「So it was, the 『Witch of Time’s』……Probability magic……Fate Manipulation!」
While his body was soaked with fresh blood that was pouring out from both arms, Zephyr laughed with a cracked voice.
「My attack, had reached you……and, if you received that attack and were unharmed, I could still understand that……However, to make it as if it had never happened……Ku, kaka……So you’re truly able to 『defeat even God』……It’s not uncommon, for you to be called the enemy of God……」
Zephyr is probably the only human being that could possibly have these kinds of thoughts while having the extreme situation of having lost both arms. Rather, having crossed that line, it seems like one could even question if Zephyr could even called a human being.
But,
「Almost but not quite.」
Zephyr’s deduction was cut down.
「That situation, Zephyr, defending against your attack, it was impossible even if I were to manipulate fate. The events that happened would invariably converge. ……Fate is something that will always exist in the future.」
And then, in response to Yuu’s words, Zephyr quickly looked up at Yuu.
「The past……the cause of the event, ……So you distorted……the cause and effect……!?」
The principle of causality. Just how many people would live on recognizing those words.
And then, if they strongly recognized them, they would get entangled by the chains of cause and effect.
「Well, that’s exactly what I “cut”. ……『Al』 isn’t a weapon meant to cut any and all objects. Cutting up time, cutting up space, it’s a weapon meant to kill the 『Demon Lord』.」
Destroying a cause that happened in the past, a power that could control even fate.
Doing something like that, it’s already the same as God.
「……You not knowing about it was inevitable, Zephyr. This power was only awakened because 『Al』 was provoked by the Demon Lord. ……Because of that, I can “never again” save Olivia……」
Putting away the Sacred Sword, in the middle of the white armor turning into light and dispersing, Yuu’s eyes were looking at someone that wasn’t Zephyr.
「……Kukaka. Save Her Highness, huh.」
Zephyr moved to be face up.
「Going backwards to the past……Were you planning on borrowing the power of the 『Witch of Time』?」
Yuu shook his head at Zephyr’s words.
「I gave up the moment I noticed the true nature of this 『power』. I……can no longer return to the past.」
Unable to shake off the past.
Unable to look back in the past.
Yuu lived captured by the past.