Melancholy of the Mystes

by CapoExecutor

AU. The three of us all died and became Mystes to some really sought after items of the Guze. Different Life, Different Rules, Different Times. Our lives must be really heading down to hell in a hand-basket.

11. Genesis of the Mystes Triumvirate Part 2

Note: I don't own Shakugan no Shana.

Another chapter added as usual.

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Genesis of the Mystes Triumvirate Part II

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The Azuchi Castle had an interesting location, which was situated on elevated ground to watch over what went into and out of Kyoto. Built in the 16th century by Oda Nobunaga, the structure was the epitome of luxury combined with a fortress defense to intimidate rivals. It wasn't until a few years later that the structure was incinerated that nothing but the stone bases were left behind, all after one of Nobunaga's generals, Akechi Mitsuhide, betrayed him.

Asuka had bore witness to the events as a silent bystander but she had visited there and was given a tour, knew the place inside and out enough to sketch a map of the place. Even though it was burned down, the Azuchi had been reconstructed down to the last intimate detail as her second tour confirmed. Her old information and knowledge of the grounds and structure would be very invaluable.

At the moment, the Mystes of the Seiren Maigo was currently making plans with Yukari to assault the Azuchi.

"I swear, your surrogate brothers have a way of creating unnecessary trouble than what we ask for." Asuka remarked.

"I can't help but agree. Yet, strangely, it worked and no one stopped me from getting in." Yukari replied as she thought about what happened five hours earlier.

FLASHBACK

At a restaurant, a lot of people were eating and it just so happened that both Asuka and Yukari were there with the goal to steal an emerald brooch that would access the hidden levels beneath the Azuchi's foundation. Currently, the brooch was in possession of the restaurant owner, who was a rather shady character that wouldn't let Yukari buy the brooch despite the amount she was offering. Thus, Plan B had to be enacted with the manager at the cash register while two scruffy-looking young men just happened to bump into each other while reeking with alcohol.

"Watch it, bud!" Reiji snapped.

"Who you calling bud, pal?!" Mahiru retorted.

"Who you calling pal, friend?!" Reiji countered.

"Who you calling friend, jackass?!" Mahiru retorted.

"Don't call me a jackass!" Reiji warned.

"I just did call you a jackass!" Mahiru snapped before nailing a right hook at Reiji, who retaliated with an uppercut that landed home. All hell broke loose as the pair threw punches while trying to overwhelm each other in a fistfight, causing multiple bystanders to intervene in order to quell the fight.

No one saw Yukari slip into manager's office and slip right back out with a small box and a rather long package.

FLASHBACK ENDS

Asuka and Yukari sighed as they thought about the incident, despite being staged, had certainly attracted a lot of attention. It was fortunate that Yuji and Yutaro wore elaborate disguises and gave themselves "creative names" to prevent true identification. For Yukari, not only did she steal the brooch, she also stole a peculiar sword that had a chainsaw blade and it was later on that Asuka informed her that the weapon in question was a Hougu called the Rotational Edge.

"It's hard to imagine on how hard it must be for you to deal with them." Asuka remarked.

"I can't help but agree in regards to their apparent lack of maturity at times. I live with them and, despite their minute faults, the Sakai family has looked after me, including the brothers." Yukari replied. "My real parents are dead, devoured of their power of existence. Though I am a Torch, both of them gave me hope and saw that I had a future ahead of me. Words cannot describe how grateful I am for their support in keeping me from falling to despair."

"That's good." Asuka replied as she finished her tea. "Anyways, thanks for giving me good ideas on what type of Rinne to make."

"No problem." Yukari replied. "Let's go see if Yuji and Yutaro are ready."

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Somewhere on the grounds near the Azuchi at eight o'clock…

"Enemy in sight!" a Tomogara sentry called out as a large Fuzetsu was cast. "Numbers in the tens of thousands!"

Multiple sentries confirmed the sightings as the vast armies of ghostly Torches, all of them resembling Roman legionnaires and centurions with rectangular shields and long spears established a perimeter on one side of the Azuchi. Even more, the Torches brought catapults and ballista launchers into range.

Yukari, having suggested to Asuka to create a Roman army for the assault, stood on top of one of the ballista launchers before directing her given forces into position, yelling out in Latin as she did so.

