Chapter 10: Becoming One as a Blinding Light
11/2/2030
Location: Babylonian Field
7:39
3rd Person POV
On the morning of the 2nd day of November in the year 2030, on the Babylonian field, two individuals find themselves looking at each other.
The boy looks at her with awe in his eyes, but at the same time underneath that, is a nostalgic yet sad feeling, that he is experiencing akin to the feeling of regret of not being able to tell someone something important and has regretted it ever since.
The girl, like the boy, also looks at him with awe in her eyes, along with a nostalgic yet sad feeling akin to seeing a long-lost companion that you have forgotten over the years.
For a whole minute, they just stare at each other. Before the boy finally got his senses back and shook his head, worried that if she got hurt if she was ok…
"I ask you, are you, my Master–"
But that is not what comes out of his mouth.
"Ahhh I mean, are you okay? Are you hurt somewhere" Covering his mouth with an embarrassed face, he took a deep breath and asked her properly this time.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine…" The girl said, with a slightly confused yet amused face.
"Oh, ah here, let me help you," Fujimaru said before extending his hand. Seeing no harm in the help, she takes his hand as he pulls her up to stand, after an awkward silence they release each other's hand.
"So, I hear you're crying for help, you are pretty loud." The boy teased, while the girl blushed in embarrassment, before pouting.
"Oh yeah, I guess but I never think that my savior is into BDSM play, hmm?" She teased back with a straight face and a smug smile plastered on her lips, the boy cringed as his face turned red from embarrassment.
"Ah, she beat me." The boy thought with sweat gushing from his forehead because of the embarrassing blunder he made.
The two of them look at each other with a straight face…
""Pffff…!""
Before laughing at each other, laughing at the ridiculousness of each other.
The boy who has destroyed worlds.
And the girl who defied her world.
They carry their own individual responsibilities, duties, burdens, problems, despair, and troubles.
But for this moment, all of that is forgotten.
And what remains is two ordinary people laughing at each other without care in the world
In this single moment, they are neither a Sovereign, a Saviour nor a Destroyer.
They are simply just kids enjoying simple things.
"Hahahah…Ahhhh. I haven't laughed at something so stupid for a while now." Said the boy clearing his tears away from his eyes.
"Yeah me too…" Said the girl after taking deep breaths.
After another awkward silence, Fujimaru Ritsuka takes the initiative.
"Oh, I'm–"
He got cut off by a roar. Both of them look to their left to see many Enemy Programs emerging from their left.
The both of them get alarmed and see themselves get surrounded.
Back to back, both of them analyze their situation.
"So I'm guessing this is not your pets right…?" Fujimaru Ritsuka said, making a lighthearted joke despite the dire situation they both face.
"Of course not! Do I look like someone who would keep something dangerous as a pet?!" Hakuno Kishinami replied, feeling offended by the statement.
"I mean looking at you I wouldn't pass it…" Fujimaru mutters with a straight face.
"I heard that!"
'Nameless! Cu! Where are you!' Hakuno speaks through telepathy.
'We are still alive, Master!' Nameless replied, and hearing their voice
'Yeah, nice knowing you still remember we are still in a dangerous situation' Cu said sarcastically.
'Shut up! I thought it was all over okay!" Hakuno replied, annoyed by the fact that she forgot she is still in a battle.
"Hey, you."
Turning around, she looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with deep thought.
"I want to ask something."
"Well, ask away!"
Hakuno Kishinami replied before making a protective barrier around them while Fujiamru Ritsuka, fired Gandr at the digital monsters, stunning them before cutting them off with his sword.
"Did something happen to you once like a feeling of desperation or something?"
"Can you please ask again, but this time a little less vague!"
Hakuno Kishinami said as she fired her own Gandr.
"Well, the feeling of like, say wanting to do more or hoping to do more in certain situations or when you feel despair!"
"You just explain what desperation means! I need it to be less, LESS, vague please!"
"Wait, wait, let me think."
Fujimaru Ritsuka ponders for a minute trying to find a way to explain it to Hakuno Kishinami.
When suddenly a certain memory came into mind.
"Hey, have you had the feeling recently that it feels like your body literally becomes light?"
Hearing that Hakuno Kishinami widens her eyes before thinking.
"...Yeah, recently my Servants said something about me becoming a light a few days ago, and when I return the mana in my body dried out."
"..." Fujimaru Ritsuka after hearing that became silent before continuing to ask her.
"When did this happen? What situation is that in? And what did you feel or think before becoming a 'light'?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka bombarded her with questions, but despite that, Hakuno calmly answered him.
"It happen when a Kraken showed up a few days ago, and in that moment the only in my mind is that "I want to live""
After hearing that, Ritsuka remains silent.
"Hey, are you still listening?" Hakuno Kishinami asked while still trying to maintain the barrier.
"I have an idea of how to kill these things all at once."
"Really?!"
"But…"
After saying that Fujimaru Ritsuka turned around and look Hakuno Kishinami in the face, he extended his hand to her and ask.
"Do you trust me?"
Stargazer's POV
I extend my hand to the girl before me.
Hakuno Kishinami.
The girl I've been seeing in my dreams.
Being near her for some reason makes me stronger, why is that I wonder?
