how does she know about the tale of Urashima Taro anyway ?
MC most likely told them as a funny story or as a way to help "himself from the past"
The story is heavily suggesting MC can travel both space AND time.
This is the first time he meets the sister and their parents "from his own perspective".
But because MC is going to travel "back in time" from "a later point in his own time" / "from the future"
This is not the first time for them,as they have already meet "his future self" when they traveled "back in time" and visited them.
Which is why everyone did not react strangely to the car, since the villagers has seen it before.
But that visit was by a version from "his future" so MC does not know he is going to "return" to a earlier point in time.
Time travel babyyyy
Wait so I'm confused, time is definitely passing different between both worlds, but by how much faster is it?
I think time is passing 3.5-7 times SLOWER in the fantasy world if im not wrong.
( but im not going to go back and check the math)
he managed to finish the work in time back in chapter 2 while he spent
7 days / a week in fantasy land.
And his weekend trip was not over , so it had only been a day or two in his original world.
But this means MC is going to age faster then everyone around him.
Which is why
the tale of Urashima Taro is relevant, as he believed he spent
7 days at an underwater palace.
Only to find out he was gone 100 years once he returned.
He later opened a box that he was given explicit instructions to never open, and then he ages to be an old man in an instant because the box was keeping his "youth"
Basically its the Japanese version of
pandoras box.
I'm not convinced MC's not just a time traveler who is experiencing events out of order within the chronology of the world he's traveling to.
That is 100% what the story is suggesting, but its not 100% confirmed yet.
But considering how they react its one of the only few possibilities.
( the other being someone else also being a dimension/time traveler.... did he have kids ???? )
It’s the Bethoven time paradox… I wonder how the author is gonna treat that in the future
Also known as
The Bootstrap Paradox.
For people who don´t know it...
A time traveler brings with him his favorite Bethoven songs to the past to meet Bethoven and have them signed.
But can´t find Bethoven anywhere.
So he publishes all the Bethoven songs in Bethovens name thus becoming "Bethoven".
But that causes the Paradox, who wrote the original songs?
