Chapter 152 God of Opening and Closing 'Janus'

December is the height of summer in the South District.

Wearing a gorgeous and flowery skirt, a blonde girl dances in the crowd. The snow-white and wide skirt is dotted with orange-red roses, like a blooming flame.

The performance on the stage gradually reaches its climax. As the lights converge, the only golden light falls in this dark world, and the blonde girl finally stops after spinning and dancing again and again. She slowly lifts the hem of her skirt, then opens her pale golden eyes and smiles on her face.

Warm applause rang out in the auditorium, and then the lights gradually turn on, and the room is bright again.

This is Edes Academy, and tonight is also the eve of the annual Winter Festival Gala, with performances from all grades.

"As expected of classmate Avni, such a gorgeous performance is amazing."

A blonde man sat in the VIP viewing room, holding a wine glass in one hand and supporting his head with the other hand as he watched the girl slowly retreat from the stage. There were several people around him. Judging from their attire, they were all senior students of Edes Academy. They also had badges on their collars and chests, indicating that they were members of the student union.

"Who's going to the stage next?"

The man with long blond hair asked, and a senior student who looked like a recorder and deputy answered, "President Amorth, next is Quentin, a sophomore. He will lead the symphony orchestra and play the second movement of the fourth symphony."

"Boring, the same old routine." The student union president slowly poured the remaining wine in the glass in front of him and watched the red wine soak into the carpet.

He put the glass back on the table beside him and continued to lean on the chair that looked like a throne, tilting his head and thinking.

"She, one of the freshmen, didn't appear tonight?"

"What do you mean?" A member at the side asked carefully.

"Who else could it be, that cute girl with black hair and blue eyes."

"Miss Tilan has no plans to perform tonight."

"Did she not invite you, or is there another reason?"

"It is said that Miss Tilan declined, saying that her skills are not mature enough and it is not suitable for her to go on stage suddenly."

"I don't know if she is being modest or if she is really not ready." Amorth commented in a light voice.

"I thought she would cause a stir after coming to school, but I didn't expect it to be quiet so soon. It's really a bit unexpected."

"The old men are very optimistic about her, but they didn't say the specific reason. I guess she has some talent. After all, she has a great sister." As he said this, Amorth thought of what happened not long after he entered the academy. At that time, he was still a freshman and had the honor to watch the winter festival competition that year.

The dazzling and enchanting figure attracted the attention of the entire audience, and he was naturally no exception. He didn't expect that the legendary girl would disappear since then.

"Let's not talk about that. What about Valk? This kid has caused me a lot of trouble recently."

"Valk has been staying in the practice room to train recently. Apart from going to class, he hasn't gone anywhere."

"He has been more well-behaved recently, huh." Amorth shook his head, picked up the wine glass that his assistant had just filled, and took a small sip.

"Are the results of the investigation out?"

"It's out. The person that Valk begged for mercy and protection that night was his childhood playmate and acquaintance. They also grew up in the orphanage together."

"Is it because of old friendship? But such a companion will harm him." Amorth shook his head.

"What did the teachers say?"

"Teacher Sima talked to Valk a few times a few days ago. He said Valk will not contact that person again."

"That's true, but how much restraint does it have in reality? For Valk, if he loses the help of the academy, it will not be easy in the future. I hope he can understand this."

"Students from poor families are troublesome. Even if they have talent and work hard, there will be many people who will hold them back. They are either ignorant and short-sighted parents, friends who pray for benefits, or greedy women." There was a bit of mockery in Amorth's voice, as if he had already seen this kind of thing.

While Amorth was talking to the people around him, a symphony performance was also taking place on the stage in the center of the auditorium. However, at Amorth's signal, this room blocked the sound in the auditorium, and one could only watch the little man on the stage shaking and directing the silent music.

"Let's go. There's nothing to see tonight. Tomorrow is the main point. We don't know who will win the Winter Festival this year."

"This is my last year at Edes. I hope it will be a pleasant result." After saying that, he led several members of the student union to leave the VIP room.

In the auditorium, Tilan was sitting in the venue with her classmates, enjoying the symphony being performed. Although the music was gorgeous, it was a little boring and bland. After all, it was a classic piece that everyone was familiar with, and there was not much novelty. After

the performance ended, various applause rang out again, but it was not as enthusiastic as before.