The Pandora Glas, all behind the walls of the Azuchi, watched as the enemies moved about amid setting up a siege. While they had dug themselves in the Azuchi for better protection and maneuvered the majority of their forces to the front, they had no idea of a small strike force that was going to catch them in a vicious pincer movement from behind.

Yuji, Yutaro, and Asuka watched from the cover of darkness with a number of Torches, also Roman legionnaires.

"Yukari and her legions are in position." Asuka spoke.

"Alright then." Yuji replied before texting his surrogate sister via cell phone with the message: "Your call."

From where she was, Yukari looked at the text message she received from Yuji before calling out. "Lapsis Nivium!"

Immediately, roars erupted among the Roman legions amid hearing the signal for them to attack. Through the darkness, flames erupted as Roman archers ignited their arrows before firing on the Azuchi while catapults and ballista launchers released their projectiles. Hundreds of arrows rained down on the Azuchi along with flaming jars of oil and large arrowhead bolts.

The Pandora Glas' Tomagara forces were pelted by the hellfire and a good number of them were either instantly killed or wounded by enemy projectiles finding their mark. Fending against the barrage, the Azuchi defenders responded in kind as they sent balls of fire and various other forms of long range attacks on the Torches. Being at the front lines, the legionnaires moved their shields together, using the Testudo Formation to fend against the incoming fire before slowly advancing towards the Azuchi.

Yukari narrowed her eyes as the advance did what she had predicted as swarms of Tomogara charged forward.

"Audiatur et altera pars!" Yukari shouted another phrase, signaling the front lines to attack. The advancing legionnaires moved out of the Testudo formation before drawing their lances and swords to attack in the incoming Tomogara. Though they were weak, the Roman Torches proved able enough to swarm and decimate their stronger opponents with calculating precision and untamed ferocity. The Tomogara army from the Pandora Glas were casting Unrestricted Methods and utilizing their Hougu weapons to lethal effect, downing scores of the approaching enemy while suffering the disadvantages of being outnumbered and dealing against enemies that were in a hypersensitive frenzy. More Tomogara were pouring out of the Azuchi just as more Roman legionnaires joined the battle at the front lines.

Taking a crossbow, Yukari fired a single flaming arrow into the air, watching fly high into the sky before curving down and heading towards the roof of the Azuchi.

From where they were, Yuji caught sight of the flaming arrow before taking hold of the Rotational Edge that Yukari gave him earlier and sent word to Yutaro and Asuka, the latter signaling her force of armed Torches to storm the Azuchi from the rear.

The Mystes of the Mahiru Maigo, the Reiji Maigo, and the Seiren Maigo didn't encounter much opposition as they entered the enemy grounds. Indeed, many of the enemy Tomogara were caught off guard. Yukari's assault had drawn the bulk of the Pandora Glas to the front entrance and the only thing left was for the three Mystes and their strike force to close the gap to severely wipe out enemy forces, something that Yuji volunteered to do while Asuka and Yutaro went to find the leaders.

Heading to the front, Yuji wasn't disappointed to see Yukari and the remaining legions of Torches that were killing off the rest of the Azuchi defenders. Some groups went right past the pair, heading inwards to search for more Tomogara to slaughter on the grounds.

"Looks like you were right, Yuji." Yukari spoke. "The Pandora Glas weren't expecting an immediate assault from us or anyone else whatsoever."

Yuji shrugged as he spoke. "That's why they should trend cautiously and not think that their enemies can't go on the offensive immediately off the bat on the same day. Let's go help Asuka and Yutaro."

Yukari nodded before following Yuji, who homed his senses in on the locations of the Mahiru Maigo and the Seiren Maigo before finding Yutaro and Asuka near a stonewall with a flight of stairs leading into underground caverns.

"Well, all other areas have been searched." Yukari spoke.

"Now or never." Yutaro replied as he and Asuka descended down into the caverns where they caught sight of several figures wearing cloaks and resembling scholars of the European Middle Ages. A spilt second later, swirls of energy engulfed them as they were standing around a large insignia composed of patterns and Greek inscriptions on the ground, which glowed brightly.

