Luvia, still massaging the wound on Shade's body that no longer existed, laughed in the wind carrying yellow sand:
"You think it's easy to create a relic of that level? No, there is no second key. I'm sorry, Shade, but I don't know why you saw me in the spring either. Even I cannot answer every question. But I do have some guesses about what happened to you. Do you remember this time's theme?"
"Destiny."
"Yes, Destiny. Destiny is the only power capable of crossing time and space, running through the past and present to create miracles. It is... a thoroughly unreasonable yet perfectly reasonable power."
Shade gently stroked her messy yet silky long hair:
"So my encounter with you in that spring was because our destinies are intertwined?"
Luvia liked that way of putting it:
"It should be more than Destiny. The secret of that snow mountain strengthened the bond between us; that should be the key point. Of course, there are reasons of my own as well. Your connection with me is greater than your connection with anyone else. And Claire and I went to that spring together back then, while this time, you also went to the spring with Claire.
Similar circumstances, combined with all kinds of inevitabilities and coincidences, allowed you to glimpse a corner of that Spacetime of Destruction. Of course, there is also the reason that you have been coming to see me so often lately. I am the only witness of that destroyed Spacetime, and every time your soul draws close to mine, it pulls you toward that nonexistent story."
"Then will I encounter 'you' again on Fatumonst Snow Mountain? Has anything similar appeared in your memory?"
Shade asked hopefully. Meeting her from the Past would not only allow him to obtain more