The world is restarting

A human named Hiroki Sawada died at the age of 12, an age that cannot even be called a "boy".

Known as a once-in-a-century genius, he has a god-given talent in IT. The obituary issued after his death caused nationwide mourning. The media that announced the news exaggeratedly called it "the sorrow of this era, and the entire human race group loss".

It sounded as if some great man had died.

But in fact, for Sawada Hiroki himself, he doesn't think he is an important and great person.And his life was far from the legendary glory that was published in the newspapers after his death.

It's dull, if you insist, like a rainy day with clouds and never-ending rain.

When he was young, he was ostracized by the surrounding groups, and when he was older, his parents divorced. His mother took him to the United States and died. He was adopted by the director of the Syndora Consortium.In fact, he has always been aware of the false family affection given by the other party based on his talent and the benefits he brought to the other party.So when his adoptive father wanted to kill him after he discovered the secret that would threaten the Syndora consortium, he actually didn't feel too surprised or sad under the panic.

Because this temporary shelter was originally a fake.

He seems to have been like this since he can remember, constantly being excluded from the group, and constantly trying to find a place to stay, but along the way, there are fewer and fewer people who can accept him... Or maybe it was only his mother from the beginning After his mother passed away, he was completely left in a vacuum, like an outsider in a human group in a silent environment, watching other children of the same age playing and playing.

Unable to blend in, unable to understand each other, he is like a wrong program that has been programmed into abnormal codes since birth, and is incompatible with the entire environment.

"'One can never empathize with another'...?"

In the silent forest, Hiroki leaned on the trunk with one hand on his knees, looking up at the dark sky above.A few strands of hair slipped from the corners of his eyes, and the thin figure of the young man was outlined into a pale and silent silhouette by the dim skylight.

[But what I said still counts... I will take you in if you become homeless one day. 】

At that time, the little girl's warm and clear voice, the words she said, seemed to ring in my ears again, like a pair of hands stretched out to support his back when he fell endlessly in the void.

Human beings may never be able to understand each other, but that's okay. If someone is willing to reach out to him with a tolerant heart even if he can't see the same world as him, this is actually finding a place to live, right?

"...Brother, little sister."

Looking at the unreachable sky, the handsome young man leaning on the rotten tree trunk quietly waiting for death showed a smile.

Although fate seems to make the existence of "Sawada Hiroki" die at the age of 12 anyway, but compared to outside the Internet, he jumped off the top of the building as a bird and went to the lonely and desperate Sawada alone. Hiroki, the ghost of his electronic world is much luckier.

When I met the person I wanted to meet before I died, my own death was no longer a desperate escape, but a hope and meaning of protecting important people.

That's enough... The world that always faced him with an indifferent face finally softened once before he died, and gave him a belated 12th birthday present.

The boy closed his eyes gently, and waited quietly for Alice to let him out.

The fact that the child was the "heroic spirit" he summoned, he didn't realize it at first.Another set of rules imposed in this world seemed to deliberately evade him, and all the NPCs in the watch world were under his control, so he didn't notice this child's specialness at first, until the later development was completely derailed.

"What is Hiroki's wish?" The child asked him such a question, "Because of Hiroki's wish, he was chosen by the Holy Grail to participate in this Holy Grail War."

At that time, he didn't feel that he had any wish that needed to be fulfilled by the Holy Grail. Now that he thought about it, his wish might have been fulfilled at the beginning of this Holy Grail War.

Hiroki lowered his eyes, just as he thought of this, a slight sound of footsteps with dead branches being crushed suddenly rang in his ears.

Although the sound is very soft, but in this silent forest where the air seems to be dead, this soft sound is like a trace of vitality injected into stagnant water, which is particularly vivid and eye-catching.

Hiroki subconsciously opened his eyes and looked back.

"...Mi-chan?"

