Editing Hyouketsu Kyoukai no Eden:Volume 6 Final Chapter (section)

===Part 13===

{{furigana|Tenketsu Palace|Sophia}}, internal hospital.

“Yes. I will save him for sure.”

With one eye closed while facing the communicator, Ymy quietly breathed in.

“…………”

In front of her when she turned around was an enormous steel door which was shut firmly. This was already D ward. It was the floor for patients contaminated with powerful mateki who absolutely could not be helped with regular treatments.

It was one of the quietest places in the tower.

Everything from the ceiling to the corridor was covered in formal carved seals letting off bluish-white light. A single person was in the hall which was filled with the radiance of shinryoku, heading absolutely straight to the furthest depths.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”

Room D09. The attending doctor stood in front of its door.

“As you directed, the evacuation of attending doctors and apprentice Priestesses from around this room has been completed.”

“……Okay. I’ll tell you when I’m done so please don’t let anyone enter until then.”

The attending doctor saw Ymy off as she walked up to the door.

……This is.

The instant she entered, her breath caught at the unnatural airflow.

The room was filled with deep purple mist.

The ceiling, walls and floor: every single thing was supposed to be one color by they were now dyed purple.

“This entire room is dyed with mateki.”

The sweat flowing down her cheek was cold enough to make her shiver.

……Such thick mateki.

It was almost as if this area had become a miniature {{furigana|Garden of Corrupted Song|Eden}}. A regular person would be cursed by the mateki just by breathing. It was an outrageous density.

[Unto me, all the wishes that of which I am able……]

[ele So Phi-a-s Arma-Riris]

Release precedent.

Particles shining with crimson light floated in the air and hazily wrapped her body.

……I must do what I could not do yesterday.

“───”

A single boy continued to slumber while attached to an artificial respirator. He was wearing a patient’s gown for children and continued seeing a dream without waking from his coma.

 

O seven colors of the interweaving dream

Yu/ ubinis ole = C kis tih Ies.

 

The slumbering spring’s rest is at an end, wishing, the augite that awakens with the path.

mios huda yum xeph fel hypne shel sephat, xephnis wision.

 

──Strange purple patterns emerged from his entire body.

It formed a complete contrast with the formal wear with shinryoku carved seals, nevi that looked as if a curse were carved straight onto the body had clearly emerged from his entire body.

“……I will save you this time.”

She gripped the hand of the boy whose eyes were shut and hugged that delicate body strongly.

 

Now in this place, the accumulated songs of praise, the quivering pulsations, arrive at the heavenly sound.

mehnes nelar, Ee toga-s-sia vea clar = C nelves zahl tis kyel Sophit.

 

The pouring drops, lovingly fill and run towards the fated time.

kei yum lisy r-blow-s-miel xins clue Is-Ye-fio missin.

 

O wishes, become the path of thousands of hopes.

Ris sia sophia, shel evoia steras tis lef ilis.

 

The Priestess’ prayer. Failure was not permitted.

Not for my sake, nor for Horn’s, but for this child’s sake.

……What I have trained so far. For a long, long time.

……Everything was for the sake of today.

 

───For the time the world is filled with prayers, I sing.

Yu/ Se = C clar fears valen r-miel noi I.

 

The crimson lights purifying the mateki become tens of times brighter in one instant.

The band of light was reminiscent of an aurora. The instant the deep purple mist wrapping the entirety of the room touched that, it disappeared with a twinkle like snow in the sunlight.

…………

……It’s being purified?

The room was regaining its pure whiteness. What was left was the boy who served as the source of the mateki. The ominous nevi were also disappearing quickly starting from the extremities, his arms and legs.

……Just a little more, just a little more.

The nevi at his stomach disappeared, and then the nevi from his chest to his neck, and even those at his shoulders were disappearing. Now if only the nevi with the mateki whose curse was strongest on his face and head were to disappear, the purification would be complete.

The shinryoku light climbed up from the base of his neck and the nevi disappeared in tandem. Just when she thought the crimson light was moving from his chin to his head.

 

Riii, i……iiiiii……nnnn……n…………

 

The shinryoku lights became smaller particles and were deflected.

