It is strange... [ And why her of all people? She was an informant, nothing more ― what service could she ever do here if she no longer has the ability to get important information? ] Even with the different time intervals, it's almost as if neither of us have left in the first place.

Just a few days ago, someone brought up the theory that this world is some sort of... simulation. A virtual reality, for lack of a better term. That we do not notice someone from our own world is missing, because the lengths to remove someone from our universe without any trace is far beyond space and time in our world. That perhaps we are not entirely here and are able to have experiments heavily subjected on us by artificial intelligence.