Massive Lemon scenes ahead. My first ever in Fanfiction – as well as a test if this gonna get this fic taken down or not. So unlike before, I actually put some thought into this. Yes, I'm that much of a pervert. This results in an extremely long chapter, and long reading.
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Somewhere in the darkness…
A naked girl panted up and down… saliva trickling at the corners of her lips… tears trickling down her widened disbelieving eyes… as she lay naked on the cold dark floor… her body full of claw scars and bite marks… one of her exhausted legs were being stretched up as her body moved furiously back and forth across the floor, her violator won't be stopping anytime soon…
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Log of Teacher Trainee, Nanami Rion:
It's been days after the latest attack. Unlike the previous assaults with only hours in-between skirmishes, it seems, optimistically speaking, Dorssia had learnt their lesson not to mess with us.
The mood that follows after that fierce battle was mixed. For one thing, there's happiness. We won many things. In particular, we managed to rescue the families of the students… well… most of them. We can't discount the fact that Dorssian troops managed to kill some of the hostages. What's more, not all family members of all students are accounted for. It seems they didn't bring everyone. This means either Dorssia still kept most of them somewhere, or at the worst case scenario, they've killed them all. However, the rescued hostages came from Dorssia's concentration camps, and they brought new of the situation in the Concentration Camps.
"It's terrible." One of them said. "Terrible I tell you. They don't treat us like human at all."
However, we found, to our happiness, that some of the student's families are indeed still alive. Thus, there's a chance they might be able to see them again. So there's much hope to go around.
But… there's also sadness and a lot of sorrow. As there is news of a student's families who still alive in the Dorssian prison, there are also those who mourned when they found out that their relatives had died in captivity. Some of the freed hostages also grieved when they found out that their sons and daughters had died during Dorssian attacks. The field of graves made of rubble built behind our school was filled with cries and woes of the bereft parents for some time and it steadily grow with the number of people who died increases significantly after this latest Dorssian attack. Not to mentioned the injured. Kibukawa-sensei, for example. He lived… but, the rubble had all but crushed his body, and now he's forever confined to a wheelchair, with only one hand remain barely functional. He doesn't seem to mind though.
"Whaaat? So I can only move my hand, big deal! As long as my mouth works I can just tell you to do things for me, Nanami-chan!"
"Hueeeeh!?"
But eventually, everyone moved on. Everyone had to. The world won't wait for them.
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Holding on to the bars for dear life, she watched as he grabbed her supple breast and violently bites her nipples, earning a scream… meanwhile, she had lost count of time, not knowing, nor caring, how long have he's been doing this to her. She thought her womb is melting when that hot liquid poured in, again…
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The freed captive moved into the module, joining hands with the students and their families, rebuilding everything that Dorssia had torn down. Some rejoin their family and rebuild their homes. Others helped those who were bereft of their relatives, united in their separation with their respective loved ones. For a moment, there's a sense of familial unity that has not been felt for the longest time. The captives, not so surprisingly enough, were mostly doctors, construction workers, officer employees, gardeners, electrician… etc, etc. They're all civilian workers that have nothing to do with the military and shouldn't pose any threat. But with their help, the repair of the Module 77 has accelerated by a wide margin. The presence of Adults also brought something that has been lacking in this module. Discipline.
Yusuke, and his other otaku friends, watched in tears as angry mothers banded up together to wash that supersized ecchi picture on the street. "Bye-bye (sob) Riko-chan." Yusuke waved his last goodbye as the mothers finished mopping his masterpiece off the broken streets.
Of course, the fact that Shashinami Ryuuji, the (former) Prime Minister of Jior is present also played a big part. He led the adults in the restoration of the module, overseeing the reconstruction progress personally. However, for some reason, he decided to stay off the affairs of the students of the Sakimori High, leaving the decisions to the Student Council President… and his daughter, Shashinami Shoko.
After the whole hostage crisis ended, Shashinami-chan had been busy. While she would deny it, she had taken the role of de-facto leader of the school, with Satomi acted in advisory capacity. Besides, most students would naturally follow her; such was her natural leadership skills, proven during the Hostage Crisis. But like her father, she loved doing hands on approach. From distributing snack, to finding someone's plamo among the rubble. But… at times… she looked like she was actually distracting herself with her work. As to what exactly she was distracting herself from… that's the bigger mystery.
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Her waist was carried up, and with a thrust, it pierced her deep. The girl shrieked in pain… her fingernails clawed the floor… and his nails sank into her flesh… she wanted to scream but her mouth was jammed with his. She whimpered and moaned as his waist continued to hammer up and down hers.
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Oh, speaking of work, Shoko-chan, with blessings and advises from her father, had recently talked with our Dorssian refugee, L-elf. It seems she finally agreed to put all his suggestion regarding state army to practice. Many of the students, after that broadcasted conversation with Haruto, had generally accepted L-Elf as indeed one of their own, and followed his necessarily hard training regime (running around the school 50 times, crawling on the floor for 2 kilometers, field-strip a rifle in 20 seconds… etc, etc). Mostly it was also because they've grown tired. Tired of having to lose someone they cared before their very eyes because they don't know how to defend themselves. Most of the time, he was seen with Shoko-chan and Satomi, giving her suggestions on how to better improve their defenses. One of his suggestions was:
"Move all Valvraves to the Potemkin, including all facilities needed to maintain them. The next time the battle starts, we can keep the Module from being made targets, reducing the damage to civilian area to a minimum." That, everyone can easily agree to. But as for his second request: "I request that Renbokuji Akira's 'working station' to be moved aboard the Potemkin." That, one person in particular had something to say, hence why negotiation has been going back and forth for several days regarding this particular issue. And today…
"OUT OF THE QUESTION!" Satomi stood before the entrance to his sister's shack, impeding L-Elf. While Shoko stand between the two men as the middle woman. "Why should she be on board that floating monster of a ship?"
"That floating monster of a ship, Satomi Renbokuji, is one of your most important lines of defense, outside the Valvraves." L-Elf stated the obvious. "Walkit Heavy Cruiser is the main standby battleship of Dorssia, the pride of our space forces. Bristling with more than enough weapons, it is essentially a flying fortress with enough firepower to level a city. Unfortunately, it is also very hard to control, requiring enormous amount of trained officers to crew it. Officers that Tokishima Haruto had slaughtered almost to a man, with the survivors are imprisoned and would rather die than to help us."
Shoko frowned at L-Elf's stone cold, albeit acceptable, logic, especially with the way he portray Haruto as if he was some kind of a ruthless psychopath. But… then again… there's no denying that Haruto did KILL a lot of people in an extremely brutal way. So brutal, that Shoko asked Akira to erase all recordings and data pertaining to that incident. It's enough that only those in the command center who knew and swore silence under the threat of assassination by L-Elf. The rest of the students don't need to know more, leaving things to their imagination on how Tokishima Haruto single handedly took over a Dorssian Warship.
"This is where Renbokuji Akira comes in." L-Elf gestured at the hole that is the entrance of Akira's shack. Shoko accurately imagined Akira is currently balled up in fear inside that shack. "With her unparalleled skill in hacking, and using Valvrave 06's computational power, she can take control and manage most of the ship's system on her own, significantly reducing the amount of manpower needed to commandeer such cruiser, as she had proven in the previous battle."
"I'd like to point out she did that while she's inside her shack." Satomi remained adamant.
"But there are several seconds delay between the time when she entered the commands and the commands being obeyed by the ship's auto pilot system. The lag could've cost us the battle and the war. By being directly aboard the ship, she can reduce the lag time to a null, enabling the ship to react even faster." L-Elf tilted his head as he narrowed his eyes into the hole. "And I believe she knows I'm right."
Akira crawled to a ball as she shook uncontrollably at the corner of her shack, watching the events unfolding right in front of her door through the widescreen. L-Elf looked at the camera, straight at her. "Use your logic, Renbokuji Akira. Dorssian forces would soon notice that weakness and they will easily capitalize on that. A few second delays in command can be difference between victory and defeat." Akira was unresponsive and fell further into panic.
L-Elf had enough and decided to take drastic steps. "If she will not comply, then I'm afraid I must force her compliance." He took a step forward and Satomi also stand ready.
"Over my dead body."
"Hai, hai! Heil-Elf!" Shoko stopped the heating argument… with a pair of bizarre colored cakes jammed to L-Elf's and Satomi's mouth.
Both looked at the middle woman questioningly. "Now… sorry Satomi… but I'm afraid Heil-Elf's right. We're gonna need that ship, and we're gonna need it in tip top condition. As for you, Heil-Elf, have you ever considered this terminology? WAIRU! W-A-I-R-U!"
"…?" L-Elf kept the weird cake dangling on his mouth as he looked questioningly at Shoko.
"Bribe! Rather than threatening her, let's give her something in return!" Shoko demonstrate this by crawling down the hole. "Heeey… Akira-chan? Akira-chaan!"
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Moans and mumbles, grunts and growls mixed with the sound of flesh slapping flesh. Their bodies were sticky with various kinds of fluid, as do the floor beneath them. Mixed in that fluid are some red blood color, coming from trickles of blood from the girl's clawed body. Despite the obvious pain, it wasn't long until the girl's moans turned to screams of ecstasy…
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Akira still balled in fear. But unlike with others, she didn't throw things at Shoko. But she was on the verge of crying… "Akira…" Shoko gently rubbed Akira, causing her to lift her head up. And that's when Shoko shoved something: a potato chip dipped in chili sauce. Akira blinked and blushed as she took a bite. "There! It's delicious right? Ah! You eat this biscuit too? They taste good when fried and eaten with pickles!"
"Really?" Satomi paled upon hearing that obscene combination. L-Elf rolled his eyes.
