Risen: And we are back with another AT chapter. Today we have Froy's older sister and Bernard's younger sister, Sye!

Sye: Name's Sye Girikanan. Nice to meet you. Sooooo, where are my brothers?

Froy: Sye~!

Sye: Froy~! Where is Hikaru-kun?

Froy: Ehehe.... He is a bit busy.... Anyways, this is Alternate Timeline #2: Sye Girikanan. Hope you will enjoy!

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Alternate Timeline #2: Sye Girikanan

Background: Orion Episode 36

" After all, I never got a true friend.... No one understands me. "

Froy's P.O.V

It has been years since I last saw Mitsuru. I've always considered him a friend of mine. He was the only one besides my sister that came to me when everyone left me..... I felt happy, when those two are around. They are my friends, my family, my hope, my life..... And they were all gone. For a really long time.

- Will you still remember who I am when you see me, Sye....?

I still fell deep into my thoughts, when there was a voice calling out for me. It was Yuri. Since I was a representative for Russia, I got new friends like Yuri and Viktor. They were really kind and straightforward to me, unlike when I was in practice.

- The match will be starting soon, Froy.

- Just a minute. I still have some things to do....

- You still miss them? Sye left since you were really young, and Mitsuru didn't even exist without knowing, but now he appeared as Hikaru, Mitsuru's younger brother.... - Yuri spoke, as his eyes got dull a bit....

- I know. But no matter what happens, we will win this match. We of Russia will stand on top of the world!

Yuri spoke nothing more, but his eyes are filled with anxiety and worry. It was just in a flash of seconds, but I caught a glimpse of it. What was he thinking....? Anxiety and worry can be seen all over his face! What's that I am seeing....?

- What's wrong, Yuri? Something bothered you? - Froy asked. He really cared for his friend, though deep inside, he knew how people really think about him.

- No, nothing. Let's get going.

" What are you all hiding from me, Yuri?.... "

----- Sorry but let's time skip to the match, shall we? -----

- Hissatsu Tactics: Aurora Wave!

A screen of aurora went through them, but along with it, I saw something, I'm sure of it! Then all of a sudden, the members of Inazuma Japan started to have strange emotions..... They are.... screaming? What happened? Just when I realised it, Hikaru was looking at me, angrily....

- Froy.... Why....? - Hikaru just spoke lightly, but those were as if my heart shattered into a million pieces.....

" What did I do....? I thought we were friends?! I thought that.... we all love the innocent soccer there is...? " - I thought, as I looked at the others members. They were acting as if nothing happened.... And I was sure that my brother was behind all of this....

- I thought we would play true soccer... The soccer we loved! The soccer we had always desired! Where is it now, in your heart? Who am I, in all of you?

- Look at you first! Who are you now, Froy Girikanan? Don't pretend to be such a soccer lover! We all know that the ' soccer ' you say exsists no more! So why, why are you still holding on to a hope that your brother would realise that?! That real soccer would return? - Yuri shouted out all those words. I knew it was just his thoughts, but did he have to speak it out loud? I could feel my tears, they wanted to fall, but unable to. Was I still holding back how I really feel?

Our conversation went quite far. Far enough for everyone to hear. I caught Hikaru's blue eyes, as if he still believe that.... I was still the person he knew, the Ichihoshi that had stood alongside him for years in Russia....

- I'm sorry, Hikaru.... I can't return to who I once was....

Everything became meaningless. Our goal, our dreams, they were all just an illusion in front of my eyes. And now.... Will I lose my one and only person left to really appreciate who I am?

- Don't be like that, Froy! - A voice spoke up, strange, but also familiar at the same time - We promised each other that we would live, to see each other again! Now you are breaking it?

Everyone, including me, headed towards the voice. But somehow, I can't see anything....

- Froy, it's me, your sister!

- S-Sye....? Is that really you?!

I was really surprised, and somehow, I just replied to her, while everyone was looking at me weirdly.... If she was talking to me, but I can't see her.... That meant.....

- Sye.... What happened to you?....

- I'm sorry, Froy, for leaving you alone. You can see me, under the lights of the aurora... Or at least, when you wish to.... A spirit that couldn't get away to the afterlife, that is....

Speaking of that.... When our team begin the tactics, besides from the pink dust, I saw a shadow in it..... So it was Sye, huh?....

- Can you please, do some skin contacts with Ichihoshi? He could see me through your vision at that moment. - She said, but I was scared. Scared that Hikaru would stay away from me.... But in the end, I still got the nerve to come close....

- Hikaru-kun.... - I tried to talk to him, but he just turned away. That look at that moment, he must be so angry.... at me.

- What do you want? You are not the Froy I knew.... Not for now.... - He spoke in a cold tone.... Even colder than the original Mitsuru...

- There's a person I want you to meet.

- Who?

- Skin contact first. Sorry for this! - I grabbed Hikaru's hands tightly. The moment he turned his face to me, he saw her.

- What are you--- Wait.... Sye-san?

- It has been quite a while since the last day I saw you, Hikaru.... Though at that time, we called you Mitsuru, your brother.

- You are dead, aren't you....? And I'm talking to your spirit.... now....

- There is something I need to tell you, Hikaru.

- What is it? - He has calm down, and still contacting with me, so I knew what they were talking. Sye came closer to him, in front of everyone's astonishment. It was just a small whisper, but it was a critical strike to him. I can ensure it, because I heard it.

- Your friend, Inamori Asuto.... He became a desciple of Orion, and he will appear here, in this match. People just call him " The warrior with the black bandana ".... Just prepare yourself for the worse situation.... I wish you luck, all of Inazuma Japan.... "

- T-That can't be.... Why....? - Hikaru seemed to not believing in what he heard. I wanted to calm him down, but it seemed like he was crying already....

- What am I supposed to do?....

- Hikaru.... I'm leaving this match. I can't take any more of this.

- Froy.... Will we see each other again? Playing the soccer we love?

- Yeah.... Definitely.... - It sounded like a promise, but I was sure that Hikaru knew that I was hesitate, that I was scared of the truth....

I let all of my feelings into all my words to Yuri and Hikaru.... It turned out that I was never alone. Sye had always been next to me....

- Please, if it is possible.... I hope that Sye will not suffer all of this in her next life.... There would be no one who could replace her in my life.....

And somewhere, a field of higanbana bloomed....

A thousand years to bloom, a thousand years away....

When there's flower, there's no leaves. When there are leaves, where is the flower....?

On the same place, but why so far away?

Just like every love there is, so close, yet so far away....

So gorgeous, yet so fragile....

~ Higanbana, the flower of hurtful memories ~