Stray: God said, you can’t die here yet

Maybe a story from another universe.

Cause and effect exist in the past and ultimately happen in the future, telling the story of a coward, a farewell poem of giving up all his greatness, miracles, magics, and more so far.

The blessings received from God will be returned to the heavens again, the eyes will be lost to the world, and you will face your own death.

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It is a singularity that gathers and unifies the human history converted into magic power in the imaginary space isolated from the normal flow of time. The inherent enchantment——

Its structure, principle and even essence can be said to be the same as the Great Holy Grail of Justeza Rizleich von Einzbern, the difference is only in scale.

The tragic battlefield battle is coming to an end. Whether it is the heroic Servant from the past and future timeline, or the indescribable manifestation of the Demon God Pillar, they are already in the death-defying struggle. One by one fell down.

This is an unfair war of attrition.

In the Temple of the Crown of Time, it belongs to the lair of the Demon God Pillars. It not only has the enhancement and blessing of the inherent enchantment, but also has an endless supply of magic power squeezed by burning human history. They can be generated endlessly. No matter how many times you get knocked down, it will reappear.

And the guardians from Humanity, the heroes of the past and the future, bring their own dry food.

They are not war machines with infinite physical strength, infinite magic power, and never tires. They are able to kill here because of the "fate" line concluded with the last master of mankind. No matter how tenacious, they cannot change this. Down, there is not necessarily a chance to reconnect.

In the same way, as long as the last master of mankind falls, everything will be wiped out.

It's not like there are no powerful legends with the ability to "appear alone", such as Wang Hassan, but such existences are too few and too few, and it is impossible to turn the tide by just a few of them appearing here. victorious.

But luckily...

Someone stood up at the last minute and laid the foundation for victory, but at the cost of... his own death.

"God, I will give you back the blessings you have bestowed upon you."

"Almighty is too far away for humans. My work is limited to humans."

After returning everything to the familiar sight in the void, Romani Achiman was also rarely absent-minded. He stood there quietly, feeling both the long-lost ease and the inevitable There is a sense of daze.

Without the eyes to stare at the world, he can no longer feel being watched, although this is what he is used to, but this time is different.

Dr. Roman knows very well that this loss will be permanent.

Speaking of which, will God be disappointed in this?

A thought like this arose in his mind, but it was quickly dismissed by him, because Dr. Roman knew very well that God didn't care.

He has never interfered with his own choices. The only conversation was when he asked himself what he wanted to get in a dream, and because he was thirsty for wisdom, he obtained "true wisdom".

That's all.

Even if my answer at the time did not satisfy God, there would be no problem. What I wanted to get, my wish would still come true.

As it is now, the path I choose is the same, so probably God will just watch it quietly...

That's good. Thinking of this, Dr. Roman finally showed a relieved smile on his face.

“…are you going to…die?”

At this time, a sad voice sounded not far ahead, and the staggering girl stumbled towards Dr. Roman with a cry and wailing.

Dr. Roman smiled. He had seen Fujimaru Rika panic many times. After all, this was just an ordinary girl who was driven by a duck. She was just an ordinary person a year ago. It can be said that she was deceived. to Chaldea.

If everything went well, it would have been nice to be a waiter and wait to die.

It's a pity that fate has messed with people. In the end, all the official personnel ended up dead and unknown. Instead, it was this candidate who made up the number and took all the responsibilities bit by bit, step by step. come to now.

Sure enough, it's still too much for her.

"Hmm. It's scary and sad, but it's something I can do. So, even if it hurts, I have to do it."

Doctor Roman nodded and said so with a relaxed expression.

"That's enough, you and Matthew taught me this choice."

He can feel that everything in himself is being lost, just like the flesh he obtained by wishing to the Holy Grail, at this moment it is fading from time and space, like the typeface being wiped by an eraser, every time it is wiped , the traces will be lighter.

He is losing his connection to the world, and when the anchor is completely gone, it is time for him to leave.

"Too cunning..."

Fujimaru Rika can't hide her sadness, she has come this far, she has seen the last light, but someone important is going to fall at the last moment before dawn... She hates dogs like this Blood story!

It's really bloody, so I hate it the most!

However.

It doesn't change anything after all-

"With a limited life, facing the existence of death and cessation. The existence that knows it will come to an end, but keeps repeating the existence of separation and encounter."

After a brief conversation with Getia, who was on the verge of collapse, lost both strength and power, and was weak and hysterical like never before, the doctor who found that his magic formula could not be understood after all sighed and lost interest in continuing.

He turned his head and smiled at Tatsuka Fujimaru and Mash, so he said his last words.

"...a splendid, momentary journey like a star. This is a story called love and hope."

