This chapter and Chapter 5 will be short and will consist of brief narrations by Kai about what he's been up to in the Prison World (he'll only tell us what's necessary).
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Two years had passed since I was sent to the Prison World.
Right from the first day, I realized just how frustrating the temporal loop was. No matter what I created, after the loop, everything would vanish, and I was forced to start all over again.
To stop this from happening, I decided to begin studying the loop itself. I spent weeks testing small objects.
A coin, a spoon, a screw, and a piece of wood.
I spent months calling the project different things. But "Rune of the Interstice" seemed like the best name. The interstice was the space between two things—between one cycle and the next.
Well, this rune responded to three commands: preserve, restore, release, and duplicate.
"Preserve" made the object continue to exist in its current state once the cycle ended; "restore" made the rune return the object to its original state; "release" removed the protection and allowed the Prison World's natural restoration process to take over.
And "duplicate" was a combination of "preserve" and "release"—it allowed the object I chose to be preserved while simultaneously creating a copy of it.
With that, I made some changes to the runes around the Parker property. The coven's original runes covered the entire property. As you know, they were responsible for the illusions that hid the houses and for the barriers that prevented supernatural intruders from crossing the boundaries without permission.
I kept the structure but removed the illusion function and replaced it with instructions from my new rune.
And that's it—from now on, my projects no longer disappear after the time loop, and if anything goes wrong, I can restore anything.