"Finally noticed what I was planning? Aoko Aozaki, you truly are an excellent True Magic User. Unfortunately, you're too late."
Faced with this transformation akin to the consumption-centered Fifth Magic, Roland made no attempt to conceal his intentions.
"Living beings won't be affected by the acceleration of time. They'll be sent to the new world as debts. And to maintain balance, when it's accelerated to infinity, the universe will have no choice but to use the previous one as a template and repeat the Timeline it has already traversed. In other words, a 'cycle.'"
Aoko could understand Roland's thinking. The concept of cycles was hardly uncommon. The Möbius Strip and Ouroboros were both widely known concepts.
Her ability to keep sending her debts into the past and future, avoiding payment by jumping back and forth, made use of this same principle.
Through True Magic, Roland perceived the cosmology's Timeline. On that basis, when time accelerated to its end, what emerged would not be a new dawn, but an inevitability that had already occurred once.
The singularity that created the universe was inevitable, and so was the singularity that destroyed it. In the new universe, the positions and distribution of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Solar System, and even every planet, the birth of Earth, and the emergence of humanity would all be unalterable.
Even if an outside force tried to distort this, to repay the debt represented by the living beings Roland had preserved, who had come to the new world from the previous universe without being destroyed, the universe would have to obey this law, systematically correcting the factors that could cause deviations. That power was fate.
Gods, planets, and the Counter Force could not escape this invisible constraint. The Age of Gods was destined to flourish and destined