Su Tianqing had experienced this rather fantastical-sounding thing—conversations that transcended time—once before.
Though calling anything fantastical in the world of Magical Girls was itself rather fantastical, she could not help connecting the two incidents.
[Future Support Magical Girl]
Su Tianqing would never forget the Battle of the Jörmungandr in Harbor City.
Back then, with the series of items Inari had left behind, she had personally witnessed the first half of Inari's life as a Magical Girl: from obtaining the Guardian Star, to growing into an outstanding Magical Girl, then discovering Jörmungandr's existence and witnessing the series of struggles undertaken by that red fox girl...
In the end, Inari had achieved the unprecedented—and likely never-to-be-repeated—feat of [Future Support].
Her "Future Prophecy" had allowed Su Tianqing to speak with her face-to-face within her memories, but that magic had essentially only let Inari use magic to predict "what Heartmoon Fox would do in the future." It had not been a genuine conversation across time, merely something that looked very much like one.
That soccer ball which had fallen into Otherworldly Space only to be dug up from a meadow sixteen years earlier, and that video recording which had disappeared in an alley yet mysteriously appeared in a garden—at first glance, these two things had nothing to do with each other, but they shared one common experience:
They had both entered Mindscape Rongcheng, the place trapped in the Millennium, alongside their holders.
That sole commonality producing the same result could only mean that something had happened in that strange Mindscape, causing two points in time that could never intersect to converge there, giving those objects the possibility of transcending the Time Law and returning to the past.
—The Time Law.
Su Tianqing recalled this fundamental rule of the world that she had learned from