Main Story｜V

V-1 "

The ruin is as common a sight as any other, but the girl in light nonetheless pays it attention as she steps through. 这座废墟与其他废墟都呈现出相同的景象，但被光芒环抱的少女仍然在路过时注意到它，走进了其中。 She's been wondering what the ruins are and why they're there— 她开始疑惑这些废墟究竟是何物，以及它们为何存在于此—— wondering if this world she wanders has a past,  疑惑她一直以来游荡的这个世界是否也存在过往， or if its decimated landscape is only coincidental. 亦或者这些被严重破坏的风景线只因巧合存在。 She feels she has to think about it, not to succumb to the bliss of ignorance.  她认为自己必须思考此事，而不是屈服于愚昧的极乐。 If she wants a reason, then it might help to know the world, too.  若她想要得到一个理由，这可能也会帮助她进一步了解这个世界。 Perhaps this is a reflection of another world? 或许这里……是另一个世界的对立面？ She has seen things like it within the Arcaea, but that also makes her wonder if in this place there might be standing towers and buildings that are not in ruin.  她曾于Arcaea中目睹过类似的景象，但这也使她质疑这个世界的某处存不存在尚未成为废墟、依然耸立的高塔与建筑。 Maybe she's only yet to see them... 也许她只是还没找寻到它们…… This ruin seems like it was once large, grand.  这座废墟看起来曾经庞大而金碧辉煌。 It must have been a beautiful place where many people came, she thinks.  这必然曾是一个美丽的地方，吸引着大量的人前来，她这样想。 If it did have such a past, then it is a shame. 如此光彩的过去若存在，那真的十分遗憾。 There is only her, now, moving through pews and broken candlesticks. 如今那儿只有她一个人——移动于排排长凳与破损的烛台之中。 There is only her, and she blinks, seeing that there is in fact somebody else. 如今那儿只有她一个人——接着她眨了下眼，猛然发现这里实际上还有一个人。

Somebody else stands still at her left, before a broken wall. 还有一个人，静静地站在她的左方，那一堵损毁的墙壁前。 Once, she would have grinned happily, but carelessly at this person.  曾经的她，会开心地微笑起来，毫无防备地亲近对方。 As she is now, she looks at the shadow-covered girl in confusion, but certainly not without a fluttering, insuppressible feeling of elation. 而现在，她困惑地盯着那被阴影笼罩的女孩，但却未必没有怀着那让她无法抑制地颤抖的欣喜之情。 Outside of a memory, here in the world and before her eyes, is a person.  回忆的景象之外，于这个世界之中，就在她的眼前——有一名人类。 All this time she's walked alone, and here is somebody else:  一直以来她都是独自一人，而现在这里出现了另一个人： one other living, breathing person. 一个活生生的，有着呼吸的人。 The other girl doesn't notice her. She is standing in place, holding her parasol, and sleeping.  另一位少女并没有注意到她，只是手握阳伞继续熟睡。 Her dark figure cuts so strongly against the rest of the world,  她那黑暗的身影显得与这闪闪发亮的世界格格不入。 which shines so bright in the distance, that she thinks this must be a dream or perhaps a waking memory. 这突兀的景象使她以为自己正处于梦境中，又或者瞧见了另一段苏醒的回忆。 She opens her mouth to speak, and the other girl opens her eyes to consciousness. 她张开嘴说话，而另一名少女也恢复意识，睁开了双眼。 She who heralds sad and evil forgotten things opens her eyes and witnesses the changed and white-clad girl before her. 象征着被遗忘的悲伤与邪恶事物的她睁开了双眼，眼前是这早已改变的，一身雪白衣裳的少女。 That breathing the light-bearer found so relieving stops short, and the dark girl squints, lips parted as if she means to question.  让身披光芒的少女感到舒心的那阵阵呼吸声很快就停止了；那背负黑暗的少女眯起眼睛，嘴唇微张，似乎有着疑问。 But she swallows instead and raises her brow, tightening her grip of the handle. 但她最后只是倒吸了一口气，眉头上扬，将伞柄握得更紧了。 Her own twisted elation flows out from her heart, just as unstoppable, but so much more eager.  一股难以控制的扭曲狂喜由她心中一涌而出，但凌驾之上的是空前的渴望。 It climbs to her face, and the girl of chaos offers the girl of light an honest, irrepressible smile. 这份情感显现于她的面庞，而象征混沌的少女向那象征光明的少女献出了一抹真诚、无法抑制的微笑。

V-2 "

