It’s midsummer in Southern District 1 in December.
Wearing a gorgeous and floral skirt, a blond girl danced surrounded by everyone. The snow-white and wide skirt was dotted with orange-red roses, like a blooming flame.
The performance on the stage gradually reached its climax. As the lights converged, the only golden light spilled out in this dark world, and the blond girl underneath finally stopped after spinning and dancing again and again. , she slowly lifted up the hem of her skirt, then opened her pale golden eyes with a smile on her face.
Warm applause rang out in the auditorium, and then the lights gradually turned on, and the room became bright again.
This is Edes Academy, and tonight is also the eve of the annual Winter Festival Gala, with performances from all grades.
"As expected of classmate Avni, such a gorgeous performance is really amazing."
A blond man was sitting in the VIP viewing room. He was holding a wine glass with one hand and holding his head with the other as he watched the girl slowly retreating from the stage. There were several people beside him. Judging from their clothes, they should all be senior students of Edes Academy. They also had badges on their collars and chests, indicating that they were members of the student union.
“Who’s on stage next?”
The man with long blond hair spoke, and a senior student behind him who looked like a record officer and deputy replied, "President Amorth, next is sophomore Quentin, who will preside over the symphony orchestra and play the Fourth Symphony No. 2." Movement.”
"It's boring, it's the same old thing." The student president slowly poured the remaining wine in the glass in front of him, watching the red liquid soak into the carpet.
Putting the cup back on the table aside, he continued to lean on the throne-like chair, tilting his head to meditate.
"Didn't she, the freshman, appear tonight?"
"What do you mean?" the member on the side asked carefully.
"Who else could it be? The cutie with black hair and blue eyes."
"Miss Tilan has no plans to perform tonight."
"Is it because you weren't invited, or is it for other reasons?"
"It is said that Miss Tilan declined, saying that her skills were not mature enough and it was not suitable for her to suddenly appear on stage."
"I don't know if she is being modest or if she is really not ready." Amorsi commented lightly.
"I initially thought that she would cause a stir when she came to school, but I didn't expect it to quiet down so quickly. It's really a surprise."
"The old men are very optimistic about her, but they didn't say the specific reason. She probably has some talent. After all, she has a powerful sister." As he said that, Amorsi thought about what happened not long after he first entered the academy. He was still a freshman at that time and was lucky enough to attend the Winter Festival Gala that year.
That dazzling and charming figure attracted the attention of the entire audience, and he was no exception. He didn't want that legendary girl to disappear since then.
"Forget it, as for Valk, this kid has caused me a lot of trouble recently."
"Valk has been working out in the practice room recently and hasn't gone anywhere except for his usual classes."
"He's been more at peace lately, haha." Amors shook his head, picked up the wine glass that the deputy had just filled, and took a small sip.
"Have the results of the investigation come out?"
"Come out. The person Valk begged for protection that night was his childhood playmate and acquaintance, and he was also a child who grew up in the orphanage together."
"Are you nostalgic for old friendship? But such a companion will harm him." Amorsi shook his head.
"What do the teachers say?"
"Teacher Sima had several conversations with Valk in the past two days. He said that Valk would not contact that person again in the future."
"That's true, but how much binding does it actually have? For Valk, if he loses the support of the academy, it will not be easy in the future. I hope he can understand this truth."
"This kind of student from a poor background is trouble. Even if he has talent and hard work, there will be many people who will hold him back. They are either ignorant and short-sighted parents, friends who pray for benefits, or greedy and clinging women. "There was a bit of ridicule in Amorsi's voice, as if he was used to this kind of thing.
While Amors was talking to the people around him, a symphony performance was also going on on the stage in the center of the auditorium. However, at Amors's signal, this room blocked the sound in the auditorium, and he could only see the stage. The little man above moves and directs the silent music.
"Let's go. There's nothing to see tonight. Tomorrow is the focus. I don't know who will win this year's Winter Festival Competition."
"This is my last year at Eds. I hope it will have a pleasant outcome." After saying that, he left the VIP room with several members of the student union.
In the auditorium, Tilan was sitting with her classmates, enjoying the symphony being performed. Although the music was gorgeous, it was a bit boring and plain. After all, it was a familiar classic piece, and there was not much newness.
