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Chapter 3: The state of the light
Kumiko was in a bottomless depression. Not the kind where you are depressed because your ice cream melted while you talked with a friend. Nor the kind of depressed for getting a D in a test when you knew you could have done better. The depression she felt was on the same level as 'the last day before the marriage the other broke up the betrothal for another one'.
Right now she was sitting in a chair in the bar she previously met up with New Light, holding her head with both hands and groaned now and then. In her head she asked herself again and again how she could be this dumb. The idiocy in her action was far out of the norm. This amount of dumbness shouldn't be allowed.
The others looked at her with a mild expression. They heard the explanation of what had happened by now and thought the same, but didn't voice it out. Bayloupe felt with her and patted her on her shoulder but inwardly she was suspicious. Kumiko acted the whole time so... different. Blushing, getting worked up over something trivial or losing her cool when being in such a important meeting. That was far from her normal rather composed self.
"How could I be so moronic?", Kumiko asked no one in particular between her groans.
"Don't worry about it.", Lessar reassured her, hiding behind the sofa Lancis still laid on. The only difference from the first situation was that Lancis haven't had her book this time.
"You just made it harder for all of us."
Bayloupe glared, promising Lessar another walk through hell. Kumiko depression level now was not a nice thing to watch, they didn't need one who was at the deepest possible bottom of depression.
"Stop talking, Lessar. You're not helping. At all."
Said girl sewed her mouth shut and started sulking on her chair. She didn't want to risk another spanking. Not after the one she received from Kumiko. That she didn't even deserved! It wasn't Lessar that said it!
Gunha sat on another chair opposite from Kumiko, looking to be at thought.
"You know, Kumiko...", he began at which she looked at him. Seeing him frown in his thoughts somewhat pulled her out of her misery and occupied her mind with the question if Gunha really is thinking or if he is just acting like he was.
"It wasn't your fault, I think. Since I can remember you acted most of the time with guts. And I do believe that you shouldn't blame yourself like that."
She looked at him now in a different light. To see the day he acted so mature and amicably in a intelligent way by considering her mood and helping her in times like that, Kumiko found a new emotion dwelling inside her: Admiration for him being able to do other things outside of being a clown. At that moment She could kiss him.
"And I thought of a way to solve this whole gutsy situation."
Everyone else perked up and looked at him expectably. He had now their undivided attention. Kumiko moved her hands away from her head and looked at him with something like hope.
"We should just beat up Necandis and inject them with some guts! After that they will help us with the guts we injected them!"
Complete silence. Kumiko blinked at him and tried to mentally accept the words he said. By doing that her thought process stopped for a short amount of time completely. Then she jumped at him and doing that pulled him to the ground. Kumiko grabbed his neck, strangled and shook him while being in a rather indecent position, namely on top of him legs spread.
"Give it back! Give the time back I admired you!", she shouted at him while minding her business called strangling.
The other girls looked at her amused and were somewhat relieved that the gloom faded away.
"Uhm, Kumiko...", Lessar began, finding new courage. Kumiko stopped the shaking and twisted her head slowly with loud, creepy cracking noises and in a strange way towards her, a dark shroud surrounding her body. Meanwhile Gunha's face turned bluer and bluer for every second passed.
"What?", she asked and stared at Lessar.
"I don't want to interrupt your fun time, but do you think that position is something you want should show in public?"
Kumiko looked down and then realized for the first time in which position she was in. she blushed hardly and hurriedly stood up. Problem was Kumiko chose to lose her grip the moment she stood up. So Gunha ended up shooting in the ceiling. His head decided to stay at his current position and so he was stuck there, his limbs hanging down.
"Don't worry about me.", came his muffled voice from the ceiling.
"It's cool here. I found some gutsy mice. It's a family!"
Kumiko couldn't help but laugh at the picture, all the frustration she had were away.
"Ah, come on. I pull you out.", she said after she stopped laughing and grabbed his left foot. Kumiko pulled and with a crack Gunha's head came out of the ceiling. He landed on his bottom in front of her. Kumiko sat down on her ankles and looked at him with a smile whilst he rubbed his rear.
"Sorry.", she apologized.
"Don't worry, my head isn't something that can be cracked with so little guts!"
"I talked with the mice."
"Oh."
Kumiko patted some dust from his shoulder and stood up. She turned towards New Light who, as she saw now, was looking at her with eyes wide and mouth open. Bayloupe spoke up after some seconds of recollecting.
