Vol 1 Chapter 2 (1/2)

Adolescent Adae

“Pant… Pant… …Ah”

Mutsuki had never is weak fros for hours on end, so he was not even sure he was really standing He unsteadily headed houardrails

The way home normally took less than fifteennow

(What…was that?)

His head was spinning and he felt sick It felt like all of his blood was flowing backwards He felt a chill yet could not stop sweating and his head was filled with nothing but heat

He could only iine the events in front of the train station had been a dream First, a car had stood up and started to walk and then the fountain’s water had turned blood red Finally, a girl had appeared out of nowhere and sliced a boy in two

However…

“…”

He gently held his right eye

A ive a view around the corner, so he hesitantly peered into it He saw his own face there, but his right eye was proof that those events had been all too real

It was black A black smooth object was located where his eyeball should have been It looked like a nontransparent plastic panel had been placed over the eye

And yet he knew better than anyone that he was looking at his own eye The covered eye had no pupil, but the faint outline of the iris was there and he was able to see through that spot

His right eye could see and his sight was much clearer than before

He tried covering his left eye, but that only closed off a bit on the left side of his vision

It truly had not been a dreas, and inside his clothes He found no injuries

There were no red n of any kind of burns

“Fwah… Ah…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

The girl calling herself an angel greings from her back to prove her claim

Instead of the white wings told of in legends, they were made of dull blue fla and they s and wrapped around Mutsuki as he was pinned to the wall

He screae maintained a look of composure

“Calht You shouldn’t even feel war rid of the Succubi”

Once she mentioned it, he realized the flames were not even hot, as if they were a h to calm Mutsuki’s panic There was no way he could relax while flames enveloped him

Instead of burning hi his clothes and turned it to ash

The liquid fell away, freeing Mutsuki’s body from the wall

He fell into the wall fountain below hian to boil into steam, but even an of weakening

“How pathetic”

The angel girl nae watched in obvious exasperation as he flailed around in the water

But when he looked up in search of help, his right eye met her blue eyes

“…”

She quickly looked away

“Except for the Serpent’s Eye, it seems”

She faced the side, revealing a cheek that was so flushed it was noticeable even in the light of the setting sun

“Ange of the Double Flame, hm?”

A moment later, her face stiffened at a voice

The voice was Lucia’s He had supposedly been sliced in two, but he looked entirely unharmed as he sat on the hood of the scrap metal that had been the Porsche

“Even aht of flames, your flames were much hotter than norrees …Is that big thing the rumored Prominence?”

“I’lad to hear I’m so famous”

The girl clicked her tongue, turned around, and pointed her large sword at the boy

Even if it was hollow except for the core of support in the center, the panel ofit around in one hand It was an unbelievable sight

The slightly da black surface was made of metal and covered in the luster of a black pearl It looked just as gorgeous as the japanese swords that were given as deep a shi+ne as platinuh to feel the soleht of the metal inside

“Oh, God What a pain”

Lucia jumped down from the hood

He pulled out the large red scythe stabbed into the vehicle His arms were far skinnier than Mutsuki’s, yet he not only easily lifted the giant scythe, but he tore apart the Porsche’s red body like it was made of paper

They both seemed to possess the same mysterious and abnormal power

“—————!!”

“—————!!”

All Mutsuki could tell was that they were enemies

The giant sword nah the air and the two of them collided

“~~Gh…”

Thescythe The sword had ht, so it would push the scythe back

However, the boy ducked down before the blade arrived, dodged the slash, and sent the force of his blow to the other end of his weapon He sent the handle toward the girl’s torso

“Ah”

The high-speed exchange did not even last two full seconds Mutsuki’s eyes caught up, but only after the girl used the e to jump away from the boy and avoid the scythe handle

Mutsuki was not even given tiertips danced like he aving a conductor’s baton, the pieces of black water scattered across the ground forel

“Didn’t you know?”

The battle was over

“An angel’s body cannot be defiled”

The liquid deirl turned to ash the instant they arrived within a certain area around her

Lucia’s eyes greide because the girl’s body was now surrounded by blue flames so thin they were nearly invisible The film of fire had created an inviolable barrier around her

“A Corona!?”

