Main Story｜VS 1-6

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Hikari.  光。 Tairitsu. 对立。 If they knew each other's names, if they even knew their own, would that change how they had felt from then until now?  假设她们知晓对方的名字，甚至仅仅是清楚自己本人的姓名——若真如此，二人自始至今的感受也会发生改变吗？ "Light" and "Conflict"... Names so lofty, in a world so bizarre, so outlandish...  "光"与"对立"……存在于这片光怪陆离的世界之中，此般崇高的称呼…… Would they have considered the meanings, and found different paths? 若真如此，她们是否又会静下心来思考蕴藏于自己姓名的深层含义——也会走上截然不同的道路吗？ Or would any divergence, any turn or taking of a choice, any circumstance or odd spin of fortune's wheel still have set the two girls into inevitable dissent and discord? 抑或者无论发生何种分歧、矛盾，无论曾经做出哪些抉择，在何时得到幸运的眷顾——随之产生偏移的世界线，却终将收束至二人此刻的水火不容？ Hikari, who still does not know her name, would be unsure.  光并不会知晓确切的答案。她直至如今都不知道自己的名字。 Tairitsu, likewise, is however damned with fateful knowledge,  而在这相同的前提下，对立却命中注定被自己的知识所诅咒。 and knows dissent and discord between them will always be. 她心中早已清楚，二人间的这场针锋相对，无论如何都会来临。 Nothing will change. Nothing would. 不可能会产生任何改变。原本一切就不会发生改变。 The girl in white and the girl in black cannot reconcile. 白衣少女与黑衣少女，绝不可能和睦相处。 This, all of this, may only lead to— 这一切必然因果，最终只会导致—— "Ah!" "呃啊！" Hikari's voice escapes her when the blade of her foe comes. She raises her hand at once, and with it, glass strikes against glass.  当面前那位宿敌将刀刃划向她时，光随之发出一声惊叫。她立刻举起手，而玻璃碎片也随之互相冲击。 It holds, it shines—unbroken,  碎片悬停于空中，闪闪发亮——丝毫没有受到损伤。 and in her piece Hikari can see her own pale face, agonized and frightened. 而透过自身碎片所倒映的景象，光终于窥见了自己那张因恐慌与痛苦而变得煞白的脸庞。 A heartfelt conversation has led to this—to a heart-pounding clash. 一次流露真情实意的交流——却造成了这场令人心碎的冲突。 She takes a single step in retreat as her body bends from the force of the other girl's strength.  对面那女孩的力量实在是太强了——光被冲击得缩起身子，反射般地朝后一退。 Her skin goes cold; she finds she can't breathe. 她的皮肤此刻已经冰凉。她这才察觉到自己近乎无法呼吸。 She realizes there, looking deep into the now-close eyes of the girl attacking her that her being attacked is not the source of the fright clawing and gripping at her insides.  少女充满敌意的视线已经无限接近自己。望向那杀意的瞳孔，光意识到那股近乎将自己心脏撕裂的恐惧并不来源于那女孩的袭击。 It is not that, nor the fact she can hardly resist as the push of Tairitsu's blade inches her own nearer and nearer to her taut neck. 根本不是那样……并不是因为对立的刀刃已经逼迫得越来越近，转眼便要切入自己绷紧的喉咙，而自己却几乎无法做出任何反抗。根本不是那样。 No. The sweat in her palm, the breath trapped in her lungs, it's all because the person before her—the girl who had felt to her a tragic and sorrowful figure only moments before—seems now so utterly changed. 光的汗水从掌心溢出，滞留于自己胸腔中的空气完全无法逃逸——自己会感到恐惧——完全是因为面前这个不久之前还令自己感到怜惜的不幸之人，此刻却截然变脸，彻底蜕变为另一番模样。 She is not the person she'd spoken to like a fellow and friend.  那女孩早已不是能够与她平心静气交谈的伙伴。 In fact, she doesn't seem like a person at all.  现在的她根本不能被称为人类。 Her stare is so purposeful, her jaw is unmoving, and those fingers of hers, clutched so tightly they're now stained red— 她的目光是如此决然无情，就连下颚都纹丝不动。她那拼尽全力攥紧的手指，早已染上一整片鲜红。 Nothing but a beast garbed in black. A shade, brimming with malice. 她仅仅是一头由漆黑包裹的凶残野兽……一道由恶意堕化而成的黑影。

