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Hikari.? 光。 Tairitsu. 對(duì)立。 If they knew each other's names, if they even knew their own, would that change how they had felt from then until now?? 假設(shè)她們知曉對(duì)方的名字，甚至僅僅是清楚自己本人的姓名——若真如此，二人自始至今的感受也會(huì)發(fā)生改變嗎？ "Light" and "Conflict"... Names so lofty, in a world so bizarre, so outlandish...? "光"與"對(duì)立"……存在于這片光怪陸離的世界之中，此般崇高的稱呼…… Would they have considered the meanings, and found different paths? 若真如此，她們是否又會(huì)靜下心來(lái)思考蘊(yùn)藏于自己姓名的深層含義——也會(huì)走上截然不同的道路嗎？ Or would any divergence, any turn or taking of a choice, any circumstance or odd spin of fortune's wheel still have set the two girls into inevitable dissent and discord? 抑或者無(wú)論發(fā)生何種分歧、矛盾，無(wú)論曾經(jīng)做出哪些抉擇，在何時(shí)得到幸運(yùn)的眷顧——隨之產(chǎn)生偏移的世界線，卻終將收束至二人此刻的水火不容？ Hikari, who still does not know her name, would be unsure.? 光并不會(huì)知曉確切的答案。她直至如今都不知道自己的名字。 Tairitsu, likewise, is however damned with fateful knowledge,? 而在這相同的前提下，對(duì)立卻命中注定被自己的知識(shí)所詛咒。 and knows dissent and discord between them will always be. 她心中早已清楚，二人間的這場(chǎng)針鋒相對(duì)，無(wú)論如何都會(huì)來(lái)臨。 Nothing will change. Nothing would. 不可能會(huì)產(chǎn)生任何改變。原本一切就不會(huì)發(fā)生改變。 The girl in white and the girl in black cannot reconcile. 白衣少女與黑衣少女，絕不可能和睦相處。 This, all of this, may only lead to— 這一切必然因果，最終只會(huì)導(dǎo)致—— "Ah!" "呃?。? Hikari's voice escapes her when the blade of her foe comes. She raises her hand at once, and with it, glass strikes against glass.? 當(dāng)面前那位宿敵將刀刃劃向她時(shí)，光隨之發(fā)出一聲驚叫。她立刻舉起手，而玻璃碎片也隨之互相沖擊。 It holds, it shines—unbroken,? 碎片懸停于空中，閃閃發(fā)亮——絲毫沒(méi)有受到損傷。 and in her piece Hikari can see her own pale face, agonized and frightened. 而透過(guò)自身碎片所倒映的景象，光終于窺見了自己那張因恐慌與痛苦而變得煞白的臉龐。 A heartfelt conversation has led to this—to a heart-pounding clash. 一次流露真情實(shí)意的交流——卻造成了這場(chǎng)令人心碎的沖突。 She takes a single step in retreat as her body bends from the force of the other girl's strength.? 對(duì)面那女孩的力量實(shí)在是太強(qiáng)了——光被沖擊得縮起身子，反射般地朝后一退。 Her skin goes cold; she finds she can't breathe. 她的皮膚此刻已經(jīng)冰涼。她這才察覺(jué)到自己近乎無(wú)法呼吸。 She realizes there, looking deep into the now-close eyes of the girl attacking her that her being attacked is not the source of the fright clawing and gripping at her insides.? 少女充滿敵意的視線已經(jīng)無(wú)限接近自己。望向那殺意的瞳孔，光意識(shí)到那股近乎將自己心臟撕裂的恐懼并不來(lái)源于那女孩的襲擊。 It is not that, nor the fact she can hardly resist as the push of Tairitsu's blade inches her own nearer and nearer to her taut neck. 根本不是那樣……并不是因?yàn)閷?duì)立的刀刃已經(jīng)逼迫得越來(lái)越近，轉(zhuǎn)眼便要切入自己繃緊的喉嚨，而自己卻幾乎無(wú)法做出任何反抗。根本不是那樣。 No. The sweat in her palm, the breath trapped in her lungs, it's all because the person before her—the girl who had felt to her a tragic and sorrowful figure only moments before—seems now so utterly changed. 