"Hello?"
Xin Yu blinked, a bewildered expression on his face. Not long after the final exams had ended, Xin Yu had parted ways with Kiana and Raiden i, leaving the school to begin a new phase of his wandering life.
He decided to fulfill his promise: to see Mobius now that she had grown up, and to properly clarify the words he had left behind in his rush last ti, offering another apology.
However, when he returned to a ti tens of thousands of years in the past, he discovered his spatio-temporal coordinates seed sowhat chaotic. It was hard to say if an unexpected situation had occurred, or if soone had deliberately interfered; in any case, there was a slight error in the tiline.
When Xin Yu regained his senses, he found himself lying on the ground. Beside him, a little girl with pink hair was poking him with a tree branch, her face etched with worry.
"Big brother, are you alright? I saw you fall straight down from the sky."
"Ugh, it's nothing serious. Just a minor accident. Let lie here for a mont, and I'll be fine."
Xin Yu felt as if his non-existent internal organs were faintly aching and shifting. But the strange thing was, where did these internal organs co from? He didn't even have a brain or a heart; how could he possibly possess other organs? Where was this inexplicable sensation originating?
Sigh! Co to think of it, wasn't he, in the truest sense, a so-called heartless and brainless person! If soone cursed him for being brainless, he could righteously declare that he indeed had no brain! Even zombies prying open his skull would have to leave with a look of disappointnt.
Xin Yu sat up from the ground and looked at the little girl sitting beside him, draped in a small black cloak. He tilted his head and asked with so curiosity, "What's your na?"
"My na is Elysia. And you, big brother?"
"My na is Xin Yu."
Xin Yu instantly recalled Elysia's identity. She was one of Kevin's companions from back then, and also soone Mobius held dear in her heart.
She was also a hero who fought against the Honkai for the sake of the Previous Era.
"Big brother, why did you fall from the sky? I just saw you suddenly appear up there, and then you ca straight down!"
Elysia looked curiously at this strange big brother. For so reason, she felt that this big brother was a good person, like Mama Se Li Ya.
"I was originally planning to find soone to offer an apology. Due to so rash actions on my part before, I wasn't able to fulfill my promise to them, and I even caused them to worry. I encountered so accidents on the way, and the result is what you saw – I fell from the sky."
"I see! In that case, big brother, you must find that person and apologize properly. Your friend must care a lot about you, that's why they'd be especially worried."
"Yes, I will. So, Elysia, what are you doing all by yourself out here in the wilderness?"
"I want to see this world, to try and find the Elysian Realm."
"Elysian Realm?"
"Mhm! A place filled with blooming flowers, a place where everyone can live happily and joyfully together. Everyone is good friends, there's no suffering, no sorrow, no partings, no bad things at all. Everything is just wonderful things!"
Xin Yu stared blankly at the girl beside him, who was speaking with a smile. A place with no suffering, no sorrow, no partings...
In that instant, he seed to recall a very distant past. There was an evolved priest who, looking at the white-haired youth he was back then, had spoken with gentle eyes, saying he didn't want to experience partings.
And at this very mont, a girl in front of him was saying she wanted to find that Elysian Realm.
From a rational perspective, such an Elysian Realm, such a perfect utopia, simply did not exist. In human society, it was fundantally impossible, because humanity constantly wavered within the chaos of good and evil.
"Big brother, do you think such an Elysian Realm exists?" Little Elysia tilted her head, looking into Xin Yu's sowhat dazed eyes.
"It will. Such an Elysian Realm will definitely exist. Even if we can't find it, we can still create such a place with our own hands."
"I also hate partings, and I hate sorrow. I hope everyone can laugh with joy and happiness. I hope everyone can understand and tolerate each other. I hope everyone can be kind."
"But, along the way, many people have told that such a world is fundantally impossible, and that it cannot be created."
"Yes, for the real world, such a world is a pure fantasy and a miracle."
"Still, Elysia, are you willing to believe ?"
"Hmm?" The innocent girl looked up, her dazed eyes filled with pure bewildernt, at the youth who was smiling down at her.
"Even if such an Elysian Realm doesn't exist, I will definitely create it."
This sounded like the ravings of a madman, like the impractical, chuunibyou fantasy of a youth who had yet to experience the harsh realities of society.
Elysia looked at the youth smiling at her, at the expression on his face. The girl nodded heavily and said in a serious tone, "I believe you. You can definitely do it, Xin Yu."
At this mont, Xin Yu understood sothing. Sotis, another person's trust can truly move one's heart. Especially when it cos to sothing that others deem utterly impossible, yet she, against all odds, is willing to believe.
Believing in you for no reason at all.
"Elysia, I will create the Elysian Realm you desire. No, I will create an Elysian Realm that everyone will love."
"A utopia."
"What kind of world will that be? It must, absolutely must be a world where everyone can smile, right?"
"Mhm, it will be a world where everyone is like a light, warming others."
Xin Yu raised his head and gazed towards the moon. He would use that thing to achieve his goal. He would fulfill his promise to Elysia, and he would also realize that dream he himself had long ago.
He had already found such a society within the fragnted pieces of his own mory.
And the missing conditions had also been found. Even the existence ant to sow love and hope had been found.
All that remained was himself. When he took that step, when he completed his final self-redemption, the Elysian Realm would rise from the mortal world. The strife and calamities of the world would, in that very instant, be purified.
"Elysia, I'm very happy to have t you."
A Child of God, possessing a pure soul.
"I'm very happy to have t you too! Xin Yu. Although I don't know why, I just feel that you're definitely a good person!"
A Son of Man, who found himself from within the void.
The two smiled and bid each other farewell, each embarking upon their own path.
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