On the sixtieth day after leaving, Yuffie and Lin returned to the northern part of the alliance, to the small village called Suzulan.
This was as different as the number of days the two of them stayed in the village, but the things they experienced were completely different. Yuffie couldn't tell which period of time she liked more, but what was certain was that they were all precious memories worth keeping forever.
Because of this farewell, I want to see the people and things belonging to this "Far East Continent" again, maybe it will be a long time later.
There are no changes in Suzulan Village and Yuffie's memory. The young monsters, including Ula, are still noisy, chasing each other, as if they have endless energy; Yanbo is lying on his back on the grass in the village, naked.
upper body, basking in the sun with several other monsters - she had heard of this scene before, but only now saw it with her own eyes; Mr. Peng, with a huge mushroom on his head, leaned under the tree, tapping his palms like cattail leaf fans,
Hum an ancient and melodious tune.
Everything is vivid and peaceful, which is the most suitable description.
She held Lin's hand and walked towards the hut belonging to Qingluo, followed by Alicia and Yunyue in human form. Several young monsters gathered around, shouting that they wanted to compete with them again. Yuffie shook her head.
Shake his head.
"Not yet." She rejected them softly, "Can you wait a moment? I promise."
The monsters all agreed and then dispersed. The girl gently knocked on the familiar wooden door and heard the same soft voice as before.
"Waiting for you." The door opened inward, revealing the figure of a woman wearing a blue dress, "Come in and sit down."
They walked into the simple and warm wooden house. The windows were slightly open to the outside, and the sunlight filtered through the window lattice and fell on the table beside it. There were two folded fabrics, one red and one green, soft and elegant, with Jeepneys
The unique charm. Qingluo picked them up and handed them into her and Lin's hands respectively.
"This is for you." The woman with the snake tail said. "I wish you a safe journey."
Yuffie unfolded it and felt as if she was holding a soft cloud in her hand, which was crystal clear and warm under the sun. She could feel that there was a blessing attached to it - it had no specific meaning and was not a formed spell, but it could give the holder some good things.
transport.
It seems that Qingluo's talent and mood were intertwined to form this precious souvenir. This is also the charm of "Far East Continent". She was a little nostalgic, but knew that she had to leave.
"Thank you." The girl folded it up again and put it away carefully, "Where's Feist?"
"I'm here." With this reply, 'Asan', dressed in light clothes, walked into the house. He first looked at Alicia, then Yunyue, and finally Yuffie and Lin. His eyes seemed a little hesitant.
, but finally shook his head and exhaled with a smile.
"Since Fleur, I didn't expect you two to be next." The man with long green hair pointed to the bed and the wooden chair next to the table, and then sat on a chair himself, "I thought you were gone, Ai
Licia.”
"Yes, I here have been dead a long time ago. But in other 'possibilities', I am still alive." Alicia replied without any concern, pulling Yuffie and Lin to her side, "Now
The protagonists are them. It's you, are you mentally prepared?"
"Asan" from Suzulan Village was silent for a moment and nodded slowly. Alicia then stepped aside, leaving the opportunity for the two young people to talk.
Yuffie looked at Lin and sat beside the bed. "Mr. Pfister..." she said softly and slowly, "What happened to the El Continent... and the "Miracle Troupe" more than five hundred years ago?
What?"
"Which time are you referring to?" Pfister asked.
"All." The girl replied, "Let's talk about the first time first - twenty years before we came here, in the 437th year of the Saint Leon calendar, it was also the time when the "Brigade" was disbanded.
The Elna looked at her, a glimmer of regret and guilt flashed in his eyes, and then quickly returned to calm.
"It's actually very simple to say." Feist sighed, "The behavior of the "Brigade" made many high-ranking officials feel threatened and wanted to get rid of us." He raised his hand and rubbed the corners of his eyebrows.
, "Some people bribed a veteran of the Phil Federation and asked him to invite us for talks on the grounds that he had a mission to entrust us with."
Justice is not omnipotent, and strength is met with fear - Dean Collens said that violence cannot bring peace, and this may be what he was referring to, Yuffie thought.
"We knew this was a trap, but out of confidence in our strength, we still agreed to go to the appointment. When we got there, only fully armed imperial soldiers were waiting for us." The Elna man's eyes turned cold, "Not only that, the other party also took advantage of
An ancient book given to him by the 'Messenger' summons the devil from the abyss and orders it to kill us."
