[ As with any time Venat tells a story, Maruki listens with rapt interest – and no small amount of mental note taking. There are always unfamiliar names and concepts to commit to memory. He truly never tires of it.

It's a perfect compromise between his own belief and the one that most others hold. The future cannot be altered, but split. It seems iron-clad, really; who could dispute that? ]

It makes perfect sense to me. Reality is an entirely malleable thing. There are surely multiple timelines for any given "world," and that's lowballing it.

[ Infinite, would be his theory, but perhaps a fanciful one. ]

Who knows? The same could very well be true of this reality too.