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4.0主线剧情（结局部分）
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! class="nodesktop" colspan="12" |目录
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! class="nomobile" rowspan="5" width="10%" |[[#Main(主线)|主线故事]]
! class="nomobile" rowspan="6" width="10%" |[[#Main(主线)|主线故事]]
! class="nomobile" width="15%" |[[光]] - 个人故事
! class="nomobile" width="15%" |[[光]] - 个人故事
|[[#1-1|1-1]]||[[#1-2|1-2]]||[[#1-3|1-3]]||[[#1-4|1-4]]||[[#1-5|1-5]]||[[#1-ZR|1-ZR]]||[[#1-7|1-7]]||[[#1-8|1-8]]||[[#1-9|1-9]]|| colspan="3" |
|[[#1-1|1-1]]||[[#1-2|1-2]]||[[#1-3|1-3]]||[[#1-4|1-4]]||[[#1-5|1-5]]||[[#1-ZR|1-ZR]]||[[#1-7|1-7]]||[[#1-8|1-8]]||[[#1-9|1-9]]|| colspan="3" |
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! class="nomobile" width="15%" |终焉
! class="nomobile" width="15%" |终焉
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|[[#F-1|F-1]]||[[#F-2|F-2]]||[[#F-3|F-3]]||[[#F-4|F-4]]||[[#F-5|F-5]]||[[#F-6|F-6]]||[[#F-7|F-7]]|| colspan="5" |
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! class="nomobile" width="15%" |结局
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! class="nomobile" rowspan="7" width="10%" |[[#Side(支线)|支线故事]]
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Memories will live on, here.<br><br>All will be remembered, until and past the very end.<br><br>They will all carry on.<br><br>And none will ever forget.}}
Memories will live on, here.<br><br>All will be remembered, until and past the very end.<br><br>They will all carry on.<br><br>And none will ever forget.}}
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解锁条件：完成[[#F-7|F-7]]，购入[[Final Verdict]]曲包<br>解锁要求：待补充
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光瘫坐在尘土与血泊中。
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我看到她在那里……她的愚蠢和自怨自艾毁了她。
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从捂着脸的指缝间看出去时，她再一次发现你的视线所指向的，是已经死去的，<br>我的第二个自我。冷漠，也可说是造成这一切的元凶，致使了你的死亡，而它一定会威胁着要卷土重来。
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我知道，这名身穿红白衣服的少女感觉得到。<br>她感觉得到，她就是为此而存在。
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你的死早已注定，<br>而她就是那个杀害了你的人。
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她的后背放松下来……<br>这世界……Arcaea……她好像感到压力在从中释放。<br>那是一种解脱……
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混沌已经散去……现在安全了……<br>但我也听到了……<br>有个像低语的东西缓慢进入她的内心，仿佛在要求她接受这个状态。
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接受她自身，接受Arcaea。<br>……然而——
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"……对立……"
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……她对自己低语道一个名字。她声音颤抖，泣不成声。
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"你是什么意思……？我们在‘这里’的名字是那样的……？"
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她沉默不语，感到讶异。
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低语再次对她说道：只要你想，那些答案就会浮现。<br>这地方，封存了所有的回忆……<br>……而她依旧沉默不语。
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埋藏在她武装的冷漠之下，是纯粹又刺眼的憎恶。<br>她无法停止憎恨自己。
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很明显她做不到。在一切之后……她要如何接受这样的结局？这代表什么？<br>对她来说有什么意义？
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她……曾漫步于此的她，绝对不可能接受。
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反胃感吞噬着她的腹部，她咬紧牙关。
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"……"
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光将手放至身下的尘土与沙子中，然后在膝盖上抖了抖。
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她问道：<br>"Arcaea……你是来治愈我的吗？"
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她的手臂放松下来，就像是有一道凉爽穿过了她的手臂。
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"……我感觉得到。"
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光慢慢闭上双眼，喃喃自语的说道。她的声音依然沙哑。"
"……这是害怕、疲惫且虚弱之人的乐园……"
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"……"
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她吞下干燥的空气，张开双眼，<br>抓起一把沙子并起身，<br>大部分的沙子从她指缝间流出。
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"我不知道该如何是好……"
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光继续说道：<br>"……把一切都再次交付给你，是正确的吗？""
"绝对……不是。"
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"我……不想要这样…"
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"我不想要这样……！"
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——<br>"呃——！"
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光突然弯腰抱住腹部，<br>用另一只手捂住嘴。她剧烈地颤抖着。
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她的"抗拒"似乎足以让这世界再次感觉到她。<br>就在她恐惧的说不出话，双眼睁大时，她突然皱了一下眉头。<br>我也听到有个刺耳的噪音，突然穿过她的耳朵、她的头脑——
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再次进入她的内心，但这已经不是低语了，几乎可说是震颤的怒吼。<br>一个沉静却有力的声音出现，说道：决定吧，说出你内心的想法。
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"说出……我的……？"
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因为……<br>……光是一名受内心驱使的少女。<br>早在她生平第一次张开双眼前，她的内心便指引她至此。
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是本能反应吗？这个"身体"记得一切是怎么发生的吗‥…？她之前是怎么样的人……？
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哈……<br>我其实并不在意。<br>只是……我觉得这很有趣又讽刺，这个新的心脏会在下一次跳动前就颠覆一切。
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她呼吸急促，内心颤抖了整整一分钟，<br>最终得到一个清晰且坚定的答案：
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"我要…推翻现状。"
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"我必须带她回来。"
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"这世界……一点都不合理！<br>你以为我会为此死去？还是以为我会让‘其他’人为之死去……！ ？ "
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"我做不到！我不会这么做的！<br>不论我必须做什么，放弃什么……作为交换，这些我都愿意牺牲……！"
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她手中牢牢的抓了一把泥土，接着甩出她的手并将其撒出去。
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她宣布：<br>"如果我的死亡可以改变这一切，那我愿意——！"
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世界的心脏在跳动，而这心跳声让她完全的安静下来。<br>这世界从未放弃她，以后也不会。<br>这个声音再次布满她的体内——
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而其中的情感和知识，进入了她的胸口，传达至她每个指尖。
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它说道：你不能死。<br>你注定会活下去，而且这是你的选择。
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这件事……光是明白的。<br>自责，内疚，使她眼中充满泪水。
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在她哭出来之前，这世界的心脏又再次跳动。<br>Arcaea 说道：别死。
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——<br>只要让它结束就好。
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……她的双唇紧闭。<br>她的泪水从眼角流出，滑落脸颊。<br>她点了点头。
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心脏再次跳动……<br>仿佛——
