03x12 - Owari to Hajimari

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III

Jobless Reincarnation

The future?

So, you're... my future self?

Yes. I'm you about fifty years from now.

You can't just say that and
expect me to buy it.

I know your old name.

Isn't that reason enough to believe me?

This world has a thing called magic.

I wouldn't be shocked if you
could read my memories.

If I could read memories by magic,
why couldn't I use it to time travel?

Sorry, but I don't have time to explain
the theory behind teleporting to the past.

I hate to sound like a Hollywood movie,
but there's really no time. Just listen.

A Hollywood movie...

Are you really... me?

But...

There's nothing in the basement.

I went to the basement and
thought there was nothing there.

Later on, the Man-God says,

"that's all right, then," so I let it go.

But that was a mistake.

A mistake?

A few weeks after I went to the basement,

Roxy died.

She died?

How would just going to the
basement make that happen?!

Yeah, I get where you're coming from.

Just keep your cool and listen.

I'm not sure, but I think
there's a rat down there.

A rat that's sick.

If you open the door,
it will startle the rat,

and it will run... into the kitchen.

It will nibble on yesterday's leftovers.

Aisha will dispose of the leftovers by
feeding them to stray cats the next day.

But before she does, Roxy will
get hungry and snack on them.

As a result, Roxy will catch
the disease the rat had.

What disease?

Petrification sickness.

It will slowly turn her body to
manatite until it kills her.

No one will notice at first.

After all, people don't get
petrification sickness that often.

The pathogen only infects another life
that makes its home in the body.

Another life?

You don't mean...

A fetus.

Hang on. Roxy isn't—

I'm sure she's pregnant.

But that's not a problem—or a surprise,
considering what you've been up to.

Petrification sickness
turns mice into carriers.

Their teeth become purple crystal,
so they're easy to spot.

The infection can only
be transmitted orally.

The pathogen alters the fetus, turning it
to manatite along with its mother.

And Roxy is going to catch this thing?

If you thoughtlessly go to the basement,

Roxy will develop a fever within days.

And then, she'll die.

She didn't get better?

Didn't you try to cure her?

In an effort to save her,
I traveled to the Holy Country of Millis

and got my hands on an incantation
for god-class detoxification magic.

But by the time I got home,
it was already too late.

No...

It was another thirty years
before I put it all together.

The Man-God told me.

Don't let him trick you.

With what you know from your past life,
you ought to see at least that much.

He's the root of all evil, the last boss.

But, I mean... Why Roxy?

I still don't know.

But I know he did it for a reason.

At the end, he told me,

"Because you're such an idiot,
everything went just the way I wanted."

Damn it.

The Man-God said that?

I figure Orsted might have
a clue what he's after,

but in fifty years,
I never managed to find him.

Didn't Nanahoshi know where Orsted was?

What happened to Nanahoshi?

Her experiments failed at the very end.

She grew depressed,
I failed to help her out of it, and then...

I get it.

You can stop there.

Good. I don't want to say it, either.

Listen. You'll find
this out for yourself,

but the Man-God wasn't
originally called that.

What do you mean?

"Human God" is apparently
what they used to call him.

But he calls himself the Man-God now.

What does he do that for?

Hell if I know.

No good reason, that's for sure.

Everything he said seemed to
be for my benefit at first.

And to be fair, he never
lied to me before now.

Not so I'd be able to tell, anyway.

It was all for this once,

this one moment
when your suspicious a*s

would obey without question!

Don't fall for it!

You read it in a manga, remember?

People who talk about trust easily are
exactly the ones who deceive others!

I mean, I get that, but—

You get nothing!

After Roxy, next... next comes Sylphie!

Losing Roxy breaks your heart, leaving
you unable to care for Sylphie for a while.

She feels hurt and depressed, and the
Man-God uses Luke to take advantage.

Luke?

Luke advises Ariel,
and Sylphie leaves me to go to Asura.

With Ariel, even though she
failed to win over Perugius!

Ariel starts a civil w*r... and loses.

Sylphie is k*lled in action.

k*lled? Sylphie dies?

You lose both of them.

Oh, I can still hear his voice
when he explained the trick.

The feel of his hand
patting me on the back...

That shrill laugh of his...

Damn it!

Damn him to hell!

I'll say it again: don't trust him.

You'll regret it.

That said, I bet you're
wondering what you should do.

You'd better start... with Eris.

Eris?

I want you to write her
a letter right now.

"Sure, I cheated a bit,
but I still love you."

I don't love her!

I ended up with ED because of her.

Let it slide. Show you're a real man.

Of course, I couldn't forgive her,
so we ended up enemies for years.

You did?

Eris nearly k*lled me more
times than I can count.

She followed me everywhere,

and every time she spotted me,
it turned into a fight.

Still, I guess she went easy on me.

There were so many ways she could've
k*lled me if she really wanted to.

But she didn't, and when I was in real
trouble, she helped me on the sly.

Like she was the prince of
all veggies or something.

She loved me the whole time.

But she's bad with words and
didn't know what else to do,

so she always fell back on her fists.

I mean, there was a time
when I was into Eris,

but I've got Sylphie and Roxy now.

Not a problem.

They'll understand if you explain
yourself ahead of time.

Admit it. You're still carrying
a torch for Eris yourself.

