Chapter 118: Ambushed and Reward
If it were him in Rebecca’s position, he would have already thrown a fit and stormed off in anger.
"You want her to find out by herself when you eventually slip up? That’s the worst possible outcome. It would take forever to convince her you don’t see her as a fool. Trust me," Atherna said with a huff.
"You’re right... but still..." Maximilian wanted to respond, but he didn’t know what to say in the moment. He took a breath and slowly began organizing his thoughts as the initial shock faded.
"There’s a lot of... questions... in my head right now. First off, what did you say to her to make her accept that Max, the one she admired... was actually me the whole time? Usually, when someone finds out they’ve been deceived, they get angry," he asked.
"Well... I have absolute power over time," Atherna said, puffing up her chest with pride, causing Maximilian’s eyes to unconsciously drift toward the jiggle.
"Hmmm? See something you like?" Atherna teased.
"Ahem! Err... right. But what does that have to do with changing her mind? It’s not like you can control her thoughts. And you’re not exactly good at persuading people," Maximilian replied.
"You know about the multiverse, the ’what ifs,’ and alternate timelines, right? I just swapped in the version of the timeline where her thoughts were the least angry and most accepting of you, and brought that into the current timeline. In other words, if she couldn’t accept it in any timeline, there’d be nothing I could do," Atherna explained.
"What? You can do that?" Maximilian was stunned by the revelation. It seemed that Atherna was far more than she appeared to be. She became more mysterious as time went on.
At first, he had thought she was simply the soul of his girlfriend from his previous life, someone who had died and just happened to be in charge of the system that now resided within him.
Instead, she had revealed that she possessed power over time. That was something he had never even imagined.
But the fact that this woman was his girlfriend hadn’t changed, so he didn’t bother asking who she really was or why she had such an ability. Of course, he was curious, but he believed there should be a basic level of trust between a couple.