"We're too late." Asuka whispered, sensing power of existence from the cloaked figures being taken from them to charge the large insignia, which erupted in a burst of light. Once the flash idled down, Asuka and the others were in complete shock as a blond-haired well-endowed woman with pale skin and wearing a feminine long tunic over her curvaceous body. The appearance was shocking enough but the fact that the newcomer stood at fifty-feet in height spelled trouble with a capital T.

"Not good." Yuji spoke amid glimpsing the giantess that stood and radiated power similar to that of a Guze no Ou but much stronger and he sensed something different about it. "So I take it you are Pandora, the Hand of Plagues?"

"LITTLE ANTS. YOU ALL SHALL BE THE FIRST TO FEEL MY WRATH." The blond giantess declared as she looked at the three Mystes and the Torch before her very long golden hair extended and sailed towards them like vipers making their strikes.

Asuka, Yuji, Yukari, and Yutaro evaded the attack amid scattering away. Yuji whipped out the Rotational Edge while Asuka drew the Strata Arch, leaving Yutaro and Yukari to provide long-range and observational support.

Pandora proved to be a formidable, given her size advantage and power as the giantess tried to stomp on her smaller foes.

'When dealing with giant creatures, first target their eyes.' Asuka thought as she sprinted and took aim with Strata Arch before firing energy arrows at Pandora, who was busy trying to stomp on Yuji. Her shots were too wide off the mark, forcing the Mystes of the Seiren Maigo to bide her time.

"Hey, Pandora!" Yuji taunted with a roguish grin amid easily dodging Pandora's stomping feet and deflecting her incoming hair beams. "Every time you try to stomp me flat like that, I can see up your tunic's skirt! I guess the Greeks don't believe in proper lingerie, eh?"

"WHY YOU LITTLE…?!" Pandora screamed as her face turned red before bringing her right hand upwards, channeling power of existence and sending multiple bolts of lightning at the Mystes. Yuji barely managed to block the blast but the explosive impact threw him backwards such that he slammed into a wall.

It was at that moment did Asuka make her move as she sent arrows towards Pandora's eyes, blasting them into nothing. Pandora cried out amid her eyes being blasted asunder. As she tried to regenerate her eyes back, Yuji dashed forward and swung the Rotational Edge, slash the back of Pandora left leg above the calf and causing the giantess to fall on one knee.

Completely angry at being edged to a disadvantage, Pandora slammed the ground as she activated the Unrestricted Method Rensen, sending her long golden hair in all directions. While Asuka and Yuji managed to evade, Yutaro managed to catch the incoming hair beams before concentrating his will into what he was holding when he was rewarded with a pair of chained sickles a second later.

"I guess Bennu's library of knowledge is as good as gold." Yutaro remarked, having borrowed a bit of Pandora's power of existence to merge with his own in creating a weapon Hougu.

"Since she used a spell called the Rensen and this was born from it, it's only fair that it gets the same name." Yukari remarked as she and Yutaro took cover.

Pandora had made a mistake in assuming that the fight would be a quick victory for her. Instead, the Hand of Plagues, despite her fifty-foot height advantage and power, found herself being taken down a bit fast after being blinded.

"IF I CAN'T WIN, I'LL TAKE YOU ALL WITH ME!" Pandora declared as her body began to glow in a fiery light.

"Oh hell no!" Asuka quipped as she jumped and latched onto Pandora's arm, activating several Unrestricted Methods before her corporeal form slowly began to fade. At the same time, Pandora's now immobilized form began to dissipate in size and appearance until she simply broke apart, leaving burning copper flames on the ground.

"Asuka!" Yutaro and Yukari called out simultaneously, noticing that the Mystes of the Seiren Maigo was slowly fading.

"Pandora would've done more than just bring the caverns down on us." Asuka spoke. "She would've unleashed some real problems so I have to utilize the Method of Unrestraint called the Apoptosis to prevent the anomalies from breaking down the laws of nature."

"You may have stopped me from utilizing the Anesidora but your life is now mine." A feminine voice cut through from the copper flames, which blazed into a cocoon before burning away to reveal Pandora at a normal height of five-foot five.

"Not while some of us can still fight." Yutaro spoke as he and Yuji stood to engage the Hand of Plagues.

