"Uh, ah! Of course, I've already figured it out." Momonga nodded.
In reality, he had understood nothing at all.
No, Momonga had still grasped the most basic and most important thing.
"I need to find a way to find Aya in this world!" Momonga muttered.
"As long as she's still in this world."
Seeking and Searching
Momonga did everything he had done before all over again.
It was a bit like playing a single-player game. He had already cleared it once, then picked it up and played through it again—everything was familiar, and he had it all under control.
This time, he could finally think a little further ahead than Demiurge—because he had read the script.
And it was a script that extended far, far into the future. No matter how wise Demiurge was, he could not have anticipated events so far ahead. After all, chaos had too many variables. Aya's existence, for instance, was the greatest variable of all.
In any case, Momonga, having read the script, still acted according to the original route. He had always been conservative by nature. In Momonga's view, it was best not to alter the future as much as possible, because the future as it stood was controllable.
Momonga had heard Aya mention topological chain reactions before, also known as the Butterfly Effect—the idea that tiny changes in a system's initial conditions could trigger enormous long-term chain reactions throughout the entire system.
Put poetically: a butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America might flap its wings a few times and, two weeks later, cause a tornado in Texas, USA.
If time and history were treated as a system, every tiny difference might trigger drastic chain reactions, ultimately leading to an entirely different outcome.
"But it might not necessarily work that way. Some