The little girl with long silver hair was standing a few meters away from him, like a little princess who came out of a fairy tale kingdom. The gloomy painting style unique to the gothic dress was also turned into a quiet and sweet one by her own temperament, like A ray of sunshine shining through the gloomy woods.

He was surprised for a moment, and a helpless and understanding smile appeared on his lips, "Did Alice let you in, she really likes you very much."

Little Loli blinked her eyes, ran to sit beside him, and patted the hem of her skirt, reminding people of a proud but well-behaved cat for no reason.

"Hiroki didn't listen to me at all," she sighed a little sadly, "Even if my brother and I are saved, if the price is Hiroki's life, we won't be happy."

"Eh? Did Alice tell you all this? She is my servant..."

"Because my brother and I are more reasonable. Even children have the ability to judge themselves and will stand on the side of reason."

"So I was rejected by Alice and Mi-chan at the same time? It's a little sad."

The young man leaned against the withered tree trunk, turned his head slightly to look at her, and said "sad" with a very gentle smile on his lips.

Sawada looked at him with a tilted head, and pointed out dissatisfiedly, "Brother Hongshu, you are changing the subject. What we are discussing now is that you want to send me and my brother out in an unworthy way. Repeat, it is not worth it." promote!"

"Well, I'm sorry, but forgive me Mi-chan, this is what I caused." Sawada Hiroki said with a light smile, "So I should also take responsibility."

Putting aside Chu Xingxiushu's handsome appearance with a bit of sharp temperament, his original appearance is handsome and gentle, and his tone of voice also has a lazy warmth, like a relative who is so good that he is hung up by adults all the year round. The big brother who talks about being a "child of someone else's family", but secretly likes his younger sister and his brother who is only one year older than him. He puts aside the advanced papers that are going to be submitted to international academic journals, and stays with his brother with a computer Playing games with my sister...then when the good-for-nothing brother lost the game and was crying, he hacked the server neatly, and used the GM authority to open cheats for him and his sister.

It should have been like this... If the real Hiroki Sawada hadn't died two years ago at the age of 12, if he hadn't been taken to the United States by his mother and wandered alone, but had stayed in Japan and known him early They, he could have had such a noisy and happy life.

Sawada Ya blinked, and quietly looked at the people around her with her clear pupils, as if she saw the tributary of the fate.

This is a rewritten IF line that exists outside the real story. Perhaps the protagonist in this line can be happy, but it still cannot change the tragedy of the main story.Tragedy is always reserved for reality, like Alice's favorite fairy tales for children.

"...Brother Hiroki." Sawada Ya looked at the people around him and suddenly spoke softly.

Yes, maybe the story has come to the present, and there is already a foreseeable tragic ending ahead.Unfortunately, reality is not really just a storybook, so that other people can turn to the beginning and start over like Alice who does not want to see the tragic ending, as if the story is not over as long as the ending is not seen; but Fortunately, reality is not an established storybook. Even if it is about to come to an end, there is still the possibility of rewriting it... as long as you have the courage to pick up the pen that refutes fate.

...Or, it doesn't matter if I don't have the courage for the time being.

"Brother Hiroki is still a child."

"Isn't it natural for children to get into trouble? After breaking into trouble and being unable to clean up such a fate, beatings are also experienced on the road of growth. At this time, just leave it to the elder brother. Isn't the so-called elder brother supposed to show up handsomely at this time?" Do younger brothers and sisters exist to clean up the mess?"

From the abyss, from the fork in the road of fate, from before the tragic ending, even if you are dragged, you will be desperately dragged back. Isn't this the meaning of family and relatives and friends?

To put it simply - what is a disaster?Don't you have a brother?Throw the pot over there!

"Eh... no, that's not the meaning of brother, is it?"

"No problem, my family is like this!"

"No, that, in various senses... Wait, if you think about it this way, it's no wonder that the eldest brother of Mi-chan's family is the Red King. Is it because ordinary people can't handle it?!"

"Not."

"Eh?"

"It's not my family, it's our family." Little Lolita suddenly emphasized seriously, "Hongshu also has an older brother."

