336 333. The days to come.txt (1/2)

After the funeral was over, Kanami was alone again.

She returned to the white room as usual, squatted, hugged her knees, and repeated the name 'Lake Nagi' endlessly. I feel a sense of relief in front of that pathetic scene.

Thank goodness .......

I don't care about Kanami's one, but this won't make me forget the name of the girl I knew growing up. The fact that it was Kanami's childhood friend will not disappear either.

I pat my chest and exhale heavily in the dirty hut of my counterpart example.

Then I think back about the strange response I had just received.

In retrieving my childhood friend's name, I felt a trace of magic comparable to that of The One Who Steals Reason. The cold, heavy, and unreasonable magic power had interfered with her name, so I quickly used the 'Reason of the Stars' with all my strength on the spur of the moment.

I feel a new irritation in Kanami at that fact.

I feel that the purpose of this remembrance by 'Affinity' is this (...).

At first, I thought he was going to help me review that life in order to reach the real 'magic'. But in reality, I'm being forced to help Kanami review her life.

'd*mn it ......'

Frustrating. I've said many times that I hate that aspect of Kanami.

The guy I hate actually had this past. It's also a past that I can strongly sympathize with and empathize with. Do you think that makes me feel less bitter?　Do you really think that Kanami and I can get along and reminisce together?

Kanami is my enemy. And I hate her.

She took Mr. Hein and Mr. Palinclone from me. I also took the young lady and the senior, and I took their hearts as well. With his face and voice, he reminded me of my role. A grudge enemy who had lost my escape, lost my home, and destroyed everything. If only Kanami hadn't appeared, I, the Confederacy, and no one else would have remained in peace.

I'm going to swear in my heart that I will never help Kanami again.

The one I just saw was special because she was a child like Rielle.

Even if Kanami became isolated in the academy after that funeral.

Even if at night, she was seized with unspeakable regret and couldn't breathe.

No matter how sad, painful and bitter she seems to be. Just to Kanami, I will never--

Because he's happy.

I look at Kanami living in stone country after the death of Lake Nagi and think to myself.

For all intents and purposes, Kanami is happier than I am.

He's just like me, but in contrast to me in the areas that really matter.

That is, for example, her relationship with her significant other. Unlike my mom, that father has not abandoned Kanami.

Sure, Kanami is alone in a white room, but not all the time.

From time to time, that man would come to check on Kanami.

Unlike my mom, he's been watching over me when I'm sad, or in pain, or when I'm having a hard time.

Kanami doesn't just keep her face down, she looks around again. Neither father nor mother has ever abandoned Kanami. You should realize that they just have a face of trouble.

You can find salvation in the neighborhood.

In the near future, Kanami will be able to reconcile with her father and be relieved of the despair of missing her childhood friend.

She will be able to get to know her mother, too. There's definitely a bit of partiality between the siblings, but that's probably due to gender differences. It's not so strange that female parents love their daughters instead of their sons.

Without a doubt, Kanami is blessed.

Above all, that example of a daughter - Kanami's younger sister, Hitaki, is blessed.

I've been watching Kanami for a long time, and I've seen her many times.

She appears at the edge of the scene (or scenes), trying to save her suffering brother. She tries to encourage him somehow, even though she doesn't have many words, and tells him that it's never Kanami's fault. He tries to take time out of his busy life to interact with Kanami.

No matter how badly Kanami treats me, she doesn't let up, and she does it again and again.

That figure is adorable, even to a stranger like me. It's partly due to the fact that she has inherited her parent's beautiful eyebrows, but her behavior and gestures are very touching. If you are an ordinary person, just having her by your side would make you so moved that you would be able to wash away all the pain you have felt. That's how precious she is. I don't care what I have to pay as long as she is my sister. Just to make me think so--.

Thus, as I continue to envy Kanami -- and the months go by (・・・・・) -- Kanami receives the news of an example.

-- it is the news that my father has been captured.

Apparently, he has been captured by a security organization, contrary to the laws of this stone country. Kanami is astonished to hear this fact on an uneventful morning.

It's the same ending I followed.

You've been so blessed, yet you've been faltering, so Kanami's time has come.

Now I'll never see the most important person in the world forever.

I will never be able to hear the ”If only” that I had planned to ask one day.

And while Kanami was relieved somewhere in her mind, she quickly realized exactly what was going on, and her face turned pale.

Okay, it's getting interesting.

I happily watch Kanami's fall and outburst starting here.

I couldn't wait to see my own kind split it all up, with so many failures to feed off of.

After coming to himself, Kanami scrounges for information in the white hut.

And every time she sees one thing that proves that it's too late for anything else, she looks as if it's the end of the world - and at the end of it all, Kanami runs off.

She won't see her parents again. But when she hears that her sister is different, she heads to the hospital, as if driven away.

There, the ill Yotaki is waiting for her.

This is another white room. Just like Kanami's house, the room was white, white, and lean.

Yotaki noticed Kanami's arrival, opened his eyes, lightly raised himself up, and spilled a few words.

''Brother .......''

It's a very fragile voice.

