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I bet the whole “waiting 7 years” isn’t him pinning after her when she was a child but rather him having gone back through time. He already lived through the 3 years of war and when he went back to see her she must have already been executed. Most likely took a year for him to find a way to go back through time and then having to go through the war for another 3 years. So in total he’s been waiting for her for 7 years, not 3. Explains so much why “he’s changed” and does things before they happen like foreshadowing her execution.