#ifdef _MSC_VER
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#  include <intrin.h>
#  define __builtin_popcount __popcnt
#endif

#define _USE_MATH_DEFINES

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <stack>
#include <list>
#include <math.h>
#include <bitset>
#include <iterator>
#include <map>
#include <iomanip>
#include <functional>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <queue>
#include <random>
#include <numeric>
#include <set>
#include <cassert>
#include <cmath>
#include <cinttypes>

using namespace std;

template<class T> ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, const vector<T>& v) { for (auto i = begin(v); i != end(v); i++) os << *i << (i == end(v) - 1 ? "" : " "); return os; }
template<class T> istream& operator>>(istream& is, vector<T>& v) { for (auto i = begin(v); i != end(v); i++) is >> *i; return is; }
struct fast_io {
	fast_io& operator>> (int& target) { scanf("%" PRId32, &target);  return *this; }
	fast_io& operator>> (unsigned int& target) { scanf("%" PRIu32, &target);  return *this; }
	fast_io& operator>> (long long& target) { scanf("%" PRId64, &target);  return *this; }
	fast_io& operator>> (unsigned long long& target) { scanf("%" PRIu64, &target);  return *this; }
	template<typename T> fast_io& operator>> (vector<T>& target) { for (auto& value : target) { *this >> value; } return *this; }
	fast_io& operator<< (const int value) { printf("%" PRId32, value); return *this; }
	fast_io& operator<< (const unsigned int value) { printf("%" PRIu32, value); return *this; }
	fast_io& operator<< (const long long value) { printf("%" PRId64, value); return *this; }
	fast_io& operator<< (const unsigned long long value) { printf("%" PRIu64, value); return *this; }
	fast_io& operator<< (const string& value) { printf("%s", value.c_str()); return *this; }
	template<typename T> fast_io& operator<< (const vector<T>& target) { for (auto& value : target) { *this << value << " "; } return *this; }
}; fast_io fio;

template<class ForwardIt, class UnaryPredicate>
ForwardIt first_true(ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last, UnaryPredicate predicate) {
	ForwardIt it;
	typename std::iterator_traits<ForwardIt>::difference_type count, step; count = std::distance(first, last);
	while (count > 0) {
		it = first;	step = count / 2;
		std::advance(it, step);
		if (!predicate(*it)) { first = ++it; count -= step + 1; }
		else count = step;
	}
	return first;
}

#define MOD 1000000007
#define pii pair<int,int>
#define pll pair<long long, long long>
#define all(x) (x).begin(), (x).end()
#define sort_all(x) sort(all(x))
#define make_unique(x) (x).erase(unique(all(x)), (x).end())


int main() {

#if defined(_DEBUG)
	freopen("input.txt", "r", stdin);
	freopen("output.txt", "w", stdout);
#endif

	ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);
	cin.tie(0);
	cout.tie(0);

	string str;
	cin >> str;
	str.insert(str.begin(), 'a');
	vector<int> cnts(str.size(), -1);
	for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++)
	{
		str.push_back(c);
		cnts.push_back(0);
	}
	

	vector<int> nx(str.size(), -1);
	map<char, int> prev;
	for (int j = str.size()-1; j >= 0; j--)
	{
		if (prev.size() >= 26)
		{
			char next_letter = 'a';
			for (auto& x : prev)
			{
				char cc = x.first;
				if (cnts[prev[cc]] < cnts[prev[next_letter]] || cnts[prev[cc]] == cnts[prev[next_letter]] && cc < next_letter)
					next_letter = cc;
			}
			nx[j] = prev[next_letter];
			cnts[j] = cnts[nx[j]] + 1;
		}
		prev[str[j]] = j;
	}

	string ans;
	int pos = 0;
	while (pos >= 0)
	{
		ans.push_back(str[pos]);
		pos = nx[pos];
	}

	ans.erase(ans.begin(), ans.begin() + 1);

	cout << ans;
	
	return 0;
}

Measured memory_bytes: 2196