361 358. Time crossing.txt (2/2)

Rastiara leaps to avoid the violence of that mass, but what waits in the air is Fafner's blood arrow. He swings his free hand to the side again and offsets the blood arrow by unleashing a white rainbow of magic.

However, he couldn't react to Seldora's subsequent pursuit.

Seldra leapt lightly, holding a stone pillar that was probably a hundred times his own weight, and was chasing after Rustyala.

The stone pillar is swung out at Rustyala, who is in midair, full of gaps both physically and magically, and the stone pillar is swung out.

At the moment of contact (impact), the stone pillar shatters into pieces and Rastiara's body is blown right down.

The marble of the doorway was drilled into the ground, and a cloud of dust was raised.

Furthermore, being pursued there was a swarm of Fafner's blood arrows. And all the while, Yotaki continues to hold down Rustyara's white rainbow magic. It's too seamless a partnership.

Even though I know I'm in the midst of 'past vision', I'm still saying, ”Rustyala! I shouted.

I searched the Dimension for any help, but I didn't see any of my friends.

Dea, Maria, Snow, Reaper, and Ryner. Whoever you are, I need you to come and help Rastiara right now.

Why isn't anyone here?

Why should Rastiara have to fight alone--

I'll be fine.

As if he had heard my call, Rustyala answered from within the dirt smoke.

Then, Rastiara himself blew away the dirt smoke that hid his body with a magical wind.

Rastiara stood there, full of wariness.

One arm was broken in a different direction, covered in lacerations, wobbling, but still holding the sword, laughing and muttering to himself.

''Finally, I got my ....... The feeling that I love you even in death ....... Now, I can say it with confidence. This is my feeling that is as heavy as everyone else's .......

I don't know who I'm talking to.

When he thought that, Rustyala looked up.

He looked up at the upper part of the grand entrance and narrowed his eyes.

Since the center of the castle was a vaulted ceiling, the light of the 'top' reached this first floor.

The light of Nosfy.

The light poured down like rain and acted on Rustyala's body.

As a light attribute magic, it is not just a light that makes you 'honest'. It's the light that Nosfi vowed to bless many undeserving souls at the end of his life. Rustyala understood this intention while on the first floor, and she rejoiced in her own birth.

'Yes ....... I'm glad I was born. Thank you, mother, for giving it to me (・・・・・・) .......

The white rainbow magic of his entire body swells up, as if he has become even more powerful after being bathed in Nosufi's gentle light.

Seeing this, the hands of the surrounding 'Stealers of Reason' stopped for a moment.

Yangtaki seems to have felt a part of Rustyala's dialogue and throws words at them instead of magic.

Very slowly, as if picking up the glasswork that is now about to break.

'Rustyala Fuzzyards ....... You are a four year old child who knows nothing. You just don't know that your mother (Tiara) is cheating you .......

Then, Yotaki looks up at the 'top'.

You can see that Rastiara is not the only place that the dialogue is headed.

'So ....... You've been tricked and you didn't even know it. ......

The words were also directed to the three people who would be at the 'summit' right now - me, Ragne and Nosfi. We are also children who don't know anything, Yotaki says, to which Rustyala replies without pause.

''--even so,''

He spins the 'answers' as if he were working in place of those of us who are not here.

'If we've been duped, it's still the same. Me and Nosfi, of course. Ragne and Kanami, I don't think the 'answer' will change, even if we're a little sad. So (...), it's okay (・・・・・). Thanks for worrying about me.

Having been exposed to the light at the top of the mountain, I know that this is a true and honest 'answer'.

Because I know, I am speechless. Noir, who is also watching with me, is also speechless. I couldn't believe Rastiara, who understands the abnormality of this battlefield and is strong enough to say 'it's okay' in the midst of it all.

It was the same for the third girl, Tiara Hoozeyers.

Only, she was so shocked that she couldn't compare to us, she was speechless. That murky stream of emotions could be felt even by us, who were sharing a body with her.

It was a guilt that lasted as far as the ocean.

It was also accompanied by the pain of being crushed by the water pressure of self-doubt, at the bottom of the deep sea.

''Aaaaaaahhhh ......''

Caught up in that tiara's emotions, Noir-chan begins to moan in the distant clock tower.

At the top where no one else is present, she exhausts her wailing for as long as possible.

''Aaaaahhhh ......!　Aaaaahhhh, aaaaahhhh, ......--!

Noir-chan wasn't sad, but she couldn't stop crying.

I only had the slightest bit of sympathy for Tiara's emotions lurking in her body - and even now, my eyeballs are on the verge of wilting.

For a moment, my attention is drawn to Noir-chan, but I quickly turn my attention back to the castle.

I'm sorry Noir-chan, but Rustyala has a higher priority.

Even if this scene is already over, I can't take my eyes off of it.

Returning my attention back to the grand entrance of Fuzzy Yards Castle - I hear Rustyala say ”thank you” and look at Yotaki, who frowns and falls silent.

It seems that Yotaki could forgive all of the magic and magic of the white rainbow that filled the grand entrance, but he couldn't accept just that one word.

Towards that Yotaki, Rustyala speaks to him in a gentle voice.

''Because the reason why little sister told me earlier was because she took pity on me, right?　I will continue to live (・・・・・) from now on (・・・・・), and I'm going to go out of my way to give me the reasoning that 'Aikawa Kanami' has been holding -

He reiterated the meaning of ”thank you” in detail in this situation so that he could express his gratitude.

