故事模式剧情详表 (移动版)/Sunset Radiance
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17-1
解锁条件：购入Sunset Radiance曲包
解锁要求：采用群愿通过Chelsea
她的脚下咯吱作响，每迈一步，被踏过的土地便顷刻间变得松软。白色，满眼尽是白色，充斥着眼帘，
包裹着一切——颇为有趣，也颇为微妙的景象。一个个脚印留在了这位正在前行的少女身后。黑夜里，
她继续在这片纯白中行进，不断深入。她的身旁纷纷扬扬，她的头顶缥缥缈缈，所见之处，均是白色。
凛冽寒风中，群愿默不做声，思索着自己下一步该去往何处。
“应该先是……”她看向天空，嘟囔道，“这儿，然后再是……那儿。”
远处，黑夜中有什么东西正隐约闪烁，而抬头看向远处的她，视线仿佛穿透了这白茫茫的一片，
穿过了这群在空中踩着小碎步不断律动的“舞者”，看向了更远的地方。随即，她垂下目光，平视前方。
高耸的峭壁旁，她发现了一处山谷：除了钻心的严寒，这里什么也没有。
银装素裹之中零零散散穿插着几点星光，为这片大地和远处的地平线留下了朦胧的一抹紫色，
好比一沓素纸上忽然出现了一笔浓墨。要时机合适，她可得停下来细细欣赏，但今天时机不太凑巧，
如此美景也未能让少女沉稳而坚决的步伐怠慢一分。
夜晚的静谧不时被细微的咯吱声所打扰，调皮的风此时只敢在万籁俱寂之中微微舞动，
口中呼出的热气遮蔽了她的视野，温暖了她的脸颊。
尽管她可能并不会为此大惊小怪，但……
总有人，不，许多人，都会因此番奇景而感到惊叹：
是的，这是Arcaea的第二场雪。
A thousand small fractures beneath every footstep, all softened at once by the smothering white all
around them. A little interesting, a little strange to have here. Snow fills her footsteps as she leaves them
behind and walks into more drifts. Snow, really, drifts all around her. Slowly, under a dark sky, the world
is filled with white.
There, Kanae quietly considers her direction.
"It should be..." she whispers, looking toward the sky, "there... and then there." Her eyes trace something
beyond what most might see glinting only vaguely up above in the dark, past the little waltzes and swings
of thoughtless snow. She lowers her gaze after, and looks on ahead.
This a valley beyond a cliffside: it is an empty place, filled simply by empty cold. The white surrounding
welcomes glimpses of the purple starlight above, leaving a hazy shimmer over much of the landscape
and the far horizon. A plain place painted. Were this another time, she might stop to admire. Now, though,
her course is kept with a sure and measured gait.
The silent night air, lightly decorated with those thousands of breaks below her; wind dancing only a little
in the air. Her breath clouds her vision, warms her face...
Though she might treat it all unremarkably...
...so many would find it fascinating: this, the second snowfall of Arcaea.
17-2
解锁条件：完成17-1，购入Sunset Radiance曲包
解锁要求：采用群愿通过AI[UE]OON
风呼啸着撕咬着她的鼻，群愿不禁眯起眼睛，抖了抖肩。她轻点了下自己的鼻尖，微微蹙眉。
世界显得更暗了，就好像离那白日的边界又远了一分似的。山谷中满是风的低语和咆哮，雪越下越大，
大概过不了多久，她就要迷路了。
群愿赶忙抬头看了看天空，再次寻找高空中那微微闪烁的存在。
太“不亮堂”了，这下即使是她也看不见了。于是，她缓缓抬起一只手……
头顶上一直在隐约闪烁的东西顿时变得更加明亮了。每一处光亮都一改原来的躲闪，亮得高调而张扬，
直至它们的身形清晰可辨——没错，它们其实是碎片，属于Arcaea的七块碎片。
它们接连转向她，飘至她身前，松垮垮地在半空中浮动的同时还不忘慢悠悠地自转着。
皑皑白雪中的那抹紫穿插其间，而她的目光仔细地扫过每一枚碎片的表面。
不，她并不是在查看每个碎片中的记忆，而是在看着它们，看这一整个东西「是」什么。
她勾了勾手指，将它们延展开来。这七枚碎片不断移动与变化，最终在短时间内合成了一个图案。
一开始，它们拼了一张人脸出来，随后又变成了一柄剑；这会是一面盾牌，
过一会又成了一条弯曲的藤蔓……不能夸下海口说它们拼得天衣无缝，
但要一下子认出来是什么形状还是挺容易的。碎片在不停地变换的同时也愈发变得黯淡无光，
但唯独有一枚亮度丝毫不减。过了一段时间，她看向了那个独特的存在，然后转身面向它。
她有一项还算独特的本领，而此时，她需要同样独特的向导来帮助她施展——好吧，
其实恐怕还是只有她自己才最够格做这名向导。这是她一直以来都可以做到的一件事：
Arcaea的星空和其所谓的星光于她来说，就像是指引这个世界方位的罗盘。
对这枚发着光的碎片所指引的新方向感到颇为满意，群愿再度迈开了脚步。
风向此时也再度转变，狂风呼啸着刮得更加猛烈了。
The winds bite at her nose, and with that bite Kanae narrows her eyes and picks up her shoulders. She
taps her nose tip, slightly frowning. The world is darker now, as it often becomes with distance from the
daylight border; and in the valley full of wind's whispers and shouts and through increasing snowfall...
