403 400. The final battle of "Aikawa Vortex Wave".txt (2/2)

I still love books.

I love books, and that's why I'm still writing my stories like this--!

To that reminder, I reply, ”It's not necessary”.

But Tiara replies, ”It's necessary.

”--I had my first date with Kanami today.

We 'confessed' to each other at the eleventh crossroads and it was our first date. ......

We chose the labyrinth as our location. I simply wanted to be strong, but most of all because I thought it was 'just like me'. Like a heroic tale, I slashed and slashed and slashed and slashed the monsters in the labyrinth. On the way, Kanami was complaining that this wasn't a date, but when I told her that we should come up with a special move, her face immediately lit up and she began to come alive, which was interesting.

Really, me and Kanami are kindred spirits .......

Just talking to her was fun - and calming.

In the end, Kanami pushed me away and we even had a hand-holding date. Just remembering that time makes my body heat up. And in the end we made a promise. I'll remember to write it down.

'--So, Kanami. Shall we continue to be together forever?

”-- Yeah. We've been together forever (・・・・・・), Rustyala.

I promised you that.

After all, I love Kanami. I'm not worried about that feeling of love anymore.

Kanami likes Kanami likes Kanami likes Kanami likes Kanami, I can write as many lines as I want in here--

You don't have to have a 'past view' to see that Rastiala is writing while blushing.

Perhaps now Tiara is trying to show that she was confident.

It's a good script, and she must be fancying herself as being very beautiful.

--oh (...), stinks (・・・・).

Just because it's good doesn't mean that Rastiala will come back to life.

Just because you're beautiful doesn't make the 'curse' lighter.

It just doesn't make it possible for me to deny that it's nothing more than your self-satisfaction.

Denying this memory is the same as denying Rustyala.

This is the story of me and Rustyala. So I can't stop it.

”--I think this is the 'final chapter' .......

At last, we've reached the Great Sacred City with the World Tree we talked about in Chapter 1: .......

Perhaps, but this would be our last fight. Just before that, Kanami and I talked on the balcony of the pavilion. The night before the decisive battle, we would check in with each other. One day, I would make a note of this memoir for Kanami to read again. At this time, I am certain that we will--

I'll still love Kanami, even if she's dead.

...... I can't let go of you, either. I would never let you go. Even if you die.

That's what we swore to each other.

Then we headed to Hoozeyers Castle, where the final battle would take place.

In order to put away a thousand year old cause, Kanami and I will join hands--

From here on out, it's a blank slate.

There is no time to write it down in defeat after defeat, and there is no time to write anything down in The Memoirs.

Tiara's reading is over.

Then I finished 'seeing past' Las Tiara's life, and my consciousness returned to its original place.

Not to the Fouzeyards Castle on the ”mainland” but to the Fouzeyards Cathedral on the ”frontier”.

Deep within it. To a stone room with only one light.

There they are facing each other.

Rustyala Fouzeyars and Uzumi Aikawa (me).

But of course, Rustyala is lying there as a corpse, not moving even a twitch.

My left hand was on top of the book she was holding - the neatly bound ”Hero (...) The Memoirs of Rustyala Huseyers”. Her right hand lightly gripped Rustyala's right hand. It is a completely bloodless and icy cold hand. Touching that dead temperature, I slowly pull my hand away from her.

Acknowledging that there is no more Rustyala here, I accept only the book.

I then return the 'answer' to her.

'Tiara ......, I can't forgive you. I don't want to forgive you .......

”Yes.

Shortly, Tiara replied.

It was a very monotonous response, as if it had been set in stone from the beginning. In turn (...) I'm throwing away the people who were once the 'most important thing' to me.

'I can't even forgive Yotaki for putting his hands on them. ......

”Yes.

All the while, my gaze was fixed on Rustyala.

Thinking back, even before the 'past vision', I had only seen her sleeping face for a long time.

In front of her calmly sleeping face, I chant

' -- 'I only see Rustyala anymore.'

”...... Yeah.

Ever since I entered this basement, my vision has been narrowing.

As a result of the continued narrowing, I could finally see only one thing.

I heard the sound of a crack in my vessel.

Now, I have paid off all the curses and have completed my work as the one who steals the reason for the dimension.

And as if to celebrate this, a cold air flows in from behind me.

Caught in the act, I turn around.

Just then, she was coming down the stairs.

Aikawa Yotaki, the man who sent Rastiara to her death, is walking silently down the stairs. Frost like icicles rose in the wake of her walk, turning the stone floor and walls white.

Yotaki walks through the door that was left open and enters the room.

He throws a greeting at me as he wakes up, smiling at me.

''Good morning, brother.''

Yeah. Good morning, Yotaki.

The usual greetings were exchanged in the usual coldness.

No longer does my body feel frozen to the core.

'All of ......, it looks like you've finished reading,'

Before I could start speaking, Yotaki understood the situation.

If I looked closely, I could see a white 'thread' from the end of her long hair.

Compared to the ground, I couldn't see them clearly. However, some of the ”threads” were melting and becoming liquid, but they were definitely crawling on the ground, trying to take control of this room.

As that white garden is being recreated again, I search for 'answers'.

To be honest, my head is a mess, with many memories mixed in.

But at the same time, I was calm and collected.

Perhaps it's because the moment I came face to face with Yotaki, I recognized it as a 'battle'. The status of 'cleverness' - the magical nerves that have been 'transformed' in my body work to the limit for the victory of the 'battle'.