In her own way, Shoko made Akira calmed down considerably. Shoko continued: "Look. I hate to say it, but Heil-Elf is right. You can't stay here. You have to move! Besides, think of the new computers and CPUs you'll find in that ship."
"Actually, her handmade computer is more advanced than any our scientists had ever made." L-elf admitted as he removed and throw away that muck of a cake from his mouth. "Yesterday's event proved that. I hate to admit it, but we're bad at computers."
"Thank you, Heil-Elf, for ruining your own chance on winning your own case." Shoko shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"It's a fact."
Shoko bit her lips, thinking another thing that will interest Akira well enough to leave her shack. She got it. "Akira. Remember what you asked of me… about giving you that super hardware Valvrave that got you all excited?"
Satomi was about to protest but L-Elf grabbed his shoulder. Fact is, Shoko can actually see Akira's ears twitched and she stopped shivering.
"That valvrave is being moved into that ship. If you moved there too… you can play with that Valvrave, ANYWAY, anytime you like."
"SHASHINAMI!" This is what Satomi was afraid of. "You're not actually considering on having Akira pilot that thing!?"
"Actually, at this point it's already beyond considering, she's the only clear choice." L-Elf followed, much to Satomi's shock and Shoko's as well. "Out of all valvrave, Unit 06 has the most complicated electronic system. Not the sort of thing that combat oriented pilots like Tokishima Haruto and Rukino Saki can use properly. It needs someone with highly advanced computer manipulation skills. And Renbokuji Akira's skill in that department is so high, she literally redefine the metrics."
"Nice, Heil-Elf!" Shoko gave a thumbs up. "You hear that Akira-chan? That Valvrave is yours anyway! Come on! It'll be fun!"
Akira has stopped shivering and now she was partially convinced to accept Shoko, and by extension, L-Elf's offer. L-Elf observed the situation, and decided that the only way to ensure Akira's cooperation completely is by putting Shashinami Shoko into the equation. "You will also be able to better help Shashinami Shoko in doing this." There. L-Elf placed the final hammer. "You'll be able to protect her better aboard that ship. Remember, we're using that ship to protect the module where she resides."
Akira twitched upon this point and looked at Shoko's smiling face. "Remember, we're still going to the moon right? Once we get there, let's go to the supermarket together!" Shoko added with her kind smile. L-Elf's right. Their plan to go to the moon will take many more weeks towards completion and with the amount of attacks they're suffering; they need to better defend themselves against whatever Dorssia will throw at them next. Even 4 Valvraves were still hard pressed to protect them all… to protect Shoko. And what wouldn't she do to protect that smile.
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The girl screamed hysterically, shaking her head left and right violently as her fingers combed her disheveled hair, clawing her beautiful face with her mind driven to insanity when she exploded.
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No response… and then…
Beep… beep. "?" L-Elf took his phone. A message from an unknown number. It says: I'll think about it.
L-Elf showed the message to Satomi and a smiling Shoko crawling out of the shack. "Heeeh…" Shoko chuckled.
"How did she get this number? Even I don't know!" L-elf twitched.
Satomi sighed in defeat. "If you value my sister's skill so high, will you stop questioning what she can do?"
"But this is unacceptable. We cannot afford to wait for her, Dorssia can come tomorrow for all we know-"
"HEIL-ELF!" Shoko barked as she jammed another of her cake straight into his mouth, this time shoving it down his throat to prevent him from spitting it out.
L-Elf gasped in shock and choked several times, gargling for breath. Shoko grinned. "Just take it a step at a time. It's okay, Akira. Take your time! We'll wait. Come on, Heil-Elf." Shoko grabbed the still choking L-Elf by the collar and dragged him away from the shack.
"Shouldn't we tell Tokishima about this?" Satomi shrugged. "I distinctly recall somebody gave him ownership to all of the Valvraves!"
Upon being reminded of a certain brown haired boy, Shoko smile faltered slightly. The memory of that kissing event is still fresh in her memories. "meh… We'll tell him later." She nervously added. She wanted to avoid seeing him, thus distracting herself with all sorts of work. She doesn't know what to say to him when the time comes though.
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The girl pant and gasp, her body covered in liquid from groin up, her tired lips formed a twisted smile as green glowing markings appeared on the left side of her neck and reached her cheek… markings that looked similar to a spider's web…
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Meanwhile, L-Elf had finally managed to swallow the damn cake. And he was quite surprised that, like all of Shoko's creation, bizarre appearance aside, it actually tasted pretty good. That opinion was clearly shown in his face. Shoko smiled again in triumph. "Taste good isn't it?"
L-Elf grumbled. "And what happened to that nutritional recipe I gave you for rations?"
"Yeah… I might've misplaced it." Shoko grinned. 'Down the oven…' "This one is tastier anyway. Lighten up Heil-Elf! You're too serious!"
"…and you are not serious enough." L-Elf groaned. "And would it kill you to say my name right?"
"Huh?" Shoko tilted her head in confusion. "But I'm saying your name right. Heil-Elf, right?'
"L-Elf! L-ELF!"
"L-Helf?" Shoko strained.
"L. Elf."
"Hell-Elf?'
"…you're doing this on purpose aren't you?"
"Heil-Elf sound better anyway." Shoko consider the case closed. "By the way, what about your friend, what was his name… An-Drei?"
"A-Drei!" L-Elf groaned. "And yes, he's doing fine as a teacher in the War Class."
See, while L-Elf took responsibility for teaching the students on the arts of war the physical way, A-Drei, L-elf's friend who had taken refuge with us take it upon himself to teach the theory of war to anyone willing to come to his class. His reasons for lending his help were known only to two, and they delight in not talking. Truth be told however, unlike L-Elf who had been accepted, A-Drei has a long way to go from being warmly welcomed. Everyone kept their distance… and right now there's only one person attending his class.
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The markings disappeared and the girl turned around. Perhaps she wanted to finally get up, until she was once again pushed down… much to her joy…
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"In Sun Tzu's art of war, there's a saying, the principle of knowing your enemy and yourself. What does it says?"
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Inuzuka Aina answered. Sun Tzu art of war was his/her favorite. After all, they can also be practiced in the economy.
Indeed, it took us a while to accept Inuzuka Kyuuma and Sakurai Aina's new circumstances. For a start…
"Ah… wait, I need to go to the toilet!" Inuzuka rushed out of the class, walk past L-Elf, Shoko and Satomi, straight into the toilet. Seconds later…
"AAAAAAAAAARGGGHHH!" Every male ran out of the gents.
Inuzuka walked out timidly. "Aaah… ooops… I… uhh… forgot." H/She walked towards the Ladies… and stopped right in front of the door. H/She had done this before… but she's still having trouble. His mind is still that of a boy. Shoko sighed in understanding and went to help.
A-drei walked out of his class and shook his head. "Unbelievable. We were beaten time and again by these jokers…"
"Only one student, eh, A-Drei?"
"Actually, at times, there are two." A-Drei watched as Shoko walked out with a blushing Inuzuka Aina soon after. "Aina-chan… I'm sorry…" She mourned.
"Two?" L-Elf pondered. "Rukino Saki?"
A-Drei nodded. "But she's been absent in the last few days. I don't know why."
"Come to think of it, I haven't seen neither her or Tokishima-kun for like, forever!" Satomi looked around, hoping to catch sight of Haruto or Saki walking the corridors. "I mean… I know they're a couple now… but…"
"Are you worried?" Shoko shrugged, clearly uncomfortable with this subject.
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And she screamed… screamed… screamed hysterically again and again for the umpteenth time in intoxication as his fingers tightly gripped with hers, her breasts pressing tightly against the bars and her back felt like they're going to melt when they climaxed… her twitching fingers could barely hold on to the bars for support…
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"I got reporters up my eyes asking questions about those two!" Satomi balked.
Ah, yes. I almost forgot. After that latest incident, Module 77 suddenly became the center of attention around the world. The inconceivable win of 4 Valvrave (5, if you count the fact Unit 06 take indirect part) versus 7 Walkit Space Cruisers and their entire fleet was something quite unheard of, and it had made us all into rock stars. Especially the Valvrave pilots. A documentary film director by the name of Burnett came, said he wanted to make a documentary of the students life in the Sakimori High to be broadcasted in ARUS every day. Problem is, many other journalist and news reporter tagged along with him.
Raizo and his athletic team lifted Yusuke, in his pilot suit up on their shoulders as they posed with unit 03 at the background. Cameramen and paparazzi took pictures like there's no tomorrow.
Apparently, this action had also showed the Dorssian forces a thing or two. Sensors indicated that Dorssian forces had all but retreated, well beyond our radar. Apparently they were also afraid that if they attacked us again, Dorssia will lose more of their resources to us. Of course, many still fear, and realized, that this is just the calm before the storm. And yet, still the reporters came anyway. And while they interviewed many people, their main goal, other than the Valvrave pilots, was to interview the two main pilots: Tokishima Haruto, the hero of Module 77 as well as the first Valvrave Pilot… and his now confirmed lover, Rukino Saki, the rising Fighting star Diva of JIOR.
Well… everyone aboard the module unanimously agreed that the fact that all Valvrave pilots are vampires had to be kept secret… further enforced by Akira-chan's foolproof information cordon. But Rukino-san didn't just kissed Haruto-kun in front of the students, she did so publically amidst a broadcast. The fact that they are a couple is now everyone's secret, and they saw little need to keep that one under wraps.
Awkwardly… Haruto disappeared from everyone's sight as soon as things had calmed down right after the battle. And Rukino-san also disappeared with him. Almost everyone naturally assumed… the "worst"… but somehow… I felt something else…
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Nanami Rion stretched her arms. She hadn't updated her diary for like… forever. With so much going on… no wonder they were so long.
And then the door knocks. Rion moaned. "Come in."
