Proposed by the most beautiful you in the world [Comprehensive]

"I asked God, with trepidation, if this was punishment. To chastise me for the hopeless feeling that I betrayed the teachings."

"God didn't answer me, but, as always, looked down at my confused and painful face with a smile."

"Keep praying."

"Praying prayers that I don't know if they will reach God's ears."

"My heart is falling, and I am so lost that I can't find a way out."

"Keep, keep praying—"

"finally."

"It was like a sudden awakening."

"I've come to my senses. I've had a revelation. It's not punishment—it's God's mercy for His followers."

When an unexpected change came, the existence of that person, who was regarded as another "faith" in the world by this fanatical believer, was wiped out, and the memories and the imprints of the encounters were reduced to ashes.

However, he did not "completely" forget it.

Even if there is no impression, no memory, the unbelievable emotions flowing, ups and downs, and ups and downs in his chest are miraculously preserved.

"No matter how you think about it, it can only be regarded as a 'miracle'."

In the church where there was no one other than himself, the youth-like Heroic Spirit dressed in priestly uniform stood up quietly and looked up at the still sacred and solemn statue. In the dark room, only his eyes seemed to have flickering lights.

"Thank you God for allowing me to retain this emotion that is so strange to me now. Are you encouraging me? You are supporting me, aren't you?"

Got God's permission.

Then it's time to "recover".

--after all.

——He, who originally had no preferences or actions that could be counted as "selfishness", tasted strange and deep remorse for the first time in the process of praying.

*****

"Do what you have done before——? It's fine, I don't mind, but why is it so sudden..."

Stopping what he was doing, Airlie inevitably showed surprise on his face, he never expected to hear such a request.

Well, although it is very troublesome...it's nothing, of course he will agree, but it just feels a little strange.

"Really? It would be great if you could agree. My request is really abrupt, and I know it will waste a lot of your time, but..."

The person who made this request, Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, stood upright in front of Ellie when he spoke, with his hands clasped in front of him, and he always looked so reserved and polite.However, at this moment, he couldn't help showing a little bit of anxiety and shame.

"Because, I can feel the lost part of the memory..." His voice was a little soft, as if making him feel guilty for making such an exaggerated request, but his gaze did not move. Can detect his firmness - as the words that followed:

"It's really, really important to me."

"Well……"

Ellie was silent for a moment.

Still as I said before, he will not refuse Amakusa's rare request, even if it is very complicated in practice.The reason for the silence is that he needs to think carefully about what they did when they stayed together since they met Amakusa.

Sure enough, it is difficult to explain clearly in a few short sentences.

Although seriously speaking, the time he really spends with Amakusa is not long, but if you count them one by one, those tedious daily things are densely piled up, just thinking about it, you feel that the amount of work is quite large.

"Do you have to do it all over again?"

"It's better like this." Amakusa smiled shyly again, and then his eyes slowly darkened: "If it will trouble you, then there is no need..."

Airlie: "It's okay, I'm just making sure, because there are too many details. And..."

He paused, with worry in his eyes, hesitating whether to remind him of the fact that might disappoint Amakusa.

Whether you say it or not, there are pros and cons. After some weighing, Ellie still sank his heart, and said vaguely: "Those memories have disappeared, even if I do it again, I won't..."

There will be no recovery either.

Because, it is to subvert history from the root and modify it, and the fact that once did exist becomes nothingness.How can someone or something that never existed at all come back?

The only one who "comes back" under the influence of a miracle of miracles is Airlie.

"Ok, I know."

Amakusa is still smiling, but his smile is mixed with sadness that can be seen at a glance. He looks at Ellie, his eyes are like a gentle spring.

"Just let me experience it again. Just listening to your story, how can I imagine what kind of precious happiness I accidentally lost?"

"……Are you happy."

Ellie's expression also softened at this moment.

Many of his thoughts are stuck in the "past", and no one knows better than him what the content of the erasing experience is, and it is precisely because he remembers everything, the loss and sorrow passed by the white-haired boy Only then will it touch his heart more strongly.

"Okay - it's not too late, let's start now!"

Enthusiasm surged, Ellie completely put down today's unfinished work, and enthusiastically prepared a plan to re-experience the past.

