Unlike the system's utterly garbage teleportation, the projection technology of the Spiritron Transfer machine was incredibly stable.
This was hardly difficult to understand.
Chaldea's Masters existed to save the Human Order. If they were to get a gg due to something as simple as unstable teleportation, wouldn't they be completely screwed?
Enter the coffin—Quantum Transfer—Materialize five hundred years in the past.
It was just that simple a process.
Of course, that was assuming there was no interference.
A single bomb could make Team A of Chaldea, a group of demigod-level individuals, type out gg amidst laughter and cheer. Therefore, using the power of the Twelfth Divine Key to alter the landing coordinates was clearly not a difficult matter.
The young man with crimson eyes and a long, crimson katana hanging from his waist stood in a lush forest, surveying his surroundings.
As far as the eye could see, the vast green forest stretched out like an ocean, all connected. The trees grew thick and verdant, exuding a pleasant, refreshing coolness.
Sunlight, like fine strands of golden sand, pierced through the layers of leaves and branches, sprinkling onto the grassy ground.
"Captain... this doesn't look like Vienna."
The woman who would become the strongest Valkyrie five hundred years later held the Divine Key known as Black Abyss White Flower and looked around, her expression slightly bewildered.
She had received image data of the past from Otto.
The scene before her was clearly not among the images she had seen.
"Big Brother, do you know where this is?"
The girl, who was really just here to make up the numbers, stood tightly by the young man's side, looking around nervously.
Then, she tilted her head up slightly, gazing with her azure eyes at the young man who, in her mind, was practically omnipotent.
"This is the countryside outside of Edo."
The master of the Key of Erosion smiled faintly and stated their location.
"Edo?"
"The ancient name for the Far East's Tokyo."
The young man, who had long since used Jizo Mitama to tamper with Chaldeas and could control all of its instruments with his will, spoke with perfect composure.
Durandal, who remembered that Schicksal's headquarters was in Vienna, Europe, froze.
Weren't they here to save Private... pfft, Saint Kallen?
How did they suddenly end up in Tokyo?
"What is going on here?"
Vaguely sensing that something was amiss, Durandal narrowed her eyes, staring at the young man who appeared far too natural.
According to the plan, they should be lying in wait in Vienna right now, ready to rescue Saint Kallen at the moment of her death.
So, why did the Captain change the location to Edo?
What was he playing at?
"Captain, please provide a reason for unilaterally changing our landing coordinates. Otherwise, I may have to do something inappropriate to you."
Durandal gripped the spear in her hand tightly, her cyan eyes fixed on the young man who gave off a feeling remarkably similar to Rita.
Durandal respected Li Zihan.
However, she was not a brain-dead fangirl like Ana.
Faced with a situation that looked suspiciously like troublemaking, she would certainly not blindly obey Li Zihan's orders.
"The plan to land directly in Vienna was very unreliable."
The young man with vivid red eyes didn't seem bothered by Durandal's seemingly aggressive posture; he just shrugged his shoulders.
"We are currently in the upstream of time. Our every move could lead to more possibilities in the future."
"Right now, a still-young Bishop Otto is there. If he discovers our tracks and it influences his judgment, the future will change."
"So, I modified the plan a bit."
The young man, who never had any intention of landing in Europe, stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance.
Durandal followed his gesture. With her incredibly outstanding eyesight, she easily spotted a place that looked quite magnificent, like a small castle town.
"That is Yae Village. It's a place Saint Kallen will inevitably come to after her failed search for the immortal."
According to the plot, to deal with the black box containing a still-corrupted Ling, Kallen ran all the way to Mount Taixu to find Shenzhou's Flatboard.
However, at that time, Shenzhou's Flatboard had already been killed by her seven disciples.
Unable to find the black-stockinged Afu, Kallen had no choice but to wander around aimlessly. She was then caught up by Schicksal's forces and fled to Shinano in the Far East, where she simply jumped into the sea.
And then—
And then she floated all the way to Edo.
Speaking of which, how did Kallen float all the way here from the sea?
The young man, feeling that miHoYo must have left out a lot of plot details, recalled the Tama River tributary of Tokyo Bay he'd seen during his prior investigation, his expression turning a bit strange.
If she really floated all the way from the coast, didn't that mean she crossed an ocean with her physical body?
Wasn't that a bit ridiculously strong?
Also, don't the main and tributary streams of the Tama River both belong to exorheic rivers whose waters ultimately flow directly or indirectly into the ocean?
How could someone from the sea float in?
Did the seawater flow backward?
If that was the case, Li Zihan could probably understand why Yae Village suffered from a great drought despite having a river right next to it.
If people from Tokyo Bay could float into the Tama River tributary, who knows how much seawater had poured into the river back then.
The people of Yae Village used that seawater-contaminated river to water their crops every day. It would be a ghost's work if their grain yields didn't decrease.
Feeling that many of the developments here could only be explained by the omnipotence of Honkai, the young man sighed, gave up thinking, and chose to continue bullshitting with Durandal.
"Rather than risking a change to the future by staying in Vienna, it's better to just wait for her here."
The young man, who had no desire to inadvertently cause some butterfly effect, letting certain people pull some slick moves that would affect the future and alter the fate of the girls close to him, stretched lazily.
"So, what we should be doing now is waiting here for Saint Kallen to arrive, and then making our move?"
Durandal, having roughly understood Li Zihan's meaning, nodded.
Li Zihan's explanation was not without merit.
As people from the future, if they entered Vienna, one of the centers of power of this era, they could easily influence certain decisions and cause the worldline to change.
"So, our mission is to just wait for someone here?"
Durandal fell into deep thought.
She felt that this plan might be more difficult than she had imagined.
"Executing the mission without altering the course of history? Captain, could you explain your plan going forward?"
And then—
No one answered her.
Feeling that something was quite off, she lifted her head, only to suddenly discover that there was no one around her anymore.
—Li Zihan had already taken the hand of the quiet, soft-looking girl and was heading towards the town.
"Cap-Captain, what are you doing?"
Durandal, having been completely ignored, hurriedly chased after them.
"Finding a place to stay, of course."
The young man, who was mainly here for a date with Seele anyway, turned his head and rolled his eyes.
"If we don't hurry up and find a place to stay, are we supposed to live like savages in the mountains?"