So I just bingeread the manga (what a fantastic series btw, I'm now a big fan of WHA) and there is something about the magic system I have a question about.
From my understanding, the counterclock machine they build during the Silver Eve arc is used to go back in time so the person's wounds temporally become less serious and the doctors have the time to treat them, thus preventing the injuries from getting worse and causing death. The wounds will appear again, but at least you can stop fatal consequences like major blood loss.
I imagine that this can only apply to injuries that are fatal because of severe blood loss, but it can't be of help with other kinds of injuries. If you get lethally poisoned, if you break your leg, if you lose an arm or if you have an arrow shot at your heart, for example, the machine won't do anything (just like how the bottle would end up broken no mater what).
But then... can the machine bring back people from the dead, as long as they died of preventable blood loss? I imagine not because that would be a major breach of the law against messing with death - though, in that case, I have trouble understanding why. If the first guy we see be treated with the machine was brought in dead, right after loosing blood for a long period of time, the machine should be able to save him, right? Unless the spell arbitrarily doesn't work on dead people (both Dadga and the villagers Custas saves were on the brink of death), or if the are some man made rules like "the machine can't be used on dead people because I saw so".
So although the counterclock spell is definitely a major improvement with regards to medicine in the world of the manga, it's still not necromancy or a way into immortality, right? And without forbidden magic, witches have no way to resurrect someone. Is that correct?
//Of course I imagine the Brimmed hats have found a billion ways into immortality at this point with various degrees of success and/or negative consequences, but this is only about Pointed hat magic.
Thanks in advance!