Albus Changes the World - Ch. 24 - Heretic Witch

[Salfaro]

CMIIW, but how can Albus got full control of the spell/skill if it's the witch's?

I don't think he does, tbh. It's established in Chapter 1 that it's a skill that's auto-activated on his death, which wouldn't be him controlling it (he mentions that he's killed himself in order to activate it before, but that's less "full control" and more just intentionally triggering it), and is pretty close to what some curses are like.

The only time we actually see it activate is in Chapter 8, but also that's after he has his entire arm blown off, so I assume he just bled out between getting the arm blown off + killing Fiona, triggering it. But even if it was him managing to control it manually then, it wouldn't be unheard of for someone to learn to control a curse after living with it for a while. But I don't think that's the case, since he never brings it up to Fiona in the next loop (at least on-panel) that there's anything different, which it feels like he would if he found something as significant as gaining control of his time magic.

 

[beThereShortly]

I don't know why, but I love it every times there "classic witches" in manga. Hope we see a lot more of Gina!

 

[AAA1]

Tbh, I kinda feel like it's more likely that (not spoilers, but tagging anyway in case it's right):


there isn't any real "hero magic", and this isn't a matter of the new witch finishing the old witch's work, it's about her researching it and realizing it already got cast. Albus's whole time loop thing isn't divine in nature, it's the witch's spell and they're already in the time loop created by the witch.

Remember that he didn't get his hero revelation from a shrine/church or whatever, it was just a random mysterious person in a robe, who I wouldn't be surprised if it was the witch herself. Though not the one the new witch knows, maybe her own flavor of the spell is slightly different than the one she used on Albus, being a body time travel thing rather than a memory-time-travel thing.

Plus, the mages in this chapter refer to "Dimensional Magic" as "an ancient forbidden art that disrupts the order of the world". If Albus's ability (which is straight called "Ultimate Dimensional Magic - Change the World") was divine / hero-based it'd be kind of funny how they're accidentally blaspheming it then. But, if it really is just forbidden Bad Magic, which was cast on him by the witch, it all tracks.

Kinda like how the story isn't just about Albus constantly trying new speedrun strats, I feel like the new witch's story arc is gonna be about her defying her teacher with the typical "rewriting history is bad because it erases the experiences that make us Us" speech. They'll probably just succeed in saving the FMC through other means after learning more this time around, since I'd be surprised at this point if we actually do another loop.

(it's also possible that the new witch finishes the work and that she casts it on the MC at some point in this loop or something (thus being the cause of all the loop nonsense), but the specifics of how that would work out would feel substantially messier so I kinda doubt it and I don't really like that as much thematically)

if it was body time travel, why would his body not aged? it's been more than hundred years of loop

 

[AAA1]

I don't think he does, tbh. It's established in Chapter 1 that it's a skill that's auto-activated on his death, which wouldn't be him controlling it (he mentions that he's killed himself in order to activate it before, but that's less "full control" and more just intentionally triggering it), and is pretty close to what some curses are like.

The only time we actually see it activate is in Chapter 8, but also that's after he has his entire arm blown off, so I assume he just bled out between getting the arm blown off + killing Fiona, triggering it. But even if it was him managing to control it manually then, it wouldn't be unheard of for someone to learn to control a curse after living with it for a while. But I don't think that's the case, since he never brings it up to Fiona in the next loop (at least on-panel) that there's anything different, which it feels like he would if he found something as significant as gaining control of his time magic.

there is another occasion when he actually activated it after killing the demon king, he then went to fiona's village to give news of fiona's death

 

[Salfaro]

if it was body time travel, why would his body not aged? it's been more than hundred years of loop

The magic I believe she cast on him is different than the magic she used herself (assuming she's the hooded figure). His isn't body travel. But it is a bit messy to have two spells involved.

there is another occasion when he actually activated it after killing the demon king, he then went to fiona's village to give news of fiona's death

Which chapter is this in? Don't remember this at all tbh.

 

[AAA1]

The magic I believe she cast on him is different than the magic she used herself (assuming she's the hooded figure). His isn't body travel. But it is a bit messy to have two spells involved.


Which chapter is this in? Don't remember this at all tbh.

it's when fiona make soup

 

[Salfaro]

it's when fiona make soup

Oh, I see what you mean. But that doesn't really impact what I'm saying, since all that chapter shows is there's a loop where he didn't rewind immediately after the demon king's death. But we already know he can loop just by killing himself, so since that chapter never elaborates on how he rewound after visiting Fiona's village that time, there's no reason to think him activating it then was anything other than the already-established method from chap 1 (killing himself).

That post was a reply to someone asking why he would have control over the ability if it wasn't actually his own ability, so I was explaining that we only ever saw one occasion of him using it where it could be construed as him willingly activating it (though it was probably still by just him dying of blood loss there). So there's no known instances of the ability activating that were from anything else than his death.

 

[MondSemmel]

Thanks for the chapter!

Typos & edit suggestions: @Yosu26

• p3 Are you the one who came to pick me up? -> Are you here to pick me up?
• p3 Less mouth to feed -> One less mouth to feed
• p3 fate too -> fate, too
• p8 from the past loop -> from a past loop
• p14 burn this place -> burn this place down // burn this place to the ground
• p14 That's our objectives -> That's our objective // Those are our objectives [then also "get it done" -> "get them done"]
• p18 what you're seeking -> what you were seeking
• p18 I want to see you one more time -> [Given the reveal in c26, I feel like this specific phrasing makes no sense.]