Angel Beats: Harmonics girl

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Warning: Since something had happened (please the previous chapter for further details), the software I am now using don't have grammar checker so please forgive me if there is too much grammar mistake

Chapter 17

Angel or SSS2

Side topic: Midori

"Damn it!"

"Wha-Argh!"

A Phantom cried as he was slashed from the back before his knees crashed to the ground followed by his body. Beside him, there were other bodies that were lying around on the ground. The only one that was standing was Ken with his hood on and his oversized shurikens on both of his hand. After a while, Ryuu could be seen coming into the mess.

"One does not usually care for the well being of another, however there have been complains about the cries from your squad."

"...My apologizes."

Ryuu took a look at one of the bodies, kicked it away before continued.

"You failed yourself and one for the second time, Ken. I expected more from you Ken. I even taught you the hypnotism trick that I couldn't mastered."

"Chee! Those hypnotism won't do me any good when the student council is all over the place. Damn that cursed president... If I have known his face I would have find him and sent him to eternal misery..."

"One could have care less about the president that doesn't show his face. What one is concern is that you have promised one the power to change the world. However one couldn't seemed to be able to-"

"There will be progress!"

Ken shouted as he kept his shurikens with the blood stains on. Ryuu looked Ken, trying to anticipate what was he planning. However before the idea struck him, Ken had said.

"Let's gather the Black Hand Council, I am going to put the hypnotism trick you taught me to good use..."

Ken said before he disappeared to the shadows, Ryuu muttered something before leaving the area.

"... ...it's about time for the SSS2 and us to settle everything...once and for all..."

"... ..."

I thought mindlessly as I stared into the red sky beyond the end of the afterlife world. Another peaceful day without making any contact with the Black Hand unintentionally led me to the usual roof top to waste my time here. A feeling of … loneliness erupted inside me as I realized that Sekai wasn't with me.

No, that isn't the most important issue right now. The most important issue is...

I thought as my mind drifted back to yesterday's midnight, when I had a conversation with Mio-san in the hydroponic garden.

Flashback

"Who am I?"

"... ..."

Mio-san lowered her face when I had asked my first question, the question that I had been thinking over and over again for years already. After a moment of silent, Mio-san raised her face and asked.

"Do you really want to know?"

"Yes."

I answered without even hesitating.

"Even if the answer could cause you sorrow?"

"Yes."

"Even if you may be different than your usual self?"

"Yes."

"Even if you may be separated by your friends, like Satoshi-kun?"

"...Huh?"

I paused as I heard Mio-san's last question. Without even letting me to think over, Mio-san pressed me on.

"Even if you will never be able to be with your friends again, even if you will never be able to be with Satoshi-kun again, do you still want to know the truth?"

"Wa-Wait a minute, what does my friends and Sekai have anything to do with this?"

"Everything."

Mio-san said as she looked me in the eyes. Both of her crimson and aqua colored eyes were staring into mine. She continued.

"What you wanted to know contained power, the very power that can change this world. That power is why the Black Hand wants to meet you. They know that you have that power, and they want that power no matter the cost."

"So what does that have anything-"

"This power have everything to do with it."

Mio-san paused for a moment before continued.

"If you don't know the truth, you can still maintain your daily life in the afterlife world with the SSS2. However if you know the truth, you will gain the strongest power in this world. Although you may be able to save your friends with that power, as a result you will become different from all your friends. Even so, they you still want to know the truth?"

"...I..."

"... ..."

I don't know.

I couldn't decide.

I wanted to know the truth behind me,

but my friends, the SSS2 …and Sekai are all important to me.

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In the end, I couldn't make a decision.

"Don't worry about it too much, you can reconsider it all the time you want. I will be waiting for you here at midnight when you have decided..."

Flashback Ended.

No matter how I asked, Mio-san just won't explain to me how does knowing the truth would separate me from my friends...

I sighed when I thought about that.

For years I have been living for the purpose of finding this truth behind me. And now I finally have the answer in my grasp but...

To you, which is more important? The truth, or your friends?

This question kept on appearing in my mind as I watched the scenery of the red sky alone. I missed Sekai... I wondered why do I feel so lonely witho-

"K-Kya!"

I screamed as I felt something cold brushed against my left cheek. I jumped and distanced myself away from the source. I turned my head towards the source only to find...

"Hahaha calm down Tachibana. It's only Key Coffee."

Sekai laughed as he held two Key Coffee on both of his hands, one of it was at the position where my face was earlier. I felt my face flamed up at our own silly reaction as I snatched the Key Coffee and opened it facing away from Sekai. Even so, I now felt calm and relieved by having Sekai with me. I wondered what was this feeling...

