Amber Was a Spy, Misteln's Scheme

This was no question to discuss lightly. It touched on the forbidden subject of bringing the dead back to life.

"..."

The Herrscher of Finality fell silent for a long moment. If a certain lucky bastard had been there, those few seconds would have felt like years to him. At last, the goddess shook her head.

"No. The dead cannot be brought back."

"...I thought so."

Bai Ge sighed, unsurprised.

"I can turn back time and return someone to an earlier state. I could make an elderly human an infant again, or return human civilization to its beginnings. But... I cannot bring a dead person back to life."

The Herrscher of Finality shook her head. It was the first time she had admitted there was something she could not do.

"The moment a life ends, its soul leaves its body for an unknown new world. Even stopping time cannot hold it back."

"Really? But Mobius and I..."

"The Shesha Honkai Beast's genes let a soul linger in its body a little longer. What you call resurrection is merely regenerating the body before the soul leaves it."

The Herrscher of Finality stroked Bai Ge's body as she spoke. In her view, Shesha should have been rated Apocalypse-class. The mere fact that it involved souls warranted that rating.

"All right. But I remember that the first humans of the Previous Civilization and the Current Civilization were exactly alike. Doesn't that prove your power over time can revive the dead?"

"No, that's different. The first humans looked alike only because the conditions at the time would produce humans of that appearance. It had nothing to do with my power, and their souls were entirely different."

The Herrscher of Finality shook her head. She lacked human common sense, but she understood her own powers.