"Try it on."
lody said to ld as she handed him a visor. At this very instant, ld took it from her hands and held up the thing in the air as he looked up at it. The thing in his hand was a tallic piece of equipnt, which curved around the face, covering both eyes.
The tallic fra is enclosed around a specialized glass lens that was made from the eyes of a ti whale, a type of Flux that can control ti around it using its eyes.
Of course, more supernatural properties were used to make this, but it was too much to list right off the bat. Alas, though, what matters is that after six months of putting these things together to compensate for ld's weakness, the boys in the lab finally finished lody's commission.
Saving up and using the sponsored money from ld's teacher, Grey Seer, to purchase the requested material needed and to fund the labor to get this custom equipnt, the boys at the lab were sure it could make ld, who is just a level two, as powerful as a level four Hesta.
"So let ask one more ti just to be sure here, these glasses will allow to see into the future without the need for to sleep to activate my power?"
ld asked his sister, who just nodded with her arms folded as she said.
"Yes, I don't know how it works, but those new glasses of yours sohow simulate the process of REM sleep while being fully awake and tweak your brain a bit, allowing you to daydream while also being actively conscious at the sa ti. As a result, it forces your future sight to always be on without rest for as long as you have Gaian Energy, of course."
"Wow!"
ld said with a surprised tone.
After all, even from level one, ld's main weakness with his future sight was the fact that he could only ever see it in his dreams; as a result, he could control the future by changing the scenario in the past when he woke up if he wanted to, knowing the future was a very beneficial power to have in a lot of ways.
Still, it was hard to believe this visor could casually just do sothing like that; however, with how strange their world has beco, anything should be possible with all the supernatural activity taking place on Gaia.
However, ld would never say no to a gift from his sister and teacher; as such, he began to put it on, and the mont he did that.
His view of reality and the way the world works around him began to shatter.
"O-Oh my God?!"
ld said in utter shock, causing Quick Feline to ask him in excitent.
"So how is it? What do you see?"
"I-I…
He could not talk, but just then, lody asked, and he, right after, started to repeat after her, as if he knew exactly what she was about to say.
"So!!... Can you see it?"
"So!!... Can you see it?"
They both said, causing lody to stop.
"Ha!?"
"Ha!?"
"Wow, wow, WOWZAA, IT REALLY WORKS!!"
"Wow, wow, WOWZAA, IT REALLY WORKS!!"
This was a small demonstration; on ld's part, he was still trying to get used to this new power; however, upon wearing these visors, his entire world beca so clear, so vivid, so real—nay, the best word to describe what he sees, hears, feels, and constantly experiences is the truth.
He is dreaming constantly, not once, not twice, not even thrice, but many tis—hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of different events happening across the tiline, alternate what-ifs that could have and still have the potential to happen.
"Sister... this is beyond anything I imagined. With these visors on, I can see everything—every single thread of ti stretching out before . I'm living in the present right now, speaking to you here... but I'm also speaking to you at the association in an hour, and even ten seconds from now. I can see it all at once.
"The vision stretches far—up to ten years into the future at a ti, and it moves along with . I can watch paths branch and converge, see choices I haven't made yet play out in vivid detail. So possibilities fade away with every heartbeat, while others bloom brighter if I simply shift a word, a step, or a decision. I can orchestrate almost anything I want."
"But beyond those ten years... there's nothing. Just an endless, absolute darkness. No light, no shapes, no futures at all. It's as if ti itself ends there for . I can't see past it—no matter how hard I try, the darkness swallows everything after that point."
"It's overwhelming... exhilarating and terrifying at the sa ti. My mind is racing to hold it all, to focus on what matters. But even this limited window is enough. Enough to bend the next decade exactly the way I desire."
"But, nonono nono no noNOO... it's even more than that. With this visor, ti isn't just a straight line anymore. I see it both ways as well, linear and nonlinear, all at once."
"The linear path is clear: one mont leading straight into the next, cause and effect marching forward like soldiers in formation. I can watch that chain stretch out—so many steps and so many consequences, bright and predictable."
"But then there are the nonlinear threads, wild, branching possibilities that explode out from every single choice. They're like clouds of potential, swirling and overlapping. If I diverge from the intended linear path and do sothing as simple as use the wrong word or hesitate for half a second, entire futures collapse while others burst into existence. A single butterfly's wing here could unleash a hurricane a decade from now. I see the ripples before they even start. I could reach out and touch any of them, shift one tiny thing, and watch the whole web reshape itself... IT'S SOOO AMAZING!!"
ld said to himself in this very mont, and in the mont in the future as well, he felt invisible; however, that feeling of being unstoppable soon ca to an end.
"W-What is this?!"
He said in utter horror.
He was fighting his first opponent, giving him a lot of trouble.
The man before ld, his current opponent, was a dark-skinned man in a large white shirt and baggy black leather pants.
He had short black hair and a double pair of gold piercings.
"Isn't that the guy who was acting so chummy with Quick Feline?"
He said with a troubled expression as he looked up at the floating figure.
ld, however, was trembling.
"An anomaly."
He said out loud as he looked up at the floating Nier, who had a threatening aura around his body.
He was like the darkness to ld.
"This shouldn't be. Why can't I see him? He is nowhere, not even in the alternates. What is this? A person like him shouldn't exist.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?"
ld's voice cracked with raw terror as he shouted the words. The man before him... he didn't exist within ti at all. It was as if the very concept of ti simply slid off him, leaving nothing behind.
Everything in the universe—every star, every atom, every thought—is bound by ti. Ti is the fundantal river that carries existence forward. Without it, nothing has sequence, nothing has aning, and nothing can even be said to happen."
And yet this figure stood utterly untouched by that river. He had no past trailing behind him, no future pulling him onward. He simply... was. A being without temporal weight, without a place on the tiline.
ld's power relied entirely on the flow of ti—on seeing the chain of cause and effect, on nudging one event so another would follow. He could weave futures, unravel destinies, and bend the course of history itself... but only because everything moved through ti. Only because every choice rippled forward in a predictable direction.
This man? He had no ripples. No thread in the tapestry. He was a ghost in reality itself—untouchable, untraceable, unbound. If ld couldn't see him in the stream of events and couldn't grasp him in the future, then this stranger had no place in the world at all. He could do whatever he wanted, and nothing—no law of cause and effect, no chain of consequence—could ever reach him.
And if such a being truly existed... then the very idea of a future beca aningless. Ti itself lost its grip. This man was an immovable object standing in the path of the unstoppable force that is ti—an absolute paradox wearing human skin.
ld's heart hamred in his chest. For the first ti in his life, the future felt like a lie.
As he began to think to himself.
'If what I am seeing before is reality, then he is a bad matchup for soone like . I can't beat soone I can't see or affect; even setting up a trap in the future and waiting for the present to catch up is impossible... I thought that damn android was going to be a pain, but he is an even worse enemy. Well, if I can't beat him, I will just make soone else do it for .'
ld said to himself as he looked at his forr opponent and said.
"Why don't you go up there and fight him?"
"What the hell are you even say…
GHRAHHHHHH...
In that mont, a monstrous-like bird ca from above. And grab the dark-skinned man with its talons, as he chose and set a trap up in the future to make this possible, as the bird was heading towards Nier.
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