Wowzers, that was an exposition-heavy chapter. I liked it, though. It’s interesting that Evie seems to have wound up in the “good” timeline, what with her mother not dying and father not going power-mad. I wonder what changed for her mother. Maybe it’s related to the villainess system?
Wasn't the previous timeline manipulated by the future Elsa? Not sure this timeline is the "good" one anymore, Evie's mother might not be safe this time around... I feel like that's the implication in this chapter.
Same, I get the feeling Evie is in for a very bad time in this new route... maybe not her mother's actual death since that might be a tad too dark, but definitely a bad, bad time.
My question would be, what was the purpose of the change in timeline in the first place? Evie wasn't evil, not because her mother didn't die, but because she was isekai'd, so why did her mother not die in the first place (I don't mean in-story plot, I mean in the meta that I can't see the point of it story-wise)
It's actually quite simple: at the end of the first time loop (which is the game's original storyline, as exposited by Evie in this chapter), Elsa attained the Rings of Time, went back in time, and created the second loop by manipulating events so that Evie's mom survived. Isekai!Evie has existed in this second loop until now, where her mom doesn't die, Evie doesn't grow evil, and Elsa falls head over heels for her. I suspect that Evie got isekai'd because of this original timeline manipulation in the first place, too.
However, the second loop has had unintended consequence of the infinite spawn glitch in the demon wolf ambush, resulting in Evie's death in Elsa's arms, so this loop's Elsa sought the Rings of Time, realized that she was in the second loop and tried something different by sending Evie back this time around. This way, the events of the second loop will happen as Isekai!Evie remembers them from her own experience, rather than from the game, and whatever she does in this arc to manipulate the timeline will create a third loop what will hopefully get her and Elsa past the demon wolf ambush event.
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