"You call me a parasite, Gaia. But a parasite weakens the host body. Here, the opposite is the Truth. My presence here has made this timeline's Alaya the single most powerful Will of Humanity in this Tree of Time, and the same should also be the case for you, should it not?" You smile at Tanaka. "The most powerful out of all of the Wills of the Planet, that's right, isn't it?"

"W-well... it might be. You may have stopped the timeline I reside in from branching outwards, so... I suppose that my powers aren't as thinly stretched as they are for the rest of my counterparts that administrate the other worlds. Even though we are the same being, I can't deny that not spreading myself thin to watch over hundreds of thousands of worlds has kept me... more powerful." Gaia turns away from you, apparently unsure of how to respond further.

Part 44