It very well could be. Plenty of things in these places have done just that, so why not what we've seen, too?

[ aerith's answer isn't so surprising, now that he's had time to think on what they've seen, and yet his heart still sinks. as if to give her a moment of respectful privacy, knowing what he's asked of her and the weight it holds, iwatooshi turns his eyes away. ]

I don't know how he knows the things he does, but Mikazuki-dono always seems to have the answers.

[ even an illusion, even for something he should have no right knowing. ]

If it's true, then how - how were you first brought here? [ alive enough to breathe, to laugh, to die again. ] Was your history truly changed?