Let's organize the information.
First up, how to defeat Hitogami.
To reach Hitogami, five treasure handed down through the Dragon Tribe are necessary.
These five treasures were manufactured by the Dragon Tribe in ancient times.
Respectively, each of the Five Dragon Generals holds a treasure, and the Dragon God possesses the secret skill necessary to open the world's door.
The me from the future realized that one of the treasures could no longer be acquired and fell into despair.
Perhaps that treasure was the one held by Laplace.
If I think about the words Orsted used, then he must be killed.
Then I should assume that the treasures can only be obtained by sacrificing the lives of the Five Dragon Generals.
Mad Chaos Dragon is already dead.
Probably Orsted's doing.
His treasure has been recovered.
Of the Five Dragon Generals, only four remain:
[Holy Dragon Emperor] Szilárd
[Dark Dragon King] Maxwell
[Armored Dragon King] Perugius
[Demon Dragon King] Laplace
Maxwell and Szilárd might already be dead.
Orsted has not said anything about them to me.
Still, that is killing your allies and harvesting them; it's something I need to think about, or perhaps just accept with a guilty conscious.
It doesn't seem like he's on bad terms with Perugius, after all...
Anyway.
In order to get the five treasures, the resurrection of Laplace is essential.
Laplace must be resurrected through reincarnation.
He'll be born as a baby.
Orsted specifically said that he had attempted to kill Laplace effortlessly as a baby.
However, that was a failure.
The resurrection takes place in an unknown location, from there Laplace gathers followers to wage war on humanity.
That way Laplace has to be killed during the war in order to get the treasure.
Even though Orsted can do it, it's tiring.
That becomes a major detriment in the fight against Hitogami thereafter.
Therefore, the current loop is a failure.
That's what Orsted said.
However, I did not feel resignation from him.
It felt like he was extremely disappointed, but I would not say he has given up.
If I think about it, it seems like this situation is still within Orsted's prediction.
For example, Ariel's affair.
Orsted had said that 100 years from now, Asura will fall into a crisis.
If Ariel became king, it would be possible to overcome.
Afterward, certain talented people would be born in Asura, is what he had said.
That this crisis is the war with the reborn Laplace is likely.
The Kingdom of Asura is the world's largest nation.
If it can resist for a long time, then Laplce's forces will wear down.
It will also aid in limiting Orsted's magic consumption.
Or perhaps, from the time Orsted became aware of my existence, he may have considered the possibility that Laplace won't come to be born in the same place as usual.
My presence may have been sufficient to disturb that relationship flag.
Why does Hitogami prevent it?
That question comes to mind, but I squash it instantly.
Thinking about it, although Hitogami cannot see the presence of Orsted, he regards the Dragon God as hostile.
For a long time, Laplace was an existence that waved the anti-Hitogami banner.
If Orsted works towards Laplace's revival, then he is up to something.
If Hitogami notices some pattern during the hundreds of years at the start of Orsted's loop, and decides he wants to obstruct that and interfere with him, then it's something I can understand.
The Dragon God's aims will only become harm for Hitogami.
In any case, this means that we'll be slightly diverging from the history which Orsted knows from here on.
This is the end of traveling the world on Orsted's orders setting flags.
Since the plan has been knocked out of order, such things are no longer important.
Laplace is reborn.
War occurs.