The boy’s shock created a brief opening In that instant, Ange ran right up to the boy while protected by her burning fire

She unleashed a full swing of her great sword

Lucia soed to catch it on his scythe, but his slender body was launched several dozen e truck had hit him

“Da”

Despite his surprise, Lucia placed his feet on a building’s wall to recover However, he did not immediately make a counterattack The film of blue fire that had burned the black water had spread as the angel approached and had scorched the boy’s beautiful face

His constant thin smile vanished for just a led and the smile returned

“Okay, looks like I’el”

He ju from him

“Heh heh♪ That’s a lovely eye, Mutsuki-kun You can violate hly later, okay?”

After a parting wink, he turned around and left

“Wait! …Oh, you! Micha will be here soon, so stay put!”

That was all Ange said before pursuing the boy

Mutsuki had no idea what to find strange anyravity to ju with that mass of metal in hand

(Should I really have run away?)

Mutsuki hurried hoht eye

(She told me to wait for soathering there Besides, who knows if I can even trust that Ange girl)

Hebut run from that bizarre situation

But he really did think running away had been the best plan He felt bad doing this to Ange – as at least a winged girl who could do a few inhuel – but he wanted to return home at the moment

(Would a doctor be able to heal my eye?)

With that absentht, he tried his best to think over it all cal calm

(It started with…that’s right I got that phone call before the car started to move A woman spoke to me)

That had been the beginning of this mysterious event

She had told hie arrived

The caller had known Ange, the girl with the sword And at the very least, she had not seemed to want to harm him

That e told him to stay, but he did not have the nerve to head back to the station now

After the call, the Porsche had started to ured out what it was after, but it had certainly turned his way

Then that boy named Lucia had arrived

“…”

Mutsuki brought a hand to his mouth

He could still feel a lingering hint of that warmth, softness, and sweet pleasure

That boy had seemed to want to earn his favor and Mutsuki had trouble disliking him

However, that boy had been the one to do this to his right eye He had also fought a deadly battle with Ange, who seemed more like an ally, but before that, he had protected Mutsuki from the car monster

(This is hopeless)

His thoughts spun round and round in his head and he doubted he could think about anything at the moment

There had also been that black water and those blue fla an eye doctor He reached the residential district while holding his right eye again

“Mutsuki-chan, are you only now getting home? Welcome back”

“Oh, y-yes Good evening”

Given the tihbors

He had no idea ould happen if they saw it, so he paid careful attention to his right eye as he pretended to be the polite son of the Fujita family he usually was

“You’re soaking wet Did so happen?”

“N-no, I just fell in a pond is all I’m fine”

Even if he hid his eye, his clothes et and he was covered in ashes, so he naturally gathered attention Feeling uncomfortable, he picked up his pace toward home

He had his hands full with his own state, so he failed to notice so else

“I see Well, try not to catch cold …Huh?”

The neighbor who had greeted him was only the first

“Welcome back, Mutsuki-kun …Hm?”

“Hi, Mutsuki-oniichan! …Nn …Fweh?”

“…!?”

One was a neighbor woirl the sairl who just so happened to be in the area

Each of their expressions changed entirely when Mutsuki passed them by

They more not just surprised by his wet clothes

They all gave hi

“I’m home”

“Took you long enough Hey, Mutsuki! I called you a thousand times, so I know you turned off your phone!”

As soon as Mutsuki arrived ho

He had never appreciated the voice of a faht of the house so s were still weak, so he nearly collapsed to the floor

“We’re out of ice, so I wanted you to buy some on your way- …What is that?”

He had made it home, but he could not help but lean on the entranceway door That hen Chiaki walked in wearing her usual rough around-the-house outfit of a camisole and jeans, but she was shocked to find her brother soaking wet and covered in ashes

“We need ice? I’ll buy soet me a towel for now?”

“S-sure And the eye doctor? Did you hurt yours?”

His impertinent but kind sister started toward the bathrooave her a s his eye

“…Eek!?”

As soon as he looked at her, a change came over her

She held her hands to her navel and started to tremble She fell to her knees and arched her back behind her Her entire body shook as if electricity was surging out fros That is, her crotch

“Ah… Ah…? What…is this? What is this!?”

“Chiaki!? What is it? Eh? Wh-what is it!?”

