This is all my favorite tropes in one so far. I love a buff uke/omega and a yearning top but won't let people walk all over him idk ts is fucking checking off all my boxes I love it so much.
I don't think we're going back to the present just yet. In the earlier chapters there was a flash back of him dead covered in arrows... and they emphasized multiple times about the red strings misfortune.
My brain hurts from trying to understand the translation