"An accident that absolutely should not have happened, the chaos of an out-of-control collapse, someone's desperate wish... So that was it."
Compared to the last words left behind by the diviner, none of the others mattered anymore. Shade looked at his blurred reflection in the water, momentarily speechless. He wanted to speak with "her," but had no idea what to say.
Laplace Klein Howard's description of the rebirth following the collapse of the Past World epoch perfectly matched the answer Fate Base had divined for Shade regarding why he had come to this world.
When the long story reached its end, when a tragic conclusion played out at the end of the world, the despairing girl wished to start it all over again. And so, she chose to destroy the time of the entire Sixth Epoch, allowing everything to begin anew, giving herself and the world a second chance.
But she had failed to seize that second chance as well. Thus came the third, the fourth, and then the fifth and sixth.
And when that sixth "Past World Epoch" ended, when the river of time shattered once more and all things fell silent again, when the repeatedly damaged world suffered another grave injury, the accumulated errors finally gave rise to a mistake. Something that should absolutely never have occurred, something with a probability infinitely close to zero, something even more deserving of being called a miracle than a miracle itself, happened.
The Outlander raised his head and reached toward the heights, as though trying to catch the river of stars:
"The world's severe damage gave an Outlander from beyond the world an opportunity to enter this world, to enter a brand-new Sixth Epoch on the verge of collapse. When the Outlander opened his eyes in the Seventh Time, in the