He frantically ran over because so

But without knoas happening, he had no idea what to do As he stood there in confusion, his sister’s state only greorse

“Kyah… aheh♡”

The healthy thighs contained inside her jeans spread on their own

Beads of sweat visibly covered her entire body Too much liquid to be sweat darkened her jeans around the base of her thighs

“Help…me… Mutsuki…onii…chan…”

Chiaki turned her rew to convulsions

Utterly confused, Mutsuki reached a hand toward her slender shoulder

“~~~!!”

As soon as he touched her, he noticed her camisole was plastered to her chest with sweat and that the tips of those still-childish bulges were erect

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

He had lived with her for about a dozen years, but he had never heard her scream like that

Her skinny body bent sharply backwards as if she were perfore She stuck her pelvis out so far it looked like it would break off, the bottom of her camisole slid up, and her petite navel came into view She was his sister, yet Mutsuki found that adorable depression to be strangely alluring He was so shocked he stopped his outstretched hand, but it was already too late

“Hyah… Ah… Aheh…”

A sharp-s jeans and spilled to the floor

He had not smelled this scent since his sister was nine and they had been tickling each other in the bath As the liquid formed a wave, he realized what it had to be His sister was so out of it that he grew pale, but then she finally passed out and collapsed limply to the floor

He was utterly du on

And then…

“Kyuji… Bchu… Ahhh…”

“Eh?”

After being attacked by inhuman foes a few times already, Mutsuki quickly realized what this voice was

The unpleasant groan was as high-pitched as fingernails on glass A moment later, it showed itself A black slime-like creature burst from his wet clothes

(One of those things was still there!?)

A scorched stench hung around it, but it fell between Chiaki’s lis and moved itself forward Mutsuki tre puddle and gradually grew in size

It was absorbing the urine to grow

After drinking it all and leaving the wooden floor perfectly clean, it moved toward Chiaki’s jeans in search of more liquid

“S-stop!”

“Kyubi? Kyugahhhh! Agyahhhh!”

He thought his legs would give out again, but he frantically picked up his unconscious sister and ran away

The black filth cried and wailed in hunger as it crawled after hiet Chiaki away and ran toward the entranceway

“Yes Good, good”

A ball of red fire squashed the slime flat

“Eh?”

The filth had burst to pieces fro remained afterwards There was not even a mark on the floor

“Walking around toith the Serpent’s Eye opened was pretty reckless, you knoent out of my way to meet you at the station, but you ditched me”

That flame had burned only the black water The color was different, but Mutsuki had seen this just a bit earlier He turned cautiously toward the voice

“But”

At some point a woman had appeared in the entranceway

“You did a good job protecting your cute little sister, so I’ll skip the lecture”

She too had fla from her back

She did not have a giant sheet of metal, but her otherworldly aura still left Mutsuki in a daze

His eyes first stopped on the healthy color of her skin Its broas gentler than a black person’s, so it more closely resembled a dark tan It was a milk tea color that could not be reproduced with dyes or at a tanning salon

Then, he noticed her outfit She wore a miniskirt about as short as a waistcloth and a black cutter shi+rt that only just barely covered her breasts While she was also wearing boots that rose halfway up her thighs and a long coat that covered her entire body, her outfit left her cleavage, hs entirely exposed, so it was hardly appropriate to wear around town

She had red, ale of her nose stood prominently out, and her plump lips were a shade of red paler than her skin Overall, she had the facial features of ahoney blonde, which added to her charm

She was unmistakably beautiful, but that seductive atmosphere actually made the boy wary

“Wh-who are you?”

Suspicious, Mutsuki stood in front of his unconscious sister

Appreciation filled the brown beauty’s face when she saw that brave brother

But when she looked the boy in the eye, she looked just as shocked as Chiaki or the neighborhood girls and women had

“So this I the power of the one to be the origin I guess I shouldn’t be surprised”

“!?”

She crouched down a little and instantly ht in front of Mutsuki

She had rabbed his cheeks before he could even gasp

“Be closed Humans are happiest as humans”

“Wah!”

An itching sensation raced through his right eye, but it was much kinder than the pain from before The boy frantically pushed her hands from his cheeks He tried a little too hard to back away and his knees gave out He landed on his butt next to his sister

“Wh-what did you just do?”

“Oh, you’re pretty cute I like this a lot better than that snake eye♪”

The boy snapped back at her due to the responsibility of having his little sister so nearby, but the woentle smile She then threw some kind of key his way