[Book 2] Gate Guardian - Song of the Frozen Soul

PHASE 30 - THE KEY TO COME BACK

PHASE 30 - THE KEY TO COME BACK

That voice that is similar to a monotone robot and that cute face with short silver hair; this homunculus must be the real Key, albeit much younger. The Key I know should look like a woman in her young adult age thanks to her weird Guardian Ability that makes her age faster than regular humans. 

Seeing Key in her infant form, floating with her angelic cyber wings is a new sight to behold. She’s like a kindergarten student who is forced to play a guardian angel role in a cultural festival.

“Key,” I muttered. “Is this really you?”

“Yes, Alaric Eisenhower. I am Key. I hope you are not confused right now.” The homunculus angel said.

“But how do you know me?” I asked. “This is the past. You should have no recollection of me from the future.”

“That is why I gave you my Memory Fragment.” Key smiled. “That cyber pocket watch contains all the memories I had the moment I was born until the present day. I have also compressed my knowledge as the former Goddess Athena on that Memory Fragment. I used it to transfer all the things I know in the future to this body in the past, making me the very same Key you know.”

“So now that you have transplanted your memories on that younger body of yours, you would no longer need the <Song of Salvation> to save you.” I smiled. “You’re way too smart for your own good, you damn homunculus.”

The Key immediately frowned. “I’m sorry, Alaric. You are wrong. There is no way I could carry this body to the future. My life in the future time will end, and that is a destiny I could not avoid.”

“So…” I bowed down. “There is still no hope, huh…”

“For me, yes. This is the end of the line for me.” Key said. Then she smiled thereafter as she gently touched my cheeks. “But for you, it’s not.”

“Key… What do you mean?”

“I am Key. I will be your key in order to go back to your time, to the future. I can make you meet Tiara once again.”

“Wha-Wait, you can do that!?” I exclaimed.

“Yes.” Key nodded as her smile went wider. “Right now, I am a Laplace’s Demon; a being that knows information from both the past and the present. The other me from the future also knows about this meeting, so that makes two demons.”

“I don’t have a Ph.D. in demonology, but please continue explaining,” I said.

“I know you wouldn’t get it, so I will explain another mechanism.” Key reverted to her classic poker-face expression and AI-like monotone. “There is also a theory about a time-space explosion involving nuclear fission by breaking the atoms to create sufficient energy for time travel. However, since the nuclear explosion only creates a rift, it needs two of the same reaction from the past and the future to collide. There is also an existing problem where the person must be exposed in the nuclear explosion which will surely kill him, making time travel improbable. But everything is different if we’re talking about you, Alaric since you have the armor that never breaks.”

I think my nose is already bleeding due to the information overload, but I need to keep up and pretend that I get everything. No, it's not fine. I might get killed if I didn't get this correctly!

"You mind translating it from bullshit to English?"

“In short, all I have to do is to activate my Guardian Ability <Sleepernuke> from the past and the future in order to break the time-space continuum and create a proper Time Gate that will deliver you to the future,” Key said.