"And who is going to pay for that?"
"It's not that bad.", Kumiko tried to talk herself out of it. She needed every ounce of money to pay back her damn bill. So she couldn't really spend much.
"There is a hole in the ceiling."
Kumiko looked up at the hole in a gauging way. It had around the same size as a medicine ball.
"It's not that big."
"A hole!"
"Fine fine! Just put it on a tab!", she gave herself defeated, throwing her hands up in the air. Internally she whined.
'The money is just getting more and more...'
Kumiko knew better than to think about it right now too much and closed this case for time, concentrating on the task at hand. She walked towards the television and turned it on, changing to a news channel.
' We got breaking News: Fights erupted around and in Hawaii. A unknown terrorist group attacked today. The local military began to fight against them but they provide resistance and the fighting is still continuing. Now we hear to a comment by the chief-in-charge...', the speaker told, pictures of the fighting showing on the screen.
The group watched it, completely focusing on the screen and the material shown. New determination shined in Kumiko's eyes and a plan slowly formed in her mind. If GREMLIN did something like that in Hawaii then they would high likely do the same in England for the same reason she thought they did in Hawaii: To make an example. And to hell Kumiko would let this happen here and give them a victory.
"Ok, let's focus on GREMLIN! We need to do preparations in order to fend the off. Chances are high that they want to repeat that here. Firstly, we need reconnaissance. Bayloupe, if you may?", Kumiko said in the round, bringing the others in a ready mode. Bayloupe smirked at her. Finally there was the Kumiko she knew: Determined, rational and always a plan up her sleeve.
"Roger, ma'am."
While others received their orders and started working on them she started to draw a circle. Once finished she wrote down runes along the edge of the circle and began to arrange the chairs around the circle, chair-backs pointing towards the circle. At last she draw two squares inside the circle, they touching the circle, in a way that they formed a hexagon.
Bayloupe moved in the middle of it and sat down. She closed her eyes and began to mutter something. Gunha looked at it questionably and turned then to Kumiko who looked over a map showing England. She began to mark certain areas and drew arrows and other indicators on it.
"Kumiko", he spoke up, seemingly completely confused about the scene shown to him.
"What is it?", she reacted, not looking up. Her thoughts drifted already to advantages they could attain through the terrain.
"What is she doing?"
"Building a temple to make a Hlidskialf."
"AHH! So what is this Hildegard exactly?"
"Not Hildegard. Hlidskialf. To explain it simply: it is known to be the throne Odin sits on and watches the nine worlds. By changing it so that it can be used by a human it makes it possible for said human to see everything in a specific radius.", Kumiko explained, averting her eyes for the first time from the map.
She looked him in the face and still saw confusion there.
"You... have no idea what I'm talking about, am I right?"
"Not a clue!", Gunha chirped happily. Kumiko wondered why he could say something like that in such a cheerful manner. After not finding a logical answer she simply put it to the 'typical Gunha'-things in her mind.
" With it you can overlook many things in a big area."
"A thing full of guts!"
"It is.", she agreed and chuckled a little. Bayloupe finished muttering and stood up. She walked up to them.
"The seat is ready and can be used by every person that knows how it works. Now we only need to prepare at site."
Kumiko nodded in agreement and looked back at the map. Bayloupe copied the action and asked her: "So, what did you thought of?"
The rest of the lot gathered around the table and paid attention to the explanation plus plan from Kumiko.
"They will probably attack from Calais. It's the closet route to England. Normally you would know that your enemy expect it and take another route but that isn't the case here. The reason for that conclusion is that magic cancels this whole thing. You get sensed before you arrive and killed while you are still on the ships. So they will try to come over as fast as they can.", she explained, looking in the round and awaited approval or critic. After she got the approval for the whole analysis of the situation, she continued.
"I thought of stopping them at Dover. It's the first and nearest city from Calais and perfect for them to land at and set up a base. I bet my morning coffee they will arrive there. My idea would be to set up some nasty surprises for them."
"I would recommend fire runes placed under the surface of the ground.", Lancis suggested, eyeing the way Kumiko thought the enemy would take.
"That would work. But you would need to laminate them. Waterproof and all.", Lessar added to Lancis' advice. Kumiko nodded, accepting the idea of a mine field, having the same one.