After finishing tonight's performance, Tilan and her classmates left the auditorium and walked into the cold night, and Anneli followed behind her.

When they walked to the atrium, the black-haired girl's steps gradually stopped, which made Anneli a little curious, and then stepped forward.

"What's wrong, Tilan."

"It's something." The girl suddenly had a strange feeling, as if a quiet corner was suddenly opened, and a new and strange feeling was revealed.

"You go back first. I'll go to the practice room." She turned around and talked to Anneli, her hair fluttering slightly in the night wind, and there seemed to be a glow in her eyes.

"Okay..." Although she was confused, Anneli nodded.

After leaving Anneli, Tilan walked quickly in the night and arrived at a gray and square building. This is the second battle practice hall of Edes Academy. There are many structures inside and underground, and only a small part is above the surface.

Walking into the cold hall at night, she opened a room and then stepped into the elevator, going directly to the quiet and solid underground.

Because of her authority, this practice room is particularly large, about 300 square meters, and there is also a pool inside, in which the clear water ripples under the top light.

The underground at night is particularly quiet, and only a few slight water sounds can be heard.

Tilan approached the edge of the pool, then stepped on the ice that had just condensed on the surface of the water, and then she reached the center of the pool step by step. Then the ice broke and she fell into the water.

The cool pool water submerged her whole body, but the girl was still very quiet. She closed her eyes, spread her hands, and immersed herself in the depths of her heart.

The shimmering waves rippled under the water, reflecting the ceiling into a broken blue.

The water light kept changing, and the blue on the ceiling changed to purple again, which was weird and beautiful.

Tilan's eyes were slightly absent-minded while she was immersed in the water. The blue and purple in them changed and intertwined, turning like a whirlpool, and beside her, blue or purple ice cubes kept forming, colliding with each other in the water, making crisp sounds.

At this moment, Tilan could no longer see everything in front of her, as if everything around her was moving away, and everything gradually turned white.

Who am I...

where is this place...

no one answered, only eternal silence, so long that it made people forget time.

The concepts of time and space gradually disappeared, as if entering a palace at the end of time, so empty and yet eternal.

The sound of gears turned quietly, but looking around, there was nothing, as if those gears were transparent and colorless, only a chaotic blue-purple void, and countless colors graffitied randomly.

Billions of years passed like a snap of the fingers, and just when the girl's weak consciousness felt that everything was eternal and unchanging, the colors in the void gradually returned to normal.

Light colors rose, dark colors sank, countless colors separated and gathered, no longer chaotic, but formed vague regular patterns, they were distributed throughout the void, whether in the past or the future.

Then, waves of prayers came from all directions in the void.

Become a god...

become a god...

become a god...

become a god...

these voices were so consistent, from weak to gradually louder, and finally so roaring, resounding throughout the world.

As if affected by this, the patterns throughout the void became brighter and brighter in the sound and prayer, until finally, in the sky interwoven with four colors, a small sun rose slowly, so bright and grand.

The golden sun, the burning sun, the eternal flame, the absolutely powerful god, the crystallization of the prayers of billions of creatures, the beautiful dream of countless lives, the crown that symbolizes power and eternity.

This brilliant burning sun shuttled through countless dark seas of the void, like a powerful iron, ironing out this wrinkled and chaotic world.

Behind it, countless light spots followed closely, chasing light and heat. They continued to transform, breaking free from the constraints of the flesh, breaking free from the constraints of life, becoming a higher-level and pure existence, transcending the existence of the mortal world. These creatures that absorbed the scorching sun and emitted light and heat approached the light, approached the light, became the light, flawless and beautiful.

As they shuttled and ran, the dark sea of ​​the void gradually became stable, and everything gradually became orderly.

Then, around the burning sun, these points of light fell quietly, as if seeing the reflection of the sun in the water, an illusory and beautiful "sun" took shape.

It was not as blazing as the sun, but only quiet and fragile. Unlike the sun that yearns for strength and eternity, its existence represents regret and crying.

It regrets the past, regrets the regrets in life, cries for things that cannot be obtained, cries for the distance that can never be reached.

