"Maybe, if we weren't in the unbranching timeline." Alaya sounds annoyed.

"I'm sorry, what?" That gives you pause for thought. The timeline you're in is unbranching? What does that even mean?

"This timeline, it was split off of the origin point for humanity, and seems to have taken aspects from many other branches and forced them to fit together, you could call it a broken timeline if you wanted, as somewhere within this branch there will be an entity that is incapable of being copied through the splitting of a timeline, and therefore, only the decisions made by that particular entity are capable of actually being decisions. You are the cause of that, in case you didn't gather." Oh... You have no idea how to respond to that. "I think I've told you enough of what your duties and the benefits you will receive will be if you accept my offer. So please, accept my request, become the defender of humanity."