"No. That's a definite no. You asked knowing that, haven't you?"

Henrietta answered Orion while watching Noah through the tracking magic.

"I knew. Well, at least I've tried."

Orion shrugged while smiling.

She glanced toward him.

"I don't understand why you would risk everything you've accomplished to tell them their future."

With no hesitation, Orion sat in front of her.

After sighing faintly, he explained.

"It's weighting over me. Still, I get it. I'm not lying to them by keeping it to myself."

"But I cannot ignore them as much as I wanted to. They are... still the same twins I've bonded with."

Tetra, who sat next to Henrietta, could feel the intense feelings coming out of his soul.

"..."

"Yes? Is something on my face?"

Her staring caused him to glance at her. Just from a look, she could feel something else.

'Love' toward her, yet not at all pointed at her. This felt alien to her, who could always tell who loved who.

"It's nothing. I simply cannot comprehend some feelings that I sense."

"What I can tell is that the feelings you have for those two are genuine, yet distant."

"Is that what tortures you so much?"

Placing her face between her hands, she smiled mischievously.

"What is it that you want to tell them?"

Orion felt a sudden chill, which was something he rarely felt.

It didn't come from Tetra's mischievous expression, but from something entirely.

But, as he tried to look around, she called out to him once more.

"Are you trying to dodge the question?"

At her question, he ignored that bad feeling and answered her truthfully.

"Are you aware of their fate, Henrietta? Is your ability capable of seeing the future of everyone?"

She shook her head, genuinely oblivious to their future.

"I don't often speak about the Remnant power I possess, but I suppose I can make an exception this time."

All the while, Orion's unpleasant sensation continued to trigger a warning flag in his head.

"I see the past activities and the current events happening to someone."

"The future is only a figment of what Tetra can actually do. I cannot influence that area."

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Orion nodded.

"This was close to my observations. Thank you for confirming them."

Kindly smiling, he continued.

"Let me tell you what happens near the end of this era."

...

(Wait, is he talking about us?)

(Shush, Nia. I would rather not get caught because of you.)

The twins sneakily listened through the opened crack of the door leading to the meeting room Orion, Tetra, and Henrietta were discussing in.

"Henrietta, you haven't gone further after witnessing Noah's death a few times. Can you confirm that?"

With a bitter nod, she acknowledged his suspicion.

"Originally..."

Having said that word, Orion frowned.

"I don't even understand what was originally happening and what is currently happening. There is already a conflicting realization in my mind, and it's not a good thing."

"Anyway. After being rescued by Noah, they were supposed to roam the continent alongside him."

"A reality that is far from what we are currently living through."

The twins opened their eyes wide.

(N-No way...)

Nia began to doubt her ears, but her mind understood perfectly well. Not only did Orion speak about Noah's death, but also about a future they would have experienced otherwise.

Her eyes gleamed instantly, feeling the emotions welling up inside her.

(...)

On the other hand, Mia was far too shocked to have time to listen to her other emotions.

Hearing Orion sigh, they continued to listen in silence.

"The lives they were supposed to have, I robbed them of it. My presence already changed things I don't know how to resolve."

"And now that I've been sharing time with them, it's getting more and more obvious."

"I want to be honest with them while I can. They have a very challenging future ahead. One layered with regret and despair."

He leaned on his seat, eyes turned to the ceiling.

"Would it be too far just to encourage them? Are my words strong enough to stop our reunion?"

"It's confusing. I pride myself on the knowledge I have, but this place where 'Time', 'Space', and 'Fate' all interlink is beyond me."

"I have to be mindful of every interaction I have. Every word I speak needs to be processed carefully so as not to influence anyone."

With a nod, Orion looked at Henrietta.

"For now, I have confirmation that none of the actions I've taken messed with my existence. I wouldn't be here asking you this otherwise."

Both Henrietta and Tetra nodded.

"But what about the rest? Mia and Nia will lose their lives during Noah and Miasma's showdown. I can't avoid that future."

"!"

