Vol 1 Chapter 1 (2/2)
He barely listened to the inforlances toward her seat
She was resting her head in her hand and starting expressionlessly out the
Outside, he could see the onal pillar and the clear blue sky of early suht had co a blue so pure it seemed to suck one in
The girl in front of it seemed so transparent she would vanish into that sky
Her name was Ibekusa Machina
In a way, she was a class celebrity Her beauty was naturally a factor, but it also had to do with arriving at 8:30 sharp everylate, as if she had a clock installed in her body Also, she barely spoke with anyone
“…”
Mutsuki looked her way again and again He was enraptured by her beautiful profile, but he gave a disappointed sigh at the fact that he could not grow beyond si
And thus Mutsuki’s day began
He worked hard for his family, he had stupid fun with his friends, and he failed to speak to his crush
This was but one page from the many harmonious days of his life
And he re hu
Even afterschool, Mutsuki’s normal life continued as usual
Ibekusa Machina would always arrive just beforehomeroom and leave as soon as the final hooodbye” or “see you toh when he could not
Sakae’s hoether Mutsuki had no afterschool activities, but Sakae was always busy with his class representative work
“Fuujiiitaaa-kun Bye-bye”
“Bye-bye, Kurikara-san”
He left the acadeoodbye
He had nothing in particular to do, so he headed straight home
The toas not quite a city but still had a fair number of people, so the station located on the way ho home
More cars were honking their horns than usual, but that had nothing to do with Mutsuki on the sidewalk He ignored the din as he walked straight through the station area
Suddenly, his cell phone began vibrating in his pocket
He pulled it out to find an unknown number on the LCD panel The numbers for his friends, faarten were all saved, so he wondered who this could be as he answered
“Gather heaven, earth, and hell,” said a voice, “and you will have everything”
“What?”
“The world was created from discord …You’re about to be in trouble”
“Um…”
“Run away”
The nasal alto voice belonged to a groonize it
The boy frowned because he had no idea what the woman meant
“Who is this? This cellphone belongs to Fujita Mutsuki”
“Make sure you survive until Ange gets there”
“…”
Survive He stopped because that dangerous word brought the opposite outcome to mind
He happened to stop in front of the large wall fountain that made a nice landmark for the roundabout in front of the train station
“That is hell You mustn’t stop there”
“Eh? Eh?”
“The spring has already been wound Get away from the roundabout!”
Before the wo the station area told hi
“…”
The wo, but Mutsuki dropped his phone on the edge of the fountain
That was hardly surprising given what had happened
A bright rouge Porsche was noticeably parked in thethe station roundabout
It was stopped right in the middle of the road which explained why the cars had been honking so much But those horns soon became screams
Everyone watched in shock as sounds of scraping metal came from the Porsche and it ceased to be a car
“Ah…Ah…”
After the hood opened, round to lift the tires froround Next, the convertible chassis bent like an accordion and rose up in apose
Then, the emblem on the bumper lifted its head to look in the boy’s direction
Its glossy, streaine Just as a rhinoceros beetle looked like a jewel frorotesque underbelly when flipped over, a sense of indescribable revulsion filled the roundabout with panic
(What…is this? What is this? What is this?)
Everyone began to flee the station area, but Mutsuki was frozen in place The air felt as thick as s refused to move
As the car hts turning his way
The Porsche see by its claws to approach the duht of the car produced an awful scraping noise on the concrete
“~~”
The scraping al of a horse and the boy fell onto his butt
Even after his hips gave out, the Porsche continued toward him
“…sten! Listen, Fujita Mutsuki-kun!”
It stopped just as it crushed the dropped phone with its claw
As the due happened to the destroyed phone The bisected parts clung to the claw and became a phone once more
“Mutsuki-kun, calm down and listen You can’t stay there!”
