Please don't get ahead of yourself. I think you recall very well how either era of civilization can end up hideously chaotic without IT's influence.

[He rolls his eyes.]

You can probably look at the calendar and make an educated guess about your last "independence day", but don't get too hung up on the precise form that the collective will take - or has already taken, for that matter. The left hand doesn't always know what the right hand is doing.

[Hiyori is the sinister hand in this sentence, it appears, though he steers the axe in place as everything else with his right.]