And walking in… was none other than… "Rukino-san!" Rion cheered. But then her surprise was replaced with concern.
Unlike her usually tidy and well kept state, Saki looked pale and tired. She's wearing her pilot suit, a sign that she just rode her Valvarve. There are eyebags beneath her reddened eyes, and her hair was unkempt. And her expression… this is neither her cheerful persona nor cold and aloof expression. This is something else entirely. There's sorrow and… something else…
"Rukino-san? A…Are you okay?"
Saki blinked and then she smiled weakly. "I'm fine. I just want to ask… how's the situations here? Any problems?"
"No. No not at all."
"I see… Haruto was concerned. But… if there's no problem… that's great then." And then she left.
"Rukino-san!" Rion caught up with her. "A… Are you okay? What happened? Is Haruto-kun…!?"
"I'm okay…" Saki smiled weakly. "I'm just… a bit tired…" She bid her a wave and then she ran off. And then Rion noticed that Carmilla was parked right outside the school, and Saki had just opened a window so that she can climb back in. As she did, a whole army of reporters and people who were DYING to see her came charging across the corridor towards her, much to Rion's horror.
"RUKINO SAKI! A WORD FOR THE STAR TIMES PLEASE!" "RUKINO SAKI! WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO STAR IN OUR NEW ADVERTISEMNT!" "RUKINO-SAN! WHEN WILL YOUR NEXT SINGLE COME OUT!?" "HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN RELATIONSHIP WITH TOKISHIMA HARUTO!?"
Saki looked at all these people came for her… and she gave a small chuckle. She didn't even gave them a bat of an eye and she quickly entered the cockpit, closed the hatch, and Carmilla quickly launched up and flew away, leaving all the reporters and story seekers behind.
And while the reporters and journalists grumbled and moaned, Shoko and Satomi arrived on the scene. "Nanami-sensei!"
"?" The reporters and Rion looked at Shoko, who's completely out of breath, and Satomi, who looked like he was halfway to his grave out of exhaustion.
"Rukino-san! She was here? She really was here?"
Rion nodded as she flabbergasted. "You just missed her, Shashinami-kun. She came here all the way with Carmilla."
Shoko sighed. "Was… was Haruto with her?"
"No." A pang mixture of disappointment and relief formed in Shoko's face. "But she… did mention Haruto." Rion added.
"W… What does he says?" A hopeful Shoko asked.
"…he wanted a quick update on the condition of the Module."
Shoko felt slightly disappointed. "What happened to him?" Shoko turned to L-Elf. "You know anything about this?"
"What are you talking about?"
L-Elf's question was quickly drowned by the questions coming from the other reporters and journalist. "Excuse me?" "Are you Shashinami Shoko?" "Are you planning to recreate Jior?" "With your father's return, will New Jior join the old Jior?" "Or will old Jior unite with the New Jior?" "Where did you get such powerful weapons like the Valvraves?"
Shoko don't know what to say to all this barrage of questions. She's definitely not ready.
"I… uhh… I have no comment on the matter." Shoko also had other things in her mind. Haruto had been missing for days… and now he start using Saki as messenger… Forget the fact they are officially a couple, Shoko had known Haruto all her life, she knew he'll never made a goffer out of anyone, especially a girlfriend… unless he absolutely had to. And she's through asking question and avoiding him. "L… L-elf! I don't care how, I need to get to Potemkin. That's the only place I can think of on where Haruto might hide!"
"Oh so you finally get my name right…"
"Less talk and more on getting me that transport!"
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Meanwhile…
Saki climbed down Carmilla and waved hands to the other former captives who had decided to stay aboard the Potemkin. She floated and thoughtlessly moved to the elevator and pressed down. To the fifth floor: prison.
As she stands inside the elevator, she thought of all those reporters and people who offered her this and that, asking questions about the whats and the whys… Funny. A little while ago she will not hesitate to revel in all this… In fact, this is exactly what she had always wanted… and suddenly she felt all this meant nothing to her. There's only one thing mattered to her, and now he's waiting for her.
Saki walked out the elevator, past many cages filled with Dorssian prisoners, and she entered a special room… well apart from the normal prison, it is a dark cage designed for maximum security, reserved for the most dangerous of criminals. She opened the lock and entered the cage, locking the door behind her. "I've talked to Nanami-sensei. It seems everything is just fine in the module."
"…"
"Haruto…?"
A pair of red eyes and crisscrossing red scars appeared from the darkness and then a moan. "Please…"
Saki blinked.
"Please… just let me die… please…"
"I see."
She double checked the locked doors, locked the system from inside, shut down the camera… and stripped herself naked.
That's right… she already all she wanted… right here… with him…
They got hours for themselves anyway.
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When Shoko, L-Elf, Satomi and Inuzuka get their hands to a shuttle that is just departing to Potemkin, they were surprised to also find Shoko's father there, accompanied by Takumi Kibukawa in a wheelchair, being pushed by Nanami Rion.
"Dad? What are you doing?"
"I could ask you the same Shoko?"
"I'm looking for Haruto. He's been missing for days, he isn't anywhere in the Module and I think he's aboard Potemkin."
"I… I see…" For some reason, Ryuuji looked somewhat pale. "…umm… might it be best… if you visit him some other time?"
Bad response. Upon hearing the tone that her father was using: that of fear and uncertainty, Shoko grew more worried. "Why? What's wrong with him? Dad? Is he ill? Another one of his seizures again?"
Ryuuji quickly attempted to allay her fears. "No, no, no… he's okay. He's just fine… but… but…"
Ryuuji's flabbergasted answer merely made things worse. Now Shoko looked really desperate, and Ryuuji is well on the verge of panic. He finally resolved. "Maybe I should leave for now." and much to Shoko's chargrin, her father intended to get away from answering her question… until…
Click.
Ryuuji stopped upon hearing the sound of a gun being cocked. He looked at the source and gaped. It was L-Elf. "I'm sorry, Prime Minister Shashinami… But I'm afraid you're not going anywhere."
"Boy… look…"
Click.
Ryuuji stopped when he felt another gun being pointed at his neck from behind by A-Drei. A-Drei looked at L-Elf and smirked. "I see we think alike."
"L-Elf! A-Drei! What are you doing?" Inuzuka growled.
"Extracting the truth." L-Elf clicked the safety on his gun as he motioned the Prime Minister to sit down. And he did. "You certainly know more than you let on, Prime Minister. You… and Professor Takumi Kibukawa here. When this shuttle start moving, you will tell us everything there is to know regarding the VVV plan."
Ryuuji looked at the children in that room, he looked at her daughter's tearful eyes, the immeasurable pain she had endured, seeing her childhood friend becoming the creature that he is… and then he realized… he owed them. He owed these children an explanation for what he had done. "Put down your gun, Dorssians. I will tell you everything for the asking. But… first things first. Let's go check on Haruto, alright?"
L-Elf and A-drei looked at each other and put down their gun.
Chapter 3
VVV Project: Unveiling the world
Soon, they've arrived at the Potemkin, and there, they saw 01 and 04 are on standby… a proof that Haruto and Saki are indeed aboard this ship. Surprisingly, 03 is also there, using, online. Yusuke is once again using 03's multi limbs to aid the crew in the… remodeling.
But another point of attention was this: there's a bunch of people dressed as scientists were waiting for them right at the hangar. They looked… panicked. And they were holding this holographic screens in their hands. As soon as the shuttle landed, call it something, L-Elf held Shoko back, and motioned Ryuuji to go down first at gunpoint.
Ryuuji had a bad feeling on what exactly L-Elf wanted to do, but he obeyed.
When he get down, as he feared, he didn't get any chance to prevent them from saying anything, the men in white coats blabbered. "Prime Minister! Thank God! We just managed to reboot the system on module 77 that oversee the conditions of the children. But it's… that Tokishima's boy! It's happening! He's undoing our conditioning that we put into him years ago! We don't understand, he's literally breaking off all his mind blocks through sheer will power, all his suppressed memories are… and the neurological damage is…" The scientist prattling was cut off as soon as Ryuuji lift his hand… but he knew it was too late.
Shoko stepped out of the shuttle having heard all that. She looked at her father with an uncharacteristically cold gaze. "Dad… what… have you done… to Haruto?"
The scientists who saw Shoko and recognized who she is gasped. They looked in horror as L-Elf and A-drei also walked out of the shuttle, pointing a gun at the Prime Minister. "Take us to Tokishima Haruto. Now."
Within moments, they are all aboard the elevator, with an addition of Yusuke, who can easily notice when the prime minister is once again seemingly under peril, and offered to come along when he was told how it's about Haruto.
The scientists explained with trembling lips. "He came here a few days ago, together with 04's pilot. He practically crash landed here… and then the girl asked us to bring them to the maximum security prison."
"Prison?" Shoko blinked. "Why would Rukino-san brought a sick Haruto to prison?"
"Remember, Tokishima Haruto often suffered bouts of berserk fury due to his need to aggressively feed." L-Elf reminded everyone.
"But… that doesn't make sense!" Inuzuka gawked. "Haruto just fed on a lot of people! How come he still need to feed… even after that?"
"We'll know soon enough."
The elevator landed on the 5th floor. The group walked past the prison cells, where they saw a lot of Dorssian soldiers being imprisoned inside their own cell. When they saw L-Elf and A-drei holding the prime ministers at gunpoint, everyone thought… well… these two are going to free them?
But their relief instantly turned into worry as they moved past the normal prison… straight towards the maximum security prison reserved for the worst of the worst.
"Don't!" One of the prisoner suddenly yelled.
The group looked at that one prisoner.
"Don't go in there." The prisoner warned them. "A witch of a girl brought that monster in there, and he hasn't come out since."
"Witch?"