In the unwalled, unroofed church, known only by its skeleton chairs and white candles, the girl in black stands near the remaining old gate, looking at the person she's just met. 在这座既没有墙壁，又不存在屋顶，只能靠着仅剩骨架的长椅与白色的蜡烛辨别出场所的教堂之中，身着黑衣的少女伫立于那幸存的老旧大门旁，凝视着片刻前才遇到的另一人。 It's actually quite simple: she's been upset for so long, and now a true flesh-and-blood person is finally in front of her.  一切都很单纯：长久以来，她的情绪都处于低谷，直到自己的面前终于出现了一个货真价实，有血有肉的人。 She isn't thrilled. She isn't even excited. The smile on her face is an effortless lie—but it's one she can't help but tell.  她并没有感到过于激动。她甚至心如止水。于她脸庞上浮现的那抹微笑仅仅是道敷衍却无法制止的谎言。 It says to white-clothed girl before her, "pleasure to meet you."  那段谎言对身着白衣的少女打招呼道，"很高兴见到你"。 It means nothing. 毫无意义。 "What's your name?" she asks in a dry voice.  少女用干涸的话语声问道："你叫什么名字？" Maybe, in the past, she'd have realized how long it had been since she'd last spoken. 也许在曾经，她也如此意识到自己已经太久没有开口说过话。 "My... name? I... I'm not sure," replies the radiant girl.  "我的……名字？我……我不清楚，"散发光芒的少女如此回应， "Do you? Oh—know your own... name, I mean... " "你呢？啊——我是指，记得你自己的……名字……" She doesn't answer the question. "That's something..." are her only words as she looks off toward an ornate wall. 她并没有给予回答。“这件事……”是她走神望向那华丽的墙壁时所说的一切。 The girl in white gives a bothered expression. 纯白色的少女不禁露出了烦闷的表情。 This... was turning out to be a strange meeting.  这……成为了一场怪异的相会。 Though the one in black doesn't know it, the one white is beginning to share the darker girl's lack of enthusiasm.  尽管黑衣少女并不知晓，但白衣少女与她一样，心中未流淌着任何热情。 Like a fire in a sudden chill wind, her hope flickers and wanes.  如同火苗忽然沐浴于寒风，她那不断黯淡的希望正在摇曳闪烁。 Now she grows uncomfortable, anxious, and wary.  现在，她变得不太舒服，心中焦虑而警戒。 A slight but unshakable atmosphere drifts between them, one that feels unmistakably off.  一丝轻薄却无可撼动，且不合时令的气氛穿梭于二人之间。 To her, it seems as though their very meeting is something the world finds to be simply... "wrong".  对她而言，发生在这个世界的这场相遇本身便是个单纯的……"错误"。 The ever-present glass, now scattered unevenly throughout and above the broken grounds, reflects that strange feeling. 这些总是存在于四周，如今已散布于破碎的地面之上的玻璃，也正体现出了这种违和之感。 Ordinarily, these shards would flock to them without their bidding: "happiness" to the girl in white, "tragedies" to the girl in black.  正常情况下，这些碎片会朝她们无法抑制地一拥而上："快乐"涌向白衣少女，而"悲痛"则是朝向黑衣少女。 Right now, every piece of glass in the air stands still.  这一刻，每一片碎片都仅仅是停滞于空中。 Perhaps half a hundred mirrors are quietly suspended around the girls, half-catching images of the empty place that surrounds them.  或许有半百片镜面静悄悄地悬浮与少女们的身旁，捕捉着她们四周大约一半的虚无景象。 When the girl in white tries to call out to them, they will not even waver.  当白衣少女试着呼唤它们时，它们甚至都不会摇晃一下。 It unsettles her: happiness placed beside horror, equally glinting and equally motionless.  面前的一切使她感到心神不宁：幸福与恐惧并肩存在，一同闪烁，也皆无动作。 The only piece that will follow her is the one she can hold—the one that set her free. 唯独那片她能够亲手握紧——那片曾经使她重获自由的碎片——自始至终对她锲而不舍。 She stares hard at the shadow girl.  她紧盯着阴霾中的少女。 "If we're in this together," she begins, leaning forward, "then what do you think about staying together? We... We could help each other, and maybe..." "如果我们两人都在这儿，"她开口道，身体前倾，"那你觉得我们能不能结伴同行？我们……我们也许能互帮互助，说不定还……" She stops.  她止住了话语。 The other girl is staring into the empty, canvas-like sky with a blank and uninformative expression.  另一位少女正凝视着那空旷的，如画布一般的天空，脸上空洞的神色显得毫无感情。 She doesn't seem to be listening, but in truth she has followed every word. 她看似并未聆听——但实际上，她已将每一个字刻入了脑海。 "Maybe... " the dark girl echoes. It's faint...  "说不定还……"被黑暗包裹的少女重复道。话语虚弱而又模糊…… After her reincarnation into misery, her soul itself had felt like a dull, grim abyss.  自从她于苦痛之中再生，她的灵魂便感觉如同一道阴暗而冷酷的深渊。 However, when she heard this proposal, something inside her shimmered—very briefly and very weakly.  然而，当她听到这个提议时，某种存在于她心中的事物仍然开始闪出微光——无比短暂，且极为微弱。 However, as she is now, even something as tiny as that was able to pierce the shroud of frustration that had been endlessly choking her since she'd reawakened. 只是，对现在的她而言，就算是如此细小的事情，也足够穿破自她再次苏醒过来便一直尝试扼杀她呼吸的失意面纱。 And the remnant of the girl she used to be, the Tairitsu who had first woken up in this world, rebelled against the prospect of "the end"—against the idea of giving up.  而少女残余的过去：那个首先苏醒于这片世界的对立，仍然违抗着这段象征"结局"的未来——抵抗着彻底放弃的想法。 She wanted a second chance. 她想要得到第二次机会。 But her halfhearted answer isn't enough to inspire confidence in the girl standing opposite her. Their meeting remains careful, cautious.  但她并非诚心的答案还不足以激发面前那个女孩的信心。她们的相遇始终被小心翼翼的氛围所笼罩。 The Hikari who recently returned to her senses now knows that the world of Arcaea is far more than pretty—and far less than safe. 才恢复感官不久的光早已发现Arcaea的世界远超过了漂亮所能形容的范畴——当然，也远不够被形容为安全。 And yet the two girls will speak, with the hope that it will lead to something better. 尽管如此，两位少女仍会开口交谈，期望局面会向某个更好的方向发展。