To that, Yotaki would answer like a persistent child.

'That explanation was only necessary to make your life a 'price' for your brother. It was just a ritual (word) that showed the world that you will continue to die (・・・・・) from now on, that you are a 'Rustyara Fuzzyards'.

But you did tell me. You didn't even bother to tell me the truth that you didn't have to. Knowing my life, my sister is ....... After all, everyone in this world is kind .......

With a smile, Rastiala immediately denied Yotaki's denial.

''Nothing is gentle. You already knew this in the first place, didn't you?　Otherwise, oh no (...) I wouldn't be cooperating with me or your brother.

Only with frivolity. And I wasn't just working with you two, I was working with everyone else.

Haha. ......

So Yotaki sighs and shakes his head, saying it's not worth talking about.

Rustyala responds to that with a wry smile.

They have something to say to each other, but they must have realized that they can never understand each other.

Hence, there is no conversation to be continued and the battle resumes.

Yotaki takes all possible measures and continues to suppress the magical power of the white rainbow, the new power of Rustyara again. Then Fafner, from mid-range, continues to apply pressure with his blood arrows. The vanguard is handled by Serdra, who uses the scattered debris as a weapon to close in on Rustiala.

The coordination of the three 'stealers of reason' is ideal and overwhelming.

Even more than the difference in numbers, their individual strength is too strong.

No matter how much Rustiala has awakened to his newfound power, he will not be able to handle it.

The game has already been decided.

All that remained was how Rastiara would be polished and defeated - but in that defeat, Rastiara was still smiling.

Instead of concentrating on the battle, he swam his eyes many times, and sometimes even had time to look up to the heavens.

Then he muttered.

'...... 'Moon' in the 'starry sky'?　And--oh, ......, haha.

I know what those words mean to me as a party.

Now, at the 'summit', it seems that Lagune and I have begun to fight.

I know that Ragne's magic and spell at the time of his death was special and had a beauty to be admired from a third party's point of view.

Like the moon, Ragne was beautiful.

Around her beautiful, a sword that glowed like the stars orbited around her.

Rustyala looked up from the ground to see the scene of the battle at that 'summit'--

He rolled his eyes and reflected the flickering starry sky in his eyes.

He opened his mouth with a pop and mixed white breath with the falling light.

I let out a voice that said, ”Ah ......,” and summed up my long impressions very briefly.

Finally, he looked at the 'most' shining star next to the 'moon' and looked very happy.

With a face full of love, he blurts out.

'-- Kanami (...), are you listening (・・・・)?'

His voice was too small.

It wasn't a word for the people I was fighting against.

I'm not going to be able to get a good idea of what I'm talking about.

--I'm not going to be able to get a good deal more than just a few minutes of your time.

I'm not going to be able to get rid of it.

Kanami ....... We've already said our goodbyes, right?　But more importantly, let's watch Kanami with me: ......

Lastiara was no longer focused on the fight at all.

It's a very lame way to fight, because you're going to lose anyway. It was entirely clear that she was prioritizing stalling over winning and losing.

What she's concentrating on now is something else.

”That 'Story of the Stars' is really beautiful and cool ....... It was a very exciting, fun 'adventure' and so ....... So, yeah, .......

Rustyala speaks without regard to place or life, just happily.

He shakes his head.

It doesn't matter.

More importantly, it's Rastiara.

Rastiara only wants you to think about your own survival. We haven't said goodbye yet. We allowed death to happen before, because we were together. Unlike with my father and my childhood friends, I was finally able to be with someone else, and I'm finally--

Despite my feelings, she turns her attention not to herself (Rustyala), but to the person she recognized as her mother a few days ago (Tiara).

'It was also the 'story of me and Kanami'. So I don't miss it one bit. It has been and always will be--

With that last word, my vision began to distort.

The battlefield on the first floor of Hoozeya's Castle - ”The Day Aikawa Uzumi Came Back to Life” - suddenly faded into the distance.

I turn my attention to the reason why time is getting away.

Noir-chan, the base point of the 'past vision', had closed her eyes.

Hearing Rastiara's wish, Noir-chan was also receiving instructions from the third person inside, and was about to fulfill her wish to see with me.

Immediately I said, ”Stop! Wait! I appealed to him, but he couldn't stop time from moving.

I had the least amount of authority in this place. I was not in control of the 'past vision' and I had no body or blood here.

I was forcibly moved from the day Aikawa Uzumi came back to life to 'a thousand years ago'.

The story of how the girl called Tiara became a 'saint' begins.

--It's the next step after ”How Aikawa Uzumi summoned the other world” that I saw a while ago under Yotaki's orders.

The image of an old book being turned over suddenly popped into my mind.

You're going to be able to get a good deal more than just a few of these. There is no one else but her.

But that hand is far from the Tiara I know.

They were skinny, wrinkled, and oddly old hands.

That old hand soon rotted away, leaving nothing but bones in its place. The hand, now just bones, was weathered and crumbling, but it didn't stop there. She apologizes and begins to read to me, one by one, in turn, apologizing for her apology.

I feel that her apology is directed at my too faint wish that we're all in this together

Now.

The reader of the world is not Yotaki or me, but Tiara.