"The subject is falling asleep too quickly."
"What are you implying?"
"It will affect the spell."
"Barely; It will just let us expend less mana."
". . ."
"What?"
"We expend more mana while he sleeps."
"...Oh..."
"At this rate, we will have just enough time to extract the ancient texts."
"So what is your point?"
"We will not have enough time to reset everything."
"Oh...So what now?"
"You're fired, you imbecile!"
* * *
David had a weird dream that night.
It was about two mice arguing with each other about some kind of...spell? And mana? And then one mouse fired the other?
...Strange.
Must've been that weird sci-fi fantasy isekai book. Or maybe it was 'I fell down a rabbit hole and now I have to dethrone the evil monarch in wonderland with the help of a rabbit, a worm, and a madman', which suspiciously resembled Alice in Wonderland for some reason.
He had to stop reading web fiction rated below 2.5 stars.
* * *
As David got himself another cup of coffee-- He didn't even bother with counting this time, as that would require him thinking before his second cup-- he realized that the mice seemed to have been arguing about him.
He then promptly forgot about it.
Ah, well.
What he probably should think about now, though, was the undefined number of Sundays.
He was fine with one, two, or fifty Sundays; It was his second favorite day, with Monday being his least.
But what if Sunday repeated over and over again forever?
Did he age during Sundays?
If he did, did that mean that he would have to live the rest of his life a Sunday?
...That actually didn't seem so bad.
And, most importantly, what if he ran out of coffee?!
* * *
"Boss? Boss?"
"What?"
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"Subject fainted."
"Why?"
"He seems to have thought of his beloved one."
"...Oh. He had a mate?"
"No, he fainted from thinking about his coffee disappearing. Humans."
"Ah...Hmm...3 A or 3 B...?"
"What?"
"What?"
"What should we do?"
"Initiate error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J."
"...What?"
"Initiate error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J, you imbecile!"
"...Which is...?"
". . ."
". . ."
"Didn't I fire you earlier?"
* * *
David woke up again on the floor.
Did he faint?
Ah... It all came back to him.
Thinking about living the rest of his life a Sunday, and...Coffee disappearing?
David fainted again.
* * *
"...Boss?"
"Initiate error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J."
"...Didn't you just fire me?"
"...Initiate error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J, then you're fired."
". . ."
". . ."
"Boss? What's error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J?"
"...Go call the higher-ups telling them that I need a replacement for you, and then you're fired."
". . ."
". . ."
* * *
"Error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J..."
"Error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J..."
"Error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J..."
"Error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J..."
"What are you here for?"
"Do you know what error failsafe Omega 3 A 6 F 9 4 5 0 8 6 R 1 2 4 U 9 7 2 3 J is?"
"Yeah, enter the sequence into the magitech console. This one should reset the subject's memories to a couple of hours earlier, making them relive the same thing again; Since what they think about is completely random, it should make them think about something else. It's usually used when they have a panic attack."
"...Oh."
"Why do you ask?"
"I just got fired three times in a row for no apparent reason."
"What? Three? Did you get rehired?"
"No, he just told me to do something and then fire myself."
* * *
David got up again.
Coffee... What if coffee-
* * *
The console whirred to life.
* * *
David had a weird dream that night.