Everyone exchanged glances, but not a single person showed any intention of backing away.
If anything, they were finally about to see what lay beyond the door...
Bzzzz—
Ripples spread outward one after another.
The massive gate, which had once resisted every attempt to open it no matter how much force was used, now began to dissolve as though lting away.
Gradually, Kanzaki Rei could finally see the scene beyond the door.
Shhh—
And with that single glance—
what he saw was not rely the girl standing within.
Kanzaki Rei actually saw his own back as well.
He saw Ansu too.
None of these figures were physical entities. They were rely blurred projections—and there was more than just one such projection.
"This is not the first ti we’ve spoken."
The ivory-haired girl stood quietly at the center of the space.
Even simply standing there, she embodied the very flow of ti itself.
But previously, when Ansu shattered the gate, Kanzaki Rei had only caught a fleeting glimpse of the person inside through the broken opening.
He had not seen deeper.
Had not seen farther.
But this ti, they had been invited inside by the other party herself.
And at last, his gaze could reach farther beyond the door.
After looking toward Aehkator, Kanzaki Rei lifted his eyes toward the distance.
Within this incomparably silent space, multiple different streams of ti were sohow flowing simultaneously.
And faintly, he could even see multiple different versions of her wandering through the area.
As for her existence...
Kanzaki Rei’s perception and talents transmitted an unusual sensation.
The feedback produced by his Divine-Tier Talent—Deepest Truth—indicated that she was a nonexistent, false lifeform.
Yet at the sa ti, she differed from ordinary unreality.
If he had to describe it—
the feeling she gave him was unlike anything he had ever experienced before.
She was half-real.
Ordinarily, sothing was either real or false.
What did "half-real" even an?
"Has your wish been fulfilled, visitor?" Aehkator asked calmly.
Iz’s expression imdiately lit up with excitent.
"Oh! So this is what it looks like inside!"
Multiple different tilines were unfolding here simultaneously.
Kanzaki Rei saw Ansu.
And within this place, Izparut also saw reflections of several different versions of himself.
In only a very short amount of ti, they had already grasped what kind of place this was.
"So what you an is... you believe you yourself are unreal?" Kanzaki Rei asked directly.
The instant those words ca out, Akase’s face twitched beside him.
Damn, do you really have to be that blunt?
Aren’t you basically stabbing right into her wounds?
Faced with Kanzaki Rei’s question, the ivory-haired girl rely answered indifferently:
"What else would it be?"
"Just as you can already see, at this very mont, multiple different tilines are unfolding simultaneously."
"And in the end, only one can ultimately be confird."
"All the other versions of are nonexistent. False."
"Once one tiline becos fixed, all the remaining versions of will disappear."
"And the version that disappears... may very well be this current self as well."
Now they finally understood what she ant by "disappearance."
"Why is it like this?" Kanzaki Rei asked again.
He could already vaguely guess that this question might touch upon secrets from the ancient era.
"Why..."
"Because this is the price I must bear."
Suddenly, Aehkator asked:
"Do you know the true nature of ti?"
Kanzaki Rei replied, "Perhaps. I understand at least a little."
For example, theories such as the immutability of ti, the irreversibility of ti, and the relationship between ti and matter—
he had already studied many such concepts.
And in addition, he himself had already comprehended the primordial forbidden magic—Ti.
To so extent, he had already glimpsed a fragnt of ti’s true essence.
"You are not entirely wrong. But your understanding is still far too shallow."
"Ti truly was unique. At least it is now. At least from your perspective."
"In the beginning, ti genuinely existed as a single, unique flow. There were no complicated changes or branching structures."
"And because of that, I found ti unbearably monotonous."
"So I attempted to alter the nature of ti itself..."
"At first, I believed such a thing would be extraordinarily difficult. Yet unexpectedly, I discovered that rely interfering slightly—simply making a tiny adjustnt to ti—"
"caused the perfectly stable and immutable flow of ti to suddenly split into countless branches."
"In that instant, ti transford into multiple uncertain paths."
"Each tiline existed independently."
"Yet so tilines also began influencing one another."
"And within every split spaceti, there would eventually occur a convergence toward a single ending."
"That ending was the complete destruction of the entire spaceti itself."
"At the ti, I imdiately realized sothing was terribly wrong."
"So I imdiately sealed everything."
"I sealed away every additional spaceti that had branched out."
"And in the end... it beca the current state of ti within this place."
Shhh—
Chaotic beyond asure.
Utterly disordered.
"And remaining here alongside those tilines... were all the different versions of myself from each separate tiline."
After she finished speaking—
Kanzaki Rei finally understood why his talent had identified her as half-real instead of entirely real or entirely false.
Rather than false—
it would be more accurate to call her a possible existence.
"Once the ti of the main world becos fixed, the countless versions of across the branching tilines will also disappear alongside the confirmation of the primary tiline."
"In truth, even this current self speaking with you now is aningless."
A faint tremor gradually entered her voice.
"After all... by the ti I finish speaking with you, I will probably disappear as well."
Kanzaki Rei t Aehkator’s gaze directly.
Within her eyes, he could see tiline after tiline collapsing.
The reason she remained here was not solely for atonent.
It was also for correction.
To correct every branching tiline—
until only the original one remained.
"Uh... I still don’t really get it," Akase said while scratching his head.
"Why can’t the other tilines exist?"
Aehkator shook her head.
"If that happened, uniqueness could no longer be established."
"Different spacetis would beco entangled with one another. In so tilines, powerful individuals could even influence alternate versions of themselves."
"If every possibility were allowed to exist, then it would even beco possible for the developnt of another tiline to cause the collapse of the primary tiline."
"And every form of divination in the world would fail."
"One could mistakenly treat a prophecy observed from another tiline as the correct future."
"There are many other consequences as well."
"But the greatest problem is uniqueness itself."
"If an Eighth-Tier class-holder seeks to ascend to godhood, and in another tiline another version of themselves ascends first—"
"then they would permanently lose the qualifications necessary to beco a god."
"They would lose the opportunity to obtain that divine throne."
"That is the uniqueness of ti."
"If ti were not unique..."
"Then the path to godhood in this world would beco tens of thousands of tis more difficult than it already is."
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