The droplets of dripping water dropped from Takamine's rocky skin that will receive a decade of snow will eventually become a clear stream that moistens the alpine flowers. The rapids that have jumped over some waterfalls and run down the canyon are caught by the deep forest cribs, loosing the flow, and knowing the tranquility in the dark flood where the shadows of the trees fall. When the river that crossed the forest crossed the wilderness and dodge the hill and reach the country, the flow is quiet all around. The figure of the great river that brings the grace of the earth to people is there.

This town on the bank of the river flourished due to trading since ancient times. There are universities with a history of centuries, famous for libraries that hold collections of tens of thousands of credits. Originally founded as a library, he later became a university. According to tradition, a nobleman was caught collecting historical materials, and randomly purchased from old documents, old maps, manuscripts to letters. Lots of valuable literature are gathered together with enormous goods, and scholars seeking that knowledge have come to visit. They refined their academics and theories by fighting active discussions, and the young people who heard the rumor gathered at the beggar of teaching and eventually developed into university.

But the example aristocrat said bankrupt and died.

It seemed to me that the great Taiga was the reason why he soaked out in the collection as he destroyed himself. The flow of the river is like time. It seems that it has not changed since long ago, the flowing water is always new, and it will never return if it flows. Even though I think it lonesome, I can not stop the flow of the river. And as time again like the river, we forget the old ones mercilessly. Time keeps people forgetting the past and years spend taking even people's lives. I wonder if that aristocrat learned the cruelty of time on the banks of the great river, and wanted to leave anything that would disappear in the course of time even in this world, raised the blood flow to collect.

If so, I, too - I am sticking to the memory of 'the world' lost in the time ahead of time, and I continue to interview to keep records, maybe his kind.

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I met Serah Farron at a cafe near the library. I was informed in advance about my identity and the purpose of the interview, but before I got an interview, I had a desire to tell.

"I've interviewed a lot of people and covered about the memory of" that world ", most people do not remember anything, even if I remember it is fragmented, even my own, I remembered, but ... like a dreamy dream, I did not have a sense of reality. "

Just as I heard it, Serah seemed to realize what I meant.

"But now it's different .... Hearing from Mr. Sazh and I met the people of Nora"

I told her all the circumstances.

"Yes, the memory gradually revived, I remembered what kind of person I was, I was a citizen of Cocoon, a brisk reporter, the truth hidden behind the politicians - the truth of purge policy is violent In this way, I was supposed to be chased by the military, but I was saved by NORA, which is not a dream or a delusion but a "reality" that I actually experienced in the past.I surely live in that world It was. "

I wanted to convey this word.

"Serah, you have saved the world, it was the world I lived in. Thank you for defending us and fighting for us"

When I saw Hope and they were told that they saved the world, I felt like a different person in a far away world. But I noticed that my memory was back. It was not a different world anywhere they fought to defend, but the world where myself lived. I realized that I was saved. I had to tell my gratitude.

"It was such a saving of the world ..."

Serah made a smile with a bitter smile. I did not show humble it seemed to be honestly honest.

"I was just keeping it protected. Always since I was just her little sister"

Lightning 's sister muttered with his eyes flat

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They lost their parents early. Her older sister Lightning served in the military and supported the lives of both of them. Serah met Snow Villiers while she was in high school and started socializing when she decided to go to college.

"My older sister was not thought pleasantly, she was thinking of Snow and Nora's is not really a good people.Snow is indeed rough, but ... it needs a little talk for her to know who the actual him"

"But you did not have such a time. Unfortunately you brought him in touch with Fal'ci and made him cursed L'cie."

"Yes ... ... he has become an enemy of human beings of those living in Cocoon, of course I did not think that I would hurt Cocoon, but ..."

Even though she was not harmful to her, the masses of Cocoon tried to eliminate I'cie enemy. The undulation of citizen sentiment that fears I'cie blindly moved society and led to that miserable purge policy.

And in the middle of the purge war, she stopped. In front of my older sister 's Lightning and fiancé Snow, she became a crystal image and fell asleep.

That was the beginning of the battle to change the society called Cocoon. After seeing the moment when Serah slept, Lightning, Snow, Sazh, Hope, Vanille and Fang that join later fought against each other despite the collision. When they finally rescued Cocoon from the destruction, Serah was also unleashed from the crystal's sleep.

But when Serah woke up, a new distortion will occur in the world. Lightning has disappeared.