光的汗水從掌心溢出，滯留于自己胸腔中的空氣完全無(wú)法逃逸——自己會(huì)感到恐懼——完全是因?yàn)槊媲斑@個(gè)不久之前還令自己感到憐惜的不幸之人，此刻卻截然變臉，徹底蛻變?yōu)榱硪环印? She is not the person she'd spoken to like a fellow and friend.? 那女孩早已不是能夠與她平心靜氣交談的伙伴。 In fact, she doesn't seem like a person at all.? 現(xiàn)在的她根本不能被稱為人類。 Her stare is so purposeful, her jaw is unmoving, and those fingers of hers, clutched so tightly they're now stained red— 她的目光是如此決然無(wú)情，就連下顎都紋絲不動(dòng)。她那拼盡全力攥緊的手指，早已染上一整片鮮紅。 Nothing but a beast garbed in black. A shade, brimming with malice. 她僅僅是一頭由漆黑包裹的兇殘野獸……一道由惡意墮化而成的黑影。

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Let this end peacefully. 讓這一切和平終結(jié)。 Find common ground. 找尋能夠妥協(xié)的臺(tái)階。 Don't be weak. Don't falter. 不能變得軟弱。不能變得畏縮不前。 With these thoughts in mind, Hikari pushes back. 光穩(wěn)穩(wěn)地抓住了這絲信念。她反擊了。 They have both seen and felt the throes of battle within near countless memories,? 她們?cè)缫炎詿o(wú)數(shù)的回憶中目睹并體會(huì)過(guò)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)所會(huì)帶來(lái)的痛苦。 but vicarious recollections are no substitute for a genuine struggle between life and death. 只可惜，那些無(wú)關(guān)二人性命的記憶，歸根究底無(wú)法與此刻這場(chǎng)貨真價(jià)實(shí)的戰(zhàn)斗相提并論。 Their impromptu blades meet again, entirely without grace.? 二人臨場(chǎng)打造的刀刃，冷酷無(wú)情地相互撞擊。 Tairitsu's strikes stay vicious and direct,? 對(duì)立的攻擊只得形容為果決而精準(zhǔn)，其中是滿溢的惡毒。 while Hikari's movements are desperate,? 而光的一系列行動(dòng)只是透露著一種絕望的韻味。 forever a hair away from a harmful, fatal slip.? 哪怕步伐只是遭受毫厘的閃失，對(duì)方的致命攻擊便足以?shī)Z走自己的性命。 She only defends; she does nothing more.? 而她卻僅僅是在防衛(wèi)自身；她沒(méi)有做出任何多余的舉動(dòng)。 If she could stop this without violence, she'd do so in a heartbeat. 若是能夠不施展蠻力解決這一切，她早會(huì)刻不容緩地完成使命。 Their flurried tussle is hampered by the peculiar surroundings of the broken church: lamps and benches placed under a sky.? 懸掛于空中的吊燈與數(shù)排長(zhǎng)椅——這座教堂遺址之中散亂的標(biāo)志性物體，成為了二人混戰(zhàn)時(shí)的阻礙。 The two move between the aisles.? 而她們則行動(dòng)于這條走道之上。 Tairitsu darts toward Hikari's feet, but her target remains planted. 對(duì)立朝著光的腳部疾沖而去。 Hikari lifts the piece of glass that had once served to rescue her, bracing for the rising cut. 盡管如此，光卻沒(méi)有躲閃，卻是舉起那片曾給予她救贖的碎片，隨時(shí)準(zhǔn)備招架即將到來(lái)的上斬。 But a cut does not come.? 只是斬?fù)舨⑽慈缙诙痢?Instead it is that black parasol: tearing up quickly through the air and cruelly into her waiting guard. 晃眼間，閃現(xiàn)在眼前的竟是那把漆黑的陽(yáng)傘：隨著刺耳的破空聲，殘忍地捅向她的防線。 "Gh...! Hah...!" she groans, panting. It feels like fire has swallowed her hand, and her small finger—she swears it must have been bent.? "唔嗝、呃啊……！"痛到喘不過(guò)氣。整只手仿佛烈火灼燒般疼痛。小拇指——她堅(jiān)信自己的小拇指一定是被折彎了。 Her anomalous piece flies from her grasp, and as soon as she is without a weapon, the pained girl withdraws immediately. 異象殘片瞬間便滑落出脫力的手掌。意識(shí)到自己變得手無(wú)寸鐵，疼痛折磨下的她迅疾地選擇朝后方閃避。 To her own surprise, Hikari lands after her first leap with no waver, no fall.? 就連光自己都吃了一驚——自己居然能如此平穩(wěn)地腳跟落地。 