"..." Hiroki Sawada froze for a moment, and his gray-blue eyes like a pool of water fell like a stone, causing weak ripples in circles.

"So at this time, we need to learn how to throw the pot away! Just leave the mess to my brother, don't worry, compared with the third brother, the things you caused by brother Hongshu are not too much, brother can cover it."

"...Wait a minute, Mi-chan, you seemed to have said something very outrageous just now?"

"Hey, is there? No, I'm so cute, of course everything is right!"

"This sentence is already too much!"

"All in all," little Lolita turned a deaf ear to this complaint, patted the hem of her skirt with the most adorable confidence in the world and stood up, "Leave it to us! I also want to say such handsome words occasionally, of course let me Big brother is fine too, the Holy Grail War or something is completely fine, Hiroki-san is an AI and can't stand tape, don't underestimate me, Mi-chan is amazing."

She thought for a while, and then added rigorously, "Although the powerful Mi-chan is sealed now, there is still a brother."

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao had arrived, just as she finished speaking, Tsunayoshi Sawada's shout came from the forest not far away accompanied by hurried footsteps.

"...Ya-chan, Hiroki!"

The boy's voice was a little panting. Obviously, without the convenient vision ability like his sister, he could only rely on super intuition and luck to search in the woods for a long time.

But in any case, he managed to find it. In this vast and boundless forest, in the long river of fate that was about to be lost, he timely and accurately grasped the chance to hold the pen again.

This forest, which represents the feedback of people's soul, is always dark and gloomy, the sky is dim, and the clouds linger all year round.But when the boy with short brown hair ran out of the forest panting, it seemed as if a line of clouds had split in the sky, casting a light enough to illuminate the road ahead under his feet.

He hurriedly ran to the front, and before he could speak, he propped his knees and gasped for a few breaths. The delicate butterfly bones on his back undulated slightly, and the boy's body wrapped in a white shirt looked slender and thin, but when he panted and raised his head to look over, there was still Behind the broken hair stained with sweat, those light-colored pupils seemed to contain a bright light that could break through all the haze.

"Hiroki... huh, huh... sorry, I've been huh... I didn't know that I have a younger brother, it's my fault, Hongshu, can you forgive me?"

He stretched out his clean and slender hand, his fingertips were trembling as if he was waiting for approval, and he felt a little cautious for no reason.

This bit of anxiety and caution hit AI's heart that he thought he didn't have at all like a torrential rain, and the sourness in his heart made him subconsciously lean over and hold his fingertips.

The eyes of the brown-haired boy in front of him lit up, and a happy and soft smile like a small animal appeared on his delicate face.The non-combat mode Tsunayoshi Sawada and the dead state are completely two people, the only thing that remains the same is probably the vast sky deep in his eyes that can accommodate everything.

"Well, I thought a lot about trying to convince Hiroki on the way here, but when I stood in front of him, I seemed to have almost forgotten..." Tsunayoshi Sawada stood up, scratching his hair embarrassingly, and the other But without hesitation, the hand clenched the other's fingertips.

"But it doesn't matter. In fact, I have never been very good at persuading people, and my brother also said that doing is more important than talking, right? Maybe I am really special compared to my brother who didn't even know you existed before. Incompetent, that, but I still said that with the cheek... Hiroki, can you give me another chance?"

"It's far from the end, and this game shouldn't end with sacrificing your life, Hongshu. Although I've always been a loser in games, I can't catch up with Bailan, but this time I don't want to lose... I I want to win and win back the future where I can live with Hiroki, can you help me, Hiroki?"

The quiet silence spread in the forest for a long time. In this suffocating silence, Sawada Tsunayoshi waited patiently until the clouds in the distant sky parted and a bright sky light fell.

He finally heard a hoarse voice, so light that it seemed he couldn't catch it, but when it fell to his ears, it carried a trace of dust-settled firmness.

"it is good."