The witch's lover is not from this world, he comes from a distant world, where there is no magic, there are no strange magical creatures.

Before being summoned to this world by a witch, he was just a second-year student with ordinary motor nerves, average grades, no girlfriend for 17 years, no reward or punishment, and was about to start preparing for the college entrance examination.

So as a witch's messenger, his soul returned to his homeland after fighting and dying against the invading Holy See army in order to protect the witch.

The witch who could not see her lover again made painful wishes again and again, but her lover never appeared here.

However, the witch did not give up, she firmly believed that there must be a way to find her lover, since she couldn't do it "now", then go to the "past" to do it!

"Since a qiē wish can be fulfilled here, let's go back to the past!"

"If I can't do it once, I'll do it a thousand times! If a thousand times it doesn't work, then ten thousand! ”

A thousand years ago, in the distant age of mythology, there was a powerful wizard who did something similar, and that wizard was called Sisyphus. According to Homer's epic poems, Sisyphus was the most resourceful man on earth, the founder and king of Corinth.

When Zeus kidnapped Aegina, the daughter of the river god Aesopus, and the river god went to Corinth to find her daughter, Sisyphus, who learned of this, informed the river god of Izina's whereabouts in exchange for a river that flowed all year round.

Because of the revelation of Zeus's secrets, Zeus sent the Grim Reaper to escort him to the underworld. But he didn't expect Sisyphus to kidnap the god of death with a trick, and no one died in the world for a long time until the god of death was rescued. And Sisyphus was also beaten into the underworld by the angry gods.

Before being sent to the underworld, Sisyphus instructed his wife, Merope, not to bury his body. After arriving in the underworld, Sisyphus sued Persephone, a person who had not been buried, was not eligible to stay in the underworld, and asked for three days of leave to deal with his own affairs.

But he didn't expect that as soon as Sisyphus saw the beautiful land, he didn't want to go back to Hades. This act completely angered the gods, and they took Sisyphus to the hell where the Titans were imprisoned.

There, every day he would push a large heavy rock up a very steep hill, then take a step out to the edge and watch it roll down to the bottom of the mountain. Sisyphus was to repeat this meaningless action forever and without any hope.

His only choice was the rock and the mountain.

In the eyes of many shamans of later generations, there was no more severe punishment than to perform such ineffectual and hopeless labor. Sisyphus's life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless toil, even though he had deceived death and reversed life and death.

But the witches don't think so, and Sisyphus lifts the stones again and again, precisely the most silent rebellion against the gods and fate! What could be more pious than removing that stone to deny the gods?

That day, the desperate and hopeful girl thought of a plan: to take a three-year cycle, in this small plane that exists at the origin of life and death, let the small world start a never-ending reincarnation.

Repeating again and again, shaping a new outcome for the history that has already been set, just like Sisyphus, who was punished by the gods for deceiving death and rebelling against death, "constantly pushing the boulder up the mountain but failing every time before reaching the top".

The witch wants to use this repeated ritual to change the absolute law of cause and effect, resist the arrangement of fate, and call out to the soul of her lover.

It's as if the reverse effect is the cause, "the appearance of Hiraga Saito" is the cause, and "the loving and happy life with Louise" is the result. And what the witch wants to use is to repeat the results countless times, to write the history that has already been established, to brainwash the world, and to create a huge hole in the law of cause and effect, in order to obtain the reason for the reappearance of "Hiraga Cairen".

As long as the soul of Hiraga Sato enters this world again, then one day, the law of cause and effect will attract him to come here again!

However, while witches possess great magical powers, they cannot do so alone. And the part of the Ark of the Covenant scattered in Toristine has been taken away by the Holy See.

Yes, it was not only the Toristines who came to the origin of life and death, but also the Papal troops. But here, the people of the Holy See cannot kill the wizard, and the wizard cannot kill the people of the Holy See. So in order to concentrate on resurrecting her lover, the blind witch made a deal with the army of the Holy See and let them leave with the main part of the Ark of the Covenant.

Because for the witches, the Ark of the Covenant was already a broken scrap at that time, so it was very appropriate to use a "waste" to get out of the place that could not be eliminated by the "flies" who might cause their plans to fail.

After replacing one of the tablets with a forgery, the witch "graciously" handed over the remaining body of the remains of the Ark of the Covenant to the Holy See.

The people of the Holy See were not without suspicions, but it was true that some fragments of the Ark of the Covenant were left on the Lord's plane, and for some ulterior reasons, the people of the Holy See did not want to entangle themselves and left in a hurry, no one knew where they went.

But these have nothing to do with the witch of Torlistine, and at this point she can finally start her own plans. First of all, in the first step, she sacrificed herself and became a being who could control the consciousness of the plane.

Then, not long after she took control of the plane consciousness, a feeling of "nostalgia for the good life before the war" began to spread in the Torristeen Kingdom. The witch quietly controlled all the souls left in Torlistine, making them all have the idea of "going back to three years ago" again, and made a wish to the plane, to the origin of life and death.

So the witch's goal was initially achieved, but ignoring the wishes of others, wantonly manipulating people's hearts, and deciding their lives, even in the name of love, such evil deeds are no different from witches.

So, on that day, the beautiful maiden named Louise was gone, but in her place was a witch of nothingness.

In order to control the dimensional consciousness, the witch cannot descend to the Torristen on the earth all the time, which has caused the absence of the history that has been retraced, but the witch has already arranged a candidate to replace herself and her lover to maintain the historical process.

Taking advantage of the origin of life and death, the witch created a body that was exactly the same as her original body, plus the body of her lover before, under the conscious manipulation of the witch's wand and the sword of the talent, the story of "Louise" and "Hiraga Talent" will be repeated every three years.

And this time without the invasion of the Holy See, "Louise" and "Cairen" will live happily ever after the end of the third year.

All the witch has to do is wait quietly, waiting for the reincarnation that happens every three years, when all the souls need to make that wish again. But at the same time, the witch is also looking forward to it!

Hope that one day another soul will break into this plane and quietly take someone's place.

Is this ritual repeated 100 times? 1000 times? Or 10,000 times? No one knows except the witch.

The cycle goes on and on.

Until one day, a Hogwarts professor accidentally broke into the place......

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PS1: The background of the main story is finally almost explained

PS2: I recommend a psychological suspense film, co-produced by the United Kingdom and Australia, called "Horror Cruise", which is inspired by the story of Sisyphus, telling the story of a single mother who wants to save her son, because she deceived the Grim Reaper (the taxi driver) who wanted to take her soul with her, and fell into the infinite cycle of killing herself and her companions, saving the child, dying in a car accident, and resurrecting the child again.