Dase to Iwareta Reijou no Kareinaru Henshin - Ch. 3

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While “this is the first time I see” makes sense, what a native speaker would instead say or write is “this is the first time [that] I have seen” or “this is the first time [that] I've seen”.

More generally, native speakers use a present perfect tense rather than simple present tense for “this is the nth time [that] <subject> <verb>”.

That peculiarity does not hold more generally without “this is” or “that is”; nor does it hold for past or future events.
 
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By chapter 5 Lloyd marries Clara and on chapter 8 they have 12 kids
 

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