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—— Arcaea 开始失去光芒。
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这样做后，Arcaea 淹没了她，流入她的双手和内心。<br>她感到失落，几乎就要崩溃。
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这段时间，记忆闪现在她眼前，但我知道……这些是被忽略的记忆。<br>她的双眼反而专注在你了无生气的遗体上。
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我想她现在唯一知道的……就是"她该做什么。"
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我可以感觉到自己被往下拉至那里……一直下沉，下沉……<br>下沉至你被杀害的地方。"
……<br>她……是否真的明白她舍弃的东西是什么？<br>她真的明白这里的"结束"是什么意思吗？
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我不知道。<br>　<br>……你也无从得知。
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……事实上，如果她带我走，那……我还会记得每件事吗？我会明白吗？<br>　<br>不……或许不会。但是……她现在似乎对自己很有信心。
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我会让她的内心成为之后任何事的灯塔。<br>　<br>……我深信着。你也会，不是吗？
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毕竟，你是对的……<br>　<br>她们俩人……是完全不一样的。
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……"对立"……<br>　<br>……我现在要走了。
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不过别担心。<br>　<br>我一定会把你带在身边。
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天空再次落下，而土地依她的意愿上升。<br>为了死亡，也为了让对立重生。
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生命和灵魂不会真的被带进这个亡者的世界。<br>这里只有她们的形象以及回声……
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首先，<br>光芒之女和纷争之女的灵魂……从来就不平凡。
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没错，这世界不是为此而生。<br>确实，这个世界将因此支离破碎。<br>为了改写这一切，它愿意做任何事，或至少一试。
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它需要黑衣女子的"第一灵魂"
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以及可在她第二人格中找到的残片……"
而现在一个破碎的灵魂，呼唤着另一个完整的灵魂。<br>很快，这另一个灵魂便被强行带入这个苍白的世界。
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一道旋风围绕在光的身边，<br>在阴影和光芒的激流中，划破了身边笼罩的现实。
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Arcaea"记得"另一名少女，在光的指示之下，这些记忆以玻璃的形态瞬间赶到。<br>这些记忆看似突然出现。又或许说，它们一直都在。<br>……它们是否足够？这世界能否编织两个破碎的灵魂？
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……这个世界会的。规则并不重要。光会做到的……<br>带着名为对立的少女拥有的记忆……<br>这些记忆的玻璃迅速出现，在整场风暴中发光。
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过去有名少女曾备受煎熬的走过这些土地。<br>悲痛如影随形地跟着这名少女……<br>但她仍大步向前，想要拯救自己。
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为了拯救自己，为了紧紧抓住自由。<br>她只盼望着：<br>有机会能有一个理由让她微笑。
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为了打造一个更好的世界，这名少女曾挺身而出，<br>即使"更好"可能代表要让世界天翻地覆。
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这些回忆在光的双眼中闪现，<br>让她更加无法专注在她侵占中的回忆。
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另一名少女的眼泪，只有少许穿越了这场风暴，而她大部分的痛苦似乎都已被遗忘。
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看起来是这样没错……但事实上，身为光芒的灵魂，仍然抗拒着那灵魂和她一样的残酷的真相，<br>光唯一能做的事，就是找到另一名少女最真挚的绝望，<br>即便只是其中短暂的瞬间—— 而剩余的那些较长的时刻，则超出她的能力范围。
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……不过，当知道那最真实的痛苦引导黑衣少女至何方后，光便不再难过，<br>也放弃寻找她怎么也找不到的，那个她们相遇的时刻。
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由这一切产生出的对立……从未看过她所处的困境实际有多深，<br>但仍明白自己注定活在挣扎之中。
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光产生了一股新的能量。地面喷发四柱光芒，是巨大的力量泉源。<br>这是世界要保护她，因为她所召唤的暗影之魂最终降临了。
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这个灵魂靠近时，她几乎看不出来这是什么。在她前面漂浮并遮蔽天空的，<br>是一个与死亡相仿的东西：那是一个巨大又令人毛骨悚然的鬼魂形象。<br>这东西靠近时轻轻放慢了速度，随即便开始流入转动中的玻璃。
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她完全明白这是怎么回事。她坚决的点了点头，引导灵魂至玻璃，让过程更加顺畅。<br>对立"之前"迷失的灵魂，成为了新身体来临时的生命精华。<br>而对立"之后"迷失的灵魂，则用于稳定躯壳的剩余部分。
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光脚下的震动就快让人无法忍受。<br>她尽可能维持不动，并用双手不停引导这个新生命。<br>她听到雷鸣般的悲鸣，她感觉世界在痛苦中扭曲，但她依然紧紧抓住她的愿望。
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她没有被吓到，并在心中重申了她的誓言。
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她扭曲了世界的核心，这样做也将导致堕落之神的重生。<br>就这样最后，曾经绝对的规则被改写了。光发出坚定且沉静的命令后，<br>新的死亡便牢牢刺入至这个核心之中。
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在光芒和暗影巨大的脉冲之下，Arcaea 开始迈向灭亡。
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创造存在的愿望被推翻了。天空在头上迅速移动，而现实的余光从四面八方倾泻而下至她身上。<br>光将这打造出的灵魂推入至浮在半空中极度美艳的对立的身体时，<br>她的汗珠滴至眉间，但同时她也推动了整个世界——
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她引导着大地的生命。
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她抛弃了Arcaea。
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在白天要结束之时，双胞胎少女看着云朵从上空快速飘过。
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而在夜晚的天空之下，有一名贵族看着裂缝慢慢将大地分裂，<br>看着星星从空中逐渐落下。
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有一名关心又在乎的少女，有一名四处游荡并探索的少女，有一名看顾并许下愿望的少女——
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有一个愉悦的灵魂，有一个饥渴的灵魂，有一个有抱负的灵魂——
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有一颗战争的心，有一颗歌唱的心——
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—— 在这世界上所有的活力都被带至一个遥远地方之时，她们也看见了尾声。
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而很快地……
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……光感觉这些活力，最后有几缕流入了她希望拯救的那名少女体内。<br>当这活力从光的双手中退去时，对立的形体开始飘落至地面，<br>同时……
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……这名身穿白衣的少女也感觉到了，她自身也有一部分开始迷失在这股流动之中。
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……但她一点都不担心。
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当风声平息，Arcaea 上方的天空也回归平缓后……<br>她感到头晕目眩，并在可能跌倒前尽力站稳脚步。
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她试着让自己冷静下来，并试图理解她究竟做了什么。<br>但是……她做不到。<br>她无法抗拒地专注在一件事情上：
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对立活了吗？
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尘土再次从天空飘落。
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她确实记得……
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……在最后，在最低点的时候……
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没有人在那里，她闭上眼，眼泪开始留下。
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她现在缓缓张开双眼……<br>　<br>……而那些回忆也离开了她。
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光看见她额头有些动静。<br>这名白衣女子双手握拳放在嘴前，喉咙也深吸一口气。
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就这一切的璀璨来说，她认为，真是太简单了——
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太简单——<br>这些微的希望和努力，能否实现她的愿望？
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光对于这些想法摇摇头，她颤抖着向前。<br>对立的双眼张开，眨了一下，接着再次眯起。
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光赶紧上前，跪下并抱着眼前这名少女。
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"这……你……！？你这是——！？"
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光紧紧抱住她，这是她一生中抱得最紧的一次，<br>而另一名少女则沉默不语。<br>然后，光开始啜泣。