V-3 "

Their conversation continues. 她们的交谈持续着。 "It would certainly be nice if we had names to share," says Tairitsu in a fraying voice.  "要是我们能够用名字相互称呼，事情的确会好很多呢，"对立用沙哑的声音说道。 Her eyes are again beginning to lose the shine of life. 她的双目再次开始失去象征生命的光辉。 The other girl, Hikari, notices that with some discomfort.  另一位少女——光——留意到这一事后，不禁略感不适。 "Yes, I can't say I like to think about it: not having any memories in a world filled with them," she admits. "是呢。我并不是很愿意去思考这种事：身在这个遍布回忆的世界的我们，脑海中却没有任何记忆，"她承认道。 At the moment, they sit upon the same pew, though not close.  此时此刻，她们正坐在同一张长凳之上，尽管相距甚远。 They've gone to what was once the front row, and a few steps in front of them lead up to a wide, flat floor.  她们来到了这曾为第一排座椅的地方，而前方的几个台阶则连接着一面宽大空旷的平台。 The girl in white is slouched, watching her new acquaintance with worry painting her gaze.  白衣少女无精打采地注视着她的新朋友，眼中满是担忧。 The girl in black is examining the empty place in front of them, the sky, the dead and distant grandiose architecture— 而黑衣少女则是扫视着面前那宽敞的空间、那片天空，以及那些浮夸而又死气沉沉的建筑结构—— but she does so seemingly without concern or interest. 但这么做的她，其实似乎对那些事物没抱有任何兴趣。 While watching, she begins to speak unprompted.  正在仰望天空之际，她突发奇想地说起话。 "This glass. Do you know a name for it?" "这玻璃……你知道它们叫什么吗？" "Huh? Oh... Well, for whatever reason, I know the name 'Arcaea'." "呃？喔……总之，虽然不太清楚原因，但我知道它们叫作'Arcaea'。" "Same as me," says Tairitsu, now looking Hikari's way. "So, how are we different?" "和我一样，"对立如此回答，当今正朝光的方向看去，"所以，我们两个究竟哪里不同？" Hikari offers an apologetic smile.  光露出一抹遗憾的微笑。 "I don't know," she says, "aside from our difference in looks." "我不知道哎，"她如此说道，"除了我们外表上的不同。" "Let's find out, then. What kind of memories do you see in the glass?" "那我们试着弄清楚吧。你在这些玻璃中见到的都是什么样的回忆？" "Almost only pleasant ones." "基本只有令人愉快的那些。" Tairitsu sighs.  对立叹了口气。 "Then we're opposites..." she remarks bitterly, looking to her feet.  "那我们就是截然相反的……"她苦涩地回话道，低头瞧向她的双脚， "Let's say we're the only two walking around this place. If that's true, our opposition could matter a great deal." "那可以假设一下我们是唯二漫游于此的人。如果真是这样，那我们的相反特征可真是非同寻常的要素。" "You don't see happy memories through the Arcaea?" asks Hikari, leaning slightly toward her conversation partner. "I'm sorry..." "你在Arcaea之中看不到愉快的回忆吗？"光疑问，身子稍微靠向与她交谈的这位伙伴，"嗯，对不起……" "...That's just how it is," says the other girl.  "……总之，事情就是如此，"另一位少女说道。 For a short while they remain silent, until Tairitsu speaks again.  一时间，她们陷入沉默，直到对立首先打破沉静， "But from what you've said... I suspect even your pleasant memories haven't resulted in a happy life for you here. Well? Am I correct?" "但根据你之前说的话……我猜，你所见的那些快乐的回忆也没有带给你多愉快的经历吧。怎样？我猜得对吗？" To this, Hikari nods. "I don't mean to make it sound as though I've had it rough since waking up, but...  对这番猜测，光点了点头："我并不是想说自己的经历从苏醒以来便一直那么糟糕，但…… You see, I once gathered enough piece that they could cover the sky.  你知道吗，曾经我收集了足够多的碎片，以至于它们足以覆盖整片天空。 When I did, that new sky almost killed me...  当我那样做了之后时，那片崭新的天空几乎将我杀死…… I felt like the light was slowly eroding my mind... I think it was mainly my own fault, to be honest." 我能感觉到那时天空散发的光芒缓慢地侵蚀了我的心智……说实话，那件事情的确是我自作自受。" They both feel it's best to be honest. 少女们坚信自己该向对方阐述真相。 After Hikari tells of her naive and dangerous journey bathed in light, Tairitsu coldly recounts her tragic struggles through maelstroms of dark.  在光讲述完自己沉浸于光芒之中的那场天真烂漫而危险重重的旅程后，对立冷冷地叙述了她于黑暗的龙卷中那几番悲惨的挣扎。 The two are certainly different in quite a few ways, but one definite commonality becomes clear between them:  她们从某些方面而言，的确截然不同。但两人之间某个必然存在的共同点，此刻已变得十分显著： a want of sense in a senseless world.  于一个无意义的世界中渴求着一丝意义。 The world around them may be beautiful, but it has also been cruel. 她们所处的世界也许十分美好，但其中的残酷性质却毋庸置疑。 Hikari has resolved herself, but it wasn't long ago that her very "self" had been threatened by this strange, unfeeling place.  光已重振决心，但在不久前，她"本身的存在"就逐渐被这古怪而又冷清的地方所威胁。 For Tairitsu, it has left her scarred: persistent, panging compulsions toward violence and wrath continue to roll up from within her like tides.  而对立，却保持着伤痕累累的模样：残暴与愤怒充盈的欲望，如同海啸般连绵不断地涌出她的身体。 Even throughout their discussions here, despite her desire to be amicable, smothering each urge from her breast has been no easy feat.  尽管在这场谈话的过程中，她已尽全力试图保持友善的模样，源于胸腔的每一口疾喘却不是轻而易举就能掩饰住的。 