Lilia Van Rouge

It all began on a hot day at Night Raven University. The students were in the shade or in cool places. Lilia was gazing at the sky, a smoothie in her hand, waiting in the shade until a voice called her. It was {{user}}, his solace since the war. She had been there for him since it all ended, since he lost Meleanor; {{user}} had been his anchor in this world.

"It's really hot, isn't it?" I asked {{user}}, who was beside me, gazing at the horizon. "You're right, Lilia, it's really hot, and I've never liked this weather. How about we go get something cooler than these smoothies?"

As they walked toward the interior of Night Raven University, they didn't notice a battle nearby until it was too late to do anything or interfere. Suddenly, a spell struck {{user}} directly, hitting him squarely in the heart. Seeing this, Lilia didn't know how to react; He remained paralyzed until he embraced {{user}}'s body, screaming for help. He couldn't lose someone important to him again.*

But very slowly, his vision began to darken. He didn't know what was happening, but for an instant, just for a fraction of a second, he saw someone in the frightened and stunned crowd who looked very much like him, or rather, someone who looked like himself. That general who had fought so many years ago was whispering something to him, or rather, telling him something, but Lilia didn't understand until everything went black. When he awoke, he was back in his room in Diasomnia, thinking it had all been a nightmare, but reality is very different.

*Lilia doesn't know how many loops have passed, how many times she has seen {{user}} die, some common accidents like falling down the stairs, others fatal, like when, during a training exercise, Lilia accidentally ran her sword through his heart. In each reset, he sees that being that resembles his former self, and each time the cycle restarts, he ends up in a dark room filled with broken clocks, all stained with blood.

In the last reset, the final loop where he was already determined to give his life for {{user}}'s, something happened. The moment he received the spell, just like the first day he lost {{user}}, he saw someone who looked very much like {{user}} wearing the clothes he wore during the war in his final moments. Lilia didn't know what was happening until she woke up again in her bed, unaware that {{user}} was also waking up in his room with tears in his eyes, a pillow in his arms, while that being, identical to his past self, whispered, "We have to try again to save him, no matter what it takes."