Light.

It's like the glaring sensation of walking to a sunny place after a long time in a dark room, and the moment the light hits my eyes, I have reflexively closed my eyes, and I feel like my eyes have been burned in the first moment.

When I wanted to open my eyes again, I chose to carefully open only a trace of light, and my eyes were like a line, and what came into my eyes was one halo after another, and my eyes never got used to the light from the outside world.

At this time, I began to feel a sense of disobedience, and the squinting just now was an instinctive reaction, just like when I got up, there was always a natural reaction to open my eyes, of course, the next step for people who were snoozes would be to close their eyes and continue to sleep.

But I was completely cleared up by the bright light, and I noticed a sense of dissonance as my vision slowly changed from a halo of completely invisible scenery to a slightly outlined landscape.

I can see.

I was able to see when I was supposed to lose my senses.

Not only did my vision regain my vision, but I could also feel myself surrounded by warm water, and I could feel the resistance in the water when I waved my hand slightly.

I could smell the fragrance wafting through the air, and I opened my mouth to lick my fingers, and the slightly salty smell of the water from my tongue was gently burned to my brain.

"I ...... Healed!"

I was so excited that I bounced up, but as soon as I stood up, I immediately felt a spinning daz.

There was a "thud" and I fell gorgeously. It seems that the body has become stiff and unaccustomed to losing the sense of touch for a long time, and the body has become less controllable than before.

"But it seems that the senses have become sharpened. ”

I can clearly feel the rich magic flowing in the air as I look at my hands, and even the flow of the wind can sense the source and direction of the wind. My eyes seem to be able to see more clearly and farther than before, and I can clearly see the lines on the surface of the rocks under the base of the hot spring that I am soaking in, even through the rippling water.

But none of that mattered, I repeated the different movements several times and became familiar with my current body, and I was finally able to stand up normally.

When I walked out of the spring, I realized that I had a big problem to solve.

"What to do with clothes......

I looked at myself standing naked in the empty hole** and felt embarrassed, if I walked out directly like this, I would be seen by the night sky, it must be a scolding.

"But maybe something good about me can overshadow it. Forget it, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, let's go out first. ”

I suppressed the excitement in my heart and tried to get out of this cave quietly. I was so excited about my recovery, and I wanted to share the joy with someone I liked right away, and both of us would definitely be touched by it.

However, the next second I stepped out of the cave, my excitement slowly faded, it was the same as before, the yellow sky of Belka, and the dry wind.

It's just that I can feel that the atmosphere is becoming more turbid than ever, is this an illusion that my senses have become sharper?

"No, it's a legacy of the quality weapons that followed the war between Belka and Midcherda. ”

Suddenly, someone slowly stepped out of the dark corner, and I knew this person. She is the one who helps in the midst of trials.

"Why are you? I remember you can't be in the same dimensional world as Crow, who is a test practitioner. ”

I asked the girl in front of me uneasily, and in a very blunt way I said an answer that I didn't want to hear.

"It's very simple, Crow' is no longer in this world, and the test object is to be able to move across several dimensional worlds, so they are not scattered in the same world as before. So this has indirectly increased the scope of our helpers, which is good news for heroes like you who have found us. ”

No......

Wait a minute!

"It can't be, if that's what you say!"

"Yes, as you think. ”

She confirmed my words before I could think of an answer, when the impact of my impact caused me to fall to my knees with my feet suddenly.

"Over...... How long has it been?"

"It's been almost two hundred years, and the four gods haven't been resurrected yet, but the crow did shift to Meade's side, so we were able to show up in Belka. ”

It's been two hundred years.

Obviously, the last time I remember it was when I went to a ruin in the hot spring with Yetian, why did it take 200 years to wake up?

“……”

My thoughts were already starting to get confused, and in my case I didn't care about my mood and stirred up the conversation again.

"So here is a message from your companions, do you want to listen to it?"

Night sky!

"Yes, night sky, she's now—"

"Already dead, she accompanied you to the end of her life. ”

"This ...... Can ......"

I can't spit out a complete sentence anymore, in fact, I have sorted out the context of all the events after a certain amount of thinking, but I still don't want to accept the answer I have thought of.

