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So I saw this on chat on a gacha game I'm playing.

> 正式触媒も無くかの刀匠を引き当てるほどの奇跡を
>
> 忘れることなど決して

My understanding of this. "It was a miracle for me to summon her without an
official catalyst, I'll never forget that."

So I looked up what 決して. I found this on context.reverso.net

> アーロンは決して横たわらない ゴードンさん

Is the use of "決して" here different? The first example doesn't have the
negation yet both examples seem to mean "never".
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Does 決して always mean "never" even if the verb is negative?
> **忘れることなど決して**

決して doesn't mean what English "never" means, on its own. It is an adverbial
phrase paired with negation, much like " **absolutely** not". Unlike English
where most emphatic elements are either shared among positive, question, and
negative expressions (if at all / why at all / not at all) or already fused
with negative words (nothing / never / none), Japanese has many such
freestanding words exclusively serve negative sentences (and [using in
positive sentences could be blamed being bad
grammar](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/794/7810)). As a result, we can
still imply negation even we omit the negation element itself.

> 全然。 _(Not) at all._  
>  ちっとも。 _(Not) a bit._  
>  別に。 _(Not) particular; whatever._

決して is not a word frequently seen in isolation (not a very colloquial word
either), but perfectly understandable whenever it is.
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