Kanae wagers that she's beginning to lose her direction.
She promptly looks to the sky again. She looks for faint glints in the heavens.
Now it's a bit too "without light" for even her to see. So, slowly, she raises a hand...
What has been glinting from above begins to glint now stronger, and stronger. Soon, each spot of weak
light from above begins to powerfully glow until each has neared enough to be made out clearly. Yes: these
are shards of glass, shards of Arcaea, in seven pieces.
They crawl toward her and when near enough hang loosely in the air, each little one spinning at its own
slow speed. The purple that the snow had caught rests within them as well, and her eyes pass over each
surface carefully. She looks not at the memories that they hold... she looks at them all, together, "as"
something. She bends her fingers, extends them, and like that the shards begin to shift. They, as seven,
begin to swiftly form a shape.
They shape first like a face...and after, for a moment, like a sword. Like a shield for a moment, and then
like a twisting vine. Imprecise, but recognizable shapes... as the glass pieces take each vague form, they
dull, and dull, and dull—though an especial one will never dim. After some time, she turns her eyes to
that last remaining bright piece... and turns as well toward it.
This is her strange touch, and her stranger guide—or it might be best to say the strange guide is herself.
What she can do, and always could: she can, simply, make a compass of Arcaea using these makeshift
stars and faux starlight.
Satisfied with the new aim of the glass, Kanae marches forward once more: just as the winds around her
turn again, and turn more than a touch fiercer.
17-3
解锁条件：完成17-2，购入Sunset Radiance曲包
解锁要求：采用群愿通过A Wandering Melody of Love
风暴就在眼前，而她丝毫没有停下迈向它的脚步。风拍打着她的脸，将她的发丝毫不留情地吹散。
而她仍在前进，追赶着几乎要消失在暴风雪中的那一丝光亮。
她将自己的衣服捂得更紧了点，思量着要不要闭上眼睛。最终她没有那么做，
而是哆嗦着死死盯着她前方上空中碎片的变化。即使是自己都快要给吹跑了，雪没过小腿，没过膝盖了，
她也丝毫没有移开视线。她那厚厚的长袍此时显得尤为单薄，而她的呼吸也逐渐急促了起来。
她的耳朵此时就像被刀割一样疼，长在脸上的也仿佛不再是鼻子而只是一块冰了。
但她仍没有停下脚步。
“我能做到……吗？”她自言自语道。呼啸的风雪顷刻间掩埋了她的声音，
即使是她自己也听不清自己说了什么。尽管如此，她也依然坚定地补充道：“不，我必须做到。”
但风暴并不会因此而减弱半分，她再次被狂风刮倒，跌落在地上。她单手撑地，匍匐前行，
直到雪逐渐漫过了她的肩膀，直到它们钻进她的衣袖，攀上她的臂膀。温度飞快地逃离了她，
她也因此咳嗽了几声，头顶的积雪扑扑簌簌往下掉落：很明显，雪在这场较量中占了上风，
而她再度向上望去。
跌倒了的她试图站起身，但失败了。
“站……起来。”踉跄地。
“站起来！”坚定地。
她终于直起了身，却觉得顿时没了力气。疲惫感瞬间涌了上来，怂恿她停下脚步稍作歇息。
眼皮也越来越重了……她呼出了一口温热的空气，合上了自己的左眼。
仍然睁着的右眼还在不停地环顾着四周，她还没有放弃知觉，还没有放弃思考。
她睁开的右眼捕捉到了一片自由飞舞着的碎片。
群愿紧闭双唇，只用鼻子进出气。她试图去够那枚碎片，身体不断地颤抖。
机会很渺茫……微乎其微。
但她一路走来，正是为了这一丝希望。没事的，没事。我说过，一切都会顺利的，一定会。
她伸手……
……碎片飘落下来，来到了她的身旁。白光慢慢包裹住她，带领她去往记忆的深处。
没见过的地方，但仍是夜里。一幢小木屋静静伫立黑暗之中，而向窗外望去，除了一望无际的夜晚，
什么也没有。群愿卧在地板上，呼吸浅短。耳朵和脸蛋都逐渐暖和起来了……等等，暖……起来了？
她抬起头，看见了她身前正冒着火星苗子的壁炉。拖炉火的福，她愈发觉得温暖了起来，
而她此时也不禁瞪大了眼——这种温度竟是如此真实，而她竟能如此真实地感受到。是真的，
都是真的！她的体力逐渐恢复了，于是她站起身，走到壁炉前坐下来，与火光相对。
