
by Luckless Gambler
“If you could go back in time to any point in your life, how much would you change?” Iris Blackwell already knows how her story ends. At thirty-six years old, the legendary Witch of Flames is the last survivor of a ruined world. Her friends are dead, entire cities have vanished, and humanity has lost its war against the supernatural. Standing before her is the monster responsible for it all—Superbia, the Devil of Pride. Then he offers her the impossible. Another chance. Sent twenty years into the past, Iris awakens in her sixteen-year-old body just three days before the tragedy that first dragged her into the supernatural world—and killed her mother. Armed with memories of disasters that haven't happened yet, Iris intends to save everyone she lost, uncover Superbia's hidden human identity, and tear apart the future that turned her into the Bad-Ending Witch. There's only one problem. The moment she returns, fate notices something is wrong. And Iris is about to discover that changing the ending is much harder when the story itself refuses to let her escape it. Overall this webnovel was greatly inspired by these four pieces of media Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World Got Dropped Into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work Lord of the Mysteries Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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