I'll be uploading 1-2 chapters per week and there's 9 chapters to go until we'll have to wait until Vol 4 is released. So if you wanted to wait until then, the manga progress will be at the perfect place to switch over to LN Vol 1 Ch 4 which is my favorite arc and where the spoilers below are from. Warning: It gets pretty philosophical and very heavy.
Note: No matter what, Aya will fall unconscious at 11:59 pm every night and won't wake up until morning.
AGAIN, THESE SPOILERS ARE FROM LIGHT NOVEL CHAPTER 4 WHICH WILL BE MANGA CHAPTER 15+ (THE RAWS ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS ARC)!
Aya waking up in her own room and what it means:
If she wakes up in Yuuka's room, Yuuka's alive. If she wakes up in her own room, Yuuka's dead. But she wakes up in her own room AND Yuuka's alive. This should be impossible. The only explanation she can find: Yuuka somehow created a reality that should not exist. Yuuka is a witch.
Yuuka's ability is picking & choosing possibilities. She can stitch different parts of different days together to create a new day or connect one day to another. However, she can't pull things out of thin air which is why she's so keen on Aya's repeating days: she needs the details Aya gives her about what happens on the days that aren't chosen so she can make sure nothing bad happens. If Aya hadn't warned her on May 23-F, she really would have died. But thanks to Aya, she now had the possibility of a day where she stayed home to use and force into an impossible May 24 where she survives.
Inaba's deja vu (she and Aya are on a first-name basis now so I'm going to call her Michiru from now on)
She's a witch just like she's been telling us this whole time. Her deja vu is from her time traveling.
How this all ties together (Summary of LN Vol 1 Ch 4):
Michiru dies in an accident. Aya, for the second time in her life, looks forward to her repeating days because she knows she can save Michiru the way she saved Yuuka. But for the first time ever, there's no B day. After October 5-A, it becomes October 6. Desperate, this is when Aya comes to the realization about Yuuka and confronts her. Yuuka offers to send her back to October 5. Remember how Aya believes if she dies, she'll just wake up on the next iteration of the day? She tests this theory by immediately killing herself.
Aya wakes up just like she thought she would. But she fails to save Michiru. So she kills herself again to try on the next October 5. The same thing happens. She keeps trying and failing to save Michiru on October 5 and then keeps killing herself before the clock can strike midnight and move the calendar forward. At some point, she understands that it's fruitless. There's nothing she can do to save Michiru. But she can't bear the thought of a world without her and continues the cycle.
After 1000 days of repeating October 5, Michiru explains that she's from the future. She becomes a witch on October 5 but the world will not suffer another witch to live and makes sure she dies that day. Michiru comes from some point in the future to meet Aya (which is why they always become friends on the first day of school), she dies on October 5, Aya resets October 5, rinse & repeat. Michiru loses her memories and magic when she travels back in time which is why she has deja vu — they're the memories of her other time leaps. The only reason she remembers now is because Aya is breaking the world by repeating the same day a thousand times. They try to come up with ideas but Michiru still dies by the end of every day.
Aya refuses to let life go on without Michiru. She continues to reset October 5 over a million times. It takes a huge mental and physical toll on her and Yuuka, who understands what's going on by now, begs her to give up. Aya doesn't want to die anymore and is tempted to stop but she just cannot bring herself to let Michiru go. Fed up with the world being stuck on one day for millenia, Yuuka finally relents and helps Aya. The solution is way too complicated to explain here (I'll try when we get to that part in the manga) but it's based on the anthropic principle. Basically, Yuuka turns Michiru into a witch and instead of Michiru having to draw power from nature etc. to use magic, they sacrifice Aya's memories of one million October 5ths to use as the source of Michiru's powers and let her cheat death.
Michiru lives and, after almost 3000 years, it finally becomes October 6.
I'll be uploading 1-2 chapters per week and there's 9 chapters to go until we'll have to wait until Vol 4 is released. So if you wanted to wait until then, the manga progress will be at the perfect place to switch over to LN Vol 1 Ch 4 which is my favorite arc and where the spoilers below are from. Warning: It gets pretty philosophical and very heavy.