“……”
一幢小屋，被深夜的寂静簇拥——这就是她在这场暴风雪中所寻得的回忆。
身子愈发暖和，群愿发现自己的嘴角也愈发上扬。这一切都太有意思了……
坐在这小小奇迹之中，她不再感到寒冷，也逐渐记起了她此行的目的。
She finds a storm ahead and walks on through it.
As it whips at her ears, as it scatters her hair...
She marches ahead, following a single point of light nearly hidden within the blizzard.
She holds her clothing more tightly to herself and thinks to close her eyes, but does not. Wincing, she
keeps her eyes steady on the glass formation ahead and above her, even as the wind almost pushes her
from her course—even as the snow begins to climb beyond her calves, beyond her knees. Her heavy robe
begins to feel thin, and her breathing begins to shorten.
Her ears feel as if they're being cut. Her nose is like ice on her face.
And she continues on.
"Can I... make it?" she speaks to herself, and in the raging snow she can't hear her own voice. Despite that,
she affirms: "I have to."
But wind pushes down on her again. She falls to the ground, her hand pushing through fallen snow until
that snow reaches her shoulder. It pushes up into her sleeve and hugs her arm. The heat of her skin quickly
dies, and she coughs flakes from her face. Snow overtakes her, and she looks above again.
She forces herself to stand, and collapses.
"Up..." she bids.
"Up...!" she insists.
She rises to her feet, and feels suddenly without energy. Tired. Ready to rest.
Her eyelids feeling heavier, she breathes out a breath that feels warm, and shuts her left eye.
Her right gazes around. Still cognizant, still thinking...
Her right eye catches sight of a free and flying glass shard.
Kanae shuts her mouth, breathing through her nose and shaking all throughout her body as she reaches
out toward that piece.
It's only a chance...just a small chance...
But a small chance is why she is here. It will be fine. She swore that it would, and it will be.
She reaches out...
...and the glass comes to her, and overwhelms her with light as she drifts into its memory.
A new place, though not a new time. A cabin of somewhere, and from a look through the windows: in the
dead of the night. Kanae is upon the floor, her breath shallow and her ears and face warming... Warming?
She picks up her chin and finds a fireplace blazing before her. As her head grows warmer from its heat, her
eyes widen. That this would be something she would feel...that this would be something that seems so
real. It is real, it's real. She eventually finds strength and crawls up to sit before the flame.
"..."
A quiet cabin on a quiet night, in a memory caught in a storm...
Letting her body warm, Kanae lets a small smile find its way across her lips as well.
There is some poetry to all this...
Sat in a little miracle, Kanae keeps warm and remembers what brought her here.