The phone still functioned
It all felt so surreal that Mutsuki started feeling faint
“Beginning scan Fujita Mutsuki…positive Serpent’s Eye holder confirmed”
A h the Porsche’s speakers and he clearly heard his own name
But…
“Listen, Mutsuki-kun! The Springloaded isn’t the problem The demon will defeat it”
The voice co sound co from the wall fountain behind him
“The demon is the one you need to escape from!”
“Ha ha❤”
He also heard a low and oddly alluring laugh
“Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! I found you! I finally found you, Fujita Mutsuki-kun!”
The standing Porsche seemed to lean backwards
Just a few seconds before, the fountain had been filled with clear water, but now its contents sprayed out like a geyser, assaulting Mutsuki and the Porsche
And this was not water It was a sticky reddish-black liquid
Dried blood may have been the closest comparison It was exactly as warust as it poured down over his back
“Kh…gh…”
The Porsche did more than treine Even in its n substances As each drop entered the engine, the car’sbattery
In that instant, a giant curved blade pierced through the center of the exposed chassis
The red blade gently curved like a crescentand the handle was over twoIt stabbed so deeply into the Porsche monster that Mutsuki almost felt sorry for it
Only after aze down the weapon did he notice that sohts at the front of the car
(Who’s that? Watch out!)
The Porsche could not support itself any longer with its claws broken, so it collapsed forward
Mutsuki panicked, but the person standing on top was not thrown off They instead let go of the scythe and leaped toward Mutsuki
The person bent their waist to a ninety degree angle in front of Mutsuki and moved their head so close it almost hit him
The situation kept changing so fast that Mutsuki could only watch in a daze
“Hi I was looking forward toyou, Fujita Mutsuki-kun”
The person was a boy of about Mutsuki’s own age…or at least he thought it was a boy At the very least, the sleeveless shi+rt and pants were boy’s clothes and his husky voice sounded more boyish
Yet he was so beautiful that Mutsuki’s heart began to race when their eyes h for their noses to nearly touch
His droopy eyes and long eyelashes gave him an exotic depth to his looks and the hair held down by his baggy hat was a shi+ny blond The innocent save him a youthful and cute look
He was ly seductive than beautiful He was such an androgynous boy that his clothes were the only clue to his sex
“I can call you Mutsuki-kun, right? I’m Lucia You can call me Lu-kun or Lucy or whatever you want”
Mutsuki was just about charmed into a stupor
“…❤”
A coe caht ripping apart the darkness, he gave the kind of insane smile one must not be charmed by
“Wow… You’re even ined, Mutsuki-kun You haven’t even awakened yet and I’ froenes themselves!”
He looked over every inch of Mutsuki’s body with a look of animalistic intensity that seemed horribly out of place on his cute face
(Wh-who is this kid?)
Mutsuki froze over and finally narrowed the corners of his eyes
He was scared, but there was a strange charm in this boy’s eyes that just about made him fall in love
He knew being here was dangerous, but his body refused to move
The boy’s face drew even closer, but he could not escape
“You’re just my type❤ Heh heh I think I would’ve fallen for you even if you weren’t the chosen one”
“The chosen-…? Nmh!”
He tried to ask about that phrase, but soo blank
Reddish lips reainst his own
The boy’s lips shi+ned like glistening sweets as they covered the entirety of Mutsuki’s own lips
(H…Huh?)
Mutsuki was utterly confused when he felt so wet around his lips The mysterious boy named Lucia used that opportunity to squeeze his lips shut
“Hee hee❤”
His beautiful looks greeetly flushed and he let out a warm breath
The boy’s bewitching, sweet, and stickily s and robbed hith
After being left motionless, the boy devoured, rubbed, and pecked at his defenseless lips
(What…is this? What is he doing to ue)
Mutsuki could do nothing to stop it He did not quite knoas happening yet He only felt a pleasantly soft sensation pressing at his mouth sometimes fast and sometimes slow The aroma of the heated breaths was certainly not unpleasant, but…
(Isn’t he…a boy?)
