Zouichi had been mildly (okay, understatement) angry when it turned out the rebuilding of universes hadn't be as simple as it had been presented. His urgent mission was indefinitely postponed, along with the lives of everyone back on Earth... only now there was no enemy to fight.

There was something else, too -- once he was done saving his own world, he'd be free. It might take him hundreds of years to accomplish the task by himself, but at the end, he'd at last be able to leave in good conscience. For now, however, he was in some regards frozen in time: unable to save his world, unable to abandon saving it. He hadn't even aged during the last ten years.

But he did try to keep busy.