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Originally Posted by keri

But Asakura was never completely obliterated. Law of conservation, remember? The person Asakura was changed into something completely unrecognizable and the data scattered, I believe with rules put in place to not allow the IDTE-self to reconstruct it or re-enter.

Quite right. I believe when a IDTE member is "killed", they merely have their connections to their physical body severed, and yeah the body of Asakura probably turned into a tree or a chair. The "soul" of Asakura is probably in the IDTE, which I imagine is some sort of Hive Mind like the Borg is.

And Disappearance related stuff are probably spoilers, I think. So to be safe:

Spoiler for The Disappearance:

I believe that in the events of The Disappearance, the time travelers, the IDTE and the Espers are... Removed, for the lack of a better word. Everyone who was one of these groups before are now plain humans. So in a way, Asakura was created from nothing. Since in the first place there was no Asakura if there wasn't an IDTE to create her.