Seven looked silently at his child—strictly speaking, his child's counterpart—smiling with a sorrow so profound it reached the extreme. His gaze swept across all the Ultras around him, until at last, nothing was left but a bitter grimace. "When... when did you realize something was wrong?"
"Well, actually, I realized right from the beginning that this might not be my universe. Because I remember clearly that there was no universe at this set of coordinates. There is one at an adjacent coordinate, sure, but not here. Besides, old man, you were way too nervous around me—nervous to the point of being extreme, so..."
Zero spread his hands, his gaze landing on the "elders" surrounding him. "Besides... your auras were hidden pretty well, but I am pure light."
—So even though you tried and tried to conceal yourselves, I could still sense those auras within you that were utterly incompatible with the light.
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