"Once this journey is over, I want to tell you about important information. I'm sure that with your brain, you can take advantage of this information better than ."
Noel raised his eyebrows, not expecting Anna to do all this. He asked, "Why did you choose to do this? I an, you looked like you were planning to keep it a secret previously."
Anna smiled, raising her finger. "To be honest, I would like to keep it a secret for a bit longer. However, the more I try to change the situation, the more information that becos irrelevant. That's why I don't know what I should do with this. In fact, I believe that you should be the one who has all this information, not ."
"Is that so?" Noel thought for a mont. "To be honest, learning all this ans a lot to . However, I'm not sure how this is beneficial to you. It feels like I'm going to owe you a lot because of this."
Anna chuckled. "Hahaha, owe a lot, huh? After seeing that alternate world, I actually felt like I was the one owing you. This ti, I want to help you."
"At the end of the day, the one who did it was in that alternate world, not the one lying down next to you right now."
"That's true." Anna glanced at Noel and asked, "Why do you think he spared ?"
"Hmm? I'm not sure. After all, I don't know what he has experienced in that place." Noel obviously didn't know what the other him experienced. However, it was clear that there was a reason why Noel chose to save Anna.
"How about making a guess?" Anna playfully requested. Since it was the Noel from the previous life, the current Noel should have so guesses that might lead to the mystery.
Noel chuckled and replied with a smirk. "Maybe I have fallen in love with you?"
"You are teasing again." Anna hurriedly rebuked him because of what happened earlier.
"Hahaha!" Noel laughed for a mont while raising his hand as if trying to grasp the sky. "If I have to make a guess, it will probably be like what you said earlier. What if we actually joined hands? Could we reach a greater height?"
"Do you an you wanted to change and marry to reach that?"
"No." Noel shook his head. "It's far beyond that. What do you think is the most expensive thing in this world?"
Anna thought for a mont and asked, "A Spirit Transcendence Expert? No, soone above that, the Spirit King stage?"
"Nah, you're off the mark." Noel paused as if recounting everything he had encountered so far. He had one answer. "The most expensive thing in this world is freedom."
"Freedom?" Anna was confused. "I thought you were going to say ti or sothing because you couldn't rewind ti no matter how much you paid for it."
"Rewind ti, huh?"
Anna suddenly fell silent, realizing that she had just rewound her ti. She didn't know what happened, but rewinding ti seed to be possible. Though, it might just be a miracle that she couldn't describe.
"Not really. Maybe there is a way to rewind ti? I an, there are a lot of unique spirits… There might be a Ti Spirit among them. I don't know about their abilities, but just thinking about it, doesn't it look like rewinding ti is possible?"
"That's… true." Anna couldn't help but wonder if Noel actually had a Ti Spirit or sothing. Maybe, he encountered soone with that very spirit. However, it raised another question as to why he used it on her instead of himself.
If Noel actually regressed, wouldn't he be able to solve everything by himself?
While she was thinking about it, Noel continued, "You can probably hire that person to rewind ti. It might be expensive, but it's possible. However, you can't buy freedom. You may think a slave is able to buy their own freedom… You may think that soone can be bailed from prison…"
"Or you can probably think that you are able to create a nation where you can do anything you want with enough money. However, that's not freedom."
"A slave might be able to free themselves, but what if soone plots against them again, causing them to be enslaved once again? It will create an endless cycle of money."
"You can escape from the prison by bail. However, that record will continue to haunt you. If you are a noble, you might be able to restore your reputation, but what if soone as strong or even stronger than you chooses to dig it out and use it to defeat you? That's also not freedom."
"The sa applies to that of a king. You can have all the money in the world to buy everything you want, but there will be a lot of responsibilities that follow. If you don't fulfill your responsibility, you will end up getting enslaved by the chain of disaster."
"That's why for … Freedom is the most expensive thing in the world. What does it an to be completely free? It ans that you can do anything you want without restraints… whether it's from your responsibility or the chain of fate. That's what I believe to be freedom!"
"…" Anna fell silent for a mont. This was the first ti Noel talked this deeply with her. So, she couldn't help but ask, "But by changing and even helping , doesn't that make one of your responsibilities? Or can you say that my fate is now intertwined with yours?"
Noel smiled. "That's because it's impossible to gain that level of freedom. The you saw probably understood it."
"No matter how I struggled, it would be impossible to succeed. Instead of bearing this burden alone, I chose you to help . It didn't need to be perfect. If having you next to allowed to gain a higher level of freedom than anyone else… I don't think it's a bad idea."
Anna shut her eyes, wondering if that was what the previous life Noel actually thought.
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