The siblings face each other, inching closer and closer.

On the way, Kanami trembles and throws the words at them.

''I'm sorry, Yotaki ....... I was crazy the whole time ....... I've been taking it out on you. It's all my fault that I'm pathetic, but I hit Yotaki for everything....... I'm your brother, but I kept ignoring you ......

We are moving towards a settlement.

...... Huh?　Kanami's brother (・・・・・・・・)?

I couldn't help but blurt out a few words.

The scene was a bit strange.

Up to this point, Kanami has avoided her sister. The most important things were her father and mother, then her childhood friends. There didn't seem to be any bond with her sister. As I recall, there was more jealousy and resentment than a bond.

It was like watching an unrehearsed, patchy play.

I am confident that I can evaluate a play more dispassionately than anyone else, so the sense of discomfort was great.

Most of all, I found it most odd.

--this would make it two people, not one.

To be honest, I thought Kanami and Yotaki would continue to have a definitive falling out.

That's why I thought there was a sentence in my world's history that said, ”The 'founder' put a stop to his 'sister' who had become a 'monster' by herself”.

However, when I rechecked Kanami's own memories, I was reconciled to it.

I was alone, but Kanami is two.

This is too different. It would no longer be a past worthy of 'reconciliation' with me.

Throughout the confusion, their reconciliation drama continues.

'Please ....... I want to live with my brother from now on. For example ...... I want to go to the same school. I want to live in the same house with my brother, eat the same food in the same room and sleep in the same ...... place. I don't want to live like that again .......

...... Yeah.

They hugged each other.

Even though it was the day of separation from the father she loved so much, Kanami was already looking only at her sister.

Of course, the equivalent of this event never happened in my life.

Hence, it is immediately understood that this sister Hitaki is a foreign object that would not exist if it were Kanami's life as it should be.

This girl. 'Aikawa Hitaki' can trick even the world into believing that she is an irregularity that exists there.

'It's okay, Yotaki. From now on, we're going to be together. We'll always be--

...... Hmmm. Oh, you finally looked at me. ...... my brother.

Their embrace intensifies.

The brother wraps his whole body around his sister, and she exhales into his chest.

Skin to skin, skin to skin, brother and sister connect their hearts.

And then it swells up - the magic power of the firefly.

''--?

Its thick, too vicious magic took my breath away.

It was an awe-inspiring mass that seemed to rape my mind just by looking at it.

The color of Hitaki's magic power was familiar to me.

It was because it was the same as the one I had been using just a few moments ago.

A strange black color that had been arrived at by mixing and blending many attributes to the extreme.

The color of the 'star' that absorbs everything.

--The 'perfection (...)'

That's what I thought.

She was spitting out more than me (・・・・・・), who has the magic stones of 'The one that steals the reason of darkness', 'The one that steals the reason of earth', 'The one that steals the reason of wood' and 'The one that steals the reason of wind' (・・・・・・), with one body. On top of that, she handles the magic power of each attribute more freely than I do. From that strange black magic power, she dexterously extracted the blue glowing magic power to build magic.

In this supposedly magic-free world, she uses magic and tries to cast it on her brother, Kanami.

Yotaki adds more white magic and black magic to the water-based magic that has been created.

No matter how you look at it, it's the type of mental interference.

In front of that magic, I run my mouth in agitation.

''What, eh ......?　Is this sacred magic: ......?

I didn't know the name of the magic she was dealing with.

However, it did look a little familiar. Her attributes are light and dark, mainly water, but it's closer to sacred magic that she activates.

It's close but ...... definitely not (...).

It's worse (・・・・). Rather, the magic it consumes is so dense that it can't possibly be the same.

This is the same power used by the 'Stealers of Reason'.

If anything, it's more like a skill than a magic.

The power of one's innate characteristics.

The logic of the world.

'What is this guy ......?　The same [starry-eyed logic] as me at ......?　No, it's too much like me, it's just another reason ......!

The ”magic (...)” there was beyond the hands of the ”one who steals the reason for the stars”.

That's how much magic permeates Kanami's body, which doesn't even know the magic power now.

As a result of that, what she says is--

Youtaki, I will definitely protect you. Yotaki is the most important thing in my life - my only family.

The word (word) that is at the heart of the vortex wave.

'First'. Important things. ”Family.

”--Hmm...

Hearing this, Hitaki smiled at my brother's chest.

A chill hit me as if my spine would freeze, shatter, and shatter.

The fear I knew coursed through my body.

Now that's the same smile I had on my face when my mom killed someone.

So even if I didn't know the effect of the magic, I only knew what it was trying to do.

-- this woman is going to erase everything that is important to Kanami and replace herself there.

When I came to that answer, an unprecedented anger grew in me.

A flame that only covered the chill in my entire body lit up in the depths of my stomach.

A moment ago, a report ...... Kanami's parents were caught?　No, he won't get away with it because he got caught. She's not sweet enough to get away with that. I know better than anyone that this is only the beginning of a plan. Yes, I'm sure of it. This woman is determined to mercilessly erase her father and mother in order to take the life of Kanami. Just like she killed my childhood friend!　He's going to kill, kill, and finally 'pretend' he wasn't there!　He's going to take not just his life, but his love and his position, and he's going to take all that he's worth for himself--!

