Commandments of Capturing

Prologue

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Original Title: The World Only God Knows / 神のみぞ知るセカイ and Date A Live/デート・ア・ライブ

Original Concept by Tamiki Wakaki & Tachibana Koishi

Written by: wrathie

Author's Notes: An AU world where 'Date A Live' & 'The World Only God Knows' happens simultaneously.

Author's Notes: So, here we go again. No beta this time. Give your comments, and I might just continue this. All this after I marathoned the first season last night.

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Katsuragi Keima was less than amused to a similar email popping up in his PFP when he was sifting through his hundreds of emails for the day.

First, an introduction to this boy who was granted the title of, Capturing God. His name was Katsuragi Keima, age seventeen, and second year student of Maijima Academy. He had jet black hair, wore glasses, was average of build and height and from the outside, looked the same as any ordinary high school student in Japan.

However, that was far from the truth.

He was the Capturing God, the god of galge in the known world. The one who sat at the top of everything that has to do with 'capturing' girls, be it in the ideal or in the real. If there was one person in the world that was preferred to be consulted over any capturing event, it was Katsuragi Keima, or the Capturing God.

Now, the Capturing God was known in the internet circle as well as the galge industry as the individual who revolutionized and saved the industry from collapse a few years ago. One could say that he single-handedly revived the galge industry into the million, perhaps billion dollar industry, with hundreds of releases per month, millions in revenue and fans all around the group.

Even with that title and achievement, it was still a stretch to consider him the epitome of all that had to be done with 'capturing', wasn't it?

To those that doubted him, they should be ashamed of themselves. For the Capturing God, was also a member of the Weiss Capturing Squad. The Weiss Capturing Squad was a squadron of elite demons that were selected to recaptured Weiss, Denizens of Hell, that had escaped from their confinement in New Hell.

As a member of the Weiss Capturing Squad, Keima was partnered with a demon, Elysia de Rux Ima who was currently masquerading as this sister, and his role was to chase away the Weiss using Love.

That's right, the Capturing God was 'capturing' girls in the real as well, and he has never failed a single capture so far despite the difficulties in the real.

It was also due to his efforts did his buddy, Elsi, managed to capture the most Weiss in the Weiss Capturing Squad in his short stint together.

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Keima was very displeased due to the contents of the email:

'To the Capturing God,

We have heard of your abilities in conquering any girl that you wish. Although that is more than possible in dating-sims, we have conducted extensive tests that showed that it is almost impossible for you to replicate your results in the real world.

However, we do not doubt your abilities and claim and would like to invite you to our organization to prove, once and for all, whether you are deserving of the title that you have earned with our panel of experts in Japan.

Please, do not reply this if you do not wish to accept our invitation.

-Yours Sincerely,

The Commander of Fraxinus,

Ratatoskr'

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'Elsi, did New Hell send this again?'

After showing Elsi the email, Keima frowned at his partner even as she continued scrutinizing it. This email was obviously a challenge, a challenge issued to the Capturing God, targeted and written to rile him up and subsequently to accept the challenge in a fit of rage. Only Keima would never do that, he had his fair of detractors and he had chosen to silence them with his own abilities.

His website had always been the first to publish the detailed walk-through, FAQS as well as recommendations and reviews for every galge that came out in the market. Even the most difficult, and plot twisting tale had been captured and ended by the Capturing God way before any individual or team could complete it.

Ordinarily Keima would have simply ignored this email and went back to his usual life, but he had already been screwed once over by a similar email by Elsi's boss in New Hell.

There was no way that he'll get screwed over by a similar email again.

'Ra... ta... to... skr?'

Elsi was struggling to pronounce the name, and Keima frowned before tapping her lightly on her head, reminding her that wasn't what she should be concentrating and concerned about.

'Elsi, Is it a mail from New Hell? I'm not getting another bug demon again! One is enough!'

Keima fumed even as Elsi blinked in understanding before clapping her hands together.