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Let this end peacefully. 让这一切和平终结。 Find common ground. 找寻能够妥协的台阶。 Don't be weak. Don't falter. 不能变得软弱。不能变得畏缩不前。 With these thoughts in mind, Hikari pushes back. 光稳稳地抓住了这丝信念。她反击了。 They have both seen and felt the throes of battle within near countless memories,  她们早已自无数的回忆中目睹并体会过战争所会带来的痛苦。 but vicarious recollections are no substitute for a genuine struggle between life and death. 只可惜，那些无关二人性命的记忆，归根究底无法与此刻这场货真价实的战斗相提并论。 Their impromptu blades meet again, entirely without grace.  二人临场打造的刀刃，冷酷无情地相互撞击。 Tairitsu's strikes stay vicious and direct,  对立的攻击只得形容为果决而精准，其中是满溢的恶毒。 while Hikari's movements are desperate,  而光的一系列行动只是透露着一种绝望的韵味。 forever a hair away from a harmful, fatal slip.  哪怕步伐只是遭受毫厘的闪失，对方的致命攻击便足以夺走自己的性命。 She only defends; she does nothing more.  而她却仅仅是在防卫自身；她没有做出任何多余的举动。 If she could stop this without violence, she'd do so in a heartbeat. 若是能够不施展蛮力解决这一切，她早会刻不容缓地完成使命。 Their flurried tussle is hampered by the peculiar surroundings of the broken church: lamps and benches placed under a sky.  悬挂于空中的吊灯与数排长椅——这座教堂遗址之中散乱的标志性物体，成为了二人混战时的阻碍。 The two move between the aisles.  而她们则行动于这条走道之上。 Tairitsu darts toward Hikari's feet, but her target remains planted. 对立朝着光的脚部疾冲而去。 Hikari lifts the piece of glass that had once served to rescue her, bracing for the rising cut. 尽管如此，光却没有躲闪，却是举起那片曾给予她救赎的碎片，随时准备招架即将到来的上斩。 But a cut does not come.  只是斩击并未如期而至—— Instead it is that black parasol: tearing up quickly through the air and cruelly into her waiting guard. 晃眼间，闪现在眼前的竟是那把漆黑的阳伞：随着刺耳的破空声，残忍地捅向她的防线。 "Gh...! Hah...!" she groans, panting. It feels like fire has swallowed her hand, and her small finger—she swears it must have been bent.  "唔嗝、呃啊……！"痛到喘不过气。整只手仿佛烈火灼烧般疼痛。小拇指——她坚信自己的小拇指一定是被折弯了。 Her anomalous piece flies from her grasp, and as soon as she is without a weapon, the pained girl withdraws immediately. 异象残片瞬间便滑落出脱力的手掌。意识到自己变得手无寸铁，疼痛折磨下的她迅疾地选择朝后方闪避。 To her own surprise, Hikari lands after her first leap with no waver, no fall.  就连光自己都吃了一惊——自己居然能如此平稳地脚跟落地。 She leaps back again, her dress fluttering, and she finds herself standing atop the pews just in time to avoid another coming blow.  并未迟疑，趁此再次朝后方跃去，裙摆随着移动轨迹飞舞空中，这才察觉自己在千钧一发之际躲开了对面的另一招。 So close...  几乎是贴着自己站立的长椅挥过，命悬一线。 Can this not be ended with words? 这一场纷争，真的无法仅靠语言平息吗？ Even if it could, she can't even find a single word to say.  即使心中这种想法切合实际——此时的她也找不出半个合适的词语。 Even if she could, she isn't given any chance to speak.  纵然她已经清楚该说些什么——届时的她也根本没有任何的发言权。 And even when, blessed, she is afforded both; gaining enough distance from her pursuer and time alone to begin preparing her voice— 纵使她在此刻受到神明眷顾，获得了这两项理想的先前条件：既与对手保持了足够的距离，又拥有充足的时间去准备发言—— a new blade shoots out from nowhere— 一把崭新利刃，不知是从何处射来—— it finds her cheek, swift— 迅速地抵达了她的脸颊—— and, just like that, it cuts, glancing across her skin. 就这样，将她的脸部割伤。