17-4
解锁条件：完成17-3，购入Sunset Radiance曲包
解锁要求：采用群愿通过Tie me down gently
她需要休息，所以她美美睡了一觉，养精蓄锐了一番，然后才动身离开了这段记忆。
在流光溢彩的拥抱下，她来到了一个安静的地方……它定是从这飘向远方的。幽深的峡谷坐落在远处，
一眼望去茫茫一片——所幸覆盖了广袤大地的冰雪不会再变得更高了。夜色貌似并没有原来那么深了……
群愿转过身，面向那枚碎片。
“谢谢你。”她说。
许是心满意足了，碎片缓缓飘离了她，离她远去。群愿挥手，将空中漂浮着的先前那七枚碎片招呼了下来。
风暴仍未停歇——她的朋友只是将她带离了寒冷；饕风虐雪丝毫没有减弱的意思，
风的咆哮自她来的方向不断传来，而她对此并不介意，只是专注地把玩着这七枚碎片组成的图案，
观察着最后依然明亮的那一片。片刻后，她得出了结论：自己必须在这个巨大的缝隙中找到一条下去的路。
“快了……”她说出了心中所想。这回，风雪没有掩盖住她的声音。她找到了一条平缓的斜坡，
开始沿坡下行，向峡谷的更深处走去。
踏入一座由泥土组成的厅堂后，她抬起了头。她的视线穿过石墙上投下的斑驳阴影，
投向那些引导着她的碎片：她跟着它们走，因为它们一直在指引她前往正确的地方。当她离终点越来越近时，
她的视野也逐渐歪斜，周围的大气突然在某一刻变得既尤为沉重又尤为轻盈。她低下头，看向她的目标。
其它碎片正往那里飘去，而四周的土墙在不自然地抖动着。什么东西在发出低沉的声音，
整得万事万物都好似在嗡嗡作响，而这一切的罪魁祸首却一动不动——看得出来，
它十分满意自己的存在能让周遭的世界扭曲。
但它并不应该这么羸弱才对……？
就像……受伤了似的。
那么，也许真不再会有什么危险了吧……也许它真的是无能为力了……
……
它，这枚异常的碎片，就是群愿的目的。
这片静止不动的东西……
怀揣着一颗纯良无邪的心，群愿心不在焉地向前踏出了一步。
In a great effulgence and after a rest and sleep she deemed necessary, Kanae lands outside of the glass
into a new quiet landscape. This was where it drifted, evidently... Here, a deep chasm sits at a distance.
Ice and snow spreads almost dazzling over the earth, but no new white comes to coat the place. The
darkness of the night seems strangely abated... She turns to the glass shard now behind her.
"Thank you," she says.
Perhaps satisfied, the glass leaves then, and she beckons seven faithful from the sky.
The storm has not passed; her friend only carried her out of it. Howling from whence she came, the great
and dark vortex of snow that had nearly taken her continues unabated. She pays it no mind, she only twists
the seven shards' formations, and watches for what is left brightest in the end. With that, she knows she
must find a way down the wide crevice she spotted on her exit.
"Should be close now..." she thinks aloud, now able to hear herself properly again. She finds a gentle slope
into the deeper valley, and descends.
Entering a natural hall of earth, Kanae looks above those shadowing rock walls to the shards guiding her,
and finds and heads the right way. As she nears her destination, her vision subtly begins to skew. The air
seems to at once grow both heavy and light. She drops her gaze and looks out to her goal.
Other glass is drifting toward it. The walls of earth beside it are trembling with unnatural instability. There
is a sound, also, humming low throughout everything. The culprit itself is still and firm where it exists—glad
enough to be twisting the world around it, evidently.
But it seems weaker than it ought to be...
It seems, almost, wounded.
Then it might just be safe... it might, truly, be powerless...
...
This, this anomalous shard: this is Kanae's aim.
For this inert thing...
Now, pure and heedless, Kanae steps forward.