'Right! Kami-Onii-sama, I'll do a check right now!'

Even as Elsi pulled out her raiment, which was an invention of New Hell that helped her to do many wondrous things in the world, Keima frowned when his mother, Katsuragi Mari, interrupted the two of them.

'There's another space quake alert... it has really been quite bad this few years, hadn't it? To think that it was so peaceful a while back too.'

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Spacequakes, a relatively unknown and yet destructive phenomenon that was recorded over thirty years ago when it all but destroyed the core cities within it. The Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia had all but disappeared in a single instant.

It was a very terrifying 'natural' phenomenon that hadn't been explained up till now. When Keima had questioned Haqua, another demon of the Weiss Capturing Squad, about spacequakes, she had been unwilling to divulge information about it.

To Keima, her denial of information spoke volumes about that phenomenon. It simply was not natural, and it was an issue of high significance that made it impossible for Haqua to talk to him about it, even if he was part of the Weiss Capturing Squad.

Still, even as spacequakes did happen more and more frequently nowadays, and even if it happened mostly in Japan, Keima wasn't too worried about it.

Thanks to his own donation drive, he had installed an underground bunker in the Katsuragi Household, in Cafe Grandpa.

Unsurprisingly, besides initially protesting about the cost of the bunker itself as well as offering to split the cost between the two of them, Mari hadn't quite objected to her son in spending so much to specially construct one for his home.

Simply because Keima had taken a large portion of the bunker to store his games for safeguarding.

That aside, Keima had Elsi with him, and despite her normally ditzy nature, Elsi had always had his safety as her top priority. It did help that her raiment made it possible for her to pull Keima out of the way, and even guard him to some extent.

Yes, Spacequakes did not worry Keima at all, but it did worry Mari, who reminded the two of them of the danger that they might face if they took spacequakes lightly.

'So be careful, Keima-kun. Although we aren't near a spacequake hotspot, it's always better to be safe than sorry.'

Mari repeated to them before going back to the kitchen, where she was preparing dinner for the three of them.

The Katsuragi household currently consists of him, Elsi and Mari. Keima's father and Mari's husband was overseas for his company. That and Mari had all but thrown him out of the house, and threatened him about divorce due to Elsi's addition to the family.

Elsi had introduced herself as the illegitimate child of his father after all, and it nearly broken the family apart. Well, the adults had probably resolved this amongst themselves, but Keima still held a small bit of resentment against Elsi for almost destroying his family.

He didn't hold much attachment to his family, but a family was family... so he there was just a little resentment. It was tiny, seeing

that it was really probably nothing to worry about, but it's still there.

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'Kami-Onii-sama, Kami-Onii-sama! It's not from New Hell! Chief said he didn't send any other contracts to you... Oh, and it doesn't have any magical properties whatsoever! Then who send this? Kami-Onii-sama... would it be dangerous if you replied?'

Elsi replied cheerfully even as question marks continued to form over her head. Even if Elsi was his buddy and partner, she wasn't the brightest bulb in the room. But Keima was used to it, and he sighed before making his mind up.

Whatever this Commander was, and whatever the organization of Ratatoskr was, he was mocking and challenging him. A panel of experts you say, his accomplishments could not be replicated in the real.

That was utter rubbish, he was God, he transcended the ideal and was above it at all times. Even if this might be just a ruse to get him to show himself in the real, such disrespect should not be tolerated.

'Well then, let the games begin.

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To be totally honest, Katsuragi Keima, the Capturing God was impressed by the organisation Ratatoskr as well as the invisible air-ship, Fraxinus that he was currently on.

The organisation, Ratatoskr had been more than willing to engage with Keima over an anonymous chatroom over an encrypted channel. In fact, they had actually requested that in the first place, insisting that they do accept and actually laud the efforts of the Capturing God to maintain his anonymous status. Keima too, realized that whatever Ratatoskr was, and what they were up to, they were desperate to conceal their tracks as well.

