Chapter 303
I hadn’t intended to feel a sense of kinship with the gryphon, but in a way, our situations were quite similar.
Of course, if I had to compare, my circumstances were much better. In this world, I had friends, and I had a place I could call home.
No matter what happened, I had somewhere to return to. And it wasn’t a place I had recently found—it was somewhere I had been since childhood.
Well... technically, it wasn’t really a normal childhood. And technically, I wasn’t exactly young when I first arrived here.
But still, if I had to name a few places in the imperial palace that held memories for me, I could.
Before entering the academy, Alice had always been exasperated with me, irritated, and even jealous. But our relationship had never been terrible. I had always been considerate of her in my own way, and Alice had somewhat acknowledged that.
If I ever said that to her face, she would probably react as if I were speaking nonsense, but... in a way, Alice had been spoiled around me.
Even now, she insisted on calling herself my “older sister,” which was just her way of acting spoiled in a different form.
...If I hadn’t had my time-reversing ability, if I hadn’t escaped that day, I wondered what my life would have been like now.
At least the gryphon had some value because of its power—it had been used because of what it could do.
But me? I might not have even been worth that.
I might have just been a disposable tool. Used a few times and then discarded.