"You seemed to be thinking about something so deeply that you didn't notice me. Care to share it?"

Sekai said as he also opened up his can of Key Coffee. He twisted it a little before taking a small slip from it.

"...It's nothing important so forget about it..."

I replied. Of course it is something important that I am thinking about. However this was a secret that shouldn't be told to anyone else... What should I do...

"...Hmm... ...so it's something that you couldn't tell me is it?"

"!"

My eyes turned wide when I thought that Sekai had read my thought. Sekai only took another slip and continued.

"It is pretty obvious that you are hiding something, something so important or personal that even I couldn't know right?"

"...I am sorry..."

I suddenly felt depressed when I heard that. I really wanted to consult him about my problems but these were my problems and my problems alone...

"Then how about you ask me questions?"

"Huh?"

I blinked my eyes when he said that. What did he meant by asking question?

"Since it's secretive that I shouldn't even know, I know that I shouldn't interfere but you looked quite troubled. So I at least wish to be able to help you in some way."

"...Sekai..."

I stared into his gentle blue eyes. After taking a breath, I asked.

"Who is Ken?"

"!"

His gentle blue eyes turned wide when he heard my question. After a moment of hesitation, he asked.

"... ...Does he have anything to do with what you are thinking about?"

"No, however I noticed that your face had gone pale when you seen him. Also I wished to know, what happened on that night of the Dark Birthday."

"... ..."

"You don't have to force-"

"There used to be five of us."

"Eh?"

Sekai settled down his Key Coffee on the railing and continued.

"There used to be four other people with me enjoying this scenery months ago. They are Kaito, Chimemi-chan, Ken and ...Midori...

At that point of time we were just a small group of people gather together with Midori as the group's center pillar that held us together."

"Who is this Ken and Midori person?"

For a moment, just a split second, I thought I saw Sekai's eyes drifting far away before he answered.

" They... were my precious friends..."

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I loved this never changing world.

There was no need to worry about death, shadows had disappeared as suddenly as they came. This was an ideal world...

It was...until that day came...

"Now I hereby declare the first year anniversary of Shinda Sekai Sensen 2. This year had been hard... …."

"So, almost a year had passed since we came here Sekai."

"It is hard to believe isn't it? To think that we would be able to live another year even after death."

"Well, it is the afterlife world after all. I wouldn't be surprised if this school suddenly reconstructed itself to fit with the schools outside in the future."

Ken, Midori and I shared a laugh as Miu, our SSS2 leader was announcing her speech on the stage. It had been about eight or more months since the three of us had stayed in the afterlife world. Oddly enough, the SSS2 found the three of us together at the same timing when we had arrived. That must be one of the reason why we could befriend with each other so well and fast together.

Ken was wearing the SSS2 uniform with a cap on his long blond hair to hide his eyes. Even though both Midori and I had told him to remove his cap, he wouldn't listen and replied that his eyes were scary. Seriously...

Midori was in the standard SSS2 girl's uniform. She was actually a member of the Guild but she insisted that she wore the SSS2 girl's uniform since it looked much more cuter. She had a fair white skin with short blue hair and orange eyes. When we first met, she was a literally emotionless girl with amnesia. However she would follow us where ever we go, ….once even to the toilet... However, we started to talk to her and she started to become more emotional to the point of being the most active one among the three of us. She was the center pillar that the two of us with another two of our friends together.

"It sure is great that the three of us were able to survive together until now~ I wish that this moment will never be lost... Ken and Sekai think so too, right?"

Both Ken and I blushed upon seeing her cheerful smile. To think that the once emotionless Midori months ago would have shown us this kind of smile, it was truly a miracle. Then again, miracle was common in this world. The reason that Ken and I are blushing is because...

Both Ken and I had a crush on her.

It seemed that she hadn't noticed or doesn't know the emotion of 'love'. Both of us were too shy to tell her about it so we still remained as a trio.

"Ah, Sekai, your Beretta 72 is outdated already. You should change another handgun already."

"...Well...I don't really like to change with other guns since this was made by you. It is like a good luck charm to me."

"Hmm...Then shall I make you another gun? I think this customized Beretta 92 gunblade type would be good for you."

"That would be great, I wouldn't need to take out another knife when the shadows close in on me. Though I thought that you can only make what you seen before? How do you make the Beretta 92 gunblade?"

"With imagination of course, besides it's just sharpening the lower part of the barrel to become a knife."

Midori answered. Among all the weapons I seen, only Midori's Beretta 92 with the lower part of the barrel sharpened to become a knife or rather bayonet was the most strangest of all. Not to mention it was a gunblade series...

