Keep Settling In!

In this world, going back to the past and changing time was not all that difficult a thing. It truly made it impossible to feel at ease.

Although Time-Turners required an application, if an accident occurred, that meant the other party had already violated the rules governing their use. Could you really expect them to follow the rules and apply for a Time-Turner?

From what Katria had said about how they broke into the Department of Mysteries, the Department itself did not seem to have particularly tight defenses.

Who could guarantee that they would not be innocently caught up in it, becoming part of the chain reaction caused by altered time and the painful price it demanded?

You could be sitting peacefully at home when, all of a sudden, someone went back in time and killed your ancestor, or the ancestor of someone who had once saved you, or the inventor of the Potions that had once saved you, or that inventor's ancestor...

For all sorts of reasons, you might suddenly die.

That would be far too unfair!

Although such cases were rarely mentioned in the supplementary clauses attached to Time-Turners, Manus knew of one instance of temporal change that was not recorded in those clauses either—and everyone's memories had changed along with it...

It was difficult for Manus not to suspect that those records were merely the tip of the iceberg. Far more changes had never been observed at all!

Manus currently had no good way to prevent or deal with this kind of unpredictable man-made disaster, but at least he knew that he would not be affected.

"Hmm? Maybe I'm not the only one unaffected..."

Manus suddenly wondered whether the other lives within his Soul System possessed similar Linear Time traits.

Those lives did not possess Manus's characteristic