261 Sequence - Memory of the Red Lotus

When I realized I was in the heat of burning and crimson.

My whole body is hot and my vision is stained bright red. It was as if I had turned myself into a flame itself, where only a burning sensation and a crimson scene dominated the world.

Hot.

Hot as hell.

Other than that, I can't think properly.

My body doesn't move anywhere, I don't even have a voice.

It was so strange how you could stay sane in such a hell.

No, was I really sane?

Who would have been "me" in the first place?

Things like human thoughts, emotions, etc. had melted and collapsed, and I was no longer a senseless being in the Red Lotus world who just suffered when it was hot and hot.

In it, there is only one feeling that has not been lost.

Right hand - probably a hard, thin wooden touch, gripped by the fingertips of your right hand.

Now only that slight feeling was the only thing that made me look good.

When I lose this feeling, I'm sure my presence will burn completely in this world.

(This is my father's santoku knife)

Those thoughts are going to be scattered soon, too.

I was in a hell of a lot of agony, and even took that thought for granted.

(My house was probably lit by the villains... I jumped into the flames without even hearing Lina stop to get back the santoku knife my father cared about above all else...)

Is that why I was to suffer like this?

How could I have reached such imitation if I could not help myself by jumping into such a sea of fire - now my memories before and after that had also become obscure?

Inside a shop filled with red flames and black smoke, I jumped in selflessly.

Immediately the fire burned in his hands and feet and he smelled disgusting scorching clothes and skin.

But that, too, is made aye-free by more overwhelming black smoke.

In my lungs, I was filled with black smoke.

Oxygen was lacking and consciousness was distant.

In that, miraculously, I grabbed a santoku knife that hadn't burned yet - then my memories are dimensioned and directly connected to the current situation.

I can't even breathe, and they burn my whole body. The progression of time stopped along the way and it was as if only my senses had been left in the same place.

(Is this punishment? You're going to make your life crude and grieve your family and childhood - you're saying it's a punishment for an uninterrupted big idiot?

Even I didn't like it and grieve everyone.

When I realized it, my body was moving on its own.

As if, to be guided by something - there was no other way but to do so, it filled my head with such thoughts.

But I'm sure this hell will end someday.

I remember exactly how it felt when the building collapsed and crushed my body.

No matter how long you stand, no matter how much you grapple with the existence of the Santoku knife, eventually the existence of me disappears.

The presence of a great idiot named me, who has only lived for seventeen years and has treaded off the road a great deal at the end, will soon be scattered in wood pieces of dust.

If you don't like it...

Now I just have to jump into that light.

Light?

When I realized, there was a raging golden light over the wild Red Lotus.

It is a pale and blurry light that is too thin in a flame that gives you a grubby, and is likely to disappear as soon as you treat it a little abusively.

I also crawled into the light to be led by something.

There was no room for such doubt as to whether such a light really existed or whether it was really the right thing to approach there, and I craved that fine, warm light while holding onto the santoku knife.

And...

My consciousness was dragged back to this world, not to say goodbye.

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"Hey, hold on! Wake up, Asta!

I = fa grabbed my shoulder and was rocking it when I was reluctant.

The world brings back normal colors, and eventually my vision is blurred with beautiful brown details.

"It's okay... it's nothing..."

I got a faint voice like someone else.

The eyes of the imminent Ey-Fa are glowing blue and rotten.

"What's all right! Drink this!

And a pattern poked at his mouth.

Cold water comes into my mouth with tremendous momentum, and I'm about to drown.

But now I can wake up.

Put your left hand on the floor and try to trigger a heavy body somehow.

"I'm fine... I was just having a little bad dream. Don't worry about anything."

"Are you sure you're okay?

Ei-Fa's hands envelop my cheeks, and that face comes all the way up my nose again.

Staring back at those blue eyes, I repeated, "I'm fine".

Ai-Fa took a small breath and took her hand off my face.

And now you've softly embraced my body as if dealing with even broken goods.

"Don't make me worry too much... I thought you were possessed by some kind of disease"

"Sorry. Was I being done?

"It wasn't the noise where it was being done. I've been whispering hot and hot, sweating all over my body."

Its temperature slowly pours in from the area touching Ey-Fa.

The warmth completely drove me away from the remnants of the nightmare that remained in my body.

From the nose, the sweet scent of Ai-Fa's hair creeps in.

Half of my vision was blocked by the golden brown hair of I-Fa, and the other half I could see what a thin bright Fa house looked like.

The hands and feet that were blurred in the senses also become full of strength.

It's all right now.

If only Ey-Fa were here - I could live, without despair.

"... I was actually dreaming of losing my life in the world before."

Ai-Fa did not answer and has put a lot of effort into both arms holding me.

"They made me recognise you. I knew I was losing my life once.... Well, I can't talk to anyone but you."

"I don't care about past stories etc. You live by this forest as Asta in Fa's house, Asta."

"Yeah. They made me recognise how happy and irreplaceable that is."

I put my hands on Ai-Fa's head.

Ey-fa puts his forehead on his cheeks as he gropes.

I thought as I let myself be in that happy pain.

I would never make a mistake again -.

Until the day this life runs out, you will live without remorse.

I have made irrevocable mistakes, never forgetting this pain, and I will spare no effort to keep alive for myself and the people who will be by my side.

With that thought bitten off, I had the soft hair of an eye-fa.

"Well, shall we get to work in the morning? Today is the beginning of another ten days of haste."

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"Hmm? What's up?

"From the window, the light of day hasn't even plugged in yet"

In the arms of Ai-Fa, so much power is exercised.

"Start working with the dawn. That's the Forestside lesson, and Fa's house is no exception."

"Ugh, yeah, but it's so thin and bright already, I guess the sun's shining outside the house"

"But that light hasn't plugged into the house yet"

That said, Ai-Fa had once again embraced my body with so much force that my ribs were creaking.