Note: No matter what, Aya will fall unconscious at 11:59 pm every night and won't wake up until morning.
AGAIN, THESE SPOILERS ARE FROM LIGHT NOVEL CHAPTER 4 WHICH WILL BE MANGA CHAPTER 15+ (THE RAWS ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS ARC)!
Aya waking up in her own room and what it means:
If she wakes up in Yuuka's room, Yuuka's alive. If she wakes up in her own room, Yuuka's dead. But she wakes up in her own room AND Yuuka's alive. This should be impossible. The only explanation she can find: Yuuka somehow created a reality that should not exist. Yuuka is a witch.
Yuuka's ability is picking & choosing possibilities. She can stitch different parts of different days together to create a new day or connect one day to another. However, she can't pull things out of thin air which is why she's so keen on Aya's repeating days: she needs the details Aya gives her about what happens on the days that aren't chosen so she can make sure nothing bad happens. If Aya hadn't warned her on May 23-F, she really would have died. But thanks to Aya, she now had the possibility of a day where she stayed home to use and force into an impossible May 24 where she survives.
Inaba's deja vu (she and Aya are on a first-name basis now so I'm going to call her Michiru from now on)
She's a witch just like she's been telling us this whole time. Her deja vu is from her time traveling.
How this all ties together (Summary of LN Vol 1 Ch 4):
Michiru dies in an accident. Aya, for the second time in her life, looks forward to her repeating days because she knows she can save Michiru the way she saved Yuuka. But for the first time ever, there's no B day. After October 5-A, it becomes October 6. Desperate, this is when Aya comes to the realization about Yuuka and confronts her. Yuuka offers to send her back to October 5. Remember how Aya believes if she dies, she'll just wake up on the next iteration of the day? She tests this theory by immediately killing herself.
Aya wakes up just like she thought she would. But she fails to save Michiru. So she kills herself again to try on the next October 5. The same thing happens. She keeps trying and failing to save Michiru on October 5 and then keeps killing herself before the clock can strike midnight and move the calendar forward. At some point, she understands that it's fruitless. There's nothing she can do to save Michiru. But she can't bear the thought of a world without her and continues the cycle.
After 1000 days of repeating October 5, Michiru explains that she's from the future. She becomes a witch on October 5 but the world will not suffer another witch to live and makes sure she dies that day. Michiru comes from some point in the future to meet Aya (which is why they always become friends on the first day of school), she dies on October 5, Aya resets October 5, rinse & repeat. Michiru loses her memories and magic when she travels back in time which is why she has deja vu — they're the memories of her other time leaps. The only reason she remembers now is because Aya is breaking the world by repeating the same day a thousand times. They try to come up with ideas but Michiru still dies by the end of every day.
Aya refuses to let life go on without Michiru. She continues to reset October 5 over a million times. It takes a huge mental and physical toll on her and Yuuka, who understands what's going on by now, begs her to give up. Aya doesn't want to die anymore and is tempted to stop but she just cannot bring herself to let Michiru go. Fed up with the world being stuck on one day for millenia, Yuuka finally relents and helps Aya. The solution is way too complicated to explain here (I'll try when we get to that part in the manga) but it's based on the anthropic principle. Basically, Yuuka turns Michiru into a witch and instead of Michiru having to draw power from nature etc. to use magic, they sacrifice Aya's memories of one million October 5ths to use as the source of Michiru's powers and let her cheat death.
Michiru lives and, after almost 3000 years, it finally becomes October 6.
Thank you SO much for continuing the translation! I’ve read the unofficial LN translation a few times and it’s so haunting I mind myself thinking about it often, so this was a wonderful surprise! Sort of nervous to relive the intensity of the plot again but excited to see how it’s all portrayed in manga format. Thank you again!!
But if you're mostly interested in the romance aspect, you might be kinda disappointed. They absolutely do have feelings for each other and the relationship does develop but it's slow.
having read all of volume 1 because of you, we understand entirely what you mean, but we didn't find it at all disappointing. the romance is really good. it's slow burn, sure, but extremely good and a constant presence.
