Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:MvM Chapter4 (section)

===Between the Lines 2: Reincarnation Goddess Salinagaritina’s Miscalculation===

Reincarnation Goddess Salinagaritina made a heavy sound as she leaned forward without thinking.

Which meant she did in fact have mass.

“Ahh!! No, no, no, nooooo!!!”

What was the problem?

For that matter, what was she even trying to do?

That was probably unknowable for the humans having their souls and fates manipulated.

Even after having their game pieces moved all the way across the board, the humans could never understand this. Only the goddess herself could.

(Ehh? This wouldn’t have been a problem if they just kept traveling to new worlds, so why would they go out of their way to turn around and repeat a world? Now they’ve opened some weird power field…and that’s going to make a remote activated reincarnation for them difficult. If I wait for that to settle down on its own, they’ll probably have conquered another world already, so what am I supposed to do? …Man, I’m going to be in so much trouble.)

She was a reincarnation goddess.

She controlled all loops and all power that ran through them. She ruled over all ''one-way'' cycles such as the destination of individual lives, the food chain cycle, and the supernovas that caused an overgrown red giant to create a blackhole and scatter the materials for new stars. Although it may have been more accurate to call her one of the beings who ''externally'' implanted those functions and roles into a world.

But at the same time, she could not touch anything that did not take the form of a loop and she could not reverse the cycles that already existed.

When there were actions, there were reactions.

It was by enjoying and accepting those costs that you could become a goddess with a single specialty.

Did you notice the crucial term in that thought?

She saw it as something you could ''become''.

That meant her role as a goddess was not something she had been given at birth.

If that pointy-haired boy were here, he might have approached an understanding of what she was by comparing and contrasting her to the one-eyed girl who called herself a Magic God.

“But on the other hand…”

Salinagaritina took a deep breath.

She regained her calm.

In her white dancer’s outfit, she produced a chair in the vast empty space and sat in it.

She spoke aloud even though she was the only one around.

Almost like hearing her voice confirmed that she physically existed.

That was how she controlled her mental state.

“This leaves me with only one option: saddle those two with the ultimate distortion this creates☆”

She sounded somehow regretful.

But at the same time, she sounded disinterested, like it was none of her business.

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