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====英文剧情==== | ====英文剧情==== | ||
The girl adorned in shadows peers through the broken window into another time. | |||
Her smile returns.<br> | |||
What a fool she was.<br> | |||
Not the girl in white, no.<br> | |||
Her.<br> | |||
The vision in the glass is no memory.<br> | |||
It cannot be, of course.<br> | |||
What she’s seeing is a future: a future that she should have expected,<br> | |||
the fool, the idiot dreamer.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
The glass shows an unmistakable image of herself, run through with a jagged pillar of glass,<br> | |||
the wound seeming to sear her clothing and body apart in a blistering, pale, and consuming flame.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
The blank, barren lands of Arcaea stretch out far behind her, and before her,<br> | |||
coaxing the pillar with a lifted hand and a blinding, fiery glow around her shoulders,<br> | |||
is a girl clad in white, a very familiar one, though her expression is hidden from this vantage.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
It is the girl standing before her now.<br> | |||
The one she has only just met.<br> | |||
This is no memory: it's a vision of what will come to be.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Faced with this, Tairitsu retreats into herself,<br> | |||
and confronts the one truth she was determined to ignore.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Her conviction didn't matter.<br> | |||
She will never find anything good for her in this world.<br> | |||
That last hope is dyed black now, drowned in despair, forgotten.<br> | |||
What else would happen?<br> | |||
What was her hope for?<br> | |||
Idiocy. Tiresome, blind idiocy.<br> | |||
Tiresome effort.<br> | |||
Tiresome memories.<br> | |||
Tiresome existence.<br> | |||
Tiresome, awful, sick of it. Sick of this, sick of herself,<br> | |||
sick of everything in this never-ending, mocking play.<br> | |||
Miracles? No...<br> | |||
She'd said it herself. This world is hell.<br> | |||
And she knows this, from the fractured ideas of worlds dead and gone:<br> | |||
even angels can one day fall and awaken to demonic form.<br> | |||
The girl in light is just like that.<br> | |||
In a turn final and damning, what was once a mere pit inside her chest is clawed and spread.<br> | |||
It wastes, decays all through in an instant, leaving instead a cold and endless chasm.<br> | |||
As the darkness within it creeps out to coat her insides and choke her thoughts,<br> | |||
she sees Hikari very clearly.<br> | |||
Sees her gaze darting to the shard—sees the panic, the clear knowledge in her eyes.<br> | |||
The girl knows.<br> | |||
And now she can't face her opposite's stare,<br> | |||
won't say a word though she sees clearly.<br> | |||
You're unnerved? Unsettled? Unabashed.<br> | |||
Unforgivable.<br> | |||
That anger twists into hate and loathing, spilling over and arriving in her eyes.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Wicked betrayer; wicked, wicked place.<br> | |||
She tightens her grasp on her parasol,<br> | |||
looking past the shard to Hikari, who is standing still.<br> | |||
Frozen in place, surely, because her ill intentions have been exposed.<br> | |||
It's worth laughing about.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Tairitsu's eyes narrow, and she excises the remains of those burgeoning emotions<br> | |||
the girl had begun to cultivate within her.<br> | |||
With finality she is emptied,<br> | |||
and with that, she knows what she must do.<br> | |||
But this mirror is still one-way, and thus her anger as well.<br> | |||
Hikari is unable to see within this peculiar shard at all.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Unaware, she can only watch in confusion<br> | |||
as Tairitsu's countenance drains more and more of color.<br> | |||
<br> | |||
A sense of danger wells up in her, and though she can't understand why, she can feel it there.<br> | |||
In fact, shadows now seem to be crawling up from the earth, light perishing at their touch.<br> | |||
Darkness nears her, and her breathing shortens. She takes a step back.<br> | |||
She almost can't believe it. She certainly doesn't want to.<br> | |||
Even after surviving the harrowing ordeal, that blinding light sky,<br> | |||
something terrible faces her again without reason.<br> | |||
But still, she had survived it.<br> | |||
And now she knows for certain that survival may not allow compromise.<br> | |||
With this thought in heart and mind, Hikari makes a damning mistake.<br> | |||
She reaches for the one piece of glass,<br> | |||
the one that gave her comfort and direction in the midst of her lowest moment.<br> | |||
When she raises it to her chest,<br> | |||
the hairs on the back of Tairitsu's neck rise up as well.<br> | |||
Fear pulsing through her, along with a conviction to never meet with tragedy again,<br> | |||
Tairitsu closes the distance to Hikari in an instant, without warning,<br> | |||
ready to once and for all firmly grab hold of her life.<br> | |||
==Side(支线)== | ==Side(支线)== | ||