[INDEF. HIATUS] Regrets and Wishes: One More Chance

Chapter 2 - A New Hope

Before you read the 2nd chapter, I have some information.

As expected, I cannot stand seeing the theories I used for this fanfiction having strayed too far from the canon, original LN story.

I made a small yet impactful rewrite on the prologue. Now, Ivaraj wasn't shown to appear anywhere. As for why is it, you'll know eventually.

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第2章　新たな希望

(Ciel's Perspective)

I had managed to calm Master down. It came as a surprise for me, since I hadn't even understood the real nature of the so-called "emotion".

He had been so devastated. I didn't know why and how could I tell it. I just felt like he had been so. He had fallen into despair when we were abolished to the End of Time and Space.

Knowing that he could just travel back into a point in the space-time he wanted, he then pinned his hopes up high, just to be shattered immediately when we ended up here. And even more so when he knew that something had interfered and prevented us from re-activating [Space-Time Warp].

It was true that Master's wishes might've affected our [Space-Time Warp]. But something was a little bit off. What did not quite make sense, even for me, was that we could not re-activate it. I have been trying to reactivate it even now, yet nothing happens at all.

Skills and abilities should be innately reusable, even if the cooldown  could vary from one to another. If it was just about the matter of "will" and "desire", then if the user changed what outcome would he desire, they should've responded to that change. It was like our [Space-Time Warp] ability was completely sealed off the moment we got here.

But forget it. It was not the main problem right now.

Falling into anguish even deeper than before, as though reaching the depth of abyss, Master started blaming everything onto himself. My voice alone was not enough, because he refused to listen.

I cannot let my master to fall any deeper.

I have to somehow pull him out quickly.

I don't want my master to fall into an abyss where he cannot escape anymore.

When I recalled what Master had gone through, I realized just how much he treasured every single friend and subordinate of his. When he almost lost one of his subordinates or when he almost lost his sworn brother, he succumbed into an unrivaled rage. 

Losing all of them at once would truly be the worst thing he could ever experience. Right now, any kinds of wealth and power had completely no meaning to him. What he needed was just a friend. Nothing else.

It had been his first wish after he had first been reincarnated in this Cardinal World: a friend, a partner who would cure his solitude and support him regardless of the circumstances. And at this moment, at this very exact moment when none of his friends was here for him to support him, the only one who could do it was me myself. That was what I was born for, what I lived up to, and the sole purpose of my existence.

I decided to create a [Multiple Parallel Existence] and focus my own consciousness to it, taking control over its body. 

I had used one of Master's abilities without Master's permission for the first time. But I concluded that it was a necessary thing to do. If my voice alone wasn't enough to reach him out, I thought that I had to reach him with my entire being.

When I saw my ever-cheerful, carefree master sobbing uncontrollably, I felt an inexplicable pain within my "chest". Without a consent of my mind, my hand reached the back of his head and brought it onto my shoulder.