"The only one who came out was that girl. And every time she did… she was… full of scars. I saw one time she had a massive claw mark on her face… big enough to leave behind a scar… funnily… they disappeared every time she comes back." The prisoner gulped. "I even saw one time she… I think she lost an ear… but they grew back… right before my very eyes!"
Everyone paled.
"Whatever's in there… they're not human I tell you…" the terrified prisoner slunk back into the dark.
The group looked at each other, but Shoko persevere. "Come on. Let's go in there and check it out."
When they get to the door, it was locked… from inside. "Is there a way for us to open this?" Everyone turned to the Dorssians.
"It was locked from inside with the captain's master password. Last I checked, the captain was all drained dry by Tokishima Haruto. Which means he's the one who locked from inside." L-Elf rubbed his chin.
"But Rukino can come in?"
"He must've given her the password."
But Shoko never one to let locked doors stopped her. Besides, she has a cyber guardian angel one phone call away. "Akira-chan? Door please?" Shoko smiled to the security camera.
Seconds later…
Click, click, clack!
The door is unlocked.
"How did she do that?" A-Drei twitched in disbelief. "I mean… how did she always know where she is without going anywhere outside that shack?"
"Last I checked, she rigged her computer to automatically hack any camera in the area where Shashinami was at as soon as she received a phone call from her." Satomi groaned.
When they enter the cage, it was… dark. But what made them all wince was the smell of blood and… and… something else. The ground is sticky… and uneven. "What… happened here…?" L-elf and A-drei didn't flinch but they were a bit confused. There's blood… but the room smells strangely of sem-
"Please…"
Everyone gasped… and then, they saw him.
"…please… please… please let me go…"
Lying at the center of the room dirty, and… stark naked… were Haruto. "Haru-!" Shoko clasped her mouth.
The boy looked like hell… and that would be an understatement. His hair was disheveled, he looked very thin, and there are terrible eyebags beneath his empty eyes. His pupils rolled upward, he was drooling as well as foaming on the floor. His dried up lips were twitching, badly. His mouth mumbling bizarre gibberish. But amongst the endless mutter and babbles, one can discern a sentence: "Please… please… let me go… just let me go…"
Shoko's heart skipped a beat and he rushed to his side. "Haruto! Haruto! Are you okay? It's me Shoko! Haruto?"
"Please… please…" Haruto didn't respond. It seems he wasn't even aware that there are other people in the room with him. "Please… please… let me go… please…"
"Haruto? Haruto?"
"Please… let me die."
"Eh?"
"Please! Let me go! Let me die! Please!" Haruto's moaning grew louder… his tone was desperate. "Please… let me die… PLEASE! Please let me die! Let ME DIE! PLEASE!" Soon his moan turned into screams and Haruto's trashing grew more violently. Until suddenly, red markings appeared and his eyes turned red. And he screeched. "AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
Shoko gasped when Haruto suddenly pushed her back violently. He shoved Shoko down to the ground and choked her by the neck. "Ha… HAru-to!"
Haruto grasped her clothes and clawed the first layer savagely. Shoko gasped. But before he can go further, a pair of strong men, L-Elf and A-Drei grabbed him by the shoulders and dragged him back. Haruto struggled and screamed while the two silver haired boys dragged him back away from Shoko. The two Dorssian elite doesn't look like they're having trouble to keep him under control, but if it were other people, Haruto could've easily tear them apart.
Shoko looked in horror at Haruto and then she touched her torn clothes. '… was he trying to…' "Shoko are you alright?" Ryuuji asked. Shaking her head to throw such ridiculous notion out of the window, Shoko looked at Haruto's latest seizures. "He's having another attack again, alright."
"Sedate him!" Ryuuji glanced meaningfully at his team of scientist. They nodded and brought forward an eerie looking syringe filled with strange red liquid…
"Hold him down! Hold him down!"
The two dorssians tightened their grip, reducing Haruto's trashing movements to a grunt. The scientist were preparing to inject the substance to Haruto…
Until suddenly, the female hand of an angry Rukino Saki grabbed him by the collar and yanked the said scientist back before she hurled him across the room, with one hand. Saki glared at the Karstein agents. "GET OFF HIM!" She grabbed their collars, and much to the surprise of A-Drei and L-Elf, Saki easily lifted them both off the ground and threw them back.
L-Elf was particularly surprised at this, considering the one who did it was the same girl he beat down within seconds barely a few weeks ago. She's wearing her pilot suit, with its collar unbuttoned all the way to her waist, revealing her blue undershirt.
Saki gave them all an angry glare, which can be likened to that of a mother panther protecting her cub. She then turned to Haruto, who seem calm down considerably in her presence. But the markings on his face had yet to disappear. Haruto raised her hands. "Haruto? Haruto? Calm down. It's me, Saki. Okay? Just… calm down… Everything will be okay. Calm… down."
And soon, Haruto stopped. His ferocious and crazed eyes toned down considerably. The red markings disappeared, his reddened eyes reverted back to his blue ones. And now, instead of angry and demented, his expression was that of a frightened child, lost and confused. He curled back to the edge of the wall, shivering and panicking. One of the scientist made a break to the light switch, but then Saki snapped at him. "DON'T turn on the lights. He's getting frenzied when it's bright." Saki glanced at the people at her back. "You there… grab my bag!"
"Bag?" A-Drei blinked… and then he noticed there's a bag lying on the ground right next to him, its content spill out: Dorssian rations.
"Toss me a can."
A-Drei grabbed a ration and throw it at Saki, who easily caught it. She opened it and slowly, gently offered it to a frightened Haruto. "Haruto? Haruto? Food. Okay? Food."
Haruto slowly approached the said 'food' and then he snapped it off Saki's hand, before he started eating it beastly with his hands… like an animal.
Shoko looked at this disturbing scene with horror.
"Rukino Saki." L-Elf asked the question that was shot through everyone's minds. "What… is going on here?"
Sometime later, everyone sat down on the floor, while Haruto had fallen asleep after eating his fill (3 cans of that god-awful tasting Dorssian rations).
Shoko was still a little shaken after what happened, but then she recovered quickly, as usual, and was the first to ask. "Rukino-san… what happened?"
Rukino sighed as she finally reiterated. "Barely hours after the hostage situation was over, Haruto quickly returned to his room, never coming out. After a day passed… I was worried… so I check up on him. That's when I heard screaming and stuff breaking. I thought he had another attack. So I forced my way in. But by the time I managed to enter his room, he was already on the floor, prone, dazed… and he kept muttering gibberish, his eyes were unfocused. His room was ransacked: pillows torn apart, bed ripped in half… This wasn't an episode. It was something else entirely. And he was violent. VERY violent. He kept muttering: 'forgive me', 'let me die', and… and… do many other things that I… that I'd rather not…" Saki gulped. "All I know that he was in extreme pain. His last coherent word was… 'lock me up.' We know the makeshift brig in the school was not enough… so I brought him to Potemkin's prison cell for maximum security. "I locked him up here, never… letting him out of sight." Saki added a little awkwardly. "Today I'm just running out of food and water, so I get out and get some, and then I see you A-holes trying to stick that muck into him!?"
"W… We're trying to sedate him."
"I'm not apologizing. All I see is you are trying to stick a needle right into Haruto's head." Saki glared angrily at the scientists. "I don't know much about medical science… but something that long isn't supposed to go anywhere near the head!"
Ryuuji looked at Haruto's naked and sleeping figure, and he was completely mortified. What have he done?
"The cat's out of the bag, Prime Minister." L-Elf murmured. "Tell us the truth now."
"Truth?" Saki twitched. "About all this?" She gestured at Haruto. "About him?"
Ryuuji closed his eyes and nodded.
"Then wait." Saki stated much to everyone's surprise. "Wait until he wakes up. He's usually pretty sane when he does. And he needs to hear it too."
"You know this?" Takumi blinked.
Saki gave him, gave them all an angry bloodshot and tired eyes. "You're not the one who locked himself in with him for the last few days, are you!?" Her annoyance was born from her exhaustion. "It's okay. Before today, he was crazy 90% of the time. But he's improving, he's now sane 90% of the time. You guys just came on a bad time." She stood up and moved to the light switch. "You think this looks bad?" she turned on the lights and everyone can now see what happened. "You should've seen him a few days ago."
The whole room was a bloody dirty mess. Blood stains here and there, claw marks made of finger nails… and some iron plating were dented in… Doesn't look like the work of a human… Shoko also noted the presence of a sleeping bag… torn apart. She looked at Saki, who merely answered. "I let my guard down and he attacked me. I survived by luck. End of story."
15 minutes later…
"Water…" came a murmur from the dry mouthed Haruto. "Water… Water…"
Once again, it was Saki who reacted before everyone else and brought a bottle of mineral water. She carefully helped him drink it. It was obvious that she was used to this by now. And then Haruto get back up slowly, and Saki covered his shivering figure in a warm blanket to swept away his sweat, and then giving him the only clothes available, his pilot suit, but she make sure it was loose and gave him room to breathe. Haruto's eyes, initially dazed, began to clear up, and that was when he realized there are other people in the room. "…Shoko… Inuzuka-senpai… L-Elf… Yusuke… everyone…" And then his eyes turned to the prime minister and he glared. "Prime Minister… Shashinami Ryuuji…" His tone intensified with emotion at the mention of his name.
Shoko felt mortified. After that kissing scene with Saki, Shoko didn't dare to see Haruto out of no small amount of shock and jealousy, and she assumed the worst. To think the truth was… so much worse. "Haruto? Are you okay? What happened to you?"
"…Potemkin." L-Elf suddenly muttered. "It's because of what you did in Potemkin, right?"
"You think it's because… what he did?" A-Drei noted.
"If you recall… other than transferring consciousness, we know that Tokishima Haruto can also sucks in memories and skills of other people into himself. He did it to me, he did it to you… but at Potemkin, he killed 47 people. And he didn't just kill them… he feeds on them. He absorbed everything: names, memories… everything. It's all there… in his head. That's how he knew their names and other details."