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Hikari loses her breath again. Her hand flies to the left side of her face.  光的呼吸节奏被再次打断。她下意识地飞速将手搭在了左脸前方。 She withdraws it, seeing that an unfortunately now-familiar color has tainted her fingers—her palm.  移开手心，却只瞧见那抹沾染手指，玷污掌心的色彩。很不幸——她已经对种颜色十分熟悉。 Once more... she goes cold. 又一次……如同彼时那般，浑身冰冷。 Still falling back, she grips both of her arms, trying to quell their trembling.  朝后方摔落而去的间隙，她紧紧地环抱住自己，试图硬生生地止住双臂剧烈的颤抖。 She swallows the saliva filling her mouth. 她咽下了嘴中聚积的唾液。 And, quietly, she pleads: 再接着，用那几近失去音量的话语声，哀求道： "Stop..." "住手……" And only a bit louder: 尔后，仅是稍微响亮了些许： "Please, stop..." "请住手……" Another shard of glass drives through the air like an arrow, and she avoids it though she was given only a second for its approach.  又一片尖锐无比的碎玻璃好似离弦之箭一般急射而来。光随之躲闪——尽管留给自己的反应时间并不超过一秒。 It goes past where her upper arm, its target, had been. 碎片眼看就要成功刺入她的上臂。幸好最终只是擦臂而过。 And she shouts, "Please stop!" 她终归大喊道："请住手！！" "I know what you want to do." "我知道你的计划。" Hikari stops instead, and in a moment after Tairitsu lands on a row of pews five away from hers. 光的动作戛然而止。片刻间，对立便着陆在距离光有足足五排远的长椅之上。 "What are you? A demon invented by the world?" Tairitsu asks. "你究竟是什么？这世界创造出来的恶魔？"对立质问道。 "What!?" "什么？！" "Are you just another fragment from a dead place, come to hound me?" "你根本只是那些碎片的同类。是从荒芜之地而来，专程前来猎杀我的吧？" "I... No!" Hikari yells. "我……不是！"光吼道。 "You don't know what you are, either..." Tairitsu mutters. "你自己也不清楚自己到底是什么……"对立喃喃自语道。 There, Hikari notices: a number of pieces of Arcaea are darting behind and before the other girl like patrolling wasps.  就在此时，光忽然注意到——那女孩的身前身后，已经如蜂群般聚集了相当数量的Arcaea。 She eyes them warily, and Tairitsu continues to speak, voice dipped long in woe.  光对此格外留了心眼。届时，对立仍旧用那沉痛的话语继续低语着。 "But, if you found me," she says, "that means you can't be anything good." "但……既然能够找上我。"她道，"那你也一定不是什么好东西。" And Hikari, recalling what this girl had told her of her past,  光回想起了面前那女孩曾述说的那段过往经历。 is brought still upon realizing that she can perfectly understand what that means. 她石化在了原地。她明白对立是什么意思。 "I'm not... that..." she mumbles in defense.  "我才不是……那种……"她嘟哝道，语气中略带着防卫性。 Another bullet of glass comes, shooting past her ear. 又一枚碎玻璃，如同出膛子弹般掠过她的耳旁。 She shuts her eyes, forcing tears out of them. 她紧紧闭起了自己的双眼，任由眼泪被压迫得夺眶而出。 If she is to survive... 如果她的愿望是活下来…… ...she cannot give up. ……那无论如何，她都不能在这一刻放弃。 Eyes downcast, Hikari calls a new piece of glass to her hand,  光的视线转向下方。一枚新的碎片响应着她的召唤，来到她手心之中。 not even realizing how strange it is that she can touch it now. 自己居然已经能够徒手接触到碎片——对于这种过于诡异的现象，她甚至未曾留意。 A troop of shards also joins her behind her back. 整一队列的碎片也跃动着加入了自己的身后。 She lifts her head. 她抬起了头。 Like this, she once more faces the girl she wishes she could befriend. 正是如此——尽管渴望成为挚友，却又一次对峙起面前那位女孩。