17-5
解锁条件：完成17-4，购入Sunset Radiance曲包
解锁要求：采用群愿通过Valhalla:0
靠近碎片的一瞬间，她的心跳便立刻加快了——确实是更快了，
只是不太能够反映真实的情况，因为变快的也仅仅只有她的心跳而已：不同于她以往的经历，
这一回她的身体并没有因受到这片奇异碎片的影响而出现异常。过往的经验告诉她，
她现正经历的一切是这个世界上如怪物般可怕的存在，没事最好还是离这类东西远点。
问题是，眼下这只怪物睡得好像并不安稳。
剧烈搅动着的空间仍在加剧翻滚，但群愿仍坚定不移地朝着她的目标走去。与此同时，她又一次抬头，
望向天空。这枚碎片不过是仍存在于这个世界上的一个被遗忘的错误，尽管仍未消散，
它也不再具有玩弄这个世界的绸缎的能力了。但是，以防万一嘛……
目光所及之处，她能看见许多「星座」。
组成各种星座形状的碎片时动时静，等待着她的请求，等待着她的召唤。
那么，哪一个最符合她的要求呢……？
毫无疑问，答案是：翅膀形状的那一个。
她开始呼唤碎片，而异象阻止了它们。她不满地皱眉，神情坚毅地再次向那个「星座」发出邀请。
十枚碎片应声而落，在那枚奇特碎片的影响下上下浮动。果断地，她操控着它们来回穿行，
直至它们都如尖刺般环绕着它。
接着，十枚碎片调整了各自的位置，它们的尖端最终都对准了异象，然后便径直刺去。
这些「星座」的碎片引发碰撞的那一瞬间，一股能量从中迸发，即使几乎微不可见，
但这枚碎片对这个世界的最后一丝威胁也都在那一刻起尽数消散。
异象的怪力于此刻终于被完全压制，禁锢在了球形的牢笼之中。群愿示意笼子再靠近些，
直至它来到她的跟前。
但她并没有读取碎片中的记忆，而只是将它带在身旁，随后转过身，毅然地继续向前走。
“这暴风雪肯定还得刮一阵子……”当她走出峡谷，通过看向高空来决定下一个去处时，她评论道，
“那我该怎么回去啊？或许还是……”
这句话并没有说完。当她低头看向底下绮丽的风景时，她轻哼了一声，不禁咧嘴笑了。
是熟悉的面孔，她一看便认出了它：她的那位碎片朋友又回来了。她随即叫住了它。
“小屋”碎片乖乖来到了她面前，耐心地等待着下一步指示。虽然仍在笑着，她也不自觉隐隐担忧起来：
这下还能行吗？这回多了一枚异象碎片和一堆其他碎片，这些也能一并带进一段回忆里吗？
更别说还得进一步引导它……
……嘛，可是，不试试怎么知道呢。
这样想着，这位勇敢的少女便带着这一大堆“行李”——异象碎片，还有关押它的笼子，
以及她头顶上所有的「星座」——大踏步走进了回忆之中。
而踏入记忆的同时，她也开始慢慢察觉到，自己与天空正在缓慢链接……
也正因如此，自一场温暖的梦境，群愿也得以向天空呼唤，为那些碎片指引方向……
——飞越这场风雪。
Her heart beats faster on her approach. It quickens, really, against her wishes. However, it is only her heart.
Unlike her experience, her entire body is not lurching by the strange glass's influence. In her experience:
ordinarily this is a kind of monster of this world altogether best left avoided.
But this monster seems to be sleeping a restless sleep.
Space churns further, yet Kanae continues on toward her goal and meanwhile looks to the sky again.
This shard is merely a forgotten error of the world, no longer strong enough to even pick at the world's
seams. But just to be safe...
In her sight...
there are many "constellations".
Glass shapes dancing or still, waiting for her inquiry or her call.
And which would be best for this...?
That one there: in the shape of wings.
She calls to its shards, and the anomaly stifles their motion. She frowns and steadfastly calls to the
constellation again. Ten shards fall from the sky, starting and stopping in their fall from the strange
shard's effects. She resolutely commands them through, and like spikes they surround the aberrant glass.
The ends of the ten shards aim toward the anomaly, and shortly the ten shards fire forth. Almost invisible,
an energy lifts up all around them. And, as these "star"-shards lock into place, whatever strangeness
the odd piece could threaten... soundly stops.
This anomaly's influence is thus contained, left in a spherical cage. And in that cage she calls it closer—
calls it to float before her.
But she wastes no time gazing into its memory. She turns away and continues on—bringing the imprisoned
shard by her side.
"That storm is definitely still going..." she remarks as she leaves the canyon, looking up at the sky to grasp
her next direction. "How will I make it back through? Could I, maybe..."
Her words taper off as she lowers her gaze and begins looking around the pretty landscape...until she
huffs through her nose and smiles.
Back again, she knows it by its sight: her new glass friend. She calls it toward her.
