"How could there be so many coincidences?"
"It was only because I appeared in this era that I had the chance to meet so many people."
"Perhaps fate never existed, and coincidence was merely someone else's inevitability."
"Don't believe in destiny unless you truly want to give up on yourself."
Ever since the day Shane happened to obtain the Demon Compass.
Fate Singularities had kept occurring.
But along the way, Shane had also acted ahead of so-called fate to seize opportunities.
For instance, the current set of choices mentioned defeating old enemies.
They included Chinjao, the World Destroyer, and Zephyr.
That meant those three had either gone to the New World or would go there in the future.
Shane had previously knocked Chinjao into the sea. Although his destination had been random and his whereabouts unknown, there had been no news of him for a long time.
The moment the choices appeared, it meant he was definitely still alive and had not drowned in the sea.
Without Shane's appearance, Chinjao would have his skull punched back into his head by Garp in the future, yet still live for decades afterward.
So, provided Shane did not intervene, nothing major would happen to Chinjao during the time before he encountered the Tyrant.
So-called fate.
Was nothing more than a sleight of hand.
Anyone who believed they were lucky and gambled again and again would sooner or later see all their efforts come to nothing.
Shane knew the circumstances of every encounter he had had.
Their reunion here was merely the convergence of everything he had done in the past.
Even the Demon Compass had been obtained after he was cursed, paid for with his life in his previous world.
Without dying, he would never have crossed over. What right would he have