Really it's just that Yuki would find it easy (most people wouldn't, not even Chiaki).





I got the impression that the Word had someone besides Hat in mind, and just *temporarily* gave it back to Hat for the immediate purpose. I had a thought in my mind that sooner or later the Word will try to take it back - or has already arranged that - which would kill Hatty.





It was really just a general plot I had in mind that I just applied to Hatman. Someday Faite will find someone she bonded with is going to die, and saving them will take a lot of work to prevent damaging the normal path of time. Then we get to see if she makes the emotional choice (the harder one) or takes the easier, more logical approach in letting time unfold like it was supposed to.

I don't know yet when it'll happen but it probably will. The point is to give her a decision that's genuinely painful - when you're detached from everyone, the logical decision is easy. When you're no longer detached, it becomes painful.

In this case in particular, I thought if Hatman knew he was going to die, and the other more mundane options and magic are exhausted, all that would be left are his friends pleading either Faite or the Hooded Hood to save his life. The irony to that is, asking Faite would be less damaging for everyone but Faite - she would care about the consequences, unlike the Hooded Hood, who would remain aloof as he exploited them.

I can see where that would look "too easy" on the surface, but I think it's more dramatic. Like a scene in a movie where someone at the end of their rope goes to a church to pray for help, thinks nothing will come of it, and then somehow things turn around without explanation. Except unlike a silent nameless "god", at the other end, Faite has to wrestle with the decision directly, making it doubly dramatic.

Unfortunately now that I detailed this so much where everyone can read it, I'm going to have to find another, more surprising plot to use it with. But you get the idea now.





But things have changed now that she both failed and embarrassed herself publicly.