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Old 2010-07-02, 05:19   Link #400
night_sentinel
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Hi quigonkenny,

I think the emergency escape program – bookmark, does not have the memories of what happened after Tanabata except giving her past self the knowledge that yes your future self is the cause of this and yes your also the one who gave Kyon the way out . And remember when past Yuki attempted to synchronize with her future astray self it was denied by her future self by some sort of shielding. Unless Yuki synchronized another time that Kyon is not aware of which is 50/50 due to the fact that further synchronization will make Yuki vulnerable to the errors that future Yuki will accumulate.

Thus, I believe that Yuki has an idea of what happened in disappearance and even when but, does not know more than that. Yuki knows she will cause that time quake and knows its due erroneous errors that will build up. Yuki also knows any event that Kyon briefly narrated when he is explaining the situation is and maybe endless eight is one of those, who knows?

Anyway whether, Yuki knows endless eight or not, the loops are excellent way of gathering information and preventing disappearance from happening. Assuming that the past months in the SOS brigade Yuki has not figured it out. Yuki will then not help in breaking the loop since it gives her more time to figure out how to prevent herself from going astray. Thus, explaining her inaction this time and due to this, those two weeks looped that many times since with Yuki’s help, Kyon and the others would probably be able to figure it out before the loop reached hundred digits or even ten.

Yuki will actively prevent disappearance because her current self does not want it to happen. Even if disappearance already happened, Yuki will not simply cause it just because she in the future caused it. This is because of a belief of Yuki that was first shown in this particular novel. According to her own words, no one can guarantee that something that hasn’t happened will ever occur. This meant that despite everything Yuki does not believe in predetermined events.

It’s actually an interesting quirk, if you think about it. This means despite being linked to a dictatorial IDTE that dictates her life’s purpose, having a non-linear concept of time which perhaps made her feel a puppet at times and above all the disappearance where she tries to prevent something and it happened anyway. Yuki still firmly believes in free will.
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