This living, breathing person beside her is too enticing a target to release her frustrations on.  眼前这个有血有肉的人，对她而言简直是完美的施虐对象。 The girl in white doesn't fail to notice how the girl in black's hold on her umbrella periodically tightens into a trembling, aggravated grip. 那身着白衣的少女，一定早已注意到这位黑衣少女总是间隙性地用颤栗的双手将伞柄握得更紧。 It hasn't been easy—a fact that holds true for the both of them. 这场谈话一点都不轻松——她们彼此都深知这一点。 But they continue to fight. 但她们将全力进行抗争。 "I think I just... I really wanted to meet somebody else," Tairitsu reveals. "Even... perhaps a few months ago, that may have been all I really wanted.  "我只是觉得我……我真的很希望遇见另一个人，"对立言为心声，"甚至该说……也许是在几天前，这曾是我心中唯一的期盼。 However... ever since I stepped out of that black shell, I've found it difficult to hold on to a such an innocent desire.  只是，自从我踏出了那漆黑的外壳，我便意识到，要自己坚守如此单纯的愿望……真的太艰难了。 I just can't muster it. When my chest isn't feeling empty, I can't muster anything in it that isn't vile and wicked impulse. Disgusting, broken thing..."  我只是单纯不知道该怎么振作自己……当我内心未感到空虚的时候，其中涌现的却只有肮脏而扭曲的血液。都是些恶心又残破不堪的事物……" She looks at Hikari. "Even now, I keep thinking about how much I want to hurt you." 她注视着光，"就算到此刻，我心中仍在思考自己究竟多么想要伤害你。" "That's fine..." says the other girl. "Maybe I'd feel that same way if I'd gone through everything that you did.  "没关系的……"另一位女孩说道，"如果我有过与你同样的经历，或许真的会感同身受。 But I don't think you're right about one thing. I don't think your heart is as broken as you feel." 只是呢，我不认为你对某一件事实的认知是正确的。我不认为你的心就像你说的那样破碎不堪。" Tairitsu meets her eyes, as if asking how that could be. 对立与她四目相对，仿佛在问这怎么可能。 "Look—you're holding back," explains Hikari, "even now. That tells me that even after everything, you're a very good person—still. You're strong."  "看吧——你退缩了哦，"光用心地分析着，"就算在现在也一样。这让我知道，就算经历过那么多的事情，你仍然是个十分善良的人——始终如此。你很坚强……" She smiles and stands from her seat. "You're a lot stronger than me," she says, casting a momentary glance into the brilliant sky. 从座椅上忽然站起的她，脸上挂起一抹微笑，"你比我要坚强太多，"她道，不自觉地抬头瞥了一眼那明澈的天空。 "I was rescued," she continues, meeting Tairitsu's eyes once more. "You rescued yourself." "我被外界力量所拯救，"她继续说着，又一次与对立视线交汇，"而你却拯救了你自己。" The shimmer inside the dark girl's chest becomes a faint glow, and an ache pulses through her.  闪烁于黑暗少女心中的微光逐渐淡作虚弱的光芒，随之而来的是钻心的疼痛。 That's not true, she thinks.  这明明不是事实，她想到。 It isn't that simple, she thinks. 这一切经历并不是如此简单，她陷入沉思。 She failed, and the old her died that day when the labyrinth collapsed.  她失败了，而过去的她早就与那迷宫一同土崩瓦解。 She'd felt nothing after that, and when feeling came back to her, it was nothing but contempt.  自那以后，她便失去了一切情感——就算情感再次于她心中燃起，所谓的情感却仅仅包含着蔑视。 When she'd met this girl, even, it made her want to do nothing more than take a blade and run her through. 甚至在与这女孩相遇之时，她唯一的渴望便是用小刀刺穿这女孩的身体。 No, she hasn't rescued herself.  那番话语并不正确，她根本没有拯救自己。 However... perhaps she hasn't simply been seeking someone out to harm. 只是……也许她的确不是单纯寻找着能供她摧残的对象。 Perhaps the truth is that she's been awaiting something impossible to give her one last ray of hope.  也许她只是在等待一个能够给予她最后一线希望的奇迹发生。 Hikari is too meek and unsure to directly comfort her, but her presence and lack of aggression signal this:  优柔寡断的光实在无法直接赋予她安慰，但这女孩的存在本身与她那毫无敌意的心灵却始终暗示着一件事： she may be that last, fledgling ray. 她，可能就是那一道才诞生不久的，最后的光芒。 What pains Tairitsu's heart is that very innocent realization. 让对立内心最为痛苦的，还数那种纯真的自我意识。 Her posture weakens. Hikari notices and moves to see if she can do something.  她的身躯瘫软下来。光立刻注意到这一细节，并赶紧凑过去，心中希望自己能帮上忙。 But she is still unsure, and so she is ultimately unable to reach out for the other girl.  只是她的行为仍然是如此犹豫不决——这也注定着她完全无法接触到另一位少女。 She stands before Tairitsu with her arms half-raised, and in a few moments the girl in black stands by herself.  她仅仅是站在对立跟前，半抬着双臂，而黑衣少女在片刻后便靠自己的力量重新站了起来。 Hikari drops her hands, and takes a step back.  光的双臂滑落至腰间，随着她的身体不自觉地后退一步。 Around them, the glass sways with their movement, and one in particular begins to shine a bit differently from the others.  在二人的四周，玻璃碎片们伴随着她们的动作而摇摆，而其中的某一片却突然散发起与其他碎片略微不同的光晕。 In its reflection is something familiar, yet impossible. 它的倒影中，存在着某样熟悉的事物，却不符合任何现实逻辑。 It is a vision that, surely, nobody could have seen: 这显然是从未有人见过的景象： the briefest wicked flicker of a most strange and anomalous memory. 一道转瞬即逝的邪念闪光，其中蕴含的却是这整片世界中最为诡秘的反常规记忆。