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They erupt from the gate, crashing through it as if it were a pane instead of metal.  争执中的两人，不费吹灰之力地撞碎了钢制的大门，好似那仅仅是块木板。 Shards of memory whirl around them in chaos as the girl in black lunges at the girl in white. 此刻的黑衣少女朝着白衣少女猛冲而去。那些记忆的碎片则好似一片混沌般飞舞缠绕着二人。 Pushed back, and never pushing forth;  反抗——却从不主动攻击。 though she has chosen to fight earnestly, there is still a hope in Hikari's heart that this does not have to end in bloodshed.  尽管她已经诚心诚意地决定接受战斗，光的心中却始终存有一丝希望：这根本没有必要成为一场见血的纷争。 Yet still, even if her sway over the glass is not nearly as deft, even if she is entirely unpracticed, she truly won't give in. 虽然如此，就算她操控这些玻璃的技巧尚未娴熟；就算她没有分毫的战斗经验——她也绝不会让步。 Glass shields her back in a slapdash, patchwork pattern, constantly shifting to stop Tairitsu's roundabout spears from ever hitting their marks.  玻璃仓促地在她身后拼凑成一面护盾，不断地精确阻截着对立所施放的长枪的迂回背刺。 Hikari's eyes are sharper than that glass, ever vigilant to pin the dark girl down; to end this peacefully, through force. 光此时的视线，远比玻璃碎片更加锐利。她保持机警地试图压制面前的暗之少女——并争取让这场战斗和平终结。通过武力。 Nothing about it is simple, however. 遗憾的是，知之非难，行之不易。 Now outside the cathedral-shell, open on the misshapen roads and hills of Arcaea, Tairitsu is free.  脱离了大教堂的空间限制后，此刻Arcaea的畸形山路对于对立而言只是更加方便她施展的空间。 Keeping close, her movements sweep and her glass flies wide.  她的举止彻底不再被障碍物所拘束，碎片的斩击范围也随即进一步扩宽。 So doggedly pursued, Hikari finds all she can do is cling to her desperate defense in preservation of her own life. 最终，光发觉自己真正能做的也仅有全力守住最后的防线，保全自己的性命。 Her pulse is quick, and the sweat that had begun in her hands is now permeating her entire body with an awful chill.  心跳过快。先前仅会从手心流出的汗液，如今早已渗透她的全身，造成一股恶寒。 Smashing an invisible knife against an invisible dagger, crashing a swift shard into a shining lance flying true before it can meet her throat. 好似用隐形的小刀弹飞掷来的透明匕首，在自己的喉咙与对方的长矛亲密接触前，率先将一道碎片飞速射去。 Blow for blow, for blow, for blow,  一招对应一招，应对另一招，对应再一招。 she is made to realize that their battle has gone from a tussling mess of violence to a vicious clash of two formidable and absolute forces.  这使光认识到，战斗早已从混乱的暴力扭打升级至两方绝对势力的凶恶冲突。 She cannot match Tairitsu's strength, but with her wits and will kept about her, she can dampen its impact. 若是单纯较量蛮力的话，光毫无胜算。只是，支撑着她的还有智谋与信念。这足以让光勉强招架对立的攻击。 To the torrent of emotions before her, she will be the composed counter:  直面身前那洪水般决堤的情感源泉，光将担任那"对立"之侧。 the stone weathered, but never broken; and she will settle this. 岩石或许会风化，但却不会碎裂。她会平息这一切争端。 They're even, each holding down her position as points and rays of light shine from the smooth faces of their chosen Arcaea. 她们此刻是平手状态。两方所各自钦定的Arcaea，此刻正由那光滑的表面散射出光球与剧烈的光线。 They remain even, in fact, until Tairitsu shifts her focus.  确实，她们始终不相上下……直到对立改变了目标。 Instead of aiming past the other girl's guard, with no tell she decides to redirect and send down her flock on Hikari's right side. 