"I don't understand."
Within Green Mountain, the last person to speak bluntly voiced his question.
He wanted the people in the mountain to offer him some guidance.
"I thought that stretch of time had vanished completely, beyond anyone's reach.
But why is it still there?
Even the connections to those manifestations of 'nature' remain within history. One careless move, and those manifestations of 'nature' could descend again through those historical connections.
The people who severed those manifestations of 'nature' could not have failed to understand that, so the mistake must not be theirs. It must be mine. I haven't understood it thoroughly enough.
I can't figure it out, so I would like to ask you all to enlighten me."
The person asking was utterly sincere. He truly wanted to know the reason behind it.
Throughout the mountain—Green Mountain—countless traces of intent lingered, left by different people from different eras.
Able to
"I don't entirely understand it either, but completely erasing time would certainly cause irreparable problems. And time that records certain events is an inseparable part of 'nature.'
The existence of that time gives 'nature' more things that can serve as anchors.
Losing that stretch of time would remove those anchors from 'nature.'
At that point, 'nature' would initiate its self-cleansing.
Freed of its restraints, 'nature' would return.
Who could restrain nature again then?
Besides, to this day, we still don't understand what 'nature' is.
That leads to another problem.
We don't know whether, when 'nature' makes its comeback, it will completely overturn that earlier stretch of time and return everything to the starting point.
In other words, all our efforts would have been for nothing, and 'nature' would guard against us doing the same thing again. Of course, this is only my theory. It isn't necessarily correct, but quite