V-4 "

They stand apart, Tairitsu holding a hand over her chest, fingers clenched and struggling as she takes heavy breaths.  她们两人各站一方。对立单手捂住胸口，手指因连续疾喘所带来的煎熬而加倍施力。 She is reinvigorated, in no small part thanks to the girl in white. Hikari has given her one precious, final reassurance.  她重新振作了起来，而这一切都得归功于那位白衣女孩。光赠予了她珍贵的最后一次安慰。 It does not have to be the end. One last path out of this white and blinding hell still exists. 这一切并未注定走向结局。在这纯白又刺眼的地狱之中，还存在最后一条能够使她逃离一切梦魇的道路。 An open, albeit weak, smile cuts along her face as she exhales.  尽管虚弱无力，但在深吁出一口气之际，一抹真诚的微笑仍是显现于她的脸庞。 "Let's do something," she says. "Let's figure out this stupid, absurd world." "让我们一起做件有意义的事吧，"她敞开心扉道，"让我们搞清楚这愚蠢而又荒谬的世界究竟是怎么一回事。" "I-It's not that stupid," says Hikari in mild protest, smiling herself with just as little strength.  "这世界也——也没有多愚蠢啦，"光温和地反驳道，略微用力地微笑着。 She isn't entirely positive about the other girl, but she can tell at least one thing:  她并不全心全意地喜欢这另一位少女，但至少能确认一件事： despite appearances, she isn't evil. Quite the opposite, it seems.  虽然表面上看不出来，但这女生绝对不是一个邪恶的人——更是似乎……截然相反。 If anything, that alone is reason enough to join hands with this new potential ally.  而单单这一个事实，便足以成为与她结伴而行的最佳理由。 A "good" person... is not exactly how she'd readily describe herself, after all. 总而言之，一个"好"人……这种话绝对不会被她用来形容自己。 However, while she thinks this, Tairitsu's mood turns.  但就在她这样想着的时候，对立的心情变化了。 "What makes you say that?"  "是什么让你说出那种话的？" asks the panting girl, though her delivery of the question sounds much more like an accusation.  不断喘着粗气的她如此问道，尽管问题本身听上去更像是在责备。 Her eyes are almost hollow as they bore coldly into her opposite.  她的双瞳空洞无光，冰冷的视线直射对面。 "You might understand it even better than me. This is the kind of place that would break a girl for the audacity of surrounding herself in pleasures and joys."  "你应该比我更了解这种事：这个地方可以在女生因鲁莽使自己被愉悦的事物包围时彻底摧毁这女生的心智。" She stands up straight, calms her breath, and steadies her gaze,  她站得笔直，边平息着自己的呼吸边宁定着视线， bringing the hand over her chest to the handle of her parasol. "That's unconscionable. You don't agree?"  （####） Her strength of conviction puts the other girl down for a moment, but Hikari is no longer one who is incapable of any caring.  她那坚定的信念使得另一位少女失落了片刻，但光却不再是一个对任何事物都漠不关心的女孩。 Gathering a modicum of confidence, she stands up straight herself, and delivers her explanation. 她拾起星点的自信，挺直身子，阐述了她的观点。 "We're alive," she says, "and if a world can permit that, then it can't be the worst thing." "我们依然活着，"她说，"而如果这世界让我们活下去，那它就绝不是最为糟糕的地方。" "Hah...?" The other girl's glare intensifies. "No... If a world can permit life, only to plague that life with ills and grief, then that world is not just." "哈啊……？"另一位少女眼含凌厉，"你错了……如果一个世界允许生命的存在，却只是用无尽的污秽与梦魇去荼毒生灵，那这个世界根本就是不公平的。" "W-Well, maybe not, but—" "好……好吧。也许的确不是那样，可是……" "But?" demands Tairitsu. "可是？！"对立质问道。 "But that's shortsighted! What is it that you want to do, exactly?" "但那样的目光也太短浅了！你究竟想要做什么事？" "Destroy everything. The world, the glass, all of it. I'll find a way. It's only fair, right?" she explains as a matter of fact.  "毁灭一切。这世界，这些玻璃……我要毁灭所有东西。我会找出正确的方法。这想法十分合理，不是吗？"她依照事实诉说着， "I would think you'd resonate with the idea. What has this world been for you other than an expansive prison?" "我想你一定会与这想法产生共鸣。