The next moment, his already blurred and faded body finally completely lost its stable outline.

Spiritual son loses its stable structure, and spreads out in all directions like light particles, turns into a thousand winds, disappears with the wind, and ceases to exist.

Fujimaru Rika stood dumbfounded, her sadness uncontrollable, her eyes red and her nose sore. She clearly knew that the first impression of the meeting was that she was hiding in the room to fish for fish, would quietly share snacks with her newcomer, and then gritted her teeth and took on the responsibility of leading the entire Chaldea...

No longer available.

Wiping her red eyes fiercely, the girl turned around and said bitterly, "Mash! Let's go!!"

This is the last time, we must take back the future of mankind!

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Fall.

Endless fall.

But it doesn't seem to be caught by the bottomless quagmire, it's more like going through an extremely long tunnel, but because there is no concept of time and space, no sense of direction and distance, it is not clear to distinguish between upper and lower Left and right, in all directions...

Roman couldn't figure out for a while, whether he was falling down with inertia, or was being held up by some great force and ascending endlessly.

Up...

Up...

Up...

Where are you going to ascend? Roman doesn't know either, because he can't think anymore, his thinking seems to be frozen, the soul, or something more essential, has an indescribable stagnation, and can only passively receive information but cannot actively process it. .

In this state, I don't know how long it has passed, maybe a moment, maybe hundreds of millions of years, Roman suddenly felt that the stagnation disappeared, and his mind resumed operation. He seemed to finally open his eyes, It seemed that he had kept his eyes open, but only now did the scenery come into view.

Then he was stunned.

Roman lowered his head and stared at his feet. It seemed to be a void, and it was like a rippling water surface. The fragmented sparkling waves reflected the continuous intersection of countless parallel time and space. scene.

Innumerable vast universes are looming, billions of stars are shining with mysterious celestial light, stars burn and release endless light and heat, magnificent nebulae breed dazzling galaxies, quietly in billions of years of years The spiraling galaxy...

Everything is beautiful and magnificent beyond human imagination.

It is like countless mirrors, broken into countless pieces, each piece reflects a unique angle and light and shadow, and at the same time reflects the light and shadow of other pieces, and at the same time, other pieces will also be more The light and shadow of the fragments reflected, reflected.

So-

Countless mirrored corridors are stacked together to form this complex place.

Roman felt as if he was standing on the "water surface" of the infinite world. He suddenly realized it, as if some knowledge had inexplicably appeared in his mind, letting him know... Existence and nonexistence, a world line that transcends all possibilities.

The dwelling place of the Most High God...

The outer side of Vientiane isolated from all time and space, all cause and effect...

The seat of the Creator who rules, creates, and transcends all...

—here is... all of the above.

Opening his mouth, Roman reluctantly shook his head and smiled bitterly. If God wanted to see him, then all this would be no wonder.

Although logically speaking, after the final Noble Phantasm is activated, his traces will be completely wiped from the world. It does not mean that the traces of activities have disappeared, but that the careers of achievements have come to an end.

There is no need to defeat him, nor to rely on him anymore.

No one will seek him again, no one will need to bear his death, no one will look to him for help and results above this.

That's why it will disappear completely, and there will be no more records on the Throne of Heroes, because King Solomon's appearance and King Solomon's exploits will never appear on the ground again. He personally made his own Existence has completely disappeared, reaching the end of "nothingness".

But...

Nothing can go against God's will. God wants to see whomever he wants.

Roman, who was in a good mood and solved his doubts, was a little nervous. He looked around, and then immediately saw a figure.

It seems to have been there all along, it's only now that he suddenly notices.

That is an illusory spirit, which cannot be defined by existence or non-existence, and cannot be measured by logical thinking. Even Roman can only see an outline that seems to be an illusion, and everything else leaves no impression, and no details can be discerned.

"He" just stood quietly on the water of the infinite world, calmly overlooking the interlacing and changing of thousands of dimensions.

The rotation of nations, the rise and fall of all things, and everything, are all reflected in those eyes.

Roman was stunned for a moment, but didn't think too much.

Because he had never seen God before, even in a dream he only heard a voice like an apocalypse. Moreover, it is natural for him to see the true face of God clearly. After all, "people cannot see my face."

He stood there and hesitated for a while before slowly walking forward with a little uneasiness.

Roman doesn't know what this feeling is. He has never experienced any kind of love and affection. As a child dedicated to God by King David, he was born perfect and destined to be a "king" by nature. .

He's not moved in his heart, a non-human being deprived of the freedom to feel the joys and sorrows of people.

It was not until he became a human that he finally acquired the humanity of a human named "Roman".

But it is precisely because he is no longer Solomon, so he has no way to maintain the calmness and composure he once faced when facing God again.