Swah——

After packing up, he planned to close the store. Before that, he also took all the large and small flower pots that were placed outside the door into the store, and asked Red Archer, who can take care of flowers and potted plants, to come over temporarily to help , Look at the store for a few days.

That's right, right above the store door, the three words "Elysee" are impressively written on the hanging wooden sign.

Back this time, Ellie didn't stay in Chaldea for too long.Even though Fujimaru Tachika and others tried to persuade him to stay, he still brought his luggage to Fuyuki City in Japan, and opened a flower shop in the corner of a small street that was neither lively nor deserted.

He didn't tell others why he wanted to shop here, except that sometimes acquaintances from Chaldea would come to visit him and help out, and he didn't find additional helpers.

Some people speculate that it may be because Ellie is a human being now, without a magic circuit, a pure ordinary human being, returning to human society, where the peace and tranquility may be what Ellie hopes to get now.

The Amakusa who came to visit today is one of the Heroic Spirits who came from Chaldea.

The anti-theft anti-theft old-fashioned rolling shutter was pulled halfway, and Ellie used an extra hand to fumble for the keys in his trouser pocket, so that his strength weakened a lot.He pulled it several times in a row, but he couldn't find the key, and the rolling gate was stuck in the half position, and he really couldn't put it down.

"Hey, wait a minute—"

Slightly frowning, he was about to withdraw his hand, and pressed down the rolling shutter first before speaking.Someone next to him said in a deep voice, "I'll help you."

As he said, a hand really stretched out around his shoulder—it seemed that he only pressed it lightly, and the stubborn door slammed to the ground with a harsh creaking sound. Vibrate desperately in front of my eyes.

Airlie: "..."

In his shock, the "boy" who bent down to put the rolling gate at the bottom straightened up again, with a calm expression and no effort at all.

"What's the matter, is there anything else I can do for you?" Amakusa asked.

Airlie said subconsciously: "Thank you very much! I just, always forget... Well, it's nothing."

For some reason, I always unconsciously forget that Amakusa is a heroic spirit, and his real age is quite old, in fact, he is not a "boy" like his appearance.

These few facts are usually remembered by Ellie belatedly when Amakusa shows his reliable side, and by the way, some complicated emotions arise in his heart inexplicably.

On the one hand, I suddenly realized: Oh, Amakusa is really reliable.On the one hand, I reminded myself how many times I don’t know: I can’t treat Amakusa as a child, it’s very disrespectful to him...

all in all.

Thinking of this, Ellie stood back, watched Amakusa, took his key naturally, squatted down again in his place, and locked the store door. After locking, he carefully checked the key. several times.

He squeezed his arm without a trace, realizing how much weaker this body is than when he was a heroic spirit, and he couldn't help but sigh silently in his heart.

Just as he finished sighing, Amakusa stood up and turned to look at him.

"Airlie, shall we go now?"

The heroic spirit who looked like a boy was chuckling, and when he came to look for him, he changed into an attire that would not look obtrusive in the human world, and he looked like a handsome and obedient high school student.

After getting Ellie's affirmative answer, this time, there was finally a little joy in his smile.

*****

Since it is necessary to do the previous things again, it is naturally necessary to repeat the scene.

After closing the flower shop, Airlie and Amakusa borrowed Chaldea's spirit ion transfer device and returned to one of the few singularities that have not yet disappeared.

In a different world, a place called Meteor Street.

Although Meteor Street is called a "street", its actual area is comparable to a country.At the corner of Meteor Street, there is another place that is incompatible with the surrounding environment, which is the site of a flower shop named "Elysee".

Today, around the small wooden house standing here alone, the flower seeds that were once brought from the outer continents were sown here, forming a colorful sea of ​​flowers that cannot be seen through.

Ellie had already heard from Amakusa that they met Alice on Meteor Street before.

Alice was Ellie's former master, and the flower seeds were planted for her.Ellie was looking forward to reuniting with the past Master and Alice, who has grown up and married, but unfortunately, when he and Amakusa came this time, there was no one in the small wooden house in the sea of ​​flowers up.

