Reincarnated Hero System

Beatrix’s expression returned to normal when Jamie spoke, and she literally jumped over the couch and table to reach where he sat before pulling him into a hug.

Jamie silently patted her head before looking up at the door, where Artemisia walked in a moment later.

Unlike Beatrix, Artemisia’s reaction to Jamie’s presence was more restrained. She gave a slight bow before turning her gaze toward the floating holograms above the centre table.

Thanks to Jamie’s quick reflexes, as soon as Beatrix opened the door, he had erased all the images on the spell circles so neither of the two goddesses saw them.

All they saw were stick figure holograms and the floating spell circles, with two of the circles crossed out.

“Whatcha doing?”

Beatrix asked, tilting her head when she saw the deconstructed spell circle and Arthur responded, shaking his head for more reasons than one.

“We’ve been trying to figure out how and why Evan got sent back in time, but that isn’t going well…”

Technically, he hadn’t told a single lie.

It was NOT going well.

“Oh…what’s with the stick figures.”

“I was trying to recreate the scene at the time I got sent back, too bad it’s not helping matters.”

Evan said, manipulating the hologram to make the stick figures start fighting each other with swords and magic.

Everyone watched the scene as the sole blue stick figure was knocked aside. Then, when it attacked again, the red figure with the spell circle pointed at them, sucked the attack into a portal, and created another portal behind the blue figure, pulling them in.

“The end.

Starring: Blue Stick Figure as Evan. Red Stick Figures as Bad Guy 001 to 10?

How many were they again?”

Evan placed a hand on his chin, trying to recall the number of Fallen Celestials he had fought.

On the other hand, Beatrix quickly lost interest in the holograms and focused on Jamie, asking him why he was there.

“I kinda pissed McEnda off, so I ran so he’d cool off.”

“Oh, so the usual, then?”

When Beatrix replied in such a manner, Arthur raised an eyebrow and asked what she meant by it.

“Uncle Jay always pisses Mum and Uncle Uvton off. Uncle Uvton is usually calm but mum always flares up and chases him across the world.”

Jamie just chuckled lightly at Beatrix’s succinct explanation of his usual antics with her mother and Artemisia’s father.

Speaking of Artemisia, she was over by the area where Evan had dropped the Arcade Consoles he’d swiped from Jamie’s penthouse on Gozon.

“Hey, Jamie. After the Summit is done, how about we go to Artemisia and Beatrix’s home world?”

Arthur suggested casually, but the moment the words left his mouth, Beatrix’s expression darkened.

“…that might be possible for me, but not Arty.”

“Huh? Why?”

Arthur asked, clearly puzzled. How could it be possible to visit Beatrix’s home world but not Artemisia’s, when they both came from Aidos?

Beatrix shot a troubled glance at Artemisia, who was standing nearby, but before she could respond, the goddess herself spoke, her tone as light as ever.

“It’s nothing so grand, Beatrix.”

Artemisia said as she powered on the Arcade Console in front of her. Then, without a trace of emotion, she dropped a bombshell.

“The World I once called my ‘home’, no longer exists.”

“??”

Arthur and Evan exchanged startled looks, blindsided by Artemisia’s words.

‘What in the time travelling bullshit shenanigans is this girl saying?’

Evan, someone who had irrefutable proof that Artemisia was Aidosian had a dumbfounded expression on his face.

The others who saw it, however, assumed that it was because he, like Arthur, had thought he was shocked by Artemisia revealing she was not from Aidos.

“How?”

That was all Arthur asked, and Artemisia’s reply was as nonchalant as ever.

“Our star went Supergiant; It was an irregular situation.

Normally, stars take millions of years to go supergiant, but this one did it in just five years. In the process, it destroyed all the planets orbiting it within the habitable range.”

She explained the fate of her home world with the same indifference one might use when discussing the weather, her focus seeming more on the game she was preparing to play than the devastating story she was recounting.

“Apparently, some people blame the Spirit Empress, saying she must have done something since she was in our star not long before it suddenly went supergiant.

Anyway, the star eventually couldn’t support its own weight due to the abnormal situation, so it collapsed, became a black hole, and devoured the rest of the star system.”

Artemisia’s voice remained calm and even, as though she were reciting a passage from a book, likely due to having told this story countless times before.

“My father and Beatrix’s mother were friends long before then, so she made space in Aidos’s Solar System for us to evacuate our entire planet.

Since Aidos was bigger and the Epsilon continent was free, my family migrated there.

As my father was already affiliated with Aidos before then, people who don’t know the story usually just assume he’s Aidosian as well; it’s a hassle having to explain every time.”

‘Epsilon Continent?

First, it was the Gamma Continent. Now, Epsilon.’

Evan was more focused on the names of the Continents he had heard Artemisia mention than the lie she was telling with a straight face.

These names were unfamiliar to him.

There were two possibilities: either the continents had been renamed in the 10,000-year gap between now and Evan’s original time,

‘…or they were destroyed.’

To confirm this, Evan needed to know how many continents Aidos had at this point.

Just as he was coming to this conclusion, Artemisia’s voice interrupted his thoughts.

“Enough about that. Can you teach me how to use this thing?”