But, the tests that Keima were subjected to, was interesting as well. It had started off with questioning him of many different games scenarios, taken from different games from different eras to determine whether he was in fact, the Capturing God, and whether he was worthy of the title.

Needless to say, Keima could answer all the questions posed in those scenarios not because he remembered the games, but he could simply see the ending of the heroines within the scenarios.

The second part of the test was to test his knowledge with a program that was developed by Ratatoskr themselves. It was a simulation program that was years ahead of the current games that he was currently playing on his PFP, and if anything, that itself was worth taking part in this experiment.

It was only after he gone through the experiment without barely being phased did they admit that it was part simulation as well as part of the real. Apparently he had been conversing with another individual, a real girl, who did not know he was part of a test as well.

He had managed to, according to Ratatoskr, increased her love points a considerable amount, a feat that was made exceptionally incredible due to the short amount of time they had been conversing as well as the lack of information given to him.

Keima took that news with a pinch of salt, he had been unsure what was the grading criteria of the second part of the test, and there was a chance they were just buttering him up to pull him into another trap.

Keima had very negative experiences when invited by an organisation in the real,but Ratatoskr had been very accommodating and respectful of his title after passing their tests.

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So that brings him to where he was right now, in the invisible airship, Fraxinus, facing the commander, a young red haired and twin-tailed girl by the name of Itsuka Kotori.

If the commander was surprised or curious about his lack of surprise at the scenario around him, she did not mention it. She did however, find time to scrutinize him even as he continued playing on his PFP.

They had arranged a meeting for the final test given to him by Ratatoskir, and if he succeeded, they would fund his expenses as the Capturing God till his retirement as well as to continue to defend his anonymity. Keima wasn't interested in the deal, he was however, interested in the final test, which was why he was here.

For all that he had seen so far, Keima had not been teleported to somewhere else before, and it was certainly a strange experience.

Thankfully he had Elsi and Haqua tag him with a raiment, no doubt they were trying to locate him right now. Hopefully they will keep their presences hidden till he got the truth from the commander in front of him.

'So... you are the Capturing God, the god of conquest and the one who can 'capture' any girl, are you?'

'… That is accurate.'

Since the commander has acknowledged his title, and even seemed more than willing to entertain his title in the ideal, Keima replied her patiently, that was the least he could do.

'Now tell me, what is this all about.'

Keima continued curtly, not even letting her have a word in as Itsuka Kotori continued studying him.

'Now, now, Katsuragi-san, I understand that you are surprised and anxious by the events here, but please be patient.'

The man who had brought him here, Kannazuki Kyouhei, the vice commander of Fraxinus, smiled at him while trying to calm him down.

Sadly, calming down was the last thing in Keima's mind as he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, and continued.

'Honestly, I should have expected this. But I have a lack of information as to see the ending with. Whatever it is that I am currently embroiled in would no doubt be kept from the public. That can be inferred from the technology that all of you are utilizing are beyond the capabilities that is readily available to the public. If that was not enough, the two of you manoeuvred and led me to an area that was obviously in your control before bringing me here, alone and of my free will. All of you obviously require my help, my assistance willingly. So answer me this, what disaster are we dealing with here that you would need my abilities for.'

Keima's words made everyone present blink in surprise, and they only snapped out of it when Keima started tapping his feet impatiently at the two of them.

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'G-Great, you're great! I can't believe we almost didn't want to contact you!'

Eventually however, the commander, Itsuka Kotori uncrossed her arms while grinning triumphantly at him. Keima was not disconcerted at least in having a young girl take the title of a commander, he had seen much, much worse, only in the ideal of course, but no one needed to know that.

'Let me re-introduce myself again. I am the commander of this airship, Fraxinus, Itsuka Kotori. May we have the honor of your name, Capturing God-sama?'

Keima was unsure whether it was a jibe at him, but he replied accordingly as he narrowed his eyes and scowled.

