User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater:Universitas, chapter 12: Blake

Idenn, Ken, and Soma watched on as the mysterious man devoured the strange Vajra’s body and turned to face them.

“I thank you for keeping this beast busy for me,” he stated, dusting himself off. “I’d been following it ever since I arrived in this time a few weeks ago. Thanks to your assistance, I’ve finally managed to slay it.”

Idenn blinked, momentarily dumbfounded by what this man had just said.

“‘This time?’  Then, you come from—”

“—The future, yes,” came the man’s swift reply.

Soma stepped forward. “I must admire your skill in battle, whoever you are… but how did you know you were in the past… er, your past?”

“It’s Blake,” the man returned, “and I could tell because where I come from… WHEN I come from, humanity has been all but annihilated by the Aragami. They evolved at an extremely fast rate after a certain point, and in the year 2125, three immortal and invincible Aragami appeared and completely destroyed every human alive… except for me. I’m the only survivor.”

Ken shuddered. “The only one alive? In the entire world?”

Blake nodded. “Yes… in the entire world. I am all that remains of humanity by the time I come from. But I must ask… how did I get here?”

“I can answer that,” came Idenn’s response. “I possess an ability called Lifespring that lets me compress Oracle energy into gravitational singularities that send the matter around me across spacetime, as well as pull it from elsewhere in spacetime to my current temporo-spatial coordinates.”

Blake scratched his head, then nodded. “Hmm… that makes sense, I suppose.”

“I do have one question for you, Blake,” Idenn continued. “You said you arrived here ‘a few weeks ago,’ correct? That would about line up with when I myself first arrived in this time. What year did you come from?"

“From 2128… why do you ask?” came Blake’s response.

It was at that moment that something clicked within Idenn. With this, it all made sense. She had only used Lifespring twice since arriving here in 2081: once against the Boundary Hannibal, and once in the training facility when Ken arrived. Since Blake had arrived “a few weeks ago,” that had to mean that he had been pulled into 2081 no earlier than the same moment Idenn had, which meant—

—that Idenn herself must have come from the future!

And then, at that moment, something else flashed through Idenn’s mind—

—and she remembered everything.

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