"What an old-fashioned method." Lin curled her lips, "But, those soldiers and demons alone can't defeat Principal Collens, right?"
"Even the Balrog can be easily defeated by the "Brigade" at that time." Fister confirmed Lin's words, then shook his head, "It's a pity that he was summoned that time - if my judgment is correct, it was
Mal." He added, "It is not the Tiana that "Black Crow" believes in, but the male divine envoy who calls himself "Io"."
"In the myths of the last era, the name of the 'father' who brought destruction and rebirth -" Yuffie held her chin, recalling what Leonos said, "is the lich who triggered the "Gray War"
,Huruman Stark?”
"I'm not sure. The only thing that's certain is that his power is far beyond imagination. He easily killed the summoner and reduced the entire hotel to rubble." Pfister lowered his voice, obviously still unwilling to touch it.
Touching this experience, "If "she" hadn't banished that guy back to the abyss at the expense of herself... probably what "Brigade" experienced would not just be disbanded."
"She?" Lin asked, "Who is it in "The Brigade"? Templar Irene - but is she dead?"
"No." It was Alicia who answered her. "Irene was still alive at that time, and so was she." She tapped her forehead, closed her eyes and recalled the past, "For most people, the oath has erased her
existence, and all traces of the devil’s arrival. But I still remember it.”
"Meline Gerla Flo." The woman raised her lips and said leisurely, "That's her name."
"The Lord of Hearts in charge of cause and effect..." Yuffie murmured. Her mother's words opened the lock of memory and connected everything before. "It turns out...she is the one who created "The Brigade"."
"That's right. So when she left, the "Brigade" also dispersed." Fister continued in a low voice, "She asked us not to look for her whereabouts and let time determine the direction of everything. Fanka, little witch
, Larum and I kept her promise
After all, the "Bear King" chose to return to his hometown, and the "Silver Witch" is still traveling around." The Elna shook his head and chuckled, as if recalling the past, "I founded the "Guild", and the "Madman"...
Establish an academy to teach secret arts."
He swallowed and his face returned to seriousness. "The rest of the people chose another path." He said, "Barack and Hughes followed Bayard's footsteps and planned to trace the traces of "Io" and thus provide "her
"Revenge. As for Irene..." He raised his head and glanced at Yuffie's mother, "In order to find Flo, she stepped into the endless abyss alone and was not heard from again for seventeen years."
Yuffie lowered her head, put her hands on her chest, and sorted out the stories she had just heard. They completed the unknown history and also explained some of the doubts in the journey. However, what she cared about more was the future after that.
——
"But Irene came back in the end, right? I brought you here." Lin said her question first. In the letter Anya wrote to the two of them, she mentioned the past memories and Pfister's treatment of her.
Title. "What happened after the brigade was disbanded?"
The Elna man looked away and was silent for a long time.
“It’s hard to tell where it all started,” he said. “First, a sect following the ‘God Edda’ arose on the continent, which caused a period of chaos. Then, the followers of Mar and even the followers of Protodis,
They also received blessings and power from the gods. Sporadic conflicts gradually turned into wars. Later, Nolan and Attias...and perhaps Flo, were all involved in this chaos.
."
"At that time we finally joined forces again, but we were unable to prevent anything." Fister closed his eyes and recounted the outcome of everything, "Everyone was dying. Mar's followers killed Lalum, and Hughes was killed by the Dragon Clan.
Helanthia was seriously injured, while Hylanthia received a blow from Nolan. Barak was knocked unconscious by Ada, and he swung his sword at me. I had no choice but to kill him, and I fell into a coma due to the injury."
"The same goes for spirits, dragons, and other intelligent creatures." Yunyue whispered sadly, "We are opposed to each other because of our own ideas, and even the same kind of people kill each other. I want to protect the Elna people, and Alaxia comes to help me.
, ended up perishing together with Samaros. And in the end, less than one in ten thousand of the children of the forest were able to leave the mainland alive."
"We have paid the price of more than 90% of our tribe before we understand the value of cooperation and compromise." She turned to look out the window, "The Inis Empire you see was born out of this."
"What about the war? Who is the final winner?" Yuffie already knew the answer, but she wanted to confirm it again.
