Our enemies try to change it--usually by interfering with historical events, like major battles. So we travel back and make sure that history happens the way it's supposed to.
...The things that have happened to you have made you who you are. And - the world you live in has, too. If either were different, you would be different.
[there's a small nod. she can see both sides of it, honestly - how tempting it might be to change a single point in history, if things had not gone well... but she understands what he's saying, too.]
I'm not sure... it's hard to keep track of time. [when you're hundreds of years old and also your country keeps changing the calendar] At least a few years.
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Mmhmm.
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...that's it apparently]
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...How?
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What do they gain from changing such things?
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...I guess they're doing what they think is right.
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You can't change the past.
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I think... I wouldn't be myself, if the past was different. The things that happened--if they were changed, then I would be changed too.
[He's not sure how much sense that will make to a human, but hopefully she'll understand what he means.]
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...The things that have happened to you have made you who you are. And - the world you live in has, too. If either were different, you would be different.
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[...]
And the people I love--it's the same for them too. Changing the past would mean erasing everything they lived for.
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It sounds like... a strange conflict.
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[All of them--okay. Most of them do their jobs willingly, despite the pain it causes them.]
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I'm not sure... it's hard to keep track of time. [when you're hundreds of years old and also your country keeps changing the calendar] At least a few years.
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[He shrugs, which basically means "so he just vibed in the spirit void alone for a few hundred years thinking about his dead loved ones"]
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[she looks a little bit horrified? hello?]
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Not a human body, no. I'm a sword tsukumogami, so I didn't need one!
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You mean, to humans?
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[she is probably thinking about some part of this wrong, and she sounds a littl absurd even to herself, but—]
Swords do not have... mouths...?
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He thinks he understands what she's asking, though, and he tilts his head.]
Mm... not really? It's a little complicated... [He smiles, though it's somewhat apologetic.] Sorry, I don't really know how to explain it to human.