"Then it's decided! Bayloupe, you and I will go to Dover and start with preparations. It would be a bad thing when civilians are there when the fighting starts. Lessar, Lancis: You should start making this runes. And when you are at it, make communication runes so we can talk with each other. That way the seat will have a better functionality because the one that uses it can guide us better. Gunha, you will act as courier between us. Everyone understood what they are supposed to do? Then go!", Kumiko exclaimed with a motivation bigger then mount Everest. She and Bayloupe walked through the door and out of the bar. They made their way towards Bayloupe's car.
"Wow! Since when have you a new one?", Kumiko asked excited, investigating every part of the car. Said car was a red, older Porsche.
"Kumiko, stop gaffing and get in.", Bayloupe interrupted her. You needed to stop Kumiko before she gets too absorbed with the thing holding her interest. Said redhead jumped in and sat happily on the seat. She always wanted to drive in such a car! Not that Kumiko hadn't had enough money, but she saw no usage in it when she was in academy city.
Bayloupe got in the driver seat and started the motor. She slowly started to drive and then became faster and faster. Without looking away from the street Bayloupe began a conversation.
"So, Kumiko... is there something you would like to say to me?"
At that the flame head perked up. It was never a good sign when one started a talk in that way. Most of the times a beginning like that meant one of two things: a guilt trip or a scowling.
"The weather is nice!?", Kumiko said nervously, looking at her with eyes that indicated she was rather uncomfortable now. But the other girl ignored it and continued.
"Why you snapped like that is what I want to hear. I know that you can be very... emotional at times, but you also know when to act like that and when not. So... why?"
Kumiko sighed and placed her chin on her palm, arm resting on the car door. This was a conversation she didn't really wanted to have. But lying wouldn't work with Bayloupe and the older girl wouldn't also let it slight. So She opened her mouth and began to speakin a heavier voice than usual.
"Why I reacted like that? To put it short, I'm fallen."
Bayloupe's eyes widened in disbelieve. The term alone would left most minds in a puzzled state. But she knew of the experiments that got conducted on her friend and what she is or, to be precise, was. She broke her own policy to always look at the road and looked at Kumiko sitting beside her.
"You... you fell?"
"Yes, I did. And look at the road." Bayloupe hastily looked back were her eyes were supposed to be and tried to wrap her head around what Kumiko had said.
"That's the reason you are more emotional than before, right?"
"Correct. You know, after all these experiments and treatments... Uranus, Dark May... you could say I got saved by the Orion Project. If I wouldn't have been forced to participate in it, I would have broken down. Getting insane, stuff like that. The perfection I felt after the procedure helped me with my emotions. But now I'm human again. Ah, It's not that I criticize it. I'm rather grateful to the person who managed this feat. But with being human again all this comes crashing down. I need to learn how to handle all the emotions before I can be like I was when I was still a hybrid. That was also the reason, or one reason, that I traveled to this place before I went seeing my brother. I couldn't let him see me in this state. Even though I can act like all is alright with me, a little slip and all would be falling down. And I don't want to risk the chance of that happening.", Kumiko explained, looking in the distance with hazy eyes. Bayloupe simply smiled at her behavior.
'Caring about her brother even though she is at the risk of falling into a bottomless abyss. A typical Kumiko thing.'
"You know you need help from a therapist, right?", she said in a teasing tone and smirked, changing the direction of the conversation. Kumiko sputtered at that.
"I don't! I'm fine, ok?"
Bayloupe's eyebrow quirked up.
"Okay, okay. I'm not one hundred percent fine. But it's not that bad."
"Sure, sure."
"I'm serious!"
The rest of the ride they both bantered each other, enjoying the wind whirling around them.
Floris had a tiring day so far. Earlier at 12 am she was forced to go shopping after losing at rock paper scissors. The empty fridge needed to be filled as well as a it was time to buy a new toaster after Lessar broke the old one. And this task, containing the same amount of excitement as watching a fish in a glass doing nothing, was hers to bear because of bad luck.
she was somewhat surprised of what she found when she came back and opened the door after walking through half London to get all the things needed.
Inside the bar she watched Lessar and Lancis making rune cards one after another. The amount finished cards laying on the table was rather high. While walking in she wondered for what they needed so many cards. They were enough to set a big mine field. And with big she meant huge. Her train of thoughts stooped and focused on the other uncommon thing in this building: A boy she had never seen before twitching on the sofa and practically beaming in anticipation. For what she didn't know.
