Isekai Shachuuhaku Monogatari - Outrunner PHEV - Vol. 3 Ch. 13 - Pleasant Expectations

[ciera]

Happy new year

 

[RiceIST00]

okay so it's probably a fucked up timeline bullshit. he is in the future of isekai world and kyara married to him in this timeline
cause why in the hell you kiss someone you just met, she just thought her husband (on this timeline) is coming to save her with his trusty hybrid car (it's dogshit btw don't buy) then mc asking who is she and she decided to troll him

 

[popinloopy]

Thank you for the chapter! Kyara still best girl, but glasses coworker seems fun. I hope she becomes a mutual platonic friend and not some love interest.

 

[Ironclad]

Hopeless loser just needed to be helpful at work for less than a week and he's already got kouhais trying to jump him.

 

[lordb1]

Thank you sooooo much for the translation! Love this manga!

Could it be different timelines as well? Is Kyara and the magical girl perhaps not in the same world?

But they did have the same concept of travellers from other realities though... ah well, we will see!

I had the same thought.

 

[anonymousthief]

I think the only real solution should time always be massively shuffled is him staying there for a long period of time, but they’ve already established that he ages there iirc so I think he’s scared to as it will end up ruining his life in his own world in the long term should he go too often or for too long.

There was one Isekai where the MC got twice a normal person's lifespan so he HAD to keep going between the worlds so that he looked like he was aging normally in Japan.

 

[TheMather1]

As for the chapter itself, I'm glad they showed he at least pieced part of it together, himself. If he couldn't figure it that was Kyara, the claims of being "typical dense mc" would've been completely valid.

Part of it? Read to me like he worked it all out. Way he caught onto the ring, wasn't jealous, and remarked that he will buy her something once he can afford a ring like that, reads to me like he figured out that he will be the one to give it to her in the future.

He's pieced together all that needs to be pieced together. Now he's just going to enjoy the ride as he gets to live through it.

 

[Goldenzeal]

That's the fear I expressed in the previous chapter, the only viable option seems to be to pick one of the worlds forfeiting the other and stay there if he wants to build any kind of stable life.

Not really, you could confide in people you care about, and potentially have them join.
The fact he ages faster is not as big of an issue as you can just claim per-mature ageing which is a real medical condition.
And as for work and money, that can be solved in multiple ways, but the easiest one would be to set up a home you can live of the land.

There was one Isekai where the MC got twice a normal person's lifespan so he HAD to keep going between the worlds so that he looked like he was aging normally in Japan.

Care to tell us the name, or even better a link ?

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Solandri]

So this is like River Song in Doctor Who where they meet at random points in time, only in this case the first time they met was the first time for both of them. Clearly she is married to him given the ring that looks like one from our world especially with no tradition of giving rings in Mu/Kyara's world. That means she has married him in her past but his future. The diary being called a curse is because he can only experience linearly to himself, so events may be unavoidable and he can only observe and interact without actually changing major events.

Yup. The "do we really have free will?" debate that comes up with time travel. (The debate exists without time travel. But time travel with no way to change the past pretty much forces the answer to be "no".)

It’s also curious that he’s met with the cat girl twice actually, seems very unlikely if it’s always a random spot, perhaps he always is in xyz radius (seems a bit unlikely due to the desert, as it was large), otherwise maybe he’s connected to the people he happens to spawn near and they’re all people he will sometimes have a chance to return to? (If that’s the case I hope they explain it as the random chance thing seems flimsy)

The priest guy MC met earlier implies MC has the ability to travel anywhere and anywhen he wants; he just hasn't figured out how to control it yet. So I wouldn't be surprised if MC was subconsciously willing himself to meet with Kyara again when he jumped. (His second trip being a failure to properly control his destination. Actually that brings up another question - when did his second trip occur in the other world?)

That's the fear I expressed in the previous chapter, the only viable option seems to be to pick one of the worlds forfeiting the other and stay there if he wants to build any kind of stable life.

Oh wow. it just occurred to me that he can have his harem cake and eat it too. Since he can jump around in time, from his perspective he can marry girl 1, visit her at regular intervals in her life, until she grows old and dies of old age. He buries her, grieves for a respectable period of time. Then he jumps back in time and marries girl 2, and repeats the process.

From the girls' perspective it may seem like two-timing. But from his perspective, he married, was faithful, became a widow, and remarried.