However, before leaving, the owner of the house left a letter with the intention of giving it a try, letting Amakusa, Cu Chulainn...or Ellie, who might come here, know that she is pregnant. After giving birth, she had to fall into a deep sleep again because of her ability to read. For safety, her husband Jin would take her away from Meteor Street and find a safe place for her to sleep soundly.

"The child's name is, Jay Freesh..."

Ellie read the contents of the letter in a relieved and joyful tone.

Alice has grown up and has her own child. Her life is almost the same as what he saw through the Noble Phantasm before, except that the part of her broken hamstring legs that can never be restored is omitted. Amended content.

"We can live here during this period of time." Ellie then said to Amakusa: "It just so happened that Alice was also sleeping at that time, and after I summoned you and Cu Chulainn, I will live with you in this house Here, the time to stay is not short."

"Amakusa, look—the steps, the sign on the door, and the ceiling and stairs in the house, there are still traces of that time."

The "Elysee" sign is still on the door.After so many years, Alice didn't take it down. The wooden sign only slowly changed its color with the passage of time. The handwriting carved on it was much lighter, but it could still be distinguished.

Elsewhere, as Airlie points out, there are other implications.

"If I remember correctly...cough."

It was a bit embarrassing to count them one by one, but he still pointed to the place and counted them one by one for Amakusa.For example: there are old and new traces on the steps, a hole was smashed by his wheelchair at that time, and it was filled later.The same is true for the traces on the ceiling that are not very obvious now, and the same goes for the corners of the stairs.

From the outside to the inside, from the living room to the kitchen, and even the rooms on the second floor, it seems that they all have the imprint of their tossing and rebuilding.

Moreover, Airlie remembered by the way, most of the time, the person responsible (or "responsible") for destroying the furniture is Cu Chulainn, and the person responsible for repairing the furniture after it is destroyed is Amakusa, so to speak, The two of them got along pretty well together... poof.

"Ah, I was laughed at."

"I'm sorry, I can't bear it when I think about it..."

"Haha, it's okay. Just hearing Ellie say that, I also find it very interesting. With you, and the days when Cu Chulainn lived here..."

Amakusa's gaze scanned the entire room, as if looking for something that had disappeared, but the final result was of course only the one that was fruitless.

hard to imagine.

It's really hard to imagine.

How could he stay in such a place, spend such a long time with the two Heroic Spirits, and do trivial things that don't make much sense.Ah, no, what really made him wonder was not that he was able to stay here patiently—

Nothing real.

Berserker's Cu Chulainn and Amakusa were both in Chaldea, but Cu Chulainn came earlier and never spoke a word to Amakusa.Not long ago, they came into contact with each other more, and they came to detect this singularity with the master Fujimaru Tachika, and thus discovered what happened to Ellie.

Even during the time when they were in the same world looking at the sea of ​​flowers in a daze, the two of them didn't have unnecessary communication, they just pretended that each other didn't exist.Perhaps, the inexplicable stalk is in the middle, and the reason for the estrangement that makes it difficult for them to get along with each other is this.

Cu Chulainn... Cu Chulainn.

From Airlie's mouth, so many "Cuchlains" came out.

Amakusa could only listen to Ellie's interesting introduction with a serious smile, and then cut off his words as if just right, and turned the topic to the real thing:

"Airlie, where did we first meet? I mean, really, the first time I opened my eyes and saw you, where we first met..."

Airlie came to a sudden: "Ah, yes, when we met for the first time, it wasn't here, it was outside."

He reversed direction with Amakusa and walked out of the cabin.

In the sea of ​​flowers, a path was deliberately set aside for one person to pass alone, but now, the owner of the path has gone, the path has not been cleared, and the most vigorous weeds are the first to sprout from the soil , the branches with stamens also lean towards the center of the road.

Ellie, who led the way, walked very slowly, stepping on soft weeds unavoidably. He pulled aside the bouquet of flowers in front of him, and walked forward while looking around, as if he was chasing memories to find approximate location.

The sea of ​​flowers has already been burned by him once, and what is here now are regrown flowers, and the specific appearance does not match the original memory picture.Airlie could only rely on intuition and vague impressions to find the approximate location.

"Probably...that's right here."

His fingertips had just moved away from the unnamed bright red flower bone that was native to this world, and the flower bone that had been slightly touched was still shaking, as if reluctantly begging him to show mercy again.

