/**
 *  _           _                 __                            _   _ _   _                                 _                    _                  _
 * | |         | |               / /                           | | (_) | (_)                               | |                  (_)                | |
 * | |__   __ _| |_ ___   ___   / /__ ___  _ __ ___  _ __   ___| |_ _| |_ ___   _____ ______ _ __ _   _ ___| |_ ______ ___ _ __  _ _ __  _ __   ___| |_ ___
 * | '_ \ / _` | __/ _ \ / _ \ / / __/ _ \| '_ ` _ \| '_ \ / _ \ __| | __| \ \ / / _ \______| '__| | | / __| __|______/ __| '_ \| | '_ \| '_ \ / _ \ __/ __|
 * | | | | (_| | || (_) | (_) / / (_| (_) | | | | | | |_) |  __/ |_| | |_| |\ V /  __/      | |  | |_| \__ \ |_       \__ \ | | | | |_) | |_) |  __/ |_\__ \
 * |_| |_|\__,_|\__\___/ \___/_/ \___\___/|_| |_| |_| .__/ \___|\__|_|\__|_| \_/ \___|      |_|   \__,_|___/\__|      |___/_| |_|_| .__/| .__/ \___|\__|___/
 *                                                  | |                                                                           | |   | |
 *                                                  |_|                                                                           |_|   |_|
 *
 * https://github.com/hatoo/competitive-rust-snippets
 */
#[allow(unused_imports)]
use std::cmp::{max, min, Ordering};
#[allow(unused_imports)]
use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet, BinaryHeap, HashMap, HashSet, VecDeque};
#[allow(unused_imports)]
use std::iter::FromIterator;
#[allow(unused_imports)]
use std::io::{stdin, stdout, BufWriter, Write};
mod util {
    use std::io::{stdin, stdout, BufWriter, StdoutLock};
    use std::str::FromStr;
    use std::fmt::Debug;
    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn line() -> String {
        let mut line: String = String::new();
        stdin().read_line(&mut line).unwrap();
        line.trim().to_string()
    }
    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn chars() -> Vec<char> {
        line().chars().collect()
    }
    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn gets<T: FromStr>() -> Vec<T>
    where
        <T as FromStr>::Err: Debug,
    {
        let mut line: String = String::new();
        stdin().read_line(&mut line).unwrap();
        line.split_whitespace()
            .map(|t| t.parse().unwrap())
            .collect()
    }
    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn with_bufwriter<F: FnOnce(BufWriter<StdoutLock>) -> ()>(f: F) {
        let out = stdout();
        let writer = BufWriter::new(out.lock());
        f(writer)
    }
}
#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules ! get { ( $ t : ty ) => { { let mut line : String = String :: new ( ) ; stdin ( ) . read_line ( & mut line ) . unwrap ( ) ; line . trim ( ) . parse ::<$ t > ( ) . unwrap ( ) } } ; ( $ ( $ t : ty ) ,* ) => { { let mut line : String = String :: new ( ) ; stdin ( ) . read_line ( & mut line ) . unwrap ( ) ; let mut iter = line . split_whitespace ( ) ; ( $ ( iter . next ( ) . unwrap ( ) . parse ::<$ t > ( ) . unwrap ( ) , ) * ) } } ; ( $ t : ty ; $ n : expr ) => { ( 0 ..$ n ) . map ( | _ | get ! ( $ t ) ) . collect ::< Vec < _ >> ( ) } ; ( $ ( $ t : ty ) ,*; $ n : expr ) => { ( 0 ..$ n ) . map ( | _ | get ! ( $ ( $ t ) ,* ) ) . collect ::< Vec < _ >> ( ) } ; ( $ t : ty ;; ) => { { let mut line : String = String :: new ( ) ; stdin ( ) . read_line ( & mut line ) . unwrap ( ) ; line . split_whitespace ( ) . map ( | t | t . parse ::<$ t > ( ) . unwrap ( ) ) . collect ::< Vec < _ >> ( ) } } ; ( $ t : ty ;; $ n : expr ) => { ( 0 ..$ n ) . map ( | _ | get ! ( $ t ;; ) ) . collect ::< Vec < _ >> ( ) } ; }
#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules ! debug { ( $ ( $ a : expr ) ,* ) => { println ! ( concat ! ( $ ( stringify ! ( $ a ) , " = {:?}, " ) ,* ) , $ ( $ a ) ,* ) ; } }

/// Equivalent to std::lowerbound and std::upperbound in c++
pub trait BinarySearch<T> {
    fn lower_bound(&self, &T) -> usize;
    fn upper_bound(&self, &T) -> usize;
}
impl<T: Ord> BinarySearch<T> for [T] {
    fn lower_bound(&self, x: &T) -> usize {
        let mut low = 0;
        let mut high = self.len();
        while low != high {
            let mid = (low + high) / 2;
            match self[mid].cmp(x) {
                Ordering::Less => {
                    low = mid + 1;
                }
                Ordering::Equal | Ordering::Greater => {
                    high = mid;
                }
            }
        }
        low
    }
    fn upper_bound(&self, x: &T) -> usize {
        if self.is_empty() {
            return 0;
        }
        let mut low = 0;
        let mut high = self.len();
        while low != high {
            let mid = (low + high) / 2;
            match self[mid].cmp(x) {
                Ordering::Less | Ordering::Equal => {
                    low = mid + 1;
                }
                Ordering::Greater => {
                    high = mid;
                }
            }
        }
        low
    }
}

#[allow(dead_code)]
fn main() {
    let s: Vec<usize> = util::line()
        .chars()
        .map(|c| (c as u8 - 'a' as u8) as usize)
        .collect();

    let mut idx = vec![Vec::new(); 26];

    for (i, &c) in s.iter().enumerate() {
        idx[c].push(i);
    }

    let mut dp = vec![1; s.len() + 1];

    for i in (0..s.len()).rev() {
        dp[i] = (0..26)
            .map(|c| {
                let j = idx[c].lower_bound(&i);
                if let Some(&j) = idx[c].get(j) {
                    dp[j + 1] + 1
                } else {
                    1
                }
            })
            .min()
            .unwrap();
    }

    // debug!(dp);

    let mut ans: Vec<usize> = Vec::new();
    let mut i = 0;

    while i < dp.len() {
        // debug!(i);
        for c in 0..26 {
            if let Some(&j) = idx[c].get(idx[c].lower_bound(&i)) {
                if dp[i] > dp[j + 1] {
                    ans.push(c);
                    i = j + 1;
                    break;
                }
            } else {
                ans.push(c);
                i = dp.len();
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    println!(
        "{}",
        ans.into_iter()
            .map(|i| ('a' as u8 + i as u8) as char)
            .collect::<String>()
    );
}


Measured memory_bytes: 10492