[At least Harumasa looks sympathetic when Varian says she's a horrible person, and that his world is kind of similar to a fictional story. ... He feels like that's a pun, though. A really bad, unintentional one. He feels it. But Harumasa's not confident enough to call it out as such.]

Yeah, I bet. It's possible that the histories of other worlds echo into this one, but some of them become popular and are reiterated into something unrecognizable by the source. I mean, some of my own history has been repeated in this life, and that's just on a very small scale.

[He's not a scientist, but that's as good of a theory as he can give right now.

The young man's with him up until the part about what Gothel kidnapped Rapunzel for. Kidnapping a baby just so someone else can reap the benefits of something they're born with. Yet another sacrifice to another person's "progress." It hits too close to home for Harumasa. Especially in this life. At least his past life's experimentation had a purpose, even if it had been a shitty one.]

Wow... not gonna lie, that's disgusting. You said she was one of your friends, though, right? So, was she freed from that woman?