414 411. The Hundredth Trial "Frozen Prison".txt (1/2)

--I was refreshed.

When Tiara appeared and challenged me to a 'duel', I - 'Aikawa Yotaki' braced myself.

When fighting, the ”demon poison” in your body does not react.

I don't know what the ”answer” is anymore.

I don't need to know.

I don't need to know what the answer is.

There were no more thousands of lines written on a single line.

There are tens of thousands of letters of ”jet-black” piled on top of the word ”jet-black,” and they do not form a complete black stain.

There was always a white gap in my head where billions of pages had been smeared in black.

My mind is just orderly, no need to keep reading the palindromes and reading them backwards, no need to go back and forth like a cryptic text.

The density of my thoughts fades and tapers off.

-- Now, approaching in front of me is Tiara.

With very simplified thoughts, I think decently on my own for the first time in a thousand years.

--a little girl.

--as if to say that she hasn't forgotten my teachings, she looks and speaks the same as she once did.

--I can feel it.

If you put it in writing, it just

”The garden at Hoosier's has expanded to include the garden of a thousand years ago.

”Okay, I'll go to .......

Even if it's only, her thoughts in between are a bit annoying.

Unlike 'Aikawa Uzumi', I will never forget 'Aikawa Yotaki'.

I'm the only one who will never forget Aikawa Yotaki.

So, please don't worry.

This me is your--.

So many unthinkable thoughts, I could feel them from her appearance now.

I put out my hand towards that tiara.

In an attempt to respond with the self-defense technique that has become ingrained in my body, I grabbed Tiara's light body and tried to throw her - but in the next moment, my vision was reversed.

The starry sky that I was looking up to the heavens just now was at my feet, and the grass ground that was swaying even though there was no wind was above my head.

''Hihihi!''

----?

I didn't even know what had been done to me, until my body was upside down and I felt like I was floating.

I was the one who had been thrown off the ground.

After twisting my body, straightening up and down, and then landing on the ground, I'm sure of it.

Finally .......

Oh, finally .......

Completely, my 'innate differences (skills)' are gone .......

The absence of the examples of thinking skills such as convergent thinking, parallel thinking, divided thinking and regressive thinking made me feel like this - sleepy and quiet.

Thanks to that, I am able to do 'my thinking'.

Just now, in front of my brother, I was able to firmly reaffirm my chosen will.

And that 'my answer' is - never let my brother, who is now behind me, get away.

What had been stopped inside me for a long time is now moving all at once. As if a dam had broken, a murky stream of emotions gushed out from the bottom of my stomach and wouldn't stop, leaking out of my mouth.

'I can't lose ....... That ending is the only thing I can't change .......

Many people were sacrificed because I came from my 'original world' to the 'other world'.

I must not give up my [Two people in 'forever'] ending.

In order to not make the death of that gentle girl meaningless, I can never stop.

If I stop here, I won't understand the meaning of stopping all this time--

Tiara!　You're so close, and you're so close, again and again and again and again!　At last, even the end of my 'ideal' is about to be destroyed: ......!

I shouted that unstoppable thought.

To that, Tiara received it with a stern face and then - politely replied.

''Yes, I've interrupted you many times. But that obvious ending was really the best ending, Yotaki sister thinks ......?''

...... best, of course!　There's no other ending!　My skills will always give you the perfect 'answer'!　Always ahead of me!　So there was absolutely no need to change a single thing!

To Tiara, who answers immediately with a smile, my response is - late.

''I didn't think so, did I!　That's what I thought, that the last page that me and I thought would be better than the last page!'

'Huh, the page we both thought of ......?　It's not like that--

'No, it's not just us two!　To the ”Stealers of Reason”, Master and Rasu-chan!　In the end, we ended up with a story that we worked together to create 'together', sister Yotaki!

Well, that's none of your business!　There was no need for that!

''But ever since the moment we met, sister Yotaki has been!　He looked like he wanted the ending to be changed!'

'----?　I'm ...... and I'm ...... such a face!

It couldn't be.

From the day I lost my sister Lake Nagi, from the day I gave up on my brother, I've made up my mind not to expect or wish for anything else, and I have, and I've done so.

And yet, that's not the case, says Tiara.

'Yes, all the time, sister Yotaki was screaming.' --really, you're just like your master. Even though she looked unconcerned, deep in her heart she kept asking for ”someone” to save her, asking for ”someone” to change her destiny, asking for ”someone” to save her. ...... So, didn't sister Yotaki choose our 'world'?

”Is that why I chose ......, this 'other world', ......?

The reason I chose this ”other world” was definitely for my brother.

You're not going to be able to find the right place for your brother, and you chose this world of sword and sorcery.

--It's a good idea.

