Reborn as a short-lived loli who can only live for three years

"Oh?"

Shizhi Meng became interested. She immediately walked to the corner and sat down face to face with Ivy.

The two of them just squeezed into a corner in the huge room, looking like they were about to whisper.

"What do you want to ask me? I'll tell you everything I know!"

Ivy subconsciously avoided Tokieda Meng's strong gaze.

She weighed every word and asked, "Is every time traveler like me?"

"like you?"

"There is a 'first round consciousness' in the brain, which will only come out when summoned by magic."

Just like the loser of a game, in the new round of the game, he can only be a spectator.

"Well..." Tokizhi Meng seemed to be organizing her words.

Ivy held the magic book in her arms and asked in a low voice, "If I go to the world of the third round, will my current self... also become that kind of consciousness?"

Just like a loser who can only watch from the sidelines, the development and direction of the new world will have nothing to do with her.

Because the world she lived in, including herself, disappeared with the restart of time.

Just like the senior in the first episode...

Ivey's impression of the seniors of the week keeps changing.

At first it was respect and dependence, then it turned into hostility, and now... She felt that Senior Zhou was a little pitiful.

“No!” Shi Zhimeng answered confidently. She did not ask Ivy why she asked that. Instead, she jumped out of the window in one breath, leaving behind only one sentence that gradually faded away, “Wait for me! I’ll be back soon…”

Ivy waited quietly there. After a while, Shi Zhimeng flew in through the window again, with several more stacks of information in her hands.

"Don't you like going through the front door at home?" Ivy asked.

Shi Zhimeng spread the information on the ground one by one and took the time to answer: "How fast is flying! If you walk, you have to pass by corridors and stairs, corridors and stairs, it's so troublesome to go around in twists and turns. I never lock the windows in my house!"

After that, she suddenly added: "Ah, but don't worry, the windows of your room are locked, so you don't have to worry about my intrusion!"

"Even if it's unlocked, you can't break in..."

Evie tried to correct her.

"Oh, okay, okay."

Shizhi Meng didn't listen at all.

Soon, she found what she was looking for: "Here! There are only two ways that time travelers have dealt with the memories of the previous episode in the past records: one is memory fusion, and the other is memory overwriting."

"Memory fusion, as the name suggests, you will have the memories of two worlds at the same time, but theoretically speaking, before the reset time node, the memories of the two worlds are almost the same. For you at that time, it is probably just a new memory about the future."

"Memory overwrite means you only have the memory of the first round. For example, if the time node of the second round is three years ago, you will go back to three years ago with your memory of the first round, but your mentality and soul will still be the same as three years later."

It was a bit confusing, but Ivy could understand it.

"The most obvious difference between the two is psychological age. There was a young man who went back to a time point ten years ago when he was still a child, but his behavioral logic was completely like that of an adult. He is a typical example of memory overwriting."

“Then I…” Ivy could tell that her situation didn’t fit any of the criteria.

"Well, there is one thing in common between these two ways of processing memory, that is, their first round of memory..." Tokie Meng thought for a moment and changed to a more rigorous term, "both belong to the 'activated' state. They always remember things in the future. Compared to you, they are more like time travelers."

Evie nodded.

Compared with these two methods, her first round memory is more like a 'sealed' state, and her mental age has not changed. She does not feel that she has experienced three years more than others.

Shi Zhimeng expressed her guess: "But I don't think you have created the third type. Your situation is probably an accident."

"Accident?"

"Well, I remember you said that the Sage's Heart opened a time vortex, someone jumped in first, and you were the second one to jump in."

"Yeah." Ivy nodded.

"The first person to jump in was the helmsman of time. The long river of time would prioritize sorting out his memories and wearing down his lifespan, but he died in the process of time wearing down, so you became the second helmsman."

"Yes." Ivy waited carefully for what was to come.

But Shizhi Meng's train of thought was stuck. She couldn't help but feel distressed: "I don't really understand the principle behind this. After all, the time travelers that have appeared in the past few hundred years are all from the bloodline of the main family. At that time, they could still control the power of time. The Sage's Heart that has been separated now... has probably only been used by you."

Almost all the power of time is concentrated in the artifact of the Sage's Heart, and it has been in a state of strict protection. No one knows how to use it correctly, otherwise in the world of the first round, the helmsman chosen by the enemy would not have died from the wear and tear of time halfway.

It was precisely because of the enemy's failure that Ivy had the opportunity to rewrite everything.

Ivy could only guess based on the current situation: "The person in charge was temporarily replaced, but the ritual of 'processing memories' has ended, so 'her' memories were neither merged nor overwritten, but became extra things... stored in my brain?"

"That's also understandable." Shi Zhimeng nodded and suddenly consoled him, "Although your situation was an accident, you also avoided 'memory backlash', which is much more serious than 'time backlash'!"

The memory backlash that Tokieda Yume was referring to was probably a serious side effect that occurred every time Ivy used time magic.

The backlash of time is something that gradually accumulates as the world continues to run and rewrite.

Although both could be counteracted with gems that could resist backlash, Ivy was still afraid of the pain, so she would rarely use time magic to summon a senior around her unless she had no other choice.

“Hmm…” Thinking of the pitiful situation of his seniors a week ago, Ivy said in a low voice, “The world is really cruel to time travelers.”

Shi Zhimeng touched her head.

"The world rejects all foreign things: memories, souls, people... Things that are not on the same time track will be worn away until they are destroyed. Among them, memory is the most important... Everyone who rewrites the world dies early from the backlash of memory. But you are lucky, you will live longer than previous time travelers."

This was the first time Ivy had heard such words.

She had always known that she was a short-lived person. Whether it was the large amount of life that was consumed in the vortex of time, the gaze of the life-measuring monster Sigbel, or the backlash of time she experienced every moment, all showed that she was a short-lived person.

She will die earlier than the others, although it is unknown how many years she has left.

Even compared to other time travelers, the term 'living longer' sounds so new and comforting.

Shi Zhimeng looked at her with some pity: "So, do you understand?"

……

"If you choose to go to the world of the third round..."

"You will successfully possess the memories of this world, but you will also suffer from the true... memory backlash."