[Talulah]: So you'd already forgotten?
[Steel Prison Big]: It wasn't that I'd forgotten. It's just that this isn't something that can be done overnight. After all, without knowing the coordinates of Sajyo Ayaka's world, precisely locating her world among countless parallel worlds is no different from looking for a needle in the ocean. Even I simply can't do that.
[Roaring Moon Sea Fish Cat]: Then did you look for it?
[Steel Prison Big]: Kiana, the definition of the word "search" may be far more complicated than you think. On this land, some traces cannot be found simply by "searching" for them. It's like the Honkai Energy in the air—if you try to seize it, it will only make you sick. In my life so far, I've seen far too many people descend into madness searching for an answer, only to discover in the end that what they were seeking was merely a projection of their own desires. Did I look? I don't know. I only know that world is simply where it ought to be. After all—what has not been found is also found.
[Talulah]: Why do you sound so much like Kal'tsit? You're impossible to understand.
[Homura Akemi]: I think instead of saying all that, you should just answer directly. Did you "look," or did you "not look"?
[Steel Prison Big]: I didn't look.
[Talulah]: ...
[Roaring Moon Sea Fish Cat]: I see. Then it really is something that can't be done at all.
The odds of finding a needle in the ocean were infinitely close to zero, but as long as one searched, there was still a chance of finding it. If he hadn't searched at all, though, that was another matter entirely.
Still, Kiana could understand. It was like doing homework during vacation—unless it was the last