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"You are told that" Lightning is dead "you raised from the crystal"

"It was a sacrifice to stop the collapse of cocoon - everyone thought, but I could not believe it.I wanted to smile my sister who blessed my married with Snow, who woke up from the crystal, Only I clearly remembered. "

"In fact, your memory was right, the memory of everyone else and the history of the world were distorted.The older sister was not dead, it was captured by the world Valhalla, I noticed that fact You decided to return the world to the right history. "

"At first, I did not think so deeply, the trigger was Noel, because he brought Moogle and told my older sister's message ... I just wanted to see my sister and just jumped out. Even then, Noel pulls and thanks to it, I continued the journey, as I thought, I was just relying on people. "

Shrugged down sparingly, she talked about the events of the trip with a soft talk. It was a journey to restore the history of the world over a period of several hundred years. If the flow of time is compared to a river, the earth is distorted by a huge force and the flow of the river has changed. Serah tried to destroy the rocky mountain that blocks the river, to stop the flooded water, and to return the river to the original flow.

It was a succession of unbelievable events, but I was trusted that it was true that her tone was calm.

"Gate" "Paradox" "Parts" "Fragment" - Various things that overturn Spatial and temporal laws. The power of "time story" to see the future. And a shrine maiden Yuel who repeats life and death indefinitely, and enemy naive enemy Caius Ballad trying to save her.

At the end of the journey, she lost her life.

"And my older sister also protected me, hugging and protecting my dead soul, so my older sister became a crystal."

"I was always together with my sister"

"That was ... ... I had fallen apart, I became apart from my older sister, I was sleeping and I could not notice when i awoke."

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"Is there something you can not remember?"

"eh?"

"I was also living in" that world ", a reporter of Cocoon, the name was" Aoede ", but it was only recently that that memory came back.I used to recall vague scenes before I am not alone, I covered a lot about that world, but no one remembered my name - except you, you are a special being, remembering everything in that world Are you doing? "

"It is not such a thing, I am an unforgettable ... ... and it's not a special existence because it's not even a special existence you remembered, I remember the names and experiences in that world right now, if you are a person other than you Well, sometime memories will be back to something else. "

"I think that the key is in your existence, I believe that my memory has been revived thanks to Mr. Hope and all the people who got in touch with us, so we interviewed everyone more, I want to investigate what happened in that world as much as possible. "

"... ... What do you intend to do?"

"I want to announce it in a single story collectively.When I heard your story my memory came back.In the same way, by spreading stories in that world, more people can regain memory Gender - "

"please wait"

It was an unprecedented voice. It was not big, but it was once strong.

"The person who remembered that world might rather suffer, the painful memory is raised ... .... What if the old world that no longer exists does not go away from the head and the way of living now is bound? "

A word stuck in my heart. I felt like I was talking about myself. I am sticking to the memories of the lost world and pursuing with crazy I wonder if I am sacrificed in my life by being hooked in the past.

Serah smiled lonely as if I read such idea.

"Because we are. I remember that world. There are memories that I want to forget if I can, but there were pleasures gained by suffering, so it's all important memories of all. I am glad that I will look back.

However, due to memories, we can only be us in the old world. Sometimes I feel distance in this new world. "

"Then, is it meaningless to try to learn about that world, if I say that it is happier to forget the old past etc, I am -"

"I'm sorry, I do not blame you, I think it's more tough than I am. I lived with my feet on the ground in this world, but suddenly my memory of another life has risen. It is swinging between the memories of the two worlds - you may be a special one. "

By the end of the interview the night was late. I am apart from Serah Farron, I wandered around the river running through the city and cooled my head with a night breeze across the river. Even though the light of the city is reflected, the flow is dark and deep. The river of the night flows to the end of the darkness and the black globe.

I wonder if my interview is meaningless.

If you compare the flow of the river to the flow of time, my action to follow the memories of the era that no longer exists, my behavior that has passed away is the folly that tries to pick up the water of the river that once flowed into the sea long ago Is it? How much water you scooped, salt water not doing anything anyway?

Serah, however, said.

"What does it mean for this world to follow the memory of that world ... I do not know. But you are different. While living in this world, if you remembered that world, I think that you can find the appropriate meaning.I want you to know everything. "

So I decided to prepare. It seemed like it was transmitted to her. With a certain force on her parting handshake, she taught me where Snow Villiers was going.