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(Hikari, Arcaea, Background Music: Callima Karma by t+pazolite vs Feryquitous)
I woke from another dream. An empty dream that was indifferent from other dreams or memories I've seen from those shards.
At every moment in an eternity, I watch everything with no thought. A girl stared into the abyss in a cold and dark place. She had stared into nothingness. In her empty mind, she had wondered how long she could keep staring until her gaze fades off. She had hoped that maybe, it could fill her. Everyone had abandoned her. Thinking about it now, I made her leave me alone. She would have threatened my happiness. My eternity.
In another place, promises were made. There was a promise to me that when forever ends, everything shall fade to nothing. I waited. I waited and waited. But it never came. Nothing had ever been the same to me ever since I had ascended. I felt the same. Nothing had changed me or this world. Forever was still the same and forever is still forever. Forever never ends.
A thousand years had passed and nothing had changed. But yet, I still dream. I dreamt about a girl breaking her own endless fate, a man branded a traitor destroyed the world with his mysterious powers, another girl who couldn't finish her wishes and a boy saved his own unstable world. Different dreams and memories from different worlds but they are all indifferent, all the same to me: nothing more than curiosity.
I had once considered Arcaea to be a world that gives all souls a second chance, a second life. Perhaps a reincarnation of sorts. But I was wrong. In this meaningless world, all life is nothing, but yet, there is beauty in this world. If I was naive, I would have rejected this world and bring her back. Perhaps, that was I was looking for. But, I never look back. I never regret anything. Everything went right and all should stay that way.
I kept thinking...
I kept thinking...
I kept thinking...
What if this ends? When will this end? How would this end? I kept asking myself that. But yet, I still don't know the answer. All I knew is that I couldn't end this.
Even when the "never" comes, Arcaea's fall, everything shall still be forever.
Until then, I shall embrace the beauty of Arcaea. The beauty that gives me happiness, even if provides nothing. Better than feeling nothing. Better than just waiting. I will continue to dream, return to dreaming.