Malzkael let the words 'time war' settle into her thoughts before she spoke. "Before we talk about something insane, what did you do to Anko?"
"She'll be fine if that's what you're worried about. Consider it a test of her capacity to be educated. I don't want blind loyalty, but neither do I want loyalty out of ignorance. The sort of people who want either assume they deserve it." Kiryu exhaled some smoke. "So. Time war."
Malzkael furrowed her brow. "Like in fiction?" Time-magic fiction wasn't a genre she enjoyed since most angels wrote it as a form of wish fulfillment. Usually, such fiction meant an angel would breeze through social adversity, arriving at a superior position to some dreaded rival or even gaining power over them. Or an angel would arrive amongst primitive Aytherians and wind up being worshipped as a god.
"Yes," Kiryu replied, "Except this isn't fiction. This body's mother can see the future. And I think you know who the only angel that can do that is."