"Ähm, why does it look like you prepare to fight an entire army?", Floris finally decided to make herself known. Three pair of eyes set their sight on her for a short moment, Lessar and Lancis stopped for a small period of time with their work. After both they resumed their work.
"Apparently GREMLIN decided to attack the united kingdom. So we prepare.", Lessar explained, finishing the card she worked on and grabbed a new blank.
Floris looked at her with a expression that said 'Are you kidding me?!'. She tried to think of a good answer to the single question crossing her mind. What had happened in the time of a few hours she was gone?
"How comes that I didn't get the memo?"
"We kinda forgot about you.", came the answer. Cue a eye twitch.
"But you can go with the idiot there to Bayloupe to bring her this cards. Ah, and the spankbringer is with her."
"Who?"
"She means Kurokami Kumiko.", Lancis explained, drawing a communication rune on a card. Three were already lying in front of her on the table, finished.
"She is here?", Floris asked surprised, raising her eyebrows. She held respect for the older girl. Not the kind of respect you hold for a good superior but the one you hold for a good human. Floris knew that Kumiko cared for her brother alone and without any support, being the reason why she liked the girl. She was the perfect example of what New Light wanted to achieve: to be an independent and strong but feminine woman.
Floris casted a second look towards Gunha who by now elevated himself in the air again and again. Strange at the display was that he did it without moving a muscle.
"And the boy jumping on the sofa?"
" He is Kumiko's lackey. She brought him with her for reasons beyond my comprehension.", Lancis answered, finishing the rune she worked on. Then she started to laminate the them.
"And great timing; You can help him bring this cards", a gesture towards the pile, " to the persons in charge of this whole thing."
"Wha... I just got back from a hunt for groceries and a toaster through all London and the moment I get back I need to carry something again!?", Floris exclaimed with a agitation that was rather big. No one knew why she put a emphasis on the toaster but let it slide. Sometimes things shouldn't be asked and the way she emphasized the word there was something evil lurking underneath.
"Yeah, I mean exactly that. What do you think will happen of not one but two from the sadisters will find out that you stayed behind and did nothing?", Lessar chirped, sending her a smirk. Floris shuddered at that thought. No, she was not going to rest or she would face something worse than sore limbs. She acted unconsciously on her survival instinct and flashed a fake smile.
"Then, let's do it! What's your name?", she asked the boy who jumped up at her exclamation. He beamed at her with such a smile that she thought she would become blind.
"My name is Sogiita Gunha! And my guts tell me your a awesome person!", he practically yelled at her, Floris leaning instinctually away.
"That's... nice to know.", she replied, stunned by his behavior like almost anyone else from human kind. Floris began with the others to bind cards together and then place the stacks in a bag. After they were done she shoved the bag in Gunha's hands with the words "a gentleman should always carry the things of a lady.". By the word 'lady' Lessar snorted and got for that a punch on the head.
With a 'we're off' Floris and Gunha walked through the door. The moment they got out Floris remembered an important thing and face palmed. How do they get to them? She couldn't use her wings, they would just draw unnecessary attention. And the car was taken by Bayloupe.
While she thought how to solve this situation Gunha became more and more hectic. He wanted to get going! so why did they stop the moment they were about to go? When he asked her she answered with a simple "how we get there?". Gunha's resolution was easy: grabbing Floris in a bridal style hold who squeaked because of the action and her sack with the still not occupied hand and with a bang they were on their way to Dover. Floris screamed the whole time it took them to get there.
Kumiko heard the scream before she saw them. Even though she was sure that this was not physically possible, Kumiko knew Gunha was something that made every foundational rule of the universe didn't apply to reality and took them out of the equation, most of the time with a boom and something going up in flames.
She and Bayloupe were working on placing a Valhalla rune formation spell around whole Dover. The spell was made after the legendary hall with the same name. It would let all civilians disappear out of Dover so they wouldn't get in the crossfire. Right know they were placing the last seal north west from the city. Well, Bayloupe placed it and Kumiko just stood beside her, talking with her about possible strategies and their effectiveness.
So, as she heard the scream becoming louder in a fast way she sighed and stepped backwards, a second before a flash landed on the spot she previously stood and scatted around ten meters before coming to an halt, whirling up a dust cloud. Even though the vision was clouded she knew exactly who that was. The cloud cleared and standing there was Gunha, holding a rather tattered Floris bridal style and a sack in each of his hands. It was truly a sight to behold.