She leaps back again, her dress fluttering, and she finds herself standing atop the pews just in time to avoid another coming blow.? 并未遲疑，趁此再次朝后方躍去，裙擺隨著移動(dòng)軌跡飛舞空中，這才察覺(jué)自己在千鈞一發(fā)之際躲開了對(duì)面的另一招。 So close...? 幾乎是貼著自己站立的長(zhǎng)椅揮過(guò)，命懸一線。 Can this not be ended with words? 這一場(chǎng)紛爭(zhēng)，真的無(wú)法僅靠語(yǔ)言平息嗎？ Even if it could, she can't even find a single word to say.? 即使心中這種想法切合實(shí)際——此時(shí)的她也找不出半個(gè)合適的詞語(yǔ)。 Even if she could, she isn't given any chance to speak.? 縱然她已經(jīng)清楚該說(shuō)些什么——屆時(shí)的她也根本沒(méi)有任何的發(fā)言權(quán)。 And even when, blessed, she is afforded both; gaining enough distance from her pursuer and time alone to begin preparing her voice— 縱使她在此刻受到神明眷顧，獲得了這兩項(xiàng)理想的先前條件：既與對(duì)手保持了足夠的距離，又擁有充足的時(shí)間去準(zhǔn)備發(fā)言—— a new blade shoots out from nowhere— 一把嶄新利刃，不知是從何處射來(lái)—— it finds her cheek, swift— 迅速地抵達(dá)了她的臉頰—— and, just like that, it cuts, glancing across her skin. 就這樣，將她的臉部割傷。

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Hikari loses her breath again. Her hand flies to the left side of her face.? 光的呼吸節(jié)奏被再次打斷。她下意識(shí)地飛速將手搭在了左臉前方。 She withdraws it, seeing that an unfortunately now-familiar color has tainted her fingers—her palm.? 移開手心，卻只瞧見那抹沾染手指，玷污掌心的色彩。很不幸——她已經(jīng)對(duì)種顏色十分熟悉。 Once more... she goes cold. 又一次……如同彼時(shí)那般，渾身冰冷。 Still falling back, she grips both of her arms, trying to quell their trembling.? 朝后方摔落而去的間隙，她緊緊地環(huán)抱住自己，試圖硬生生地止住雙臂劇烈的顫抖。 She swallows the saliva filling her mouth. 她咽下了嘴中聚積的唾液。 And, quietly, she pleads: 再接著，用那幾近失去音量的話語(yǔ)聲，哀求道： "Stop..." "住手……" And only a bit louder: 爾后，僅是稍微響亮了些許： "Please, stop..." "請(qǐng)住手……" Another shard of glass drives through the air like an arrow, and she avoids it though she was given only a second for its approach.? 又一片尖銳無(wú)比的碎玻璃好似離弦之箭一般急射而來(lái)。光隨之躲閃——盡管留給自己的反應(yīng)時(shí)間并不超過(guò)一秒。 It goes past where her upper arm, its target, had been. 碎片眼看就要成功刺入她的上臂。幸好最終只是擦臂而過(guò)。 And she shouts, "Please stop!" 她終歸大喊道："請(qǐng)住手??！" "I know what you want to do." "我知道你的計(jì)劃。" Hikari stops instead, and in a moment after Tairitsu lands on a row of pews five away from hers. 光的動(dòng)作戛然而止。片刻間，對(duì)立便著陸在距離光有足足五排遠(yuǎn)的長(zhǎng)椅之上。 "What are you? A demon invented by the world?" Tairitsu asks. "你究竟是什么？這世界創(chuàng)造出來(lái)的惡魔？"對(duì)立質(zhì)問(wèn)道。 "What!?" "什么？！" "Are you just another fragment from a dead place, come to hound me?" "你根本只是那些碎片的同類。是從荒蕪之地而來(lái)，專程前來(lái)獵殺我的吧？" "I... No!" Hikari yells. "我……不是！"光吼道。 "You don't know what you are, either..." Tairitsu mutters. "你自己也不清楚自己到底是什么……"對(duì)立喃喃自語(yǔ)道。 There, Hikari notices: a number of pieces of Arcaea are darting behind and before the other girl like patrolling wasps.? 就在此時(shí)，光忽然注意到——那女孩的身前身后，已經(jīng)如蜂群般聚集了相當(dāng)數(shù)量的Arcaea。 She eyes them warily, and Tairitsu continues to speak, voice dipped long in woe.? 光對(duì)此格外留了心眼。