from the past to the future

IV couldn't remember how long he had been lying on the bed, and he seemed to be able to vaguely feel his end.He coughed more and more frequently, and his body became weaker and weaker. Since he fainted in the garden that day, his physical condition has been deteriorating.But Ling Ya was still there at that time, and he was really very unwilling to see him like this.

Thinking back to the year Ling Ya graduated from high school, the promise he made with him, unknowingly, the day has come to be fulfilled, really, very unwilling.He still knows his own body best, and he also knows that he is not far away from the time of death, but it is a pity that he could not bid farewell... However, Ling Ya, even if it was because of an agreement, it is really disappointing that he did not come to visit Sadly.

Absolutely, don't come to my funeral.At that time, I can't remember what kind of expression Ling Ya had when he nodded in agreement...

Oops, sleepy...

I still have a lot of things... I haven't been able to convey them properly.

However, in IV's gradually blurred field of vision, Thoron's figure appeared.Thomas could feel his hands being gently wrapped by his father's palms, just like his father would always do when he was sick and bedridden when he was young, silently guarding him beside the bed.Only this time, it's the last time.

"Father……"

"It seems like it's been a long time since the two of you get along like this, Thomas." Tolon looked at his son and helped him tidy up his messy hair, "Chris and Michelle are gone...now this home, It's just the two of us left."

But now, even you are leaving.

"I'm sorry..." Thomas could no longer open his eyes to take a closer look at his father's face, but he still had a satisfied smile on his face, conveying his last words to his loved one, "The last, the last... ...it's father, you...I...happy..."

"I know, Thomas." Tolon also closed his eyes. In the darkness that blocked the light from entering, he seemed to hear the cheerful laughter coming from outside the window. It seemed that his sons were playing in front of him with a smile on his face. Chris, Thomas, Michelle, they are still by their side...

Father, they call themselves like this.

IV's hand lost its strength after all, but it was still tightly held by Thoron, pressing against his forehead.It seemed that something silently crossed the side of his face.Thoron whispered, in the soft voice of telling a bedtime story when putting a child to sleep.

"Go to sleep, Thomas."

Then we will meet again in the not-too-distant future.

At the bottom of the Starlight Realm, before the steps leading to the ascension road, the space suddenly distorted slightly, the entrance of the space channel opened, and energy particles flew out from it to restructure into Lingya of the Age of God.He stood in front of the steps, but he didn't have any intention of taking a step up.He raised his wrist, and the bracelet he was clasping suddenly emitted a dazzling purple light. The power of the coat of arms was stimulated by Ling Fang's Balian power, and IV's body was also ejected from the bracelet and fell on the steps. superior.

"What are you doing, Ling Ya! It hurts..." Being hit by the steps on his back, IV's face suddenly became ugly, and he immediately realized what happened.He has a body!

Ling Ya didn't say a word, then turned around and raised his feet, the appearance of about to leave this place made IV jump up, "Ling Ya——!" Seeing that he was about to leave, IV quickly took a few steps forward, but bumped into him head-on. He hit a light wall, was immediately bounced off and fell to the ground, regaining the real sense of his body made him unable to get used to the sudden pain, but what is this kind of pain now!But what is this wall of light? It just didn't exist yet.

"Stop! Ling Ya!" The boy didn't stop leaving, "Do you still want to get rid of me again! Ling Ya!!"

"IV." Ling Ya didn't look back, he just stopped at the spot, looking at the red area opposite the astral world, which used to be his refuge, and that was the Balian world that had merged with the astral world. "You should have died at that time, but you appeared in front of me again. Do you think I won't notice the reason?"

"No matter what the reason is, you came to the Starlight Realm with an excuse just to keep me here! Damn it! I should have found out earlier..."

"That's not the point, IV." Ling Ya didn't want to stay here any longer, so he simply stopped talking nonsense, "You have stayed in the human world for long enough, even if the bracelet contains the power to protect your soul , but that is not permanent. If this continues, your body will dissipate one day, and there is no possibility of finding you in any world."

"Of course I know!" IV hit the light wall in front of him with his hand, but it didn't do anything, "Of course I know about this kind of thing! But, leaving you alone in this world, I really don't feel at ease. !"

"...I am not alone, Meragu and Drube are both here, even if I am alone, I can live..."

"Ling Ya! Are you evading the meaning of my words!" IV gritted his teeth, and simply gave up everything, "I tell you! Just now! The moment you threw me into this world! These decades I just remembered everything that happened here!"

Ling Ya was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that this was the opponent's plan to delay the attack. It was within his expectation that he would recover his memory when he came to the Starlight Realm.It is also conceivable that IV wants to use this to contain him.

"IV, enough is enough." Ling Ya said, "I am very grateful that you have been with me until now...but it is enough, the next road will be left to me to walk."

"Ling Ya, this is a choice I made myself! I choose to stay in this world in this way, you can't just decide whether I will stay or not."

