A/N: Arcaea just announced that there will be a Nintendo Switch version coming out on 18/5/2021. For those who have Nintendo Switch should try it out. Also, this fanfic got its story cover from (apparently) new intro screen for Nintendo Switch version. It's actually a pretty nice cover ngl.
A-5:
Prerequisite: Unlock A-4
Requirements: Unlock Tempestissmo Beyond + Play all songs of Viscious Labyrithm with Fracture Hikari consecutively, no repeated songs (FTR only) (Immediately goes to A-5 when requirements are met)
The girl in light was taken further to witness a shocking truth about her enemy
She was motivated to destroy the evil in this world
Indeed, she had to endure all the terrible memories which inevitably changed her, just like how Hikari was inevitably changed
She will eventually destroy everything, all the terrible memories in this world
At the cost of her life
But, she… couldn't do it on her own
Despair hit her hard as she loses her own sanity
And then, everything she felt left her
She succumbed to the conflict shards
Until she found hope again.
This hope, is her, the girl in light.
But that girl, she tore her hope through in front of the girl in black.
And once again, the girl in dark felt alone, and became worse.
Taken aback, Hikari saw through everything what happened to Tairitsu.
Was she being lied to? No.
Was she being manipulated? No.
She was just stupid.
Being suspicious for no reason. When she saw what would have happened to her before hell struck, she merely assumed that this would happen to her, had she not done something to correct it. She thought she could change it. However, she couldn't. She only made this worse.
She may be arrogant. But she was misguided.
She may be foolish. But she was not stupid.
She may be wrong. But she was not evil.
Perhaps whatever she did makes no difference. So what if she defeated her. What is the difference then? Why destroy one for survival?
Had she become a pacifist, perhaps she could have ended this without any further bloodshed.
Yes, she was weak, faltered and hesitated. She never was assertive, only aggressive like just now.
So, what now?
She kneeled in defeat.
As her vision starts to fade away
She no longer cared about anything else now
She just wants to end this now
Tairitsu, now standing in front of Hikari. Being emotionless, she approaches to her.
"About time you decided to give up. Now accept your fate...and die"
As when Tairitsu proceeds to claim this victory. A strange, but yet familiar figure formed in front of her.
"No, you will not do this."
Tairitsu was pushed back.
Who is he?
"I have watched everything that you have done. I will not let this happen again."
"What are you then? If you are the god of this damned world, then... you shall die… along with her..."
'He' raised his hand. The amethyst shard and the fading shard then came to 'him'.
"I am the one who put you in here"
"You bastard! How dar-"
"But I intended to give you two another chance, not for you two to fight or kill each other..."
The shards then start to become one.
"It's time for both of you to remember...who you were once before..."
Flashes of images appeared in their minds.
They shall have the answer that they are looking for. One that has brought them here.
Act 1: Unaltered Fate Completed!
Reward: You can now play a song outside of this game to here.
Next Chapter: A-6: A Conflicted Perfection and Ideal life
Next Chapter: A-7: The world of darkness, pain, suffering, and tormentation to the world of happiness and light.
A/N:
1. My comments about this entire act: Honestly, I feel like this is a bad planning to this fanfic when I first started this fic. Only things got better when I planned the next act (which I will explain in a moment). This entire act is supposed to be different from Black Fate, but in the end, it has not much difference to it, only that Hikari has become a second Tairitsu. So I have decided to just leave Act 1 as it is and let Act 3 take care of it. I hope that when I start to write about Act 3, things will truly diverge from canon's plot. Editing wise, I am most disappointed with the initial drafting starting A-3 to A-5.
2. There is some foreshadowing about the next act. These will be covered more in detail starting from the next chapter. Also, at least for the next act, chapters will start to get noticeably way longer. For this act's case, we are going to cover about Hikari and Tairitsu's past lives, before they entered Arcaea. This will explain why this fanfic has the "Friendship" genre despite not seemingly so up to now.