屆時(shí)，對(duì)立仍舊用那沉痛的話語(yǔ)繼續(xù)低語(yǔ)著。 "But, if you found me," she says, "that means you can't be anything good." "但……既然能夠找上我。"她道，"那你也一定不是什么好東西。" And Hikari, recalling what this girl had told her of her past,? 光回想起了面前那女孩曾述說(shuō)的那段過(guò)往經(jīng)歷。 is brought still upon realizing that she can perfectly understand what that means. 她石化在了原地。她明白對(duì)立是什么意思。 "I'm not... that..." she mumbles in defense.? "我才不是……那種……"她嘟噥道，語(yǔ)氣中略帶著防衛(wèi)性。 Another bullet of glass comes, shooting past her ear. 又一枚碎玻璃，如同出膛子彈般掠過(guò)她的耳旁。 She shuts her eyes, forcing tears out of them. 她緊緊閉起了自己的雙眼，任由眼淚被壓迫得奪眶而出。 If she is to survive... 如果她的愿望是活下來(lái)…… ...she cannot give up. ……那無(wú)論如何，她都不能在這一刻放棄。 Eyes downcast, Hikari calls a new piece of glass to her hand,? 光的視線轉(zhuǎn)向下方。一枚新的碎片響應(yīng)著她的召喚，來(lái)到她手心之中。 not even realizing how strange it is that she can touch it now. 自己居然已經(jīng)能夠徒手接觸到碎片——對(duì)于這種過(guò)于詭異的現(xiàn)象，她甚至未曾留意。 A troop of shards also joins her behind her back. 整一隊(duì)列的碎片也躍動(dòng)著加入了自己的身后。 She lifts her head. 她抬起了頭。 Like this, she once more faces the girl she wishes she could befriend. 正是如此——盡管渴望成為摯友，卻又一次對(duì)峙起面前那位女孩。

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They erupt from the gate, crashing through it as if it were a pane instead of metal.? 爭(zhēng)執(zhí)中的兩人，不費(fèi)吹灰之力地撞碎了鋼制的大門，好似那僅僅是塊木板。 Shards of memory whirl around them in chaos as the girl in black lunges at the girl in white. 此刻的黑衣少女朝著白衣少女猛沖而去。那些記憶的碎片則好似一片混沌般飛舞纏繞著二人。 Pushed back, and never pushing forth;? 反抗——卻從不主動(dòng)攻擊。 though she has chosen to fight earnestly, there is still a hope in Hikari's heart that this does not have to end in bloodshed.? 盡管她已經(jīng)誠(chéng)心誠(chéng)意地決定接受戰(zhàn)斗，光的心中卻始終存有一絲希望：這根本沒(méi)有必要成為一場(chǎng)見血的紛爭(zhēng)。 Yet still, even if her sway over the glass is not nearly as deft, even if she is entirely unpracticed, she truly won't give in. 雖然如此，就算她操控這些玻璃的技巧尚未嫻熟；就算她沒(méi)有分毫的戰(zhàn)斗經(jīng)驗(yàn)——她也絕不會(huì)讓步。 Glass shields her back in a slapdash, patchwork pattern, constantly shifting to stop Tairitsu's roundabout spears from ever hitting their marks.? 玻璃倉(cāng)促地在她身后拼湊成一面護(hù)盾，不斷地精確阻截著對(duì)立所施放的長(zhǎng)槍的迂回背刺。 Hikari's eyes are sharper than that glass, ever vigilant to pin the dark girl down; to end this peacefully, through force. 光此時(shí)的視線，遠(yuǎn)比玻璃碎片更加銳利。她保持機(jī)警地試圖壓制面前的暗之少女——并爭(zhēng)取讓這場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)斗和平終結(jié)。通過(guò)武力。 Nothing about it is simple, however. 遺憾的是，知之非難，行之不易。 Now outside the cathedral-shell, open on the misshapen roads and hills of Arcaea, Tairitsu is free.? 脫離了大教堂的空間限制后，此刻Arcaea的畸形山路對(duì)于對(duì)立而言只是更加方便她施展的空間。 Keeping close, her movements sweep and her glass flies wide.? 她的舉止徹底不再被障礙物所拘束，碎片的斬?fù)舴秶搽S即進(jìn)一步擴(kuò)寬。 So doggedly pursued, Hikari finds all she can do is cling to her desperate defense in preservation of her own life. 