Zero remembered the battle.
The Emperor of Destruction.
Aamon.
The Unison Raid.
The destruction that followed.
The world after it.
He remembered disappearing from public view afterward.
Mia receiving the recognition.
Hiro standing beside the others.
The world had remembered what it could understand.
Mia.
The powerful ice mage.
The hero at the center of the celebration.
But Zero's involvement had changed everything before that point.
His existence had created possibilities that hadn't existed in the expected sequence.
Mia's role had expanded.
The final battle had shifted.
Hiro's position had changed.
One event.
Then another.
Then another.
Zero slowly looked down.
"So Mia became the center because of me."
Earth Zero's expression didn't soften.
"Partly."
Zero looked toward him.
"Partly?"
"Don't reduce it to one choice."
Earth Zero's voice was calm.
"The deviation didn't happen because you made a single mistake."
Zero frowned.
"Then what?"
