Mizuhara Yukie finally comes back after being away for 5 years. To all the readers who have been following me until now, it is my deep apology to you that I didn't update my incomplete stories or couldn't answer your expectations. To your disappointment, I decided to put all of my incomplete stories as "Hiatus" and restart again this year. This is because after many years, my motivation to continue Inazuma Eleven is no longer there so I didn't know how I should write or continue it. Therefore, I want to go back to square one and restart with K: Return of Kings. If you are dissatisfied then I will not complain but I can't promise you to continue them anymore.

My new term is also starting with IB waiting for me so time-consuming is a matter of time for me. Though, I really do want to make a fresh start this year. Please enjoy!

#1 Knowledge

The girl grew up seeing her parents from behind.

When was the last time that I've seen them? How many days have passed by then? Until they came back, how many books did I read again?

Her father is a diplomat and her mother is a reporter. In human's common sense, they are workaholic parents who spend too much time at work and didn't even try to connect with her.

My room was full of bookshelves. When my father left, he said that if I'm bored then I can just read them to kill time. Sometimes, I also went to his study to find some of his collections.

She re-read them again and again and drove everything from facts about reality to unnecessary into her head one by one. Most of all, she tried to memorize information about weapons that she thought it might be useful in the future.

Before I realized, there wasn't any new book for me to read anymore. I was bored. At school, everyone kept a distance from me. I did not know why and how to start a conversation with them at all.

She did not know what it was like to love someone or to be loved by them. Maybe because of the gap between her family, her experience on relationship with strangers was zero. A girl who has no social skills.

Whenever they came back, they would give me another collection of new books as souvenir. Overwhelmed with eagerness and satisfaction, I simply ran back to my room to read it.

Despite living in a lonely childhood, she was content as long as she had books. She wanted to know more. She wanted to learn more. Even if that was the most trivial of the subjects, her brain cells kept shouting out that they want to know about this one. A detail that she had never once seen.

For many years, it was like an eternal return for me every time I reached to the last page and shifted to the new page of another book.

"I want to create a world where each player can create their own scenario by their own ability. No one is bounded by rules or common sense. Everyone can have the power to make their own decisions and take responsibility for it. That is a new stage we are going to create for the game."

Humans can live according to how they want. All the mankind will gain powers and be equal to each other. People can use that power to take the responsibility of their life.

A world that is covered with enigmatic green.

"That's my dream. Do you want to create a new future together with us, Kazahinomi Shinatsu?"

"Shinatsu-chan! Shinatsu-chan!"

Without any response, her aqua-blue colored eyes just took a glance at the purple-haired 30s man and turned back to the book she was holding while leaning against the base of the sofa.

"I'm listening to you. What do you want to ask? Hurry up please." She flipped to the next page without any motivation to continue the conversation.

"Ever since I came back, you have been sitting at one place until now. It's not beautiful for a girl to lazing around at one place without doing anything." Yukari said as he applied the facial mask on his face. Gentle tapping different points of the mask one by one.

"I don't want to hear it from a transvestite who does sit for 1 hour to apply cosmetics on your face at such an age." Sukuna who was playing game at the corner chuckled at the insult that was directed to the older man.

"I'm currently polishing myself! And what do you mean by at such an age." He emphasized. "Shinatsu-chan?"

"He's more concerned about that?" Tenkei who was sitting at the table drinking beer shrugged at Yukari's reactions for being offended about "age" instead of the other one.

"I mean what I said." She replied "Reading this new book has more worth than applying cosmetics anyway."

"Shinatsu. What's that book called?" The wheel chaired King who was sitting at the opposite of Tenkei asked.

"The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom." She shifted her eye contact to Nagare. "The main character of the work, Dor, is a man who invented the first clock. He is given a mission to help two people to understand about the appreciation of time."

"Time. It's true that time is something we should be respectful to. Affirmative." Nagare replied with a stern face which received a small smile from the girl who went back to her book again.

"Time is like a beautiful light that'll end in a short moment." Yukari picked up a mirror to check his face and continued "If you don't know how to capture that moment and let it pass, you will soon regret for it."

"Yukari is right. Our time is limited so before the countdown stops, it's important to move on as fast as possible…for the beginning of a new world." The Green King smirked at the last word "I am excited."

A world that is covered with enigmatic green.

It's question that I cannot decipher just by reading books.

From being alone in a room that was full of bookshelves, I was now staying inside this narrow room that was full of junk and these strange people.

That ends the prologue. The next chapter will be 1 or 2 months later depending on how busy I am with IB and free time that I will have. For those who want to know more about Shinatsu, you can visit my DeviantArt to check her background and picture that are owned by me.