"[……I didn't have anything.]

[……Eh?]

Hearing her mutter to herself, I tilted my head. Shiro-san stood up from the bathtub and moved towards the center of the onsen. The back view of Shiro-san with her very long hair looked very picturesque by itself, stealing my eyes away.

Thereupon, without looking back at me, Shiro-san spoke to me again in her intonationless voice.

[……It's not a metaphor. I really had nothing. No heart, no feelings, nor purpose……. Not having anything, I was always standing at the end, as a being who only brings everything to an end.]

[……End?]

[Yes, I was that kind of being. Let's see…… If I were to describe myself in the language of Kaito-san's world, I might as well say that I am nothing but “a system called Shallow Vernal”. If that really was my proper form, being able to talk to you like this…… is something like a “bug”.]

Shiro-san's story sounded somewhat abstract, and I couldn't quite understand what she was talking about, probably because I didn't have enough information. But somehow…… I felt like this is a story I shouldn't overlook.

[Now that I think about it again, the first emotion I ever felt…… would be uncertainty, I guess. I was always standing at the end, just to bring everything to an end.]

[I've seen all kinds of beings. Some loved the world they created, others hated the world they created. There were those who created the world without knowing anything, and those who created the world for the sake of others…… I just couldn't understand.]

[……What did you not understand?]

[Joy, anger, sadness, enjoyment…… Thinking to myself what those things are, I didn't know what a heart is. To laugh, to get angry, to feel sorrow, to be happy…… thinking to myself how I could do such things, but I didn't understand what emotions are…… for they're things that my existence doesn't deem as necessary.]"

"Not knowing about the heart, not understanding what emotions are…… Does that mean that she didn't have emotions that we naturally acquire in the process of growing up after our birth?"

Sự tồn tại của Shallow Vernal là một hạt giống nảy mầm đại diện cho phần kết Không trái tim, không tình cảm, cũng không mục đích, cô luôn đứng ở cuối cùng
Ngay từ đầu cô chỉ là là một hệ thống khá trừu tượng và không hề có bản ngã việc cô có thể nói chuyện và tương tác không khác gì hơn là một lỗi của hệ thống.