(Thank you for following Akiya Tanabe's journey. This is not an ending , it's the echo of her light that lives on in another world).
Years later, beneath a quiet sky of drifting lights, an old man tended a small garden.
The air smelled of rain and blooming glass lilies.
Kael's hair had turned silver, but his hands were steady as he planted a seed in the soft soil. The world had long since healed cities glowed with gentle light, rivers ran clear again, and people lived not in fear, but in harmony.
Akari often visited, though her duties now took her far across the new continents. She had become the Voice of the Merge, a bridge between humanity and the systems that once divided them.
But today, Kael was alone or so it seemed.
He paused, leaning on his staff, and looked up at the sky. A familiar star flickered brighter than the rest, pulsing with a soft, rhythmic light.
He smiled faintly. "Still watching, huh?"
The wind whispered through the lilies, bending them slightly toward him.
He closed his eyes, feeling her warmth in the air. "The garden's almost done, Akiya. Just one more bloom."
Then, as if in answer, the soil shimmered. A tiny sprout emerged glowing softly, like a living ember of light. Kael watched it grow, his heart swelling with quiet awe.
A voice, gentle and far away, echoed in the breeze:
"You kept your promise."
Kael chuckled softly. "Yeah… I did."
He sat down beside the sprout and gazed toward the horizon, where the sun was rising once more. The light touched everything the fields, the rivers, the sky.
And for a moment, he could almost see her there, standing at the edge of the dawn, smiling.
He whispered her name once more not in sorrow, but in peace.
"Akiya Tanabe."
The wind carried it away like a prayer.
And above him, the star pulsed one last time
before settling into the eternal calm of the heavens.
....."Thank you for traveling this far"....
(Akiya's journey may have ended, but her light remains in the stars, in Kael's garden, and in every heart that dares to dream beyond their world)
"Sci_ Fi in another world Will return"
