It's Only Been Five Minutes

Rudy got up and prepared to jump in the air, but he remembered the ghosts who were around him before he time-traveled.

He looked at Jessica's grave and saw the old man standing there with a composed look on his face.

'For them, not even a minute should have passed.'

"Where are the others? Went to grab some coffee?" he joked while asking.

"No. They were bound to this world by a contract, and as of now, that contract is no longer valid."

"...?"

"In other words, they have passed to the afterlife."

"Ah… wait… what type of contract?"

The old man smiled at Rudy as his body began to fade away.

"Tell me! Who had tasked you to protect Jessica's grave!"

"Hahaha." The old man vanished into thin air while laughing, but it wasn't an arrogant laugh; it seemed a rather toned-down laugh of someone who simply found something funny.

"..." Rudy stood there with a dumbfounded expression on his face as he didn't get his answers.