Seeing the future sounded like an incredibly badass ability, but in practice, it posed an enormous challenge to the cognition of humans and even non-humans.
Especially when the user lacked awareness of their own place in time.
After Sno drank the Lorenz Butterfly potion, the side effect he endured was chaotic future sight.
Unlike normally seeing the future several seconds ahead or seeing images of the future, Sno was effectively given another pair of eyes that constantly watched the future.
Even more helplessly, the future those eyes observed was not continuous. Just like the name Lorenz Butterfly implied, the future he saw was chaotic, disordered, and changing at any moment.
To use an analogy modern people could better understand, Sno was like someone wearing a pair of holographic glasses. One eye played a smooth, uninterrupted shot, while the other showed a montage pieced together from countless fragments.
Therefore, in theory, it should have been easy to separate such a future from the present.
But that was only in theory.
In reality, it was far from easy.
Because biological instinct constrained Sno's choices.
When you saw someone raise a gun at you, when you saw something falling from the sky, when you saw a cold flash stabbing straight toward your eye, even if you knew it was not happening in the present, you would still dodge. That was an unconscious reaction ingrained into instinct. Conversely, if you deliberately suppressed that instinct, then when danger truly came, that brief moment of thought might make you miss the chance to avoid it.
But conversely, this was also the key to acting as Lorenz Butterfly.
Through his dealings with MI9, Sno gradually came to understand the core of Lorenz Butterfly's side effect—
What it required was never the ability to adapt to multiple visual