最終，光發(fā)覺(jué)自己真正能做的也僅有全力守住最后的防線，保全自己的性命。 Her pulse is quick, and the sweat that had begun in her hands is now permeating her entire body with an awful chill.? 心跳過(guò)快。先前僅會(huì)從手心流出的汗液，如今早已滲透她的全身，造成一股惡寒。 Smashing an invisible knife against an invisible dagger, crashing a swift shard into a shining lance flying true before it can meet her throat. 好似用隱形的小刀彈飛擲來(lái)的透明匕首，在自己的喉嚨與對(duì)方的長(zhǎng)矛親密接觸前，率先將一道碎片飛速射去。 Blow for blow, for blow, for blow,? 一招對(duì)應(yīng)一招，應(yīng)對(duì)另一招，對(duì)應(yīng)再一招。 she is made to realize that their battle has gone from a tussling mess of violence to a vicious clash of two formidable and absolute forces.? 這使光認(rèn)識(shí)到，戰(zhàn)斗早已從混亂的暴力扭打升級(jí)至兩方絕對(duì)勢(shì)力的兇惡沖突。 She cannot match Tairitsu's strength, but with her wits and will kept about her, she can dampen its impact. 若是單純較量蠻力的話，光毫無(wú)勝算。只是，支撐著她的還有智謀與信念。這足以讓光勉強(qiáng)招架對(duì)立的攻擊。 To the torrent of emotions before her, she will be the composed counter:? 直面身前那洪水般決堤的情感源泉，光將擔(dān)任那"對(duì)立"之側(cè)。 the stone weathered, but never broken; and she will settle this. 巖石或許會(huì)風(fēng)化，但卻不會(huì)碎裂。她會(huì)平息這一切爭(zhēng)端。 They're even, each holding down her position as points and rays of light shine from the smooth faces of their chosen Arcaea. 她們此刻是平手狀態(tài)。兩方所各自欽定的Arcaea，此刻正由那光滑的表面散射出光球與劇烈的光線。 They remain even, in fact, until Tairitsu shifts her focus.? 確實(shí)，她們始終不相上下……直到對(duì)立改變了目標(biāo)。 Instead of aiming past the other girl's guard, with no tell she decides to redirect and send down her flock on Hikari's right side. 表面上正企圖沖破對(duì)方防線，對(duì)立卻悄無(wú)聲息地將自己的碎片群重定向一番，送至了光的身體右側(cè)。 The impact is massive. With an explosion of glints and glamor, it forces Hikari to stumble down to a knee.? 這一舉動(dòng)造成的影響不可估量。在魔光閃爍般的爆炸中，光的單側(cè)膝蓋失去了平衡。 Then and there, glaring darkly, Tairitsu lifts and points her black umbrella,? 緊隨其后，對(duì)立陰險(xiǎn)狡詐的目光隨著手中的陽(yáng)傘一同朝前方刺去。 its tip revealing the intended destination: the front of her opponent's skull. 陽(yáng)傘的尖端正指向那原本的目標(biāo)部位：她對(duì)手的前額。 She spares no hesitation. The strike comes in an instant. 完全沒(méi)有一絲躊躇。電光火石間的瞬息一刺。 Hikari shuts her eyes. Tairitsu's brow twists. 光死死地閉上了雙眼。對(duì)立皺緊了眉頭。 The thrust is stopped, but not by either of them.? 沖擊被中途制止了。并不是由于她們的任何一者。 Instead, it is something between them. 這第三股力量源自她們二人之間。 Between them, that anomalous shard, previously forced from Hikari's hand, stands still in the air, steady as a wall, immovable against the umbrella-spike.? 她們二人之間——是那片原先被逼出光的手掌心的異象碎片。盡管面對(duì)陽(yáng)傘的全力突刺，也懸停于空中紋絲不動(dòng)。 Hikari opens her eyes and stares, disbelieving. 光睜開雙眼，難以置信地凝視著。 "Eh!?" "唉??？" "That's..." "這是……" Tairitsu lifts her other hand, a swirl of glass rising up around it. 對(duì)立舉起了另一只手，順勢(shì)帶起一片玻璃碎片的漩渦。 Not hesitating either, Hikari thrusts her hand against the anomaly,? 然而，光卻同樣未帶遲疑，將手掌推向身前的異象碎片。 and every free piece of glass surrounding them sways for just a moment before a razor-sharp rainfall begins. 緊接著，兩人身旁的每一片自由碎片都猛烈搖晃了一瞬——由利刃組成的風(fēng)雨接踵而至。

