Prologue
The girl is not but a mere five years old and yet she already knows how to count, add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers as if there is nothing to it. She reads books that normal children her age are unable to read and speaks three different languages without the assistance of either family or teacher. Although these things are all wonderful, the one thing that truly makes her special is the fact that she has the pure white wings of an angel. These wings carry the sorrows of her past ancestors and a great and unimaginable amount of power. She undoubtedly has the Gift of the Winged Ones.
Those with the Gift have been sought throughout the entire world for centuries by a secret society called the Supernatural Assessment and Knightly Eliminators or S.N.A.K.E for short. Once children with the Gift are found, the society takes them to a facility to 'train' them how to properly manage their abilities and to surpass the limits of normal standards. In the past, we had only experienced a problem like this once before...and we have regretted the outcome ever since. The girl called Misuzu Kamino has been placed in my family's care by her parents. They wished for us to take care of her so that she would not suffer the same fate as the last one did. It is relevant to keep her safe no matter what may happen in the future.
My family, the Kunisaki's, has always had a bond with the Winged Ones ever since the dawn of time. Along with this bond, the Winged Ones bestowed a gift to our family; the gift of not aging past the age of eighteen until finding the other half of your soul, whom must in turn be eighteen or older.
My name is Yukito Kunisaki, and I have not aged past eighteen for a little over five years now, while the rest of my family have been ageing with their other halves. The fact that I have not found my other half does not concern me however, for my first and foremost duty is to serve and protect this young girl with my entire life; even if it means my own death. I am determined to make sure that she lives her life to the fullest and I shall fight by her side on the fateful day of her eighteenth birthday.
Why was she born with the Gift? Only she and her Creator may answer that. From the moment she was born, her fate had been spun and set, her destiny already predetermined. The awaited Prophecy that we have longed to ensue will be completed within this life time. For centuries upon centuries we waited, only to have realized that every time we made a mistake of killing our savior...but not this time. We have learned the errors of our ways, and we are prepared to protect what is ours. To protect…what is MINE.