“I really don't think time travel should be intentionally taken advantage of.”
“You mean don't travel through time without a purpose?”
“Yes. I believe the policy we had in the past is correct. Time travel should only be used to return to your own world. But if you come across someone in trouble in the process, you help them.”
Koutarou and Clan didn't want to change history, but they couldn't overlook tragedies occurring right in front of them. That's how they had acted in Forthorthe 2,000 years ago. And that same line of thinking was needed now as well.
“If not, we'll never be able to return home. Who knows how much time it would take to resolve everything happening around us.”
Koutarou and Clan knew of a lot that would happen in these next 20 years. If they wanted, they could probably prevent a lot of those incidents. But as a result, history would become a mess, and the two would be unable to return home.
“Time travelling sure is difficult...”
“Normally, this is the goddess of dawn's domain.”
“That's right, you and I aren't gods. We should respect the people earnestly living in their respective age.”
There was another problem apart from changing history.
Koutarou and Clan knew a lot about what would happen, but the people alive right now didn't, and they were working towards an outcome they desired. Having people that know about the results intervening would stomp on the intentions of all those people. Your dream won't come true. It's a waste of time so go do something else. Koutarou's and Clan's actions would be the same thing as saying that.
On top of that, there was a limit to how much time Koutarou and Clan had, they couldn't resolve everything that would happen. They would have to choose what to intervene with. It would probably be a decision that affected a lot of lives. Which meant that Koutarou and Clan would have to choose which lives to save. Could they decide the value of each life. Everyone only had one shot at life, and they were equally important. Yet Koutarou's and Clan's interventions would break that obvious rule.
“Clan, you're not wrong. You're just human.”
“Thank you, Bertorion. I feel like some of the weight has fallen off my shoulders because you said that.”
It was a difficult problem to anyone. This was the first time in history humanity had been faced with the worries of a god. It couldn't be helped that they couldn't reach a perfect answer to that worry. Koutarou and Clan weren't almighty gods after all.