"Talking about weapons, have you finished the two 'so-called' surprise that you had told us before? It is another special kind of weapon?"

Ken asked when we talked about the weapons. Instead of guns, Ken preferred to use shurikens for some reason. So Midori made him a pair of black five stars shuriken for him to fight against the shadows, though the shurikens were bigger than normal.

As for the two weapons, last week Midori had told us that she was building two weapons that could outmatch any other weapons made by the Guild. She even said that today there was going to be a big surprise going on. I wondered if she meant the anniversary or something else.

"Ah about them. I have finished building them, it was quite hard to build something that you have never seen before."

"Did you bring them?"

Both of us watched Midori expectantly, curious about what kind of new weapons she would gave us. However, after a while, she replied.

"It is not a matter about did I bring them or not but... There is no possible way to bring them."

"Hmm? Why is that so?"

"Hi-Mi-Tsu~" (Se-Cre-t)

"Eeehhhh?"

Midori laughed as both of us sighed. And we were hoping to receive the weapons today. But I wondered what she meant by not able to bring them...

"...Well...Seeing that you two are so depressed. I will give you two a hint~"

"...hint?"

"The hint is... they are always inside your heart."

"...What is that suppose to mean?"

Midori laughed and ignored us when we asked her about it. After a while Kaito and Chimemi-chan joined us. Kaito and Chimemi-chan joined us about two months later when we first arrived. Kaito was a good friend of mine but was at average with Ken. For some reason Midori seemed to be interest in the yandere Chimemi-chan. They became friends as quickly as they met.

The five of us chatted as the time passed. It sure is good, a life without worrying about the return of the-

"...The surprise is here~"

"Huh? Midori what did you-"

"Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Just as I was about to ask Midori what she had just said, a loud scream pierced our ears. For a moment, just for a moment, I thought I saw Midori smirked. That must be my imagination.

"Shadows! There are shadows outside! And they are five times bigger than before!"

"WHAT!"

The entire SSS2 panicked upon hearing the news. Wait a minute! Wasn't the shadows gone? Why did they ap-

Boom!

"TH-THEY ARE COMING IN!"

Someone cried as the main door of the gymnasium was being destroyed. Behind the broken door lies the shadows. However there wasn't only a group of them, it's...

"It is an army! Are they trying to kill everyone of us in a single attack?"

Ken shouted out as the shadows started to charge towards us. The people who were nearest at the door were quickly swallowed up before even finishing their cries. Since it was a celebration, there wasn't much people that had brought their weapons to this celebration! All of the SSS2 started to retreat to the stage before more shadows started to come in from the stage.

"We were being surrounded!"

Kaito cried out as the entire SSS2 started to squeeze together. Those who at least brought their secondary weapon came out and fight the shadows but...

There were still too many of them!

"Let's go, Sekai, Ken."

Both Ken and I turned to look towards Midori. Had she become crazy? If we rushed out to the shadows...

"We are some of the people who have weapons! If we don't protect the others, no one else will!"

"Midori!"

Midori said before rushing towards the shadows. Both Ken and I quickly followed after her. I took out my Beretta 72 as Ken took out his pair of oversized Shurikens.

It was a rough battle with no hope of surviving. Midori, Ken and I were soon separated from each other as we were force to fend for our own from this sea of shadows. I heard a wall being blasted open with a group of people with machine guns coming in. We might be able to-

"Argh!"

I groaned as I felt a shadow who had sneaked up on me started to swallow me. I could feel the feeling of being dragged towards the ground. Damn if I don't cut the shadow off quickly-

"Sekai!"

Midori who appeared beside me shouted as she threw her customized handgun towards me. It was a white Beretta 92 with the lower part of the barrel shaped as a bayonet. I quickly caught it and used it to cut off the shadow surrounding me.

"Thanks Mi-"

"Huh? Midori!"

Ken shouted as we looked towards the direction of Midori, she was now being surrounded by the shadows and only her head was barely on the ground! I shouted her name as our eyes met.

"Mi-!"

...Why...

...Why did you smile?

"Midoriiiiiii!"

Ken screamed when Midori's head disappeared from the ground. Wha-...What just happened? What the hell just happened!

Why...Why did she smile at me just now... Just seconds before the shadows came she also smiled... What does that smile meant...?

Afterwords, a group of people rushed towards us, machine guns blazing. We managed to push the Shadows outside, to the field before completely eliminating them. However, this victory...not...this was a lost.

Ken disappeared after the event. It was weeks later before I heard from Kaito that he joined the new group called "Black Hand". The gun that Midori had gave me to save my life, I had hid it in the deepest part of my room. Never willing to take it out again.