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It begins like a storm. 序幕之刻，好似一場(chǎng)暴風(fēng)。 The falling glass, now under Hikari's command, begins to dart everywhere and every way without order.? 如今這成百上千的墜落碎片均受到光的操控，卻看似只是在毫無(wú)秩序地四下亂竄。 Though the shards are hers to control, she cannot grasp how to truly use them for a little while. 盡管此刻已輪到光發(fā)號(hào)施令，她卻顯然還沒(méi)有駕輕就熟。 Tairitsu, aggravation and concern plain on her face, retreats.? 對(duì)立的臉上明擺著憂憤。她暫時(shí)朝后撤退起來(lái)。 Hikari is thus left hidden in a swarm of edged memories, crouched and still as she concentrates on her newfound power. 此時(shí)的光，身形已經(jīng)湮沒(méi)于星羅棋布的銳利"記憶"之中。她正屏氣凝神地蜷縮膝蓋，試圖集中施展自己這股全新全異的力量。 Tairitsu surveys the land, looking to the sky and to Hikari's storm.? 對(duì)立迅速勘測(cè)了周身地表的情形，仰頭緊盯著高空中由光制造的暴風(fēng)。 She holds a hand up over her head, and thinks: to fight a storm, one must summon a deluge. 她將一只手掌高舉過(guò)頭，心中思緒涌動(dòng)。——若要戰(zhàn)勝暴風(fēng)，則需呼喚疾雨。 Thus, from distant cities and white mountains, the glass of a thousand and more memories are immediately pulled by her call.? 潛匿于地平線彼端的城市廢墟與純白山脈的玻璃碎片——數(shù)凌千計(jì)的玻璃碎片，皆數(shù)響應(yīng)著對(duì)立的號(hào)召，降臨了此處。 Unlike Hikari's untamed flurry, Tairitsu's flock is a pattern, immaculately composed. 相對(duì)于光手下桀驁不馴的群魔亂舞，對(duì)立的軍隊(duì)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)顯得要更加井然有序，隊(duì)列更是完美無(wú)瑕。 Behind the girl in black, the glass assumes the shape of a giant rose,? 盤踞于純黑之少女背后的碎片，紋理儼然是一朵巨大的玫瑰。 its petals falling one by one in swirling descents, slicing cleanly through the squall shielding the girl in white. 宛若旋流般，玫瑰的花瓣被一片片地剝落而下，精確而迅速地切入那層層保衛(wèi)著純白之少女的颶風(fēng)。 And Hikari—now standing, though afraid—can only respond in patterned kind. 光因而只能挺直身軀——盡管她的心中滿溢著恐懼。她被迫以包含規(guī)律的彈幕加以回?fù)簟? Bloom after bloom and chain after chain follow in their maddening, frantic, distant combat.? 弧光殘影，千華繚亂。相距甚遠(yuǎn)的兩人卷起這場(chǎng)雨橫風(fēng)狂的宿命之爭(zhēng)。 From miles off, it seems things are exactly as Tairitsu wished: a clash of two storms.? 若是由數(shù)里之外加以眺望，此般景象正如對(duì)立所盼，好像兩場(chǎng)風(fēng)暴彼此間的激烈沖撞。 Rain fighting rain, "lightning" flashing throughout, and their undulating "clouds" joining the fray by bursting, spiraling, and flowing in an explosive display— 風(fēng)雨相爭(zhēng)，創(chuàng)造電閃雷鳴，周身洶涌起伏的黯云有如一場(chǎng)華麗的爆炸般，于這場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)斗中螺旋相纏。 a sparkling tumult of furious natural powers. 如同兇猛乖戾的自然力量，致使風(fēng)云大亂。 And beneath the whirling and silver floods stand two girls, each with a blaze in her heart. 在這銀白渲染的波濤之下，兩名女孩相互對(duì)峙。燃燒于她們心中的是熊熊熾焰。 Each avoid volleys of shards by mere millimeters, and they begin to run as they fight rather than holding their ground.? 