"Time stops for us, while we're away," Tachibana pointed out, voice soft. "Else our world would have been destroyed the moment you or Hajime were taken out of it."

A small, amused huff escaped after. "If it hadn't been the same Hajime I'd Traveled with, I'm sure he wouldn't be," he corrected. C'mon, Kenzaki, you can't tell him you've forgotten how many times you had to stand between the two of them. and there's no way you would have known about how he couldn't seal Hajime. Any of the times he had the opening.