Glare began to zoom in on the screen, showing a person who was both familiar and unfamiliar to them.
“What the heck, you look so annoying...”
“Hero~!”
Important scenes of the forgotten and foolish girl started to play on the screen.
The girl on the screen always gazed at Frey with cold, indifferent eyes, as if he was a re bug while showering Ruby with infinite affection.
“I don’t think I can love you anymore.”
“The chance is over now.”
“Hehe, haha...”
As Frey, Serena, and Ruby watched the girl’s foolish actions in a daze, their interactions with Roswyn briefly flashed before their eyes, making their faces pale.
Nevertheless, the record continued to flow, revealing how Roswyn beca isolated and abandoned by everyone.
“...”
The record, which had been playing at a fast speed, slowed down a bit when it showed Roswyn living a reclusive life alone in her room.
“...I’m sorry, Frey.”
“I prepared flowers for you.”
Roswyn’s room was filled with photos of Frey, and around those photos, she had placed may lilies and starlight flowers, which she had bought by exhausting the guild’s assets.
“...”
But eventually, even that stopped as she crouched and spent her days powerlessly.
“I’m... going to quit the guild.”
“...What?”
One day, as Roswyn was diligently reading ‘12 Ways to Overco Depression,’ Lunar, in her human form, visited the guild, now empty except for Roswyn, and delivered the news.
“W-Wait a minute... I-If you leave too...”
“Thank you for your hard work all this ti.”
“...W-Wait.”
“Goodbye.”
So, Lunar, who had been by Roswyn’s side since childhood, left, and Roswyn, for the first ti, was completely alone.
“Ha, Sob...”
Sitting in her room for a long ti, she clutched the book she was reading and began to cry sorrowfully.
“Huaaaaaa...”
Her cries, echoing through the now empty guild, resounded in the Imaginary World, reaching everyone’s ears.
“Ros... wyn.”
“Could it be that the sense of unease we’ve felt until now...”
Frey and Ruby’s eyes started to shake at that mont.
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“Cough, cough...”
The record, which had been playing quickly, slowed down again, showing Roswyn sitting at her desk, typing with lifeless eyes while covering her mouth to suppress a dry cough.
“Ugh...”
After coughing for a long ti, her shoulders heaving, Roswyn looked at her hand with weak eyes.
- Drip...
A considerable amount of blood had pooled in her hand and was dripping down on the desk.
- Tap, tap...
She stared blankly at it for a while, then reached for a tissue with trembling hands to wipe her hand clean before resuming her typing.
Title: I need to take a break today...
I’m so sorry for taking breaks so often right near the end of the story.
I’ve been pushing myself a bit too hard lately...
Then, as if she had been beaten, she shrank back and anxiously watched for reactions.
- Crack...
She chewed her nails obsessively as she anxiously checked for responses, gradually reading through the comnts that started to co in.
“Heh, hehe...”
Soon, a foolish laugh escaped her lips.
“I got praised again today...”
Fortunately, the comnts were all about worrying for her or offering comfort.
“I feel good...”
Despite being on the brink of disappearing due to the constant depletion of divine power, she fell asleep at her desk with a happier smile than ever.
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“I don’t want to disappear like this...”
The record continued to flow and was now nearing its end.
“P-Please, save ...”
Roswyn trembled with fear and despair at the thought of complete annihilation.
“S-Soone, please... save ...”
The sight of her was so miserable and pitiful that it was almost unbearable to watch.
“Haa, haa...”
Her breath, which had been gradually slowing, beca shallow.
“At least, for the last mont... I don’t want to look ugly...”
As Roswyn gave her sad yet beautiful smile for one last ti, her figure began to dissipate slowly.
- Shaaa...
“In truth, more than anyone, I...”
Just as Frey, who was watching her image on the system screen, reached out his hand,
“...loved you.”
With her final words, the most dazzling sunset in the world quietly faded away.
- Zzzz...
Then, Glare’s system flickered and turned off.
“...”
A long, heavy silence lingered in the Imaginary World.
- Thud...
Eventually, Serena collapsed among the bewildered heroines, her face was pale as a sheet.
“...”
Ferloche quietly bowed her head with a dark complexion.
“Ah...”
As if her mory had returned, the Lunar let out a sigh with her mouth agape.
“...Roswyn.”
Ruby, vaguely realizing why Roswyn had rejected flowers all this ti, began to bite her lip quietly.
- Thump, thump...
Frey, who had been slowly looking around at everyone, quietly started walking forward.
“Moon God.”
“...?”
“Do you rember the coordinates of that place?”
When he finally reached Lunar and asked, she nodded absentmindedly.
“Please take there.”
“What?”
Hearing Frey’s trembling voice, she looked at him questioningly.
“...Please.”
Frey, who had already retrieved sothing from his inventory and was holding it tightly in his hand, muttered in a hollow voice.
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So ti later.
“Here it is...”
“...”
