"Huh?"
"Although you are root remnants as well, you only inherited the power and not the mories, so you don’t really identify with your identity. I am different from you.
Even though I am a root remnant, I wasn’t ’left over’ from the past to the present; instead, I first traveled from the present back to the past. It was only after accepting my identity that I ultimately beca No. 1."
"?????"
"Didn’t understand, did you?"
Glancing at the raven who, with Leon’s "departure," had finally taken the last step and started emitting the aura of a "tribesman," Fredri sighed slightly and lowered her gaze to explain:
"The place where I truly beca a root remnant isn’t actually in the distant past but in the sanctuary of humanity’s hope.
When I, the ’final saintess,’ completed the ritual and drove a knife into my own heart in the sanctuary, my will followed the traces left in ti by countless previous saintesses, bringing back to an unimaginably distant past, to a ti before the tribesn were torn apart by ti."
What?!!!
Upon hearing this, Yue the Donkey could not help but hiss and then asked:
"So you... are you controlled by them after going back to the past? Or did you sign so special contract requiring you to agree to complete the ultimate mission before returning?"
"No."
After giving Yue the Donkey, who was thoroughly confused, a glance, Fredri shook her head and said:
"My will crossed over such a long tispan that any notion of control, contract, or commitnt lost all significance in the face of such an overwhelming duration. Thus, they didn’t attempt to control but chose the only ans through which I would willingly complete the ultimate mission."
"What ans?"
"Companionship."
"Huh????"
After closing her eyes slightly, Fredri spoke with an indifferent expression:
"To perform the ultimate mission, one must rge the roots of all worlds into one, which essentially ans to destroy everything I knew in exchange for a group of completely unfamiliar people to awaken anew. If it were just that, I would never do it.
But when I returned to that unimaginably distant past, they didn’t use any other ans to try to control ; instead, they accepted as one of their own, treating as the simplest and most ordinary tribesman, living endless years alongside .
The tispan was so vast that I almost forgot who I was, engulfing the short decade of my past life completely, making truly believe I was one of them.
It was long enough that they even accepted , long enough for them to regret their initial decision, thinking it too cruel to let return and complete the ultimate mission. One by one, they ca to voluntarily, advising that if I ever return to the future, I should abandon the idea of awakening them.
However, just as I, due to their regret and persuasion, completely let go of my inner barriers and truly regarded them as my tribesn, my will completed the ritual, once again spanning the unimaginable length of ti to return to the sanctuary, to the mont I plunged the knife into my heart.
When I once again erged from the sanctuary and washed away the bloodstains on my heart in the river, every part of recovered everything that had been taken away, but at the sa ti, everything I had was utterly lost. I am still , yet I feel as though I am no longer myself... No. 2, I ask you."
Facing Yue the Donkey, who was already stunned, Fredri softly asked:
"If you were , would you beco the Fredri who recovered everything, or would you beco No. 1, who lost everything again and only had the ultimate mission left?"
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