However, after re-reading The Story of the Aikawa Siblings, I think on my own.

The first thing that came to my mind was ”Mizuse Lake Calm”.

A 'significant other' who was once in my possession through my brother's failing magic.

'My first friend', the one who changed my fate, if only for a little while.

The one who kept my brother and I close, and one day, after everything was over, she said, ”--then we'll play together, the three of us.

That Lake Nagi sister's words were the only thing I believed for a long time.

No matter what happens, I'll always remember that ”There will always be a friend who surpasses you somewhere,” and that's the only thing I'll always, always remember.

And now, right in front of me, there is a ”tiara” who tries to surpass me.

Because I came to this 'other world', I was able to meet her.

The reason I chose this ”other world” was not for my brother ......?　This 'other world' is a 'gentle world for me' ......?

--Now, I finally find one 'my answer'.

''Sister Yotaki ....... ''The last (...) answer to the question (・・・・・) is enough ......?''

In other words, it wasn't my brother who wanted to play (or play) a game where everyone is equal, it was me.

It was also me who sought a second chance at failure in that ”other world”.

I also ran away from the real world in despair.

At that time, I was the only one who was able to hope for the miracle of ”magic” that would make everyone happy.

Little by little, the truth - is melting away (・・・・・).

'Well, not yet, Tiara ....... Why are you ...... trying to help me?　The first person you met and first fell in love with was your brother, right ......?　So why not your brother--

This much I want to hear from Tiara's own mouth.

Without a doubt, the two of them had a fateful meeting that day.

Tiara Fuzzya's had become the 'person of destiny' for Aikawa Uzumi.

''Yes, that's right. That's why I'm (...) - 'Ras Tiara (・・・・)' over there, too (...)'

But Tiara seemed happy and said that she was there (...).

It was also somewhat lonely.

It was a mother's face, as if the two children she thought were in the palm of her hand all along had left her hand before she knew it. From the look on her face, I knew that Lastiara's life to the fullest had surpassed not only mine, but Tiara's as well.

Tiara speaks proudly of the love that has become more 'real' than the real thing.

''We'' love 'Aikawa Uzumi'. --It's not just a matter of time before you get to the point where you can get to know each other.

It was the repeated brainwashing and resetting that made my brother what he is today.

Knowing the deeds of that outsider, Tiara still doesn't deny it and says that she loves him.

'I've always said. That I love books.''

'It's what you say ....... You've always been a child who doesn't see the boundaries between reality and make-believe .......

'Hee-hee. So, I am. I always thanked ”someone” for writing that ...... book after reading it. Because if it weren't for the person who wrote it, I'm sure I would have died in the top floor of the quarantine tower, crushed by pain and despair, sickened by the disease of ”demonic poisoning. ......'

A little painfully, Tiara turned her faraway eyes to the one tower in the garden.

The tower stood as it was then, the tower of its memories.

''I loved people who wrote stories for me as much as I loved books. So is it ...... strange to say that my sister Yotaki, the author of my favorite ”Aikawa Uzumi”, loves it?'

Perhaps, for Tiara, it's a ”story, including the hardships and misfortunes”.

That's why she can easily say ”I love you” for being so cruel and outgoing.

I don't think anyone can agree with that.

But now I have a feeling that I can understand a little bit.

After all, the way I feel right now is exactly how I feel.

'In the end, I wonder if it's all because 'by nature, Tiara Hoosiers loved books'?

I loved, loved, loved ...... books, and I loved to read them anyway.

And thanks to my sister Yotaki, I realized there's more to it than that. I was--.

I loved the smell of the room when I picked up the book.

I also loved the elation of my mind before I read the book.

I liked the emotional aftermath after reading the book.

I also liked the 'answering' of the book's feedback.

I liked the people who read the book with me--'

Tiara gazes at me intently.

Accompanying her there are memories from a thousand years ago.

In the garden of this hoozeyards, we had many 'answers' to each other.

Whenever I wrote a story about the adventures of two people who loved each other, Tiara would come back to me with her own story.

Sometimes Tiara would try to kill me, and I would write 'A Romance of Siblings in Love'. But even though Tiara was good at 'reading', she wasn't used to 'writing' yet, and that story was poorly written. So I graded it as 'not quite there yet' and laughed at her. And Tiara was so determined to ”win this time” that she never gave up and tried to kill me with a new story. I'm sure the reason Tiara tried again and again, despite the fact that I was about to kill her, was because she was having fun. Both Tiara and I were able to keep going because that time -- just because we were having fun and loved it.

-- that's the real 'answerability' of those 'answerability' days.

'There's still a lot to like about the book. I'm not--'

I loved writing books.

I liked people writing books.

I liked writing books with someone else.

I liked knowing how the person writing the book felt.