The big fellow said again, "It wasn't just space that did not exist. Time did not exist either."
It was a Time-Space Houn, yet it had actually said something like that.
If neither time nor space existed, did that mean this world did not exist either?
I was speechless. My thoughts were beginning to grow muddled.
The Time-Space Houn that had come with me asked, "Are you really me?"
The big fellow froze slightly. "I really don't know how to answer that question. In a sense, I am indeed you, but strictly speaking, I am myself, and you are yourself. How should I explain it? I have experienced everything you have experienced, but you have not experienced everything I have experienced. Right, I can put it this way: I can be you, but you are not me. You are still yourself. Only after you have experienced everything I have experienced might you become me. But that possibility is not great, because as your experiences increase, I gain new experiences as well."
I was even more confused.
This big fellow should have been the Time-Space Houn from the future, but it was impossible to determine exactly which point in the future it came from.
I still habitually defined things in terms of the past, present, and future.
That was a timeline, a way of judgment centered around time.
But it said time did not exist.
It was not the first to claim that time did not exist. Someone had told me the same thing before. He said so-called time was merely a definition given by humans. I remembered now—it was Dark Matter. It had said that there was no concept of time where they came from. To them, there were only differences in space, and the concept they proposed was a