Haruto chuckled and nodded weakly. "A little warning for the rest of you…" He was referring to the other Valvrave pilots. "Don't… feed on 47 people all at once in a single sitting."
No one can laugh, especially Shoko.
Haruto momentarily glanced at her but quickly shot his eyes at Shashinami. "…you were involved… aren't you?"
Ryuuji looked sympathetically at Haruto… and then he looked at the eyes of the participants of this meeting, one by one: His daughter, Shoko, her friends: Yusuke Otamaya, Inuzuka Kyuuma, residing in Sakurai Aina's body, Satomi Renbokuji – another familiar name, Tokishima Haruto, the boy he had considered his own son, his lover, Rukino Saki. And then, representing Dorssia: L-Elf and A-Drei. 'They were all so young… and yet they're already carrying the future of our people over their shoulders.' And then his eyes turned back at Haruto. "…alright. Alright. I will tell you everything. All the truths."
"Close that door." Inuzuka and Yusuke closed the door to the prison shut and tight.
L-Elf seated himself next to Ryuuji. "Sir, your hand, please?"
Ryuuji showed the vein in his hand. L-Elf put two fingers on his veins to check his pulse. "This way, we will know if you tell the truth or not."
Ryuuji nodded. "What I'm about to tell you… only three people in this whole world knew about it. Myself… president of ARUS, Jeffery Anderson… and the Fuhrer of Dorssia, Amadeus K. Dorssia."
The one most surprised by this were L-Elf and A-Drei. The fuhrer? The ruler of their country knows this too?
"First… a question… before… today… do you believe in… vampires, mummies, witches… do you believe in fairy tales of creatures of the night who roam the dark, devouring people? Drinking their blood? Sucking out their souls? Bringing dead people back from the dead?"
"What is this?" A-drei growled.
"Human history is filled with such tales: Bram Stoker Dracula, P.H. Lovecraft, the curse of the mummies… but are they really fiction? Or… just a retelling of something that had happened before?" Ryuuji sighed. "Let's get the obvious out of the way. The question of whether or not humanity is alone in the universe was answered long ago. Centuries ago, during the dark ages. The people of that time don't know it… but an Alien race came to earth, long ago. They came… and they stayed."
Everyone gasped.
"Were they invaders, colonists, settlers, refugees… we do not know. But what we do know for a fact is… they have a unique disposition. They came from a world so different from ours… that upon contact with our atmosphere, they were reduced to a life-form of pure energy with no physical being. These beings assume a ghost-like state in our world. Worse yet, the longer they are exposed to our world, the more their lifeforce drains, they become more and more diminished and thinned… until eventually, they will vanish. However… nothing can be further from the truth, these beings are powerful. VERY powerful. At the peak of their strength, they can annihilate worlds in an eyeblink. But fortunately for us, on earth… on our world… their powers are greatly reduced." Ryuuji added. "Weakened as they are… these beings possessed one unique ability. They have ability to move their consciousness to a vessel, effectively overtaking the being, putting it under their thrall."
The humans in that room looked at the valvrave pilots, who frowned in realization, noticing the similarity in nature.
"When these beings first landed on earth, eons ago… we assume they knew next to nothing to our world. They first try to inhabit animals like bats, rats, wolves, ravens… But… their powers were too great, and these animals were unable to house their powerful essence. And they die. Most importantly… these animals cannot provide enough that which they needed to survive. Runes."
Inuzuka raised her hand. "And can you tell me what the hell a bloody Rune is?"
"We… haven't figured everything out yet either… but… we do know… oversimplifying it, Runes are energy. A powerful and virtually inexhaustible energy particle born from Information. Put it simply: living beings are made of molecules and particles. Information, likewise, are composed of information particles called Runes. If you think about it: Everything is made from information. Our shape, our form, our looks, everything. For example: humans, a human's shape are greatly dependant on information stored in their DNA blueprints. We are beings formed from information that was provided by these blueprints. It's not an exaggeration to say… every being with sentience is made of runes. But Magius… are different."
"Magius?"
"Yes. Our terminology to generally name these energy life forms. Type Seven Life form: Magius." Ryuuji repeated. "As I mentioned earlier, Magius are beings of pure energy in our atmosphere. While our 'runes' had manifested in physical form, their entire being is made completely out of runes, which is another way of saying they have no physical body. Without a proper container, they will disperse and fade. That is until they found a perfect vessel… in humans."
Haruto's eyes widened as he can feel his chest tightened.
"Humans fit them like a glove. We are at the top of the food chain… and as the dominant sentient species of our planet; we are creatures with enough sophistication in our emotions to generate the amount of Runes they needed to survive. What's more, when Magius took over a human body, they also absorbed all their knowledge, their experience, everything, but they maintain their ego, their sense of self. This allows them to easily blend in with our people, and none of us would be able to notice." Ryuuji took another breath. "But… Magius… are beings of incredible power… a power that was not so easily suppressed. Many humans inhabited by Magius began to develop… oddities. This much we knew: they became immortals. They possess powerful regenerative abilities, as well as other super natural powers born from their masterful use of runes. However… there are also some who develop the ability to turn into wolves when the moon was out… some suffered a mutation that caused them to combust in the sun, thus they need to feed at night… one even grow so desperate, he created a body made of sown together corpses, only to be driven insane by his success."
"You're talking about werewolves, vampires, and Frankenstein." A-Drei's temper seemingly spent as he stood up in anger. "You're talking of horror stories and boogie tales made to scare children! You're asking us to believe such a ridiculous nonsense?"
"You don't believe me?" Ryuuji chuckled. "Then first, you must reject everything that has happened from the moment you ran into the Valvraves up until to this point. You must reject these beings standing before you now, before your very eyes. Because that's exactly what they are." Ryuuji made his point by pointing at the Valvrave pilots. "You best start believing in horror stories and Boogie Tales, Mr. A-Drei. You're in one, right now."
A-Drei was taken back and then he calmed himself down before returning to his seat. "Please continue."
Ryuuji continued his story. "Obviously, humans eventually noticed. The details had been lost beyond recall, but the Magius claimed… it was the humans who don't take kindly of their ability to possess other lifeforms that struck first. While humans deemed it was Magius who began trying to control human affairs with their abilities, possessing men of importance such as kings and overlords of great power. War breaks out between the two races across the histories that lasted for centuries. We don't know who won. But we do know, there are countless casualties from both sides. Enough to leave their marks in our history. For example… the black plague that ravaged Europe in the 14th century. That was a Magius. Enraged to the point of insanity, he split his being into countless tiny pieces and inhabited the rats that brought the plague. Lasted only 7 years… but it took 150 years for Europe to recover its population after that incident. And then there's the witch hunt frenzy in the 16th century. Millions of people, mostly woman, suspected to be Magius were hanged and burned in witch hunt and trials till the end of the 17th century."
Saki shivered in fright as she heard this story. She unconsciously grabbed Haruto's hand beneath the table. To her gladness, Haruto squeezed her back.
"Eventually… it all came to a stop. The surviving Magius finally decided to leave humanity alone. A pact was made between the two races. Magius will keep to themselves and let humans be… provided humanity will offer them runes for their continued survival." Ryuuji connected his fingers together. "The Magius banded together and formed a council known as the Council of 101, the ruling body of all Magius that exist in our planet. Their one and only goal, is to ensure the survival of their race, and to keep most of the humans in the dark regarding their existence. Millennia passed since then. And the existence of Magius had been reduced to nothing more than make believe stories and fiction made by authors who were lucky enough to glean on the scraps and fractions coming from what little remained of the proof of their existence. And for centuries… they kept their silence. They watched humanity's civilization rise and fall countless times. Hundreds of years… thousands… those are but an eye blink for them."
Ryuuji paused for a moment to allow these teenagers to process what he told them up until this point, while he himself gathered his breath.
"Now… I don't know when it happened… but the Council began to… take a more active role in determining the course this world should take. They've slowly worm their way back to power while keeping their existence a secret… and today… the world's most powerful political leaders in the world… the President of ARUS, the Fuhrer of Dorssia… and me. All must answer to the Council of 101." Ryuuji sighed. "And… as you guys can just about imagine… we don't take too kindly of this. But we have no choice. We know what they can do, and they have eyes and ears everywhere. We grudgingly followed their orders, giving them tithe of humans to have their runes sucked out. We wield more power than any human alive, and yet we are just cattle to them. Cattle that they fattened to be harvested later, and we are powerless to defy them." Ryuuji's face frowned in anger.
"But then… something happened that became our tipping point. About 20 years ago, an Alien object crash landed on earth, at the bottom of the North Pacific Ocean. JIOR science team found it first. And we were thrilled. The Alien Object is a vessel. A craft containing an alien lifeform that cannot exist physically in our physical world, reducing her to a ghost like state. All matches the description of a Magius. A pure new magius that hasn't inhabited any local vessel. You know who I speak, Haruto-kun?"
Haruto's eyes widened in realization. "…Pino. Pino is a Magius."
"Yes. At first we were terrified. We kept Pino imprisoned for some time. We believed that the Council 101 will come looking for her… but they didn't. Suddenly… we have something that the Magius didn't know about: a pure magius. What's more, she had proven herself to be extremely cooperative. And thus… the VVV project was born." Ryuuji's face grew noticeably heavy with regret and sorrow. "A mad plan… for the world to break free of the control of the Council 101 and the Magius' predation. To put it simply… the plan is… to fight fire with fire. To fight these Magius we attempted to create a Magius of our own, with Pino providing us the knowledge needed to create a genetic template for an earthborn Magius. Magius is powerful but they don't actually have a physical body. We tried to create a hybrid of the two races, half Magius, half human: Homo Sapien Novus."