Pandora shook her head before instantly tapping the ground, activating spells that erupted around and immobilized the Mystes of the Reiji Maigo and the Mahiru Maigo in place.

"You boys should know that it is evil to strike at a girl, hence the reason why you both are frozen in place." Pandora spoke.

"Well, that's generally true unless the woman turns out to be a major bitch with a face so hideous that all the mirrors shatter." Yutaro taunted.

"Or if the woman is more beastly than beauty to attack younger men like a cougar trying to get some." Yuji added.

Pandora's face turned red from the comments such that she punched both Yuji and Yutaro yet it didn't stop the two Mystes from spewing further insults, some of which had some major suggestive themes that are much too adult for young children to hear.

Amid all of that, Yukari was busy trying to tend to Asuka, who stopped her from helping her further.

"I knew that using the Unrestricted Method Apoptosis would kill me." Asuka confessed. "That is very much something that causes more harm to the user than the target but knowing that it worked to level out Pandora's threat to the world was very much worth the tradeoff. Now Pandora can be killed like a regular Tomogara."

"Asuka, you can't just die." Yukari protested.

"I choose to because I grow tired of this endless accumulation of experience that is called life." Asuka replied before grabbing and pulling Yukari into a hug. "You have a future that I can only envy you for. Therefore, I think it's fitting that you become the third Mystes of the Seiren Maigo."

"Asuka, don't do this." Yukari whispered, unable to believe what she was hearing.

"Don't worry. I will be watching over you in spirit." Asuka replied as she slowly began to fade while pushing the Seiren Maigo into Yukari, who felt the Hougu take a very firm root into her being. At the same time, the Shinto priestess had the young girl take hold of the Strata Arch. "I do this because you've given this soul such wonderful company despite the brief time in which I felt very much alive. You have a future that I won't allow the fate to take from you. The Seiren Maigo, along with the Strata Arch, are my gifts to you, Yukari Hirai. We will see each other again one day but don't look too forward towards it."

Yukari could only nod amid fighting back tears as she watched Asuka fade away into sprites of light.

"Asuka, you still live on within my heart and memory." Yukari whispered as the last remnants of the Shinto priestess vanished. Feeling the Seiren Maigo fuel her being, Yukari stood and turned to see Pandora beat the hell out of a frozen Yuji and Yutaro before conjuring an energy arrow in the Strata Arch and firing it at the Hand of Plagues, forcing her back.

"You little wench!" Pandora snarled as she charged at Yukari, who dropped the Strata Arch and simply kicked her enemy in the midsection before taking her off her feet with a sweep kick. Pandora lashed out at Yukari with her long hair but the Mystes evaded with ease before landing several punches to her face in response.

"Those spells might have kept Yuji and Yutaro from attacking you but it won't stop me from dropping your ass in a catfight." Yukari spoke as she elbowed Pandora's back before clamping her head in a front headlock and falling backwards, driving her foe's crown into the ground. Pandora clutched her head in pain and Yukari got to her feet before deliberately kicking her in the ribs. The Hand of Plagues managed to force Yukari aside with an energy blast. Recuperating from the blast, the new Mystes of the Seiren Maigo decided to finish the fight as she picked up the Strata Arch before using the Hougu's blades to slash at her foe. Pandora managed to block the strikes with her arms and long hair before feeling several arrows pierce her mid-section.

"How?" Pandora croaked.

Yukari, having lured Pandora into a feign with the slashing attacks, had prepared to generate enough energy arrows within a split second before simultaneously firing them at point-blank range.

"It's over, Pandora. You won't threaten this world any more!" Yukari declared before conjuring a large ball of fire, which incinerated the Hand of Plagues completely until nothing remained.

After dispelling the spells binding Yuji and Yutaro, Yukari helped the pair back to their feet.

"It's over." Yutaro whispered. "Let's head back."

"Agreed." Yukari replied. "But one last thing before we depart tomorrow."

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The next morning, on a small cliff overlooking the grassy meadows, Yuji, Yukari, and Yutaro erected a small gravestone under a tree that had Asuka's name and a small epitaph that read: A Dear Friend and Sister. May the Angels Guide Her Soul to Eternal Rest.