And for some reason upon looking at her face, I feel a deep sense of regret and nostalgia coming from me.
Like a memory sealed in the back of my mind.
But whatever, right now we need to defeat these things, I can see Kishinami struggling to keep up this barrier she made.
Thinking back to the ship incident, I remember being light and the feeling of someone being inside me, and I know for sure that light starts from this ring.
I'm sure that time she and I became one, and her answer to those questions can't simply be a coincidence.
I think the key is having the same goal, the same emotions.
After a long pause, she looks up at me, faces full of determination and answer.
"Yes, I trust you."
I smile, thanks for giving me your trust Kishinami-san, now that you trust me I can't break it.
She takes my hand with her left arm and the moment our hand touches, the ring in both Kishinami-san and my finger glow red and blue respectively.
Paying no mind to it, I asked her once again.
"Tell me Kishinami-san what is it that you want right now?
The power to defeat these things
"The power to defeat these things." She answered.
The power to save anyone.
"The power to save anyone." She answered again.
And…
"And…"
To live.
"To live!"
Seeing her conviction, the rings glow more brightly.
My body and hers, gone and what remains is the mana in our bodies.
Even though my body is gone, I can still think and be conscious. And then I feel my consciousness and hers becoming one or more should I say the mana of the two of us is becoming one creating a body and her consciousness is becoming a part of me.
At that moment, she became me.
3rd Person POV
In the field of Babylonia where a certain king resides.
Being surrounded by a large number of enemy programs, a sudden burst of light appeared, and from the light a body emerged.
Its silhouette is that of the master from another world but its body is composed of entirely light and mana.
"What the hell is that?!" Distance from where the two Masters are, Cu Chullain remarks as the sudden spike of mana appeared.
"That light, it's like the last time." Nameless looks at where the light is and sees a body of a male made of pure mana and light.
"-.. . ..- ... / . -..- / -- .- -.-. ... .. -. .- .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-" Said the light.
They can't form words as the body is not yet completed nor are the two of them become entirely one yet.
So they use a code in order to speak.
And as they speak, with a single wave of their hand.
All the enemy programs vanish.
After a minute, they slowly go down. And the moment they touch the ground.
She separates from him and falls to the ground.
Before she hits the ground, Fujimaru Ritsuka catches her.
Helping her stand up, the two of them look at each other before they're legs give up as they sit back to back with each other.
"I can't believe that actually works." Said Fujimaru Ritsuka, trying to catch his breath, unlike last time the two of them didn't fall unconscious because this time the two or at least one of them did it intentionally.
"Really? You weren't sure about it? What would happen if it didn't work?" Asked Hakuno Kishinami, like the boy beside her she is trying to catch her breath.
"I mean there's nothing wrong with it you know," Fujimaru said.
"Huh?"
"I mean sometimes in life you need to trust in the unknown and your luck to live right?"
When Fujimaru Ritsuka said that, Hakuno Kishinami became silent.
After the boy said that she suddenly remembered the Moon Holy Grail War, and what she has to go through.
Trusting the Unknown and your luck huh…
Now that I think about it, I was able to survive all of this precisely because I just trusted my luck.
"Pfft HAHAHA HAHAHA" She laughs loudly in the sky as she remembers all the moments she almost died if not for luck.
"W-What's so funny, is it really that corny?!" Fujimaru Ritsuka said with a big blush on his face.
"No that's not why, but it is a bit corny…" After calming down she said that with a smile on her face as she leaned backward making her back touch the boy's back as he leaned forward.
The boy pouted but nevertheless smiled.
"My servants will probably be here soon, I already know your name but I think an introduction is necessary.
She leaned forward and adjusted her seat so she could face him and the boy did the same.
"My name is Hakuno Kishinami, The Master of Mooncell and the Sovereign of this world. Nice to finally meet you Fujimaru-kun."
Looking at her the boy snorts with a smile.
"My name is Fujimaru Ritsuka, the Master of Chaldea, it's nice to also finally meet you Kishinami-san."
The two of them with a smile on their face, once again shake their hands.
As the one who sees their future, this moment is the start of everything.
From a distance, large amounts of Enemy Programs are impaled by weapons radiating a golden aura.
As the king looks at his field witnessing everything.
"In the end, they never needed my help, well that's a good thing, only people that are worthy to become my subjects shouldn't have a problem taking care of some pests."
The king arrogantly proclaimed before leaving the area.
From the woods somewhere in SE.RA.PH a figure with grey hair and dark armour is resting before sitting up feeling the pressure from the wind.
"Why did he fall here this early?! It doesn't matter, I need to keep going."
The knight stands up and resumes his journey of finding the Pieces of Velber.
"I just have the feeling that the master of Chaldea and I won't get along that much."
Next Chapter: Epilogue
HIII Everyone.
Arc 1 is about to be finished so after this Arc or what's is essentially the First volume or season one of this fic.
Also, I decided to make a timeline/notes akin to the notes in LB6, that notes will be uploaded after the Epilogue and will be updated every time an arc finishes.
Also also, pay attention you guys, because there are many setups and foreshadowing in this chapter, that will be revealed at least until the end of Arc 2.
Thanks again for reading, leave a comment if you have any questions!
