I've been in this room for about two years. There isn't a guard at the door any more. I've stopped trying to escape. Koumui asked me why I stopped trying one day. I told him that, even if I did escape, I wouldn't know where to go. My home was destroyed by akuma. "That's why you should fight!" He said enthusiastically. "That's why you are here!" I told him not to drag me into his war.
After all, how could I fight? I had never raised a finger against any one. My town was quiet and peaceful. Everyone knew each other and there was no way we would settle disputes with our fists. There was always someone that would intervene and help settle an argument.
Koumui finally stopped asking when I told him, on an annoyed impulse, that I would fight if akuma ever came here. I promised that I would defend this place with my life. He seemed pleased with that promise.
I liked my room. It was round. It had books. Hundreds of books. I was told that there was a main library somewhere that supplied me with my books. I wanted to visit it, but I couldn't. I never left my room.
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Kanda pov
"Why does it have to be me?"
"Because, Kanda-kun, you're the only one here and I have to get ready for the lunch break. I can't leave the finders hungry," Jeryy said with a smile.
"Yes, you can."
"Aww, don't be so mean Kanda-kun. It will only take a minute. She won't even talk to you."
"Now you want me to deliver food to a girl who won't even say 'thank you'?" Jeryy pushed a bentou into my hands and rushed back into the kitchen. "Che," I had no choice now.
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Annabelle pov
It wasn't Jeryy delivering my lunch today. It was someone else. A man with long black blue hair. He was wearing the jacket of an exorcist. He stared at me coldly. I sank into my chair at his stare. "What?" I whispered.
"What are you?" He asked.
"I'm a girl," I told him, puzzled.
"No, what are you? Why are you here?" His glare intensified.
"I was brought here," I said, my voice still a whisper. He set the boxed lunch down on the table in front of me.
"Do you have Innocence?" He demanded. I nodded. "Then you are an exorcist."
"Exorcists are people who fight and kill monsters," I told him. "I can't do that." At this he shook his head and walked back to the door. He spoke before he left.
"You don't deserve to be here. Hurry up and die so we can find someone more compatible with your Innocence." He didn't look at me when he said those words, but, they still hit a most likely intended target dead on.
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I left my room that night. I took me nearly an hour to find who I was looking for, but I knew she would answer my questions.
"Hevlaska?" I called.
"Yes? Annabelle, it has been a long time since I have seen you."
"And I you," I bowed to her. I had little understanding of this place but I knew she was important. "I would like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind of course."
"What would you like to know?"
"Would it be possible to find someone that is more compatible with the Inocence inside me?"
"No. Your Innocence is unique. You are one hundred percent compatible with it. There is no one else that would be more compatible with it. Also, your Innocence is parasitic. It would be difficult and dangerous to remove."
"What do you mean by parasitic? And what does my compatibility mean?" The room got colder.
"Your compatibility means that you can use your Innocence to its full potential. You are the only known exorcist that, in theory, can do this." Ice began forming on the rims of the platform. "However it seems that you cannot control your Innocence yet."
I tried to make the ice melt. It just got thicker. "Was there anything else you wanted to ask me?"
"Exorcists kill monsters." I whispered.
"It is hard to define an akuma as just a monster. An akuma, created by the Melinnium Earl, is a human soul trapped in a skeleton made of dark matter. The Earl controls them. Only an exorcist, using the power of Innocence can purify the trapped soul. That is the Black Order's mission. We purify akuma and fight the Earl who, if left alone, will destroy the earth."
I had an epiphany.
A violent epiphany.
Ice exploded from the walls in sharp spikes. Everything went black.
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Kanda pov
"Did you hear about the ice in Hevlaska's room."
"Yeah, apparently it was an exorcist that did it."
"Really? We had on that used ice? Is he new?"
"I heard it was a girl. She's not new. One of the generals found her after she killed her first akuma. I remember the lab saying her mind wasn't in the right place to fight."
"She went insane with fear then."
"That's what I think. She can't control her Innocence any more and she isn't right in the head. She's a danger to us. To think she's been staying in the basement for two years." "It's like they've been hiding a failed expirament."
Jeryy shook his head at the finders. "My, my, they shouldn't say things like that about her. She's such a sweet girl. She didn't mean to freeze everything."
She doesn't deserve to be an exorcist. She's weak. Why did the Innocence choose her?