Only after the boy’s s about his mouth did Mutsuki come back to his senses
“Waaaaahhh!”
It had taken him a while, but he finally moved back His back hit the dried fountain as he put some distance between them
“Wh-why? What? What are you…?”
What are you doing? Who are you? Why did you kiss me? That was my first time
Mutsuki had so h his mind he was not sure what to say first, so his mouth only flapped wordlessly
“Heh heh heh heh heh Thanks for that❤”
Lucia pressed his knees together and fidgeted with a delighted and charmed smile on his face
Mutsuki nearly found hiirl he had ever seen, so he lost his chance to get angry He could only s his co when he closed his mouth and he only realized afterwards that he had sed Lucia’s saliva as well
The happy-looking boy held his hands to his cheeks
“You’re better than I ever ih toto make you my slave, but I was the one that fell for you♪”
Hesomeone instructions, and…
“Wah!?”
Mutsuki had been sitting with his back to the wall but his hips were forced up
It was that blood from before The black sli and it now pulled him upwards on the boy’s command
“Now, let’s start by awakening the proof that you’re the chosen one Let’s awaken the world’sall women down into corruption! Let’s awaken the Serpent’s Eye!”
“The Serpent’s…? …!? Eh…!”
The liquid had complete control And as Mutsuki treic trick, the next trick hit him
“Ah…ah…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?”
Ever since the Porsche had begun tobut his lips, but the flanited
An indescribable feeling welled up inside his head as if the inside of his skull were on fire or seas being pumped into his temples His clothes were pinned to the wall, so he could not even crouch down as he squirmed and tried to control the core of the sensation
That core was his right eye which throbbed and burned to a painful degree
“Ahhhhhh! What is this!? What is this!? What is thiiiiiissssss!?”
“Don’t be afraid The throbbing of the nerves is te free of your frail huet used to it soon enough”
Lucia s in a ht
“It itches when you peel off a scab, but then you get new, healed skin It hurts to peel back the foreskin that first time, but then you receive the reat pain, but then they get to enter this sweet, hellish world …Now!”
What did Fujita Mutsuki do?
“Look at me with that eye”
He looked up toward the whisper that would destroy the harmony of his everyday life
“Ahhh… Gh… Kh… It hurts… It hurts!”
“Don’t worry That heat is proof that you are the chosen one”
He desperately held and rubbed his right eye He even wanted to pluck out the eyeball
“Look at me Look at aze of such beautiful corruption”
“…Uuh…”
Called by Lucia and with tears pouring from his eyes, he hesitantly opened the swollen eyelid
And…
“Ah…”
A mass of metal dropped down and split Lucia’s ecstatic for from the top of the head
When the boy’s two halves collapsed to the left and right, Mutsuki saw her standing behind him
Despite the pain froly clear view of the world
“Fujita Mutsuki”
He saw long hair colored a burning crimson A blue ribbon fluttered in the wind
“You are the legendary boy chosen by the demonic eye”
Mutsuki had anything but a large build, but this girl looked slender even to him He doubted she was even 140 centimeters tall
She had the large round eyes of a se of her nose rose to an unrelossy pink color stood out on her snohite skin
She looked young enough already, but she had a round baby face that stood at odds with the dignified angle of her eyebrows She was more than just short The shoulders exposed by her white running shi+rt and the legs contained in her spats were so delicate they seehly The straight hair that was long enough to cover her butt further emphasized her slender build
That girl easily lifted a sheet of ht and she rested it on her shoulder Mutsuki was al to think all of this was just a dream, but he was still shocked by what he saw
That sheet of ht iron was a sword
She held a sword larger than she was
“Who are you?”
“Ange I was sent here to protect you”
Her clear, ocean blue eyes looked directly into his burning right eye
That was the beginning
“I ael”
Meeting this girl was enough to smash Fujita Mutsuki’s harmony to pieces
“I ae of the Double Flame”