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[subroutined]

[ And there it is. Hearing Emily's voice, excitedly talking about her devious plan to get herself two slices of birthday cake by claiming one was for Ash, just cements it as being really her. She's trapped in a time loop, just like he was. His memories of being stuck are... faulty. Fragmented. As though something went wrong with the save file. Probably because the same data was being written and rewritten over and over again, causing redundancies in the code that...

Ah, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that Emily is here, now, even though she's stuck in then. ]

Thank you. [ That's about the only response he can piece together. ] For saving her from it. For saving me.

[ Emily comes first, of course. She matters more; she's actually alive and he's just a computer with a human casing. Emily will always matter more. Just like Martha matters more. ]

What about her mum? Is she still in the time loop as well?

[jikan_npc]

...don't thank us until you two can finally enjoy a slice of cake together.

[It was hard to accept gratitude when there was so little they could really do to help. Even bringing everyone who becomes aware here could be considered the bare minimum, seeing as their own world is the reason these loops exist at all.]

Her mother is still in the time loop. The nature in which we look into worlds is a bit complex, but in this case, we know this because you and her are the only ones here from your world. If she had become aware, our systems would have been pinged to send her an escape portal.

[subroutined]

I understand.

[ Well, he sort of understands. The whole scope of travel between universes and infinite time loops is a little beyond his programming, but... He understands the theories involved. He's done a little reading, since he arrived, to try to get up to speed. ]

How far does the time loop spread? Is it just our part of our world affected, or is it everything and everyone?

[jikan_npc]

...the scope is nigh impossible to comprehend.

Your city. Your country. Your planet. Your solar system-- though we use the term "worlds" to describe the places we draw you all from, what we really mean is "universes". And once a universe has been affected by the time loop, reality itself bends to its whims.

[She takes a calming breath, adjusting her glasses as an excuse to look away from a moment. For all that her demeanor has been entirely composed, this is a topic that's difficult for her to talk about.]

Before we began our mission to save those who become aware of it, we were awestruck by the sheer magnitude of what a single spell in our world could do. Even now, I don't know if we truly understand the weight of what has been done. Much as we've come to depend on it in modern human society, the limitless power of magi-tech is... truly terrifying.

[subroutined]

Ah. Mm.

[ There isn't much he can say to that. She's right, the immense scale of it, spreading out to near-infinity across a near-infinite number of universes... His mind is designed to be more powerful than an ordinary human's, and it's still a lot even for him. ]

Do you— Ah... Is it known how it all started? What caused the time loops in the first place?

[jikan_npc]

We have a strong theory that most of us have accepted to be the truth. I suppose it's been a while since we've included it in the weekly orientations for new arrivals...

[But she'll need to explain a bit, for why they're certain this was the case--]

The flow of time has always been a bit odd in our world due to the existence of Sora magic. Using it, you can manipulate the flow of time, but typically only on a small scale. The natural time surges that pop up here and there are also powered by Sora magic.

Ordinarily, there are limits to what can be accomplished by single spell. But magi-tech is designed to move around these restrictions, allowing even non-magic users to cast spells through technology. Your magi-comms are a good example -- they run by casting thousands of very precise spells, which work in tandem with the technology so that it never loses power or signal.

We believe that someone created a device to cast a powerful Sora magic spell. Essentially-- they were trying to make a time machine. But when that spell backfired, it was amplified by an unimaginable magnitude.

The reason we can only call this a theory-- is that such a machine shouldn't be possible using the technology available today. Meaning that whoever created the machine broke the past.

[subroutined]

[ The explanation is a lot, to someone for whom most of this magic and time loop business seems like fantasy. But he's been trying to broaden his definitions of what is or isn't real, upon being brought here. So he coaches himself to accept the explanation as it's given, and move forward from there. ]

That doesn't sound awfully fair. We're all paying the price for a mistake that hasn't been made yet.

[jikan_npc]

It isn't fair, no. And for that reason, we tend not to talk about it too much. After all, it wouldn't be too difficult to imagine who might one day be responsible for such a thing. And I refuse to allow anyone to punish someone for a crime they've yet to commit.

Of course, with everything that's occured, that future is unlikely to ever happen now. But as for what sort of time paradox we've spawned as a result... that, we don't yet understand.

[subroutined]

I wonder if whoever made the time machine mistake-- or, whoever will make it-- is even aware of the paradox that's resulted.

[ Not that it would make anything better for those living inside the paradox timeline. ]

[jikan_npc]

...the person as they are now is aware. But the person they may have one day become may not even exist anymore.

While we are aware of circumstances in which someone can exist in two places at once, we've decide there's no merit in pursuing that possibility.

And in any case, it has no impact on what we choose to do from this point forward.

[subroutined]

[ He wants to ask who the person is. But it feels like overstepping some kind of boundary. Like even if she did tell him, it wouldn't be information he ought to have any right to know.

So, he'll focus on the rest of what she says. ]

And what is it that we choose to do? ...That the NRL is choosing to do, that is.