I think I actually barfed up a bit of my chipotle. What the fuck? Who on Earth thinks this is a good idea?? As a first chapter, it would be okay, slightly above average at best. But throwing this smack in the middle of the series feels... so fucking off. If the mangaka wanted us to grieve for their deaths, then make it permanent. Don’t do shit like this. It desensitizes us to if they ACTUALLY die because we’ll be like, oh, this doesn’t matter, the author doesn’t have the balls to actually pull something like this off, Zeff will probably just reset again. Plus there wasn’t a single instance of Zeff even trying to figure out HOW time travel works, and yet he nonchalantly explains it to us in the most vague, assholeish way possible that “oh, it happened, because... I said so.” Like, this boggles my fucking mind. It’s like writing an OP character, only to realize you fucked up and aren’t smart enough, nor innovative enough, to actually resolve it in a way that aligns with the world’s principles and laws of magic, so you rewrite everything. It’s so fucking... INSULTING. Like, FUCK. Why am I getting so triggered over this??? Ahhhhh.