表面上正企图冲破对方防线，对立却悄无声息地将自己的碎片群重定向一番，送至了光的身体右侧。 The impact is massive. With an explosion of glints and glamor, it forces Hikari to stumble down to a knee.  这一举动造成的影响不可估量。在魔光闪烁般的爆炸中，光的单侧膝盖失去了平衡。 Then and there, glaring darkly, Tairitsu lifts and points her black umbrella,  紧随其后，对立阴险狡诈的目光随着手中的阳伞一同朝前方刺去。 its tip revealing the intended destination: the front of her opponent's skull. 阳伞的尖端正指向那原本的目标部位：她对手的前额。 She spares no hesitation. The strike comes in an instant. 完全没有一丝踌躇。电光火石间的瞬息一刺。 Hikari shuts her eyes. Tairitsu's brow twists. 光死死地闭上了双眼。对立皱紧了眉头。 The thrust is stopped, but not by either of them.  冲击被中途制止了。并不是由于她们的任何一者。 Instead, it is something between them. 这第三股力量源自她们二人之间。 Between them, that anomalous shard, previously forced from Hikari's hand, stands still in the air, steady as a wall, immovable against the umbrella-spike.  她们二人之间——是那片原先被逼出光的手掌心的异象碎片。尽管面对阳伞的全力突刺，也悬停于空中纹丝不动。 Hikari opens her eyes and stares, disbelieving. 光睁开双眼，难以置信地凝视着。 "Eh!?" "唉！？" "That's..." "这是……" Tairitsu lifts her other hand, a swirl of glass rising up around it. 对立举起了另一只手，顺势带起一片玻璃碎片的漩涡。 Not hesitating either, Hikari thrusts her hand against the anomaly,  然而，光却同样未带迟疑，将手掌推向身前的异象碎片。 and every free piece of glass surrounding them sways for just a moment before a razor-sharp rainfall begins. 紧接着，两人身旁的每一片自由碎片都猛烈摇晃了一瞬——由利刃组成的风雨接踵而至。

VS-5 "

It begins like a storm. 序幕之刻，好似一场暴风。 The falling glass, now under Hikari's command, begins to dart everywhere and every way without order.  如今这成百上千的坠落碎片均受到光的操控，却看似只是在毫无秩序地四下乱窜。 Though the shards are hers to control, she cannot grasp how to truly use them for a little while. 尽管此刻已轮到光发号施令，她却显然还没有驾轻就熟。 Tairitsu, aggravation and concern plain on her face, retreats.  对立的脸上明摆着忧愤。她暂时朝后撤退起来。 Hikari is thus left hidden in a swarm of edged memories, crouched and still as she concentrates on her newfound power. 此时的光，身形已经湮没于星罗棋布的锐利"记忆"之中。她正屏气凝神地蜷缩膝盖，试图集中施展自己这股全新全异的力量。 Tairitsu surveys the land, looking to the sky and to Hikari's storm.  对立迅速勘测了周身地表的情形，仰头紧盯着高空中由光制造的暴风。 She holds a hand up over her head, and thinks: to fight a storm, one must summon a deluge. 她将一只手掌高举过头，心中思绪涌动。——若要战胜暴风，则需呼唤疾雨。 Thus, from distant cities and white mountains, the glass of a thousand and more memories are immediately pulled by her call.  潜匿于地平线彼端的城市废墟与纯白山脉的玻璃碎片——数凌千计的玻璃碎片，皆数响应着对立的号召，降临了此处。 Unlike Hikari's untamed flurry, Tairitsu's flock is a pattern, immaculately composed. 相对于光手下桀骜不驯的群魔乱舞，对立的军队远远显得要更加井然有序，队列更是完美无瑕。 Behind the girl in black, the glass assumes the shape of a giant rose,  盘踞于纯黑之少女背后的碎片，纹理俨然是一朵巨大的玫瑰。 its petals falling one by one in swirling descents, slicing cleanly through the squall shielding the girl in white. 宛若旋流般，玫瑰的花瓣被一片片地剥落而下，精确而迅速地切入那层层保卫着纯白之少女的飓风。 And Hikari—now standing, though afraid—can only respond in patterned kind. 光因而只能挺直身躯——尽管她的心中满溢着恐惧。她被迫以包含规律的弹幕加以回击。 