Haruto looked at his hand… at himself… He's starting to understand what he is, what he had become.
"All three nations pooled their resources together under the common goal of breaking free of the control of the Council. ARUS provided the funding, Dorssia provided the technology and weapons." And when it's his turn, Ryuuji stopped. It seems the next bit was the hardest part for him.
"What did you give them, Shashinami Ryuuji?" L-Elf pressed.
Ryuuji fidgeted.
Shoko lean forward. "Dad?"
The old man lifted his watery eyes and looked at his daughter. "I… provided… the experimental grounds… and the test subjects… you. ALL of you. Every student within the Sakimori High… Yes. Even you Shoko. An entire module… the whole inhabitants of the Dyson Sphere… in fact. All were purposed… for the creation of our earthborn Magius… you."
Every Sakimori Students in that room looked at the Prime Minister with widened eyes.
"When we first… begin the project… they were setbacks. Our first subjects were all volunteers of adult age. But… the changes we are doing to them were so extreme… none of them survive the transformation. We lost hundreds of test subjects… and we grew desperate. Desperate enough to go through lengths that no human should have gone… A scientist proposes the maddest of procedures… which we followed through. We randomly selected several hundred pregnant women across the country… and through the use of food laced with bioengineering nano-agent, we altered the embryo… from birth, creating the seed that will grow into the beings that we wanted."
"And our parents!?" Inuzuka growled. "Do they know anything about this!?"
To everyone's horror, Ryuuji nodded. "They were either JIOR soldiers, former and active, or scientists, as well as…" Ryuuji looked at the horrified Satomi. "…Consenting parents. They all agreed that once their conditioned children reached a certain age… they will brought them all here, to this school, through various means and then we kept them on a constant watch, where we can further condition and experimented on them, under the guise of various school activity… until they are ready to receive the final treatment and transformation."
"Watch?" Yusuke's lips were trembling.
"Those people out there…" L-Elf closed his eyes as he calmly reiterates. "Your families… all those people who lived here… from construction workers to doctors and even the everyday salary man… even your teachers… were all JIOR soldiers. Tasked to do one thing and one thing only: to watch over you guys." L-Elf looked at the now pale Yusuke and then he gestured to Kibukawa. "Takumi Kibukawa was also a soldier. He was tasked in overseeing the genetic makeup of all the test subjects in this school. The students. The only exception was that woman… Nanami Rion."
"SHUT UP YOU DORSSIAN!" Yusuke exploded. "SHUT UP! YOU'RE LYING! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! MY PARENTS… KIBUKAWA-SENSEI… I… I DON'T…" he couldn't take it, Yusuke hyperventilate and collapsed. Inuzuka quickly came to his aid, but she was no less shocked at this revelation.
Haruto still managed to keep his calm, but he was visibly shaken. That explains it. Why ARUS pilots died when they tried to pilot a Valvrave and yet he and Saki survived. Those things were never meant to be controlled by humans… and they were never humans from the very beginning.
Saki trembled. But then, she's starting to understand a few points… why her mother hate her so much that she did such a thing… why her father abandoned her… why her career suddenly went into an end… it all make sense now… she was never a star… she was a… biological weapon…
The room was silent for a long time. With only panting and gasping from Yusuke, and the labored breathing of Shoko, who still in disbelief over what her father did to her… to all of them.
"If…" Haruto suddenly choked. "…if that's true… that we… are the goal… that we are all… all of us… every student in the Sakimori High… are Magius… then why… are we… the Valvrave pilots… Why am I… why are we so different with the rest of them?"
Ryuuji shook his head. "It's not that you are different. But… it's because your Magius genes had been reawakened."
"Reawakened?"
"At the early stages of the project, we decided to split the genetic sequences. Right now… all your classmates are no more human than the rest of us. The DNA and RNA strands that will turn you into a Magius are inert. Eternally dormant. However… to complete the sequence, a catalyst is needed. We decided to place it inside the Valvraves. You need the Valvraves to activate those genes and complete the transformation into a Full Fledged Magius."
L-Elf lifted his hand. "Why designed it that way? Why not just made a complete sequence from the start?"
"To give you the benefit of choice. To be whatever you wished to be." Ryuuji frowned. "I wanted you all… to experience what it's like to be a human first. And then after that… you can decide for yourself… do you wish to resign your humanity… or not."
The valvrave pilots found that question incredibly familiar.
"Who headed this project?" A-Drei asked.
"…a good friend of mine. His name is…" Ryuuji looked at Haruto. "Tokishima Shoichi. Your father."
Everyone turned to the other Tokishima in the room. Contrary to what everyone might expect, Haruto wasn't shocked… not by the least. "My father." Haruto sighed. "I should've known."
"Should've known?" L-Elf blinked.
"I…" Haruto looked at Shoko and changed his words. "I hardly ever see him when I was a boy. I spent most of the time with Shoko… my… childhood time… but I've never… see my father."
At this, L-Elf sensed something in Ryuuji's pulse… and the way Haruto answered that question, he hid something. But considering the situation, he didn't say anything, considering irrelevant… for now.
Satomi raised his hands. "Question… we've been… living in this module for years now… and yet… we lived a life… a normal life. Some of us even had lived here all our lives… We never felt like… we've been experimented upon…"
"That's because we took the memory away from you." Ryuuji's answer earned everyone's shock. "Using Runes."
"Runes are information particle." L-Elf caught on. "If you say Information are made of runes… then the most abundant amount of runes that exist in humans… are in their memories and thoughts."
"Exactly." Ryuuji nodded. "We tested on you. On all of you. Whenever someone was absent or not coming to school for whatever reasons… that student was, in fact, underwent an experiment in one of our labs. After the experiment was done… we removed the runes, particularly the ones that pertain to that specific memory. And we replaced it with an artificial memory, through the use of therapy and subliminal hypnosis."
"You're saying you're messing with our brain?" Saki roared. "All of our brains!?"
"The experiment methods used on you are of extreme sort. So extreme, the trauma you all endured was… it would've scarred you all for life. The neurological damage was catastrophic… not to mention the psychological damage. Some of you had even…" Ryuuji mournfully looked at Haruto. This does not escape Saki's and Shoko's notice. "…Some of you had even nearly gone mad forever."
"We don't want that to happen. So we gave you a different, more pleasant memory. Visiting a family or… spending all day in bed due to cold… normal memories… we don't want you to think that you are monsters."
"Enough."
"We tried… to give you a normal life. To make you feel human."
"ENOUGH!"
Ryuuji looked at Shoko. "Shoko?" She just banged the table, her eyes widened in disbelief.
"How could you do this?" Shoko stared at her father as if looking at a stranger with angry tearful eyes. Who is this man? This is not the man who raised her. This is not the man whom she adored and loved. "You… You turned us into… post-human soldiers? EVEN your own children!?"
"I turned you all… into weapons." Ryuuji closed his eyes in mortification. "…weapons to fight in a war that should've been fought by us adults… in order to provide you children with the future free of control… the freedom to make your own destiny." Ryuuji mournfully looked at Shoko. "Shoko… I… I'm sorry. I… I know I was wrong to use my own child… in such an inhuman experiment… I understand it was wrong of me as a parent… but…" Ryuuji gritted his teeth. "If I didn't do at least that much… it would be an even greater sin if I'm to put the children of every other parents on the line without risking mine. But I know it was wrong. Everything is… I'm sorry… Shoko… Haruto… Everyone…"
But Shoko would not hear anymore of this. She takes one last look at the shaken Haruto and she ran out of the room, bursting in tears. Likewise, Haruto looked like a corpse, completely and thoroughly shaken to his very core. In fact, all Valvrave pilots were in more or less the same state. Anyone would.
Satomi roared. "And what about Akira? My sister! She's a shut in! Are you telling me she was tinkered with too!?"
Ryuuji nodded. "We didn't just use direct machines to do the experiment… the food you eat, the pop soda you drank, even the very air you breathe… all contain… the mutational genes needed to trigger the transformation. We also put degradable nano sensors inside them… so that we can continue monitor the students' behavior and transformation."
Satomi couldn't take it anymore and he walked out that meeting, a very shaken and delirious man.
The only ones who didn't flinch were the Dorssians. "I take it the transformation wouldn't happen in a day." A-Drei surmised. He's been here for days now, L-Elf was even longer than that. If there are any changes, they'll be piloting Valvraves by now.
"It took years." Ryuuji looked at A-Drei and L-Elf. "And there's an age limit on when the mutagenic compound administered can have any significant effect. At your age… there won't be any changes."
And when the issue moved to the Dorssians, Inuzuka raised the important question. "Back up a little bit… you said Dorssia were in cahoots with you all along in this project? Dorssia started this whole mess: they're the ones who attacked us first! If you're in this together, why are they attacking us!?"
L-Elf and A-Drei looked at Ryuuji. They too were wondering about their latest mission… and why it went so awry.
"The reason… well… because it seems… Amadeus trust just as much as he trust Jeffry… which is another way of saying… he didn't trust me at all. The reason that I was chosen to perform the experimentation, was because JIOR, a neutral country, was able to provide a Dyson Sphere, which isn't part of Earth. Amadeus distrust ARUS, as do Jeffry, regarding Dorssia. Neither of them can trust one another well enough to see this project through and cannot choose the lesser of two evils. Think about it, children… we're talking about a weapon so powerful, that it will redefine the new world order. When the war is won and the council 101 is no more… who will take the reign? Whosoever has control of the Valvrave and the secret to create an army of immortals can defeat the Magius… and then the world, nay, the universe will be up for grabs. Amadeus took the initiative and ordered an attack into the Sakimori School under the cover of expansion. But in truth, all he wanted was to get his hands on the Valvrave and the datas pertaining to the creation of Earth born Magius. And when Jeffry finds out about this… he understands… and he also took actions."