凌空齊射的碎片也無(wú)法傷及對(duì)方分毫；二人在迅速躲閃攻擊的同時(shí)也并未駐守原地，而是開始疾跑—— Rushing through Arcaea's plains, they cast glass artilleries and skid along the shining earth as their improvised bullets fall and scatter like shrapnel.? 疾跑于Arcaea的荒原之上，穿梭在玻璃匯聚而成的槍林彈雨之中，不時(shí)回避著因爆裂而產(chǎn)生的高速?gòu)椘?Glass pursues, glass cuts off their routes, glass aims for feet in an attempt to pin the enemy in place. 碎玻璃對(duì)二人窮追不舍。碎玻璃將二人阻截于半路。碎玻璃不斷嘗試著刺入二人的雙腳，這是二人試圖將對(duì)方牢牢固死在原地。 It is madness: frenetic madness, chaotic yet constant.? 狂怒：徹底失控的狂怒，混亂而又不失守序。 Their movements soon become nearly even, steady and regular. 二人的步伐、一舉一動(dòng)……逐漸變得近乎同步。規(guī)律而刻板地重復(fù)著規(guī)律而刻板的動(dòng)作。 Evade, and fire, always. 閃避。開火。重復(fù)。 Within this overwhelming row of beauty and violence, they once again find themselves evenly matched. 在這無(wú)法言傳，壓倒性的絢彩狂華之中，二人再度勢(shì)均力敵。 And thus it is Tairitsu's turn to gain the upper hand. 繼此之后，戰(zhàn)斗輪到對(duì)立占據(jù)上風(fēng)。

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Her journey in this place has been hell. 她在此處的旅途，無(wú)異于身臨地獄。 Hell from her birth to her first steps— 自誕生以來(lái)便已然踏入地獄中心—— no, even first steps were denied to her, weren't they?? 或者說(shuō)，自己也許根本就沒(méi)得到過(guò)踏出第一步的機(jī)會(huì)吧？ She'd ventured outside of where she'd first awakened, and not long after her journey was abruptly and mercilessly stopped by a torrent of misery and tragedy.? 蘇醒而來(lái)的她冒險(xiǎn)踏入了外部的世界，但隨之邂逅的苦痛與厄運(yùn)好似暗潮般唐突地毀掉了她的旅途。 Ever since then, those two things had been doggedly following her. 之后，那兩個(gè)災(zāi)禍的象征便緊緊地跟隨著她。 It's a joke. 簡(jiǎn)直是在開玩笑。 I'm a good person, she tells herself. 我可是個(gè)好女孩。她于心中自言自語(yǔ)。 I am not these dark clothes I was born with. I am not these dark memories I am tormented by. 這身漆黑的衣裙本就不該代表我的存在。這些黑暗的回憶始終折磨著我，可我又不是它們的同類。 I am not a person who is "evil", I am an ordinary person tortured by an evil world. 我根本不是個(gè)"邪惡"之人。我只是個(gè)普通人，一個(gè)生于只存在邪惡的世界，因而飽受折磨的普通人。 Without reason, without sense.? 荒謬無(wú)理。簡(jiǎn)直構(gòu)成不了任何邏輯。 A completely, horribly, cruel and merciless world. 一個(gè)殘忍得可怕，從根本角度上而言的無(wú)情世界。 A nightmare one can't wake from. 一場(chǎng)永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法蘇醒的噩夢(mèng)。 And the ending, for me, is a pathetic death. 而屬于我的結(jié)局，便是一場(chǎng)悲慘的死亡。 ... …… That sort of thing, that kind of thinking, has brought tears to her eyes so many times before. 那樣的事實(shí)，那樣的想法，讓淚水無(wú)數(shù)次在她的眼眶滿溢。 Now, it's over.? 現(xiàn)在，這一切已經(jīng)結(jié)束了。 No matter what, it's over. 不管是什么事，已經(jīng)結(jié)束了。 With that thought in mind, while she grazes past glass sent at her by the girl she is trying to kill,? 將這一思緒懷藏于心之際，面前那名自己想要?dú)⒑Φ纳倥龑⒘硪粔K玻璃送向自己。 she notes the presence of something strange. 而就是在與那片玻璃擦肩而過(guò)時(shí)，她卻忽然注意到了什么異常的畫面。 A familiar, grotesque presence she'd felt minutes before this.? 正是數(shù)分鐘前那種熟悉的，怪誕到讓自己反胃的感覺(jué)。 The feeling like reality itself has lost correctness.? 