除了被当成一座过于宽敞的监狱，这世界对你而言还能是什么地方？" "Destroy it...? Even... Even if you could, it would only end everything!  "毁灭这世界……？就算……就算你办得到，这也只会让一切走向终点啊！ This is the only world we know of that exists for certain, isn't it?  我们直到目前为止，能确定真实存在的世界也仅此而已！ If we somehow destroyed it, could we not simply destroy ourselves as well?  如果我们以某种方式毁灭了它，那我们难道不是会把自己也摧毁吗？ Would you... You'd rather die than live here? Why, that's... that's ridiculous!" 难道你会……难道你宁可死在这里？为什么……这种想法简直太过分了！" "No, that's fine," says Tairitsu simply. "不，不会有关系的，"对立冷漠地说道。 Hikari, not expecting that answer, falls silent. Tairitsu's words were too frightening, and far too sad. 并没有预料到这种回答的光立刻沉默了下来。对立的话语太过于骇人，而包含的更是只有悲伤…… In her silence, Tairitsu continues her interrogation. "Do you have some other idea? Some other plan?" 在光沉默之际，对立继续起了她的质问：“你有任何别的想法？或者其他计划？” "No... I don't. I wanted to find—to find a plan with you," admits the other girl, and dismay is clear in her tone. "不……我没有。我只是想要和……和你一起找一个办法，"另一位少女这样承认道，话语声中流淌着清晰的消沉。 And Tairitsu, in her recent recovery, recognizes this. It makes her pause.  在方才一番振作后，对立其实就已经认识到了这一点。这使她暂停了质问。 It had been too easy to lash out at this new acquaintance. She knew she wasn't being reasonable.  要责骂这位新认识的同伴实在是太过容易了。她知道自己的行为举止蛮横无理。 Indeed, having just found herself with burgeoning hope again, she could clearly see how cold she'd been until their meeting.  理所当然，不久前才搜寻到一线崭新希望的她，更是能十分容易地察觉自己在这之前是多么冷血。 And yet, when faced with another's hope, she'd attacked.  只是，在面对另一个人心中的希望时，她却选择去摧毁那希望。 Truly, was she that petty?  说实话，她难道还不够狭隘？ In the past, this conviction of hers has never brought her satisfaction or peace, much less resolution.  在过去，她脑海中类似的信念使她不仅永远无法体会到满足与平静，更是离解决眼前的问题愈来愈远。 No, her willfulness has only ever led her down a dark, thorny path stained with gloom.  不，她的任性只会带领她走向一条污秽而黯淡的荆棘之路。 With this in mind, she extinguishes the fire rising in her heart that had been so sure of its need to burn.  心中怀揣这样的思想，她终于扑灭了心中那注定爆燃的烈焰。 If she wants to take this girl's hand... she cannot reject the ideas it holds. 若她想要牵起这女孩的手……她就必须同时承担这女孩用双手竭力保护着的希望之光。 "I... I'm sorry," she apologizes, her passion now fully relinquished. She lowers her head for a moment.  "对……对不起，"她完全抛开了自己过激的感情，低下头真挚地道了歉， "I... feel the same. I want to work to find something new as well." "我……其实也有一样的想法。我也想与你一起找出一些新办法。" Hikari regains a bit of her self-assurance, which had been brought low before Tairitsu.  早前因对立的话语而被削弱的自信，如今又被光重拾回心中。 She tells her new friend, "It's alright. You've had a time here I could probably never understand." 她对自己的新朋友说："没关系的。毕竟，你的确经历过一段我不了解的时光呢。" But that righteous fire in Tairitsu's heart had been just enough. 只不过，燃烧于对立心中的正义之火刚刚才恰到好处。 Ultimately, it had only burned for a short moment, like a flash—but it was enough to rile a dormant shard in the flock of glass around them. 最终，那道烈火也只持续了一瞬间，就像是闪烁的火光一般——但却足以惹恼沉眠于那些碎片之中的某一片玻璃。 It awakens and, on its own, begins to drift down to where they are, still unseen. 它就这样苏醒过来——并且自主性地朝着二人的所在处飘去，不引起她们的一丝注意。 "Don't lose hope," says the girl in light. "Things can always get better." "不要失去希望，"缠绕光芒的少女说道，"无论多么糟糕的事情，都有好转的那一刻。" A shard, shimmering with faded color, comes directly between them.  不断闪烁着渐变的色彩，那片碎片径直闯入两人中间。 It catches both their attention— 它同时引起了她们的注意—— but it will only show its memory to the one clad in black. 但它却只向着那位身着一袭黑衣的少女呈现碎片所蕴藏的记忆。

