Levinas’s sniffling wouldn’t stop.

Her expression grew increasingly gloomy, and her downturned lips trembled as if trying to hold back tears.

I needed to comfort Levinas.

I gathered words of consolation in my head, then put them all away.

There was something I needed to do before speaking.

To convey sincerity, what was needed wasn’t words, but a hug.

-King is the best!

-King is awesome!

Levinas always conveyed her true feelings with a hug.

A time of feeling secure, holding each other tightly.

In this moment, every word was filled with sincerity.

So I hugged Levinas tightly without hesitation.

“Levinas.”

“Yeah…?”

“I promise I’ll definitely come back. If I don’t come back, I’ll be a bad snake instead of a cat.”

“What! A snake?!”

Levinas opened her horned rabbit eyes wide.

As if she’d never been crying, her sniffling stopped completely.

“You’ll have to come back for sure if you don’t want to be a snake, right?”

“Y-yeah… but is that okay…? A snake…”

“It’s fine. If I come back, it won’t matter.”

“R-really…?!”

Levinas wiped her eyes with the back of her hands.

Then she stomped on the floor like an angry person.

“What’s wrong?”

“King scared Levinas! I almost cried because of King!”

“Uh, yeah?”

Was what I said that scary?

Feeling sorry, I couldn’t meet her eyes for a moment.

“Being a bad snake means you’ll definitely come back!”

“Y-yeah…”

To avoid being a bad snake, I’d have to come back no matter what.

It meant becoming the thing Levinas hated most in the world.

The very idea of her hating me was unthinkable.

From Levinas’s perspective, it could only be heard as a promise to return without fail.

Hmph.

Levinas grumbled while stomping on the floor.

After showing a bit of dissatisfaction, she returned to her usual self.

“Since King scared me, you have to take a punishment!”

“Huh? What kind of punishment?”

“Hmm…”

Levinas, with her arms crossed, picked up the bag on the floor.

She even put it in my arms as if telling me to take it.

“I’ll decide the punishment later, but for now take this!”

“O-okay. But I don’t need it right now…”

“What…?!”

“I’m not leaving right away. The carrots inside will just go bad.”

“Oh! That’s right!”

Levinas turned the backpack upside down.

As she shook it out, numerous carrots tumbled out.

“Why are there so many carrots?”

“So King won’t be hungry!”

“……”

It was a touching gesture.

I watched silently as Levinas tidied up the carrots, then turned my gaze towards the entrance.

I sensed someone’s presence there.

“Levinas, just a moment.”

“Okay!”

Leaving Levinas to hide carrots all over the house, I moved to the entrance.

Saebyeok, Gaeul, and Yeoreum were standing outside, not coming in.

“Um, Gyeoul…”

Did they hear our conversation?

Saebyeok was hesitating.

I didn’t want to keep this atmosphere among family members any longer.

Without hesitation, I gave Saebyeok a tight hug.

“I’m always grateful for you too, Saebyeok.”

“Y-yeah… but Gyeoul, I have something to tell you.”

“Something to tell me?”

“Yeah…”

Saebyeok glanced towards Yeoreum.

Yeoreum nodded with a faint smile.

“Let’s be honest too. We can’t keep hiding it forever.”

I could sense from their behavior.

That something important was about to be said.

“I’m ready. Tell me when you’re ready, Saebyeok.”

“Yeah… the thing is… I actually erased your memories once…”

“My memories…?”

The world inside the portal naturally came to mind.

A world devoid of any signs of life.

Erased memories and a seemingly destroyed world.

As the combination of the two worlds came to mind, my breathing started to become rough.

“Gyeoul is actually…”

Saebyeok’s eyes were cast down.

Her drooping ears and tail looked pitiful.

Through Saebyeok’s behavior, I could understand.

That this would be a very long story.

—

—

We talked for a very long time.

Most of it was about my past.

From the destruction of the world I lived in, to erasing my memories due to unbearably horrific experiences.

According to Saebyeok’s explanation, they were memories that could turn a person into a wreck.

“That’s…”

I didn’t want to believe it, but I had seen and experienced things firsthand.

I had no choice but to believe it was all true.

What on earth had I gone through in that ruined world to erase even my memories?

Just hearing about it was shocking.

The actual experience must have been even worse.

I looked back and forth between Saebyeok and Yeoreum beside her.

The two women stood there like criminals.

