Time and space flow.

- Riol is heaven. Once a paradise.

That's what Dad said, that's what Mom said, so so so does Marino.

Spring greenery stains the hillsides.

The summer sky is a clear blue.

The fallen leaves of autumn burn like fire.

Winter snow gently covers the earth, enveloping the whole world in a white embrace.

The soft wind carried the fragrance of the prairie and swept across Marino's face.

Those little troubles, sorrows, joys, and happiness are all imprinted on the face as crimson as the setting sun.

Marino drowned in his father's arms, and his mother would gently touch his head.

Marino, who once lived in paradise, loved toys and adventures, was the happiest child in the world.

Sunlight leaked through the gaps in the leaves.

The shadows of the colorful trees on the ground swayed in the wind, and the dazzling spots of light were like broken suns.

A man in the room was sitting in front of the window squinting slightly and sipping tea, flipping through an unsigned book, and occasionally looking up at the grass outside the house, Marino's wife, who was teaching her how to make a magic core doll.

"Well—— that's it! ”

Mother gently lowered the robot on the grass, the gold paint of the eggshell-shaped fuselage glowing hazy in the shadows. I saw my mother put her right hand on the eggshell and input a burst of energy, and the magic pattern on the eggshell flashed with a golden light.

"Click... Click..."

Like a Transformer, the eggshell splits and then grows limbs and a head.

The squeaky sound of the robot as it walked spread around in the breeze until it reached the white clouds.

Marino looked at the robot in amazement, his eyes full of envy at his mother, and he picked up the robot and shone it into the sun.

......

On a summer afternoon, the wind blows gently across the windowsill.

The cicadas lurking in the trees screamed twice in their loud voices.

The man reclined in the rattan chair for a morning break, and the book he had just finished reading was put aside.

Marino gently pushed the door open and slipped through the crack, holding various parts to the sunlight and running outside the house to try to imitate his mother's hands-on robot.

It was a pity that the thing was not only intermittent but also extremely ugly, and Marino lowered his head a little frustratedly, and looked up just in time to see the man resting beside him.

The child reached forward and nudged the man gently, "Bart, what the hell is going to do this......

"Let Wendy teach you!"

"But... But no matter what my mother taught me, I couldn't learn it!"

Marino tilted her head and thought for a moment, then happily stuffed the parts into Reinhardt's hand, "Na, Bart will teach me, okay?"

The man spread his hands helplessly, "Even if you ask me to teach me, I won't." ”

"Liar, Bart will!Mom...!Bart lied to me..."

Right in the middle of the heart, Bart sighed, reached out and touched Marino's head,

"I see. ”

The child's face immediately became sunny, and he smiled more happily than anyone else. Because he knows that the man in front of him has always been an admirer of his mother, and since his father passed away, he has been guarding here, and he treats himself as his own.

The man tried to make a robot, and although it was not as smooth and skilled as Wendy, the robot miraculously ran smoothly.

Charlie grinned and applauded,

"Bart is amazing!!"

Bart's face suddenly appeared a faint red, so faint that he could barely see it, he realized something very important, maybe I am the only swordsman who studies how to be a robot!

......

In autumn, when the sky is high and the clouds are light, the autumn leaves cast a layer of afterglow on the mountains, and the fog after the rain makes the crimson color even darker.

On the mountain path, there were three people walking. The man on the left, the woman on the right who is still as beautiful as a girl, and of course a child walking in the front, bouncing and laughing along the way.

Wendy's long dark hair fluttered lightly. She walked leisurely and looked at the scenery in the distance,

“...... Bart. ”

"Huh?" the boy stopped.

"Thank you. ”

Wendy looked at the man who was a head taller than her, and the man's confused look made her laugh.

"Laughing at what?"

"Hmm...... It's nothing. ”

She turned her back to her hands, and the corners of her skirt fluttered in the wind,

"Thank you for taking care of you all the time. ”

Bart rolled his eyes and walked over to the girl,

"What ...... stupid things to say"

It's just that he couldn't think of what to say next, so he could only stand still, and the two people who were silent looked at the distant mountains, the white clouds wandered and the red maples were faintly dyed, and the scene was so leisurely.

He looked at her calm expression, and suddenly remembered a warning in the book:

Some words will be too late if they are not spoken.

After an unknown amount of time, Wendy turned away.

"Let's go! Marino is still waiting in front of you. ”

She said this and smiled at Bart, but the other party suddenly took a step closer and hugged her, the embrace was so solid and wide that it was impossible to breathe.

"Bart?"

“...... Happy birthday. ”

The man mustered up the courage of his life to kiss the young woman on the cheek, and the puzzled surprise in Wendy's purple pupils gradually turned into a gentle streamer, and then she closed her eyes.

The man in front of her, although only a few years younger than her deceased husband, always looks like a shy big boy every time she sees herself, and when she thought that her heart had died with the death of her husband. But I don't know when, it sprouted and bloomed again, just for this shy big boy.

A few autumn leaves fell in the wind, and the rustle of fallen leaves sounded in the woods.

Bart, who hugged Wendy, and Wendy, who was hugged by Bart, told in their hearts that they wished to be eternal at this moment.

The long pure black hair danced lightly, and the world was extremely quiet, leaving only a cool breeze without a trace.

But it was still too late.

The sudden rise of the Empire's Helios Cult swept across the land like a flood, and was soon declared the state religion of Amestris, plunging Riol into the Dark Ages.

The entire empire will be subject to compulsory military service, and fanatical followers of the Cult of God, like the Gestapo, roam the streets of the new capital of the empire, ready to hunt down anyone useful to the empire.

Wendy was forcibly taken away by the Empire because of her special skills, and Bart was killed on the spot by the Empire for treason because of his resistance.

Marinano's spiritual world was destroyed at once......

.......

A few years later, by chance, Wendy escaped from the empire and went to Bantu alone with Marino, who was not in a very good mental state, and then stayed in Bantu for ten years.

In order to prevent the empire from finding herself hiding in Bantu, in the past ten years, Wendy has made herself look like a girl and turned into a "Russian aunt"

......

Marina always heard a voice in his head, a voice that could bring Bart back to life, which is why he went to the snowy mountains alone.

Marino, unconscious, roared hard,

"- What a quiet world, such a dazzling world.

My hands are shaking, my teeth are chattering, my eardrums are fluttering, my heart is aching.

But why can't I hear anything?

Tell me, why can't I hear anything!!Mom!!Where are you??"

......