空の境界 …is nothing id, nothing cosmos

Epilogue

A snowing day in March. Mikiya sees Ryogi Shiki standing in the street spaced out.
She says in a woman’s accent, “—–It’s been a while, Kokuto-kun”

This was another personality of Shiki, different from the other two. Of the two extreme personality she has, this Shiki laid right in the middle, where there is nothing there. Mikiya had actually met her for the first time in March 1995, when she was standing in the snow just like now, but the other two personality doesn’t know that because they are unaware of her existence.
She asks him if he had any wish, that’s the reason she appeared. But he doesn’t wish for anything. Looking a little sad but satisfied, she says I knew you would say that. She asks him where does he think a personality lies in a human body. Mikiya think it’s the brain, but she answers no. Brain is where the knowledge lies, and the personality lies in the body itself. She is that original personality of Ryogi Shiki. The two personality were created within her. If the two personalities are like software, she is like the hardware. Normally that true personality wouldn’t carry any knowledge of itself, but the Ryogi family was able to keep that personality active. In fact this personality is what’s directly connected to the root of all things. She was born being connected to the root, but normally that will die while it’s in the mother’s womb. However the Ryogis made it possible for her to survive with intelligence. But she didn’t find any interest in having such power. Knowing everything and having everything is just boring. She at least wants to heal Mikiya’s scarred eye, but he doesn’t need it. She asks him if he doesn’t want to feel happy, but he answers that he’s already happy all the time. She thinks about how he can live an average life in a world where everyone wants to be special. If you can live your life normally without hurting anyone, then that might be the ideal way of life. But because he is ordinary, there will be no one who’ll try to understand him deeply. She wonder which way of life is really lonely.

She says farewell and she’ll never see him again, but takes it back saying she’ll be able to see him tomorrow. Mikiya returns home by himself in the snow with his black umbrella.

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