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surprisingly... not that long. especially when considering just what exactly lloyd is asking of him.

because. i think lloyd only decided to use the ending spoiler when his parents were murdered. terrible as everything else had been, despite the fact that the country was in ruins, that alicia herself was dead, he didn't really,,, consider the story completely ruined yet. he wanted to see things play out.

but then arcos and marbella are killed and... "That is when I learned that a person's life can be destroyed at lightning speed."

he buried his parents one day and the next he made javier kill him. at most it would've taken him a couple days to prepare everything for the funeral so i think he wouldn't have had more than just that time to convince him.

so. canonically. less than week.

as for what javier would do after killing his best friend, right after losing his family too,,, i really don't know.

the point of the fate restoration is to make javier take up the protagonist role once again and embark in his journey as the main character. and with every other spoiler yes i can see it. tragic as they were, i do see javier picking up the pieces of his heart and going off to help others like he did in the original novel.

but this spoiler?? i don't know if he could. it's one thing to lose everything by circumstances out of his control, horrible as it was, terrible as being incapable of saving them would've been, he would still have the knowledge that it wasn't on him, it wasn't his fault beyond not being good enough to protect them. but in this one, it's his hand that cuts down the last member of his family. it's him killing his best friend and the person he cares the most about. and if he continues on living after killing lloyd, then he will never know if it was worth it. he will never know if worked or if he just murdered his young master for no reason.

and i don't know if he could go on after doing that.

but. javier is doomed to survive. to be the last one standing. if nothing else, fate will make sure of that. however it achieves that doesn't really matter as long as it gets what it wants.

Kitetsu's name is written with the kanji 鬼徹. 鬼/ki means 'demon' and 徹/tetsu means 'pierce' or 'penetrate.' However, tetsu can also (and most often does) mean 'iron.'