'No doubt you have tracked my identity down the moment you decided to contact me in the real. However, since you have taken the initiative, I am Katsuragi, Katsuragi Keima.'

'Well then, Katsuragi-san, I am happy to welcome you aboard my ship. To be honest, we were unsure whether we should contact you at the start. You being nothing more than an internet rumour, an insider in the industry, or possibly a group of individuals that worked together for the title.'

Keima nodded his head in acknowledgement of her concerns, he had gotten mails and articles written about him in his blog before, but he had never really paid them much heed. Kotori gestured for him to follow her while she spoke, and after nodding to Kyouhei, Keima did follow Kotori down the hall way and towards another door.

'After we did track you down, we were unsure of your abilities...'

Kotori paused when Kyouhei hurriedly reassured him that they would continue to protect his identity, and that it would never leak out. Keima wasn't that impressed and his eyes narrowed till Kotori spoke again.

'He's right, we must apologize for doing that...'

Keima saw the twitch in Kotori's eyes before she controlled herself, and bowed to him briefly in apology.

'Please do accept my apology, on behalf of the crew of Fraxinus and our organisation, Ratatoskr.'

'… Apology accepted. It is not that I have a choice in the matter.'

Keima shrugged while commenting that he was here, alone, in the middle of possible hostile territory and that he really, didn't have a choice.

'Am I not right, Itsuka-san?'

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There was another large pause before Kotori chuckled again, this time doubling in her laughter as she clutched her stomach and stamped her foot to stem the tide of laughter.

'Ahahaha! Great! T-This is great! I can't believe we... we really missed out on such a person! Ahaha! Y-You.. you're perfect!'

It took a while, but she recovered once again, this time with a bigger grin than before.

'Alright, I'm more than willing to keep your onboard, Katsuragi-san. It's nice to have someone who is very aware and acknowleding of the situation. I really, really am starting to like you now.'

Keima ignored how Kyohei suddenly turned white, but he simply shrugged and followed Kotori without a single word into the next room, which was the bridge of the Airship itself.

'I will answer all your questions now, Katsuragi-san. I hope that you will believe what I am saying from now on.'

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'So in essence, to stop further this particular disaster from destroying the world, we have to save those girls with the power of love.'

Keima summarized the entire mission plan of Ratatoskr with a single line, causing silence to fall upon the entire airship again while he sighed.

It was such a clique and common plot line that he himself was already involved in one. A great disaster awaits and the necessary thing to save the world was love. How many times did he see this shallow and basic premise in the ideal and possibly in the real by now.

'That is of course, not including what would happen in the middle during the entire mission. However, how many of them are there?'

Keima continued on without even waiting for any one of the members of the Fraxinus.

In essence, Keima's summary was more or less accurate. Spacequakes were caused by beings caused spirits, spirits were almost exclusively girls, girls who were from another dimension that caused those spacequakes when they visited Earth.

The organisation had no idea why or how they did that, they just knew that they were the ones who caused Spacequakes. To make matters worse, all of them were unnaturally powerful, with each of them capable of summoning an 'angel' that was capable of mass destruction. The only way to stop spacequakes was to kill those spirits, or like Keima had explained earlier, through love.

Somehow, Keima could see the ending of this without a hitch.

One thing to note was that the commander, Itsuka Kotori had been laughing madly again, this time pounding a hand on the screen that she had been using on at his remarks.

It seemed that they really weren't used to, or able to come to terms with someone who could see the 'ending' like he could. Then again, he was the Capturing God after all.

'A-Ahaha.. Ahaha... I... I didn't... we didn't... ahaha... tell you about... there being more than one...'

Kotori managed to gasped out while Keima simply rolled his eyes in response.

'If it's as simple as there being one of them, there wouldn't be a special task force to deal with them, would there?'

Keima was also made aware of the AST (Anti-Spirits Team) that was deployed during every Spacequake to take down the Spirit by force.

