Xingtie: After my death, Liuying will understand love.

Chapter 615 If life were just like the first time we met

When the barrier was broken, there was only one person left in the entire plane except An Ming and Fei.

And she could naturally sense it, after all, the barrier was set up by her herself.

The ice crystals shattered and floated towards the world like snow, but Sakura still sat there, staring quietly at the dome high above.

For a long time after leaving Izumo, she was in a chaotic and unconscious state, and returned to Edo Planet in that state.

During the process of returning to Edo, Sakura even forgot her own name. Before leaving Izumo, she still clearly remembered that she had something very important that she could not forget.

But with the arrival of a certain point in time, all the memories about Izumo and that person were swallowed up by the deep sun in the darkness. The more she tried to grasp them, the more they slipped away from her palms.

What was left behind was not only Sakura who had fallen into nothingness, but also the empty diary.

Nothingness took away everything, including everything about him, his voice, appearance, memories, words, pictures - everything, as long as it was related to him.

Until the end, Sakura even forgot about "him". At that moment, the girl was already dead, and perhaps only an immortal shell was left.

Qianying gave Huangquan, and Shuang was broken into pieces to be recast.

When Sakura returned to Edo Planet, she had nothing, not even her weapons.

Sakura returned home, or to be more precise, the place that was once called home - in the endless steel forest, a place called the Fire Chaser Memorial.

"Ding dong~"

"Ding dong~~"

"You have a new message."

Sakura lay with blank eyes on the sofa where she had sat countless times, silently staring at the fluorescent light on the ceiling that was making a crackling sound.

How much time...has passed?

Ten, no, maybe more Amber Ages.

Sakura ignored the email notification. She didn't want to think about why it was still working after all this time.

She just wanted to lie down quietly for a while.

So empty...

What did I forget? What should I not forget? Why did I go to Izumo?

The more she thought about it, the more painful the pain deep in her mind made Sakura. She didn't understand why she was the only one still alive, and even after dozens of Amber Ages, there was no change in her appearance.

The only thing Sakura remembers is that she had forgotten a lot.

Until the flickering fluorescent lights went out due to disrepair, and the memorial hall fell into complete darkness, with only Sakura left.

She lay on the sofa and didn't open her eyes. It would be nice if she could die like this, at least her heart would stop beating in this place where some memories were still left.

I don’t know how long it took, maybe a week, or maybe a month.

"Ding dong~"

"You have a new message, please check it."

During this time, the phone mailbox kept ringing the same prompt tone, but this time, after a brief pause, completely different content sounded.

"cherry."

"I'm Hanabi."

"......?" The familiar voice briefly awakened Sakura's consciousness. In a trance, a very annoying guy seemed to appear in her mind, but for some reason she only felt warmth now.

"I didn't find you. If you come back, I think it will be here."

"Don't be surprised. The telephone and mailbox that Lady Hanabi modified herself will probably last for a hundred Amber Eras."

"Given your personality, you will definitely not answer my message, so I set it to automatically play the message every 10,000 times the reminder tone is played."

"This is my last trip back to Edo. Without you and Anming, there's no point in coming back."

When the word "An Ming" appeared in the phone recording for the first time, a light suddenly appeared in Ying's empty eyes, and it seemed as if something deep in her mind was about to burst out of her memory.

Just like a drowning person seeing the light on the water surface, Ying lost balance and fell off the sofa, but still used her arms to support her body and crawled to the telephone mailbox. She knelt on the floor and carefully took the phone down with both hands. The originally vague sound became clearer.

"After 127 star fields and planets, I still haven't found An Ming. It's a bit embarrassing to say it. Sometimes I dream about that guy and wake up to find tears all over his face."

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, I know you won't give up looking for him. This time I want to tell you to come find me after you come back from Izumo."

"Call me after you hear this message. It's not that simple, is it?"

"I'll come find you, and we'll go find An Ming together."

The message ended here. Sakura curled up in the corner formed by the sofa and the wall, holding the phone. The hair on her temples fell between her lips. In a trance, she seemed to have found the forgotten, very important thing.

An Ming...Who is An Ming? Why am I so heartbroken? Why did I forget such an important person?

