Click, click, click―!1

<Deus Ex Machina> smiled faintly as he watched the working pocket watch in his hand.0

『You seem to be feeling good, my friend.』 His soul friend chuckled. 0

<Deus Ex Machina> nodded. “I am. How can I not be happy?”0

『Well, you’re right. I feel as if it was only yesterday that you were frustrated about not being able to do anything about it, even though you wanted to change it very badly.』0

“Whether it’s a high rank or an important job, it’s meaningless when I can’t even take care of my family.” <Deus Ex Machina> smiled bitterly, hanging the pocket watch on a wall.0

Click, click, click―!0

Hanging beside that pocket watch were several others. Some of the pocket watches’ second hands rotated quickly, while others moved very slowly. There were also malfunctioning pocket watches with destroyed hour hands. Several of them had minute hands that had stopped moving, but their second hands frantically rotated on their own. 0

<Deus Ex Machina> looked around the room, which he called the ‘Soulwatch Room’. The 'Changgong Library' was the archive of all events and incidents in the...0