"...... I'm the one who greeted Jin."

Zion's cheeks are slightly reddish.

Well, I guess it's not good to hear that you have a grandchild out of the blue.

"Oh, you saved my life that time. Thank you, Theon.

"Thank you, Theon." "Let me thank you, too. ...... thank you, Zion."

Following Jin, Erza bowed her head.

"I don't know what to say. What is in the past for Jin is in the future for us, and it hasn't happened yet.

"That's true."

"But maybe I heard Jin's story and I remembered it well enough to give instructions to my descendants, right?"

That's what I'm thinking.

"......That's a lot of responsibility...I wonder if I'll still remember it 400 years from now."

"I trust you because you are Zion of the clan.

< clan has a good memory, which is a characteristic of their race.

"Ugh, it's a big responsibility after all. ......"

Zion frowned again.

"But I guess it's harder than I thought."

Reinhardt shook his head in admiration.

"How could you possibly be ...... alone in such a situation?

Jin, however, shook his head at Reinhardt's words.

"Alone and helpless, huh? Not so much since I met Rhodes."

Jin thinks of the that has connected the present era to the future.

"I'm glad to know that everything I've done so far hasn't been in vain ...... or at least that I've saved myself."

"Sure, that's the way it is, isn't it?"

"Uh, uh, what have I been doing?"

Marikka asked Jin slowly. She must be curious.

"Yes, I met with Marikka.

We'll talk about that later, Jin said and took a sip of Citran juice.

"But ...... what can I say? For Jin it's the past, for us it's the future. It's getting a little confusing when I think about it.

Reinhardt let out a mumble that could have been taken as a blur.

I'm sure that's true. Even in ...... Jin's former world, time travel was not realized, was it?"

This time it was Goose.

"Yes, that's right. Well, there have been many stories about time travel.

"Well, that's interesting.

Well, I'll tell you about them when I get a chance.

"Well, I'll tell you about them when I get a chance. I'd like to hear about Jin's own story now.

"Yes."

Jin took another sip of Citran juice.

"Hey Jin, what do you think is going to happen to us?

Bina asked, but Jin shook his head.

"I'm not sure if I should tell you. ......"

"What do you mean?"

"It's another fictional story, but there's a theory that if you know the outcome, you may become unmotivated or stop taking the actions you need to take, and the future will change."

"Is that so?"

Jin then tells a parable.

"For example, you hear that you will bump into someone and fall on a certain day, so you stay out of the house on that day.

"Hmmm."

"And that will not bump into you, but you might get hit by a carriage on the way there."

"How can that be?"

"How can that be?" "Because they won't fall over, they'll walk on ahead for a few seconds or a dozen seconds, right?"

"Yeah, right."

In that case, it could be worse, Jin said.

"So you don't collide with a person, but you collide with a carriage.

If the result of such a collision is death, there will be no offspring, so it is no wonder that the future may change in various ways.

"Well, in that case, maybe a completely different person will be in charge."

In the end, it all comes down to the fact that we don't know.

"That's why I've been trying to avoid such information as much as possible," he said.

"Well, it's really complicated.

"That's why some people say it's better not to know too much about the future."

On the other hand, there is a theory that you can't change your destiny in any way, Jin added.

"But there are some things that I've learned about the future, too," he said.

One of them is that I am recreating <>.

"You can also ...... against Reiko and the old man."

"Father, is there a reason why we have not been mentioned in your stories so far?"

>

"Yes, I'm going to tell you that now. But there are some things I don't understand, and I dare not ask them.

"What is it?"

"Future Zion told me that it's fine to know the result, but it's better not to try to know the process.

"Heh?"

Theon let out a stupid sound.

"Oh, me?"

"Yes."

Jin nodded.

"You said that when you know the process, you lose the desire to improve."

"Is that so?"

"That's most likely because you heard me say it right here and now."

"...... sure. I mean, time is so complicated!

"I don't know what to tell you. ......"

The may have understood it to some extent, but he did not tell Jin about it. He would not have understood it even if he had explained it to him.

"The paradox of time is so difficult, isn't it, Onii-chan?"

Hannah looked a little thoughtful.

"If we don't know the right answer, I guess we have to try not to do anything unreasonable."

"That's right. ......"

"It's easier to understand if we focus on Oni-chan, right?"

"Hannah, what do you mean by that?"

"Well, for Oni-chan's time line, everything is in order."

In short, it means that there is no contradiction such as Jin meeting Jin himself.

"For us, it's the future, but for Oni-chan, it's the past in terms of time.

"So that's one way of thinking about it."

Since we do not know the correct answer to these questions, we cannot reject these ideas in general.

Jin just said,

"......There are many things to do from now on.

Jin just muttered, "We have a lot of work to do.

It was almost dark outside the window.