"This..." Kadi couldn't refute Igor, but he also couldn't understand. Igor's explanation wasn't entirely satisfactory to him. If he had to give a rating out of ten, Kadi would give it a seven.
Time advanced, tick by tock, not waiting for them. Regardless of their wishes, time was always with them, never slipping away.
"Your points aren't without merit," Kadi said. "But whether or not we've lost time, I feel we must press forward." With the assurance of seven-out-of-ten satisfaction, Kadi was no longer conflicted; now it was his turn to persuade Igor to move on.
"We can't just blindly carry on," Igor stated firmly. "If we don't retrieve those discarded segments of time, we'll constantly be manipulated by others." He had his own judgment about the current situation. No matter what, he was an outsider, and Guru Mountain would definitely be resistant to him.
Although Kadi was by his side, it didn't prevent the real powers of Guru Mountain from rejecting him as an outsider.
