"Which one? Time manipulation on a microscale will make any agreement valid and retroactive, after all," commented her Marionette duplicate.
The original Setsuna nodded. "So many choices and a little mischief would help me de-stress."
"That would be much different than your original purpose in coming here."
"At that time, I was just reacting to possible major danger to the future."
Raising an eyebrow, Setsuna-2 frowned. "Ranma would be a danger?"
"Possibly, even if he didn't mean to be. Or he had been. Even with a tiny change, things could be sent down a path that would be very... not nice."
"Yet you could have checked the difference in timelines."
"True, but I could never know with certainty what timeline the 'changed' future would be on until after the alteration in events had already taken place."
"Thus making it more difficult to deal with the paradox."
"Exactly," replied the Senshi of Time just before she took a sip of her tea.
"So, you are going to make an alteration so that one of the Senshi would be engaged to him?"
"Yes. This way, he will have a reason to associate with us in a favorable way."
"Very... tactically sound."
"Plus, I will be able to amuse myself greatly with the effects."
"Ah..."
"It should be rather liberating to be able to do so. For a rather long time, I have been walking a fine line trying to make a future according strict guidelines."
"Which are no longer in force."
"And which shall allow me greater latitude in what I have to do."
"Still, one question begs to be asked."
"What is that?"
"Which of them would you engage him to?"
"That bears much thought. I can't bring in Usagi, seeing as she and Mamoru are together. Something similar might be said for Michiru and Haruka."
"Why not dismiss them from consideration?"
"It might be amusing to see them try to deal with having Ranma as a fiance. Being blasted during the Galaxia affair was not amusing in the slightest."
"I see."
"I suppose that the one that I'll likely focus on will be:
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