"When you retraced my magical path and beheld my experiences, why can't I use the same method to see your current situation?"
"Time is relative."
"To you, I am a figure from the past, unreal, illusory. But from my perspective, you are merely a visitor from the future. Aren't you equally unreal and illusory to me?"
"Because you are too close to the flame of this Thousand-Year Fire and I happen to have a flame from another Thousand-Year Fire in front of me. Plus, when I saw you a year ago, I saw a Fire Bird in your eyes. I forcefully reversed that image, decoded the magic knowledge it contained, and learned Fire Bird Magic."
Princess Alsace said, "In the process, I too have been retracing your path."
Ivita was a bit stunned.
This seemed like a time glitch bug!
He never expected to converse with someone who had been dead for years.
In this magical world, time could no longer be seen as the ultimate reference.