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她不顾自我地靠在另一个少女的肩膀上哭泣，<br>而那名少女回过头看着她，对这一切都感到难以置信。
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……更多裂缝都已经在那片景色中被凿开。<br>过去从天空中不断倾泻的光芒，突然也变得黯淡许多。<br>这个世界……受损了。
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而光的注意力仍放在有"什么"—— 有"谁"还在。<br>对立抬起一只手，轻轻地放在光颤抖的背上。<br>她们各自都不知道发生了什么事，在世界结束之时就这样安抚彼此。
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"抱歉……我真的很抱歉……"
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光不停地说着。"
"……不论你做了什么，"
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对立回应道：<br>"你都做到了，不是吗？为何要道歉……？""
光缓缓移开身子，但仍抱着这名少女。<br>她的双眼跟鼻子都哭红了，强颜欢笑地注视着对立。
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突然之间，光把脸埋进对立的胸口，而对立也轻轻地抱住她。<br>这一幕都安静了下来，黑衣少女就这样让白衣少女一直哭泣。
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——<br>她们在灰色世界中启程。
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对立牵着另一名少女的手带她向前走了一阵子，但没多久，<br>另一名少女就调整好脚步跟上。
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她不记得发生在自己身上的悲剧，至少，不记得最糟糕的部分。
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还有这些黑色碎片……这些碎片也不再对她感兴趣。
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光的情况也一样。这些原本非常喜欢光的白色碎片，再也不在她身边舞动或亲近她。
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一个已经失去部分黑暗，而另一个……而这世界……也持续失去光芒。<br>不过……<br>光那真诚的微笑，也不再需要玻璃的光芒。
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少女们走到悬崖边。<br>她们小心地寻找充满被忘却的记忆并缓慢腐败的大地。<br>这大地将腐败。它将崩溃，褪色，并且瓦解为虚无。
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她们站在那里，对此并不知情，她们仅"知道"彼此，<br>为此放弃了过去与回忆。
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对立带着沉着而温暖的表情看着光——<br>这是她在另外一个生命中，只要可以就会露出的神情。<br>光看见了她的神情，回以最单纯自在的微笑。
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"等着我们的是什么"……？<br>什么可能都不重要了。
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她们各自感到的"完整"……是不容动摇的。
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而且……<br>毫无疑问，光知道这场旅程已进入尾声。<br>未来的道路就在前方，新的旅程即将展开。
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……她花了一段时间意识到自己是无法精准得知这趟旅程会带来什么的。<br>她永远无法得知未来会发生什么事。
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她接受这个事实，并闭上双眼思考：<br>……对立之前是否知道，她走的每一步会将她带到哪？<br>她只会一路向前。
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……
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如果你已选择生命，那便是选择了活下去。<br>活在这个世界。见证这个世界。体验它，并真切地接受这最后的每个当下。<br>有了这样的体悟，她选择去牢牢把握。
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她睁开双眼，并且呼吸着空气。<br>前方蜿蜒的未知、身旁的少女、<br>没见过的脸庞、以及远方未知的地方……
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她把这些放在心中最重要的位置。
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她牵着对立的手。
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因为她们将会继续前进。}}
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Hikari sits amidst dust and blood.
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I see her there... Her folly has ruined her. Self-pity has ruined her.
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As she gazes through her fingers, her hand still on her face,<br>she finds, once more, the sight of you, my second self, dead.
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And the apathy which brought about your death—<br>the apathy which brought about this all—must be threatening to encroach again.
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I know it: the girl in white and red can feel it. She can feel that she was meant for this.<br>That you were meant to die, and she was meant to kill you.
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Her back relaxes...<br>The world itself... Arcaea... She can likely feel tension releasing throughout it.<br>Relief...
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The disorder is gone... It's safe now...<br>But I can hear it too...<br>Something like a whisper, easing into her heart, seems to ask her to embrace this state.
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To embrace herself, and embrace Arcaea.<br>...However—
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"...Tairitsu..."
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...She whispers something to herself: a name. Her voice is shaking, barely audible through her crying.
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"What did you mean...? That our names 'here' were those...?"
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She falls silent, and seems to wonder.
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The whisper comes again, telling her: if you want it, those answers will arrive.<br>This place—it is an archive to all memory...<br>...And yet still, she remains silent.
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"..."
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Beneath her building apathy is a sheer and shining hatred.<br>She cannot stop hating herself.
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Obviously not. After all that's happened... how could she allow an ending like this?<br>What would it mean? What would it mean for her?
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She... She, who walked here, could never accept it.
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With nausea eating at her stomach, she clenches her jaw.
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"..."
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Hikari puts her hand to the dirt and sand below her and lurches up onto her knees.
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And she asks,<br>"Arcaea... Were you here to heal me?"
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Her arm relaxes... like a cool sensation has woven up the limb.
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"...I can feel it,"
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Hikari mutters as her eyes slowly close, her voice still hoarse."
"...Paradise, for someone scared, tired, and weak..."
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"..."
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She swallows the dry nothingness in her mouth.<br>Opening her eyes, she grabs up sand and begins to rise to her feet<br>as much of it pours out from between her fingers.
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"I don't know what to do..."