"But… if it is as you say… that my country are being run by monsters in the shadows… they must've already found out about this… about you… about… your magius." A-Drei frowned.
"Truth be told, after I heard the news of Dorssian forces attacked module 77, I suspected there's more afoot than Amadeus' ambitions." Ryuuji's brow knitted. "But I fear… right now… he's biting off more than he can chew."
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Somewhere on earth…
In a location that will remain undisclosed…
Men and women in hood gathered together in a closed room.
Two person were brought before these hooded men and woman.
One is Amadeus K. Dorssia. The Fuhrer of Dorssia.
The other, Jeffry Anderson, the President of ARUS.
They are two most powerful person in the world… the world of men, that is.
"It's been 10 years since this council meet." Amadeus started. "I wonder is something wrong?"
"Spare us your façade of obliviousness, Amadeus." The head of the Council retorted.
"We've been made aware of your attack on Jior's Dyson Sphere."
"I believe this council was not supposed to interfere with the affairs of mankind?" Amadeus coldly replied.
"We do not, and we care not of your political agenda. However, a certain super weapon has come to our awareness. A weapon by the name of Valvrave. We've been given reports that said weapon utilize enormous amounts of runes. An amount impossible to be generated by normal human."
"Is it not possible that we human had started to discover Runes on our own?" Amadeus replied, still maintaining his calm.
"Not without an inside help from the Council, they cannot." The Council leader stated. "And have I not say to you to drop your pretentious obliviousness? We know everything, Amadeus. The VVV plan… the Earthborn Magius…"
Amadeus and Jeffry tensed.
"What nonsense is this? VVV plan? Earthborn Magius? What are those?"
The head councilor chuckled. "Enter!"
The door opened, and much to Amadeus' horror, his right hand man, Cain Dressel walked in and stands at the head councilor's side.
"It… can't be! Cain!?"
"Cain Dressel, your right hand man which helped you in your coup d'état has been a Magius for 10 years now." The Councilor smirked. "So let's stop the lies, shall we? We know Shashinami Ryuuji was the one who instigated this project. We know you are involved, Amadeus. You provided him the weapons and technology… though I wonder… Jeffry Anderson? Are you involved as well? A project like that will require astronomical funding…"
"If such huge numbers are being moved around, I would know, Councilor." Anderson gaped. "In fact… I didn't know Amadeus was involved… with Dorssia kept attacking that module. It was broadcasted day and night in our television."
"So I see." The Councilor looked at Amadeus pale figure. "We have to treat this as a class 3 Event, Amadeus. You know what that means? Mirko."
One of the council members, the one named Mirko stand forth and opened his mouth, revealing fangs.
Amadeus paled. "W… Wait! Wait! Give me a chance to redeem myself!"
The head councilor raised his hand, and Mirko stopped.
"I will attack Module 77, with our entire force… we will destroy that module. And all Valvraves… and all existing Earthborn Magius aboard it! You have my word!"
"A word of a human. You have no idea, do you?" The Councillor seems more amused at the sight of a Fuhrer begging for his life. "Very well. But I still insist Mirko to join Cain to watch over you. When you fail and you probably will, Anderson… offer them sanctuary. Pressure them to hand over the Valvrave to you, and then deliver them to us. We will be watching. This meeting is adjourned."
Jeffry and Amadeus left the meeting room with 10 years of their lifespan shaved off.
When there's no one around to hear them, they began to whisper angrily with one another.
"Great. Now they know about our plan! All because of your greed and your blabber mouth! What were you thinking, talking about it to your right hand man!?"
"Spare me your sanctimonious bantering. You would've done the same. And I had no idea Cain was a Magius! What about your own administration?"
"You really gonna dump 20 years of our work down the drain?"
"There's no choice. It's okay. We're not licked yet. We don't need Ryuuji to finish this."
Meanwhile… back in the meeting room…
Cain looked at the door where the two heads of state had just left the room. "I was under the impression that you wouldn't let him off so easily. And Anderson obviously involved."
"Of course. Humans always band together. They speak one thing, but thinks another. They're pitiful that way." The Councilor chuckled. "We may still in need of him. He's a useful disposable pawn. Nevertheless, Mirko, infiltrate his closest circle. If he fails… or by some miracle he succeeded… you know what to do."
"Abandon mine old flesh, embrace the new one." Mirko bowed and left. Soon, the council disperses, leaving Kain and the Councilor. "The matter of this… Valvraves though… they trouble me… deeply." The head councilor murmured.
The Councilor opened a door behind him. It was a hall… with a long giant tapestry hung from the ceiling.
The Tapestry depicted 6 figures, arranged from top to bottom in a zig zag pattern.
At the very bottom center, a purple hooded grim figure, carrying a scythe, leading an army of rats that turned into bats
To its left top, a heavily armored archer, brandishing a crossbow, caped in a robe of blue scarabs.
Climbing right, a priest, lifting a massive staff, wreathed in golden lightning.
Right above the priest, a queen, sitting atop a throne of green spiders.
The tapestry area that depicted the second to last figure, standing side by side with the queen was torn though, leaving one shy of 6.
And at the very top…
A green eyed raven, bearing the scepter of kings, wreathed in gold and red flame…
"Cain… I have a mission for you."
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The Valvrave pilots looked like dead men walking when they walked out of that bizarre meeting. Yusuke's eyes looked dead, while Inuzuka Aina were figuratively dragging her feet, not sure where she's supposed to go. It's just… what the fuck? Their school life, a lie!? They get experimented on like some guinea pig… and to add insult to the injury, they brainwashed them so that they won't remember being experimented upon!? Nanami, who waited outside (much to her horror, as she was stuck with the leering eyes of the prisoners who were staring at her… particularly her breasts), would be lying to say if she wasn't concerned.
The only ones left in that room, was A-Drei, L-Elf, Ryuuji, Kibukawa, Haruto and Saki.
"But this is outrageous." A-Drei growled. "An alien secret society… ruling my country from the shadows? Even a Fuhrer is but a puppet in their hands?"
"This changes nothing, A-Drei."
"Oh, yes it does." A-Drei roared. "If these aliens are in anyway responsible for all the pain that my people had endured… I swear they will answer for this!"
"Doubtful." Ryuuji stated. "The Magius hardly care for the way humans does things. They only care that we provide them with constant supply of humans, so that they can drain their runes to sustain themselves."
"ALL THE MORE REASON!" A-Drei roared. "How can a ruler who think only himself and think nothing of its people rule justly!? How can a system designed to serve the people do what it was meant for if the maker are those who doesn't even know what it means to be one of the people!?"
Ryuuji blinked. "You talk as if you're a… royalty…"
A-Drei stopped and realized he said too much. "Excuse me." A-Drei suddenly got up and left the room in fury.
L-Elf then asked the most important question. "What are you going to do now? The Magius now knows about the Valvraves… and perhaps your Earthborn Magius as well. I don't think they'll take too kindly of this."
"They will exhaust their now useless pawn… Amadeus. You can no longer trust anyone from your own country, Mr. L-Elf. They may well be agents of the Magius, for all you know." Ryuuji stated. "One way to find out if one is a Magius or not is by putting a bullet in his mouth and see if the guy spit it out a minute later."
"Or just plant a cut on every person and see if they regenerate in an instant." Haruto stated.
"That's how we make sure no one is a Magius spy back in the day." Ryuuji nodded.
"Excuse me." L-Elf heard all he needed to hear and went on to put those suggestions into practice, much to Ryuuji's wonder. "Don't tell me you're going to cut every men and woman in this whole module right now?"
"Let him do it." Haruto gave a bored reply. "He once staged a one man Coup 'd'état, and he actually succeeded, believe it or not. Nicking everybody in a day should be easy enough."
L-Elf voiced his agreement with Haruto with a silent smirk, and then he left.
Ryuuji rolled his eyes. "You sure gathered some strange friends, Haruto." The Prime Minister suddenly came face to face as he looked at Haruto's dark glare. "Ah."
"Do you know what it's like to have 47 people's mind in your head? It's like having those 47 people clawing the insides of your brain, trying to dig their way out." Haruto glare darkened further. "and clawing, inevitably scrape the surface… revealing whatever's underneath."
Ryuuji sighed in exasperation. So he knows now.
"This is a question I cannot ask… not when Shoko was involved. Are you going to tell me… or not?"
"Kibukawa… leave us." Ryuuji motioned the wheel chaired Professor.
"Nanami-chan?" Kibukawa called. And then Nanami entered and quickly drag the professor out of the room. And when Nanami closed the door, Ryuuji quickly added. "Before we start… I think your girlfriend should leave. She might not like what-"
BANG! Saki banged the floor with her fist. "Anything that concerns Haruto… concerns ME! You'll have to KILL me to get me not to listen to this."
"She had the right." Haruto also answered. "I would go so far as to say, she has to hear this."
Ryuuji's eyes widened. These two… they really in love with each other… And more and more, Ryuuji deeply regretted what he had done.
"…absorbing the minds of 47 people into my head… had mess it up like nothing I've ever thought. All my memories were… chaotic. No sense of time… or identity. In the last several days, I was technically insane. But… I manage to somehow… classify my memories. Splitting them up and differentiating which was mine, which wasn't… I was afraid… that… I will lose some of my memories in the process." Haruto looked at Ryuuji. "And I THINK I did…but then… Suddenly… I realized as I trudged through my memories of my childhood… that there are some blanks in it. Like my father, my real parents… Perhaps that was the brainwashing you talked about. I remember all the time I spent together with Shoko… as childhood friends… But suddenly… I came to realize… why didn't I have any memories… that are without Shoko in it?" Haruto suddenly pointed out. "As close as I am to her… there's got to be a time where I wasn't with her… so why aren't there any? And why am I so different with the others? Not just the other students, the other Valvrave pilots. Saki never had the need to aggressively feed… and neither did Inuzuka-senpai and Yusuke."