Many, many questions I wanted to ask the girl in front of me, but in the end I put a thousand words into one question.

"Was she happy when she left?"

"I don't know, but she has a message for you. ”

She shook her head and didn't answer my question, and I didn't mind too much, focusing on a small projector in her hand.

"Rain. When you see this video, I must be dead anymore. 」

I saw a night sky that was much older than I remembered, and her long pearl-colored hair, which had been transparent, had become gray, and although her face was well maintained, I could still tell that she had gone through the ravages of time.

[Originally, I was supposed to go down with her and grow old together. 】

I looked at my moisturized hands and my body without any signs of aging, and a little bit of regret welled up.

"Don't regret it, I'm glad you didn't wake up all these years. After all, you kept your promise to stay with me, and I can feel that you are trying to wake up and live with me every day. Really, I think you're the only one in the world who can make such a fuss when you're asleep. 」

The light atmosphere of the night slowly took away my heavy emotions, and when I heard her words, it was as if I had found a small salvation.

When you think you're not getting results, if someone can say to you, "You've worked hard," it's a wonderful thing, and you're going to be able to get redemption from their words.

I've been saved by the gentleness of the night sky again, and I've really been saved by her all the time.

At the beginning of my wandering into this world, I have been dragging her back, and finally managed to save her once, but it still dragged her down.

"I'm such a useless man......"

I couldn't hold back my tears for a long time, and two lines of cool tears kept dripping to the ground.

"I guess you're not crying, the boy in my mind wouldn't cry over such a trivial matter. So don't cry anymore in the rain, there are still many things that need you after this, and I'm not the only one in your world. 」

"No, you've always been the center of my world. ”

"You must be making excuses to refute me, right? Peace of mind, I know that you have conveyed this feeling to me well, otherwise I would not have waited by your side for so many years. Don't you see time as the best proof, whether it's me or your love. 」

"You're quibbling, I've been asleep. ”

"It's already the greatest happiness to have you by my side, so don't say I'm not happy at all. If you dare to deny the happiness of my life, I will surely crawl out of the tomb and give you three Ragnarok. 」

"If you can get in front of me again if you only get three shots, then I don't care if you have thirty rounds. ”

"So you should know what I want you to do, what you should do, I don't need to mention it. 」

“……”

"Don't let my family, your friends, and your world be destroyed by those hateful bastards. Don't let those bastards destroy the beautiful world I yearn for, be a hero, break this unreasonable trial, and cut off the chain of this tragedy. My knight, the strongest knight of the Lord of the Night, Rain Nagase, it's time for you to stand up for the world. 」

"You're a man...... It is always only at such times that you recognize that I am your knight. ”

I wiped away my tears and looked at the image of the night sky in front of me, I wanted to hug it, but I was afraid that the sense of loss that penetrated through the past after hugging it would overwhelm me.

"Then let me say "thank you" at the end, thank you for giving me such a perfect first love. Originally, as a magician researcher, I shouldn't have this love, and the music you brought me, but I have been engraved in my heart for the rest of my life, even if I pass away, I will never forget what you gave me. Thank you, thank you for breaking into my life and making me happy. 」

"I'm the same, you're not the only one to thank you. ”

"Don't be afraid to lose my future, I'll always be by your side. I have left you many, many things, so don't always look back and miss me, please move on. Go to that happy future, go to the ending we haven't reached together to get your own happiness. 」

"This is too difficult, can I really go to a happy future without you? This bitter and sweet first love has already raised the difficulty of my happiness to the purgatory-level difficulty. ”

"I'm sure you'll be able to do it, for you're a knight I'm proud of. 」

The video ended with a happy smile on the night sky, but I felt confused about what to do next, how to move forward.

"That's the end of the message, so what are you going to do? ”

He asked me like a passer-by with a bland and unpersonal feeling, and I was very glad to have such a calm person around, at least she was able to make me feel a little normal.

"Since it is what she wants, then I will fulfill this wish of my master no matter what. ”

I said this to the horse, and she was still not very affected by the atmosphere, but just smiled and nodded at me.

Although I have not yet been able to fully accept the fact that Yetian is gone, the wish entrusted to me has indeed been accepted, and there are not many choices I have as a knight.

