It still felt like a fever dream, but she'd actually been flung into the future as a reward for surviving her self-progression arc.
Who knew emotional growth came with a time skip?
Honestly, her life inside this novel was starting to feel like a tangled web of cosmic spaghetti. No matter how much she tried to fix things, the threads of fate kept twisting in unpredictable directions.
Evelyn showing up as a candidate definitely wasn't in the original script.
If the old readers saw this plot now, they'd probably spit out their tea in sheer confusion. So much had changed, it was practically a sequel no one asked for, but secretly loved. It would either spark outrage… or obsessive fan theories.
She wasn't planning to interfere. Not yet, anyway. She wouldn't talk to her either.
Even if she stayed distant, she could still help the girl grow from a safe, emotionally repressed distance, of course.
[SYSTEM NOTICE!]
[Trial of Assistance]