Bloom after bloom and chain after chain follow in their maddening, frantic, distant combat.  弧光残影，千华缭乱。相距甚远的两人卷起这场雨横风狂的宿命之争。 From miles off, it seems things are exactly as Tairitsu wished: a clash of two storms.  若是由数里之外加以眺望，此般景象正如对立所盼，好像两场风暴彼此间的激烈冲撞。 Rain fighting rain, "lightning" flashing throughout, and their undulating "clouds" joining the fray by bursting, spiraling, and flowing in an explosive display— 风雨相争，创造电闪雷鸣，周身汹涌起伏的黯云有如一场华丽的爆炸般，于这场战斗中螺旋相缠。 a sparkling tumult of furious natural powers. 如同凶猛乖戾的自然力量，致使风云大乱。 And beneath the whirling and silver floods stand two girls, each with a blaze in her heart. 在这银白渲染的波涛之下，两名女孩相互对峙。燃烧于她们心中的是熊熊炽焰。 Each avoid volleys of shards by mere millimeters, and they begin to run as they fight rather than holding their ground.  凌空齐射的碎片也无法伤及对方分毫；二人在迅速躲闪攻击的同时也并未驻守原地，而是开始疾跑—— Rushing through Arcaea's plains, they cast glass artilleries and skid along the shining earth as their improvised bullets fall and scatter like shrapnel.  疾跑于Arcaea的荒原之上，穿梭在玻璃汇聚而成的枪林弹雨之中，不时回避着因爆裂而产生的高速弹片。 Glass pursues, glass cuts off their routes, glass aims for feet in an attempt to pin the enemy in place. 碎玻璃对二人穷追不舍。碎玻璃将二人阻截于半路。碎玻璃不断尝试着刺入二人的双脚，这是二人试图将对方牢牢固死在原地。 It is madness: frenetic madness, chaotic yet constant.  狂怒：彻底失控的狂怒，混乱而又不失守序。 Their movements soon become nearly even, steady and regular. 二人的步伐、一举一动……逐渐变得近乎同步。规律而刻板地重复着规律而刻板的动作。 Evade, and fire, always. 闪避。开火。重复。 Within this overwhelming row of beauty and violence, they once again find themselves evenly matched. 在这无法言传，压倒性的绚彩狂华之中，二人再度势均力敌。 And thus it is Tairitsu's turn to gain the upper hand. 继此之后，战斗轮到对立占据上风。

VS-6 "

Her journey in this place has been hell. 她在此处的旅途，无异于身临地狱。 Hell from her birth to her first steps— 自诞生以来便已然踏入地狱中心—— no, even first steps were denied to her, weren't they?  或者说，自己也许根本就没得到过踏出第一步的机会吧？ She'd ventured outside of where she'd first awakened, and not long after her journey was abruptly and mercilessly stopped by a torrent of misery and tragedy.  苏醒而来的她冒险踏入了外部的世界，但随之邂逅的苦痛与厄运好似暗潮般唐突地毁掉了她的旅途。 Ever since then, those two things had been doggedly following her. 之后，那两个灾祸的象征便紧紧地跟随着她。 It's a joke. 简直是在开玩笑。 I'm a good person, she tells herself. 我可是个好女孩。她于心中自言自语。 I am not these dark clothes I was born with. I am not these dark memories I am tormented by. 这身漆黑的衣裙本就不该代表我的存在。这些黑暗的回忆始终折磨着我，可我又不是它们的同类。 I am not a person who is "evil", I am an ordinary person tortured by an evil world. 我根本不是个"邪恶"之人。我只是个普通人，一个生于只存在邪恶的世界，因而饱受折磨的普通人。 Without reason, without sense.  荒谬无理。简直构成不了任何逻辑。 A completely, horribly, cruel and merciless world. 一个残忍得可怕，从根本角度上而言的无情世界。 A nightmare one can't wake from. 一场永远无法苏醒的噩梦。 And the ending, for me, is a pathetic death. 而属于我的结局，便是一场悲惨的死亡。 ... …… That sort of thing, that kind of thinking, has brought tears to her eyes so many times before. 那样的事实，那样的想法，让泪水无数次在她的眼眶满溢。 Now, it's over.  现在，这一切已经结束了。 No matter what, it's over. 不管是什么事，已经结束了。 