The Moon God, still looking dazed, led to a place as dark as the Imaginary World but several tis smaller.
“This is... the place where she was...”
She tried to explain to but was rendered speechless by the sight.
“...”
I was also left speechless.
The traces of Roswyn’s stay, the hardships she endured, and the pain she went through were all still present in the surroundings.
- Zzzz... Zzz...
The computer, which had lost its owner, was flickering and making crackling sounds, and nurous papers were piled up around it.
“...”
As I looked at those, I saw traces of her planning works to save this world and dried blood stains.
“Roswyn...”
Seeing those made my heart ache.
A letter to you
And that pain peaked when I found a piece of paper with the only written words in the space filled with countless blank sheets.
I love you
SunsetThe blank sheets definitely slled of fresh ink, but this was the only remaining text.
She probably wanted to write a letter before she disappeared.
But since her record of existence was erased, this was all that remained.
“...?”
While I was staring blankly at the letter she had written with all her heart, a flower scent began to fill the air.
- Shhhh...
The Moon God bowed her head and emitted a gentle light onto the flowers scattered in the center of the room.
These flowers must have been left behind by Roswyn as she disappeared.
Although the Moon God was desperately trying to restore them, they were rely regaining their vitality and spreading their fragrance...
It was too late.
Roswyn, the one who brought happiness to and everyone, had completely left our side in return.
“...I will use my wish.”
As I gritted my teeth and spoke in a slightly trembling voice, the Moon God, who had been continuously emitting light onto the flowers, slowly lifted her head.
“Even if she has disappeared from all tilines... there is a record left in the ‘system.’”
My mory of her returned after looking at the automatic record left in Glare’s Helper System.
The system, which facilitated Roswyn’s erasure, had preserved her record.
Which ans...
The system may actually wished for her resurrection...
“Can’t the system itself bring her back?”
“That might be possible...”
I suggested this to the Moon God, but her response was pessimistic.
“But without a related quest or mission, it’s a aningless assumption...”
“I-If we interfere with the system...”
“...I’ve tried several tis, but it doesn’t work.”
The Moon God, with a voice full of regret, continued.
“It feels like the system is rejecting ...”
“...”
“Was this how she felt...?”
With that, the Moon God, half in a state of giving up, started to cry silently, but I couldn’t afford to do the sa.
“A wish, what about my wish?”
Thus, clinging to the last hope, I cried out.
“A wish is within our authority as gods. We cannot go against the system that is above us...”
“But the wish granted to by you, the Moon God, is guaranteed by the system, right?”
“...Huh?”
“Originally, the only wish guaranteed to was from the Sun God. The wishes from the Moon God and the Star God were newly created by the system... So wouldn’t it be possible to bring her back?”
For a hurried statent, it was quite a convincing argunt.
“That might be...”
At least to us, who desperately wanted to save Roswyn sohow.
“I will use the second wish.”
So, with all my sincerity, I made the second wish.
“Please bring Roswyn back to life.”
I fervently hoped that the end of our story would be without regret.
“...”
But the reply from the Moon God after a long silence was enough to shatter that hope completely.
“I’m sorry.”
“What?”
“There’s not enough divinity left in .”
“What do you an...”
“To fulfill that wish, it requires the power of two wishes.”
It felt like the world was collapsing around .
“Ah...”
The perfect happy ending that I had so confidently promised to everyone, the one I was so sure I had barely managed to achieve...
In the end, was it just unachievable in the first place?
“The power of two wishes...”
I couldn’t sacrifice Kania’s divinity. If she yielded her divinity now, she wouldn’t be able to withstand the vast amount of dark energy.
So, should I sacrifice the Star God’s wishes? If I gave up my last bucket list...
Then maybe it would be possible...
“Our divinity has already been converted into wish tokens... We can’t transfer it.”
“What do you an...”
“...You can only make one wish at a ti.”
Even my last assumption was brutally shattered by the Moon God’s explanation.
“From the mont the system executed it... no, from the mont she chose to sacrifice herself, it was impossible to bring Roswyn back...”
Listening to the Moon God, only one scene kept replaying in my mind.
- I don’t think I can love you anymore.
If only I could go back to that ti. How good would it be?
If I had just praised her a little more.
If I had just shown her a little more attention.
Could all of this have changed?
She rewrote our story, even at the cost of abandoning herself, and defined us all.
Yet I, having forgotten her, couldn’t help her back.
Even as she whispered her unreachable love to and disappeared.
- Srrrr...
Thinking that, I picked up one of the flowers scattered around and stroked it. The flowers, as if pleased to see , emitted a fragrant scent.
“...”
It was a sweet yet sohow nostalgic and poignant floral scent.
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“Frey...”
“...”
“It’s ti to get up...”
I had been burying my face in the flowers for a while.
“You can’t stay like this forever...”
“...I’m sorry, Roswyn.”
At the Moon God’s words, I whispered and quietly stood up.
