It's... when you think you're a younger version of yourself, isn't it? When times are hard and to cope you going back to being a kid because that was a simpler time.
A regressor is someone who has the ability to return to a previous point in time and relive the same experiences again, maintaining their previous knowledge and experiences about it.
[His eyes have grown wide, bewildered and concerned. Regressor? "World-line"? Though he doesn't grasp the full details, the idea that someone could time-travel for so long that he'd forget his own age, reliving events...]
Yu Junghyeok - does this still happen to you? Are you okay?
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My age?
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Are you familiar with the concept of regressors?
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[thinking]
It's... when you think you're a younger version of yourself, isn't it? When times are hard and to cope you going back to being a kid because that was a simpler time.
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What. Where did you get something like that from?
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That's definitely what regressing is. I'm sure!
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A regressor is someone who has the ability to return to a previous point in time and relive the same experiences again, maintaining their previous knowledge and experiences about it.
In a literal sense.
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That sounds like time travel. You're a time traveler?
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The concept is similar, but not quite the same. As a regressor, I was unable to decide when and where in the timeline I would return to.
And every time I did, a new world-line was created.
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"World-line"...?
[His eyes have grown wide, bewildered and concerned. Regressor? "World-line"? Though he doesn't grasp the full details, the idea that someone could time-travel for so long that he'd forget his own age, reliving events...]
Yu Junghyeok - does this still happen to you? Are you okay?
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It isn't that serious.
But no, I am a former regressor.
... Though at this point my lifespan may no longer be connected to that ability, anyway.
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Okay - so you're no longer one, and dying is... permanent? Is that what you're getting at?
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Yes to the first. The second is unknown at this point.
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Hah. Let's not find out - don't go dying on me anytime soon, all right?
[curious]
Did you ever meet me in a previous timeline?
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... Not a previous timeline.
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[Tsuzuki cocks his head slightly, studying Yu Junghyeok's face on the phone screen. The way he said it seemed... kinda like not a full no.]
...But...?
[He trails off, wondering if the man would follow up.]