With that thought in mind, while she grazes past glass sent at her by the girl she is trying to kill,  将这一思绪怀藏于心之际，面前那名自己想要杀害的少女正将另一块玻璃送向自己。 she notes the presence of something strange. 而就是在与那片玻璃擦肩而过时，她却忽然注意到了什么异常的画面。 A familiar, grotesque presence she'd felt minutes before this.  正是数分钟前那种熟悉的，怪诞到让自己反胃的感觉。 The feeling like reality itself has lost correctness.  好比"现实"本身失去了正确性。 An impossible condition made manifest. 仿佛绝对不可能发生的场景在眼前出现。 That anomalous feeling is just beside her cheek. 而那特异感知的源头，几乎紧贴着自己的脸颊。 She looks to her right, and the violet-tinged and grossly warped glass of an anomaly comes into her sight.  她朝着右方看去。一枚由淡紫色点缀的，外形极度歪曲的异象碎片，映入眼帘。 It is only a moment, only a whim. 单单是眨眼之间的相会。 Yet it tells everything. 却足以回答一切。 As expected of the aberrant shard, it does not hold simple memory— 如同她所预料的一般，这枚异常的碎片所包含的并不是普通的回忆—— but beyond expectation, it holds impossible answers. 但完全超乎预料，碎片中出现了本绝不可能存在的答案。 In an instant, as soon as the shine of its surface has met with her eyes— 转瞬之间，快到仅仅是碎片表面的反光与视网膜相撞—— —with a sensation that the inside of her skull has been bathed in light, almost full knowledge of the world,  ——感受到自己的颅内就像被光芒所充溢般，一眨眼的功夫便近乎通晓了有关这世界的一切： of near everything that ever and absolutely was, unlocks vivid understanding in her mind. 所有曾经几时存在——且必定存在的事物。一眨眼的功夫，她的脑海中便已然开朗。 Their names.  她们的名字。 Their pasts.  她们的过去。 This world.  这个世界。 Its purpose.  ——存在的目的。 Her: "Hikari".  她："光"。 Her: "Tairitsu".  她："对立"。 "Eto" and "Kou"... "Saya" and "Lethe"...  "爱托"与"红"……"咲弥"与"忘却"…… "Luna", and—names; countless names. "露娜"，以及……名字；无法计数的名字。 Even facts of other worlds, destinations of other travelers, ends, beginnings, and elaborated reasons too all of it. 甚至是关乎其他世界的真相，属于其他旅行者的终点，结局、序言、完美详尽的因果：一切的一切。 And the truth, the whole truth, that— 以及真理。全部的事物所指向的真理，便是—— Before her, Hikari stops briefly, noticing the obvious shift in her aggressor's demeanor.  她的身前，光短暂地止住了步伐。她察觉到了面前那名对手态度的明显转变。 There's a change.  的确有什么变化产生。 There's fear. 恐惧。 So, that's it. That's everything. 所以，真理就是如此。我已知晓真理。 Tairitsu glimpsed the truth of this cage dubbed "reality". With that truth, she's claimed power.  对立早已目睹"现实"被禁锢的真理。而只需明白这一真理，她便会拥有力量。 And with both, knowing everything...  但若两者兼具，通晓万事…… Knowing everything, what exactly would change? 通晓万事，又有什么用？ Her feelings curdle and churn.  本已凝固的思绪，如同被再次强行乱搅一番。 The endless bitterness packed in her chest flows out of it and courses through her—onto her tongue, into her teeth.  那股盘踞于她胸腔内的无尽苦涩逐渐一路蔓延而上，沾染了自己的舌根，钻入牙缝之中。 Her lips twist into a morose and bitterly maudlin grin.  她的嘴唇扭曲得好似一抹忧郁而感性的微笑。 Morose and maudlin, but undoubtedly, strangely, mirthful. 忧郁而感性，却毫无疑问地，怪诞地——快乐。 Laugh, girl. Call forth a Tempest. 狂笑吧，少女。呼唤狂风暴雨吧。 The path here was blazed by the worst recollections of mankind, and what remains at the end is, and ever will be, the end. 此处的道路尽收人类所能拥有的最恶回忆。而存在于终点的——始终都——只会是终点。 At the terminus, one of the two will die. 抵达终站的同时，她们两者之间的一人，必须死。