"Obviously you will blame others for not being able to eat delicious food, but you can really say that is your choice."

"That's because!" IV was at a loss for words for a while, and he really couldn't refute Ling Ya's words. Because he lost his memory after the age of 17, his determination for that situation was not much firmer than it is now, and, in Ling Ya In front of Fang, he even made a lot of wavering moves, and once thought that it would be great if he could have a physical body... However, that kind of thing has long been impossible to realize.He is dead.

IV's silence was exchanged for Ling Ya's turning around, looking at IV who was blocked behind that light wall, just like many times before, showing a helpless and gentle smile that made people unable to take their eyes off, " Do you understand, IV, this situation is not of your own will."

"..."

"Stay in the Starlight Realm, this is the best choice for you."

"...You made a mistake, Ling Ya."

"what?"

"Become a spirit body and be sealed in the bracelet. I asked my father to do all of these."

"..."

"Moreover, we have been preparing for this matter for decades. When Michelle and my eldest brother were still alive, the three of us and my father studied together about how spirit bodies can be permanently preserved and active in the human world again. Method. Of course, we have not done experiments with living bodies. Every time, we extract a part of our soul power and conduct experiments repeatedly, repeating the sense of loss when the soul leaves the body. Therefore, Michelle and My eldest brother passed away early, and in the end, only my father and I were left."

"You guys!" After hearing IV's words, Ling Ya was already furious, "Have you disappeared to do this kind of thing for more than ten years! Do you know what you are doing! Why do you want to continue this kind of experiment!"

"This is our decision!" IV yelled, "What's wrong with wanting to stay with important people! Is there anything wrong with wanting to be a family together forever!"

"!?" Ling Ya was stunned by IV's words. He thought of Tolon, and thought of the possibility. The reason why the Akred family conducted this experiment was because... "Because, Tolon is also immortal." Is it dead?"

Since the day he returned from another world, Tolon's body has stopped growing, just like the other half of his face that no longer belongs to humans. A large part of him already belongs to life forms other than humans, but it is different from Ling Ya. What's more, he can't independently generate energy to maintain his own activities, which means that his ability is limited, and will be exhausted sooner or later, just like the Seven Emperors who have not continued to receive Balian energy.However, for Tolon, the exhaustion of power does not usher in ordinary aging, but the rapid disappearance of life.

However, at first Tolon's power also came from the Balian realm, but in the current state where the Starlight Realm and the Balian realm have merged, where did Tolon get his power from?Ling Ya could feel some remnants of Balian power from the bracelet, but it was much different from pure Balian power. It was mixed with substances that neither belonged to the human world nor the astral world, and there were Something else he didn't feel.In other words, Tolon has obtained the power of other worlds outside these two realms.

"Toron, he has gone to another world more than once, right?"

"...that's really sharp, should I say it's you." IV was not very surprised that Ling Ya quickly realized the truth, "Father, he has been studying the power of other worlds since then. , and that is also a very difficult research. And my father is not just a human being, he has turned himself into an energy circulation body, constantly paying for that experiment, constantly stripping away the power, and regaining it. We also use our soul power to help father."

"You guys, do you really know what you're doing?"

"Ah, it's very clear, we couldn't be more clear." IV said, this is their realization.

"Don't be kidding, that kind of thing is just—"

"Ling Ya!" IV shouted at the top of his voice, his voice lowered little by little, even hoarse, "You asked Li Xu and the others to find their father, right? But they haven't been able to find him until now, yes no."

"...That's right."

"Father, he must have regretted it. Otherwise, I would not have been handed over to you, and Michelle would not have stayed in Yumana." After recovering his memory, IV naturally remembered everything about this experiment, and III His soul also lives in that bracelet, and he already knows it well.

"Toron, he realized that as long as you and III are entrusted to me and Yuma, we will definitely try our best to send you to the astral world. But... Yuma didn't do that." And he even said He avoided Ling Ya in order to keep III, but Ling Ya didn't think so, he felt that Yuma must have his own considerations.

"Father must be still persisting." IV sat slumped on the ground, almost giving up on himself.

"!?"

"If it's not in Xinyuan, it's in our home... our past home."

Tolon sat on a chair, lighting up several holographic screens in the dim room, and a funny animated movie was playing on them, but watching these, Tolon couldn't feel the joy from the bottom of his heart.

He didn't know what he was doing, what else he could do, what he should do.Since he was the only one left in this family, what was more unbearable to him than the pain and torment he suffered in another world was the present, the reality where even the memories seemed so bitter.

He remembered that he had used hypnosis to hand Thomas's bracelet to Ling Ya through the girl's hand, and remembered that he had given his bracelet to Yuma at Michelle's funeral.And Chris's, from the very beginning, has been kept by Kaito.

Tolon didn't know if it was useless to repent until now. Part of the souls of the sons were sealed. When they woke up from the bracelet, they didn't even know their own situation.The individual soul separated from the soul of the main body, although it can use the energy of the other world to preserve consciousness, there will be a fault in memory.

