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The dark night enveloping the world brings every soul in the dream world after a tiring day they have gone through very well, there is a story, a story which is usually told to every soul to become friends in the midst of their sleep. The story where in a kingdom, a half human serves a little girl and promised to be a knight who will always protect the little girl.

In the story that people always wanted, the knight had a romantic ending with his master and it was told over and over again, but would it have a happy ending for this knight? no one knows

The knight's name was Issei J. Hyoudo, a half-human who came from the descendants of the Vampire and Werewolf races, known as the bloodthirsty and most hated race in the world.

He is now gazing at the night sky together with his mistress named Koneko Toujo, both of them are on their way to the capital city after receiving a summons from His Majesty the King. Koneko Toujo is a 16 year old girl with the appearance of having silver hair and has forbidden power, namely the healing power which is called in the kingdom as the holy power of God's blessing. What makes this power forbidden in the kingdom, because the users of this power must come from the Church and must have blood ties with the gods, however for those who do not come from both of them are labeled as the descendants of the devil which makes those who have this power must receive the death penalty by the church.

Issei, who knew this from watching Koneko for seven years, had to do his best to protect Koneko from any potential threats considering his lifelong mission was ...

'Become a sacrificial pawn for Koneko '

Koneko's power was still not fully formed, requiring an external source of energy to revive it. He already knew about this mission and he was ready to do it, this was to repay favor the previous city lord who he had finished off with his two hands.

"Hey, Issei, look at that!" Koneko pointed her finger towards a star that was twinkling brightly in the sky, the star was very beautiful and she could only marvel at the star.

When Koneko was admiring the beauty of the star, Issei subconsciously smiled at her especially when Koneko started to stand up and act as if she wanted to catch the star.

Issei, who was still smiling, did not know that Koneko was starting to glance at him who wondered why Issei was looking at her with a smiling face like that.

However, when Koneko saw Issei's face, who was smiling like that, it was the first time she had seen in her life. Previously Issei always smiled at hwe however

'Why is Issei looking sad? What does he really not want to tell me? ' Koneko thought as she saw how Issei was lost in his own imagination

'Also, yesterday why did he suddenly call me so formal? '

"Ojou-sama, you better fall asleep" Issei said when he returned to reality after daydreaming for a moment.

Koneko didn't answer right away, she started to approach and sit beside Issei, the distance between the two of them was close enough that anyone who saw this could misunderstand their relationship,

"Can you show me some nice things?" Koneko said in a low tone when the two of them were close enough, the two of them sat side by side on the green grass which was illuminated by the moonlight with the stars shining twinkling made Koneko want to hear a story from him.

"Well, I don't know if you're will like it or not, Ojou-sama "

Issei then take his sword, and pouring a little of its strength into the blade, the blade then glowed a bright blue and began to emit energy flickering from the sword as if it were a firefly. The energy was roaming here and there in the form of small flying balls, it made Koneko amazed and every now and then she touched the small floating object they immediately moved away from her.

"Wait!" Said Koneko while trying to touch the small flying object, whenhe saw Koneko struggle with trying to grasp the small energy ball, Issei began to add his energy to the sword which suddenly causes the energy around them to overflow and forms a light that surrounds them.

"So beautiful!" Koneko was amazed when she saw the light around them that formed tens or even thousands of specks of energy shining everywhere, surrounding the something in the middle in a very elegant manner.

"Issei! What is this! Why is everything moving around this thing in the middle? " Koneko asked while pointing at the very bright object that was in the middle of the ball of energy moving around in thousands.

"Ojou-sama, It's called the Galaxy "

"Ga..lxyi?"

"Fufufu... What you see right now is a collection of stars in the sky, all the stars are the sun, the sun that we always see during the day is one of the thousands to millions and even billions of suns in the sky that gather to form a beautiful arrangement. That arrangement is called the Galaxy, and what you see in the sky right now is part of the belt of that galaxy. " Issei then points his finger to the periphery where he believes they currently live, from one in a million to a billion stars

"The sun is a little star ?! How can it be! Issei are you kidding me?" Koneko who didn't believe immediately protested to Issei, but Issei only smiled at her seeing how Koneko's curiosity was quite large.

"Let me show you something"

As Issei grasped Koneko's hand, the two of them stood among the mass of light illuminating their surroundings.

"Eep" Koneko shrieked a little when Issei held her hand, but Issei did not realize that Koneko was a little embarrassed when she had to hold hands with the man she liked all this time.

Issei then controlled his strength and began to bring one little star closer and closer and closer towards them until the size of the little star became very large, In Koneko's eyes she saw the ball shining very brightly, until Issei then pointed to something moving around the shining star

"Ojou-sama, this is our world " Said Issei when showing Koneko an object shining blue in the sea and land so that the clouds could be seen by Koneko very clearly.

"... This is the world?" Koneko couldn't make a sound at all when she saw their world like a blue ball illuminated by the sun, so Issei did something that made her even more speechless.

"This is the universe" Issei distanced the image of their world until he returned to a collection of thousands to millions and even billions of stars in the sky that he could not count how many there were.