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Hikari goes on,<br>"...but would it be right of me to let you hold me again?""
"It... absolutely wouldn't."
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"I... don't want this..."
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"I don't want it...!"
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—<br>"Mmf—!"
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Hikari suddenly bends over, gripping her stomach and pushing<br>her other hand against her mouth. She sways heavily.
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Her "refusal" seems to be enough to make this world recognize her once more.<br>As she holds her mouth shut, eyes wide in fear, she suddenly winces.<br>I can hear it too: a sharp noise, flying suddenly through her ears—through her head—
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And inside her heart again—no longer a whisper, but almost a vibrating bellow.<br>A silent, yet powerful voice filling her and saying: decide, and speak your heart's intent.
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"Speak... my...?"
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As she is...<br>...Hikari is nothing but a girl moved by her heart.<br>And it is heart that brought her here—long before she first opened her eyes.
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Is it instinct? Does that "body" remember how this all happened...? How she was before...?
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Ha...<br>I don't really care.<br>I just... find it very funny, and ironic, that this new heart would undo it all in a single beat.
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Her answer... after her breathing has become shallow, after her heart has trembled long past a minute,<br>is ultimately clear and resonant:
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"My intent... is to reverse."
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"I have to bring her back."
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"This world... doesn't make any sense!<br>You think I'd die for it? You think I'd let someone ELSE die for it...!?"
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"I can't! I won't!<br>Whatever I need to do, whatever I need to give up... I'll sacrifice it all for that...!"
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She holds the earth in her palm, firmly, before throwing her hand out and scattering the sand.
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She declares,<br>"I'll die if it means I can change all this—!"
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The world's heart beats, and its sound silences her cold.<br>It would never give her up. It will not.<br>The voice fills her again—
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And its sentiments, and knowledge, enter her chest and run to her fingertips.
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It says, You cannot die.<br>You were born here to live, and living is what you chose.
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Hikari... knows this.<br>And guilt—apology—forces tears to well in her eyes.
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But, the world's heart beats again before she can cry.<br>Do not die, says Arcaea.
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—<br>Only let it end.
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...And so her lips tighten.<br>Tears break past her eyelid, and trace down her cheek.<br>And she nods.
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A heart beats again...<br>And like that—
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—Arcaea begins to lose its light.
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And in so doing, it floods into her, flows into her hands and heart.<br>It drives her down. It nearly causes her to collapse.
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For that while, memories flash across her eyes, but I can tell... they are memories ignored.<br>Her eyes fix upon your lifeless corpse instead.
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I think all she knows now... is "what she has to do".<br>And I can feel myself being tugged there already... down, down...<br>down: to where you were slain.
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...<br>Does she... truly understand what it is she's abandoning?<br>Does she truly understand what is "ending" by this?
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I don't know.<br>　<br>...You won't either.
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...Actually, if she's taking me, then... will I remember any of this? Will I understand?<br>　<br>No... probably not. But... she seems so sure of herself now.
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...
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I'm going to let that heart of hers be the beacon for whatever comes after.<br>　<br>...I trust it. You would, too, wouldn't you?
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After all, you were right...<br>　<br>The two of them... are completely different.
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..."Tairitsu"...<br>　<br>...I'll be going now.
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But don't worry.<br>　<br>I will surely take you with me.
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The skies are forced down again, and the earth rises to her will.<br>To die, and to make Tairitsu live again.
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Lives and souls cannot truly be brought into this world of the dead.<br>Only their shapes, only their echoes...
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And to begin with,<br>the souls of the girl of light and the girl of conflict... were never quite ordinary.
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Truly, the world was not meant for this.<br>Surely, the world will shatter for this.<br>But it will do everything to rewrite it all—or at least try.
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It would need both the girl in black's "first soul"
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and what fragments can be found of her second self's..."
And now one fragmented soul calls out to a full other.<br>Swiftly, that other soul is torn from beyond the pale.
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A tornado flies around Hikari then,<br>ripping the veil of reality around her apart in a torrent of shadow and light.
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Arcaea "remembers" the other girl, and at Hikari's command those memories come rushing back as glass.<br>They seem almost instantly born. Or perhaps they have always been here.<br>...Will they even suffice? Can this world weave two fractured souls?
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...It will. The rules do not matter. Hikari will make it so...<br>With these memories of the girl named Tairitsu...<br>Glinting through the storm, those glass memories come swiftly.
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There was a girl here who once walked the lands in agony.<br>A girl dogged mercilessly by sorrow and grief...<br>Yet she strode onward to save herself.
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To save herself and to grasp freedom.<br>She had only ever wished for one thing:<br>the chance to have some reason to smile.
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To make this world a better place, she was a girl who stood and faced it,<br>even if "better" would mean turning this world over.
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The memories flash across Hikari's eyes, distracting her even more<br>from her own encroaching recollections.
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Few of the other girl's tears pass through the storm. Much of her pain seems to have been forgotten.
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It seems so... but in truth, as a soul of light, still pushing away<br>the cruel truth of that soul as she is, it is all Hikari can do to find even the fleeting moments<br>of the other girl's sincerest despair—the rest, the longer of them, lie beyond her grasp.
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...However, knowing where that truest pain had led the girl in black, Hikari gives that sorrow up,<br>and so too gives up the moment that they met, which she cannot find.
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The Tairitsu born of this all... will be one who has not seen the true depths of her plight,<br>but will still know herself as one who was born and lived in the midst of struggle.
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New energy booms out from Hikari. Four columns of light, immense fonts of power, erupt from the ground.<br>It is the world protecting her, as the shadow soul to which she called finally descends.
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She almost fails to recognize it at its approach. What floats before her and begins to block the sky<br>is something like Death: the immense and chilling shape of a phantom. It gently slows as it nears,<br>and there, at once, the dark begins to flow into the rotating glass.
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There she truly comprehends it. With a firm nod, she eases the process, guiding soul to glass.<br>The lost soul of Tairitsu "before" thus becomes the living essence of the new body to come,<br>with that of Tairitsu "after" stabilizing the rest of the shell.
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The shaking beneath Hikari's feet becomes almost too much to bear.<br>Hikari remains as still as she is able, and steadfastly directs the new life between her hands.<br>With a thunderous groan, she feels the world bending in agony, and yet she holds onto her will.
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Without being deterred, in her heart she reaffirms her vow.
