——I can go back and save Charlotte.
That was the promise she had made to him.
It was also one of the reasons she had returned in the first place. Yet as the moment drew closer, Karina began to doubt herself.
What if saving Charlotte undermined everything she had already done?
What if altering this course of reality only led them toward another disastrous ending?
What then?
Would she experiment?
The very thought made her hesitate.
Karina was already burning through her own existence with the countless times she had turned back the clock.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that she had interfered in nearly every near-death experience Vanitas had ever faced.
And it would not be an exaggeration to say that Vanitas Astrea would have died a long time ago if Karina Maeril had not been supporting him behind the scenes.
It was an odd truth that was difficult even for her to accept.
Yet there was one thing Karina had become certain of.
She was reliving a paradox.
