Time revolved.
From Suke and Sin's perspective, the moment Bronya died, the entire Cocolia Orphanage began to shift like a rewinding videotape.
"Brother, hold me tight..."
Sin, holding the black cat, had a solemn gaze. An invisible force pulled at her, but because of the existence from outside the Reincarnation in her arms, Sin herself did not become one of the people in this recording.
Sin didn't know when this rewinding of time would stop.
...
But on the other side, when everything rose and fell silent, as the girl named Bronya Zaychik woke up with a start on her bed again, the sky outside the Cocolia Orphanage was already dawn.
"Bronya... Bronya just now was..."
"Ugh...!"
As if recalling something, Bronya touched her neck in panic, only to find that there was no warm, viscous liquid there, nor was there a gaping wound carved by the dagger that had killed her in one strike.
It was as if everything just now was merely her hallucination, a nightmare she had.
But Bronya knew that it had all happened.
"Damn it..."
"Bronya failed again..."
The gray-haired girl irritably punched the bed beneath her. Looking at the sunlight spilling in from the window, she felt depressed.
In truth, this was not her first attempt to "defeat" Sin.
It was just that in the previous attempts, she hadn't resorted to direct murder.
Instead, she had used words or taken advantage of the environment, but all she got in return was the impenetrable stubbornness of the girl named Sin Mal.
Bronya's time was not abundant, because she found that this point in the past she was in was like a continuously ticking clock. As long as the time exceeded a certain limit, she would wake up again right on time this morning.
She had an impression of that limit.
—It seemed to be the point in the original past when Seele, having been bullied by Sin, hid in the toy box, and Bronya herself had spent half a day searching for her.
Of course, her death would also forcefully reset time, because Bronya had died accidentally before.
—Like the time she tried to provoke Sin, and was angrily pushed down the stairs by her, resulting in her head hitting the ground right on the spot, causing her to lose consciousness with a jolt.
Although logically speaking, as long as she experienced enough Reincarnation cycles, finding a solution to break the deadlock was only a matter of time for Bronya.
But Bronya didn't think so, nor did she dare to do so.
She originally had the idea of continuously using trial and error, until she saw the people in the orphanage becoming increasingly strange as she looped within this orphanage.
At the very beginning, Bronya remembered that Cocolia would still occasionally return to the orphanage for a couple of days, and the other orphans in the orphanage would communicate with her normally.
But as Bronya's own time passed, she found that the other orphans around her seemed to have lost the ability to communicate with people. They were like puppets; no matter how she tried to talk to them, they gave no reaction.
It was the same for that Mama Cocolia who gave her complicated feelings. At the start of a certain Reincarnation cycle, after going out, she never returned to the orphanage again.
This progression, where the number of people she could communicate with around her grew fewer and fewer, gave Bronya a creepy feeling.
She wasn't sure what the orphanage would turn into at the very end if she continued to loop, but it was obvious she didn't have much leeway left.
"Sister Bronya..."
Perhaps sensing the girl on the top bunk punching the bed, the delicate voice of Seele from the bottom bunk sounded out:
"Sister Bronya, did you have a nightmare...?"
Evidently, Bronya's actions had awakened her from her sweet dreams.
"No..."
"Bronya just... um..."
Bronya hesitated to speak. She originally wanted to continue discussing how to escape this Reincarnation with Seele, but suddenly realized that the Reincarnation reset had also reset Seele's memories along with it.
This was great; she had to recount all her experiences to Seele from start to finish all over again—every time she reached this part, Bronya felt mentally exhausted. After all, her ability to organize language wasn't particularly good.
But what needed to be said still had to be said.
"Eh? Sister Bronya, you're saying you're from the future..."
"Mm... Mm, Seele understands."
Seele listened to Bronya's recounting just like before. She didn't express an opinion on Bronya saying how many times she had failed already, but instead remained silent for a moment before saying:
"Sister Bronya, you said... Seele will be bullied by Sin later, and then encounter terrible things..."
"Sin is very strong, and it's hard for Sister Bronya to protect Seele, so you don't know what to do..."
Bronya concealed the fact that she had been killed by Sin once. After all, she didn't want to frighten Seele.
"Then from Seele's perspective... in the original future where Sister Bronya came from, how did you and Seele handle this matter?"
How did we handle it?
Hearing this question from Seele, Bronya was taken aback.
She couldn't exactly say that before she could do anything, she was pushed down the stairs by Sin, resulting in her legs being crippled, could she?
Of course, it was also from then on that Sin inexplicably settled down all of a sudden and stopped harassing her and Seele.
But having been reborn to this point in time, Bronya definitely couldn't foolishly let Sin get into a dispute with her and push her down the stairs again. So she really hadn't thought about this question deeply.
Could it be...
It would be better if she did nothing, allowed Sin to bully Seele, and then stepped forward to protect her?
—This was almost exactly what Bronya had originally done.
In the very, very long future following that, Bronya loathed her incompetent self from that time on more than one occasion.
After all, the result of Seele disappearing due to the X-10 Experiment and falling into the Quantum Sea, thus separating from her, all originated from this incident.
"Seele... But..."
Bronya hesitated again.
"It's okay, Sister Bronya."
"Although Seele doesn't know what happened, Seele thinks Sister Bronya has already done enough for her. This time, why don't you let Seele face it alone?"
There was indeed no other way. Words, violence, and every factor in the environment that could be used had already been used by Bronya...
"Then Seele, you must be careful. Sin is extremely dangerous..."
Bronya spoke hesitantly. After all, 'doing nothing' was indeed a blind spot in her thinking.
But before her words could fully fall, the door to the room belonging to her and Seele was knocked upon—
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