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She twists the core of the world itself. It, too, will fuel the rebirth of a fallen deity.<br>Like this, finally, once absolute rules are rewritten, and with Hikari's sound and silent order<br>new death spikes solidly into that core.
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In an overwhelming pulse of light and shadow, Arcaea begins to die.
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The wish that made existence is overturned. The skies run rapid overhead, and what light remains of this<br>reality cascades to her from every horizon. As she pushes the crafted soul into Tairitsu's now-floating<br>and deeply effulgent body, with sweat dripping off her brow, Hikari pushes, too, the entire world—
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She channels the life of the earth.
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She abandons Arcaea.
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Below the now-ending daylight, twin girls watch as clouds rush past above them.
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Below the half-night sky, a noble gazes at a rift slowly tearing apart the earth,<br>and gazes above to see star after star fading.
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A girl who tends and cares, a girl who wanders and seeks, a girl who watches and wishes—
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A soul of joy, a soul of hunger, a soul of ambition—
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A heart of war, a heart of song—
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—they see the end, as all the life of the world is taken now to one, distant place.
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And soon...
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...Hikari feels the last wisps of that life flow into the body of the girl she wishes to save.<br>Tairitsu's form begins to drift back to the earth as the life fades out from Hikari's hands,<br>and as it does...
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...the girl in white feels, too, that a part of herself is being lost in the current.
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...None of that concerns her.
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When the winds die down, and as Arcaea's skies above are left slowed, dull...<br>she feels very lightheaded and plants her foot down before she might fall.
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She tries to calm herself, trying to grasp what she, truly, has done.<br>But... she can't.<br>And overwhelmingly, her thoughts focus on this:
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Is Tairitsu alive?
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—
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Dust drifts down from the sky again.
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She does remember this...
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...at the end, at that lowest point...
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Nobody was there, and she closed her eyes to tears.
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She opens them now, slowly...<br>　<br>...just as those memories leave her entirely.
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Hikari sees the motion in her brow.<br>The girl in white holds her own fists over her mouth and her breath catches in her throat.
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For all the splendor, she thinks, it was all so simple—
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Too simple—<br>Could her wish have been granted for so little as hope and effort?
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Hikari shakes her head of these thoughts. She steps forward, shaking.<br>Tairitsu's eyes open fully, and blink once, before their lids fall again halfway.
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Hikari rushes forward then, falls to her knees, and hugs the other girl.
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"Wh... What...!? What are y—!?"
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The girl is silenced as Hikari clings to her,<br>embracing her more tightly than anything else before in her life.<br>And, Hikari starts to sob.
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She uncontrollably cries into the other girl's shoulder—<br>the girl who stares back in disbelief, unsure of anything.
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...Many more rifts have been carved through the landscape.<br>The light which once eternally poured from the sky has been suddenly, and starkly dimmed.<br>The world... is wounded.
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And yet, Hikari's focus remains on "what"—"who" remains.<br>Tairitsu lifts her hand, and places it gently upon Hikari's shaking back.<br>Each unknowing, the two comfort one another at the end of the world.
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"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."
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Hikari endlessly repeats."
"...Whatever you did,"
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Tairitsu replies,<br>"you made it right, didn't you? So why are you apologizing...?""
Hikari slowly pulls herself away, though she still holds the other girl.<br>With her eyes and nose reddened, she gazes on Tairitsu with misery, and tugging elation.
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She suddenly buries her face in Tairitsu's chest, and Tairitsu holds her in return, softly.<br>The scene begins to quiet, and the girl in black allows the girl in white to weep.
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—<br>They set out into the gray world.
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For a while, Tairitsu holds the other girl's hand to walk her forward,<br>but it doesn't take long for their paces to match.
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She does not remember her tragedy—at least, not the worst of it.
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And the black shards... They don't take interest in her any longer.
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For Hikari too. Those white shards which were so fond of her no longer dance nearby and close.
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One has lost some aspect of dark, and the other... and the world... continue to lose light.<br>Though...<br>...to smile sincerely, Hikari no longer needs the light of glass.
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The girls walk to a cliff's edge.<br>They look out to see a land of lost memory, slowly falling to decay.<br>And it will decay. It will collapse, fade, and crumble to nothing.
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They stand there, not knowing this, and only "knowing" each other,<br>foregoing the past, and foregoing memory.
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Tairitsu looks to Hikari with a steady, and quietly warm expression—<br>It is the expression she wore once, whenever able, within another life.<br>Hikari, seeing it, smiles with the simplest ease.
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"What awaits"...?<br>What awaits could never matter.
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That sense of "completeness" they each feel... cannot be shaken.
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And...<br>Implicitly, Hikari knows this journey is at its end.<br>The road to the future lies ahead, and there a new journey will begin.
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...She takes the time to acknowledge that she cannot know what, precisely, that journey will bring.<br>She can never know what might happen.
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She acknowledges this, and closes her eyes to another thought:<br>...Did she know, before, where her steps would take her?<br>She only, always, stepped forward.
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If you've chosen life, then choose to live.<br>Live in this world. See this world. Feel it and truly accept every last moment.<br>With this sentiment, she chooses to hold firm.
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She lets her eyes open and she breathes in the air.<br>The unknowable winds ahead, the girl beside her,<br>the faces she has not seen, and the hidden places beyond...
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She holds all of it close to her heart.
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She takes Tairitsu's hand.