“………………Eh?”

What happened? The purification isn’t over yet; the most essential part of this child’s purification is still left. The mateki which serves as the origin of his coma isn’t gone yet.

“I-It’s some kind……of mistake, right?”

Once more, one more try.

She strongly hugged the boy and once again spun the words of prayer. She wrapped her body in shinryoku to her limits and──

That light was once again rejected by the mateki eating away at the boy.

Mateki propagation. While she was doing that, the mateki nevi gradually returned from his neck to his shoulders and from his shoulders to his chest. The contamination had started again.

“…………It can’t……be.”

It escaped the limits of her power. The mateki had clashed head-on with her shinryoku which should be the greatest in quantity of all the Priestesses and she didn’t even counterbalance it.

……It’s the same phenomenon as when I challenged the Yuugenshu from a thousand years ago.

……Then the Yuugenshu that attacked this child was a strong type of the same strength?

No way, there are remnants of those powerful ones from a thousand years ago left on {{furigana|the floating continent|Orbie Clar}}? And defeating one would only cause the mateki to turn malignant.

……That kind of thing……how do we counter it……

“Don’t……lose hearttt!”

She opened her eyes and bit on her lip hard enough to draw blood.

Even if I try to think of a countermeasure, there’s no point. There’s no other way except for me to exhaust myself to the point of collapse time after time, however many dozens of times.

[Unto me, all the wishes that of which I am able……]

[ele So Phi-a-s Arma-Riris]

The second release precedent.

“After all……I am a Priestess.”

It wasn’t responsibility or duty. She became a Priestess because she decided that was what she wanted to do. Being taught by Meimel, trying her best along with Syun-rei, having her previous senpai return and, above all, her important childhood friend had returned to the tower──

……Because I like it!

That’s why I want to do my best.

On this {{furigana|the floating continent|Orbie Clar}}, in this tower, I like doing my best together with everyone!

“So pleaseeeee!”

She concentrated on the spell hard enough to faint and held the boy as hard as she could…………

That shinryoku shattered with a noise.

The overflowing deep purple mateki became even darker and only multiplied.

“…………”

Sorry. She didn’t even have the strength to think of that word.

Her vision grew dim and something hot overflowed from the tip of her eyelids……it felt like something very important within her had come to a halt.

The boy who continued to sleep was pushed over and Ymy collapsed at that spot.

───

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Within her consciousness which had been lost.

 

She heard a song.

 

In a far-off, distant place.

A nostalgic song in a nostalgic place.

……Somebody……a girl is……singing?

………………Who is it?

“Me.“

…………Who is……me?

“I am myself. The form which your shinryoku <strength> shall arrive at and the existence which lies ahead of your possibilities.“

Giggle, giggle.

Only the girl’s smile echoed like a song.

 

[I am crimson   A great mother and a girl]

[En Ze lu la clue.   Zeul la ilmei Zelah -di- mis.]

 

[Made into a complete will, a single fragment of the great Selah]

[Zewl la elmei-l-phenoris Ema -di- lement lef Selah.]

 

[Governing the records of times of strife, forming knowledge with love. Its symbol]

[Sera, Zewl la clue-l-sophie neckt.   tes Arma Risis.]

 

……What is……she saying?

…………I don’t understand.

“But you can hear my words, right?“

I can hear them.

But where am I hearing them from? It’s not through my ears; it’s a strange throb almost like I’m talking to myself.

“Congratulations.”

That voice became somewhat lively.

“You who can hear my voice. You can finally awaken. Within this frozen, sleeping world, you will be able to walk with your own feet.“

Frozen, sleeping world……walk? Where have I heard those words?

 

“O sleeping children Your legs are still weak This frozen land is still pained“

“=C hypn phenoria, Eec wat nes ei getie bis kills cley kis ei mihas“

 

……That’s right, come to think of it.
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There should have been a line like that in the Priestesses’ Seventh Heaven Rhythm <Sophia Code>──

“Now, O children who have been born“

After the girl sung loudly.

