When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

"Who am I?"

Li Shanren raised his eyebrows and replied calmly, "An ordinary person who is both unlucky and lucky."

Ordinary people? Who would believe it?

Hearing this, Lai Yue Subaru was stunned for a moment, then said anxiously: "That's not what I meant. What I want to ask is why do you know... about my past?"

"Good question. I also want to know why. Why did you choose me?"

Li Shanren stared at Lai Yue Subaru meaningfully.

"But it happened without asking you or me, so you just have to accept it... and so do I."

After saying that, he looked around and found that someone outside the alley had already noticed what was happening here. Without saying anything, he grabbed Subaru Natsuki's arm and pulled him out of the alley.

"This is not the place to talk. Let's talk somewhere else."

"etc......!"

Subaru tried to break free from the hand of the strange young man in front of him, but found that the other party was so strong that he couldn't break free at all. "I can't go with you, I have something important to do!"

"From now on, the only thing that matters is what happens between the two of us. Everything else is unimportant and meaningless."

Li Shanren said in a firm tone.

"If you don't want to go back to square one again and again, we'd better have a talk."

"But... time is running out for me. I have to find Satella quickly and get to the stolen goods warehouse before dark. Only then will I have a chance to avoid the worst outcome!" Subaru Natsuki said hurriedly.

"It's still early. There are still five or six hours before dark, which is plenty of time."

Li Shanren calmly dragged Lai Yue Subaru into the crowd.

Passersby in the alley noticed this and made way for the two of them as if they were avoiding the plague.

"But I'm almost there! Just a little bit!"

Subaru Laiyue seemed to be irritated by Li Shanren's indifferent attitude. He lowered his center of gravity and pressed his legs tightly to the ground as if they were injected with glue, so that Li Shanren could only drag him away in a very funny way.

Li Shanren pulled the corner of his mouth, could only stop, turned back and said seriously:

"Listen, kid! I don't care what mess you have, my business is just as important! There are people waiting for me, and I have wasted a lot of time on you! If my business can't be solved, I guarantee that your business will also be messed up! You'd better not challenge my patience and bottom line!"

"If you cooperate with me obediently, I will also take care of your affairs within my ability. But if you choose to go against me, I have dozens of ways to control you so that you can no longer influence me."

"Win-win cooperation or conflict, choose for yourself!"

Subaru was choked for a moment, and after calming down for a while, he asked, "Can you promise to help me?"

"I promise, every word I say counts."

"Okay then... I'll go with you."

Subaru Natsuki had no choice but to compromise. After all, he had no other choice.

Faced with this young man who had just killed three people with a single knife in front of him, he thought it would be better not to provoke him easily.

"Then let's go. Don't worry, it won't take up much of your time." Li Shanren let go of her hand and walked straight to the front of the road. "You can follow me on your own. Of course, if you think you can easily escape, I don't mind you trying, but I have to make it clear in advance that my patience is limited."

Hearing the implicit threat in the second half of the words, Subaru Natsuki immediately gave up the option of running away and followed resignedly.

Shortly after they left, a young man with red hair and blue eyes came to the entrance of the alley where three corpses were lying. He had an extremely upright temperament, and around his waist hung a knight's sword with a dragon claw printed on its scabbard.

"The capital is becoming increasingly chaotic..."

The young man pinched his brows and said in distress.

"How could they be so cruel? Oh, let's call the patrol to clean it up."

......

Five or six minutes later, in the quiet restaurant, Alice held a spoon and looked curiously at the strange boy opposite her.

The other person had a pair of fierce triangular eyes, but now they were drooping and he looked listless.

"Tell me your name first. You can call me Claude here. What about you?"

After asking the waiter to bring a cup of tea and place it opposite, Li Shanren asked.

"Subaru Natsuki..."

"Well, Subaru Natsuki, you know, it's not a coincidence that I came to you."

Li Shanren said in a flat voice.

"Before we met, I accompanied you through three reincarnations, and you died in front of me the third time. I was just barely able to save you, which is why I dealt with those three people. Of course, don't ask me why I accompanied you through reincarnations. I can't answer that question for you now."

Since Alice was beside him, he didn't say the word "killing" directly.

"But no matter what, your matter has caused me some trouble after all. I believe that no one would be willing to let everything go back to square one for inexplicable reasons when doing something important."

