Editing Clash of Hexennacht:Volume4 Preface (section)

===Their Proof===
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“But from what you’ve said, we weren’t really created by the Black Witch even though this world is her creation.”

Horinouchi looked up into the sky and spoke from the seat at a table on the courtyard terrace. Kagami responded while accepting a can of soda from Mary.

“A setting is only a setting. This world was set into motion from there and my sister has intervened in the many Hexennachts since. There are sure to have been some omissions and additions to the setting, but this entire world, including you, is from several generations after what my sister ‘imagined’.”

Horinouchi trusted Kagami enough to just say “Is that so?” and take her at her word. Meanwhile, Hunter said “That’s kind of a problem in itself” from the opposite seat. She then raised both hands.

“Then is it not the Black Witch’s fault that my family seemed kind of sloppily put together?”

“Even my world had a history,” explained Mary next to Hunter. “Calculating back from that and investigating the oral traditions suggested that about 2000 years’ worth of that history ‘actually existed’. In most cases, we considered she might have intervened at the major turning points.”

Horinouchi looked down while thinking, “I see.”

“I guess we can’t just blame everything on the Black Witch.”

“Is there something you would like to dodge responsibility for, Manko?”

“Don’t call me that!”

“Brigadier General, are you saying that aspect of Miss Horinouchi was part of the Black Witch’s setting?”

“Not a chance,” said Hunter while shaking her hands side to side.

Horinouchi simply nodded, but something caught her attention.

“Kagami, your name would be outside the Black Witch’s setting, wouldn’t it?”

“My name supposedly comes from the fact that my grandfather said, ‘Our family name already sounds like it means mirror<ref>Kagami usually means mirror, but her family name spells it differently.</ref>, so it’s about time we actually gave someone that name, right!?’ I am the first in the family to take the name. Whenever he would tell that story, the running gag was for my mother to glare at him and correct him by saying, ‘We named her that so she would become a good role model who would be a reflection of whoever she is with.’ ”

“…Which one of them worked to turn that into a running gag?”

“Her grandfather.”

Horinouchi was certain of that. And she understood. After all…

“The Black Witch is named Shouko. …If the older sister was a reflection of the other person, the younger sister must be a girl who would give a clear view of the other person’s true nature and work to understand it. Isn’t that right?”

“Well deduced, Horinouchi. And that is what makes Shouko so easy to understand. …And why I let my guard down.” Kagami smiled bitterly and then looked to Horinouchi as if something had just occurred to her. “Horinouchi, your mother was named Mitsuyo. She would have been given that name in the hopes that she would ‘fulfill’ things in her ‘generation’, but I bet she was more focused on the next generation herself. She saw that fulfillment as her role and so she removed the ‘generation’ from her daughter’s name to say it was already complete. Thus, you are the container that has already been filled, Manko.”

“She did not add the ‘ko’ to the end!”

“What does that matter?” asked Kagami. “If the turning points are the Black Witch’s intervention, then continuation is a natural thing and a sign of peace. …Your connected names make you a parent and child of peace. That is what this means, Horinouchi. Or am I reflecting you incorrectly?”
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