'Ahaha.. y-you're... incredible... A-Alright then... y-you made your point... We don't even need to test you right now...'

Kotori managed to finally stop laughing as the rest of the team nodded their heads. Keima had been impressed with the equipment that the Fraxinus had, equipment that would enable them to provide surveillance, to monitor body functions to determine the mood meter, the love points and even had an army of men under their control to create the ideal scenario event.

What he had been unimpressed with, was the team of 'experts' that Kotori had gathered. They might be experienced in their 'fields' but Keima really doubted it. He too had been unimpressed with having them vote on 'choices' to actually determine how to answer the potential heroine. It was an insult to the heroine, and he felt very strongly against it.

Especially since each of them were unique.

'So, what is my role here. What is it that you require of me? Are you asking me to help to save the spirits?'

Keima asked patiently even as he locked eyes with the commander, he had pegged her to be a Tsundere a long time ago. But this was important, and he had no intention of fishing for information just yet.

Not when, he still had other things to be worried about. Dealing with two different world-saving missions was surely going to take it's toll.

'No, you'll teacher someone to help save the spirits.'

Somehow, even if it did sound easier, Keima felt that it was going to be harder than he thought.

How right he was going to be.

The curtain have been drawn, the stage have been set. Now, let us have a brief look at what could be.

A world only God knows, where his commandments are Law.

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#1 One shall always respect the heroine.

'W-What... what do you mean by that, Keima-kun?'

Tohka asked in shock as Keima gently eased her away from him, prying her arms from his as he turned to face her directly.

'I'll say it as many time as you want to hear, Tohka-san. I do not like you.'

'B-But... but that time... w-what you did...'

Tohka was wearing up now, her eyes was watering as she stared at Keima helplessly. She had been so happy to be with him, even if he was colder than he had been before, just being with him made her happy! Too happy in fact, and she felt her heart would burst when Keima smiled at her again in the afternoon.

So, why was he being so cruel and willing to crush her heart like that? Did something happen to him while she was away?

'Di-Did something happen? Did someone tell you anything, Keima-kun? W-Was it that girl? That... that... she... she must have said something right? Whatever she said, don't believe her!'

'No, that isn't it. I'm saying this of my own free will. Just like how I said I'll save you, I also do not like you.'

Keima's firm words as well as the patient way he said that to her was like arrows piercing into her heart, and Tohka felt her knees wobble till Keima grabbed her shoulders to steady her.

But she didn't need his help, not when he had just crushed her heart like that, and she angrily pushed him away.

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'D-Don't touch me! You said you didn't like me, Keima-kun, so why... why do you still care about me?! I... I don't deserve to live here... y-you shouldn't have saved me if you are going to tell me this!'

Tohka shook her head angrily even as she backed away from Keima, then she felt a pair of hands grab hold of hers again. It was a familiar pair of hands, it was Keima's hands, and she tried to shrug it off only for him to catch hold of her again.

'W-Why are you doing this! Stop it!'

Tohka angrily looked up to see Keima staring at her again, his eyes soft, just like how he had been before and she froze in mid-step again. His eyes, they were so beautiful, and so captivating... and... so... resigned.

Just like hers before, Tohka realized, and she calmed down a little even as Keima spoke.

'Have you calmed down a little, Tohka-san?'

'… K-Keima-kun?'

Tohka didn't trust her voice, but she spoke out nonetheless, wanting some clarification about this bombshell that he had dropped on her.

'I don't like you, Tohka-san.'

His words, once again tore through Tohka, but she tried to held on as Keima continued unrelentingly, not letting her escape his harsh words.

'I saved you like I promised, not because I have to. It is because I care for you, you were someone that was more than someone that needed to be saved, you were someone that I want to save. But you are not someone I like... I am sorry I took your first love, Tohka-san... but you won't be the only person who had felt like this. Who hadn't really forgive me for that...'

