[ The Wanderer pauses at the mention of messing with timelines. He doesn't think Junpei is suggesting something like tampering with Irminsul, but the idea sounds similar enough, and he doesn't seem to be joking. It might just be a particular quirk of Junpei's world, then.

If Junpei is going brush over his own comment, then he won't point it out either. ]

Regardless of what's going on outside of this city, we can consider it a strong possibility that they're using us to figure out how to get people to cooperate. We'll need more information if we want to figure out why they need to use us, and not people from their own world.