Tears flowed down Sakura's cheeks without her knowing when. She forgot everything but the only thing she remembered was that she had forgotten someone she shouldn't have forgotten.

She was so heartbroken that she could hardly breathe. Ying held the phone and listened to the message over and over again, as if only hearing the word "An Ming" from someone else's mouth could prove that this was not an illusion.

In the dim room, a disheveled-haired girl huddled in a corner alone, holding the phone, until the name became clearer and clearer, and everything that had happened on Edo Star broke through the blockade of nothingness.

The sun swallowed up An Ming's name, including all memories about him. Everything about Izumo was indeed difficult to recall, but that was not the case with Edo Star.

To be precise, the person who was swallowed up was Yasuaki of Izumo, and although the memories related to Yasuaki during the Edo period were also eroded by nothingness, they never completely disappeared.

After hearing the recording left by Hanabi, the shackles of memory deep in Sakura's mind began to break, and the memories that were eroded by nothingness were driven away by the chill.

She doesn't want to forget An Ming, no matter what...

Ying wants to find An Ming. Since reincarnation really exists, it means that An Ming is not really dead. As long as she can find him again -

I can express the feelings that have never been expressed.

Regret?

How could I not regret it?

Ying thought, she was really stupid.

We missed each other again and again, and we didn't even have the courage to hold hands, and we couldn't even leave any unforgettable memories.

Those fleeting encounters were everything to her.

If the encounter is just a moment, then turn that moment into eternity.

Ying walked to the table with unsteady steps, took out a bottle of mineral water from the box in the corner and drank it all in one gulp. At this moment, she truly had the will to live.

If a person loses his goal, he will become a walking corpse. Although finding peace and security is an extremely distant and even illusory goal, as long as he has a goal, he can keep moving forward.

Since she is not dead yet and still has a breath, she will keep moving forward until she sees the one she loves again and again.

Sakura believed that when they met again, as long as they smiled at each other, nothing would change.

Yes...yes, how can time stop them from meeting?

She was so unlike herself during this period of time, it was as if she had become another person. Is this the power of nothingness?

Sakura felt that there was still some confusion deep in her mind, but as memories of Edo Star's past gradually revived, she began to regain her composure.

An Ming used his own existence as a sword to seal the void, and the price was that everything about him would be forgotten... But An Ming, who had been on Edo Star, broke free from the shackles of reincarnation, so even the void could only devour An Ming's memories of what happened in Izumo.

It was Hanabi who made Sakura realize this. Hanabi did not go to Izumo, and from the message it can be seen that Hanabi did not forget Anming.

So the only thing that was forgotten was everything about the time in Izumo. When Sakura lost the memory of meeting Yasuaki in Izumo, the memory of Edo Star was also affected by the void, but it was only an impact after all.

Sakura only remembered spending a long time in Izumo, until she sent Chisakura away for some unknown reason and then returned to Edo Star.

Before nothingness returns An Ming's "existence", it is meaningless to recall Izumo's past. Sakura now only wants to find An Ming. Although the universe is big, they will meet again one day... She sincerely believes this.

Regardless, this is so unlike her now.

Ying stopped in front of the floor-length mirror that had not been wiped for a long time, reached out her hand to clean the upper mirror surface, and saw the pale face in the mirror that could only be described as haggard.

From the moment An Ming died on Edo Planet, her appearance, height and even everything else were frozen at that moment and she would never age again.

Ying forced a bitter smile at herself in the mirror. Yes, when did she become a crybaby?

Wiping away the tears that had fallen from her cheeks, Sakura followed the path in her memory and found the bathroom. Although it was a little dusty, the facilities themselves were still usable.

Perhaps this is also thanks to Hanabi. When she came here for the last time, she also repaired all the home appliances here. At least Sakura will not be without a place to rest when she comes back.

Hanabi understands Sakura very well. With her stubborn personality, she would definitely not ask for help. But considering the fate they had met, she decided to be a good person to the end.

Sometimes Sakura would wonder what kind of relationship she had with Hanabi. It was a bit far-fetched to say that they were friends. After all, they had fought with each other a lot in Edo Star, but after Anming's death, they understood each other.