Her mother looked at her gently, her tone still leisurely, "No one wins. At the end of the war, Protodis, Ada, Mar, Atias, Nolan and Flo all died. The out-of-control magical network entangled
Together, they destroyed everything they were supposed to protect." She tilted her head and held her cheek with the back of her hand, "Except for a few particularly lucky people, everything else...has turned into what you see."
"When I woke up, I was already in this continent." The former Elna man said quietly, "I heard Irene's last wish, but I couldn't see her leave with my own eyes. The story after that..."
He loosened his grip and said, "I think Anya has told you all."
Feist stopped talking. The look of nostalgia faded from his face, allowing him to return to "Asan" in Suzulan Village. The others also fell silent for the time being.
"Speaking of it." Lin's voice suddenly sounded, not showing any signs of depression, "What's going on with the Gurno people?"
"The Yit people believe in Flo, so they are naturally the luckiest." Alicia smiled slightly, as if recalling the past time, "They built huge ships and sailed to the east with their families. Merlin gave her blessings
They, the Storm Sea, took the lives of some people and united the rest. After arriving here, they no longer wanted to use their original names, so they called themselves Gurnor people to commemorate the messengers they once loved.
"
Yuffie couldn't help but smile quietly as she thought about Noka Mine and them. She calmed down, took a breath, and raised the doubts she had buried so far.
"Who was Ada at that time? What was his relationship with that sect... and was his purpose good or bad?"
Yunyue seemed to want to say something, but Alicia raised a finger to stop her from speaking.
"You must come up with these by yourself." The mother's voice was soft, and her face was a bit serious. "Witness all the progress with your own eyes, and then make choices and actions. If your judgment is affected by past concepts, maybe the doomsday you have witnessed will be...
It is the unbreakable truth.”
"So." Alicia's expression returned to gentleness and she once again said what she said the day before, "Are you confident?"
Of course she didn't.
Yuffie stared at the light spots on the ground and bit her lip unconsciously - this was not a happy story, especially for her and Lin. The disaster was coming, and it was bigger than what she saw in the vision, but she
Don't know what to do.
Don't try to change the world with just a few people - this is what Dean Collens told her and Lin not long before she came here. Pfister's previous story just confirms this point of view. Even the strength of "Brigade" cannot
No matter how optimistic you think about the shaky future, it may be difficult to reverse it.
She closed her eyes, trying to gain courage from her past experiences. Eagle College, Holly Castle, Breeze Forest, Glow City... each scene flashed and faded, returning to the scene of the night before yesterday——
…
The doll girl was changing out of her long skirt and putting on a soft cotton nightgown. She bent down, opened the drawer beside the bed, and handed a red book into their hands.
It was covered with a hard cover and bound with gold thread, with a sense of history that did not belong to this continent. Yuffie gently opened the title page and was immediately attracted to her. She turned to look at Lin, and her friend did the same
Staring at the book closely, his eyes were full of disbelief.
There were vivid sketches on it, and she could identify several people without spending any effort - Lily with wolf ears on her head and holding a giant sword; Bell with a short beard and a short body; the arm held by the female mercenary
, the black-haired young man with an ordinary and gentle face, Alphonse; and the traveling nun with two braids and a smile as warm as the morning sun, Elena.
She didn't know the other people. Among them were a cheerful young man holding a long sword; a Beron man with a beard tied around his chin who looked more serious than Bell; and a thin young man holding a small bag in his arms.
She played the lute, her pursed lips showed a smile, and her eyes seemed to see through the paper, looking directly at her.
The last one surprised her a little - a young Erna woman sitting in the arms of a huge "humanoid", her appearance was almost the same as "Luo Zhen".
"Lily...Nono Group?" The blonde girl murmured, "But without me and Yuffie..." She stretched out her finger and touched the familiar people on the paper, "Could it be that we have left the original era?
When I came here, I never saw them again...?"
This was a reasonable guess, but it didn't fit with Yuffie's intuition. She firmly believed that the two of them could return to their hometown and continue traveling with the familiar people - that was a history that had not been closed yet and should not be shown like this. She looked at it quietly.
Renee, wait for the answer.
"Documentary records indicate that in the 458th year of the Saint Leon calendar, Geed Xin launched a rebellion in Winterfell. Lin Campbell, the daughter of the Viscount, beheaded him and died of her own injuries." The doll girl turned her back.
Her voice showed no fluctuation, "Annaville Campbell passed the title of knighthood to the current civil officer, Gendel Wuss, and then her whereabouts are unknown."
