Chapter 127: Today (3)
The twenty-second cycle.
Orff approached Everly and Misha once again.
This time, he was just a little bit smarter than before. Before setting out, he carefully recalled his impressions of Everly:
She seemed to come from a well-off family, didn’t lack money, and probably didn’t care much about his hacking skills. Her personality matched what the other boys had said—somewhat cold and hard to approach—but she wasn’t a bad person. She was very serious in everything she did and studied diligently…
Beyond that, he noticed something else: Everly and her friend Misha both seemed a little superstitious.
…Well, maybe “superstitious” wasn’t quite right—after all, they’d already encountered a time loop, so it did feel like some supernatural forces really existed in this world.
In any case, in the previous cycle, he had noticed that Everly wore a crystal necklace around her neck, an exotic-looking animal tooth bracelet on her left wrist, and a cross bracelet on her right. Misha was similar, wearing accessories that looked old-fashioned, out of place for her age, but full of religious symbolism.
Were they believers? Not exactly—it seemed more likely that they had a special interest in the mystical.
If that was the case… maybe…