Such a relationship can no longer be simply described as friends; it is something beyond friendship.

Even if Sakura goes to Izumo and never hears from her again, Hanabi will still return to the original Fire Chaser base and use her connections to preserve it as a memorial. Otherwise, such a place full of memories will be covered by the increasingly technological steel forest.

Hanabi always does what she thinks is right, and she stays here just so that Sakura will have a place to sleep in the future, that's all.

"Thank you."

Sakura knew that Hanabi couldn't hear her, but she still expressed her gratitude sincerely. After rinsing the bathtub with the shower, the pink-haired girl took off her dusty coat, slightly dipped her white feet into the water to feel the temperature, and then fell in with a relaxed look.

The water flowed down Sakura's arms hanging outside the bathtub. Sakura immersed her whole body in the warm water, closed her eyes, and her mind kept surging with every memory of the past.

Sakura knew very well that she was not actually strong.

When it comes to love, one can even say that one is extremely timid. One is always afraid to take that crucial step and hesitates at the last moment.

Bubbles floated to the surface of the water with "gurgling" sounds, and the cherry-pink hair bloomed like flowers on the water. Sakura was already a very beautiful woman, and at this moment she had a sense of sickly and sad beauty.

Loving someone is obviously a simple thing, why is it so complicated?

Sakura looked up at the strange yet familiar ceiling, recalling everything that had happened on Edo Planet. Those distant memories seemed like things from her previous lifetime.

An Ming...An Ming, why can't you love me?

She also wants to be loved and affirmed.

Her long eyelashes trembled slightly. Sakura didn't know what she wanted and just sank deeper into the bathtub.

Snowflakes fell on Sam's shoulders and were quickly melted by the fire of life. The snowflakes fell mixed with memories.

The iron cavalry covering his palm slowly lifted, and An Ming stretched out his hand to catch a few snowflakes, but what he felt was warmth like tears and the memory of Sakura.

Memories condensed into snowflakes that fell down and formed the initial barrier. When the barrier was broken, snowflakes of Sakura's memories also began to fall.

The memories that belonged to Sakura alone and that An Ming had never known appeared before his eyes one by one.

But the memories carried in the snowflakes are only fragments. At least for the snowflakes falling at this moment, the memories come to an abrupt end when Sakura sinks into the bathtub.

"Sister Sakura..."

Fei also saw those memories through the snowflakes, and subconsciously wanted to reach out and hug Sakura who was curled up in the corner, but all her fingertips touched were warm snowflakes.

"It's not cold at all."

There is such warm snow in this world, just like Sakura's heart, which is always warm.

The road leading to the end of the snow-capped mountains is rugged and difficult, just like trying to get closer to that frozen heart, but why...why are the snowflakes so warm, as if they are expecting someone's arrival.

Snowflakes are memories and frozen tears.

Perhaps only the fire of life can melt such warm tears.

An Ming stopped and left the Iron Cavalry. Sam did not disintegrate, but continued to guard Fei in the extreme cold.

"Fei, wait here for your brother."

An Ming gently touched Fei's head, then turned and stepped into the howling snow and wind. He had already seen the figure at the end of his sight, a figure he would not mistake no matter how blurry it was.

Thinking back to the first time I met Sakura, she was gentle but not good at speaking at that time. But now her eyes have never changed, and they are as beautiful as when we first met.

The sword edge pierced through the wind and snow and reached An Ming's eyes.

The wind and snow broke through and then the man's figure appeared. His long cherry-colored hair was still the same, and the eyes reflected on the sword were colder than the frozen lake on the snow-capped mountains that had not melted for thousands of years.

Across time and space, at the end of the plane, he and she met again.

"An Ming."

She uttered the name she had said countless times, a few snowflakes stained her trembling eyelashes, "Long time no see."

They used to have endless topics to talk about and endless concerns to share, but when they met again, they could only call each other's names.

If life could always be like the first time we met, how could it always be like the first time we met?

"cherry."

An Ming did not stop because of the sword, "I came to see you."

(Volume 8/If life could only be like our first encounter)

(End of this volume)