And the best solution is to let them go to the Astral Realm and reintegrate with the upgraded soul, then they can return to their original self, and when they think of all this, I am afraid they cannot leave the Astral Realm.

Would hate him, his sons.

Tolon closed his eyes. In the past ten years, he thought about it countless times, non-stop, no matter where he went or what he did, just thinking about it like this, this thought is as tight as a nightmare. Catch him and keep him chained to this house full of family memories.

It can never end.

"It's over, Toron." Li Xu stood in front of the open door, looking at the mess in the room, and finally locked his eyes on the person blocked by the chair in the middle of the room.Sure enough, as he expected, Tolon returned to Acred's former mansion, "Although it's a bit embarrassing to say that when we first met, but the peek-a-boo game is over, I have something to ask you."

Her answer was silence in the room.

"Meragu, have you found it!"

Hearing the movement in the basement, Drube hurried down the stairs and stood beside Lixu.However, looking at everything in the room, Droube was about to step forward to check it out, when he saw Li Xu hurried forward, and then froze on the spot with wide-eyed eyes.Droube was confused, but when he saw the person on the chair clearly, his mood was probably the same as Li Xu next to him, falling from the highest point to the lowest.

Tolon fell asleep.

"...Let's go, Ling Ya."

"Your attitude is completely different from just now, IV."

"I just don't have the energy to argue with you anymore, anyway, you are absolutely impossible to take me back." IV pressed his head against the light wall, and his voice became weak.

Ling Ya looked at IV who had pulled his head down, and seemed to have regained some of his skills in getting along with him, "At first it was in storm mode and then it changed to sea mode."

"what?"

"How about you learn to control your expression a little bit?"

"Don't say the same thing as III, why are all of them..." IV became more gloomy, "Is it that easy to see through me?"

"Well, it's easy."

The two were relatively speechless for a while, but when they met their eyes, they seemed to understand something from each other's eyes, and they laughed at the same time.

"Hahahaha, why are we chatting so peacefully here, hahaha!"

"This is my line, you are too serious about it, huh..."

On the crystal stone platform exuding a faint blue light, the two teenagers were separated by a distance, but they still smiled happily face to face, as if they wanted to dedicate this last smile and all the joy to each other, and then, a real farewell .

"Ling Ya, can you come closer?"

Ling Ya withdrew his smile, finally listened to him this time, walked over, and stood in front of him, even though there was an unbreakable wall of light between them.Ling Ya raised his right hand and covered IV's hand on the other side. His fingers were slightly bent, as if interlocking with his fingers. IV also bent his fingers in satisfaction, and then complained with some dissatisfaction: "Ling Ya, why didn't you tell me about our relationship before."

"It's not necessary, and it's going to be hard to have extra expectations."

"What is unnecessary expectation? I have been happy for this matter from the bottom of my heart for a long time."

"I don't feel it."

"You..." IV shook his head helplessly, "It's already the last, can't you treat me more gently?"

"..." Ling Ya subtly stopped talking, he raised his head slightly to meet IV's eyes, and the other party was pressing his head against the light wall, trying to get closer to Ling Ya.However, the fact that he couldn't touch it no matter how hard he tried still gave him a big blow, and his face was full of frustration.

Anyway, it's the last time...

Ling Ya thought, this is probably the biggest stupid thing he has ever done in his whole life.He stood on tiptoe and gently kissed IV's forehead on the other side of the light wall. Simply put, it was just a light touch of his lips, but it undoubtedly brought a huge lethality to IV.If it wasn't for the embarrassed expression on Ling Ya's face, I'm afraid he would have just regarded it as an overly good dream.

Ah, why can't I touch it at this time...

You can't even kiss, can you?

"That's it, IV... I'm leaving."

"Are you leaving?"

However, this is also helpless, after all, he is dead.

"I am very grateful to you, from the past to the present, for accompanying me through those decades."

Ling Ya stepped back step by step, the space passage had gradually formed behind him, he looked at IV, and IV also looked at him, wanting to imprint this final gesture in his mind.At the moment before Ling Ya's body turned into particles and disappeared, IV saw Ling Ya's mouth shape.

He was surprised that he could understand what he was talking about.

It's really despicable, Ling Ya...

Hope to see you again in the future.

The author has something to say: Shura has something to say: Since then, this "From the past to the future" has been completed. Thank you for reading it now. I am really very happy to be appreciated by you.This is the first finished novella, and I really didn't feel a little relaxed when I finished it. I couldn't believe that I was able to finish it.

In fact, it’s useless to talk too much. My friend said that I can finish writing because of love, and then I wondered if this is love. It’s so subtle.Hobbies are difficult to understand, so everyone in the article, the love they show, will my understanding be biased, until now I am still confused.It would be great if someone could tell me.

So I hope to come to my personal repo!Please, even if it's just a few words!