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About Lisette's If story,i don't know,frankly......There's alot of reasons why i think it should be canon,but i don't know if there was any confirmation about that.

Also,it confirms many mysteries about the true nature of it's powers which could only be understandable with knowledge from that story.

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= Another educated guess how it could be both.If this story was available in the menu to seen,which we can take as Mother Johanna actually seeing this story happen,it should be safe to say it did happen.

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But what really happened,is probably that: It did and did'nt happen.

In case you don't know by now:The Eye of Aeon is really a very powerful Deus Ex Machina.It is literally able to realise the futures of it's bearer.What we just did not know was:

1.How it does it and how powerful it is.

2.Given the Multi World Theory,it's highly possible not every of each incarnation of the same people in each world would naturally use that fatal wish granting feature where the price would be the bearer's soul being locked into the eye for eternity. Yet,there seems to be only one of each individual within the Eye of Aeon,

This basically and also resounds the actual resolution with Kakeru vs Liselotte in the final battle.

(Havent read Shiori's version in RS where Kukuri decided to join him in the battle,but it also may symbolically work. The good in Liselotte and Verard's wish are both trying to save her through the only way that was possible left also works.)

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==== Basically,the Verard we see in SDAG probably IS the one from the If story.

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This is highly possible,because there is no other "Verard" that used that doomed contracted ability with the Eye of Aeon.The "original scenario" of him getting assassinated would have had made it impossible to use that ability in that time.

This explains how he knew something Liselotte probably never would have told anyone in her entire life,because she denies it herself.

And that's how Verard was able to believe in that Liselotte not as mad and evil as she made herself to be EVEN AT THE LAST MOMENT AS THE EYE OF AEON DEEMED THAT ONLY POSSIBLE WAY LEFT WAS KILLING HER. He had already seen who she used to be and thus it was'nt that hard to put two and two together with their loved time that he could still try to save her by talking her out of her insanity.

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Ok,so what might have happened in the If story?

All of it did happen.Even the part where Lisette was saved by that wish and did not end up turning into Liselotte and lived happily ever after.Lisette did get saved,but lived on as herself and did not become Liselotte.

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However,what Verard did not realize was that his wish was to be with Liselotte he had loved all those years,not Lisette.The foundation for his wish was the flaw.

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Thus,while he did actually save Lisette,he did not actually save Liselotte. So,the Eye of Aeon might have gone on working even after Verard had died in the If story,it thus manupilated through literally eternities of space and time until it could find a reality where Liselotte could be saved.

This is further supported by the fact Kukuri's original world mentions of Kakeru having the Eye of Aeon,but having failed to make use of it because he had died.

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Thus,there was no way to really save Liselotte no matter what in the end,because she was already too twisted by her pain and hatred by being who she was.