[Damn it. Of course he isn't being let off the hook so easily... and he just handed his sword over, so he'd have to fight Riou over it first before booking it out of here, and even then it would simply be an ill-advised move. They're on an island, so all it would do is make their next run-in all the more awkward.
He takes a long moment to think of any other loopholes he might have left, but he has exhausted his list of excuses, and Riou is too sharp to not notice any more lies he might try to feed him. He has to tell him the truth.]
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This is going to sound really far-fetched, but I met you in what might be an alternative timeline for you, in a similar situation as we're in right now - only that it wasn't a matter of the multiverse being frozen, but rather one of the world we all got summoned to needing support from outside. I don't know if that's only going to happen to you later on, once we're resolved the current situation, or if it's two completely divergent timelines.
[The latter seems more likely, and it would align with the theory the other timeline's Riou and Jyuto came up with and which Riou told him about when they went on an expedition outside Lunatia. Hijikata didn't want to subsribe to it, and the reason is pretty evident now: he struggles with the concept of there being different versions of people who have no recollections of each other's memories.]
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He takes a long moment to think of any other loopholes he might have left, but he has exhausted his list of excuses, and Riou is too sharp to not notice any more lies he might try to feed him. He has to tell him the truth.]
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This is going to sound really far-fetched, but I met you in what might be an alternative timeline for you, in a similar situation as we're in right now - only that it wasn't a matter of the multiverse being frozen, but rather one of the world we all got summoned to needing support from outside. I don't know if that's only going to happen to you later on, once we're resolved the current situation, or if it's two completely divergent timelines.
[The latter seems more likely, and it would align with the theory the other timeline's Riou and Jyuto came up with and which Riou told him about when they went on an expedition outside Lunatia. Hijikata didn't want to subsribe to it, and the reason is pretty evident now: he struggles with the concept of there being different versions of people who have no recollections of each other's memories.]