After leaving Shadow.Q's house, Rita walked through the streets of BS with Nivalis and B80 beside her.
Suddenly, B80 asked,
"Will you bring me too?"
Rita did not answer.
"You're going back, aren't you?"
Calculation was B80's instinct.
It had promised Rita not to expose the present and not to calculate the future.
But the things Rita had said to Deceitful Bloom and Shadow.Q were too revealing.
Possible outcomes naturally emerged within its processing systems.
It could not access the information of World Sigh or the illustration called Game Invasion.
But it could still guess what had pushed Rita into hesitation.
And it could infer the only path left open to her.
Returning to the very beginning.
Even after obtaining authority, Rita still could not defeat an old order strengthened across multiple epochs.
Returning to the origin was the only solution.
She was uncertain whether success was possible.
Yet there was still hope.
That was why she hesitated.