The two Remnants straightened at this information.

(!)

The same happened to the twins.

"Are you serious?"

Tetra's mischievous smile instantly disappeared. Even though she wasn't close with the twins, she didn't dislike them.

Henrietta was the same. They were living in this place for so long that their presence was normal at this point.

Suddenly hearing that they would die made them angry, but most of all, saddened by it.

Noticing their expressions, Orion nodded.

"Even though they will die, Tiohr-nam will recover them."

"If I recall correctly, Tetra will have a vision about this a few months before Noah went against Miasma."

"She'll ask the Tree of Life to save the two, and in the process of that, they will become the first hybrid of human and fairy."

The two Remnants appeared even more perplexed after this.

"..."

Regretting her question, Tetra clenched her dress with both hands.

"This is unavoidable. It is selfish of me to keep their fate going straight for a nightmare, but without it..."

"I won't be able to see them again."

An expression of longing appeared on his face. At the angle the twins were looking inside the room, they could see his face.

(Why does he look so sad?)

(I don't know. Is he sad for us or for himself?)

Nia couldn't answer her sister. It was when Orion finished talking after that that everything became clearer.

"I've only told Noah about this so far."

Henrietta and Tetra focused back on the conversation, putting their feelings to the side.

"In my era, I have eight people pushing me forward. One of them, Henrietta, is Amelia, your daughter."

With a resolute nod, she kept her stare on him. She already knew from the beginning that her current idea of creating a child to alter fate somehow happened in the future, thanks to Orion.

"Out of the eight, Mia and Nia are two of my companions. The Twin Queens of the fairies are irreplaceable friends and women I love dearly."

"It's impossible for me to retract that fact. I can't have them dying a human death, or they would never meet me again in the future."

His eyes looked determined to make the past proceed exactly like it did.

"What I can do is avoid the injuries they suffered. But even that cannot be done."

"Why is that? Is it because they would become the first hybrid creations?"

Pinpointing the problem at its source, Henrietta asked. In return, Orion nodded.

"I am a natural result of two factions mixing into a single individual. In my blood is both the blood of angels and demons. These factions do not exist yet, but that will happen."

"Mia and Nia are another way to do it."

They listened as Orion continued explaining, with serious frowns on their faces.

"From Tiohr-nam herself, I know what happened. For a few thousand years, they will remain unconscious due to their injuries. During that time, she will inject the essence inside her core to protect them."

"But they are humans. Humans cannot live past a hundred years. The only way she could succeed in doing that would be to expand their lifespan."

"And the only way to do that was to infuse them with fairy DNA. They became half-human, half-fairy. "

"I don't know how Tiohr-nam managed to protect the twins from dying alongside her during one incident, but if I had to guess, I would say Tetra was the one to help her."

The pink-haired woman stared inside his eyes.

"Why would you think that? What benefits would I gain from doing that?"

She genuinely couldn't find a reason to act independently of Henrietta.

"It was you who saved them the first time, not Henrietta. You respect and love Noah too much to let them die meaninglessly."

"You most likely desire his legacy to continue even if he were to die. Am I wrong?"

Thinking for an instant, she ended up nodding faintly.

"I guess so. You're saying that since these two were rescued by Noah, I'll feel like keeping them alive as a way to acknowledge his efforts. That's something I will do. I have no doubt about it."

Tetra crossed her arms while glaring at the table, where Noah was fighting off hordes of corrupt beasts through the spying magic.

"You most likely warped them somewhere safer and then brought them to her after she regrew. That's the only explanation I have."

Orion wanted to ask her to also watch over the angels and demons, the factions brought alive by Noah, but he knew that this could affect the future.

He already decided to trust Alyssia with it, and he planned to stick with his choice.

(Nia, let's go...)

(...)

Pulling on her little sister's arm, the twins walked away from the door, returning to their room.

They had a lot to process, and their emotions were too unstable to do that at the moment.

Avoiding being found out, they returned to their room, trembling and shaking, tears threatening to travel down their stiff faces.