HEAR ME OUT (it might be a long one)
i don't think it's a time loop or the novel shuffling characters. the accident with the ceiling from MC's memories has made MULTIPLE PEOPLE isekai!!!! probably those who've read the novel *or* those who're close to our MC (can't figure out how the isekai selection works yet). *but* so far we know that MC, sunbae (ML), MC's little sister and this friend have been isekai'ed
now, what we found out from this chapter is that MC and Friend has been isekai'ed during their high school years, which means that *years* have passed since (and, for everyone). we also know from MC that if you don't record your memories from your past life, you lose them. that's how ML has forgotten his own memories but remembers snippets of them (like MC having a younger sister and drawing him with a uniform).
as for Friend, he's probably recorded the memories from their past life and that's how he knows that "his" mom and MC's "dad" aren't their real parents, and that their lives are "unreal". IF Friend is the same non-novel friend from MC's old memories (with the grandma who passed away), ig it is normal to wonder "why're you still sick?" if MC has had a chronic illness before isekai-ing. IDK LMK WHAT YOU THINK
avoiding uni by reading gay p*rn