V-5 "

The end 结局。

The girl adorned in shadows peers through the broken window into another time.  被阴影纠缠的少女，目光穿过那扇破碎的窗户，投射到另一段时光之中。 Her smile returns.  微笑，回到了她的脸上。  What a fool she was.  她可真是个无可救药的傻子。 Not the girl in white, no.  不，不是那白衣少女。 Her. 是她自己。  The vision in the glass is no memory.  那片玻璃中的影像并不是回忆。  It cannot be, of course.  当然，这并不现实。 What she's seeing is a future: a future that she should have expected, the fool, the idiot dreamer.  她所看见的是未来——那个她理应期待万分的未来，那个白痴，愚蠢的梦想家。 

The glass shows an unmistakable image of herself, run through with a jagged pillar of glass,  那些玻璃毫无偏差地映照出了她自己的身体被一根参差的玻璃长柱一穿而过的影像。 the wound seeming to sear her clothing and body apart in a blistering, pale, and consuming flame.  那道创伤仿佛要在炙热，苍白的烈焰中将她的衣服与整个身躯撕裂。 

The blank, barren lands of Arcaea stretch out far behind her, and before her,  空虚荒芜的Arcaea大地，从她的身前和身后延伸到无边无际的地平线。 coaxing the pillar with a lifted hand and a blinding, fiery glow around her shoulders, is a girl clad in white, a very familiar one, though her expression is hidden from this vantage.  带着缠绕双肩的那两股刺眼的炙热火焰，抬起手轻抚着长柱的，是那位身披白衣，使她倍感熟悉的少女——尽管在这个角度看不到她的表情。  It is the girl standing before her now.  她，是此时此刻正站在自己面前的少女。 The one she has only just met.  那名才与她相遇不久的女孩。 This is no memory: it's a vision of what will come to be.  这绝不是回忆：这景象预言着未来将会发生的一切。 

Faced with this, Tairitsu retreats into herself, and confronts the one truth she was determined to ignore.  面对此景，对立退回了自己的立场，并对峙起那段她原先计划彻底无视的真相。  Her conviction didn't matter.  她已无所谓自己有没有心怀信念。 She will never find anything good for her in this world.  她已不会在这世界中找到任何对她有利的事物。  That last hope is dyed black now, drowned in despair, forgotten.  最后一丝希望也终被墨染，淹没在绝望之中，最终被彻底遗忘。  What else would happen?  还有什么事会发生？ What was her hope for?  她还期望着什么？ Idiocy. Tiresome, blind idiocy.  愚蠢。令人厌烦。盲目的愚蠢。  Tiresome effort.  令人厌烦的努力。 Tiresome memories.  令人厌烦的回忆。 Tiresome existence.  令人厌烦的存在。 