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"If I have enough power, I could have saved Midori. Or even lesser people could have avoided their fate. And I wouldn't be alone now..."

"... ..."

"So that was the story between Ken and I. I hope it helps you about what you are thinking."

Sekai forced a half-smile as he told me his story. If I had known that it was such a painful memory, I wouldn't had asked it.

I don't want Sekai to show such painful face.

I don't want Sekai to be sad.

I don't want Sekai to be worry about me.

I... now know what to do now.

"Thanks Sekai. I know what should do now."

I told Sekai as I set down my Key Coffee on the railing and started to head towards the door. Before leaving, I said to Sekai.

"You are not weak Sekai. And you are not alone either, I am here with you."

"I am surprised that she didn't want to know. It is the truth that she has been searching for years and the power she could use to protect her friends. I wondered why she didn't chose..."

Mio, with her blue eye visible in the student council room, said as she drank her cup of tea. While drinking, she unconsciously recalled about their meeting.

"You don't want to know?"

"Yes, there is no reason for me to know now."

"But it is the truth that you have been sea-"

"It doesn't matter anymore."

"Huh?"

Before the girl with white hair and crimson eyes left, she said.

"There are people, who I want to be with than knowing the truth."

"Well, even though we were the same people, we doesn't think alike after all."

Across her, a girl with long white hair and crimson eyes said. She looks almost the same as the girl Mio had talked with before except she was wearing a normal uniform.

"Ah there was one more thing... Satoshi-kun had told your sister about Midori."

"... So he told her huh..."

Kanade muttered as she continued to drink her tea. After a while Kanade continued the conversation.

"If we had known that over using the Angel Player would attract more shadows, maybe the Dark Celebration wouldn't have happened..."

"...It's a inevitable mistake, Kanade-chan."

"A mistake we should have avoided."

A third voice came in as the door of the student council room slid open. A boy in NPC uniform with blond hair and orange eyes came into the room. He had a strict impression on his face as he said.

"We should have study more about the shadows and the Angel Player before making an assault towards the shadows' leader. We lost two member on that operation..."

His strict impression fell off as he was reminded of what had happened during the night of the Dark Celebration.

The entire student council had gathered together and made an all-out assault towards the computer lab 2, where the mastermind of the Shadows would be at. However, just in the middle of the operation, they received news about the attack above and was forced to retreat. Two fellow student council members were lost in the process.

"Rei, stop blaming yourself. It is not our fault that the Dark Celebration had happened. It is her plan after all..."

The boy called Rei calmed down as he settled himself on a chair. Just as other student council members were coming in, he muttered to himself.

"Who are you, Midori..."

"I propose the Operation Ragnarok, we shall take back what's rightfully ours with this!"

"Agreed."

"Agreed."

"Agreed."

A chorus of agreement echoed the room. Ken smirked as he looked at the emotionless eyes of all the council members, with the exception of Ryuu who was watching the entire event enfolded. Ken touched his old shuriken and muttered,

"Finally, it's time. With this I will avenge you Midori, and with the Angel Player, I will create a soul and revive you again..."

Unknown to anyone except Ken, there was a girl trapped in a prison. She had short blue hair and was wearing a NPC's uniform. The girl had emotionless eyes on her face but inside her heart, something could be heard.

It is beginning...

The battle is coming...

For months, you two had gave me different kind of emotion... And I had seen different sides of you two...

I felt guilty leaving you two so suddenly but...

I wanted to see more, the sides that I haven't seen from you two...

Will you two show me what's inside a human heart? Ken...Sekai..."

A/N: Finally this chapter has been finished! I never thought that I actually could have managed to finish it on the weekend.

Miu: Well, you have been becoming busier after all. And you had rewritten the Dark Celebration three times before you finally chose the best one. The one that turned the fate the most.

A/N: Ya, I was surprised that I even managed to make another change to the fate of the story. Not to mention it came to me when I was having my hair cut...

Miu: Well, it's a pity that the Orihime and Hikoboshi never have the chance to appear in the end. I kind of liked that pair of guns.

A/N: Ya, I missed those two guns also. Truthfully told Midori should be dead already, but I never thought that she would came back. It was like she came back into the story on her own. Nevertheless, I like her.

One more thing, I REALLY won't be able to update soon since Chinese New Year is coming (ya I am chinese). However I will try to complete bits by bits for the next chapter. I know that you all are going to love it. Since i changed a lot of perspective during the last chapter which was said to be confusing, is this kind of writing style fine? I wish to know so that i can write better in the future.

And remember the Rei guy, GUESS WHO IS HE?

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