Honestly, I don't care that Kanami's mind is being played with.

I don't have any sympathy for her, and I know that she's just a fool to suffer such a situation. It's proven with Mr. Palinclone that it would be a little better if some of his head was played with.

So I wasn't worried about Kanami.

I never wavered in my resolve.

I'm not going to help.

Still, I speak up.

'Kanami's brother (・・・・・・), (...)--！！！！'

It was even louder and louder than the earlier cry, and it screamed to death.

He also jumped across places, times, worlds, and even dimensions to deliver his voice.

''Oh, Yotaki ......!

But Kanami was left mesmerized, consumed by love and relief for the first time in her life. She repeats her sister's name, and all the time her gaze is on Yotaki, all the way to her chest.

My voice doesn't reach Kanami.

And instead, my voice reached her, but I didn't think it was--.

............. From earlier (・・・・・), who (...) --

Hitaki (・・・・) responded to the voice and moved his gaze.

Yotaki's icy twin eyes shone through the gap between Kanami's arms and chest, and I felt like my eyes met mine.

Oh, it can't be.

It's never going to happen--!

Right now I'm just recollecting my memories via Kanami. If it was Kanami himself, anyway, Yotaki here should be a collection of information.

And yet, I could only assume that Yotaki was staring at me right now.

I could feel the will from his gaze.

I feel a wish that is too dense and proportional to the too dense magic.

''It doesn't matter.''

”The place, the time, the world, it doesn't matter.

'I will not allow you to look at my brother in any human memory without my permission.

'Now Ragne Kaikwola is in unauthorized territory. Absolutely not allowed.''

Such irreverent words come to mind.

It was a will much like the scary women I knew.

I feel the affection that is unique to them. However, Hitaki doesn't have a desire to be possessive or dominant.

''My brother is mine.'' ''It's only natural.''

That is an assumption.

Kanami, who is mine, is inevitably going to be my 'ideal'.

On top of that, it is destined to become 'the same' as me. It's not an abstraction such as half-body or one-heartedness, but it must be a complete, perfect, complete 'same'.

”Because we are brother and sister, we will be forever (...)

Such a too strong will.

Just by understanding the 'edge of the thought' which is just one part of that edge -

What?

The world is rapidly breaking down. As if it is limping and rotting, all the other world's stone countries begin to crumble.

It moves further away. As if to say that the reminiscence is over, my consciousness is detached from it (...).

Quickly, I reach out to Kanami, who hugs Hitaki.

Somehow, I want to see the rest of his memory and bring him words.

But I can't.

The 'affinity' necessary for remembrance is unraveling before you know it.

The moment I recognized and was recognized by the existence of that firefly or something like that (・・・・・・・).

The ”affinity” between ”Lagune Kaikwola” and ”Aikawa Kanami” has been broken.

From now on, Kanami and I were about to enter the third turning point in our lives, and yet we almost reached the real ”magic”, and most importantly, we were about to find out the ”truth of the truth” of the history of a thousand years ago - this is where it ends.

''d*mn it--!

To be honest, I still wanted to watch.

There are things I want to know about Kanami.

How could the Kanami, from now on, get lost in our world?

I wanted to see firsthand what was behind the legend, not the history, not the lore.

Of course, there was something about myself that I wanted to review as well.

The days I spent with Kanami in the Great Holy City.

The moment I killed him and the 'summit' moment, what was behind it.

Kanami and I wanted to ruminate on it together and reach the 'truth of the truth'.

But I was interrupted.

The one who interfered was ”The Gentile”. Kanami's sister, ”Aikawa Hitaki”.

A girl who came from another world, but was able to use ”magic” for over a thousand years.

Throughout her long life, she has felt that she has been playing with us ”people” in the background.

I manage to grab the edge of that edge and go back.

It's not the past or another world. The real world. To the battlefield of Ragne Kaikwola--

◆◆◆◆◆

Get up, Ragnaye!

Her body is being shaken and her head is being moved back and forth.

At the same time, a voice shouting in my ear reaches my brain and I gradually awaken to consciousness.

When I open my eyes, I am assaulted by a white light that fills my vision.

It's so bright that I can't see anything else.

It's like being thrown out and drifting in a place where there is no ground or sky.

Somehow I try to find something other than light.

'-- Hey, Ragne!　Can you see me?　Is it healing properly?!

I can't see the owner of that voice.

But I know who it is.

It's Fafner, the thief of blood.

He's close by, shaking me and worrying about me.

Perhaps it's because of this that the situation is slowly starting to sink in.

I calmly shift my gaze to the tip of my right arm.

The most important person in the world was lying there.

'Ma, mama ......'

Earlier, I was fascinated by this, lost my self, and was taken away by ”Recollections of Kanami's Memory”.

I knew in my head that it was never going to happen, but I accepted that too convenient development. The moment I thought I could end my life with this, I almost threw it all away.

'Ahhhh ......!!!'