Mighty Heart - Vol. 7 Ch. 73 - Method of Betrayal

[MangaDex]

 

[justforthelulz]

I can't wait for Wolken to punch that smug grin off of Alioth's stupid face.

 

[Kerl]

I have no clue what's going on anymore.

 

[sylvacoer]

I AM SO CONFUSED

 

[Warmuffin]

I hate time travel

 

[Horn]

So Wolken was created using his own dead body after traveling to the past? That would make him a product of a time loop, being born and dying inside of it infinite times, or so it seems. Poor guy.

 

[ZeroWWE]

time travel suck now i need someone with 10000 IQ to explained wtf just happen!

 

[PTRB]

I understand how the loop itself works but it isn't clear how it started. This makes it seem like future Wolken was used to create past Wolken, which doesn't make sense by itself in a closed loop. I guess the first Wolken could have been made in the future, sent to the past, killed by Benetnasch and the other guy (also from the future), and this would start the loop, but then what would happen to Benetnasch and the other guy when they go back the future? I guess maybe instead of going back to the future, they also killed their past selves, which would make sense because in this looping timeline Benetnasch is presumed to be dead, but when Wolken is first sent sent to the past, there would be two Benetnasch present (the past one and the future one) so the future one must kill the past one in order for it to seem like Wolken was actually Benetnasch, plus he could also use these 8 years to do whatever he needs to do (to fix a problem that occurred in the original timeline I assume). But then even this doesn't make perfect sense because why did he even have to make Wolken to send to the past when he could have just gone to the past, killed himself, and used THAT dead body as the source for his own clone! Is he afraid that the clone will be too powerful (as powerful as himself)? Or is it just to avoid confusion with his allies when he finally has to confront Wolken?

Time travel sucks man.

 

[xsenpai]

Time travel makes everything worse in 99% of all plots that it is involved in. This is no exception.

 

[BloodySorcerer]

@PTRB It's simple, most time travel situtions face the same problems, which is the reader's POV is never trully solidified, we only get small bits and pieces and have to understand from elements that will be introduced in future chapters. The vast majority of people don't like waiting for these elements and in turn start using what they know to create their own theories, and that's why the majority find Time travel to be a bad thing.
Benetnasch's plans probably worked in the original timeline. Until someone from the orgnization in the same timeline showed up and decided that it should not come to pass.
That someone made Phantom Wolken to kill Benetnasch and prevent that plan from coming into fruition (and also to replace Benetnach, instead of having to find a better substitute.)
But someone close betrayed that person and leaked the plan to Benetnasch. Who in turn also travelled to the past to kill the replacement and fake his own death making sure that the future he had created would still become real.
Unfortunately for Benetnasch, the cat found about it(more like he's seen it happen with his own eyes) and has been trying to change this event ever since then, which is why we're stuck in a loop.

Anyway, the creation of Phantom Wolken is the key point here, as long as we fully understand why he was created it's easy to understand the loop. Ever since the concept was introduced in the story, we know that Wolken as artificially created to be a substitute to Benetnasch, so it's possible to extrapolate that there could be a hidden meaning to his creation as we know nothing of Benetnasch. I mean why not train one of your soldiers to take his place, why consume resources to create a new Benetnach? Why is this step necessary?
The time loop makes it work.