Lin bit her lip and whined angrily, as if she was dissatisfied with her 'historical' self, "That bastard Geed... In this case, where is Yuffie?"
Renee turned around. "There is no record." She added, "I have read the family directory of the Kingdom of Hulun. According to the records, Baron Philip Steinmetz was not married during his lifetime, nor did he have any children."
"During his lifetime...?" Yuffie stared into those sapphire eyes, trying to discern something from them, "In what year did the Baron die?"
"St. Leon 447." The doll girl replied - she was eight years old at that time. The baron had a serious illness, and his mother cured him with magical herbs. "He died of wind and cold."
…
She opened her eyes and licked her lips, "How is this world different from the one I live in?"
The question seemed to have no clue, but Alicia immediately gave the answer, which seemed to be expected.
"In the history in front of me, I have always stayed out of it until the last moment. But in your era... I have you and your father."
"Then he saved Baron Steinmetz's life." Yuffie continued.
"And mine." Lin hugged her neck from behind, "So, I owe you my life...what do you want in return?"
It has already happened, Yuffie thought. But she still raised the corner of her mouth, "I haven't thought about it yet, let's keep it for now - before I make a request, you are not allowed to die casually."
Her friend put his head on her shoulder and kissed her cheek. "Don't worry, believe me, we will open a store together sooner or later!"
Yuffie nodded lightly. 'History' has changed, so hope exists after all. More importantly, she is not alone. The road ahead will be difficult and even futile, but she is no longer afraid of facing it.
"I don't know," she replied to her mother, "There is no way to predict the future, so anything is possible."
The mother showed a gentle smile and reached out to touch the top of her head. She squinted her eyes and enjoyed the warmth at the moment.
A wisp of frost suddenly rolled through the room, and the winter monster quietly emerged, as light as snow and as white as clouds. Next to her was the "King of the Monsters" who had changed into casual clothes, as elegant as the first time he saw her.
Alicia grabbed Yunyue's hand and the two left the hut together. Kanna turned slightly and greeted "Asan" from Suzulan Village. Anya came to Feist and thanked him seriously.
"It's me who should be grateful." The former Elna man smiled and felt relieved, "Thanks to you, I can finally... face them calmly."
He walked out of the room, Qing Luo following closely behind, leaving Anya alone with the two of them. The girl who was the demon king came to them with a trace of reluctance in her eyes.
"You...are leaving soon, right?"
Yuffie nodded. She once told Anya about her and Lin's hometown, and the reason why they came here - to find their mother, and their own goals. Now that they have been achieved, the separation is close.
"I plan to let Shuiyun's tribe come to a location near here, further south. With "Asang" here, they should be able to get along well with each other." The girl said with peace of mind, her expression as calm as before, "Maybe we can't travel together again.
, but I will always remember you, Lin, and Yuffie.”
"Of course." Lin nodded seriously, "And I'm not sure yet - maybe after we go back, in a few hundred years, we will be able to see you as a newborn?" Her eyes flashed, "Wait for me.
Ask Feist where your hometown is, it will be easier to find!"
This statement sounds a bit exaggerated at first, and it’s not very nice when you think about it carefully. If people hundreds of years from now are the same as before, it means changing the established trajectory, and it may also be just empty talk. But Yuffie clasped his hands in front of his chest, lowered his head slightly,
Make a wish silently in your heart.
If there is some mysterious power that allows Anya, Noka, Mantianxing, and many others to be born in the future, it might be good to meet them again.
Anya chatted with them for a while, and then left with Kanna. The next few days were busy and peaceful. They took out the prepared materials and drawings and began to create a road to their hometown.
The completed mirror was left in Suzuran Village and can be used at any time if any monsters want to go out. Alicia made some corrections to the drawings - it will take effect after they leave, allowing anyone who tries to use the mirror to travel,
Can only reach the current world.
That night, after finishing the day's work, Yuffie and her mother lay side by side on the lawn, looking at the endless sparks in the sky. The sky was no different from nine hundred years ago, with a hexagonal crystal constellation hanging above the head and a bright star in the center.
It flickered, as if winking at her.
"So, who is my father?" she asked casually.
"You can see him when you go back." Alicia replied, "There are not many people who can make me fall in love, and he happens to be the one."
"So." Yuffie lowered her head, looked at her chest, and then at her mother, "Who are you?"
Alicia tapped her lips with her finger, showing her most familiar and mysterious smile.