"Don't worry, Asuka. I will protect the Seiren Maigo and the Strata Arch." Yukari whispered.

"Yutaro and I will do our best to protect her and each other." Yuji added.

"Until the day we meet again, Asuka…" Yutaro finished.

As the sun rose into the sky, the day felt like a beginning of sorts for the Mystes bearing the Mahiru Maigo, the Reiji Maigo, and the Seiren Maigo. They didn't know what to expect down the road but the trio felt ready to face anything that Fate, Destiny, and Chaos had in store for them.

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Yuji felt uneasy amid Pheles looking straight into his eyes with her face so close to his the moment he finished telling events of the past before he actually turned and noticed. For the moment, the Mystes felt that he could get lost while looking into the Guze Queen's emerald eyes, which were filled with curiosity yet he thought he saw a flicker of something else. Was it a flicker of interest?

Pheles, having finished hearing Yuji speak about the Mystes Triumvirate forming the moment the Seiren Maigo was forced into Yukari, felt nothing echo from the Reiji Maigo. Since she did have a part in its creation, the Guze Queen could actually see the events that Yuji had just finished telling her within her mind.

"Um… Pheles?" Yuji asked.

"That's quite a story and your eyes don't betray you. Obviously, you're rather wise on being honest to women." Pheles spoke while thinking. 'Impressive, Sakai Yuji. There's more to you than it seems and you certainly have not disappointed me.'

"More like cautious." Yuji remarked, his left eye twitching that Pheles caught sight of it.

"Do you have something to hide from me?" Pheles asked with a slight tone that sounded a bit close to a scolding one. The moment she saw his eye twitch, the Guze Queen had a certain feeling of something else regarding the Mystes before her.

"Eh, what would I have to hide from you?" Yuji asked nervously.

"Alright, Yuji. I have a feeling that there is another big story that you're not willing to tell me even if I asked." Pheles spoke as she walked towards Yuji, who began to back away from the Beautiful Whim.

"What other story could their be?" Yuji asked, knowing that Pheles was getting close to a major truth that he wasn't keen on telling anyone.

The moment he sensed Pheles quicken her pace towards him, Yuji took off running like a cat out of hell.

"Hey, get back here!" Pheles shouted as she went after the youth. "You're not getting off the hook that easily!"

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Meanwhile at an Outlaw…

A young girl with long black hair and wearing a trench-coat over her blouse and skirt looked at the poster in her hand that read:

The Mystes of the Reiji Maigo has been confirmed to be in Misaki, Japan. Provided is a photo to identify the Mystes, whose name remains unknown. A bounty of 3,000,000 Euros has placed for information that will lead to his capture and imprisonment. He is considered armed and dangerous with the possibility of accomplices helping him. Take him dead or alive. Kill all witnesses if need.

"Hmm… Alastor, what do you think?" the young girl asked.

"This is certainly something that we should look into." Alastor replied. "I take it we are heading back now?"

The young girl that was the Slayer with the Flaming Hair and Red Eyes nodded.

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Somewhere in the Sahara Desert…

The young woman with purple hair and wearing a long French maid outfit while carrying a large green backpack looked about.

"Balle Masque." Wilhelmina spoke. "The Seireiden's movements are becoming erratic, de arimasu."

"Reiji Maigo." Tiamat replied.

"Once this place is cleaned up, we will head there, de arimasu." Wilhelmina spoke before walking eastbound.

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BONUS SCENE: What Yuji AND Yutaro are hiding from Pheles, Leanan-sidhe, Chigusa, and Yukari.

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Beginning of the summer before Friagne was defeated…

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all

I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed to the earth below

Sliding the crowbar in, Yuji forced open the door to the Dodge Chaser, allowing Yutaro to bypass the ignition with his hot-wiring techniques. A minute later, the car was roaring with life such that the Mystes of the Reiji Maigo and the Mystes of the Mahiru Maigo went on a joy ride in some obscure town on the West Coast of the U.S.A.

"You're right. Yukari would definitely have stopped us from breaking into cars just for this." Yuji remarked, knowing that the Mystes of the Seiren Maigo that was their surrogate sister is at home with their mother.

"I have to agree with you on that." Yutaro replied as he drove the Dodge Charger onto the open road.

