[Comprehensive] Late Night Radio

"What are you talking about... Director Luka..." Zero subconsciously stepped back, but the wall blocked her way.Zero struggled with what to call the man for a while, although he didn't answer himself directly, but from his words, Zero was able to deduce that this man was really his "father" in another world.

She couldn't understand the man's words well.The truth she deduced is only a small part of what the man has experienced, and she still knows too little.

"No matter which world it is, your mother will die, Zero." The man briefly stated the point.Such a heavy matter, but now he can take it lightly.

"What are you talking about, the mother of this world is still alive and well, isn't she...!" Zero struggled to refute.If her mother did not exist, she herself would not have been born in this world.

"Yes, she lives. But only in this world."

"……what do you mean?"

"Eri, she has a cat allergy but secretly raised a cat, do you know?"

"I know."

"...She died for the first time, no, to be precise, it was the first and most original her that died, and it was on the way to send the cat she adopted to the hospital."

Zero didn't make a sound, waiting for him to continue.But the man walked out of the room, realizing that they followed him to another place.

"Change the place, let's talk while walking." The man said.

Zero and Charasuke looked at each other for confirmation, and followed the man.In order not to make Zero feel uneasy, he took Zero's hand and interlocked his fingers.

The man noticed their movements and chuckled softly, of course, he was laughing at himself.

"Eri died because of the cat." The man put his hands in his pockets and walked slowly, the heels of his leather shoes knocking on the ground made a crisp sound, "That is to say, no matter which world she is in, she will die because of that cat." die of a cat."

"Are you kidding? It's already a fantasy to say that mother will die no matter which world she is in, and now she is saying that all of this is because mother has a cat?" Zero frowned, she It's not that I don't believe what the man said, it's just that I don't want to accept the facts he said.

"Well... I thought so at first." The man stopped in front of the elevator and pressed the button leading to the lower floor.He remained silent until the elevator door opened, recalling what happened a long time ago.The man walked into the elevator door and pressed the button for the first floor, and when Zero walked in with the teenager beside her, the elevator door closed.

The elevator descended slowly.

"I thought at first that your mother would die because of the cat." The man paused, "But that's not the case."

"...In order for your mother to continue to live, in other worlds, I killed that cat. I thought that she would be able to live if I did this, but..."

The man's voice was a little choked, which was also helpless.He had flown through countless time and space, and wanted to save his favorite person countless times, but the ending he saw was his lover's death.This ending repeats itself endlessly.

After learning about these things, Zero just remembered what happened not long ago.

... Mom died because of the cat.

She remembered the listener who had called her listener connection.She didn't know the name of the listener, but she never forgot him, the listener who said he was going to die the next day.

"What would the world be like if cats disappeared from the world"?

This question came to her mind again.

Wouldn't Mom be dead if the cat disappeared?

However, even if this is the case, will he exchange the existence of the cat for the continuation of his mother's life?

...would Mom want the world to be like this?

Zero still has no answer.

Only those who also know how to lose will know how to cherish——

"Even if I kill her cat, she will die in other ways. I have tried this way many times, but it doesn't work." The man continued, "No matter what she does, she will die in the end. will all die."

So the man, like the audience, couldn't erase the existence of the cat in the end.

Even if it's for himself, for the one he loves, to take other lives—

He can't do it.

That cat is one of Eri's fondest memories.

So are other things in the world.

It is not that cats should disappear from the world, but that all existence in the world should not disappear because of a certain life.

"I think the world is chasing after her existence."

"At that time, I stood at the intersection of the intersection, and the flow of people was endless. Standing in the middle of the crowd, I only had the idea of ​​'I am not human'."

The elevator finally reached the bottom floor.The elevator door opened with an ear-piercing creaking sound, and what awaited them outside the elevator door was an extremely familiar scene—this was the pure white mechanical-style underground passage at the bottom of the radio station.

"No... It's better to say, who am I? Zero, you asked this question very well." The man walked towards the depths of the passage without looking back.

"According to what you said, if Zero's mother can't survive, how can she explain her mother who is alive in this world?" The boy asked this question on behalf of Zero who was trembling beside him.

"After that, I investigated a lot of things. I found that I have always had a misunderstanding, that is, I have only been investigating the short period of time when she died. So, I shifted the research target and started to study the past. .”

"Thing of the past?"

"That's right, that is - the question of why she died. Everything in the world has a law of cause and effect. Maybe her death was decided a long time ago... That's what I think .”

"Since her mother survived in this world, does it mean that you have found it?"

"Well...but that's also the result of heartbreaking." The man sighed weakly, "The reason why she will die is because she met me——"

The moment the man said these words, the boy suddenly had an answer in his heart.

——Why Zero's father in this world died, and why his mother survived.

He couldn't say it.

How cruel this fact is to Zero.

Zero stopped in his tracks, and the boy stopped with him.

Her hands hugged the boy's arm tightly.

There is no way...

She also realized that possibility in her heart.

But she...

"Then... the mother in this world can survive because my father died, right?"

Her voice was very weak because she couldn't speak the words properly.

--please.

—Negiate me.

—Negiate me.

"Yeah... In the end, I finally discovered that it wasn't the world that was chasing her, but that she and I couldn't coexist in the same world." The man's footsteps also stopped.He turned sideways and stroked the empty wall in front of him with his hand - at that moment, the wall full of mechanical feeling began to glow from the place where the man's hand touched, and slowly spread to the entire underground.

"... Was it you who killed my biological father?"

Zero couldn't hold back his tears anymore, and in his blurred vision, he could vaguely see the man's figure.

—Negiate me.

— Please deny me.

She begged in her heart.

but--

The man smiled helplessly.

His answer ruined all thoughts of Zero.

"What I want to say is that I killed your biological father, Zero."

Without any hesitation, the man revealed this "fact" with Zero.

Zero no longer had the strength to hug the boy's arm, let go of the boy little by little, and squatted powerlessly on the ground.

What should she do now?

According to the general development, after finding the enemy who killed his father, he would rush over with a knife, right?

...but she didn't have a knife in her hand.

Even if there was, she couldn't rush towards the man.

Even if she hated the man in front of her, she didn't have the slightest wish for him to die.

...his own father died.

And it was the father who killed his father.

How should she express her current mood?

Should I yell?

Or howling like crazy.

... Only tears fell unconsciously.

Only screams flowed from the cracks in his mouth when he didn't even notice.

Instead of becoming like this, it would be better not to know anything from the beginning.

"Zero, cheer up."

Someone whispered this in her ear.

But she couldn't tell whose voice it was.

She could no longer hear any sound, only a sharp and piercing roar echoed in her head.

world.

Just let it all collapse here——

The man couldn't say words to comfort her.

The wall in front of him, after all the veins in the underground passage had lighted up, opened from both sides.

It's a secret door.

Neither Ling nor Chalazhu ever imagined that there would be such a secret tunnel underground in the radio station.

"I know you are in pain, Zero. It doesn't matter if you don't have to forgive me, but the story is not over yet." The man said, walked into the secret passage, waiting for "his daughter" and accompanying him in the secret passage alone. "Daughter" teenager.

... If possible, he really wanted to comfort her.

But he has no way to do such a thing. Talking by himself will only irritate her.

Fortunately, there was him by her side.

He squatted down, patted Zero's face, and repeated again——

"Cheer up, Zero."

"It's okay, don't be afraid. I'm always by your side."

From the past, to the present, and to the future.

Only he will always be with her.

She hugged the boy in front of her tightly, and the sobbing gradually became smaller.

The boy gave her strength again.

He was right.

It won't work if you don't pull yourself together.

No matter what happened, she should face the "reality" of this world——

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