#the 15532 is also a reference to endless eight from haruhi suzumiya

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Words cannot describe how much I ADORE bten. Such a marvelous piece of writing. I'm surprised I got to read this incredible fic for free???? pls pls pls tell me you're also secretly a New York bestselling author so I can go read your books pls pls pls.

I read it all in one sitting, so I may be misremembering things, but I always assumed that the reason Kenny started noticing the time traveler was that each time they died, they accumulated more and more cursed energy (from the trauma of dying over and over again). Or is that not how it works? Did the time traveler have a lot of cursed energy right at the beginning or did their cursed energy grow after each loop. The latter makes more sense to me, considering they started to only see the curses after a few iterations, but I might have misread!

Another question! Approximately how long was the time traveler stuck there? At one point, they say thousands of years but that can't be true hahaha....right? for the sake of the time traveler's mental state i sure hope not.

Final question buuuut why did gojo keep giving the time traveler his number? I think it's heavily implied that it's due to the immense cursed energy and he wants to know more about them but maybe there was also a romantic interest at first glance maybe maybe???

Im so sorry for all these questions AND how long this ask got. You are just such a talent writer!!!! thank you so much for gifting us this masterpiece!!!!

omg. thank you so much!!! unfortunately, i am not a new york times best selling writer. if i was, then my ●●●● shrine would be SO BIG. alas. a girl can dream tho.

okay so! yes! reader did keep accumulating more and more cursed energy with each subsequent loop! at the beginning they didn't have very much, but at the moment of their very first death, their cursed energy spiked up just high enough to trigger their technique. and with each death, they kept building up more and more. which is why they eventually became able to see jogo and hanami as well as why they kept waking up earlier and earlier, or rather, going further and further back in time. actually, this is. a bit of a reference to madoka magica where, madoka continues to gain more and more potential energy before she makes her transformation.

nooooo they weren't stuck in the loop for thousands of years! it was that they'd gone through thousands of loops! i know they stopped counting, but i have an exact number: 15,532 loops. not every loop lasted the same amount of time. the first few loops were probably only a few minutes at most, while the loops were reader made it to kenny were probably as long as an hour and a half or so. if we assume each loop lasted an hour that comes out to 647 days, which is a little over a year and nine months, but since there were the shorter loops, it'd be less than that. i think. math is not my strong point. but putting it in those terms, it doesn't seem like all that long, does it? not even two years… so i think that worked in their favor wrt their mental state!! 1000 years would have definitely… been too much.

also, i'm diverging a little here, but reader does mention the possibility of going back far enough to avoid being in shibuya and. like. if that had happened. then. they would still have died LMAOOO. no matter what.

as for your last question! it is most definitely due to the insane amount of cursed energy they have. i wouldn't say that he wants to know more about them per se… but he definitely has something in mind LMAO. that being said!! i wouldn't completely write off any initial attraction, because like, if i had thought it logistically possible to have a little romance, i would have done so. but it just wasn't possible with the situational constraints.

but the thought of gojo being instantly attracted to someone in like a ketchup bottle costume is infinitely hilarious to me.

and no need to apologize for all your questions!! i can honestly and truly say i've been there so i get it!! honestly, i should be thanking you for giving me the opportunity to ramble about this fic to an audience. i feel like there's always more to a fic than the actual words in the fic, like extra secret lore… what happens before and after… all sorts of stuff!! i'm really glad that you liked it enough to ask too!! and!! thank you for asking!! really!! truly!! thinking of how to answer this got me through the rest of my day job HAHAHA. i'm sorry this got so long too LMAO.