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"And then the calamity arrived," Akumi said. "I don't know the reason but it arrived sooner than it did in the novel and I was obviously not prepared for it. I somehow survived with the help of Excalibur and all the reincarnation privileges I'd got but now I don't know what I'm going to do.

"Though since you had not come back and Anya was in a depressed state, I decided to help her out of it. I'd admit that since I didn't think of anything except me as real, the partial reason I did it was so that I could get close to her—which I eventually did. Then you arrived and here we are now," he stopped, finishing with his explanation. 

"I see," I mumbled. "And what do you plan to do from now on?" I asked. 

"Honestly," he said. "I don't know."

"I was not able to read much in the novel after the calamity arrived so I don't know what's going to happen in the future—and that kind of makes me feel insecure," he admitted.