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Because they will go on.}}
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不久以前……<br><br>有个黑暗且寒冷的地方……<br><br>贫瘠空虚的土地上一片寂静；在乌云密布的天空之下，是全新的冰冷以及虚无。红花绿叶皆蒙上灰色，<br>而只剩生者的足迹，持续述说着他们曾经来过。白色此刻从天而降，掩盖了他们的足迹。落下的不是雪花，<br>只有灰烬。<br><br>冬日尚未来临，然一切皆已冰封。<br>
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在满是灰烬和冰霜的大地上，有一位跪着的少女，她抬起脖子，看着这片灰色中渗出的光芒。<br>她睁大双眼注视着。那光芒前的是一位天使，又或许是一位神。<br><br>她无家可归。双亲皆已过世，监护人也已过世，她同期的新任塑形者全都过世，<br>还有她那些总是看不起她的人民也已全部过世。她知道所剩下的一切只有手中的玻璃碎片，<br>这是她窗户的碎片。但仍或许还有机会——
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她是特别的天选之人。<br><br>虽然年轻但知识渊博。<br><br>她必须一试。<br><br>如果她努力尝试，或许还有极小的机会……能够让时间回流，发动回击。<br><br>或者甚至让她自身成为某种"神"。
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思考着她可以阻止这一切。<br><br>思考着她可以将每个人带回来。<br><br>这名少女看着手中的玻璃碎片，希望能拯救这个世界。
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—— 但是……<br><br>……她做不到。<br><br>只靠她的意志并不能从虚无中制造力量。人可以想像得到的任何意志力她都具备，但这没有任何意义。<br><br>她明白这个真相后，开始哭泣。<br><br>神的意志更有意义。神的愿望是她和她的同类消失、坠落、化为尘土，而这个愿望很快就会被神亲手实现。<br><br>少女从她的倒影中看见自己的双眼，而那倒影因自己的泪水而变得扭曲。从那颤抖的下颚中，<br>她看见自己的悲痛，以及无力与痛苦。<br><br>一切都不重要。她一事无成，不论是现在还是过去。<br><br>当天使降临时，这名黑发少女始终低着头。天使靠近她时，祂举起了祂的手。
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没多久，她就被带走了。
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这个孩子的名字已被忘却。<br><br>而她死亡的原因……远远超出她的理解。<br><br>没有人会记得她的存在。<br><br>但当她死亡时，另一个愿望带她离去。
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—<br><br>这件事的不久以前……<br><br>有个黑暗但却温暖的地方……<br><br>黑暗是她造成的。那是在不同时光不同地点，另一位名字都被遗忘的少女。她拉起帘幕。<br>她锁上房门。把手下有一张椅子。她坐在床上，睁大双眼注视着。<br><br>她抱着膝盖。<br><br>只是注视着。<br><br>注视着虚空。
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她被"自己"弄得不知所措。
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脑中无穷无尽地拨放着一段回忆。她能从楼梯上看见景色，并且清楚听到她父母从远处传来的低语。<br><br>他们不是在说她的坏话，但仍是在讨论她的事。<br><br>她的父母并非不爱她。<br><br>她无法爱自己，同时她感到自己内心缺少了一样让她能够爱她父母的东西。<br><br>她仍可以从楼梯上方看见景色。但她感到一切都在拉住她，要她松开栏杆，并且飞奔至下方的大理石门厅。<br><br>但如果这样没用怎么办？<br><br>在那之后，这名少女回到了自己的房间，并且安静地将自己锁起来。
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为什么她不能消失？<br>为什么她不能走向虚无？<br>为什么她会拥有这些想法？<br>为什么她的脑海会浮现这个？<br>为什么她不能消失……？<br><br>她将指甲刺入她的小腿。<br><br>她张大双眼凝视，呼吸急促。<br><br>她希望可以逃离这一切。
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白发少女是一个神。白发少女有麻烦了。<br><br>但这麻烦并非因为她是神，事实上她从来不知道自己的神性。<br><br>在她的内心，她许下一个阴郁的愿望，想受庇护，而愿望成真了：<br><br>"我要某个能够让我快乐的地方。"
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—<br><br>黑发少女死去了，而一个愿望要她的灵魂离开。<br><br>在遥远的世界，在另一个现实，有一名更强大的少女许下了这个愿望。<br><br>白发少女的力量非常强大，强大到她的愿望能打造一个世界。<br><br>这个世界拥有一个没有意义的名字："Arcaea"。
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Arcaea 是为了拯救亡者的庇护所。<br><br>虽然她许下愿望时还活着，但她仍然强烈感到"死亡"的感觉。<br><br>对此她完全没有想法；事实上，如果她试过，她就不会如此搞不清楚状况。<br>她只想从那里为自己得到一些东西。这是有可能的，真的，如果她知道那些被Arcaea 之网抓住的命运，<br>她就会发现自己做了一件很棒的事。<br><br>这个世界跨越时间和不同的现实，延伸至其他无数地方。<br><br>它是活的，虽然它没有想法，但这世界仍"许愿"与这些亡者分享生命。
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在没有任何指示的情况下，这世界尽可能抓住任何与其"内心"对话的东西。<br><br>在介于真实的接缝中被打造出来的空间里，在点缀着柔软且遥远的紫色星光的黑暗中……<br><br>……许多灵魂被包覆其中，并被带往一个跨越黑暗，全新且闪耀的边界。<br><br>白色的世界……<br><br>从这里开始，这个世界给了每个灵魂一个无暇的复制体，并且释放他们。<br>它给了各个复制体一个温暖的归属，给了它们一个新的形体……<br><br>这个世界给了它们永恒，让它们能安全地观察并重温无穷无尽的生命。<br><br>但它无法真正拯救它的创造者……
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它能够带来真实的灵魂，复制它们，并将这些灵魂带入新的身体中，然后释放，<br>不管前方等着它们的是什么……不过，"光"的灵魂，被固定回其第一个世界之中。她仍然活着。<br><br>……不会思考的 Arcaea 只会尽其所能强行复制那个灵魂。<br><br>很久以后，Arcaea 发现了一个灵魂，它从未见过如此悲惨的灵魂，可以与它母亲的灵魂相似……<br><br>奇怪的是，该灵魂也无法被妥善的保管。释放时，<br>这个灵魂不会像其他灵魂一样离开这个虚假世界的边界……<br>因此它也开始目睹着自己的复制品不幸于这个全新白色大地上诞生。<br><br>对立……在一座毁灭的塔中苏醒。
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—<br><br>随着时光流逝……<br><br>难以想像，被救回的其中一人曾震慑着一切……<br><br>但幸运的是，造成这一切的人回来了，很快这个世界也再次变得安全……<br><br>Arcaea 只是为了存在而生。 Arcaea 呼唤了它的创造者，而这名创造者注意到了这个呼唤。<br>就像Arcaea 创造了碎片的监视者，并请求监视者吞噬一切会瓦解其脆弱存在的异常……
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因此现在，Arcaea 依然存在着。<br><br>它已经存在了超过一千年了。
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沾染大地的红色鲜血被抹去了，留下纯洁、白色的大地。对立的身体被烧掉了……<br><br>温暖占据着一切。天空变得明亮。<br><br>珍珠般近乎无尽的景色再次聚集。<br><br>现在，这是一个毋庸置疑的美丽世界……<br><br>散布各地的少女们选择在这个无尽旅程大地中停歇。她们选择被冰封，永远凝视着这迷失的世界。<br>如果她们还在思考……她们思考的会是非常遥远的过去。<br><br>而那肯定是更好的选择……<br><br>那肯定比较好，相比无尽地行走并观察其他地方……
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她们一定很开心。她们需要变得开心。<br><br>Arcaea 除了那个选择没什么能够给她们。这个世界仍然埋藏在"缝隙之间"，而解脱方法也是——<br><br>—— 而且……这世界以外的任何领域……是在外部的另一个地方，且无法再次看见。<br><br>因此，双胞胎少女、带着利剑的少女、旅行者、贵族、歌之少女……<br><br>她们和其他人善良到如同天使一般。<br><br>而 Arcaea 的玻璃碎片现在也经常休止。它们沿着墙壁和柱子集结，压实成又大又多的样子，就像结晶一样。<br><br>就像生锈了一样。
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—— 这个美丽的世界是由神所看护的。光在这一切之上，毫不关心地看照着……<br><br>……并且记得……
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她记得所有旧世界已经遗忘的事。她有点热情，或着是有点兴趣的看着它们。<br>这可称得上是那位衰弱且无精打采的神所拥有的一种放纵。<br><br>或许……她已经不一样了。她过去是怎样的人，现在的她又是怎样……她现在层次一定"更高"了。<br><br>她珍惜着一个真相，对此她只能祈祷其他人能理解—— 虽然即使他们不能……<br>她也只不过选择了去看着这世界。<br><br>但……即便她毫不关心地看着这世界，她也知道自己给了它们"一切"。
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……<br><br>……在她的范围之外，一名哲学家和卫星在游荡。<br><br>在此之下，一个长角的女人正照料着珍贵的回忆。<br><br>眼中有花朵的女人……在寂静的大地上跋涉。<br><br>这是空虚的，是没有意义的。<br><br>Arcaea 现在成为了虚无。<br><br>而那样……比另外一种型态还好。<br><br>好过一个藐视你的世界。好过那个瞧不起你生存方式的自己。<br><br>为爱上活着而活，并臣服在虚无之下……
