NOVPUB"Yage Xiyiya... No... What you just said to me was..."
Pure White Eyes calmly reflected An Su's face, that deep voice resounded slowly on the staircase, and the Faceless One indifferently spoke:
——"Did you just say [Miss Maid]?"
An Su took a gentle breath, striving to maintain his composure; he finally understood why, since arriving in Avad, Enya had always refused to meet with him, always hiding in the shadows, waiting quietly.
No wonder she always pushed him so hard!
Just like the fleeting autumn rain two years ago, of which he knew nothing.
Not only 'Yage', that name from the past, all traces of her past existence must be sacrificed to the Shadow and the Unknown Mother Goddess.
The name for the future, 'Enya', and all that the future holds, all shall be sacrificed to the Shadow.
Yage never existed, and Enya would also never exist!
"A being with no past or future, who has discarded all names, becomes [Void]."
The Last Bishop spoke to An Su, lamenting softly, "Only the empty and eternal present remains, that girl, to put an end to Nether and save the world, sacrificed all that she was. She's now hiding in your shadow, offering her name to the unknown, right?"
No,
That's not right.
It's not like that.
An Su should have thought of it sooner, he remembered the last time he met Miss Enya, four days ago, on the eve of the 'fall of the Imperial Capital'. That night everyone was there, An Su, Enya, Luojia, Lister, Arthur, Luo Xiaohei...
They frolicked in the courtyard of the Magic Guild for a long time, the silhouette of the sunset sank into the dusk's grave, the night spread over the entire church, and he alone walked with Miss Maid to the mountains behind the church. Under the intertwining stars and night, that's when Miss Enya said to him——
"Mr. An Su."
"It doesn't matter to me if everyone else dies, or if all the other stars in the sky fall."
"To me, you are everyone in the world, you are all the stars in my world; this is the so-called great love."
(See Chapter 317, The Last Star and Night)
Miss Maid wasn't trying to save the world, she was just trying to save An Su, it's just a girl saving a boy, incidentally saving the entire world!
An Su should have understood, he should have grasped the meaning behind Miss Enya's words from the beginning, within her words lay the truth.
When Miss Enya spoke those words, she was already prepared, that was both a confession and a farewell.
That's the silence of autumn rain.
She stayed hidden in the shadows after coming to Avad, refusing to meet with An Su because she knew she was a timid and weak girl, if she saw An Su again, she wouldn't have the heart to leave; yet she worried and let the Demon Scout lurk near An Su to watch over every little thing about him, whether it was her morning or her night, whether at dawn or dusk, she listened with smiling and joyful pleasure to everything about him.
——That brief autumn rain, drenching from the past into the future.
[Error Level: 55%]
"How lamentable."
The Last Bishop squinted slightly, He noticed that the scarlet errors began to climb the steps again.
Seems the Shadow Ritual was starting.
"But with this, there shouldn't be any problem."
The Bishop revealed a calm smile, looking at An Su, "An Su Moningsta, you will become the true Error, transcending your fate, usurping the whole of Avad with error, this is the last gift that girl gives to you."
"Usurping a true world, that's a right only Gods possess."
[An Su Moningsta]
[Ultimate World Mission: Fate's Staircase]
[Please climb the Stairs of Fate at all costs!]
"Likewise."
The Last Bishop gently tapped His 'Faceless', His mouth cracked into a chaotic and mad smile,
"You will be crowned the true Bishop of Chaos, the third-generation Holder of Heaven, the third-generation Faceless One."
"From now on, young man, you'll oversee the eternal Radiance from atop Fate's Staircase, as you so desire."
An Su was silent for a moment, looking up calmly at the Last Bishop; after a while, he said with a smile,
"Go to hell."
The young man said with a smile, "I refuse."
"An Su Moningsta, you are the one and only [Error], third generation successor, so I won't kill you."
The Last Bishop stated the fact calmly, with a tone warm and natural, as is stating the truth was stating the reality, "But I won't let you leave before the coronation ceremony is over." 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
"Do you wish to refuse my coronation, to find that girl now?" Pure White Eyes stared at An Su, and the Last Bishop also calmly smiled, "Even if it means being my enemy, the enemy of destiny? The enemy of everyone?
"No one can crown me." An Su also said with a smile, the erroneous crimson shade reflecting his mad profile, "Be it you, the king, or the gods."
"Destiny be damned."
"To hell with it all."
"I can only bestow my own crown." he laughed and said, "To hell with Heaven's Fate's Staircase! I'm not climbing it!"
"The path I choose, the road I walk."
Those teal eyes erupted with incomparable brilliance,
At the end of error, from the Radiant Heaven, the young man calmly and madly expounded that truth,
——"That is [Fate's Staircase]."
An Su still remembered, on that last Star and Night, the last words Miss Enya said to him: "So even if all the stars in the world fall."
"You will find me."
"And I will find you."
[Volume 3, Fate's Staircase, End]
