[ Reiner is quiet for a long moment, absorbing that. Turning it over in his mind. Wondering what it must've been like for Natsume's clock to be turned back like that. What it must've been like when Natsume discovered the truth. ]

I'm sorry that happened to you. It's hard for me to imagine losing your whole life like that.

[ … Well, ]

At the same time, I sort of understand.

Something happened when I was seventeen that messed me up really bad. I did something awful that I couldn't accept having done. So my mind rejected it. I made myself forget. And when I forgot that, I forgot a lot of other stuff, too.

[ He exhales slowly. ]

If it is a spell, I probably wouldn't recognize it. But… If you think it's good to just accept it for now, that's what I'll try to do.