'' Ma-? mama, what are you doing there? ''

....

'' Mam-a what are you doing with Nee-san? ''

...

Shin?

'' MAMA NO STOP MA-''

SHIN

'' AHHHH ''

Sigh finally good morning sleepyhead, did you have such a bad nightmare?

'' Wa-Ruri? What happened, what do you mean nightmare? ''

You were talking to yourself in your sleep all night long, mentioning your mom constantly.

'' .... ''

Shin?

'' Haha all good thanks for waking me up Ruri, don't worry its nothing. ''

Again that nightmare I had every day as a child, a dream where I saw my mother killing my big sister with a knife. Fortunately, I had this nightmare only when I was little, after that it just disappeared. But why did I see it again now and this time it was even different...it was much clearer. I could see my mother's face this time, her big grin. How she was standing over my sister, who was lying lifeless on the floor. How my mother kept stabbing her, while staring at me without blinking.

'' Well, at the end of the day, it's just a stupid nightmare, I don't even have a sister. '' I said before getting up

I looked around and noticed that it was already morning, probably afternoon. So, I stretched and went back on my way, I had planned to be in town by now, but unfortunately, I'm a late riser. On my way, I ate some fruit for breakfast, which reminded me of pears. Although they tasted completely different, they were at least good, so I couldn't care less.

'' sigh, at this rate I probably won't arrive until tomorrow, well then, I was able to recover well last night, so it can't hurt to use that. ''

After saying that, I use my super speed, normally I didn't want to do that because I didn't want to use up my energy unnecessarily. But this way I'm at least going to be in the city today and maybe finally in a comfortable bed again.

'' Hey Ruri, do I actually need anything to be let into the city, like a passport? ''

No, as long as you're not a monster or a demon, and you don't look like you're looking for trouble, they'll let you in...but you should expect a different problem.

'' mhh? What do you mean? ''

Take a good look at yourself, what do you think will be suspicious to the guards and people right away?

After Ruri said that I stopped and looked at myself and only now noticed that I still had my school uniform on.

'' mhhh oh whatever, I'll just tell them I'm from another country and that we just dress like that there. '' I said with an uncertain grin.

Sigh....

With these thoughts in mind, I was finally able to see something in the distance, it was a huge wall of stone. I approached it and could see a gate in front of me with plenty of guards in front of it. But before I simply went to the gate, I hid in a bush nearby and observed the situation first. I saw many different people going through the gate but none of the guards paid any attention to them. Maybe they were citizens whose faces are already known?

'' Well, waiting here won't do any good either. ''

So, I took all my courage together and went to the gate, while walking I saw already on my left how 4 people stared at me strangely. But I thought nothing of it and simply went on, until one of the 6 guards stopped me.

‘’ STOP WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT HERE ? ‘’ he shouted with his weapon drawn.

'' ... ''

Hey I told you, but you wouldn't listen.

'' ... I am a traveler from another country, and I wanted to register here as an adventurer. ''

Mhhhh.

'' ... ''

MHHHHHHHHHH....

'' ... '''

...

MHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

‘’ Okay, you can come in, have fun, and don’t do anything stupid,'' the guard said before turning away from me.

'' uh? What was that all about? '' I asked myself before going through the gate.

I don't know if you're more lucky or just so unlucky that even fate feels sorry for you hahaha.

'' well, the important thing is that I'm through. ''

So, I went through the gate and finally arrived in the city, and it was just as I had imagined. There were people and Beastmen all over the place, there were stores, vendors selling food, farmers selling their vegetables, everything was so normal. I looked around for a while, just walking blindly through the area, until I finally located a tavern. It was a large house with a sign that was a combination of a bed and a beer mug. I walked through the door and was immediately greeted with loud laughter, it was a lively place. The majority of the people were male, but there were women among them. And from the looks of it, they were all adventurers, exactly what I was looking for, but before I went looking for the Adventurers Guild, I decided to rent a room first.

HEY FUCK YOU AND GIVE ME THE MONEY

...

Splash

While I was about to walk to the counter, I was hit in the face by a beer mug and of course it was full to the top.

'' Ohhh I'm sorry mister. Suddenly a girl screamed and ran towards me.

'' ha-ha-ha don't worry it's not a big deal- what are you doing? ''

'' mhh ? I'm trying to clean you.'' said the girl with a smile while she was trying to clean my clothes with a dryer sheet.

HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING WITH OUR DEAR TRIXIE? Suddenly a male voice shouted

I looked behind the girl and saw a man coming towards me who was very drunk by the looks of it.