“If the world desires you, then I shall teach you a grand chant.“

──Ymy’s consciousness sunk somewhere very, very deep.

A world filled with something that seemed like black water of pure darkness.

It was like the night sky.

What twinkled there were not stars but large and small frozen crystals. They were an azure which reminded her of Hyouketsu Kyoukai’s crystals.

……Why……is that in this world?

“…………Where is this?”

Ymy absentmindedly drifted in this space whose atmosphere had a strange density to it like water.

“This is a solitary world. My world.“

A red light shined before her eyes and a conspicuously large crystal appeared.

“A world filled with frozen crystals. Nice to meet you, Ymy. Ymy Ele Soufflenictole, I have awaited you for a long time.“

A shadow of small stature could be faintly seen within the frozen crystal.

……It’s a girl.

……A girl with crimson hair.

The radiance of crimson which was the symbol of Baptism. The girl who was producing as well as endowed with that color.

“……You know me?”

“I am the records of everything in this world. For I am the original of that which you know as ‘Mikuva’s Crimson Eye‘.“

“!”

Mikuva’s Crimson Eye. That should have been the treasure that the Governmental Sector secretly had.

It was a shinryoku system which would monitor everything about {{furigana|the floating continent|Orbie Clar}} and record it. But……no way. The girl before my eyes is……the original of that treasure?

“The harsh and pure truth. That is why I am the Forbidden Crystal of this world.“

“Forbidden Crystal……”

She strangely had heard those words before. She didn’t know who had said it or where. But sometime, somewhere, she had heard them. That was what she felt.

“…………“

Within the frozen ice, the girl spread both hands.

“This world is a mirror. Two opposing sides filled by a single component.

{{furigana|the floating continent|Orbie Clar}} and the {{furigana|Garden of Corrupted Song|Eden}}.

Shinryoku and mateki.

And slumber and awakening.“

Slumber. With that word, Ymy finally remembered her mission.

“U-Um……sorry. I have a child I must save. So please, tell me……where is this? Send me back!”

“Were you to return, the current you cannot save that child.“

“……Then……what should I do!”

“I told you. You will awaken here. If you awaken, then you should also be able to awaken a sleeping child.“

What does that mean?

I am not…..yet awoken?

“You form the contrast with the boy who fell to paradise. If perchance you hear my voice……I shall teach you the true Seventh Heaven Rhythm <Sophia Code>.”

The girl who named herself as the Forbidden Crystal loosened her expression.

“The Seventh Heaven Rhythm <Sophia Code> which invites the world into slumber. The Seventh True Rhythm <Eden Code> which reawakens that world. Two lives which would normally never intersect. However, if by chance you reach the deepest parts of the {{furigana|Garden of Corrupted Song|Eden}}, at that time──“

“……At that time”

“You must ascertain that for yourself. I will be naught but the opportunity.“

The Forbidden Crystal proclaimed those words.

She remembered hearing those exact words previously in the Grand Sanctuary.

 

“Change. There is an absolute lack of opportunities for your shinryoku to bloom.“

 

“……Ah.”

She felt that she had finally come to an understanding.

About the meaning of those words back then. The reason she caught a glimpse of the world a thousand years ago.

“Congratulations. You have reached it. The cries of your heart summoned me so I shall also impart a gift to you. A valuable gift.“

The Forbidden Crystal encased in a block of ice extended a hand.

That hand slipped through the water’s surface……

“Ah……”

Her fingers stroked my off-gold hair gently. It was gentle like a mother combing her child’s hair.

“I’ve waited always. Always……always…………for the chance that I would be released.“

Flutter. A warm light gradually illuminated the night-colored world.

A crimson light.

……It’s blinding.

Wrapped in the current of light which wouldn’t let her open her eyes, Ymy reflexively closed her eyes.

“I entrust you with my power and the door to ‘The Promised Land <Tsarabell>‘.“

“W-Wait───! You are, you are───”
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The world was filled with light.

Chasing after the disappearing visage of the Forbidden Crystal, Ymy desperately reached out her hand.

The instant that hand touched the girl’s fingertips.

 

Ymy lost consciousness once more.