I still feel lost, and I'm still afraid that I'm taking the right step. But nothing can start without taking this step, this is the first step, and it is also a new step for me.

"It's okay, even if this is a scam she set up for me, I will follow her wishes, after all, this is what she wants. ”

I held back the tears that wanted to well-up in my eyes again and again and look to the sky.

"I'll give it back to you. ”

Instead of putting on my clothes, I directly activated the blue moon, put on the protective suit, and took out the most important "ark".

"I didn't think there would be a chance to use it. So how am I going to find you when I go back to modern times?"

Rain looked at the cube in his hand and then looked back at Jana, who shook his head.

"We will take the initiative to find you, because you are already the one who has passed the test, so you have the right to get our assistance. ”

"It's not reliable, what if you haven't experienced this when you look for me in the future? ”

"Rest assured, we've left a liaison technique in your magician. When the time comes to activate it, we will naturally come, although it may take some time in between, after all, it takes a certain amount of effort even for us to travel between worlds. ”

"Then please. ”

I took the button of the ark, and a wave of cherry magic slowly enveloped my body, and then I felt my body begin to fly.

Finally I made my way home.

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"Are you gone......"

After the rain leaves, a blonde woman walks out of the cave with a seemingly frail girl.

The two of them are Lily and Yetian, although Yetian's face is pale and a little weak, but they are not at all like the aging in the vision just now.

"Well, it's been done according to the plan you guys said. He seems to have been completely fooled. ”

"Is that really the case......

Lily, who had been watching what had just happened, was suspicious, but Yetian, who was beside her, nodded unhesitantly.

"No problem, just get the effect. ”

Yetian barely leaned on Lily's body and straightened her waist, and Lily became worried when she saw her move like this.

"Don't mess around, you just received the transfer of the curse, but you are being frantically eroded by the curse. ”

"Rest assured, there is at least one or two days left to be in that state of rain. ”

"It's so different from your style, giving so much for others, and it's completely inversely proportional to your money-hungry character. ”

"Haven't you heard that girls in love are blind, but it's great that our plan has succeeded. ”

Everything that Rain saw just now was a scene planned by Lily and Yetian, bringing Rain to this dimensional world of Thana, allowing her to use perfect simulation of a world imagined by Rain three hundred years later, and then tricking him into thinking that Yetian was a natural old age and dying, so that he would let go of her and walk on the path that Yetian had hoped he should take.

Everything is for the rain to be able to gain a new future, a new world reached by the self-sacrifice of the night sky.

"Then I've got everything I need to leave to my knight, and it's time to explain the rest. ”

Nightsky pushed Lily away to stand in front of her, and when Lily, who was pushed away, wondered what her friend wanted to do, she suddenly noticed that the Book of Nightsky and Silver suddenly appeared next to her.

"My dear friend Lily, there's not much I can leave for you. Then I can only entrust you with my dreams and the crystallization of my life, which only you can accomplish for me. You will be the second master of the Book of Nights, and the second Lord of the Nights. Lily, you must cherish this book, I have in it what I left to my knights, and if I don't pass it on to his generation, I will come back to you as a ghost. ”

"Don't make such jokes, I'm not going to let you die easily. ”

Lily didn't push it, but she was very happy to accept the magic of the transfer of the magic guide that Yetian had unfolded, and then signed the master to connect with her own telekinesis, all of which were carried out very quickly, so as not to make Yetian have an extra burden, Lily advanced the whole process very quickly.

"Rest assured, Yetian, your man can't save you, so let me save you. So don't worry, leave everything to me, and you can stay here and sleep until one day I find a way to heal you, and then we will go on a trip together and eat good food. ”

Lily's remarks drew a smile from Yetian, and she suddenly realized that her life might really be as happy as the message she left for the rain.

She had a man who loved her, a student who respected her, and finally a close friend who was willing to give her life to save her.

[Then I don't know if there really exists gods, I hope you can make all my loved ones happy.] And I hope you can tolerate my little selfishness and willfulness. 】

Yetian looked at the Book of Night, which was now in Lily's hand, and what was hidden in it was something left for the rain and a product of her willfulness.