CHAPTER DCXLXVIII

(ALCHEMY AND SOULS)

“THE one that my soul resembles,”

Nate whispers while looking at his reflection in front of a body mirror. Wondering and still from those words that the Mistress of Time once said in the last loop of six.

“Tsk!”

He smirks, not in amusement, or intrigue, but more like in irritation and a bit dismayed. Remembering now what he needed to too, yet a bit long unlike what he wanted it to be. But just the right time that the Supreme One wanted it all to happen.

“I failed, didn’t I?”

He asks himself, looking at the mirror and into the eyes of his reflection.

“I failed to remember first and immediately, after the first two turns of the hourglass.”

His words foreshadow the plan that he made from the past loop. The spell that almost causes him everything to complete. All for him to remember everything, every detail, and every word from the past loop. Yet, he fails.

“I guess it was not enough. It will never be enough.”

The thought explains the cause of his failure. Knowing