#yuria: let's hope he's studying for something great!

[chunibyo-x-sorcerer]

"Hmmm...if I have to guess, the song must be playing in his head or he didn't burn his eardrums long enough that to which he hear it in low audio." Kinie Ger theorized. "Regardless....I will destroy that song. That song is still ringing in my head after hearing that. Who knew a curse from an older time period would do this much damage. I'm also jealous. I wish I could of take this Egyptain curse on if he wasn't that damn focused on that slab."

'....I believe that was true...Wait, how the hell did he even hear the song?!' Sukuna thought the same question like Kinie. How did Daichi hear about it. He did remember his ears were burned so how!?

'It's almost like someone looked up the song from the phone and showed him..or something..' he grumbled. 'Though, if I ever hear that damn song again, i'm going to destory where it's being played at...' he said annoyed.

[ainchase]

Noah Ebalon - 2nd Line

Second Selection

Age 15, Male, Sickle

A second life given to Noah.

Setting aside the confusion after his return to the Temple, Noah finds a sliver of hope in one difference he’s made this time -- saving Yuria and meeting Clamor.

Clamor is in a similar situation as him and calls himself Noah’s friend. Not only that, he’s been attentive and caring to Noah’s feelings and condition. Noah’s been ignoring it, but he’s always secretly been yearning for the concern and care of another. All of this allowed him to slowly trust Clamor more and more.

As the peaceful days passed on, a seed of anxiety grew in the corner of his heart. It has significantly reduced from before, but he still gets nightmares from time to time. He torments himself with guilt over being the only one to enjoy happiness. He contemplates if he has to throw himself into the mire again to finish his revenge, and the only thing that stops him is the friendship he has with Clamor.

“There’s no need for you to suffer or take responsibility for anything when you were nothing but a victim. It’s okay for you to choose the path you want,” says Clamor. Noah now sees that he has another path laid out before him besides getting revenge.

A new encounter in a different present… If the life he has right now was given to him because he had completed his revenge, then perhaps… this life can be used to pursue happiness.

He doesn’t know what kind of future this decision will bring him, but having someone by his side gives him courage. As a part of making a new decision for himself, he learns magical knowledge from Clamor.

Stellar Caster

Age 17, Male, Sickle

As his knowledge of magic increases, Noah grows confident that his unexpected return to the place where he started has to do with the mutated power within him, and that if he doesn’t take control of it, then he might return to the beginning again at any time.

Not wanting all the time he spent to be in vain, he reaches the Rosso Clan’s laboratory while hunting down information related to the El’s elemental power. He finds Clamor’s inventions in the horrific experiments conducted by the Rosso Clan. He almost begins to doubt Clamor, but the man he knows would never create something for such a dark purpose. Before he can find the truth, he is struck unconscious when someone attacks him out of nowhere, returning him to the starting point once again against his will.

When he opens his eyes in the Temple, the seal on Clamor is once again unbroken.  Noah despairs, but soon realizes the relic in the heart of the Temple may hold the clue to both his mutated power and Clamor’s past. Even though he was sent back in time, his memories of days spent with Clamor remain with him as part of his own past. Perhaps he will be able to alter the future of this path to be what he wants.

After entering Seven Tower in the past through the relic, he finds out his power of the moon mutated because of the power of the sun. He then uses the knowledge he’s learned to figure out a way to stay longer in Clamor’s memory.

In Seven Tower, a repository of knowledge lost forever, and a space that’s completely cut off from the real world, Noah concentrates on studying the great flow of the sun, moon, and the celestial bodies, as well as the power of time within himself.

Celestia

Age 18, Male, Sickle

“Aren’t you curious which future awaits us at the edge of the cosmos?”

An observer of the constellations who travels between the memories of the cosmos and the present, forging a new future for himself. A class that developed his mutated power in his own way by utilizing Clamor’s artificial spirit magic.

The two years spent in the past with Clamor have a profound influence on him. He can now not only stop himself from being returned to the start against his will, but also stay in a specific time period and use his unstable mutated power to his benefit by utilizing Clamor’s artificial spirit magic. Though his partner can’t remember the time they spent together when Noah was in the relic, he knows the time and the memories will stay with him. Who he is now is the result of his hard work in the past.

“I hope you can join me in the future I will forge with my choice.”

Noah wants to give freedom of movement to his friend who’s been his strength this entire time. He adds artificial spirit magic to his power to successfully turn Clamor into a spirit. No one was able to turn a soul imprisoned in a magical item into a spirit before, but it was possible because Clamor was a part elf who had a natural affinity to spirits, and Noah had maximized his own potential.

Being able to turn Clamor into a spirit gives Noah pause. He had magically repressed the time he’d spent in the relic, considering it a lost time that no one can remember, but he realizes that the result he’s achieved now wouldn’t be possible without it. He’s been treating that precious time of learning as completely worthless, and yet without that, he couldn’t have helped Clamor. The time he spent in the relic matters even if he’s the only one to remember it.

After some deliberation, he accepts the importance of that time and releases the seal he cast on himself to repress it. In that moment, the bound time affects Noah’s body all at once. The two years catch up with him instantly and his body ages accordingly, but he feels much more comfortable knowing this appearance suits him.

“Let’s follow the starlight you and I both wish for. No matter what lies at the end, I can accept it if it’s the consequence of my choice.”

Noah, his body and mind now matching in age, starts his path as an observer of the constellations who forges his own future.  His precious partner walks by his side, liberated with the aid of Noah’s new power.

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Thank you to @lilyanne-mare​ and @blazingsnark​ for editing!

We added more info that’s not explicitly written in the Korean source text just to help it make more sense which we couldn’t do with 1st line because we didn’t know Noah’s story at all. But now we do.