Suddenly everything becomes dark, and they hear a voice.
"System complete."
"Requesting a Reboot."
"Request accepted."
"System rebooting…"
"..."
As Hana heard that, she then quickly held Hikari's hand, and Hikari then suddenly woke up from his sleep.
He breathed rapidly, and he looked at the clock. It was 4AM.
Hikari then talked by himself.
"What the heck is that... Hana? Who is that girl...?
Hikari then walked to his kitchen and drank some water. to ease everything up. He then just can't wait for the morning so that he can know what is happening there.
-6:00 AM-
Hikari, wait and do some preparation first.
As he was done with his preparation, he then walked out at 6.50 to that laboratory again.
As he arrives, he parks his bike and runs to the door.
He then asked for permission to enter the building to meet Hiroto. As the staff recognized him, they then opened the door for him, and Hikari went to meet Hiroto.
He entered the laboratory and saw Hiroto was talking with the staff, and as Hiroto saw Hikari, he then went to Hikari and wanted to give him some good news.
But Hikari interrupts him and says that he got something that he wants to talk with him about alone. Hiroto understands it, and they then begin to walk to Hiroto's office, which is next to the machine to enter the Quantum World.
Hikari enters it, and he then asks Hiroto,
"Hey, tell me. What is happening here? I met a girl named Haan, and she said she was inside Quantum World. What does this mean?"
Hiroto then tells Hikari that it was hard to explain. But just to be truthful, Hiroto tells Hikari, "Yeah, it was true. But how did you know about her?" Hikari then didn't say anything about it and told Hiroto to show him where Hana is.
Without any doubt, Hiroto then shows Hikari the way to Hana.
Hikari then followed Hiroto to the machine section, and he was then so shocked as he saw a different device than before. Hikari then asks Hiroto, "What kind of machine is this? Is it a different kind of machine that is involved in the experiment?" Hiroto nods his head, and he begins to get sorry about that. He then looked at Hikari and said.
"Yes, it is, but it is the same machine as we're going to use on you. But we didn't check this machine properly, and it caused her to be unable to get out of there. We didn't put an option to get out of that machine for her. We didn't realize that."
Hikari begins to get angry about that, but he tries to stay cool and asks Hiroto if there was any other way for them to rescue Hana.
Hiroto saw the confidence in Hikari's voice and reaction. He was so proud of that, and he then told Hikari that there is a way for that to happen. But it may take a very long time for that because they weren't sure what would happen in there. The key for them to fix all of that is Hikari. He is the only person who can connect Quantum World and Quantum Memory together and make that world stable. So that everything will be safe for them to proceed on. Hiroto then tells Hikari that he was really sorry for the inconvenience and was hoping that Hikari would help them.
When Hikari looked at it, he then just began to feel like something was going to happen. But even if it's going to happen, he was really happy that he would be able to help.
War?
Conflict?
Kill?
Survive?
Suicide?
He's been through all of that before. He almost did a suicide until someone really important arrived just in time. He was able to survive because of the bonds that they made together, and they all fought together and reached their objective. He needs to kill a certain person because of the conflict that they started. So just to stop the conflict, he will need to stop the person who began it, and because of that, a lot of wars have happened because of his choice. because it is his fate. Even so, he will continue and fight until the very last of his breath. That was his promise with everyone. To live as long as he can so that he can protect what is dear to him and what he loves.
Hikari then tells Hiroto that if they're going to begin it with Quantum Memory, then he will need someone to be there with him. Because he was worried that something would happen to that person if she wasn't here.
Hiroto nods his head and tells Hikari that maybe he should tell that person to come right away because he and his staff will begin to prepare the machine for them to enter Quantum World.
Hikari nods his head, and he begins to get in touch with Aimi and tells her to come there. He tells Aimi that it is really important and she will need to be there as soon as she can.
Aimi understands it, and she then begins to drive to the location that Hikari just gave to her.
Hikari then looked at Hana. He saw that there is just a lot of wire connected to her body, which reminds him of when he had an accident and lost his memories. But that is not really him. For him that was Yami. His past self. Someone that was really important to him that was never a part of him anymore. Just thinking about it makes him sad a little while Hana reminds him of Ardia (Syurihata). They're both an important person in his life.
But not to forget Akaru and Ageru. The hackers, Takuya. Neu and Nimura. They're all important to him. But now they're not with him anymore; they all have departed to where they wanted to go. Some of them are gone, and some of them are not. But it doesn't matter if they're alive or not. Hikari will always keep his promise with them.
