He felt like he could not let go of this lead. He felt like he would enter a world where all of his predictions would be useless if he let go of this clue that he stumbled upon. Maru entered the nearby convenience store and came back out with a hot coffee can in his hand. He tightly gripped the hot can to the point that it felt like his hand was burning. The air of summer, which hadn’t dissipated yet, as well as the heat from his hand, lashed out at his brain. It is not time to rest yet.

The compass pointing towards the past worked properly. Maru was able to clearly remember the memories he wanted when he wanted to. He took out the memories of when the acting club felt like it was going to disband from the cabinet of memories. Rather than going through the circumstances back then, he tried going through what he felt back then.

The acting club was experiencing the crisis of being on the brink of disbanding before the next performance. They couldn’t be left alone, and they had to be returned to their original state. The method Maru chose to do so was extremely simple.

The question was, why did he not try to solve that problem with a conversation, and instead proactively made himself the prey for the others to focus their energy on. Was the past him too immature?

Maru shook his head. He didn’t act like that recklessly....