Author's Reincarnation in a Fantasy Setting

"Well, if you are okay then I'm also okay," I said as I stood up from my seat —I had finished my sandwiches and I had also convinced Anya to stay away from Leon, in short, there was no other reason to stay anymore.

"Also, let me remind you of something," I mentioned. "What?" she asked.

"Don't sever your bonds with Leon instantly, it will feel so out of the place and will attract suspicion. Stay as you are while slowly distancing yourself from him in a way that he doesn't notice something's wrong, okay?"

"If that's what you say…fine."

Anya was more or less close to Leon even if they were just on talking terms. If she were to cut all the ties with him and disappear all of a sudden, then it's possible that some events that I don't know about can take place and disturb the flow of the original plot of loli_pop's novel.

"I'll see you in the training session then…by the way go easy on me if I were to fight against you," I added while I took the plate in my hands and begin to leave.

"Hey Zero, can I ask you one thing?" Anya called out to be from behind.

Turning back I gave her a look that said "okay" and waited for her to speak. Taking my response as a yes she nodded and then said, "You say that I shouldn't be worried about your life since you are not really my brother. Then why were you worried when you saw me in pain because of that letter?"

'Hmmm, I wonder why? Probably because I do not want to make the same mistake as I did in my former life, or maybe because I want to correct that mistake in this life? There are so many reasons but I can't pick one of them.'

"Is that what you should be asking, idiot?! It is true that I was worried but unlike you, I was not going to such extents to disturb my personal life because of it."

Does this reply sound legit? Because she didn't ask anything else and I turned around, submitted my plate to the counter, and then left the café.

***

Entering my room I sat on the bed, the lights were turned off but I didn't care to turn them on. In the dark room, with no light source, I was lying on my bed with my hand on my forehead as I stared at the ceiling above my eyes.

I was thinking about things I have to do from now on and the things I did today. And one of the things I did was that I refrained Anya from forming a relationship with Leon.

I admit it was not my plan that they were getting close; X was the one pulling the string. But the outcome achieved at the end would've been the same, the same outcome I wanted; to get the two in a relationship in order to keep the plot the same.

If I had watched quietly from the sidelines, everything must have gone just as I wanted. Then why did I interfere and stopped it from happening?

Well, there were two reasons to justify the action that I took.

The first is that I did what I did because the main point to get Anya and Leon close was to keep the plot of the novel the same so I can predict the future and keep things to my advantage.

I'd have a pretty good hand in the same if I already knew what was going to happen, then why must I discard it?

It was simple really. In a day I was going to avoid my death and live—a thing that was different from the original plot. But doing that will ultimately change the plot sooner or later so keeping it the same by using Anya would be a waste.

I won't be able to keep things the same once the domino effect of changes starts after I survive. Even if the plot point of Anya and Leon stayed the same, the plot will change no matter how I try to keep the same; the only way to keep it the same is for me to die, which I can't afford.

The second reason was more of my twisted sense of logic rather than actual logical reasoning.

It is that if Leon and Anya were to get close at this time then the events that were set to unfold after my death will also happen. And by that, I'm talking about Leon having sex with Anya.

Normally, I wouldn't have worried over something trivial like this if Anya really loved Leon and slept with him due to her own will. But unfortunately, that was not the case here.

If they slept together then it will be because of the fact that I and X made them get together and then the plot did its work. She won't realize but she will not be doing that out of her own will.

It'll be like I or X forced her to do so. In both cases, I'd feel guilty over that. Feel guilty that I could've stopped it from happening but I didn't.

That's why! I keep them from coming together and stained X's plan. This way anything bad won't happen while I'll be away.

'I did everything I could beforehand, there are still a few things left to take care of but I'll get done with them before the interclass training session starts...It's finally coming, isn't it? The day of my death.'

***

The day of the interclass training session finally arrived, the students of all the four classes in the first year were gathered in the academy stadium; that goes without saying but I was among them as a student of class 1B.

The group was divided into two parts, one consisting of class 1D and class 1C, and the other of class 1A and class 1B. The atmosphere was of tension, some students were scared while some were excited.

As for me? Well, at this moment, I was not feeling anything; indifferent to the rest of the world I was silently waiting for it to happen. And now, only a bit of waiting was left.