Every word spoken by the young man in front of him who called himself "Claude" made Subaru Natsuki feel extremely shocked. He really didn't expect that when he activated the death return, there was a stranger who had been accompanying him in bad luck.

"Of course, I just happen to be able to preserve my previous memories. In fact, everyone is reincarnating with you. Can you imagine how big an impact this will have?"

"I... I don't know... what the impact will be?" Subaru Natsuki's tone became nervous.

Li Shanren leaned forward slightly, staring straight at the high school boy in front of him, and said in a deep tone: "The impact is... Apart from the impact caused by the two of us, nothing else will happen."

"...thank you for telling me something so obvious."

"Okay, I'm just kidding. Don't look so sad as if I stole your eggs." Li Shanren sat up straight again. "Have you heard of the butterfly effect?"

"A butterfly flapped its wings gently on the West Coast, and eventually set off a hurricane on the East Coast? It means that a small thing happening far away may lead to a big thing after being transmitted through layers of information."

Subaru Natsuki subconsciously told what he knew, then he reacted slightly and his eyes widened quickly.

"Wait... Why do you know the term butterfly effect? ​​Could it be..."

"That's right. Didn't I say that? I'm an unlucky guy like you, and was also thrown into this world for no apparent reason." Li Shanren smiled faintly, "But we may not be from the same era. At least the flip phone in your hand is an antique model that even my grandma doesn't like to use."

In his last reincarnation, he had seen Subaru Natsuki's cell phone in the hands of those three thugs.

Hearing the word "mobile phone", Subaru Natsuki finally confirmed that the other party was a time traveler like himself, and had arrived earlier than him.

"Senior! I am sorry for offending you before. I beg you to guide me!"

Apart from committing suicide, Subaru Natsuki, who had no other special abilities, decisively chose to hug his thigh, hold the table with both hands, and knock his head on the table.

Seeing the young man across the table losing his moral integrity in an instant, Li Shanren curled the corners of his mouth.

Alice, who was holding the spoon, didn't quite understand the conversation between the two. Her emerald blue eyes looked at the strange boy opposite her who suddenly bowed down in confusion.

"Okay, okay, do you want us to attract other people's attention?" Li Shanren said immediately after noticing the gazes of people around him.

"Ahem... Sorry, sorry, I was a little excited. I didn't expect to meet someone here who has had the same experience as me." Subaru looked up and smiled apologetically. He looked a lot more relaxed than before.

Perhaps because they were both time travelers, he felt much closer to Li Shanren.

"Okay, let's get back to the original topic. I used the butterfly effect as an analogy before, but in fact I think your ability is the exact opposite of the butterfly effect."

Li Shanren continued.

"If the law of the butterfly effect is that the farther away from the center of an event, the greater the impact, then your ability is that the closer you are to the center of an event, the greater the impact. Of course, we are only discussing the impact in the short term. After that, the changes caused by the real butterfly effect are not taken into consideration for the time being."

"And you are the center of the event. If a retrospective event occurs, then the farther away from you, the more likely they are to repeat everything from the last reincarnation because they are not at the center of the event. Nothing will change because the butterfly effect is not transmitted that fast. The closer people are to you, the more they will be affected by you, the butterfly, and thus the results of some events will be changed."

"Uh... can you understand what I'm saying?"

"I... understand, right? I guess..." Subaru looked a little confused, "It means that the closer someone is to me, the easier it is for them to be influenced by me."

"I'll take it you understand...By the way, were you still in school before you came here?"

"No, I was supposed to be in the second year of high school, but due to personal reasons, I temporarily dropped out of school and stayed at home..."

Speaking of this, Lai Yue Subaru suddenly hesitated. No matter which country it is, dropping out of school is not a glorious thing.

"So you are indeed a high school student..." Li Shanren sighed.

He did not ask why Subaru Natsuki dropped out of school. After all, they had already come to this world. Before finding a way to go back, the things in their native world were of little significance except for occasionally bringing them up to reminisce.

"Okay, let's talk about that later. We don't have enough time right now. I want to know who you are looking for first? And why are you looking for her? After all, this matter is quite urgent for you, right?"

Li Shanren asked, crossing his hands on the table.

"She was the first person who offered me a helping hand after I came into this world..."

Hearing this, Subaru Natsuki suppressed his smile, calmed himself, and narrated slowly.