Oh, I saw them in turn. ...... a thousand years ago when we were called as 'Gentiles' and met the 'Apostles'. And the story of our 'adventure' with Tiara, and the story of our exit from the world after the 'world repatriation camp'. And the true meaning of my awakening in the Labyrinth a year ago. And the reason why Rastiara has been by my side ever since then...

We've learned what we, the 'gentiles' called to another world, have done and how we've affected it.

Most importantly, the result of that is now concentrated in this room.

I know what you did that day, and I know that you killed Rastiara. All of it.

However, Yotaki's expression didn't change at all when he heard this.

The only thing that was moving was the feet.

The white 'thread' slowly eroded the ground, becoming a magical shallow water. A bunch of smooth 'threads' were wriggling in waves.

And a few of the 'threads' ran down from under my feet.

They twined around my legs, crawled up my waist, passed through my chest and neck, reached my head, and connected. Each of the ”threads” was heavy, and I felt as if I was being chained.

The owner of the chain asked me, anxiously.

'If you go up the stairs now, you can forget all about it. Would you like to go back up?

Yotaki pointed to the back door he had come down from, but I gave a small shake of my head.

'There's no .......'

'Do you hate 'dreams'?　The Winter Dimension is your brother's magic. So to speak, it's a gentle illusion that your brother wanted and he created.

Yotaki spouts off an explanation as if he had been preparing for it.

He insists that he has no malicious intent and speaks openly, as if to say that this is the new form of 'world'.

''Within that 《Winter's Other World (Wintry Dimension)》, everyone can have certain free will. It's because all of us share the illusion, so we can spend our time the same as in reality. That's where those who were born into misfortune, such as Dia, Maria, and Snow, ...... were able to look forward little by little and walk out with a new life. Of course, that includes your brother. No lies there at all.

Dea had gained a best friend named Franlure and was able to return to her home town.

Maria had become sisters with Snow and had found her place as a member of the Walker family.

That was ”the world that would have actually become real if it hadn't been for that day”.

As I spent time there, I realize that that recreation was possible with Yotaki's calculation ability and the Winter's Other World (Wintry Dimension).

To put it another way, that was made so that ”as long as you don't notice it, you can lead a life exactly the same as the reality until you die”.

Of course, I can't accept that.

Even if Yotaki had used that 《Winters' Other World (Wintry Dimension)》 with all the care and kindness he could muster, and with respect for all living things, that place was not enough.

Even at ......, there was no Rustyala.

Now that you've found out, there's no going back.

'Your brother would understand now. It was her role until it was not there. She was made by Tiara in order to fulfill the condition of her brother's [the one she loves most dies] and disappear.

I can still continue to explain matter-of-factly.

'This isn't just about my brother. It's better to pretend that there was never a ...... rastiaara foozeyards 'curse' for anyone -- for Dia, for Maria, for Snow, for anyone. --she's already too heavy.

I thought that was a line that Rastiala would be overjoyed to hear.

But from my point of view, it's all so annoying now.

'I know it may sound ruthless ......, but that's what 'made-up' dolls are. From the beginning, it was a given. There will come a time when they will be dirty, unraveled and thrown away.

At the end of the day, we were told that we shouldn't look at it as an 'equal' because it was 'made up'.

To that, I will only agree.

Yes, that's what I think ....... You're going to have to throw away ......, the dirty, unraveled, useless ”Aikawa Uzumi (me)”, and then you're going to throw it away and forget about it. Throw it away and forget it.

Yotaki made it clear that she didn't see me as an (...) 'equal'.

Even now she is not looking at me while talking to me.

What she sees are calculations and plans from a thousand years ago. The only thing she sees is her own 'innate difference (skill)' of 'being able to read the book called the world backwards' that she told Tiara about. Other than that, I can see now that Yotaki doesn't believe in anything else.

”My brother is different--

”I'm a 'faker' too,

That Youtaki's reply was also read with 'Future Vision' and immediately denied it.

From the moment he faced Yangtaki and entered the 'battle', he had already finished deploying all the patterns of Dimension Magic 《Dimension》 without a chant. The 《Distance Mute》 was also ready to be used at any time.

I extend my right hand to prove that I was 'making it up'.

The object I'm inserting it into is myself.

It's also not the heart, but the brain in the head.

I put my magic arm into it and lightly touch it.

Inside the brain, a long, thin 'thread' has taken root, creating a pattern like a woven grid. Magical signals ran through the magical nerves, causing my brain to interact with the outside world.

In order to grab it, I used the power of the completed 'one that steals the reason for the dimension' to phase the dimension.

It forcefully grasps what it cannot grasp - and even more forcefully rips it apart and pulls it out of its head.

Even though it was a duplicate nerve, it severed what was actually connected to it. The act was accompanied by terrible pain. I'm ...... but I'm used to the pain.

Immediately I reach for a nearby 'string' and tear it off as well.

That is to cut off Yotaki's nerves, but her expression at the front doesn't move at all. ...... Yotaki is even more used to it than I am. On a far higher level than me, who frowned slightly.

I speak the rest of the story while discarding the proof that I was a 'make-believe' that I tore off with 《Distance Mute》 in front of her.

''--Yotaki, there's one last question I want to ask you.

Before I stopped being the 'ideal' 'brotherly brother', I had to ask.

However, the magic of my 'future vision' is already reading the next page.

”--Aikawa Yotaki never trusts his brother, who is only his own 'made up' brother. Hence, he never returns anything. Nor will he ever release the two worlds he has frozen--

Even though I know that, I listen.

To fulfill Rastiara's will. Just for that reason alone now--