"Uhm, Gunha...", Kumiko started, looking seconds away from face palming. She needed to tell herself again and again that Gunha is just Gunha and it is his normal behavior and nothing stupid he does is on purpose.
"Yes, Kumiko?", Gunha responded, shooting a smile in her direction. He still didn't notice the near half dead girl in his arms, a treat that was remarkable in its own way. How much she wanted to crush this smile...
'No, bad thought! Control yourself! You will not strangle him no matter how tempting it is!'
Her face twitched alongside her inner struggle, the others(except Floris) looking at her with a questioning look. Kumiko found her Zen in a couple of seconds and began what she started to say.
"Well, Gunha , I wanted to say that it would be for the best if you would let Floris go; she doesn't seem to be really... healthy at the moment."
Gunha looked at Floris for the first time and saw her hanging limply in his arms. Processing the relation between what Kumiko said and the possible reason why the girl was indeed pale and not really conscious let him to somewhat believe that was his fault. So he did the first thing coming in his mind: He let her drop. No laying her down on the ground, no helping her stand. He just let her drop like a stone and how she dropped. Floris landed hard on the ground and stayed there motionless, simply lying there spread out, looking like a stranded fish. After some seconds she came back to life and hugged the ground like it would be a member of family and dissolve any moment. This comparison gave Kumiko a painful sting in the back of her mind and the memory started to surface, but she pushed it down. She hadn't the time for a breakdown now.
"Safety giving ground, I thought I would never see you again!", Floris sobbed, completely disregarding she acted not normal. Kumiko got a sympathizing look in her eyes and walked up to her and patted her shoulder. She knew exactly, no matter how accustomed you are with flying or generally high velocities, you could never be ready for you first 'per Gunha'-transition. Why she knew that? Let just say Gunha thought it was a good idea on their chase for her brother to cross the English channel with a jump.
"There, there...", Kumiko said. The other girl recovered after a moment of awkwardness and stood up, try to look like it didn't happen in the first place. Kumiko and Bayloupe sweat dropped at the attempt and eyed the two sacks.
"That are the runes, correct?", Bayloupe asked and took the sacks from Gunha, opening the sacks with a gauging look. In it were the bundle of rune cards, neatly drawn from what she saw. She nodded in approval and grabbed one which she threw to Floris who caught it out of the air.
"Start burying them along the coast and in the whole city. I will finish Valhalla and then help you. Also, Everyone needs to grab one communication rune."
That was the cue for Floris to pull said cards out of her pocket and gave everyone one, holding onto one herself.
"I'll explain the way to use it in case you don't know or forgotten how to. Simply place it in your pocket and think of the person you want to talk about. And Gunha, this is a specialized version, so espers can use it to.", Bayloupe explained, looking at Gunha to see if he understood what he said. By the voice in her head saying 'That's awesome!' she concluded he indeed had understood her. But his expression changed to a puzzled one.
"What do you mean by 'so espers can use it too'?", He asked her, looking like he paid attention to it.
"Normally magic can't be used by espers. It would rupture their nerve system and let their capillaries explode. Not the kind of death you would want. So I and Kumiko had a little project at how to solve it. We managed by changing the needed energy from mana to... something else compatible."
"Ah, what a gutsy thing to do!", Gunha satisfied himself with that answer and let it be.
"Yeah, whatever you say. Kumiko, could you look at the harbor walls and think if we could use them for something?"
"On the way. Come, Gunha. Follow me.", Kumiko walked away but not before grabbing a stack, Gunha in her tracks with a hop in his steps. He just couldn't help but being excited. Finally a challenge to overcome with guts!
While Floris grabbed a sack and walked towards the coast, Bayloupe finished the rune on the ground and activated the spell. The spell produced a field which automatically sorted persons into 'allowed' and 'not allowed', the first being members of GREMLIN and themselves, the second civilians. Because of that the persons walking through the streets vanished suddenly out of their view.
Bayloupe grabbed the second sack and made her way towards the area just behind Dover. She started to bury the runes. Make a hole, put a card in it, fill the hole, go to another spot and repeat the process. The whole thing was rather boring but needed to be done.
After around thirty minutes of preparing the runes Floris and Bayloupe meet up again. Bayloupe had one card left, but this one was different: This card was the trigger to activate the runes and made them into what they were supposed to be, namely land mines. She channeled mana in the card and recited a spell:"Muspell, devouring flames existing in both beginning and end, let yourself be freed to complete your work. The ones receiving your hunger shall be of difference, being the one sabotaging the wagons of human kind."
