"The time has come." A mysterious figure eerily said to the wind, delivering a message to no one. He was, but, just simply talking to himself.
"Time to see this story unfold."
—He then, became one with the wind.
"Ha... *cough* Haaah..."
Running out of breath, he ran for his life on a soulless, and horrifying world.
Exactly, this is their world, but not their world. Another term would be "side", the world we are living on is made of two sides, light; the surface of the world, and the darkness; the unimaginable horrors that hides beneath the surface, and this, was the Eclipse, a distorted side of the world. The world is brimming with negativity at every nook and cranny–
-The dark side of the world is what would describe Eclipse perfectly.
In this world, running, but to where? He doesn't know himself. All he knows that he needs to run. Run from the monsters that lurks at differing directions.
"What the hell is this world?!" He shouted, yet no one hears him. That, however, attracted some monsters, due to his stupidity and his sudden shout, he realized what he did and ran once again. He was persistent. He wanted to survive; human instinct is what you'd call that, and Kano wasn't exempted from that. Though, having the energy to run, the repeating aching of his head still hunts him until now.
"Ah... Ugh... Why...?"
Annoyed by his aching of his head, he made a stop. He couldn't take it anymore.
He experienced a rival's death, even if that would make him happy, he wasn't ready. He did have murderous intent towards her although he wasn't ready. He convinced himself that it was her fault although he wasn't ready. He expected something would happen to her sooner or later although he wasn't ready. He, simply, wasn't ready.
Combined with the continuous pain in his head, he isn't capable of maintaining his normal condition anymore.
Thus, he stopped.
And it was the end for him.
Countless monsters surround him, some are melting, some are bloody, all of them are monstrous. They are nightmare fuel for his mind.
He just stopped there, he didn't care if he gets killed right now, since he had no life in his eyes anymore.
He didn't have the energy to do anything, but even if he did, he would be running without an end in sight, thus endlessly.
He suffered countless hours of unfortunate situations.
He can't move his body anymore, he was numbing all over.
His sanity, is now shattered.
Everything was over.
His life flashed in his eyes, an exact death sign.
Starting from one day in his childhood...
There was a girl, whose name was Mayu, she was a smart child that always play with Kano; a normal kid that doesn't even have good manners and always charges headfirst to danger while playing.
Mayu would always stop Kano from doing dangerous stuff, she was like the law enforcer for Kano.
One thing you could call them, is "happy and carefree kids".
But, one day on their friend's house...
"Hey, Mayu, over here!" Kano climbed up the wall, despite his small structure, he was pretty atlethic.
"A-Are you crazy?! I can't do that!" Mayu gulped as she saw the big wall in front of her, it was like a giant who wants to eat their prey.
"C'mon, you can do it!" Kano held out his hand, reaching for Mayu as he speaks.
Mayu sighed and had no choice but to follow Kano. She climbed up the walls and groaned due to how tired she was.
"Ha... Ha... How did you climb up the wall without getting out of breath?" She held on her knees and sweated a lot, Kano noticed that she was sweating and lend her a towel. Mayu took the towel and wiped herself.
"Hahaha, it's just because you're a girl." Kano teased Mayu, pointing at her breasts, Mayu covered her breasts as it was wet due to sweat and climbed down on the other side, sneaking into their friend's house, they devised a plan to surprise their grandma with presents in their grip, and sneaked into the closet of their friend's room.
"This will be exciting..." Kano said in a low voice, making sure no one except Mayu and himself hear that.
"Yeah!" Mayu, doing also the same, she nodded slightly within the tight space.
Suddenly, they heard the mechanical sound of a door opening in the room and stayed quiet in the closet.
But they didn't expect another person that would present themselves in the room.
He was a man clad in black clothing all over himself and had a mask on that had holes around the place where the eyes are located. They got scared, since they noticed that there was a gun on his waist belt, and gulped.
They don't know how to handle this situation, they didn't expect this to happen.
They were shaking, fear consumed their body, the man clad in black browsed through their friend's cabinets, hoping they don't get noticed, they hold their breath, but they couldn't conceal the noise of their heartbeat thumping that echoed in the closet.
The man then reached the closet, as the man's hand got closer to the handle, Mayu got more nervous. Kano and Mayu was filled with sweat due to fear and the hot temperature of the closet.
Closer.
The feelings are getting stronger...
Then Mayu broke.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" Mayu rushed out of the closet and took the gun quickly out of his waist belt, the burglar was surprised to see 2 kids in a closet, the burglar tried to take Kano out of the closet, intending to take him as hostage, but then...
*BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!*
The gun shots sound rang through the whole house, so loud that Mayu and Kano had to close their eyes and covered their ears due to the continuous ringing in their sense of hearing.
Kano then opened his eyes... But then he saw something more gruesome... Behind him was a open door, and their friend's body... Lying down on the floor with soulless eyes, Kano puked all over the floor, his eyes didn't believe it. Then looked at the burglar, they were dead too...
Then glared at Mayu...
Mayu covered her face with her shaking hands...
That, was when he finally said it...
"No way..."
"T-They're... dead."
"NO!" Kano's scream echoed through the whole neighborhood...
and that was when his hatred for Mayu started.
"Guess this is it, then..." He held his head down, ready to face his fate.
'Goodbye, world...'
'Sorry, Mayu. I shouldn't had my hatred directed at you when you were just protecting me...'
'I'm the worst...'
Then he closed his eyes-
*SLASH!*
"Wha...?" He was dumbfounded, he thought he was going to die...
He raised his head and saw a slim silhouette of a girl.
A beautiful girl; silky yet smooth short peach hair, snow white skin colour, strawberry-like smell of hers fluttered through the air, she is what you'd call, the perfect girl for guys...
And Kano noticed her uniform was the same as his' school's girl uniform... Which meant that she goes to the same school as him.
"Who...?" Kano had his eyes wide open. He wondered why a girl would save a poor man like him, it didn't make sense to him; who thought he had no value because of everything bad deed he had done.
But he cried.
He was thankful...
She, then, asked...
"Are you okay?"
A/N Sorry for the wait, been busy with stuff and i'm lazy too.
Part 3 of prologue expected to come next week. Stay tuned~
