Alphonse's Thoughts

So it’s been a shitty start so far, right? I started out as a Prentice, just your average Knight Candidate waiting for my Investiture so that I could be dubbed a Knight of the Empire, a Knight for my Princess. Of course, fate is never kind.

I have been through so many hardships and misfortunes, so much so that I have even started to doubt my worthiness of living. Who can carry this much burden while he is forced to experience one troublesome circumstance after the other?

I even lost my memories because some jackass aristocratic prick decided to take out his virgin chuuni frustrations out on me. Granted, I did ask for it – literally, but he didn’t have to hit me in the head with a pipe. That shit is not cool. I guess I can personally teach him how it felt. Hehe.

The funny thing is, while I have had a horrible time so far, most of it was spent with people who made living my amnesiac life a little easier and the thing is, while our meetings were brief and our bond developed sporadically and quite honestly, from out of nowhere, my gut tells me that I know these people from somewhere, or some time but I can’t say so for sure right now.

So will I find them in this world and recruit them to my cause? Maybe. Will I kill them should they prove to be my enemy? Yes but that isn’t important right now. I need to focus on consolidating my foothold as Knight so that I may have my say in the Imperial Court and that I need to work on making myself stronger first.

The important thing is that I know I can trust them and if I am to live my life and win this cycle, I’m going to need all of the help I can get.

Speaking of which, Keith and Alphonse. Two different people who share the same body. Right? Wrong. While I was born as Keith and spent some time prior to my death in the previous cycle as Alphonse, it’s safe to say that I have been reborn in this cycle with two distinct memories and experiences and that’s good. I have quite the revenge plotted out for the people who got me in the mess in the first place.

So are you asking me if I am willing to walk through the path of carnage to save this world? Yes. My end will justify my means. History will probably remember me as a murderer or as a tyrant but if that is what I have to become in order to avert the future Ryner has experienced 499 times, then I will taint my sword with the blood of a million wicked assholes in order to save the lives of a million and one innocent people. That is my justice and that is the troublesome burden that I must carry.

I will win this cycle or I will die trying.

Author's Notes>

Hello everyone. Alizoned here. We're finally at volume 2 and things are finally looking to take off. I've given you the prologue ahead of time so that you could at least have a feel for the things that are to come for our protagonists. Anyway, thank you for supporting Volume 1 and I hope to have you keep on supporting me for Volume 2. If it wasn't for you, my readers, I would never have continued this series. So thank you for sticking with me.

On another note, I'm thinking of writing a one-shot of a VRMMORPG themed story then maybe see how you guys will react to that. Well, we'll see what the future brings. Alright, thanks for reading!