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……现实在其所有的面向中，是个空虚、一文不值且微不足道的事情。一个人想要的唯一一件事情，<br>就是夺走现实中可以拿走的任何东西。<br><br>夺走快乐。夺走爱。夺走希望。夺走力量。<br><br>而夺走之后……<br><br>……<br><br>光相信，什么都不需要做。
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夺走。活着。然后真正地爱着活着本身。<br><br>爱着它……<br><br>虽然在千年之间，甚至千年之后……生命都不会有所意义。
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毕竟，现实前进时，没人知道等待着的"结束"是什么样子。<br>而 Arcaea，具体来说，从来就只是记忆的载体。<br><br>无形、限制、沉默的记忆—— 然而外面看不见，注意不到，也不会在乎。<br><br>而这些记忆，与光所拯救的那些生命，将沉静地永存在此，而至于那些生命，<br>她也如往常一样不会看过去一眼。<br><br>因为在这里，没有看不到的记忆，没有感觉不到的情感。这就是光芒照耀，<br>且授予的"一切"。<br><br>为了永远的快乐，为了永远的平安。与你可能已经抛弃的任何生命不同，<br>这，就是她所爱。这，就是Arcaea ——<br><br>—— 迷失的生命不会受到偏袒，也不会受到责备。<br><br>因此，就像这样，命运的齿轮在这里继续运转……<br><br>……而远方不会再有等候着的命运。}}
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It wasn't long ago...<br><br>Somewhere dark and cold...<br><br>A barren, empty land rested in silence; newly cold, and newly empty, under a sky<br>leaden with dense clouds. The green leaves and red flowers had turned gray, and<br>only the footsteps of the living remained to tell that they all had once been<br>there. White now fell from the heavens and covered up their steps. No snow fell; only ash.<br><br>All had frozen, and winter had yet to come.
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On the ash and ice-covered earth, on her knees, was a girl with her neck craned up to face what light<br>now bled through the gray. Her eyes were wide and staring. Before that light was an angel or, maybe, a god.<br><br>There was no home to turn to. Her mother and father were dead. Her guardians were dead. Her fellow<br>fledgling Shapers were dead. Her people, who had always scorned her, were all dead. All that remained<br>of what she knew was a shard of glass in her hand—a fragment from her window. But still, perhaps,<br>there was a chance—
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She was chosen, and special.<br><br>She was young, but learned.<br><br>She only had to try.<br><br>If she tried, very hard, there was perhaps the smallest chance... to reverse time's flow. To strike back.<br><br>To even, maybe, turn into a sort of "god" herself.
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Thinking she could stop all of this.<br><br>Thinking she could bring everyone back.<br><br>The girl looked at the shard of glass in her hand, and wished to save the world.
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—However...<br><br>...she could not.<br><br>Will alone cannot create strength from nothing. She had all the will that one could imagine,<br>and her will was worthless.<br><br>Knowing that, she began to cry.<br><br>The will of the god above was worth more. Its wish had been for her and her kind to vanish, fall,<br>and fade into dust, and that wish would be granted, in moments, by its hand.<br><br>The girl saw her eyes in her own reflection, and watched as the image became distorted<br>with her tears. She could see her grief through her shaking jaw, and her impotent, overwhelming pain.<br><br>Nothing mattered at all. Nothing she had ever done, and nothing now.<br><br>The black-haired girl kept her head bowed as the angel descended. When it reached her, it raised its hand.
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And shortly, she was gone.
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That child's name is forgotten.<br><br>The reasons for her death... were beyond her.<br><br>Her life would not be remembered by anyone.<br><br>But when she died, another wish took her away.
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—<br><br>It wasn't much longer ago than that...<br><br>Somewhere warm, though still dark...<br><br>She had made it dark. Another girl in another time and another place, with all names forgotten. She had<br>drawn her curtains. She had locked her door. A chair was beneath the knob. She sat on her bed, and kept<br>her eyes wide and staring.<br><br>She hugged her knees.<br><br>Staring.<br><br>She stared into nothingness.
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She was overwhelmed by "herself".
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A memory played endlessly in her head. She could see the view from atop the stairs, and vividly hear<br>her parents' words, whispered from beyond her sight.<br><br>They weren't saying anything against her, but they were still discussing her.<br><br>It wasn't that they didn't love her.<br><br>She could not love herself, and she felt that inside of her, something was missing that would allow her<br>to love them.<br><br>She very well could still see the view from atop the stairs. She had felt everything tugging at her to<br>let go of the banister then, and fly to the marble foyer below.<br><br>But what if it didn't work?<br><br>The girl had managed to return to her room after that and quietly lock herself away.
