Melancholy Huanyue if (4)

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Qian Huanyue was trapped in a situation she had no way to bring under control. Mio's [Ain] was coming straight at her.

An Angel capable of erasing anything.

Her heart sank into a sadness deeper than sadness, as though she were falling into the depths of a lake. Tears should have spilled, but the shock was too great for them to come.

A fierce light flared, and Huanyue shut her eyes. Knowing what the ability could do should have let her anticipate it, but against this nameless Angel, that knowledge seemed useless.

Even though the Seraph of Thousand Blades had moved her far away in an instant, she still could not escape the strange white light.

It clung to her as if it meant to erase her from the world.

No—no—still no!

She must not disappear.

Everyone...

She did not know how long she had spent desperately dodging Ain. Huanyue's expression grew darker. She was losing time.

This time... again...

Was she about to—

Ain closed around Huanyue even faster. Before its light swallowed everything she could see, she gritted her teeth and called upon her Angel again.

"Seraph of Thousand Blades!!!"

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Mio's Ain had not erased Qian Huanyue.

Both had been born of the Spirit Formula. In a sense, Huanyue and Mio were counterparts, distinct from the world yet sharing the same origin. The instant Ain's judgment touched Huanyue's core, it became confused.

Like a blade glancing off its own reflection, the power to erase existence veered aside and instead erased her memories.

Every scene in her mind raced backward. Faces vanished, names disappeared, as though someone were tearing pages from a book, one after another, until nothing remained but its blank back cover.

Her memories were blank. Her mind was blank. Even who she was and