"I only know her name is 'Satila', but it's a pseudonym. I don't quite understand why she gave me a pseudonym... Maybe it's because I didn't have enough affection for her at the time..."

After seven or eight minutes, Lai Yue Subaru slowly recounted everything that had happened so far, but at Li Shanren's suggestion, he vaguely skipped the part about death and return.

"Satira... sounds familiar..." Li Shanren recalled the name carefully, "You said that the girl who helped you had beautiful silver hair, blue-purple eyes, and a pair of pointed ears. She was also a half-elf?"

"Yes."

Li Shanren showed a strange look on his face. Then he picked up the newspaper on the table, flipped through two pages, and pushed it in front of Lai Yue Subaru, "Is she the person you are looking for?"

"what is this?"

“The newspaper of this world.”

Subaru Laiyue looked down and saw the silver-haired girl printed on the newspaper, along with three other young and beautiful women.

"This... why is she in the newspaper?" Subaru Natsuki's eyes widened. Although he couldn't read, he knew that not everyone was qualified to be printed on it.

"Strictly speaking, the Satira you mentioned is Emilia." Li Shanren took a sip of the tea slowly. "She is one of the candidates for the chief consul of the Caesar Republic."

Chief... Archon...

Upon hearing the news, Subaru Natsuki was stunned. He didn't expect that the girl had such a prominent status. In comparison, he was so unknown in the other world that he was almost humble as a person.

The gap between them is like that between a firefly and the bright moon.

Seeing that Lai Yue Subaru did not respond, Li Shanren continued:

"I roughly know why she uses the pseudonym Satella, because her appearance is almost exactly the same as the legendary Witch of Jealousy, which has caused her to suffer a lot of criticism. Her approval rating is always difficult to improve, and this may be one of the reasons. I don't think she likes being mistaken for the Witch of Jealousy. Who made her meet you, a distant visitor who doesn't even know the Witch of Jealousy? Maybe it's because it's fun, or maybe it's some kind of self-mockery... Anyway, this misunderstanding was created."

"So, when I called her like that on the street, I totally stepped on a landmine..." Subaru Natsuki smiled bitterly.

"Don't blame yourself too much. The responsibility for this matter does not lie with you. Who would have thought that she would make such a joke for no reason?" Li Shanren said.

"So you still want to help her now? As a candidate for the Archon, I don't think she is incapable of retrieving her things. Maybe she doesn't need your help at all. You may just be being self-motivated and self-indulgent. You may even risk your life for this."

It has to be said that these words sounded real and hurtful to Subaru Natsuki, causing him to lower his head and remain silent for a long time.

Finally, he looked up at Li Shanren and said firmly, "Even if this is the case, I will still go. Even if not for her, I want to save Rom and Firut. That woman named Elsa is terrible. Even if no one interferes, she will kill Rom, just like the first time I arrived at the stolen goods warehouse."

"Why? If it was Emilia, I could understand that you had some vague feelings for her, but those two guys in the slum were complete strangers to you."

"Because they protected me the last time. Firut saved my life. Although I died with her soon after, I can't forget the fact that she saved me."

"I have to correct you on one thing. The fact is that everything has returned to the starting point. You don't owe them anything." Li Shanren knocked on the table and emphasized.

"Just because it didn't happen this time, can I forget it? If I convince myself to forget everything, then what's the point of my ability?"

Subaru Natsuki mustered up the courage to look at the "senior" across the table.

"The meaning is to help you avoid danger and live better."

"So, Senior, do you want me to escape like this? I... I can't do it. You want me to forget what happened, what I clearly experienced, I can't do it. From my perspective, they really happened, even if I'm the only one who remembers it! I haven't reached my limit yet, I don't want to give up yet, before I collapse, I will keep trying until I change their fate!"

Subaru Natsuki stood up and spoke seriously, his black eyes seemed to be burning with fire.

"Change your destiny..."

A complex look flashed across Li Shanren's eyes, but it was fleeting.

Soon, he regained his composure, looked at the slightly excited young man opposite him, and said, "Okay, I know your determination. If that's the case, let's trade."

"Transaction?" Subaru Natsuki was a little surprised.

"Yes, a deal. You don't think I want to help you for free, do you? Even brothers should settle accounts clearly."

Li Shanren said as if it was a matter of course.

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