That Rueful Day

Raid Event: Fractured Futures

Prologue

That Rueful Day

Next Quest

Crossing Time

Summary

One day, the prince experiences a curious event—he finds himself back at the moment when his sister Zethia was taken by the Other. Soon thereafter, a dragon appears before the bewildered prince—one with the power to manipulate time itself.

Dialogue

I'm sorry, everyone. Be safe. ...Good-bye, Euden. No... Don't go... Please don't go, Zethia! ZETHIAAAAAA! AAAAAAAH! *pant* It was that dream again... If only I'd been stronger back then! If I could do it all over again, I swear I would protect her! Your wish...is granted. Huh?! What was that?! Aaaaaaaaahhh! Nnngh... Wh-where am I? I was in my room just a moment ago, so how am I here? And where IS here? Am I out in the Mistholt somehow? Regardless, I guess I should see about getting home. Everyone, get down! That voice! It can't be... I won't leave you here to die, and I will not surrender! Blessed Ilia! Help us! What's going on? My body is hot, and I feel power welling inside me... AAAAAAAAH! Wha... What's going on? That's me standing there! Zethia's there, too! And that's... He's getting up? The wretched fool... He does remind me of Alberius... But today the dragon bloodline ends! Father! Am I still dreaming? This is the day I failed to protect Zethia! Wait. If I'm seeing what happened, I know what will happen next! Wait! ...All right. You win. Mmm? What's this? I'll go with you. Only if you swear to spare their lives. I can't do this! Dream or not, I can't stand here and watch Zethia be taken again! Now bring me the Shard. That's not gonna happen! Haaaaaah! Who are you, cur?! This time, I'm going to save her! B-Brother?! But how?! Uh, hang on a second. Is that...me? I'm seein' double! Two princes! You... I know you're in there, Other! Leave my father's body! What? You couldn't know about that, unless... You have escaped the yoke of causality! I don't know what's happening to me right now... But whatever it is and whoever I might be, I'm putting an end to your vile ambitions! You are a distraction; nothing more. Merely another annoying bug I will grind beneath my heel in the end. Now die regretting your foolishness for clawing back up the chain of causality! N-no... This time...I WILL stop you! What's happening?! Aaaaaaaaagh! Wait... I'm back in my room? Did I come back, or was this actually a dream this entire time? It was no dream, my liege. Who's there?! I am Chronos. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. ...Again. I have come to see your wish realized. Are you a dragon? And what's this about a wish? I know well the regret you live with. I know how remorse torments you in your secret heart, and how you hide it away even from those closest to you. Okay, but who ARE you? I am your ally, my liege. You're not really answering my question. That being said, you aren't wrong—there are many people in my life who I wanted to save and couldn't. But there's nothing to be done with the past except to regret it. The fact I can't let go of these things only proves my own weakness. And what if I were to tell you the past is not, in fact, immutable? What do you mean? You were there but a moment ago, my liege. You were present in that yesterday which you so regret. It was by my power that this occurred, for I possess the ability to cross the bounds of time. So I was ACTUALLY in the past just now?! I had no idea such a thing was possible. And yet it is. The proof stands before you. So I say to you once more, my liege: I have come to see your wish realized.