Albus Changes the World - Ch. 57 - Risa

[MagnaDrake]

I had to reread from the start of this arc and I've just realized not a SINGLE PERSON outside of the hero party/time traveller had a direct dialogue with Rayman. What the fuck.

 

[lenovoaxioo]

Nooooooooooooooooooo all this time?

 

[sssr]

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.

 

[Llainn]

To summarize the story so far:

In the first timeline, Albus was the hero. Rayman died after being attacked by a monster.

The current timeline exists because Albus and his party used Revolve Magic, which altered the past and made Rayman the hero instead.

In this altered timeline, Rayman has been forgotten by everyone due to overusing the Revolve spell.

Auro has disappeared and been forgotten by everyone except for Albus and his party, who also use the spell.

Like Rayman, Auro might succeed her research and overused the spell.

 

[manga_airplane_magic]

Amazing detail page at the end! Thank you.

 

[Salfaro]

It'd be kinda interesting if it turned out that the "messenger of god" has been Rayman all this time, not Albus (like people were suspecting). So this loop we're seeing here isn't just the mangaka going "oh let's introduce a new character!", but instead just fleshing out a character we've known since the start of the series.

 

[EdgarDrake]

Except Rayman 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.
....
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.

Ugh... reading this makes my chest hurt.. It's just that for several chapter, the reality is just too cruel to be true, that Rayman itself has been "erased" from the world.

 

[orenzmania]

If Rayman is going to be the vessel for the next demon lord, i swear

 

[Nemo2342]

Come on Albus, we can't let this stand. You need to find a way to fix this too!

 

[mysteana]

I had to reread from the start of this arc and I've just realized not a SINGLE PERSON outside of the hero party/time traveller had a direct dialogue with Rayman. What the fuck.

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.

 

[Shrimperor]

Oh boy
So it might be the reverse of what we thought eh

 

[elroid]

Rayman is what Albus would have became when he ran out of extras, ejected out of the world and stopped getting perceived by everyone.

 

[Beregorn]

It'd be kinda interesting if it turned out that the "messenger of god" has been Rayman all this time, not Albus (like people were suspecting). So this loop we're seeing here isn't just the mangaka going "oh let's introduce a new character!", but instead just fleshing out a character we've known since the start of the series.

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...

 

[Varler]

Yosu, I think you're on to something!
Damn, this author is insane. (In a good way!) But, I do hope that they can fix this.

 

[Andasen]

I see I see, in this timeline Gina's master has successfully mastered space magic too and overusing it for research or another reason that she too has been "erased" from the world

 

[pandatime]

Oh... well Albus this gonna be a hard one to get the happy ending you want all to get huh

 

[patwentsu]

Would explain why no one renembers that dimensional witch. If you loop/use dimensional magic too much you just get erased from the current dimension and exist in parallel one like Rayman.

 

[pgerryan]

El Psy Kongroo
- Hououin Kyouma

 

[Arcara]

Woah woah that's a fine twist and I'm rarely twistable

 

[trumuted]

So that's how it is... to be shadowbanned...