Dialogue with Setsuna 3

"Setsuna, could you give me a complete ELS sample? I want to absorb and fuse with it, upgrade myself, and improve my ability to survive.

After all, my DG Cells are fundamentally similar to your ELS, but they're weaker by who knows how many levels."

After catching up with everyone for a long while, Setsuna was taken aback by such a blunt request and by Thor's hand turning into metallic New DG Cells.

After thinking for a few seconds, he shook his head with a bitter smile and replied, "Dax, though I'd be happy to give you some right now... doing so would disrupt the closed time loop between us. So, I'm sorry."

"I see. Then there's nothing to be done."

Seeing Thor's disappointment, Setsuna comforted him with another sentence.

"Don't worry. The you I knew in the past hadn't fused with them before meeting the ELS.

You only successfully captured and fused with a complete ELS during your first decisive battle against them.

By the way, trying to capture ELS with a force field generated by GN Particles won't work. GN Particles were originally their creation, after all.

You can only try using an electromagnetic barrier to completely cut off their connection to the rest of their species."

"Oh~, so that's how it is. That's good, that's good."

What Thor didn't know was that although Setsuna had provided a reasonable capture plan, he had actually set Thor up in the future.

But Setsuna believed that only this way could Thor successfully complete the task of closing the time loop.

After learning that Thor was not yet his future self, Setsuna had even used Brainwaves to remind everyone about the contents of their earlier conversations, urging them to avoid topics that might alter history.

But then he suddenly realized another