Author's Note: I do not own any character that came from the simulation game, but I do own the main female character and the other mafia squad characters. Been a bit rusty with my writing, please do take it easy on me. Nevertheless, I hope you guys love what I have here.

Prologue

The moonlight's rays looked so beautiful as it softly touched her face. We were both standing in the dark, only a low-lit lamppost for lighting as she stood there in the middle of the children's playground, a book and a convenience store plastic bag in her hands. As I stare at her, her face looking up at the sky, eyes closed, a little smile formed in her lips. I can't hear her breathe but I knew she was taking in the serene feel of how the night surrounded her. As her long brown curls were wildly blown by the wind, I catch my breath and I suddenly feel so consumed in the moment that I do not know how to respond if she asked me a question, or even if she said anything.

She looked so sublimely peaceful right at that moment. She looked as if she was a woman borne from the light of the moon and the cold of the dark as she silently looked up the stars and she took in a deep breath. I kept staring at her, forgetting what I wanted to say, thinking if I actually had something to say at all. I was just simply rooted in where I stood, my arms crossed in my chest, taking in the wonderful nymph in front me as she enjoys the wonderful solace she has found in a children's park underneath the moonlight and cold breeze.

"You might as well explain why you followed me here, Mr. Oh." She softly said. I didn't hear her at first, her voice coming in soft with the way the wind blew around us. She wasn't looking at the sky anymore; her eyes were silently staring into mine; question and humor playing in those amethyst orbs. She looked so pale and white compared to the heavy darkness around her; she looked like an angel in a desolate abandoned place. I forgot what I wanted to say.

"Surely you must need something, or you needed me to relay a message for Yoichi?" she added as she smiled and tucked her hair behind her ears. She moved her head slanting to the side, portraying a curious little kid, waiting for an answer to her curious inquiry. She was waiting for my answer, but she knew what had happened to me while I was watching her enjoy the night.

She knew what her presence did to me.

"I was wondering, why you were walking alone at this time of night. Women do not usually go out like this unless they're-" I began to say but she raised up her hand to tell me to stop. I waited. However, she smiled and chuckled softly and she made her way out of the playground and she started walking back to where she lived.

She didn't answer my question.

I opened my mouth to call her back. I knew that I just didn't want her to leave this place. I wanted to spend some more time with her, in this dark private space, where I can be the only one she can see; the only one she can talk to.

"I don't need your condescending tone, Mr. Oh. I'm old enough to know the danger lurking in the shadows." She stopped walking. She looked back at me with a cold smile on her face. I have annoyed her. I have wounded her pride for prying into her business and scolding her at the same moment.

"Even if you weren't in the shadows, danger is still prevalent. You, of all people, Mr. Oh knows this, am I correct?" She smiled and continued walking. I started to walk after her, taking my time, slowly, so that I would not scare her.

"Why are you here, then?" I suddenly hear her ask. She stopped walking and she turned around and faces me. I see neither smile nor cynicism in her face anymore. I could no longer read her eyes the way that I could. "I told you, I saw you alone." I explained. Partially, this was true. I also followed her around from the moment she came running out of her place up until she stopped inside the convenience store to buy something.

"Ahhh." She said. She closed her eyes, shook her head and she went back to walking home. "Well at least let me walk you home, Miss Chieko." I offered. "Yoichi won't be pleased to see you out and about." I added.

"Yoichi doesn't have a say on what I want to do. I do things on my own accord." She smiled. She looked back at me and smiled a sincere one. "I really do appreciate your offer of walking me home, but I can assure you, Mr. Oh. I am danger free from here on out. You can go back to your business now."

"Good bye, Mr. Oh." She said and she turned her head back to the road and walked faster.

I couldn't say my reply. I wanted to tell her to stay with me, don't go back to that place anymore. I watched her small figure get minute with every distance added as she walked back. Before I lost her, I began to yell, "What are you doing outside, then?" I thought she didn't hear me but I heard her laugh and said, "I bought some things!" Wanting to keep the conversation a little bit, I replied "Things for what?" and that was the time when she stopped walking again and faces me, even in the distance she was so mysterious that even her evident seclusion from what her surrounding's nature was, she somehow belonged to it.

"A Black Mamba secret!" she replied and before I could ask what she meant, she started towards the road and she was gone.

It wasn't her ambiguous reply that made me stop going after her, but the mere fact that she's gone and I somehow wanted my thoughts to grasp some things that I just realized as I watched her go. Chieko Kazumi is a mystery and she's something different.

Then and there, as I looked at the dark road where she walked in minutes ago, I had an epiphany that everything within my world is changing and for once, I am taken off guard.

For once in my life, I was undone.