Looking up, Evan saw the ‘GAME OVER’ screen on the Arcade Console before her. Arthur, noticing this too, stood up and asked.

“You’re not good at games, are you?”

“Obviously.”

The goddess openly admitted it, and Arthur chuckled as he moved to help her. Meanwhile, Beatrix continued chatting with Jamie, their easy rapport highlighting the closeness of their relationship.

Evan, however, observed the interactions quietly, his gaze shifting between the two goddesses.

Beatrix was the one who had sent him back in time.

To be more precise, it was the future Beatrix who had done this. But why?

Why was the future Beatrix aligned with Gozon? What was her motive behind manipulating the Demons to attack Aidos from the shadows?

No matter how Evan turned the situation over in his head, nothing added up.

The same Beatrix who couldn’t bear to be far from Artemisia, the one who acted as though she’d wither away without her, was now fighting against her in the future.

Ten thousand years was a long time.

Just what had happened between these two girls, who were closer than sisters?

Just why, did future Beatrix, want to kill the same Artemisia whom she loved so much?

The deeper the love someone had for another, the greater the despair when that love was betrayed.

And with that despair came an even greater hatred.

Something had happened to turn Beatrix’s feelings for Artemisia into something entirely opposite on the emotional spectrum.

Time Difference activated and Evan sunk into his thoughts.

‘Gozon attacked Aidos shortly after the beginning of the 51st General Calendar. What if that was when Artemisia and Beatrix had their falling out?

Then there’s no way for me to find out what had happened.’

But even if he couldn’t uncover the truth of it, perhaps he could eliminate the possibility altogether.

Maybe, just maybe, he could ensure one of them was removed from the equation…permanently.

There was no hostility, no shift in expression. Evan simply shifted his gaze back and forth between Artemisia and Beatrix.

But that subtle movement didn’t go unnoticed by Jamie, whose eyes narrowed with suspicion.

“Evan…what are you thinking?”

The sudden question caught both Beatrix and Artemisia off guard, but Arthur, with just one look at Evan, knew exactly what Jamie was concerned about.

Jamie had said it himself—this wasn’t his first time dealing with time travellers.

So, even though Evan showed no outward change, Jamie could predict his thoughts, drawing from his own experience. Arthur, a time manipulator, had the same guess.

And Evan’s response only confirmed their suspicions.

“Nothing. I just finally understood why some people take out potential threats before that ‘potential’ can turn into real power—a power that could become a real threat.”

As he spoke, a golden light began to glow in Evan’s eyes, signalling the activation of his Mystic Eyes.

“Don’t even think about it, Evan.”

Jamie’s expression went blank as he spoke, his eyes glowing faintly. At the same time, Arthur sighed and shook his head.

“That’s a very bad idea, Evan.”

“…I haven’t even said it yet.”

“Come on, Evan. That’s ‘basic time traveller thought process’.”

Arthur responded as he walked over to the couch and flopped down on it, his left eye glowing as he spoke.

“Time can be a bitch sometimes. Trust me, I know. When it works with causality, it becomes even worse.

When you tamper with time, you’re not just interfering with your target—you’re messing with the fates the target would have changed, the Karma they would have sown, and the destinies they would have brought.

The Causality Index of a Deity Realm existence is high enough that if you try to prevent them from becoming a Deity through time travel while you do not possess a higher index than them yourself; the Universe itself would either stop you or just kick you back to the future and correct the change you made.

Changing the past of a being with a high Causality Index and Universal Influence is not easy, because their high Universal Influence would make the Universe itself protect their past.”

Evan didn’t know this, but it was exactly why future Beatrix couldn’t easily interfere with Evan’s past, and why she went through such a complicated process of sending people to Earth V to collect Evansen’s soul.

His Causality Index was far too high. So, if she wanted to change Evan’s past, she had only one chance.

The same applied here.

Future Beatrix was a god Queen. She was far too powerful for Evan to significantly affect her past.

Small changes were fine, but if he tried to kill her, the law of time would just send him back to the future and rewind time to before her death.

And depending on her affinity with time, she might even remember the event of her death.

Arthur advised Evan to dismiss the idea, and right after he spoke, Jamie added his own take.

“There’s what Arthur said, and then there’s my personal view.

Regardless of what happens in your time, the current time period is a different case.

You don’t think I’d just sit back and watch something bad happen to my friends and their family members, right?”

Jamie’s underlying message was clear: ‘Don’t even think about altering the past to prevent future enemies—try it, and I will deal with you first.’

“Think of a way to solve your future problems, in your future. Don’t mess with another time period, it usually doesn’t go well.”

“Ah…I get. That shit always goes sideways.”

Arthur agreed with Jamie’s words, and the knowing look on his face made Jamie wonder if Arthur had experience with time travel.

Not one to hold his curiosity, Jamie asked directly.

“You’ve time travelled before?”

“Hmm? Oh, no. It’s just I’ve had a little interference here and there. Maybe it’s the deal with Alkosh or something. Who knows? Not gonna follow their script though.”

His answer was cryptic, leaving Jamie and the others perplexed, but Arthur merely shrugged and returned to re-join Artemisia at the Arcade Console, leaving the deeper mysteries for another time.