After arriving the cabin memory patiently awaits her and, still smiling, she wonders—Will this really work?
Will she be able to bring an anomaly and other shards into a memory...? And what's more, attempt to
guide it...
...Well, she will need to try.
The intrepid girl enters the memory with the anomaly and its cage in tow, calling to every constellation of
glass above her as she does so.
And as she does so, she feels herself being connected to the heavens...
Thus, from within a warm dream, Kanae calls to those heavens and sets the shard's course...
...To fly through that storm of snow.
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解锁条件：完成17-5，购入Sunset Radiance曲包
解锁要求：采用群愿通过Hotarubi no Yuki
这次旅途大概耗费了她三天三夜，全为了达成一个动机真诚而思路清晰的目标。
在悄然落下的飞雪中，静谧无声的雪地里，这段旅途最终于回归起点之时到达了终点。
群愿回到了地表，满眼尽是玉树琼枝，跟随她的步伐一起窸窣作响，
夺目的强光也自她离开那段回忆后一并消散。再次听完她的感谢，它又一次离开了她，
又一次踏上了自己前途未卜的旅程。她们……一定还会再度相遇。
她身旁的异象碎片一路跟随着她，毫发无伤。或许实际上正是因为它的存在，她才得以顺利返回……
不管怎样，一切都结束了。
群愿回到了原来刚出发时自己所在的那面峭壁，开始一步步往上攀爬。她使尽浑身解数，
一路紧赶慢赶，不敢耽搁哪怕一点时间。
到达顶端后，荒芜而又熟悉的广袤地表尽收眼底。
群愿此时听到了什么东西在拍打着空气的声音——原来是两只扑扇着翅膀的蝙蝠。
她转过身，看到了一只白黑相间（还有橘色和绿色）、长得像蝙蝠的生物正心急火燎地向她赶来，
而它的身后还紧随着另一只黑白相间（还有绿色和橘色）、长得像蝙蝠的生物。
当看清楚她带回来的东西是什么的时候，这两只小东西顿时显得尤为兴奋，
急不可耐地几乎是立即扑到了她面前。
“就是它了！”其中一只开口道。
“就是它了！”另一只附和道。
“就是它了？”群愿问道。
“就是它了！”两只蝙蝠异口同声，大声答道，“就是它了！就是它了！感谢！感谢！太感谢了！”
“喏，”群愿将那枚被禁锢的异象碎片拿到跟前给它俩看，说道，“之前你们跟我说，你们的好朋友病了，
因此需要它，我没拿错吧？”
“没错！就是它！它能让我们的朋友好起来！”其中一只答道。那枚异象碎片悬浮在它俩中间，
组成它囚笼的十枚碎片幽幽发着亮光。
“它必须得让我们的朋友好起来！”另一只附和道，夸张地点了点头。
“能带我去见见她吗？”群愿温柔地开口询问道。
“啊，那个，可能不太方便……”听起来更稳重成熟的蝙蝠回答道。
“啊，可能……可能有些危险……”听起来更孩子气的另一只蝙蝠回答道。
“好的，没关系，那麻烦告诉我后续她怎么样了呀！”
“好哦！我们到时会来找你的，好不好？”其中一只答应道，笃定地在空中盘旋，
碎片和它的球形牢笼随着它的动作上下移动，这一举动貌似打扰到了另一只蝙蝠。
群愿轻轻一笑，点了点头，回应道：“好。”
“谢谢你，善良的好心人！你是世界上最好的人！你是……”蝙蝠停顿了，它模糊不清的脸转了过来。
只见那张脸抽动了一下，好似泪珠的东西从两只眼睛一般所在的地方滴落下来。
……它哭了。
“好了，德莱姆，该出发了。”第一只蝙蝠飞回来跟它说道。它再度朝群愿点了点头，
又一次向她道谢：“谢谢你。”
“不用客气。”她说。
随后，两只蝙蝠便飞远了。
“……”
群愿目视着它们，直至它们的身影逐渐消失于远处的地平线。她轻哼了一声，微笑着转过身，
面对着这峭壁的边缘，坐了下来，两条腿懒散地悬在半空。
……这是来到Arcaea的第几天了？
或许，几年都过去了吧……
见过了裂开的天空，见过了破碎的穹顶，见过了无光的世界后……
唯独没见过的，是脸，属于生命的、活生生的脸。就连这两只蝙蝠的“脸”也只能用“模糊”来形容。
“真是的……”她感叹道，同时笑了笑。她皱了皱鼻子，微笑着的脸微微抽搐起来。“真是的，哈哈……”
她捂住自己的脸，将自己湿润的双眼隔绝于夜空之外。
仍在颤抖着，她告诉自己：
她不清楚它们要救谁，但……
……她做出了正确的决定。
“我希望……”
她开口道，但她并未全然说出自己的心愿。她的目光掠过这趟旅途所经过的地方，
掠过仍未停歇的风暴。她抬头，看向天空。
一束光从中划过。双眼不禁瞪大，她的笑容再度变得有力了起来。她轻声说道……
“……我，只愿……”
在深夜的死寂中，在逐渐黯淡的薄暮时分里，在被雪白不断浸染的灰暗大地上……
她对自己说，对天空说……
对大家说：
此念，如愿以偿。
A journey that may have taken three days, a goal sincere and clear.