“I’ve regretted enough already.”
“...?”
“We’ve all regretted it to the point of exhaustion.”
As I spoke to the Moon God in a now clearer voice, she looked puzzled.
“So, at least for the end of the story we all created, I hope there won’t be any regrets.”
“But... there’s no way...”
“No.”
Why was it, all of a sudden, that the solution to all this ca to my mind?
“There is a way.”
“I will use the second wish.”
As I said that and reached out my hand, the Moon God, Lunar, still looked puzzled.
“What are you talking about...”
Frey: I can transfer my divinity to you, right?
“...!?”
When I sent her a chat ssage, she widened her eyes and stared at .
“How did you... in the chat...?”
“...Haha.”
It was ti to make the second wish.
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- Shaaaa...
A crimson light, not too bright but so beautiful, began to spread through the dark debug room.
“...”
Frey and Lunar, holding hands and gazing up, watched the ethereal scene in a daze.
- Srrrr...
Roses began to float up into the air.
- Crackle...!
As Lunar watched, swallowing nervously and sweating, a dazzlingly bright light burst from the center of the light cluster, illuminating the debug room.
“Kyah!?”
“...”
Lunar, who had squinted her eyes shut due to the phenonon, slowly opened them to confirm what was happening in front of her.
“...!”
Then she froze in shock.
“Ah...?”
At the sa ti, a tense voice was heard from within the surrounding light cluster.
“I-Is this... a hallucination? Like a mirage...?”
As the girl who erged from the light began to babble, Lunar, standing dumbfounded, covered her mouth with her hand and sank to the ground.
“Huh? Why are you here...?”
The girl approached, slightly pleased to see Lunar.
“...Wait.”
Then, spotting the boy standing beside Lunar with a gentle smile, she widened her eyes and halted.
“F-F-F-Frey?”
As Frey, who was smiling at her, started to approach, the confused girl, Roswyn, began to step back.
“I... I don’t understand.”
With a puzzled expression, Roswyn looked back and forth between Frey and Lunar, who was in tears.
“W-What’s going on? I... I definitely... disappeared, didn’t I?”
“...”
“Is this... really a mirage?”
She alternated glances between the silent Frey and the tearful Lunar before jumping to her own conclusion.
“A-Ah, I see... This must be the last illusion before I disappear...”
“...”
“Since you are the ones I wanted to see the most, it must be true. Hehe...”
As she resud walking with a slightly excited expression, she tilted her head in confusion.
“But why isn’t Ruby here?”
“...Roswyn.”
“Eek!?”
Frey suddenly spoke, causing Roswyn to flinch in surprise.
- Srrrr...
“W-What?”
When Frey embraced her, Roswyn began to mumble in confusion.
“It’s... too vivid to be a hallucination.”
“...That’s because it’s not.”
“W-What?”
As Roswyn’s eyes wavered at his words, Frey smiled softly.
“What do you an...”
“I used a wish to bring you back.”
“...!?”
Upon hearing his words, Roswyn stared at Frey with her mouth agape.
“N-No...”
A mont later, Roswyn, who was in Frey’s arms, spoke with a trembling voice.
“C-Cancel it right away.”
As she said this, she began to squirm to escape his embrace.
“How could you waste a wish on soone like !? Are you stupid?”
“...”
“I-It’s a very precious wish! The only one you had!! You can’t use it on !!”
But Frey didn’t release her, and tears began to form in Roswyn’s eyes.
“I’m the foolish one who always pushed you away, aren’t I...?”
“...”
“The one who caused you so much pain, aren’t I?”
“...”
“So leave and use that wish for sothing more valuable... for yourself...”
Her tear-filled voice echoed through the debug room.
“Wish for sothing more valuable for yourself...”
Finished speaking, overwheld by her emotions, she buried her face in Frey’s chest.
“Roswyn.”
As Frey looked at her, he patted her shoulder and began to speak.
“I think you misunderstood sothing.”
“...?”
“This wish, it wasn’t for anyone else but .”
Roswyn, hearing Frey’s slightly tired voice, slowly lifted her head and stared at him.
“Well, thanks to that, I had to retire as a god the day I beca one.”
“You... gave up your godhood for !?”
Realizing what Frey had sacrificed, she began to struggle again in shock.
“Cancel it right away!! Quickly!!”
“...”
“I’m the foolish, selfish one who always hurt you! Why would you go so far...!”
“Don’t you understand yet?”
Frey gently rested his forehead against hers and whispered softly.
“This wish to bring you back was for .”
“...?”
“You, who rembered the forgotten past, who resisted this tragedy till the end, who saved us all...”
Roswyn heard the words she had longed to hear.
“...I love you too.”
“Ah...”
Tears began to flow from Roswyn’s eyes as she finally entrusted herself to Frey.
“Hero...”
“Let’s go back to everyone, Roswyn.”
The soft light of the dawn gently enveloped them both.
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