Skaya was quiet for a long time after Seo Jun-Ho told his story. Eventually, she finally spoke, “Okay, if this is some kind of prank or a hidden-camera thing, tell me right now. I’ll laugh.”

“...”

Seo Jun-Ho looked at her deadpan without saying anything. Sometimes, his face would get his point across better than any words.

“Hey, why are you staring at me like that? You’re starting to convince me!” Skaya scratched her head.

“So… We’ve already died once, and you’ve come back to the past, right?” she clarified.

“Exactly...”

“And this isn’t something you wrote.”

“Do you want to try it?”

He held out the pen to Skaya, and she wrote something down in the diary.

[If you confess now that this is a joke, I’ll only hit you once… No, I’ll only hit you three times and let you go.]

Seo Jun-Ho looked a little surprised when he saw what she wrote. “This is completely different from what you wrote last time.”

“What did I write?” Skaya asked

“You said Frost is super cute and that she only follows you around. Something like that,” he said.

“Seems like I must’ve been pretty relaxed. I’m jealous.” Skaya sighed. “...It’s probably because of the law of cause and effect.”

“What is that?”

“It refers to the relationship between a cause and an outcome. Have you ever watched a movie about time travel?”

“Yeah, some of the famous ones. Like The...