好比"現(xiàn)實(shí)"本身失去了正確性。 An impossible condition made manifest. 仿佛絕對(duì)不可能發(fā)生的場(chǎng)景在眼前出現(xiàn)。 That anomalous feeling is just beside her cheek. 而那特異感知的源頭，幾乎緊貼著自己的臉頰。 She looks to her right, and the violet-tinged and grossly warped glass of an anomaly comes into her sight.? 她朝著右方看去。一枚由淡紫色點(diǎn)綴的，外形極度歪曲的異象碎片，映入眼簾。 It is only a moment, only a whim. 單單是眨眼之間的相會(huì)。 Yet it tells everything. 卻足以回答一切。 As expected of the aberrant shard, it does not hold simple memory— 如同她所預(yù)料的一般，這枚異常的碎片所包含的并不是普通的回憶—— but beyond expectation, it holds impossible answers. 但完全超乎預(yù)料，碎片中出現(xiàn)了本絕不可能存在的答案。 In an instant, as soon as the shine of its surface has met with her eyes— 轉(zhuǎn)瞬之間，快到僅僅是碎片表面的反光與視網(wǎng)膜相撞—— —with a sensation that the inside of her skull has been bathed in light, almost full knowledge of the world,? ——感受到自己的顱內(nèi)就像被光芒所充溢般，一眨眼的功夫便近乎通曉了有關(guān)這世界的一切： of near everything that ever and absolutely was, unlocks vivid understanding in her mind. 所有曾經(jīng)幾時(shí)存在——且必定存在的事物。一眨眼的功夫，她的腦海中便已然開朗。 Their names.? 她們的名字。 Their pasts.? 她們的過(guò)去。 This world.? 這個(gè)世界。 Its purpose.? ——存在的目的。 Her: "Hikari".? 她："光"。 Her: "Tairitsu".? 她："對(duì)立"。 "Eto" and "Kou"... "Saya" and "Lethe"...? "愛托"與"紅"……"咲彌"與"忘卻"…… "Luna", and—names; countless names. "露娜"，以及……名字；無(wú)法計(jì)數(shù)的名字。 Even facts of other worlds, destinations of other travelers, ends, beginnings, and elaborated reasons too all of it. 甚至是關(guān)乎其他世界的真相，屬于其他旅行者的終點(diǎn)，結(jié)局、序言、完美詳盡的因果：一切的一切。 And the truth, the whole truth, that— 以及真理。全部的事物所指向的真理，便是—— Before her, Hikari stops briefly, noticing the obvious shift in her aggressor's demeanor.? 她的身前，光短暫地止住了步伐。她察覺(jué)到了面前那名對(duì)手態(tài)度的明顯轉(zhuǎn)變。 There's a change.? 的確有什么變化產(chǎn)生。 There's fear. 恐懼。 So, that's it. That's everything. 所以，真理就是如此。我已知曉真理。 Tairitsu glimpsed the truth of this cage dubbed "reality". With that truth, she's claimed power.? 對(duì)立早已目睹"現(xiàn)實(shí)"被禁錮的真理。而只需明白這一真理，她便會(huì)擁有力量。 And with both, knowing everything...? 但若兩者兼具，通曉萬(wàn)事…… Knowing everything, what exactly would change? 通曉萬(wàn)事，又有什么用？ Her feelings curdle and churn.? 本已凝固的思緒，如同被再次強(qiáng)行亂攪一番。 The endless bitterness packed in her chest flows out of it and courses through her—onto her tongue, into her teeth.? 那股盤踞于她胸腔內(nèi)的無(wú)盡苦澀逐漸一路蔓延而上，沾染了自己的舌根，鉆入牙縫之中。 Her lips twist into a morose and bitterly maudlin grin.? 她的嘴唇扭曲得好似一抹憂郁而感性的微笑。 Morose and maudlin, but undoubtedly, strangely, mirthful. 憂郁而感性，卻毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)地，怪誕地——快樂(lè)。 Laugh, girl. Call forth a Tempest. 狂笑吧，少女。呼喚狂風(fēng)暴雨吧。 The path here was blazed by the worst recollections of mankind, and what remains at the end is, and ever will be, the end. 此處的道路盡收人類所能擁有的最惡回憶。而存在于終點(diǎn)的——始終都——只會(huì)是終點(diǎn)。 At the terminus, one of the two will die. 抵達(dá)終站的同時(shí)，她們兩者之間的一人，必須死。