At the end of the performance, all kinds of applause sounded again, but it was not as enthusiastic as before.
After finishing tonight's performance, Tilan and her classmates left the auditorium and walked into the cold night, with Anneli following behind her.
When reaching the atrium, the black-haired girl gradually stopped, making Anneli a little curious, and then stepped forward.
"What's wrong, Tilan?"
"There's something wrong." The girl suddenly had a strange feeling, as if a quiet corner was suddenly opened, revealing a novel and unfamiliar feeling.
"You go back first, I'll go to the practice room." She turned around and told Anneli, her hair fluttering slightly in the night wind, and there seemed to be brilliance flowing in her eyes.
"Okay..." Despite the doubts in her heart, Anneli nodded.
After leaving Anneli, Tilan walked quickly in the night and arrived at a gray and square building. This is the second battle practice hall of Edes Academy. There are many structures inside and underground, and only a small area above the surface. part.
Walking into the cold hall at night, she opened a room, then stepped into the elevator, going straight to the quiet and solid underground.
Because of her authority, this practice room is extremely large, about three hundred square meters, and there is a pool inside, with clear water rippling under the overhead lights.
The underground was extremely quiet at night, and only the slightest sound of water could be heard.
Tilan approached the edge of the pool, then stepped on the ice that had just condensed on the water, and reached the center of the pool step by step. Then the ice broke and she fell into the water.
The cool water soaked her whole body, but the girl remained quiet. She closed her eyes, spread her hands, and immersed herself in the depths of her soul.
Flickering waves rippled beneath the water, illuminating the ceiling in a shattered blue.
This water light keeps changing, and the blue on the ceiling changes to purple again, which is strange and beautiful.
Tilan's eyes were slightly lost when she was submerged in the water. The blue and purple colors in them were changing and intertwining, rotating like a whirlpool. Around her, blue or purple ice cubes were constantly forming, colliding with each other in the water, making crisp sounds.
At this moment, Tilan could no longer see clearly everything in front of her, as if everything around her was fading away, and everything gradually turned white.
who I am……
Where is this...
No one answered, just eternal silence, so long that it made people forget about time.
The concepts of time and space gradually disappear, as if entering the palace at the end of time, so empty and eternal.
The sound of gears turned quietly, but when I looked around, there was nothing, as if the gears were all transparent and colorless, only the confusing blue-purple void and countless random graffiti colors.
Hundreds of millions of years passed by in the blink of an eye. Just when the girl's weak consciousness felt that everything was eternal, the colors in the void gradually returned to normal.
Light colors rise, dark colors sink, and countless colors separate and converge. They are no longer chaotic, but form vague regular patterns. They are distributed throughout the void, whether in the past or the future.
Then, bursts of prayers came from all directions in the void.
Become a god…
Become a god…
Become a god…
Become a god…
These sounds were so consistent, gradually growing from weak to loud, and finally so roaring that they resounded throughout the world.
As if affected by this, the lines all over the void became brighter and more dazzling in the sound and prayer, until finally, in the sky of four intertwined colors, a small sun rose slowly, so bright and grand. .
The golden sun, the burning sun, the eternal flame, the absolutely powerful god, the crystallization of the prayers of hundreds of millions of beings, the dreams that countless lives yearn for, and the crown that symbolizes power and eternity.
This brilliant burning sun shuttles through countless dark seas of void, like a powerful iron, ironing out this world full of wrinkles and chaos.
Behind it, countless light spots follow closely. Those light spots chase light and heat. They continue to transform, get rid of the shackles of the body, get rid of the shackles of life, and become higher-order and pure existences, existences that transcend the mortal world. These absorption Creatures that emit light and heat due to the blazing sun approach the light, approach the light, and become the light, flawless and beautiful.
As they shuttled and ran, the dark sea of void gradually stabilized, and everything gradually became orderly.
Then, surrounding the burning sun, these light points fell quietly, as if seeing the reflection of the sun in the water, an illusive and beautiful 'sun' took shape.
It is not as blazing as the sun, only quiet and fragile. Unlike the sun, which yearns for strength and eternity, its existence represents regret and crying.
I regret the past time, regret the regrets in my life, cry for the things I can't get, and cry for the distance that I can never reach.
