knowing time betrays

While everyone struggled to truly define reincarnation, most people followed the same rules. Nobody ever regained full memory of their past lives, it came back in flashes (sometimes through dreams, sometimes through nightmares), and it held no bearing on their new, modern lives... And Edelgard defied every single one of those rules.
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His parents promised he’d remember something in due time. While his mother swore it’d be okay if he turned out to be a new soul, his father made a face at the idea. After all, being a new soul meant nothing, and Claude wanted a past life.
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He should leave well enough alone. Choosing to pursue a past life would be defying the goddess; the goddess granted him a brand new life to carve out happiness. That old life existed in the past, a past long lost to history. Dimitri never got any clear image of it in his head.
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Being reborn doesn't mean all problems disappear.