Tohka's mind was reeling, she really couldn't understand all of what Keima was saying, but she latched on to the last thing that made sense to her.

'The only person?'

'Yes, it should be fair that you should know.'

Keima gave a small sigh, a resigned one as he guided Tohka to her feet, and towards the end of the rooftop, overlooking the view of the city.

'There are others that I would save, in the same method, in the same way... with perhaps, the similar reason. You deserve to know, Tohka-san... and regardless of whatever you might feel, even if you hate me... I will continue doing that.'

Keima didn't allow Tohka to say anything as he released her hand and turned his back to her, whispering as he declared his intent to her.

'As they deserved to be saved, deserve a chance to know, and a chance to understand. Even if they would hate me for it.'

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#2 – Everything is never at Face Value.

'Who are you... Are you here to kill me as well?'

The black-haired girl, with her hair flowing down her back, rustling in the eerie light, asked Keima in resignation. Her posture, straight and proud, was marred by the weary look of despair in her eyes.

Even her voice trembled slightly in exhaustion as she pointed her sword at him.

For all that, Keima did not even blink, as he shook his head briefly.

'No, I am not.'

'Do not mock me! You humans... are all the same! All liars! The last one said the same thing!'

The girl lashed out, raising her sword and striking it at Keima without hesitation. No, not without hesitation as she stopped mid-way in her strike. The reason for that being? Keima had walked closer to her, not even registering her look of anger, and rage by stepping into the range of her strike.

'Why, did you stop?'

Keima asked her patiently, knowing full well that it could be his death, he had walked straight into it without hesitation. It was something that was unthinkable, but he was God, and he could already see the ending of this.

'I-I won't stop the next time! N-Now go, if you really... really don't want to kill me... Go!'

'I refuse.'

'Then you're here to kill me then, aren't you?! If you aren't afraid of death, then go!'

'I am afraid of death, but I'm not here to kill you.'

'T-Then, w-why, why are you here?'

'I'm here to save you.'

His words made her eyes widen in shock, but Keima wasn't done yet as he waited for her next reaction. He was rewarded with a blush spreading across her face as she was the one who backed off from him instead. She, the Spirit who was capable of destroying an entire city, capable of killing him where he stood, backed away from him.

'W-Why, why would you say that? H-How could you say that!'

She declared angrily, but Keima could tell it was nothing more than a flustered reaction, something born out of pure desperation and uncertainty from his own declaration to her.

'As it is the truth. I'm here to save you. You could have killed me where you stood, yet you did not... that is enough for me... that, is why I will save you.'

'W-Wha- ? What are you talking about! Make some sense!'

Even as the girl started stomping her feet in anger, Keima chuckled, a sound that made her froze and blushed again. Oh yes, he could see the ending of this a mile away.

'I'll declare this right now. I will save you, and to do that, I shall be the one who will take away your freedom, and your first love. This, I promise you.'

#3 – All the heroines wished to be saved.

'Y-You... are you mocking me? Are YOU MOCKING ME!'

Tokisaki Kurumi screamed at Keima even as she found herself unable to hide her frustration. Nothing had gone well so far, absolutely nothing. She had been killed twice already and had nothing to show for it.

Why, why didn't this man fall for him yet? Why could she just eat him like how she did with the others?

Why, why did she... she... just can't do that? Was he different? Yes, he was different, he always had been different. That's why she was after him, right? Whatever he had done so far was not normal, neither was the other smells that she could sense beside him.

He, Katsuragi Keima, was different. And... And so...

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'I'm not mocking you.'

Keima reassured her even as he kept his distance from her, him continuing to stay a few feet away from Kurumi as the transfer student suddenly looked up at him.

'Then why are you rejecting me? Why can't you just... just accept me? I've tried everything, I wanted to... I said that I liked you, that I wanted to go out with you? Why, why can't you... just...'

'Because I didn't want to reject you.'

Keima's words made her froze, and her cheeks flared out even without thinking.

