"Ok, let me explain..." Raine said.
He looked around trying to find something.
"What are you looking for?" Sunny asked.
"A Net!...that way it would be easier to explain how fate works..." He continued looking for it going from one place to another....
"You don't need to, you can explain it without a net, I will underst-.....HEY, DON'T OPEN THAT!"
Sunny looked in horror as Raine open the Priestess wardrobe and brought out a pair of ... stockings.
"This is perfect. I told you she had an impressive collection, didn't I?" Raine said, proud of his finding.
"....Ok, so what are you.. gonna do with ..it?" Sunny asked not trusting this man who even tried to wear a bra once.
"Hey, I'm not gonna do anything weird, ok? don't give me that look,.... it's for educational purpose only..... Here.. look.."
Raine ripped one stocking from the middle and flattened it as a sheet on the floor.
"So...." Raine said.
"This is fate."
"...."
Sunny looked at the man.... Not knowing what to say...
"Ok, don't give me that look...you can think of this as fate ...with all this threads and crosses..." Raine begun his explanation.
"So fate is also a web of strings woven together, like a complicated net..you can think of this as a simplified version.." he gestured at the ripped Stocking.
"Ok, first let me tell you what fate is..." Raine continued.
"..So.... you can think of it as prediction of all the thing that will happen."
"Like let's say you open a door ... I can predict that you will use that door and get out, right? ...Fate is also that,.....a prediction... Just done by an astronomically superior mind who can read the thoughts of people of the whole world, their Actons, deaths, everything."
"It analyses everything and make an accurate prediction."
"But it's just that.... A prediction.... It's not reality. It isn't absolute. You can change your actions.... You can choose to not go out after opening the door.... But that's hard to do."
"People usually don't know what is written, and do things how they would usually do. And even if they do something else, that thing is also predicted. ...It's done by a cosmic entity for a reason, you know."
"So unless you know what is going to happen and how to change that precisely, people usually can't change fate. You got it?" Raine asked.
Sunny nodded.
"Ok then, now let's look at how things actually happen because of fate."
He gestured at the black stocking which was like a fishing net with strings that crossed each other at certain points.
"So this is what fate looks like. ...A bit more complex but it's a net, made of strings too..." Raine said.
"So each thread or string represent a person," he said running his finger along a thread. "...and each cross or intersection represent an event.... Something that is going to happen."
"You can think of it like this... this string is you...." Sunny became a thread of women's stockings. "....and this string is Nephis...and the cross you two make... represent you two.....fighting, ..yeah, let's go with fighting." Raine said.
"Ok, ...let's take another example, this time with three strings....This one is you, this one is Nephis, and this one is Cassie...and when they meet here...this represent you being turned into her slave.... You understand?" Raine asked.
Sunny nodded watching the 'event' with a cold look.
"Great, so now... If you try to pull them apart.....it won't work... because they are tied too strongly...and even if you pull them apart...they won't leave their place... Because the other strings will still force them into the same place..." Raine explained as he did something wierd with the stocking that sunny didn't understand.
But he understood what he said.
'That stockings wasn't really nessesery...'
"Ok, so now you see why can't you change an event from happening?....even if you try to pull the strings apart, ..they will again fall back to their previous position...and things will happen as same as before..."
"But....what if I do this...." Raine held a thread and pulled with force...
... Ripping the whole thing again..
"....." Sunny looked at him with deadpan look.
"...ok....this didn't go how I planned it to go....but..." Raine said a bit embarrassed but quickly picked up his teacher persona again.
"..The main thing is...if you remove a string completely...then that event will change automatically..."
"Those strings that were making that event will never meet at that cross and.. as such the event won't happen...or it will change greatly into something else"
"If we remove Nephis string all together..then you two won't fight.... Because there will be no Nephis left to fight you... You understand?" Raine asked as he looked at Sunny with hopeful eyes.
"I understand... A bit..." Sunny said.
"Ok.." Raine tossed the stocking aside...
"Think of it like this... Let's say ...my son will destroy this world, and that's fate.. how will you stop it from happening..." Raine asked.
"Simple, I'll just kill you right now, and you won't have a son in the first place... so no world distruction..." Sunny replied.
Raine stared at him with a hurt look.
"WHAT?" Sunny shouted.
"You ... You didn't even hasitate... Before killing me ...I thought we were brothers..." Raine said rubbing his eyes.
"Hey, I was just answering your question, dammit!.. I won't kill you.. I just said that beca-"
"Hahahaha, relax... I was just joking... Hehehe" Raine laughed at him.
"I might change my mind." Sunny said with a serious look.
"Ok, ok, let's put the jokes aside... And you got that right, if you kill me, my son will never get born and no world distruction will happen... That means you changed the fate..... You see how that happened?"
"You removed my son string completely and with it the event happening because of him also disappeard. ...."
"Same thing will happen in fate.. you just have to remove the string and things won't happen how they are supposed to happen...." Raine said with a smile.
"..Strings of fate are strong, stronger then anything you can imagine... But they have a weakness, and that is the person they are tied to, if you kill that person, the string will disappear with them... Simple."
Sunny thought for a bit and asked..
"Isn't that way to easy, why She said it's impossible...? ... This looks too easy, you just kill the person and fate will change?" Sunny asked.
"Yeah, it is simple... But it's also difficult.. let's say you want to kill me for changing the fate of the world... But... What if you can't kill me? ...what if you aren't strong enough to kill me? ...then you won't be able to change anything. I will have my son and..."
Prisma rose in air pointing at Raine's head.
"..Or not. ...who said I will have a son?.. I won't have to son. ...Never.... Because I will never marry. Why would I marry if I had my Prisma with me. She is better then any women ever will be." Raine said as he picked the sword and rested it on his lap.
"So anyway.. I was saying... You need to be strong enough to change things. ..if you want to change the fate of someone, then you should be able to kill them... That's the way..." Raine said.
"So you understand what you need to do to change fate and recieve a high evaluation from spell right? ...you just need to kill those strong people who are the cause of your nightmare's event."
"This way you can evolve your aspact and get rid of that slave bond completely. Simple as that." Raine said.
Sunny thought about it.
It made sense.
But why...
"..Why did she didn't do it this way?" Sunny asked.
"Why did Cassie chose to do things like she did?"