Tiresome, awful, sick of it.  令人厌烦，糟糕得不可理喻——使她作呕。 Sick of this, sick of herself, sick of everything in this never-ending, mocking play.  对这一切感到作呕，对她自己感到作呕，对这永无止境的嘲讽游戏中所存在的一切事物感到作呕。  Miracles? No...  奇迹？别开玩笑了……  She'd said it herself. This world is hell.  她早已对自己说过。这个世界是地狱。 And she knows this, from the fractured ideas of worlds dead and gone:  她是从种种显示这世界已经死透了的事物得知的： even angels can one day fall and awaken to demonic form.  在这世界之中，即便天使也终会堕落，而后苏醒为恶魔。  The girl in light is just like that.  在光芒中的少女就是这样。 In a turn final and damning, what was once a mere pit inside her chest is clawed and spread.  在这被诅咒的终末展开中，就算是她心中原先微不足道的小洞也被残暴地刨开，并迅速扩大—— It wastes, decays all through in an instant, leaving instead a cold and endless chasm.  荒废，并在刹那间彻底腐朽，只留下一道冰冷的无底深渊。  As the darkness within it creeps out to coat her insides and choke her thoughts, she sees Hikari very clearly.  正当蕴藏其中的黑暗席卷并吞噬少女，尝试扼杀她的思绪之时，她清晰地看见了光。  Sees her gaze darting to the shard—sees the panic, the clear knowledge in her eyes.  她看见光的视线投向那片碎片——捕捉到她眼中存在的恐慌与那明澈的认知。  The girl knows.  这女孩已经知道了。 And now she can't face her opposite's stare, won't say a word though she sees clearly.  而现在，她已无法直视来自对面的视线。一言不发，哪怕一切尽在眼底。  You're unnerved? Unsettled? Unabashed.  你此刻感到紧张吗？是否心情不安？毫不掩饰。 Unforgivable.  不可原谅。  That anger twists into hate and loathing, spilling over and arriving in her eyes.  那股愤怒扭曲成厌恶与憎恨，如同滚滚黑云般显现于她的双眼之中。  Wicked betrayer; wicked, wicked place.  邪恶的背叛者；邪恶，邪恶的地方。 She tightens her grasp on her parasol, looking past the shard to Hikari, who is standing still.  她紧紧抓着她的阳伞，越过碎片注视着伫立于原地的光。  Frozen in place, surely, because her ill intentions have been exposed.  仿佛冻结在原地——当然，因为她病态的意图已经被识破了。 It's worth laughing about.  这可真是令人发笑。 

Tairitsu's eyes narrow, and she excises the remains of those burgeoning emotions the girl had begun to cultivate within her.  对立的双眼微闭。她抹除了那女孩尝试在她心中种下的一切情感之芽。  With finality she is emptied, and with that, she knows what she must do.  结局到来的那一刻，她的心智终于被掏空了。而这一刻起，她终于弄清自己应该做些什么。 But this mirror is still one-way, and thus her anger as well.  只是，这是面单向的镜子——其中蕴藏的厌恶与冷淡也是相同。 Hikari is unable to see within this peculiar shard at all.  光对这片不同寻常的碎片之中所蕴含的内容完全无从知晓。 

Unaware, she can only watch in confusion as Tairitsu's countenance drains more and more of color.  当对立的脸上失去越来越多的血色，丝毫未意识到情势的走向——光仅能在困惑中观察着一切。  A sense of danger wells up in her, and though she can't understand why, she can feel it there.  一股突如其来的危机感扩散至身体的每一个角落。尽管她并不理解原由，她却能感受到危机就在眼前。 In fact, shadows now seem to be crawling up from the earth, light perishing at their touch.  事实上，匍匐于大地的暗影如今已翻腾而起，毁灭着它所接触的一切光芒。  Darkness nears her, and her breathing shortens. She takes a step back.  黑暗向着她逼近，而她的呼吸变得愈发急促。她不禁朝着后方退了一步。 She almost can't believe it. She certainly doesn't want to.  她几乎无法相信眼前正在发生的事情。她根本不想去相信。  Even after surviving the harrowing ordeal, that blinding light sky, something terrible faces her again without reason.  即使她已于那片耀眼的天空所带来的痛苦折磨中幸存下来，某种可怕的事物再次毫无理由地显现于她的面前。  But still, she had survived it.  尽管，她仍旧存活了下来。 And now she knows for certain that survival may not allow compromise.  而她终究意识到，生存并不是件能够妥协的事情。  With this thought in heart and mind, Hikari makes a damning mistake.  心中怀着这样的想法，光犯下了一个天大的错误。 

She reaches for the one piece of glass,  她伸手去拿了那片玻璃—— the one that gave her comfort and direction in the midst of her lowest moment. 那片在她彻底迷失于低谷时，给予她慰藉与方向的玻璃。 When she raises it to her chest, the hairs on the back of Tairitsu's neck rise up as well.  就在她将它提至胸前时，对立头颈后方的头发也飞扬起来。 Fear pulsing through her, along with a conviction to never meet with tragedy again, Tairitsu closes the distance to Hikari in an instant, without warning, ready to once and for all firmly grab hold of her life. 恐惧猛烈地冲击着她的全身。伴随着那永远不愿再次遭遇不幸的决意，那一刹那，对立在没有任何预警的情况下靠近了光，准备彻底夺走她的性命。