Amid their trip on the road to a suburban neighborhood, Yuji saw a Ford F-150 filled with some rowdy boys, all of them likely high school seniors and possibly jocks, pull up next to him on the right before seeing them throw a few obscene gestures along with a few inappropriate antics.

"Don't get mad, get even." Yuji whispered and Yutaro merely nodded before driving onwards. The Ford F-150 followed alongside that Yuji noticed that the driver didn't have his eyes fully on the road. Yutaro noticed a narrowing in the road amid approaching a bridge that went over a small river. The moment the car and the truck approached the narrow section, the Mystes swerved the Dodge Charger into the Ford F-150, forcing the driver to pull away. Unfortunately, the said driver found himself driving off the road and losing control on the slippery bank such that he and his merry gang of delinquent friends ended up getting stuck in the river.

After crossing the bridge and seeing no other traffic on the road, Yutaro stopped the car as he and Yuji went to see the people in the Ford F-150, all of whom were alright but were soaked in water and mud as they got out of the truck.

"Ha, now you know that karma really is a bitch!" Yutaro taunted. "Mess with the best and you'll get burned like the rest!"

"Yeah, suck it up, fuckers!" Yuji shouted as he waved both of his hands, shooting a pair of middle fingers at them before adding further insult to injury by doing a crotch chop that was preceded by a pelvic thrust. Both Mystes then drove off laughing at the expense of the high school kids they had just drove off the road.

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see

We don't even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope

Entering the suburbs, Yuji and Yutaro looked around the area, keeping an eye out for any liquor stores and bars that they could sell their products at. Eventually, dusk fell such that both of them drove into a neighborhood before noticing a lot of cars parked outside a large house that was hosting a party, one that involved loud rock music to rile the neighbors along with a modern version to a summer of love minus the drugs while adding some "safe" amounts of alcohol into the equation.

There were people going in and out such that Yuji and Yutaro had some second thoughts. But their decision to leave was taken from them when some rather hot blondes caught sight of the pair before literally dragging them into the house. There was no doubt that the handsome traits and magnetic charm that are inherited by all males of the Sakai family bloodline had ensnared them and soon both Yuji and Yutaro found themselves meeting all sorts of people such that they utilized their fake alias.

When the music changed and the party became heightened with activity, both Mystes found themselves dancing with several hot girls respectively. It was at that moment that Yutaro merely gave Yuji a hesitant look that said, "Go with the flow." And that was what they did. While the girls they were dancing with seem to have some real unclean moves, Yuji and Yutaro, having been to several clubs all over Europe and Canada, couldn't help but take things up a notch with what could be called dirty dancing. Can one really blame the two for giving in to their hormonal triggers?

Amid dancing in a manner that was rather adult-like and a bit inappropriate, both Yuji and Yutaro were immediately swarmed as the girls they were in close proximity to looked as if they were getting aroused by their movements. Both Mystes felt the girls rub onto them with their bodies, which seemed to "involuntarily" compel them to escalate their dancing that led dangerously close to a level that had more than just cleavage flashing, hip racking, and the intimate rubbing of bodies as several songs were played in succession.

To Yuji and Yutaro, they were having a blast, knowing that they couldn't have experienced anything like this at home in Japan. At the moment, both of them were single high school males anyways, leaving them a wide berth to enjoy their freedom amid being surrounded by hot girls.

Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see

We don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Rolls of paper were thrown into the air and Yutaro joined several other high school teens in yard rolling several trees in the neighborhood, leaving evidence of mischief behind in their wake. The sound of an F-150 drew attention such that Yutaro and the other teens took cover. From his hiding spot, the Mystes of the Mahiru Maigo recognized the newcomers and the vehicle, which was slightly covered in some muddy slime.

"Damn!" Yutaro quipped as he saw the same jocks he had run off the road earlier that day appear at the party. It was by luck that he managed to slip out of sight before noticing the Ford F-150 that they came was parked near a large tree, thus giving him an idea.

Yuji, who was upstairs and recuperating after scoring a home run with a blond-haired nineteen-year old busty beauty named Justine on a bed in the attic, sensed Yutaro's warning amid feeling the Reiji Maigo resonate within his being. For the moment, he was trying to catch his breath after losing his virginity to the strenuous activity that was typically reserved for hormonal couples behind closed doors while mentally making a note to take a shower in order to wash this girl's heavily scent-filled essence off of him.