This tragic wish was so heavy and profound that even the sun had to stop and see its own reflection in the water. At this moment, he also understood the name of that reflection, the moon.
The sun wanted the moon in the water to rise, but it couldn't.
The reflection in the water is so illusory and shaky that it will break if touched lightly. It does not really exist in the world.
The sun's light is so powerful that even the dark sea of void boils under its illumination, but such a powerful force can never interfere with the other side of the reflection.
The light points surround the sun and become its companion stars and planets. Standing in this dark ocean of nothingness, they look down at the reflection below, singing and praying again and again.
In this way, in the long river of time, the voice full of prayers resounded again.
Become a god…
Become a god…
Become a god…
Become a god…
Become a god…
The sound resounded again and again, breaking through the illusory water surface again and again, until two extremely tiny star points responded in all the insignificant dust.
They were like twin stars twining together, emerging on the illusory water surface, and then countless light points stared at these two tiny stars, shining with eternal and blazing light.
The twin stars twining around each other became brighter and brighter, emitting a halo of blue and purple, and then a incomplete crystal moon slowly took shape.
The originally illusory water surface turned into frozen ice crystals, and the illusion on the other side of time condensed into something tangible.
More and more ice crystals condensed, and so on, until finally, a full moon with the quicksand of time finally rose from the water. It was transparent and flawless, faintly revealing blue and purple light, and inside, one blue and one purple, The two girls were sleeping back to back.
They will never be separated, they are two sides of each other, just like the 'two-faced god' Janus in ancient mythology.
Janus, one of the oldest and noble gods in Roman mythology, looks to the past and the future. He is the 'god of doors' and the 'god of holding keys'. He guards all passages and protects doors. The people inside also protect the people outside the door. The two names have opposite meanings, namely Janus, the God of Opening and Janus, the God of Closing. The army must pass under its symbolic arch when going on an expedition, which is also a symbol of the triumph of various countries. The predecessor of the Gate.
Open the door in the morning to let the sun shine on the earth, close the door in the evening and let the night fall on the world.
He is the God of all beginnings, the God of all endings, the God of good beginnings and good endings. Consuls of all ages will pray to Him for gifts when they ascend the throne, and will also pray to Him when new life is born. His celebration is the first day of the year and The last day is the first day of the first month.
Time and space are like two inseparable sides of one body, condensed on them, and finally constructed into this glorious and immortal moon crown.
The silver crown slowly rises, and the ripples of time and space it brings spread to the entire sea of void, intersecting with the blazing sun. As the light of the crown becomes brighter and brighter, the two figures in the crystal gradually disappear. Disappeared, melted into the bright moon.
They have no entity and exist in the past and future. When a certain appointed moment comes, they will wake up and appear.
In the world deep in the soul, the girl stood quietly on the water. Her consciousness gradually woke up, her smart and blue eyes looked around, and finally looked at the reflection under her body.
There is a girl who looks exactly like her in the water, but their eyes are slightly different. One is blue and quiet, and the other is purple and majestic.
So, is this the source of my own talent...
The girl looked at the palm of her hand, her fingertips slowly stroking the air, as if she could sense some non-existent thread, which was the trace and spinning thread of time.
The girl in the water also stretched out her palms. There were also tiny light spots and threads flowing out of her hands, but the feeling was different from the girl's. It was a different existence flowing through her fingertips.
The world was turned upside down, as if the world was suddenly turned upside down. Tilan looked around again and looked at the water. The eyes of the girl in the water turned blue, and the girl seemed to have some enlightenment. She gently covered her eyes with her fingers, reflecting a light purple. .
I, Themisia, Hesia, Tilan...
The girl slowly closed her eyes, then opened them again, returning to the real world again.
It was still the pool, still in the underground practice room, as if time had never moved. The girl floated up from the water and returned to the shore again. She flicked her hair, and countless water drops fell. She raised her palms and opened her eyes. A blue and a purple light appeared in the hand, reflecting the condensed crystal in his hand.
Or maybe she finally untied the knot in her heart, a faint brilliance emerged from her body, and the withering sequence 4·Purple Blue Flame Heart was achieved.
The crystal dissipated and turned into dots of blue and purple flames, wrapping around the girl's side. These flames were not hot, but rather cool and cold, especially strange and beautiful.
(End of chapter)