This sad wish is so heavy and profound that even the sun has to stop and see its reflection in the water. At this moment, it also understands the name of the reflection, the moon.

The sun wants the moon in the water to rise, but it cannot do so.

The reflection in the water is so illusory and shaky that it will break if it is touched lightly. It does not really exist in the world.

The sun's light is so powerful that even the dark sea of ​​​​empty space boils under its shining, but such a powerful force can never interfere with the other side of the reflection.

The light points surround the sun, becoming its companion stars and planets, standing in this dark ocean of nothingness. Together, they look down at the reflection below, singing and praying again and again.

In this way, the voice full of prayers resounds again in the long river of time.

Become a god...

become a god...

become a god...

become

a god... become a god...

the voice resounds again and again, breaking the illusory water surface again and again, until two extremely tiny stars respond in the midst of all the insignificant dust.

They appear on the illusory water surface like entangled stars, and then countless light points stare at these two tiny stars, shining with eternal and blazing light.

The twin stars entwined and rotated with each other became brighter and brighter, emitting a blue and purple halo, and then a broken crystal moon slowly took shape.

The originally illusory water surface turned into frozen ice crystals, and the illusion on the other side of time condensed into something real.

More and more ice crystals condensed, until finally, a full moon with the flowing sand of time finally rose from the water. It was transparent and flawless, with faint blue and purple light. Inside, two girls, one blue and one purple, were sleeping back to back.

They will never be separated. They are two sides of each other, just like the "two-faced god" Janus in ancient mythology.

Janus is one of the oldest and most noble gods in Roman mythology. He looks at the past and the future. He is the "god of doors" and the "god of keys". All passages are guarded by him, protecting both the people inside and outside the door. The two names with opposite meanings are Janus, the god of opening and Janus, the god of closing. When the army goes to war, it must pass under the arch symbolized by it. It is also the predecessor of the triumphal gate of various countries.

In the morning, the gate is opened to let the sun shine on the earth. At dusk, the gate is closed to let the night fall on the world.

He is the god of all beginnings and all endings, the god of a good beginning and a good end. Archons of all generations would pray to him for his blessings when they ascended to the throne, and they would also pray to him when new life was born. His celebration is the first and last day of the year, which is the first day of the first month.

Time and space are like two sides of an inseparable entity, condensed in them, and finally constructed into this brilliant and immortal moon crown.

The silver crown rose slowly, and the ripples of time and space it brought spread to the entire void sea, reflecting the scorching sun. As the light of the crown became brighter and brighter, the two figures in the crystal gradually disappeared and melted into the dazzling moon.

They have no entity, existing in the past and the future. When a certain agreed moment comes, they will wake up and appear.

In the world deep in the soul, the girl stood quietly on the water, her consciousness gradually became clear, her smart and blue eyes looked around, and finally looked at her reflection under her.

There was a girl in the water who looked exactly like her, but there were slight differences in their eyes, one was a quiet blue, the other was a gorgeous purple.

So, was this the source of her talent...

The girl looked at her palm, her fingertips slowly stroking through the air, as if she could sense some non-existent silk thread, which was the trace of time and the spinning thread.

The girl in the water also stretched out her palm, and there were also tiny spots of light and silk threads emanating from her hand, but the feeling she gave was different from that of the girl, as if a different existence was passing through her fingertips.

Everything turned upside down, as if the world had suddenly turned upside down. Tilan looked around again and looked at the water surface. The girl's eyes in the water turned blue, and the girl seemed to have an epiphany. She gently covered her pupils with her fingers, reflecting a faint purple.

Me, Themisia, Heshia, Tilan...

The girl slowly closed her eyes, then opened them again and returned to the real world.

It was still the same pool, still in this underground practice room, as if time had never moved. The girl floated up from the water and returned to the shore again. She shook her hair lightly, and countless water droplets fell. She raised her palms, and a blue and a purple light appeared in her eyes, reflecting the condensed crystal in her hand.

Or perhaps she finally untied the knot in her heart, and a faint light emerged from her body. Withering Sequence 4: Purple-Blue Flame Heart was achieved.

The crystal dissipated and turned into dots of blue-purple flames, entwining the girl's side. These flames were not hot, but rather a little cool and cold, and were particularly enchanting and beautiful.

(End of this chapter)