The rune glowed red, illuminating her face for a brief second before becoming once again a dull black. She opened a connection to everyone else.
'Mines set and ready.'
'Roger that. Lessar, you are in charge of the seat. Switch with Lancis when you need to refine your mana again.', Kumiko ordered. That way they would have 24/7 reconnaissance and both won't be to exhausted plus had enough mana to defend themselves if an enemy managed to get to them. To get the head of the enemy was a basic tactic. Sad it would go hand in hand with blinding them too. This precaution would allow at least one of them to defend themselves. She got a sign of acknowledgement from both and cut the line for now.
Kumiko stood with Gunha on the harbor wall, looking over Dover in search of good spots for an ambush. Right now she wondered if she could use the walls and runes to create a death zone. For example link cards together and use them for a different thing as mines. When activated, she thought, it could make a field of fire slightly above the water, burning everything in its vicinity. She asked Bayloupe per card if that would work and with a 'yes' she started to happily set it up. She gave Gunha some of the cards and ordered him to place them on the other wing of the wall, around twenty meters between each. She complied with a thumps up and started with his task. At the same time Kumiko asked Bayloupe to set them up when asked and at the same time began to place her cards, too. After they placed the last card, forming a oval around the water between coast and harbor wall, Kumiko opened a link to Bayloupe.
"The zone is ready. It's only waiting for you to activate it."
After some seconds the runes glowed red for a moment, indicating that they were ready.
'I made the spell in a way which allows us to trigger them remotely. That way we can time the activation perfectly and causing as much casualties as possible on GREMLIN's side.', Bayloupe's voice sounded in her head. They were ready, now the fish only needs to swim in the trap.
'Then the only thing left for us now is to wait.', Kumiko send to everyone and concentrated on the sea. The waves flowed in a nearly melodic way, the swoosh sounding like a lullaby. It caused her to sink in her memories, remembering her of everything that went wrong, everything that was a mistake, everyone she killed. She sunk deeper and deeper, the more the darker the memories got.
Because of that she didn't noticed Lessar's warning transmitted over a connection, because of that she didn't see the slight changing in the way the waves moved. Because of that she didn't see the water coming together and forming something, becoming ice and growing larger and larger. Only when a humanoid giant made out of ice filled her view she snapped out of her thoughts. She looked the ice giant in front of her with widened eyes and one single thing flew around in her mind before a fist as big as a tank came down towards her.
'Oh shit!'
And that was it with the tenth chapter! Regarding the explanation, I hope it answered the question why I let Kumiko have more emotional reactions than before. Kumiko isn't a perfect human. She isn't like most of the anime characters who only suffer from a loss or something terrible for only one episode. I tried to show you that despite how she acts in front of others she still is just a teenage girl and suffers from her past like a human normally would. This chapter should show you that she didn't get out of it without a emotional or mental scar and I hope I managed to do so.
I decided to bring a 'progress bar' in my profil so you can see what exactly to what extend is finished. The progress is not meassured by the amount of words but by the already written down content of the chapter.
And here, to celebrate the already mentioned event, I made a omake, the second one! This was originally an idea I had that I planned to bring in the story but decided against: There was one already and one is enough(Not to mention the mental trauma for the effected would be simply to big).
Omake: Meeting of Light and Backstabber:
Kumiko stood in front of Aleister Crowley, waiting for him to give her the 'mission' he sumoned her for. He started talking after a dramatic pause.
"Valkyrie, your next job will need you to work together with someone else or it won't procced like planned."
She was a little confuse about it and about to ask a question when she heard fottsteps behind her. She turned around and saaw a boy with blonde hair, sunglasses and a chan around his neck, dressed in a Hawaii shirt. The moment their eyes meet both feeled something. A connection, something as deep and strong as the universe itself between them, making them equal. Both stared a each other and waited for something only they knew. The boy reacted first and moved in front of her.
Standing there he lifted his hand and held it between them, offering a handshake. He introduced himself with a completely serious expression: "Siscon."
Kumiko took said hand and returned:"Brocon"
Both shook once with strength in it and a grimm expression on their face, acknowledging the other.
Somewhere in the city two certain siblings went a cold shiver down their spine.
Omake end
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