The light in Tachibana Taki's eyes dimmed along with it, and his grip on the wine cup tightened unconsciously.
The miracle, in the end, did not happen...
It was all too late.
Fang Qiu's writing remained as delicate as ever, portraying vividly, in just a few strokes, the loss and pain of a bubble of hope being pricked and burst.
Oppressive.
It was so oppressive that Bai Qing felt somewhat breathless.
She continued reading further down.
Just as Tachibana Taki stood up, intending to give up and return home, his foot slipped and stumbled, and his entire body fell backward.
However, he did not crash heavily onto the ground.
Instead, it was like falling from a high altitude.
Miyamizu Mitsuha's memories surged forth incessantly.
From birth to growing up, and then to wearing a kimono and heading to the festival.
At the same time, above the horizon, the meteor was about to fall.
Tachibana Taki shouted loudly, wanting to warn Miyamizu Mitsuha to leave.
However, Miyamizu Mitsuha could not hear his shouts at all.
The meteor was approaching at extreme speed, like a colossal gemstone, erupting with intense, brilliant light.
In the end, Miyamizu Mitsuha died beneath the meteor.
The meteor destroyed everything in the small town with crushing force.
The next moment, Tachibana Taki regained his vision.
What entered his eyes was a familiar yet strange ceiling.
He had swapped bodies with Miyamizu Mitsuha once again.
The time was exactly the morning of the meteor's fall.
The meteor would fall tonight!
There was no time to lose; he immediately set about saving the town and initiated the evacuation plan.
During this period, he also learned that Miyamizu Mitsuha had traveled to Inazuma City three years ago to find him.
And the braided cord on his wrist was the very one Miyamizu Mitsuha had left him back then.
Yet, he failed to persuade Miyamizu Mitsuha's father.
He felt that the real Miyamizu Mitsuha would definitely be able to convince her own father, so he ran all the way toward the place where the mouth-chewed sake was stored.
At the same time, Miyamizu Mitsuha also woke up in the cave.
Seeing Itomori Town reduced to mere ruins, she also realized that she had died beneath the meteor.
Meanwhile, Tachibana Taki was rushing desperately up the mountain. Accompanied by Tachibana Taki's inner monologue, memories of Miyamizu Mitsuha going to Inazuma City to find him three years ago were interspersed throughout.
Finally, at the time of twilight and isolation, they saw each other.
Looking at the familiar yet strange person before them, Miyamizu Mitsuha could no longer hold back, and tears burst from her eyes.
"We finally met. It really wasn't easy."
Watching the performance of the two in the book, the corners of Bai Qing's mouth could not help but curl upward, her eyes brimming with tears.
At the same time, the meteor surged forth in the sky.
The time of isolation was about to pass. Tachibana Taki took out a pen and suggested they write their names on each other's hands.
However, after Tachibana Taki finished writing, Miyamizu Mitsuha did not have time to write before the pen fell to the ground.
Miyamizu Mitsuha vanished.
Seeing that the name wasn't written, Bai Qing's heart involuntarily tightened.
She had a bad feeling about this.
"?"
"I wanted to say just now... no matter where you are in the world, I will definitely go to see you again."
Tachibana Taki looked up at the sky.
There was no shadow of the meteor there, only a sky full of stars.
"Your name is... Mitsuha."
"No problem, I won't forget!"
"Mitsuha, Mitsuha... Mitsuha, the name is Mitsuha!"
"Your name is!"
Suddenly, the words at his lips became blurry.
Tachibana Taki hurriedly picked up the pen, wanting to write down Miyamizu Mitsuha's name.
But just as he made the first stroke, Tachibana Taki's hand stopped.
The tip of the pen began to tremble.
"...Who, are you?"
The pen fell from Tachibana Taki's hand.
The memories regarding Miyamizu Mitsuha gradually disappeared.
"Why... did I come here?"
"For her... came to see her! Came to save her! I want her to live!"
"Who is it? Who is it, who is it, who is it?"
"Important person, person I don't want to forget, person I absolutely cannot forget!"
"Who is it, who is it, who is it..."
Tachibana Taki struggled, tears bursting from his eyes, as he shouted loudly toward the night sky.
"What is your name?"
In this moment, Fang Qiu's writing style was thoroughly unleashed, full of tension; the incredibly infectious text rendered Tachibana Taki's emotions to the peak.
Sorrowful emotions penetrated through the paper, instantly enveloping Bai Qing.
Bai Qing stared blankly at the handwriting on the original manuscript, which had become messy again, and at the faintly visible dried tear stains and characters slightly blurred by tears on the pages.
A clear line of tears also flowed down her fair cheeks.
When Tachibana Taki shouted at the sky, Bai Qing also felt as if she were suffocating.
Her breathing was somewhat obstructed.
It felt as if something was blocking her chest.
Meanwhile, Miyamizu Mitsuha was also running all the way through the mountain forest.
"Taki, Taki, Taki. It's okay, I will definitely remember. Your name is Taki."
Miyamizu Mitsuha ran all the way along the path. Miyamizu Mitsuha understood that to save the people of the town, she could only convince her father, who was the mayor.
She ran all the way toward where her father was.
At the same time, far away in Inazuma three years prior, Tachibana Taki walked onto the street and looked up at the sky.
Above the horizon, the meteor dragging a long tail of flame streaked across the sea of stars.
"Who is it? Who is that person?"
"Important person. Person I cannot forget. Person I don't want to forget."
"Who, who. Who are you?"
"What is your name?"
Miyamizu Mitsuha shouted as if asking herself while she ran.
Reading up to here, Bai Qing subconsciously held her breath.
Her heart was tugged by it.
When Miyamizu Mitsuha looked up at the meteor in the sky, her foot was tripped by a stone, and her whole body fell to the ground, rolling several times.
She wanted to look at the name on her palm, only to discover that Tachibana Taki had not written his name on her hand.
Instead, he had written "I love you."
Seeing this sentence, Miyamizu Mitsuha couldn't help but shed tears.
Shedding tears along with Miyamizu Mitsuha was Bai Qing; her tears flowed out uncontrollably.
Her hands holding the manuscript were trembling even more.
"Like this... how am I supposed to know your name?"
Miyamizu Mitsuha struggled to get up with tears streaming down her face, dragging her bruised and battered body to continue running forward.
She rushed before her father and convinced him.
Thus, braving the pressure of losing his official position, her father believed Miyamizu Mitsuha and evacuated the people of the entire town.
And so, the people of the entire town were safe.
Carrying power enough to destroy heaven and earth, the meteor razed the entire Itomori Town to the ground...
The meteor smashed another massive crater beside the lake.
After confirming that Miyamizu Mitsuha was thoroughly safe, Bai Qing could not help but weep tears of joy.
Fang Qiu finally acted like a human being this time.
However, after finishing it, she couldn't help but give birth to a strange feeling.
A world where only the town gets hurt... has been achieved?
Bai Qing continued reading downwards.
When she saw that on the second day, Tachibana Taki had forgotten everything, looked at everything before him, fell into confusion, and began to wonder why he had appeared here, Bai Qing could not help but frown.
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