"I will fight to find who I am. I will fight to help people. I will fight to unite people, and I will fight to end the conflict. That is our motive, right? Akaru... Ageru…"
Hikari looked down as he said that. He then goes to the machine where Hana's body is and says,
"And we will see each other again. one day."
Hiroto was busy trying to stabilize Quantum World with Quantum Memory as it is connected to Hikari. It was just as they expected; Quantum Memory has much bigger waves than Quantum World. Hiroto said that he didn't expect any less from his senior Akaru because he was really good at it.
As Hikari was waiting for Aimi and the process to be done, Hikari then asked Hiroto if he knew what Akaru did after Akaru completed his degree at his college that Hiroto was in too. Hearing that, Hiroto then tells Hikari that Akaru got a dream to create something that is almost impossible to be created. So Hiroto thinks that maybe Akaru was pursuing his dream just after he was done with his studies. As Hikari heard that, he just realized that he never knew what Akaru did. All he knows is that Akaru is just a part of the hackers, which his group got divided from just right after a conflict happened.
- A flashback begins. -
At that time, Hikari met with Ardia. Ardia is a refugee from an Arab country named Gaza. She has been separated from his friends and family right after the war and was placed in the kindergarten that Akaru sent Hikari to get there and try to improve his communication skills.
As Hikari was trying to introduce himself, suddenly he saw Ardia, and he felt really connected to her and wasn't sure what it was. He then chased after Ardia and began from that. He saw how much different Ardia was from him.
Hikari was really shy and not a brave person back then.
While Ardia is a really talkative person and kind. She also was really brave and full of spirit that she always gave Hikari strength.
Unfortunately, things didn't go on for too long.
Just after 4 months of knowing her, Hikari began to have an interest in her. even though at that time their ages are 4 years apart. At that time, Hikari is 11 and Ardia is 6. Hikari wasn't sure why it was, but he really loved and was comfortable with Ardia, which made a feeling that he wasn't able to tell her appear in him. Which is love. Ardia was really kind and a genius kid. She knew about a lot of things better than Hikari at that time.
However, there is one day that Hikari promised that he wants to tell Ardia about what he feels. So on this day, Hikari wanted to tell Ardia what he felt and decided to meet her in one place.
That day, Hikari prepared himself and went to meet Ardia. Hikari was just on his way to meet her, but just right in front of him, Ardia had been shot down by an American agent. which makes Hikari in a horror. But he was lucky that he was with Akaru at that time. Akaru took down that agent and left him unconscious as the other hackers took the agent somewhere else.
Hikari then goes to Ardia and tries to help her. But unfortunately, there's nothing that he can do. She wasn't going back to life. At that time, he looked around and saw Ardia's bag, and there's a letter there.
Back then, Hikari was really shy to talk. That is why when he was close with Ardia, they both always exchanged a letter with each other. It was a letter that they wrote on their own. for each other.
Hikari then took Ardia's body to the others, and as they're processing with the ambulance and everything, Hikari went to the table to see the letter in curiosity.
As Hikari picked up the letter, he then read it.
(At that time Hikari is also known as Afiq. He changed his name to 'Hikari' just right after this tragedy. since Ardia used to call him by that name. since 'Hikari' means 'light' in English.)
"Dear Light,
I wonder how you are doing. I can't wait to explore more and more about this place with you. To know more about more people with you. To make them our friends and to share with them about the love that we have.
I always believed that we all would be able to understand each other and create a peace by doing that. Even if the people laughed at me about this. You're the only person who doesn't. You always believe in me, and I also want to tell you something.
Even if our age is far. I really wanted to tell you that I really loved you. I have been this close with you, and for me, it's so silly of you that you didn't feel it. Or is it just me?
We were able to understand each other; we were able to connect with a lot of people and know them too. I really love it. I wasn't able to tell you this. But I really love you.
But maybe I didn't deserve your love? Then if I don't, I want you to make a promise with me that one day, when you meet someone that you really love. Then I want you to make that person happy and loved no matter what kind of day it is and what happened at that time.
It's a promise, okay? "
(There's a little cute drawing on the letter since Ardia loves to draw. If you read Hikari Origin: Hitaku Quest, the full series is on Goodnovel. You will know that I used to draw and that because of that, I wanted to see the things that Ardia always dreamed of become true, and that is why I learned how to draw and reached what I wanted with it.