Seeing Kurumi's ssage, Souta was a little surprised.
Souta: "Wait, there are restrictions like this?"
Souta: "And when you say 'the past occupied by the system,' do you an the past after we obtained the system phone?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Yes. I once tried to go back to the two months we lived together in my world, but I failed. Then I asked the system, and its answer was that it maintains uniqueness—it only exists in one instance at a ti. So if I try to return to a past where it already exists, I get rejected."
Souta: "Uh... Why were you trying to go back to those two months?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Please don't mind it."
Souta: "Was there sothing you needed to do in the past?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Please don't mind it."
Souta: "You weren't trying to find the past version of , were you?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Please don't mind it!"
Souta: "..."
What exactly did Kurumi want to do back then?
Souta rembered that during those two months, he had just obtained the Cure-All Elixir. Other than that, he was just an ordinary person... Did Kurumi have so unfinished business with the past version of him?
Could it be that she regretted living together for over two months without anything happening, so she wanted to go back and make sothing happen?
Souta: "Then what about the future? Why can't we go there either?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "The system's answer is that for beings who haven't transcended ti, the future has infinite possibilities. This could easily cause conflicts with the system's uniqueness, so ti travel to the future is blocked."
Souta: "..."
Souta hadn't expected the system to be so strict.
Before, he was able to ti travel, but now that he had the system phone, he couldn't anymore?
He quickly put on his "finding loopholes" mindset.
Souta: "I rember last ti, during the mission in the Date A Live world, you, , and Shiroyasha traveled to five years in the past. If I travel to a point slightly earlier than that and just wait for ti to naturally pass, wouldn't I still end up eting my past self?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "..."
At this mont, Kurumi got a taste of what the system must go through all the ti.
Souta's question really stumped her!
Not because it was difficult, but because... it was just annoying!
Good thing the system had no emotions. Otherwise, if it had to deal with Souta poking at loopholes like this all the ti, it might one day just snap and erase him.
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Wait a sec, I'll ask the system again."
Souta: "No need, I'll ask myself. If you ask, then you'd have to relay the answer to anyway—it's a hassle."
After sending the ssage, Souta directly posed his question to the system.
Soon, he received a response:
[No. The host will be expelled from that tiline and forcibly returned to their original tiline.]
Alright, looks like the system had already patched this loophole.
Souta: "I just asked. The system said no. Looks like eting a different version of myself is impossible after all."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Not entirely impossible. You can't go to the future, but you can still et your past self from before you had the system phone. For example, Souta, you're about to et the from five years ago. Are you excited? The from five years ago might have a lot of... 'training' potential, you know~?"
Souta: "..."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "The from five years ago was very innocent. If you tricked her just a little, she might throw herself into your arms. Thinking about it like that... I'm actually kind of looking forward to seeing what kind of mories I'll gain when I return to my own tiline. Will I have mories of being forcibly pinned down and ravished?"
Souta: "..."
After teasing him for a while, Kurumi finally let Souta go.
Souta sighed. He'd definitely get back at her for this soday.
Hopefully, when that ti ca, Kurumi wouldn't complain about weak knees.
Now that everything was ready, Souta wasted no more ti. He took out the Bullet of Twelfth and prepared to travel through ti.
To be honest, he was quite curious about what exactly happened five years ago.
How should he put it? The fate of Tobiichi Origami had already changed the mont Kurumi received the system's invitation.
But there was a logical contradiction here.
By the ti Kurumi received the invitation, the event where Origami killed her own parents five years ago had already happened.
Otherwise, the Origami of the present wouldn't even exist.
In this scenario, if Kurumi simply refused to intervene and didn't help future Origami complete the ti loop, then the logical chain would break.
To put it simply:
Origami's ti travel is the cause.
The past events from five years ago are the effect.
But now, the effect had appeared before the cause.
If Kurumi refused to help Origami ti travel, then the cause wouldn't exist.
So what would happen to the effect, which had already been recorded in history?
Souta thought that it wouldn't just disappear.
After all, it had existed for five years—it's a solid historical event. You can't just erase it like that.
So would the Date A Live world's system automatically fill in the missing cause to maintain stability?
"What will happen...?"
Souta's eyes glead with curiosity. He pressed the Bullet of Twelfth against himself.
In an instant, he traveled three years into the past.
Since one Bullet of Twelfth didn't store enough ti, he had to travel twice.
For his second jump, Souta, driven by scientific curiosity, deliberately aid for the period five years ago when he, Kurumi, and Shiroyasha had all existed.
As a result, he felt a powerful repelling force push him back to his original ti.
"..." Souta took out his system phone, checked it, and sighed.
"As expected, it doesn't work. And instead of sending back three years, it forcibly returned to my normal ti. What a waste of item cards."
Looks like the system's authority really couldn't be challenged.
Souta set aside his disappointnt, recalled the date when Origami's parents died, and prepared to ti travel again.
Fortunately, that date wasn't within the ti period he had just been expelled from.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to go at all.
Soon, after two successful jumps, he arrived in Tengu City five years ago.
Night instantly turned into day.
The season also changed—it was now the peak of sumr.
Souta looked up into the distance. The sun hung low in the western sky, about to set.
The city's layout was slightly different from what he rembered five years later.
The sumr heat didn't bother him. He quickly observed his surroundings and confird his location.
"I rember the fire happened in Nankou District..."
Souta recalled the information he had obtained by using divine power in the present.
He had no idea where Nankou District was.
Just as he was about to ask a passerby for directions, the sky suddenly turned bright red!
A massive surge of spirit energy erupted about five kiloters ahead.
It was about the sa level as the energy surge when Miku beca a Spirit.
"Well... I guess I don't need to ask for directions anymore."
Souta looked toward the center of the energy outburst.
There, among the neatly arranged buildings, a massive pillar of fire shot up into the sky.
Shortly after, it exploded, scattering flas everywhere.
A sea of fire engulfed the city.
Souta guessed that Kotori Itsuka had just transford into the Spirit of Flas.
Without hesitation, he used divine power to teleport directly to the scene.
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