Even Gaeul seemed to sense that the atmosphere was unusual, and was watching us carefully.

“…I’m disappointed.”

At my murmur, Saebyeok and Yeoreum flinched.

Saebyeok grabbed her own arm, and Yeoreum bit her lip.

Their gloom was palpable.

“I’m sorry… I…”

Saebyeok couldn’t continue her words.

I approached her.

“I’m fine, but you’ve been suffering alone.”

“Huh…?”

Saebyeok looked up.

Yeoreum also had a surprised expression.

“I know how much you two care about me.”

Saebyeok was a child who always put family first in her actions.

The same was true for Yeoreum.

“You’re not angry?”

“Not at all. I’m just grateful, if anything.”

Saebyeok must have concluded in her own way that my memories were too horrific to handle.

I wanted to trust Saebyeok’s judgment.

“I’m really sorry…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Saebyeok hadn’t done anything wrong.

Of course, that didn’t mean my heart wasn’t troubled.

The family and friends in my world.

Thinking of them made me feel like I was about to cry.

Tears I hadn’t shed even when my stomach was pierced by a horned rabbit’s horn.

“Gyeoul.”

“Yes…?”

“Your sister has some good news.”

“…What kind of news?”

“Well…”

Shocking words burst from Yeoreum’s mouth.

She said that time was flowing backwards in the world I used to live in.

Gaeul, who had been listening quietly to our conversation, started to chime in.

“Paper rip! Ah?! Stuck?!”

Gaeul, who had been imitating tearing paper, put on a surprised expression.

From her words about it being stuck, I could understand she meant the torn paper had been put back together.

“The torn paper was put back together…?”

“Heh!”

My goodness.

Was time really flowing backwards?

It was astonishing.

The difficulty of suppressing an incident usually differed between its early and late stages.

If time reversed to the early stages of the incident, many people could be saved.

“I think Gyeoul came here to save Gyeoul’s world.”

“M-me…?”

“Yeah. I believe all of this isn’t a coincidence.”

“That’s…”

Certainly, one couldn’t cross dimensions by coincidence.

As I thought about it that far, goosebumps started to rise all over my body.

‘Everything can be restored to how it was.’

There was no need to be discouraged yet.

I had been given the opportunity of time reversal.

Something transcendent had given me a chance to save the world.

“I…!”

Just as I was about to express my joy, Levinas called me from inside the house.

“King! Kiiiing!”

“Yeah?”

“Levinas thought of a punishment!”

What on earth could the punishment be?

I ran into the house, holding Saebyeok’s hand.

Gaeul followed behind us.

Although shocking conversations had taken place, we were the same as always.

—

—

We entered the house.

Levinas was drawing something with quite a solemn expression.

I silently waited for Levinas’s punishment.

Then Saebyeok patted my shoulder beside me.

“Gyeoul, I can restore your memories if you want…”

“…The shocking and horrible ones?”

“Yeah…”

“…It’s okay. I’ll trust your judgment, Saebyeok.”

Saebyeok sometimes acted more mature than me.

Since that Saebyeok had made this decision.

Time was already reversing, and all the horrible things could be undone.

I was betting on being able to change everything.

Saebyeok nodded, saying she understood.

At the same time, Levinas, who had finished drawing, stood up.

“King! Here’s the punishment! King has to be the big sister all day today!”

“Uh…”

Being the big sister all day as punishment.

Isn’t that the role I’ve been playing all along?

I looked at Levinas with a confused expression.

“Levinas, isn’t this punishment strange…?”

“Y-you think so too…?”

‘Too’?

It meant Levinas knew it was strange as well.

“How about the opposite instead?”

“Little sister! Of course it’s little sister?!”

Hmm…

Levinas, who had been thinking, closed her sketchbook.

I caught a glimpse of the word ‘sister’ written in the sketchbook.

“Okay. Then I’ll be the little sister all day as punishment.”

“Huh…?”

“Heh…?”

“……?”

All three children tilted their heads simultaneously at my statement.

It was a head tilt I found hard to understand.

“What’s wrong?”

“King, are you only going to be the little sister for one day…?”

“Um… should I do it longer?”

“Yeah! Do it longer!”

So not just one day, but maybe two days?

Since I’ve been deceiving the children until now.

Being the little sister in family play as punishment didn’t seem too bad.

Since it had come to this, I decided to try being a good little sister.

Though I wasn’t sure exactly how to do it.

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