In the end, Duanmu Huai still couldn't hold out and explained part of the situation—of course, he hid the fact that his incarnation in that world was a girl. As for the parts he really couldn't explain... fortunately, Rumiere was quite clever, and after her explanation, the girls finally managed to understand the situation to some extent.
"So you actually spent sixty years together in the future world..."
Ann nodded in deep agreement.
"That's amazing. So time can be used that way? I want to try it too."
"Don't try it. If you mess up and can't come back, it'll be a problem."
Duanmu Huai didn't possess the ability to manipulate time either. His trips to the past and future were entirely active transfers arranged by the system; he himself had no ability to travel through time.
"But, Knight, didn't you say Chaldea has a technology called... Spiritron Transfer?"
"That is a tool for transferring to Singularities, not time travel."
To put it simply, Chaldea's Spiritron Transfer used a Singularity as an anchor, then threw out a spiritron beam to connect to it before teleporting people over. It only felt like traveling through the past and future because Singularities existed on the timeline. In reality, that wasn't how it worked at all. Without a Singularity, you couldn't go anywhere.
"I see... How boring..."
After hearing Duanmu Huai's explanation, Ann was somewhat speechless.
"I thought we could go back to the past and play together for a hundred years, Knight."
"I'd like that too... But where would we find such a good thing..."
Duanmu Huai silently rolled his eyes. If he really had such an ability, wouldn't it be better to hide in some nook or cranny for a few hundred years himself?
"All right, all right. If there's nothing else,