Koneko was silent, did not sound like a mute person when she saw this, a beautiful universe filled with very small bright stars but the fact that she was much smaller than stars, made her unable to say anything other than feeling the chills to her bone by being afraid of her weakness compared to the forces of nature.

"Is this ... the universe"

Koneko was speechless as she made a sound when she learned this fact. Until a strange feeling began to envelop her

"Issei, how do you know about this?"

Koneko asked when she saw Issei who seemed to know this even though as far as she knew there was no knowledge of this matter.

Issei was just silent, he did not make a sound but his face was staring at the collection of stars with a very complicated face.

"I had a dream, Ojou-sama"

"A dream in which I once lived among those stars and I once reached out to one of them, went around looking for something and searched for a faraway place there "

Koneko could only follow Issei's story which sounded absurd to her, but when she saw Issei's power that described the universe, she could only think of one thing.

"Issei ... Do you think a world like ours exists in this universe? "

"... Good question, Ojou-sama. I think there might be, the universe is vast and I firmly believe they are there and live wondering if there is anything else there."

Koneko began to imagine like she was dreaming where she lived flying freely in the sky reaching one of the thousands to millions of stars in the sky looking for and continuing to find out if she was alone. That night Koneko fell asleep and began to have a sweet dream where she was in a very far place where she looked back at her world far from reaching her hands where she began to wonder, Am I valuable enough for this world? What am I living for? What am I looking for in this world?

Her sweet dreams take her to a world where, Koneko sees a place where humans live in peace full of happiness and far from misery. A world like heaven was the world that Koneko wanted.

Seeing Koneko's sleeping face beside him made Issei a little happy, because he had at least managed to look after and raise Koneko until this moment.

'If, if only one day I was destined to disappear from this world. Then, could Ojou-sama be alright by herself?'

Issei questioning all of these by himself after seeing his Mistress Koneko Toujo growth, it's only matter of time before the day of the prophecy came true, when that happens he must ready for that.

'If that prophecy was true, Ojou-sama. I hope you're will be alright by yourself'

'Because...'

When he sees Koneko sleeping face he cant helped but to think should she's know about the truth of her fate or about him.

After all the years he had spent with Koneko, he began to have feelings for Koneko, which he had been trying to ignore all this time. But seeing Koneko who openly showed that she had feelings for him made Issei have to try hard to restrain himself.

'Ojou-sama, I'm sorry, but we can't be together. It doesn't mean I don't like you, it's just our fate against it. So...' He began to pat her head who still sleeping peacefully besides him.

'... Please stay away from me'

("Doesn't it look very romantic to see a man comforting the sleeping woman next to him? ") A voice came from behind Issei and as he turned around he saw a transparent woman who's floating like thin air giggling at him.

"What do you mean?"

("Fufufu... Nah, don't worry about it")

"..."

"... I have a question for you"

("Sure~")

Issei silent for a moment before he glance at her while staying on guard. "Then, tell me. What are you"

("Hmmm... I wonder")

"Don't act dumb, I know you're not a ghost whatsoever because I don't detect any spiritual energy coming from you. In fact, whenever I wanted to see you, I must use a some of my pure energy. Then I only have one conclusion on what actually are you"

("Hm~ Then Mr. know-all, tell me. Who or what am I?~"

Issei then pointed his finger at her while staying his quite voice in order not disturbing the sleeping girl right next to him.

"You're guardian angel, right? I have that guess right from the start that's make sense why Ojou-sama could see you without problem"

("hmmmm~ but that's not explaining why she's could see me though")

"Are you really trying to playing dumb with me, I know why you're here and still stick with us no... not us but her"

"Then tell me, if you're really do an angel then tell me, is there's a possibility that Ojou-sama is the chosen one"

("...")

The woman start to flying all around here and there before coming back to Issei with mocking smile.

("Tadaaa~ You're on the point! But ...~")

("You're not the one should ask that question. Also, I will give you're an advice")

("You should get away from her while she's not awakening her power, yet, and the reason is because she will kill you one day, Half-human") She's said it in cold tone toward him, although Issei already know this matter but when someone says that in front of him, it making him a little pissed off.

I don't need your advice " Issei replied firmly while intimidating the woman with an aura saying that he didn't care about that matter. The woman just laughed before flying disappeared into thin air leaving Issei alone with Koneko. That night, Issei could not let go of his thoughts about that possibility, the possibility that Koneko was not the chosen one and how the world reacted to Koneko's power. If that happened, he wouldn't be able to calm down

The night went on, leaving Issei lost in his thoughts without caring about himself who was not asleep at all

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Leviathan, in the middle of the dense forest she was currently walking through the forest unsteadily, her eyes still red from crying after knowing something.

That her master had died in that place, after the death of the figure she loved so dearly in her life made her unable to move her feet anymore. But Leviathan still kept on walking and continued to strengthen herself who had given up on it, '... hick ... hick ... why ... why should this happen?'

Complained Leviathan when she leaned against a tree, staring at the leafy trees that were still shady. Her face, which was still languid, could only stare at the sky in silence

'I will take revenge on all of you! I swear to goddesses that this oath, I will do it '

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