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Why couldn't she disappear?<br>Why couldn't she walk off into nowhere?<br>Why were her thoughts like this?<br>Why was her mind like this?<br>Why couldn't she disappear...?<br><br>Her nails dug into her calves.<br><br>Her stare widened. Her breathing quickened.<br><br>And she wished that she could run away.
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The girl with white hair was troubled. The girl with white hair was a god.<br><br>She was not troubled because she was a god—her godhood was a fact she never knew.<br><br>In her heart, she made a sullen wish for refuge, and that wish was granted:<br><br>"Somewhere else, where I can be happy."
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—<br><br>The girl with black hair died, and a wish called her soul away.<br><br>In a distant world, in another reality, a girl more powerful than her had made that wish.<br><br>The white-haired girl was so powerful that her wish had created a world.<br><br>A world with a meaningless name: "Arcaea".
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Arcaea was a sanctuary meant to save the dead.<br><br>Though she'd been alive when she'd made her wish, she still keenly felt that sense of "death".<br><br>She'd given it no consideration, none at all—in fact, she couldn't have thought straight if she'd<br>tried. She only wanted something there for herself. It's possible, really, that if she knew the fate<br>of those caught in Arcaea's web, she would see herself as having done a very good thing.<br><br>The world reached out to countless other places across time, across separate realities.<br><br>It was alive, and though it had no thought it nonetheless "wished" to share life with those dead.
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Unguided, it caught any it could that spoke to its "heart".<br><br>In a space crafted between the seams of the real, in darkness spotted with soft and distant purple starlight...<br><br>...so many souls were wrapped into the weave, and brought to a new and shining border beyond the black.<br><br>The world of white...<br><br>From there, the world made a perfect imprint of each, and also released each. It gave each imprint a warm<br>place, gave them a new shape...<br><br>It gave them infinity, to view and relive endless life in safety.<br><br>But it could not truly save its maker...
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It was able to take true souls, double them, and bring the doubles into new bodies, releasing those<br>first souls to whatever else awaited them... However, the soul of the one who would be known as "Hikari"<br>was fixed back in its first world. She was still alive.<br><br>...Arcaea, always unthinking, instead forced a copy of that soul as best as it could.<br><br>And much later, it found a soul more tragic than any other it had yet to find, similar to its mother's...<br><br>Strangely, that soul could not be properly kept either. When released, it could not leave the false<br>world's border like the rest... and so began to watch its star-crossed copy on the new, white earth instead.<br><br>Tairitsu... woke in a ruined tower.
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—<br><br>And time passed...<br><br>Unthinkably, one of the saved had threatened everything...<br><br>But mercifully, the one who had made this all returned, and soon the world was safe again...<br><br>Arcaea was only crafted to exist. It had called out to its maker, and that maker had heeded that call. Like<br>Arcaea had made a monitor for the shards... like it bid that monitor to swallow up any anomalies that<br>fractured its fragile existence...
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So now, it exists, and has existed.<br><br>It has existed, ever since, for over one thousand years.
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The red blood that stained the earth was erased, leaving behind pure, white land. Tairitsu's body<br>was burned away...<br><br>Warmth filled everything. The sky grew bright.<br><br>The pearl and nearly endless landscape came together again.<br><br>And now, it is a truly beautiful world...<br><br>Dotted in figures: of girls who chose to rest in a land of endless travel. They chose to be frozen, and to<br>stare eternally into this world of the lost. And if they are thinking at all... it is of a very distant past.<br><br>And that was surely the better choice…<br><br>That was surely better than walking and watching other places forever...
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They must be happy. They need to be.<br><br>Arcaea had nothing else to give them but that choice. The world was<br>still buried "inbetween", and escape was—<br><br>—and... any realms outside of it... were outside, and away, and could<br>never be seen again.<br><br>So, the twins, the girl with a blade, the traveler, the noble, the girl with a song...<br><br>They and others are angelic figures.<br><br>And the glass shards of Arcaea often come to rest now, too. They gather along<br>walls and pillars, compacting in great and plentiful formations. Like crystals.<br><br>Like corrosion.
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—This beautiful world is overseen by a god. Above it all, Hikari watches passively...<br><br>...and remembers…
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She remembers everything old worlds have forgotten. She sees them, with marginal warmth<br>or interest. An indulgence, of sorts, for the mind of a faded and listless god.<br><br>Maybe... she has transformed. Who she was and who she is... She must be "higher" now.<br><br>She cherishes a truth she can only pray that others would understand—though if they<br>will not... She has only chosen to watch the world.<br><br>Yet... though she watches it passively, she knows she has given them "everything".
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...<br><br>...Outside her purview, a philosopher and satellite wander.<br><br>Beneath it, a horned woman tends to precious memories.<br><br>A woman with a flower in her eye... trudges through silent lands.<br><br>It is vain. It is vanity.<br><br>Arcaea now—is vanity.<br><br>And that... is better than the alternative.<br><br>Better than the world which spits at you. Better than yourself, who loathes your very way of being.<br><br>Living to love being alive, and succumbing to vanity...
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...Reality, in all of its facets, is an empty, worthless, and inconsequential thing. The only thing one could<br>ever want would be to take what one can out of it.<br><br>Take pleasure. Take love. Take hope. Take power.<br><br>And with it...<br><br>...<br><br>Hikari believes this: one has no need to do anything.
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Take. Live. And, sincerely, love being alive.<br><br>Love that...<br><br>Though not even for a thousand years, nor even a thousand more... will life ever mean a thing.
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After all, reality marches on with no discernable "end" in store. And Arcaea, specifically,<br>was never anything more than a vessel for memories.<br><br>Incorporeal, contained, silent memories—while the outside remains unseen, unnoticed, and uncared for.<br><br>And those memories will exist forever here in that silence, together with those lost lives Hikari has saved,<br>and with her turning no eye to those lives, as always.<br><br>Because here there is no memory unseen—no emotion not felt. This is "all", which Light shines down upon,<br>and which Light grants.<br><br>It is for happiness. It is for eternal peace; unlike in any life you might have left behind.<br>This: she loves. This: Arcaea—<br><br>—Given to lost lives with neither favor nor condemnation.<br><br>And so, like this, the wheels of fate here continue to turn...<br><br>...while no destiny waits beyond.}}


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