Albus Changes the World - Ch. 57 - Risa

[Zango_X]

Damn, he rewinded that much already?
Also nice little hints that we could have overlooked, very sneaky.

Rayman probably was looping a lot faster than Albus, Albus continued each attempt up until defeating the demon lord or dying, Rayman probably started again every time Risa died or maybe even more often if he decided to restart if he saw enough people die from the red blight

 

[Narancia5]

Ok this is a good twist

 

[Dzrian]

Perhaps as dead as the previous timeline but he is a ghost now

 

[MagnaDrake]

It's insanely well done. You don't notice the dissonance because Rayman has been playing the coward/incompetent card, ducking out of the scene every time the attention is on the group.

In hindsight, page 13 is brutal. Albus gives a fairly flat response to Fiona's anticipation for Rayman reuniting with Risa as he knows what has happened. And Rayman's expression is as if he's made peace with what's about to happen.

And on the times he's not ducking out, the panels are drawn in such a way that Rayman is in the panels just enough to be seen, making you not notice that the other characters doesnt really register him.

In the orphanage chapter, Merida is often seeing talking to Albus with Rayman on his side, but she never mentions him by name at all. When the boar attacked, Rayman was the first to try and stop it, before Albus stepped in. Immediately after everyone gets shocked by Albus' heroics, but it's delivered so smoothly that you don't notice that NO ONE mentioned Rayman stepping in.
In the royal capital, when Rayman is making a scene of having a fake stomachache, there were 2 guys looking at their general direction. Your first assumption would be them thinking "what's with this guy?" toward Rayman, but you'll never think of "what are these kids doing? no one is there".

There's a lot of moments like this scattered throughout the chapters, and I wouldn't have realized before this chapter. Absolutely insane storytelling. Generational.

 

[Toofoof]

The more this manga advance the more I love it, I really hope it gets more exposure

 

[Kefrayba]

The author really twisting the knife at full strength. 😭

 

[haritoo]

The more this manga advance the more I love it, I really hope it gets more exposure

Hoping it gets an anime eventually. Could be generational

 

[shoker]

Now I'm gonna have to reread this to see all the times Rayman just gets ignored by everyone else lmao

 

[xdouven]

Oh, Fiona and the gang seriously fucked up, didn't they? In the previous timeline(s), Albus started his quest after the hero Rayman had succeeded in his quest of curing the Red Blight. Or rather, Rayman's quest allowed Risa to finish the cure after he'd "died". Except he didn't die. He just Revolved himself out of reality. Albus' starting timeline was Rayman's last Revolve; he'd finished his heroic duty and things were OK. Only Risa remembered him because no one else even knew there'd been a hero's quest.

Then Gina used turbo-Revolve and accidentally Revolved all the way back to Rayman's quest because no one in Albus' party knew about Rayman. In doing so, they undid Rayman's last try and reset the situation to back before he'd started his quest. Only, this time there's no more Rayman the hero because he's already out of the picture from Revolve overuse last loop. In fact, he got erased out of reality altogether. That's why the Red Blight got so bad this time around. No one was able to create the cure since Rayman is no longer able to pass on his knowledge to Risa.

One big hole in this theory is the assumption that Rayman was also a hero in Albus' og loops. Unfortunately, it has been heavily implied by Albus himself at the start of this arc that there was no Rayman the hero in Albus' loops.

In chapter 49, Albus stated that he was supposed to have been chosen as the hero when he was 5 and in the middle of his hero training by the time Merida contracted the disease, when he was 9 (which is his current age). That was not the case here as Albus hasn't been undergoing any kind of training. It's safer to assume that he is currently in a whole new timeline altogether; Rayman the hero's loops.

Their loops never exists in the same timeline.

Albus (5) was chosen as the hero > Hero training > Merida passed away (Albus: 10 y.o )> Loop start

Rayman was chosen as the hero > Loop start > In the latest iteration, Albus (9), supposedly a normal kid, joins Rayman

The reason the disease is acting differently is more likely related to the fact that the Demon King also remembered about Albus' loops, not about the existence of the cure.

 

[taerkitty]

Thanks for pointing out all those clues. It's like The Sixth Sense, isn't it?

 

[Salfaro]

I was under the impression that the "messenger of god" was the first hero. Rayman started looping after Albus lost his power, so it doesn't make sense for him to be the messenger: we also saw the three of them together, so there's also that...

I get your point, but when the whole idea is that a character has been "unstuck from time", you shouldn't think too definitively about their sequence of events being strictly in-order anymore. Having characters subject to weird time-travel concepts (like Revolve) end up causing their own situation in a time loop like that is pretty common.

 

[Sem]

👁️👄👁️ !!!!!

The TWISTS?!?!!!

 

[mayu_hojo]

Damn Rayman already ejected from the timeline...

What if Auro is the same then? She got selected as a hero and she got ejected as well... Maybe even intentionally.

 

[kamiofgods]

Bro the foreshadowing is almost as good as one piece haha

 

[chilneun]

wtf, absolutely tragic