Easy for you to say.

What's wrong with making space for
every woman who says she loves you?

Don't give me that just because
it's not your problem.

I have no one left.

I'm telling you because it is my problem.

Eris worked so hard for
so long to be with me.

"What was it all for
if you won't let her in?"

That's what Ghislaine says
when she lets you have it.

In front of Eris's corpse.

Eris dies, too?

Yeah. Shielding me in a fight.

So, you'd better send that letter.

Unless you want more regrets.

O-Okay, well, if you put
it that way, I'll do it.

But where do I send it?

To the Sword Sanctum.
That can't be a total surprise.

Don't write anything to push her away.

If Eris gets desperate,
you'll get m*rder*d.

I know.

I didn't.

Even though I should have
known what Eris was like.

She never thought she'd abandoned me.

But I didn't understand.

We weren't on the same page,
and it made us both miserable.

One important thing I forgot to tell you:

Don't try to fight the Man-God.

Don't fight him? But he's tricking me.

Yeah. But you can't beat him.

I can never get to where the Man-God is.

I shook when I figured that out.

I can't even get him back
for Roxy and Sylphie.

After everything I did to beat him,
he's out of my reach.

He'll never show up
where I can get at him.

I can float through the air and
communicate across long distances.

Hell, I even learned to leap through
time and zip back to the past.

Then again, this spell was a failure.

It was?

This world's magic can do anything.

Not much is beyond you
once you realize that.

Not even regrowing your missing arm.

But this kind of power is pointless now.

By the time I got strong, I'd already
lost everyone I wanted to protect.

H-Hey!

Are you hurt?

Listen. I'll say it again.

You can't beat the Man-God.
There's no way to win.

So, butter him up if you have to,

but don't try to fight him.

You need to do three things:

Ask Nanahoshi for advice.

Send a letter to Eris.

Doubt the Man-God,
but don't antagonize him.

This is all way too sudden.

Don't you have any more
specific advice for me?

Advice?

That takes me back.

Come to think of it,
I'd gotten pretty soft by now.

Well, I'd like to give
you more detail myself,

but my time's up.

Why do you keep saying you
"don't have time" or your "time's up"?

Is a late-night anime
about to start, or what?

No. It's about to end.

Anyway, don't count on other
people to fix your problems.

You didn't start your life in this world
constantly begging for help, remember?

And my coming here like this
must have changed history.

Now that it's come to this,

the history I went through won't change.

You'll lead...
a different life... from mine.

Like always, you'll win some,

and you'll lose some.

You'll learn lessons

and have regrets.

Hey!

Are you okay?!

Don't think... my coming from the future

means you can undo your mistakes.

The truth is... in life,
there are no do-overs.

All I've been through is written in here.

Diary

Rudeus Greyrat

Do what you can to make sure...
you have no regrets.

Don't let that b*stard laugh at you.

Don't... be like me.

What happened to you?

My time warp wasn't good enough...

to bring my whole body.

But you just said you
could regrow your arm.

I've got no mana left.

If only Cliff were alive,
it would have gone better.

I could have told you... a little more...

I'm sorry. You've said enough.
Don't try to talk.

Your... regrets...

play into the Man-God's...

Why like this?

I need to say...

I'm in the past, so...

I want... at least one look...

Oh, Sylphie, Roxy.

Damn it.

You're still as cute as ever.

Rudy, I thought I heard voices and noises.

Is someone else there?

Is it a burglar?

Sorry, I was kind of half-asleep.

I had a weird dream and did magic.

You did magic half-asleep?

Are you all right?

I can sleep with you if you're
having nightmares again.

No, I'm fine. For today, anyway.

Rudy?

Really, I'm fine. Go back to your rooms.

I'll clean up, then turn in.

If something's bothering you,
don't hesitate to tell us.

Thanks.

In that case, do me one favor.

I'd like you both to stay in
your rooms all night tonight.

Stay in our rooms? Uh... why?

Well...

All right.

If you say so, Rudy, we will.

You're right.

Okay. If you say so, Rudy.

Well then, good night.

Night, Rudy.

Thanks. Night.

It was all so sudden. I still can't fully
believe it, but one thing's for sure:

I don't want to lose the two of them.

And I don't want to die full
of regrets like that old man.

I'll bury his bones in the
same place as Paul's.

If the old guy really was me,
it's what he'd want.

The old guy told me not to go. Still...

I'm not sure, but I think
there's a rat down there.

Frost Nova.

Frost Nova.

I'll give the body to the
Mages' Guild to study.

If I report what the old man told me
about petrification sickness,

I should be able to find out
if he was on the level.

What should I do first?

What can I do right now?

Reading this might tell me what's coming.

[font color="#140d11"][font size="30"]Diary

[font color="#140d11"][font size="17"]Rudeus Greyrat

But he said history would change.

To borrow a term from a game,
I'm in a different world line,

a world that future me
coming here changed.

I can study this diary, but there's a
good chance things won't go the same way.

You need to do three things:

Ask Nanahoshi for advice.

Send a letter to Eris.

Doubt the Man-God,
but don't antagonize him.

I can't just forget about
the diary and keep going.

It's the tracks the
old guy left behind him.

Diary
Rudeus Greyrat

Episode 12
An End and a Beginning

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The Diary