With a click, as Emiya Shirou pressed the button of the bedside lamp, the entire bedroom was covered in pitch-dark darkness.
Emiya Shirou quietly walked out of the door. There was silence in the dark bedroom, and the chirping of insects outside sounded particularly clear. The thin blanket reflected a trail of light dotted like a galaxy.
Suddenly, the plush blanket trembled slightly, and Elysia, who was lying on her side on the bed, slowly opened her eyes, her pink pupils reflecting the closed door of the bedroom.
She pursed her lips, put her palms on her shoulders, and put on a pose as if she was hugging something tightly. Her carefree eyes appeared filled with worry for the first time.
She has always been a very smart child, and she can recall things even earlier than Emiya Shirou, who has been taking care of her, guessed. Even now, five years later, Elysia can still recall very clearly the scene when she first came to this world.
It was a warm noon, alone, she saw this beautiful world for the first time in the soft but prickly touch of the grass.
The luxuriant forests, the vast and charming clouds drifting leisurely across the blue sky, and the crisp birdsong mixed with the sound of gurgling spring water flow slowly beside the ears.
It was also at the moment when she opened her eyes that she saw the boy formed by the rapid condensation of light like stars.
At that time, her consciousness was like a blank sheet of paper, and she still didn't know what this scene represented, nor could she understand what the boy who suddenly appeared was.
It's just that, out of the instinct of the newly born creature to seek help from the outside world, she stretched out her hands to the boy who suddenly appeared.
She didn't remember very clearly what happened after that, but she could vaguely recall that after the boy responded to her outstretched arms, tears, and snot flowed out uncontrollably.
... Looking back now, after being brought home by "mother", she really caused him a lot of trouble.
Thinking back to the boy who was not much older than her current self, he was always busy taking care of her; if she made a little noise, he would rush to her side like a frightened cub, staring at her and checking desperately all over her body, Elysia suddenly couldn't help moving her hands that were originally on her shoulders to her face that had already turned red, and the corners of her mouth raised uncontrollably.
But, soon, Elysia's smile disappeared, and at the same time, accompanied by the sensation that her eyes suddenly became hot, the teardrops were as big as beans, as if the valve of the reservoir called the lacrimal gland had been opened, started falling down with a rattling sound.
That little "mother" was really nice to her. From the time she could remember, Emiya Shiro had been by her side day and night.
He would wake her up every day, prepare a lot of delicious food for her every day, carefully tell her what to do and what not to do every day, and he would try his best to answer every question she asks. Whenever late at night, he would sit on the edge of her little bed and gently tell stories one by one in a gentle and soothing tone, which are either touching, educational, or just simple to make people laugh stories.
After she was able to go out, he took her to get in touch with this beautiful world, introduced her to everyone in the town, and let her meet other children in the town. For Elysia, the past five years were undoubtedly happy and fulfilling. If possible, she really wanted to live such a carefree life for the rest of her life.
But on another level, her extremely intelligent brain kept warning her that "something is wrong".
The boy taught her about her parents, but he didn't tell her where her parents were.
The boy has beautiful copper-colored hair and amber pupils full of determination, but she has gorgeous pink hair and pink eyes.
She has no blood relationship with the boy. After all, the boy who suddenly appeared in her vision should not be the "human being" taught to her in the books.
—but so what? Elysia didn't care about that at all.
She only knew that when she came to this world alone, the person standing beside her was "Mom", and the person who took her extended arm was "Mom" and brought her home. The person who loves her is "Mom", the person who always cares about her is "Mom".
Who is "Mom"? Why doesn't he grow up slowly like herself? These things are not important to Elysia at all.
The most important thing is - it is the "mother" who gave her a place called "home".
What is home?
Home is a stable destination and an agreement between each other. As long as there is a home, Elysia will always have a place to go back to.
Even if she spends a whole day playing outside, she can still smell the familiar smell when she enters the house at night, and she can still see the boy's face with slight responsibility and worry.
Therefore, even after seeing the beauty of this world and getting to know so many friends whom with she can play together, Emiya Shirou's weight in Elysia's heart has not decreased but has become more and more important.
It is precisely because of her contact with this world that Elysia can understand that no matter how friendly she is, there is an insurmountable gap between "outsiders" and "family".
At the same time, after learning all kinds of things and meeting all kinds of people, she can also realize more and more that on the day she came to this world, facing a strange little girl who stretched out her arms to him, the "mother" who responded to those arms without hesitation is such a kind and gentle person.
Emiya Shirou thinks that Elysia's "true self" is extremely dazzling, so why won't Elysia think that Emiya Shirou's "selfless" tenderness is so precious?
Therefore, even though her clever brain could always sense that something was wrong with Emiya Shirou who appeared in front of her out of thin air, Elysia forced herself to ignore this warning and stuck to Emiya Shirou as always.
——Until tonight, when she overheard the words leaked from Emiya Shirou's mouth.
"If I, who was about to leave her side after all, hadn't been there from the beginning..."
How should she understand this sentence?
Even though Elysia's brain refused to understand and accept these words, but at the moment she understood that "mother" might one day leave her, her heart was still one step ahead of reason, and suddenly it twitched, as if something had cracked inside, and water overflowing with sourness flowed out.
"Don't... I don't want to..."
"I don't want... to be separated from my mother..."
