Chapter Title: "Divine Rewind – The Road Untaken"
"I choose... the second option," Itsuke said firmly, his voice cutting through the stillness like lightning.
"Rewind time."
Future Itsuke gave a faint smile. There was pride in his eyes, but also sadness — the kind only one who had carried the burden of absolute choice could understand.
"Then walk a path free of my scars. Be stronger. Smarter. And this time..."
"...change the ending."
He raised his hand — and the Divine Rewind sigil ignited, enveloping Present Itsuke in radiant spirals of golden chronal threads.
Time began to reverse — not just events, but fate itself. Not just a memory, but reality collapsed and restructured. The Creator God's strike faded into dust. The Lamba Academy, the clone, the battle — all unraveled.
The world twisted backward.
The stars reversed their paths.
The timeline curled into itself like a serpent consuming its tail.
Itsuke Kurogane gasped.
He opened his eyes — and he was... young again.
His body was leaner, mortal, yet his soul trembled with divine memory. He looked down at his hands, recognizing them from a life long past.
He stood at the exact moment he had once broken through — the day he attained the Godhood of Time and Space.
But this time, things were different.
Itsuke took a deep breath.
"So this is the second chance..." he whispered, gazing at the sky. "Then this time, I'll win before the war even begins."
A voice echoed faintly in his mind — Future Itsuke's final whisper:
"One day, you'll stand where I stood. But not as my shadow. As something greater."
And so, a god born too early stepped once more into mortality — no longer an anomaly, but a strategist of fate.
This wasn't just a rewind.
It was a reset — with destiny hanging in the balance.