'W-What? W-What... what did... y-you say?'

Kurumi looked up again, unable to believe what she just heard, and she flinched away when she felt a hand on her chin, gently caressing it.

'I did not want to reject you, Tokisaki-san.'

'R-Re... reject me...? Y-You didn't want... to... do... that?'

Kurumi felt her knees wobble, and she dropped down like a puppet with it's strings cut, unable to do anything but to look up at him in shock.

'I won't reject you, Tokisaki-san. I will save you, that's why I can't accept you now. Not till, you tell me what it is that you are hiding.'

'T-Tell... you?'

'I'll wait, for as long as you want. Won't you tell me what you are hiding?'

#4 – If you give up, it's all over.

'I'm not the hero here.'

Keima answered softly as Itsuka Shido looked up from his desk, the boy which he had replaced, and who hadn't had the will to go through with his destiny was someone which he loathed.

He was the protagonist, as to who was his heroine, Keima would never tell the rest. But he was sure that Shido himself knew, and because he knew, Keima loathed him for not taking action for his heroine.

Shido had his chance, but he had blew it. And because of the situation, he had taken his place. Now, in order to earn back his heroine, he'll have to go through an even harder trail than before.

'Then who are you? You're the one who saved the three of them, aren't you? Why don't you do something about this then.'

Itsuka Shido spat back in anger, while Keima simply took it in his stride, it was a side effect of him taking his role. He had been aware of that, and he had been preparing for this instant for a very long time.

'I would, but I would not be fair to her. She's fighting it now after all, something that had began because of you.'

Keima noticed that he froze when he said that, Keima hadn't even spoke her name, but he knew instinctively who it was that he was referring to.

'I didn't cause this! You did!'

'Yes, I caused this incident to happen... but it would never have happened if you had not given up.'

Keima's eyes hardened a moment before Shido punched him in the gut, felling him even as he started stepping on his stomach and then his PFP in anger.

'How could you understand?! I'm the one who ran away! But you honestly couldn't expect me to go through that, to go through what you said! I... I'm not you! You can lie to them all you want... but I... but I... to her, I just...'

After a while, Itsuka Shido was crying as he continued to take out his frustration at him.

'You gave up.'

Keima spoke again, his voice a little pained due to how he was still being kicked and Shido backed away from Keima immediately. Even as Keima slowly stood up, Shido backed away from him.

'You, gave up. You should never have given up. Even if you have failed once, you should have tried again. And again... because, she was your heroine. Not mine, never mine. Even if it might be fleeting, even if I had been the one who had saved her. You were the one who truly helped her, them... All of them. I'm not the hero here, you are.'

'...N-No... I couldn't... not when, you'll do better than me.'

Shido finally stuttered out, his head dropping down when confronted with Keima's accusation. He probably knew that a long time ago, but had refused to accept it. He had continued to use Keima as an easy way out, and was being punished because of this.

'… I am may be God. But you are a protagonist. And a protagonist, will never fail. Go now, and save your heroine.'

'Katsuragi-san...'

Itsuka Shido continued to stare at the bruised and battered Keima, before running off. Because he did, no one saw him slumping down to a chair, coughing and groaning in reply.

'Honestly, he's so thick.'

A familiar voice rang out behind him, and he felt a pair of hands hug him from behind even as there was no one behind him.

'You're my hero, you do know that right? Not him, never him.'

'… But I do not like you. Never will.'

'Ahh... but I won't give up either. Just like how you told him.'

All this and more, in the next instalment of: Commandments of Capturing

Disclaimer: In no circumstances will the author be held responsible for any false promises or any disappointment created by the trailer above.

Author's Notes: Ah, my beta is going to flip when he sees this. Anyway, please R&R, if you like it, Fave it. I'm not sure if I should continue this, but I'm sure I'll be compelled to if I get enough feed back. If you dislike it, or if you see where I can improve it, do tell me too!