He just felt something familiar. Something a little regretful.
Something… hard to let go.
How similar it is. So similar to the moment Teacher Hiliad passed away.
If he starts Reincarnation, then "this world's Hiliard" will be forgotten, won't he.
Yes. Ian believed that the next life's "Ian" would be just like himself now, even love the teacher more, because all the "Ians" in Infinite Space-Time are Ian.
Ian's love can stack; Ian's hatred will fade; Ian's dreams will grow ever firmer, ever more perfect, ever stronger.
He is "Ian." He is all the "Ians." This point has never changed from beginning to end.
But they are not. Yisen Gard, Adalbert, Anfa and Sio, Elan and Elder Pude, all those friends and subordinates of his…
Those who are not Ian, those friends of Ian, they have only one lifetime.
Ian remembered many people, those whom he had killed in some very, very distant previous lives.