'' Hey Marx first you throw your beer on the man, and now you yell at him like that apologize to him. '' said the girl angrily

'' And if so, that doesn't give him any HIG right to touch you like that...RIGHT?!. ''

'' MA-MARX PUT HIM DOWN NOW ''

.... Man am I popular I said to myself, in this situation any normal MC would probably say something like ,, ahh I'm sorry ,, ,, ahh please don't hurt me ,, ,, ahhh what did I do to him,, and blah blah blah. I used to hate it when the MC was like that in the Isekai anime, but luckily, I'm my very own MC now.

'' So now pay attention little one we're going to do this like this HIG you apologize to Trixie and me and order me a beer then I'll let you go-AHHHHHH ''

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'' You watch it now, if you don't want to die here and now, fuck off back to your table you drunken piece of shit. ''

While the man lifted me up in the air with both arms, I grabbed his head with my right hand and started to slowly crush him with inhuman strength until he let go of me and went down on his knees in pain.

'' AHHHHHHHHH I'M SORRY AHHHHHHHHH ''

'' HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING WITH MARX!? ''

..... whistle, man I'm getting popular and popular I said as I saw half the People in the tavern pull out their weapons and get ready to attack me.

'' Please guys stop it, can't we...uh? '' said the girl in front of me.

Drop

....

Drop

....

DARK AURA

'' Come on, if I have to, I'll soak the floor of this tavern with your blood. '' I said, using my skill Dark Aura.

Every creature has this feeling, this instinctive feeling of knowing not to mess with this person or animal. With us, it is people and with animals, it is people and animals, and you have certainly felt it once too. Dark Aura allows me to incorporate this feeling into the living beings that are within a certain radius, and to intensify it. You basically see a movie in front of your eyes of how you are being killed.

Drop

Drop

Thanks to this skill, I don't have to deal with weaker opponents, because they can't handle the strain and pressure of Dark Aura and in most cases pass out. As it is the case here, but unfortunately, it's only effective on weak people, people who have a strong mind would probably only be scared by it.

'' HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? ''

'' Ma-ma-ma-ma ''

Suddenly I heard a second female voice behind me, I turned around and saw a woman with 2 bags in her hand.

'' sigh, I leave the store alone for a moment and this happens.... hey boy how about you calm down and turn off that monstrous aura. I don't know what that idiot Marx did, but I'll apologize to you in his name and give you a free room and free food as compensation. '' said the woman with a smile

'' ... I'm sorry I made this whole situation worse with my behavior. '' I said, ending the skill.

Shortly after, those who could stay conscious also fell to the ground, frightened, as well as the girl standing in front of me. I looked at Marx and saw him bleeding from the head, and since it would be bad if this guy died now, I used Heal, a skill I had only recently unlocked. The skill does exactly what the name says, it heals. The negative in it is that Heal sucks as long as I need to heal a person or myself, so the longer I take to heal, the more energy I spend. After that, I looked back up and noticed everyone in the tavern staring at me.

'' Sigh, could you please come with me for a minute? '' the woman said before walking past me.

'' WA-WAIT HIG I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET-''

'' ...... did you say anything M A R X? '' said the woman in front of me

.....

'' no, mam. ''

'' Trixie, if you're okay over there, please get a room ready for the gentleman here. ''

'' Yes mama '' said Trixie who was already on her feet again and went up the stairs

Now that I took a closer look, I noticed that Trixie, unlike the others, did not lose consciousness. This surprised me, because she should have felt the pressure the most, maybe she is not as weak as she looks? I thought about that while walking together with the woman to the counter.

''Sighhhh, sorry again for what happened, my name is Velma, I am the owner of this small tavern. Say, what brings someone of your caliber into my tavern, and please don't play dumb. Marx is a B rank adventurer so not exactly weak, yet you were able to defeat him with just one hand and then this aura who or what are you? ''

... Well, what do I do now, I said to myself, while Velma was staring at me questioningly. My plan was to use these powers only as Shindo.

Then just rewind time and disguise yourself as Shindo.

'' ...please what? What do you mean, ''Just rewind time, i don't remember possessing such a skill. ''

You don't, but I am able to do it, but of course there are rules I am not allowed to break. First, I can only rewind the current day and second, I can only do it once after that this skill will be deleted, that's one of your ultra-skills.

'' ok, ok, ok what are Ultra Skills now?! ''

Ultra-skills are skills that only I can activate for you, at the moment you have only 2 available I couldn't unlock the rest and one of them is Time Manipulator.

'' ok then please do that, rewind time to when I was about to enter the tavern. ''

Are you sure? Remember, you can only use this skill once.

'' Do it. ''

As you wish

After Ruri said that I saw how everything around me turned black and white and everyone in the tavern stopped moving. And just as I was about to turn around, I was pulled backwards and saw before my eyes everything that had just happened.

