Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter3 (section)

===Part 2===

''Eh?'' Hazel looked at him.

…''If the Wheel of Destiny is stopped, the Messiah won’t exist anymore and the world will undergo a great change.

But if it wouldn’t change much…

…''Could the Borderson people stay the way they are?

The impatience inside her colored her tone of voice.

“Wh-what do you mean? What would make it ‘go well’?” 

“Calm down and listen, but think of it as mostly a joke, okay?” He pulled his head back at her reaction but then sighed and explained. “The Wheel of Destiny happened for Lehrer because she destroyed a millennium’s worth of Spacetime Lives along with the anxiety Lives. But what if you managed to tune those millennium’s worth of Spacetime Lives?”

She considered it, spreading out her hands and counting on her fingers.

“Um, so you want me to use my Tuning on the Spacetime Lives extracted within Tristan?”

“You get what that would do, right? Tuning requires the Tuner to stay with the Lives until the tuning is complete. If you tuned a millennium’s worth, then you would travel with the Lives and end up a thousand years in the past. That would tune rather than destroy the Spacetime Lives but still send the Messiah to the past.”

That would create a past with the Messiah without making the world play out another loop. However…

“B-but that only works if Tristan extracts those Lives.”

“Yes, you would have to target precisely a thousand years of the Spacetime Lives and Tristan isn’t going to extract only what you need. Besides, tuning Lives on that scale would require a Device that’s up to the task. One that makes Rein König look like a toy. Which is why I called it a joke.”

He smiled and she sighed.

“Come to think of it, when the Geheimnis Agency Commander spoke to me at their Hamburg base last month, she said she would target the Spacetime Lives with my Messiah eye and try to avoid as much damage to them as possible when the ACBS hit.”

“Yeah, even they have to look at it as an ‘as much as possible’ kind of thing. But…the way things are headed, that will be the only option.” Berger gave her an exasperated smile. “Sorry. Did that get you down?”

“No. I’m kind of happy to learn you’ve been thinking about this, actually. I’ve been wishing I could do something like that too ever since leaving Borderson.”

She smiled and finished eating her cabbage and meat while being careful about possible bones.

…''He’s thinking about the same thing.

She wiped off her hands with a towel and touched her chest through her shirt to find her pulse was elevated.

…''I need to calm down.

She tried to set aside her fear and speak the words in her heart, but he spoke before she could get her mouth open.

“Hey, are you serious about learning about our past, Hazel?”

That was exactly what she had been hesitant to ask about.

“Even if that means going at it as a continuation of what we started in Borderson?”

“C-could you try to find a more tactful way of putting that?”

“I am trying. …You get what I mean, right? You have a Lives combat style, so you can read the German Lives injected into me if we sleep together.”

“Yes, and that should include the History Lives that have repeated time and time again.”

He stopped talking when she said that, but then he slowly nodded and continued.

“You’d figured that out? Lehrer told me there was one way to make sure she didn’t disappear.”

The German Lives injected into the two of them would include the Memory Lives from the versions of them and of Sylphide that had been destroyed by the loops.

…''And it’s easier to read the ones in someone else than the ones in yourself.

“Will you let me read our many pasts? Including Lehrer’s? I should be able to find some part of my own Text there and it will let me inherit all of my past selves.”

“Sure. It should also let you cheat when it comes to your Ober Beweisen. Not that it matters now that you want to stop the cycle.”

“True.” She smiled but then her eyebrows drooped. “But are you sure about this? If I’m going to read the injected German Lives, I have to start with-”

“With my past and the Text for Gelegenheit’s Ober Beweisen, yeah.”

He stopped there before suddenly pulling her toward him.

It was a forceful act, but she didn’t fight it.

She practically toppled onto her side in his arms and she reacted by purring.