Ugh I intentionally stopped reading out of irritation at this going exactly the direction I didn't want it to only to check back in and find it was specifically abandoned and left to me to clean up! Well then OKAY
> "Regardless, to more immediately important matters, this is where things get a mite tricky. In order to save the future, prevent any further time travel, and make preserving present consistencies as unaggravating for the hakutaku of the future as possible, two things must happen. One is that I must either vanish for about a day, or enter my own special brand of stasis for the same amount of time. Whichever path is chosen, I will be depending on you to at least support my story, so it does not seem as though I am simply trying to get out of my job for a day for no reason."