Clank—
I closed the door behind me and headed for the bookshelf to retrieve a familiar diary.
Click!
Injecting my mana into it, the diary 'clicked' and opened. Scrolling through the pages, I read through them once again.
'Die! Die! Die! Die!'
My eyes darted from left to right as I read through each page once again.
I took in all the details that I previously missed last time, regardless of how meaningless they seemed.
From the tears on the pages to the little stains on them.
I took in everything.
"...."
I didn't know how long had passed, but by the time I had read it for the 'nth' time, the sky outside had already gotten dark.
"....Everything checks out with what is written. Nothing has changed."
I took a deep breath then.
'Did I really go to the past...?'
By now, all signs pointed towards it. However, given the fact that nothing, in reality, had changed meant that all of this was 'predetermined'. Like some sort of 'paradox'.