That journey ends where it began: amidst quiet snowfall, amidst quiet snow fields.
Kanae lands to the ground, two thousand small fractures crackling, smothered in white, beneath her feet.
The cabin memory loses the light of her exit and, after she thanks it again, it returns to its wayward journey.
They will meet again.
The anomaly stayed, and is still with her at her side. Perhaps, in fact, it being there for the return was what
made that return possible at all...
Regardless, it is all done.
Kanae makes her way to the cliff from where she'd first left. She climbs it steadily and quickly. Hurriedly.
She needs all her speed, she needs to not wait a single minute longer.
And at the cliff's top, facing a familiar and barren expanse, she hears two pairs of beating wings before she
can spot the two bats they belong to.
She turns to the sound to find a curious little white and black (and orange, and green) bat hurrying toward
her. It is closely followed by a curious little black and white (and green, and orange) bat keeping up well.
The two flap worriedly, excitedly, before her once they've neared enough to see what she's brought.
"That's it!" says one.
"That's it!" says the other.
"That's it?" asks Kanae.
"That's it!!" the two exclaim—shout. "That's it! That's it! Thank you! Thank you, thank you!!"
"Here," Kanae replies, bringing the bound-anomaly forward and presenting it to the two. "This is what you
need to help your sick friend, right?"
"Yes! It will!" says one, as the anomaly hangs between them, the shards containing it shining.
"It has to!" says the other, nodding fiercely.
"Can I see her?" she asks kindly.
"Oh, um, maybe not..." says the one that sounds a bit mature.
"Oh, um, it's maybe dangerous..." says the other that sounds a bit childish.
"Alright... tell me how it goes after, then!"
"Yeah! We'll find you, okay!?" One of the bats moves with insistence as it speaks, the sphere of shards
bounding with its movements and seeming to bother the other bat.
And with a soft smile and nod, Kanae answers, "Okay."
"Thanks, lady! You're the best! Y-You're..." the bat pauses, and its indefinite face turns. That face tightens,
and where eyes might be droplets of water begin to form.
...The bat begins to cry.
"Let's go, Drem," says the first bat, beating its wings to bring itself backward. It nods to Kanae again.
"Thank you," again.
"You're welcome," she says.
Thus, the two bats fly off.
"..."
Kanae watches as their shapes recede into the horizon. She huffs again, and turns with a smile. She returns
to the cliff's edge, and sits with her feet hanging over it.
How long has she been in Arcaea?
It has to have been years now...
Past a sky dividing, past a sky shattering, and after lost light...
...Never has she found another face within this land. Even those bats' "faces" could only be called..."abstract".
"...Damn," she says with a laugh. Her nose bunches, and the smile on her face quivers. "Damn, haha..."
She covers her face, and hides her brimming eyes from the sky.
She shakes. She tells herself:
She can't see who it was that they meant to save, but...
...It was right to help those two.
"I hope..."
She begins to say, but she doesn't say it. She looks out over where she went instead. She looks at the still
swirling storm. She looks up at the sky.
A single light dashes across it. Her eyes widen. Her smile finds strength again. She whispers...
"...I wish..."
In the quiet of the half-night, on a fading side of day and with white drifting down onto the gray land...
To herself, to the sky...
To everyone:
let this wish come true.