thank you, Azrael." Azzy thanked his older self before returning to his mindscape.
The older Azrael then stared at the watch and let out a sigh, "do you have to make the sa choice as ? You should have used it to pry into the history and future of the tiline instead of asking to help her. It's really a pity…"
"Tch, I'm back to you again." The cartoonish character returned to the dial and displayed its annoyance before adding a statent, "By the way, a new branch of ti was created in 2798."
"2798? Is it Viridia, again?" asked the Demigod.
As tempus confird it, the older Azrael mumbled in displeasure, "That damn host of Ti beast Znuvo is really causing a lot of trouble for us, lately. I wonder when that future version of mine will return to his post. This ti stream cannot track the monts of Demigod and higher versions of . It is not only a blessing but also a headache for ."
He then left the place to tackle the new problem.
anwhile, the spirit of Azzy sat in a lotus position and closed his eyes, trying to stabilize his realm. Due to the abrupt boost of soul power, his soul energy was running rampant in his soul orb, trying to escape his body.
An unknown amount of ti passed away.
Azzy finally opened his eyes, returning to the material world. His surroundings were completely dark but he could feel the spongy mattress beneath him. He was sure that he was in the hotel, probably in the room he checked into.
Upon stretching his hand to the left, he touched the lamp. He switched it on, illuminating the room. "Okay, I was brought into my room, alright. Let's see how long I was out."
In his digital watch, the ti was showing 2:48. The Arcana world might have been trapped in a different dinsion but that dinsional creator made sure that ti moves the sa as on Gaia, down to the second. So, his digital watch is showing the accurate ti.
"Everyone must have been sleeping by now. Let's rest." Azzy closed his eyes and slept for three more hours before freshening up and getting out of the room.
*knock* knock* knock*
He knocked on the door before it was opened by Claire who widened her eyes as soon as she saw her boyfriend standing outside the room. "Rael…" She imdiately jumped into his arms. Stroking her silky blonde hair, Azzy said, "I'm back."
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