"Are you going to do it all over again?" Airlie asked.

As soon as Amakusa responded with a "hmm", her eyes could not help but change slightly, showing a hint of surprise.

I saw Ellie turned to face him, but opened his arms quite naturally——

The human youth in his eyes roughly tied his hair with a hair tie before coming, so that the soft and beautiful long blue hair could be loosely tied behind his head.

At this time, the wind that caused the entire sea of ​​flowers to fluctuate blows his hair, causing the blue hair to fly behind him, dancing with the white coat that is also fluttering, and he himself is smiling easily.

"Let me demonstrate it to you. At first—it was like this."

despair.

Maintaining his arms outstretched, Airlie let his body fall back with a smile.

He didn't seem to have any weight at all, and he could easily be supported by the already fragile flower stems.On the contrary, a few extra petals and branches and leaves fell off in shock, red and green, quietly blending into the sideburns that had been scattered a little.

It has been perfectly restored, and it is the same as before, the scene of the day that caught the eyes of the heroic spirit without warning:

A beautiful young man lying among flowers.

The scattered bright red petals are not as bright as his cheeks, and the pupils revealed from under the slightly raised eyelids are hazy and beautiful.

He held out his hand to them... no, to him.

——I'm sorry, because of unspeakable reasons, I can't stand up by myself, can you...

"Sorry, because..."

Memory and reality overlap at this moment.

As a bystander, Amakusa naturally has no corresponding memory.However, he also stood among the flowers, and he also captured the figure of the same person in his memory, completely, without missing a single bit.

The emotions that survived like a miracle also surged up unwillingly at this time.

That person's fingertips were obviously still some distance away, and they didn't actually move much, but in Amakusa's golden pupils, which seemed to have no waves at all, they seemed to be getting closer and closer to him.

For a moment... the heroic spirit with a calm face wanted to raise his hand and hold the cross that was still hanging on his chest, using this obscure way to listen to God's will.

At this time, the hand stretched out to him was different from what he had seen before.

On the dark road of fulfilling his wish and redeeming all mankind, there are countless pairs of skinny hands struggling to get out of the mud on the side of the road, trying to grab his clothes and hinder his progress.They are his relatives, his friends, his former companions.

Of course, there are also hands that reach out to him head-on, but without exception, they all come from hell, accompanied by the wind of sorrow and the words of anger, howling and wailing, they also want to drag him into it. hell.They were his enemies, enemies who had killed him and his family and friends.

If you are blocked, you have to take a step without looking sideways, and if you are caught, you will continue to move forward as if you have never heard of it.He never saw these people in his eyes, no, no, nothing.

And now-

seem……

There is.

Amakusa did not subconsciously hold the cross.

He chose to raise his arm too, so that his fingers first touched the fingertips of that person, and then he clasped his ten fingers together just right.

——The Heroic Spirit, who looked like a thin boy, hugged the Heroic Spirit who was wearing armor and was at least stronger than him in terms of momentum.

This is the picture in "memory".

In reality, of course he also hugged him.

"... so light."

Inexplicably fell into silence, after a while, the first sentence Amakusa hesitated to say was this.

Ellie said, "It's because you're too strong. Anyway, I'm also... Well, I'm indeed an adult now."

Returning to its original form, the 20-year-old human youth, Airlie.

She is much, much smaller than Amakusa, who is a Heroic Spirit but has a youthful appearance.

The heroic spirit Amakusa firmly hugged the human Ellie, his eyes first looked away, and then, as if cautiously retracted, they fell on Ellie's beautiful face, whose head was resting on his shoulder.

"Hold it up, and then, what else did you do?"

"Then--"

"No, don't tell me, I'll take a guess first..."

Guess?

Before any extra thoughts sprouted, Ellie was already stunned.

Amakusa lowered his head and lightly touched Airlie's slightly parted lips with his own.

"Then, is that so?

Before raising his head, because of the backlight, his face was covered with a light shadow, only the eyes that were close at hand were clear and shone with soft light.

Ellie was stunned for a long time, and finally came back to his senses.

"No, you guessed wrong."

"The steps—wrong."

He said, but couldn't help laughing.

"It's not your turn yet, just wait a little longer, wait a little longer."