'' .... ''

I opened my eyes, which I had tightly shut and saw how I was back in front of the tavern and was about to go through the door. So, I opened the door like I did last time and went into the tavern-.

Hey shin didn't you forget something?

'' mhh what do you mean? ''

YOU WANTED TO DRESS UP AS SHINDO RIGHT?!

'' ahh right there was something... but if I think about it, I just have to avoid the confrontation, don't I? Then I don't need to disguise myself as Shindo. ''

Mhhh well, I can't be angry at you, it was me who forgot to explain the whole thing in detail. Look, you CAN'T avoid this confrontation no matter what you do, the whole thing will happen again.

'' Wait, why? ''

Look, in this world there are not only demons and living beings, but also gods, various gods to be exact. One of these gods is the god Soma, who rules over time and space and is not very friendly when it comes to time travel. He knew that the creatures of this planet would eventually be able to manipulate time, and for this reason he created this one rule. That even if you were able to travel through time, you couldn't really change the past. No matter what you do, whether you go through the back entrance or whatever, as soon as you enter the tavern, everything will repeat itself. You go in, get hit by the beer mug and end up in that situation again.

'' wow what a pain in the ass, that means I have no choice but to dress up as Shindo? ''

Not quite, you can't stop yourself from getting hit by the beer mug or from ending up in that situation. But you can still influence how it goes down - you could, for example, apologize to this Marx guy and just buy him a beer and-

'' never. ''

So fucking stubborn....

'' mhhh so what's the point of me turning back time if everything is going to turn out the same way again anyway? ''

Well it's true that you can't avoid this confrontation, but that doesn't mean it will happen exactly the same way again. Everyone else around you will behave exactly as they did before, but not you. You can't avoid the confrontation, but you can change it like i said by behaving differently than you did last time. For example, if you are fighting someone, and you see that they are performing a skill that hits you, you can simply dodge it after Time Manipulator.

'' I get it, that's how it is, then let's do it. ''

I said and dressed up as Shindo I put my other stuff in my inventory and headed back to the tavern. Upon opening the door, as expected everything was the same, the people, their conversations, everything was the same. I took a few steps forward before I heard it again

HEY FUCK YOU AND GIVE ME THE MONEY

'' THIS IS IT. ''

At that moment, I used super speed and ran up the staircase that was to the left of me, dodging the throw.

'' phew that would be done too- ÄHHHH?!?!?!?- ''

PONG

Splash

HAHAHHA

Ruri just laughed the same second I felt safe I looked down the stairs and saw the beer mug flying towards me.

'' sigh, then he should also come right AWAYYYYYYYYYYY ''

Out of nowhere, I felt a hand grab me by the right arm and pull me down the stairs until I was standing exactly where I was standing before.

'' So this is that anti cheat Ruri was talking about. ''

I said before I was lifted into the air again by Marx and everything played out exactly the same again. But this time I just did nothing and waited for Velma to show up, and after a few minutes she showed up. This time, however, the situation in which She found us in was different.

'' ..... Marx what do you think you are doing!. ''

'' HIG THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS YOU FUCKING B- ''

'' ..... I what Marx? ''

'' b-b-b-b-''

'' b-? ''

'' Nothing mam I'm sorry. ''

After Marx said that, he gently lowered me to the ground and walked like a puppy back to his table. I was greeted again by Velma, and we went back to the counter, unfortunately this time she didn't offer me a free room, but only a free meal as compensation. I bought a room from her for 1 week and paid 7 gold coins.

'' That will be it, I will immediately tell my daughter to get the room ready for you. In the meantime, you can take a look at the city, since I have the feeling that you are new here. '' said Velma with a smile

'' That's a good idea, and indeed I've only just arrived in town, I'm from a far away country, my name is Shindo, I'm glad to meet you. ''

'' ...Shindo I will remember that name. ''

After Velma said that, she disappeared to the back and I left the tavern to the outside. Since I have a little time now, I decided to find the adventurers' guild, but before I left, I disappeared into the side alley and dressed up as Shin again. Once I was done changing, I suddenly had an idea now that I wouldn't end up in this situation again. I decided to go back in as Shin, i went into the tavern and rented a room from Velma again and left the tavern again as Shin.

'' phew, I have to admit sometimes I am surprised by my massive IQ. ''

.....ok, but couldn't you have done that from the beginning? After all, you only disguised yourself as Shindo, so you could pick up a fight with that guy? If you had acted the same way as Shin, you could have saved yourself the trouble with Shindo.

'' ._. ''

And so I set off, in search of the Adventurer's Guild, with 14 gold pieces less....