"...God, I'm back."

Walking hesitantly to the side of the phantom spirit, Dr. Roman bravely said, "God knows he has never been so nervous before when he died generously, as if he was going home." The child is holding a paper that has not passed the test in his hand, as if he wanted to sign it for his parents.

No answer.

God is just quietly looking down at all beings in the sky, not knowing what to think.

But as long as you speak, then the next thing will be easy to handle. Roman did not think about it any more, he opened his mouth and said: "Before I died, according to your instructions, I left a golden ring as a gift for the future. The distant gift of..."

The initial apprehension and unease gradually disappeared in the gradually fluent narrative, he was talking about everything he had done——

Whether it was a wise, kind, and fraternal king who was deeply respected and loved by the people to govern the country, or active on the stage of the Holy Grail War as a heroic spirit, or having a strong desire to "become a human being", Feel the beauty and make a wish to get a body...

Self-disciplined, proud, willful.

All his emotions, including human nature and weakness, were rarely spoken out to the God in his heart like a child without reservation.

God listened quietly, without saying a word.

It seems that consciousness has fallen asleep, and it seems that it doesn't care about it.

"That's it, I return all the blessings you have bestowed upon you..."

I don't know how long it took before Roman's story came to an end. He found that he had talked so much, and scratched his cheek in embarrassment.

"It's the only thing I can do, and it's something I have to do, but you must be disappointed if you mess things up..."

At this time, God finally made a move.

God turned around, looked at the distressed man, and asked indifferently, ""Roman," what do you think of this name? "

The doctor was stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to think of something, and he said nervously: "This name... this name, I think it is very good. "Romantic" is such a wonderful word, it was in my time No concept. "

"And what do you think, 'Solomon'? "

“…”

“…”

After being silent for a long time, the doctor showed a bitter smile: "I think...I still prefer 'Roman'. "

"Even if this second life did not make you feel the so-called "happiness and fulfillment as a human being" at all? "God smiled softly.

Roman is eager to become a human being, eager to live as an ordinary person, but it backfires—

He had never enjoyed human freedom, and the burden of saving humanity was always pressing on him. Hellish patience had him learning everything he could, working day and night for the Chaldeans, trying to do something before humanity was destroyed.

"Yes."

The doctor nodded nervously, but even so, even though it might offend the gods, he liked the present more.

“…”

“…”

A brief silence.

"So..."

God sighed softly, but reached out his hand and gently pushed directly on the doctor's shoulder.

"So be it! But I don't like to owe others, and you don't have to give me back."

"Eh-!!"

For a moment, I felt like I was falling rapidly under the acceleration of gravity, and there was a sound like the wind whistling in my ears. The doctor who already had human nature and emotions couldn't help but scream in fear. What is this? What's the matter? !

Is your answer wrong?

Or is it that God is disappointed and wants to punish himself? !

"I said, you can't die here yet."

God's voice rang out in his ears, and it seemed to have a hint of...

A teasing smile?

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Boom!

He fell heavily on the solid ground, and the strong impact made Roman lose his head for a while, but after a while, he carefully opened his eyes, but found that he seemed to be lying on a flat and smooth surface on the lawn.

In a very relaxed position.

As if everything just happened was an illusion.

Blinking his eyes, he sat up in a daze, looked around, and found that it seemed to be noon, the warm sun was shining on the lawn, and there was a park square with a fountain not far away... He Seems to be in some park in an unknown city?

Children running around and playing, adults talking and laughing...

Everything is so calm and natural, yet so rare.

Almost subconsciously, Roman activated his clairvoyance. Although he had already returned all the benefits, just now, it seemed that everything had returned... As God said, he just didn't quite understand that What means.

Is it because I feel that what I have given to me is my own, and the act of returning it back makes God very angry.

Roman can only think so, and at this moment, he also sees the truth of this world through clairvoyance... It is the world after the restoration of human nature, and history returns to the ordinary, normal 2016!

Is that so!

Really good!

He subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that God was not angry, nor was he displeased because of his wayward thoughts, but generously granted him "freedom", allowing him to live in a completely restored world without having to bear any more burdens. What is the responsibility of the king?

That's right! It must be so!

Roman thought happily.

Then at the next moment, the clairvoyance that continues to activate captures a more future time period...

A huge time gap appears, the root of fantasy takes root, the signal from the sky has been cut off, the surface is covered with ice, and the planet is in solitude. Filtering the alien history phenomenon, the invaded, the planet turned into white paper...

His expression quickly solidified and stiffened. Why does this unfold look familiar?

He looked up at the sky, and always felt that the sunshine that was very warm just now appeared...

A little dazzling

(PS: Subtitle - Dr. Roman can't rest...)