'At least she won't be pregnant.' Yuji thought, having negated the chance using one of Johan's Unrestricted Methods. After all, sex was like math: Add a bed, Subtract the clothes, Divide the legs, and hope you don't Multiply.

Justine, who was completely in sans clothing condition, arched her back in arousal amid Yuji groping and feeling her up while ignoring the guilt that she was cheating on her boyfriend Tony, who was incidentally part of the group that Yutaro ran off the road, by having wild passionate sex with a stranger. But desirable lust and the fact that she was heavily drunk seemed to have a lot more force in shoving that thought away as Justine continued allowing Yuji to have free rein over her body, enjoying the sensations of his touch while somewhat willing to give the Mystes the pleasures that only a woman can give. Overall, Justine had some thoughts about taking Yuji over her current boyfriend due to the thrilling pleasures that she was experiencing after losing her virginity.

The moment the Mystes's sharp senses detected someone approaching the attic, he quickly ceased the intimacy with the busty blonde, who quickly put all of her clothes back on, before Yuji, having quickly finished putting all of his clothes back on, cast a Fuzetsu and carried Justine down to the empty guest room, knowing that she would have no idea on what occurred. After getting some distance and deactivating the Fuzetsu, Yuji made his way back down through the party.

"Hey! It's him!" an angry voice shouted and Yuji looked like a deer caught in the headlights of car amid catching sight of the high school jocks that he and Yutaro had run off the road such that he quickly made a run for the exit.

"Get back here!" one of the young men shouted as he and his friends pursued Yuji with the intention to beat him up real badly.

"Reiji!" Yutaro called out from the Dodge Charger, which was warmed up and ready to go. Yuji ran and jumped through the open passenger window before safely taking his seat as Yutaro drove off.

"Step on it, Mahiru!" Yuji spoke.

Seconds later, the high school jocks immediately got into their truck to give chase, unaware of some metal chains that were clamped tightly to the rear axel while their other ends were wrapped firmly around the tree.

As the F-150 moved to a high speed to chase the Dodge Charger that Yutaro and Yuji were in, the tree proved very strong to hold itself together as the chains extended to their maximum length, yanking the rear axel from underneath the truck.

As Yuji and Yutaro drove off into the night, both Mystes laughed hard at the handiwork and sabotage, which left their would-be pursuers behind to throw fits of rage at getting suckered twice in one day.

The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around

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NOTES:

Common features of the Mahiru Maigo, Reiji Maigo, and Seiren Maigo.

1) They spontaneously restore power of existence but under different conditions respectively.

2) The connection to Quintessence allows their Mystes to utilize the fifth element.

3) Able to store the memories of their Mystes predecessors or anyone involved in their creation.

Special and unique secrets of each Hougu (author's comments)

Mahiru Maigo's Absolute Rebirth allows the immediate resurrection of its Mystes after death.

(Yutaro gets killed but the Hougu brings him back to life instantly. Now if the Mahiru Maigo has all of the Psalms of the Grand Order, all the Balle Masque needs to do then is kill him once and from the ashes comes Snake of the Festival Sakai Yutaro.)

Reiji Maigo's Instructive Osmosis allows the Hougu to learn any Unrestrictive Method that any of its Mystes bearers had experienced or been in contact with.

(Yuji will likely know all of Johan's inventions and other things that his predecessor had experienced first-hand later on.)

Seiren Maigo's Spontaneity of Eternal Realization grants strange powers to its Mystes.

(Yukari created the Six Steps of Genesis, which reverses a Torch back to a normal human being. But there might be other abilities that she might be able to do.)

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Lyrics belong to 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. I was watching the music video and I just couldn't help but write a small segment on Yuji and Yutaro acting like juvenile delinquents. Sure, Yuji might be a good person but even those types have a wild side of their own.

I think it's obvious that Pheles isn't a virgin and neither is Johan. While they didn't procreate, that doesn't mean that they've been "busy" so why can't I make Yuji engage in such pastimes in the U.S.A. in that segment BEFORE the prologue of this story?