Ryuuji didn't say anything.
"But when I fixed my memories after that feeding… I found some memories… some bizarre memories… I saw a machine… messing with my body… my brain… Just tell me what the hell happened to me?"
Ryuuji closed his eyes. "I always… dreaded the day that you will become a magius."
"Why? Because of what I've done?"
"Because of what we've done to you." Ryuuji closed his eyes. "…we had… a disagreement. Your father and I." Ryuuji clasped her fingers together. "…I gave even my own daughter to this project… likewise, he willingly gave his son as well… but… your father has always been… more on the radical side. He experimented on you two using procedures that no human would allow."
"Two?"
"You and Shoko were different from the other children." Haruto looked at Ryuuji, and now he was glad Shoko was out of the room. "Other children were left to grow up in the natural environment, brought here after they reached a certain age. But you two… as you always had known, the two of you were raised HERE in this Dyson Sphere, since childhood."
Haruto and Saki don't like where this is going.
"For all intents and purposes… I was going to let you two grow up normally the same way like all other children. At least until a certain age was reached. Shoichi doesn't share my opinion. At first, he was concerned that when the time comes where we must take this project to the next level, we will not be ready, because we simply knew too little of a Magius' biology and what they can take and cannot take. And so with my blessings, he began to develop various kinds of experiments and tests. Many of them were barely legal. And he tested them… on Shoko and you… the breakthroughs made in that results were later used on other children."
Haruto gawked.
"But… somewhere along the line… Shoichi crossed the line. I didn't found out about this… until later. You two will not remember this. You were very young… and by that time… it was too late… both of you had… suffered a severe mental breakdown due to his tests. Shoko survived the ordeal but Haruto… you…"
Haruto held his breath.
"You actually died, 5 years ago."
Haruto and Saki's eyes widened. "What?"
"And not just dying for 20 to 30 seconds… you died for 3 days."
Haruto's breathing grew more elaborate as his chest hump up and down. "That's impossible! If I'm dead… then how-"
"Your father… did something to you." Ryuuji stated. "You were his son. And as such, he gave everything he's got when it comes to you. Whether it is some form twisted fatherly love or some megalomaniacal God Complex… I don't know. But he… I don't know what he did… but when you're alive… he tweaked you differently. When it finally killed you… he worked around the clock to bring you back… using methods that no father should've ever used on his son. On the third day, he managed to do the impossible…"
"He… brought me back from the dead?"
"Using Pino."
"Pino?" Haruto remembered the fairy like Magius.
"He bonded you with her. I don't know how he did it, but he managed to strike a deal with her. She brought you back from the dead in return for… well… whatever you have become now."
Haruto felt faint. He was dead!? So he was right… he's already dead! This body of his was not his…
"YOU'RE LYING!" Saki suddenly screamed. Her eyes burst into tears. "Where on earth have you heard that!? Bringing people back from the dead!? THIS ISN'T SOME SCI-FI MOVIE FLICK!" Saki quickly grab hold of Haruto's wrist, checking his warmth, his heartbeat. "Haruto's alive! Right here and now!"
"But he wasn't then. I don't recall a test subject as broken as him… when his father worked at him around the clock. Before he managed to perfectly resurrected Haruto for good, he literally jumped in and out of life and death multiple times, living for several seconds and then die, only to be resurrected again. When he finally did resurrect you for good… what he brought back to life was… a thing who no longer wanted to live."
Saki looked at Haruto… and then she remembered. Amongst the thing Haruto yelled was the plea: "Let me die."
"And perhaps we should've let you. The trauma you endure was… inhuman. Catastrophic neurological damage, you developed homicidal nature, cannibalistic compulsions, and suicidal tendencies… But we tried to give you your normal life back… we OWE you that much. So through the use of psychotherapy, hypnotic suggestions, and… using the prototype technology that we use to suck in specific runes, an earlier model that we used on other students… we took most of the worst memories… and we bury the rest with artificial but pleasant memories… to cap it off, we implanted… an affection to my daughter, Shoko, into you. To give you a reason to live again. We don't want you to return back into that… thing."
Saki looked at Haruto… he was completely shattered at this revelation. He weakly answered. "So… what am I now… Shashinami-san? What have my father done to me?"
Ryuuji was greatly shamed when he must answer: "I don't know."
Saki glared angrily at the Prime Minister. "Aren't you the head of this project!?"
"VVV project was an open book to me… but what Shoichi did to his own son… he never reported it to me. He lied to me. That's why I crucify him, and locked him away. Away from even his own child and his research… until he can tell me what he had done to Haruto. But… he never spoke of it."
Haruto could barely hear him anymore. His hands rummaged his head as he curled into a ball. His eyes looking at the ground, and it's not certain as to what exactly he's looking at as they are empty and lifeless.
Ryuuji closed his eyes, realizing he need to leave him alone. "There's nothing more I can tell you. I will leave now. Just… one thing."
Haruto lifted his head and looked at Ryuuji.
"You… are as much as a son to me… just as Shoko is my daughter. I'm not asking you to forgive me. For everything that has been done to you, you can hate me all you want, all your heart, spit on my grave… it's all well within your rights… but please… please don't hate Shoko… or the world for it. That's all I'm asking." Ryuuji bowed once and then he left the cage, leaving a devastated Saki and a shattered Haruto in that room.
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In the Potemkin hangar…
Yusuke and Inuzuka had somehow found their way to the hangar… where they saw their Valvraves 05 had been moved in, positioned to 03… and another unit, the 06, is already there. 01 and 04 is also there.
At first… they were hesitant. They've climbed unto that machines, thinking they know what they're in for… suddenly, they realized just how big of a price they've paid for it.
They've paid… too much.
And it was then that they noticed one person, standing atop the cockpit of unit 01.
Shashinami Shoko.
And to their horror, she just jumped in.
Yusuke and Inuzuka panicked. "SHOKO!"
They quickly and momentarily forget their horror as they are overwhelmed by an even bigger horror. The two quickly rushed towards unit 01. Alas, by the time they get there, Shoko has already shut the cockpit door. She turned on the machine… and… detecting an unregistered user, it asked the question again:
Do you wish to resign your humanity, yes or no?
"This… this is it, isn't it? Haruto faced a question like this too?" Shoko looked at the yes and no options. Those words seem magnified to her eyes. Her breathing grew more elaborate and paced. Swinging between aware and unaware, her trembling fingers moved to a yes…
"So… it's a yes?"
Shoko gasped when Pino suddenly appeared on the screen. "Y… You are?"
"Pino. At your service. So… you want to pick yes?"
Shoko was initially startled, but she quickly recover. "If I pick yes… will I become like Haruto? A vampire that needs to feed on people to live?"
"Vampire? Tee-hee…" Pino chuckled. "I read Bram Stoker online… humans really have interesting imagination. 'Vampire' eh? Well… if you want to call it that way…"
"I know what you are!" Shoko barked. "You turned Haruto into a monster!"
Pino seem somewhat confused. "Me? No, no, no. The Valvrave did it!"
"DON'T LIE TO ME! MY FATHER told me everything! What was done to Haruto to everyone was only possible because of you!"
"All I did was to give the humans the genetic blueprint to create Magius. In return, they fix and modified my vessels, and I also gave them some consultations on how adapt the genetic blueprint to human DNA." Pino was unfazed. "And speaking of which… who's your father?"
"My father. Shashinami Ryuuji. He told me you helped them make all this possible!"
"Oh… you're his daughter? And your name would be… Shoko… yes? He told me a lot about you."
"He did?"
"Yes. Yes." Pino nodded cheerfully. "He always bragged how smart you are. How brave you are. He even showed me your photos when you were young. My, how you've grown."
"You're lying." Shoko glared angrily at Pino. "You're LYING! If my father loved me, why did he do this to me! To the man I loved too! To Haruto! WHY!?"
"Haruto?" Pino was still unfazed. "But… didn't he choose yes out of his own free will?"
"What?"
"The options, Shoko-chan. The options. Your father wanted me to install this feature, so that only people who are doing this on their own free will can do it." Pino thought again. "But… then again, when he came here… he was shouting something about revenge… for you… I think."
Shoko's heart felt like they just stopped. "…what?"
"I still have the video here…" Pino opened the Valvrave archive and showed a video when Haruto first attempted to ride a Valvrave.
In the video, Shoko was shown on how Haruto desperately trying to activate the Valvrave. "I need to do this for Shoko's revenge! PLEASE! ACTIVATE!"
And then he finally did it, and two injectors pricked him by the neck, drawing blood… and the transformation occurred.
Shoko collapsed to the cockpit seat… completely devastated. "Haruto… Haruto did that… it was all for me…!?" Shoko cracked as her hands moved to cover her tears stricken face… and she finally cried in sorrow. "Haruto… Haruto… AAAAAAAAAARGGHHHHH!" and she cried for hours with her face buried on the monitor.
Pino looked at Shoko's grim stricken state with curiosity… and sympathy. "Shoko…"
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Inside the Dorssian maximum security cage, Haruto was still curling into a ball amidst that cage. Saki couldn't blame him. Seriously… the fact that every children on this school, herself included had been experimented upon is shocking enough… the fact that Haruto actually DIED in the process was…
"So… So I was right… I was already dead." Haruto clawed his hair violently.
"And you're alive now."
"Maybe I shouldn't have."
"What did you say!?" Saki suddenly barked.
"Maybe I should've died a long time ago!" Haruto grew more manic. "If I had died, none of this would've happened!"
Saki paused… and then her face was wrecked in terrible fury. "Haruto… look… what your father did was clearly proven he's off his bonkers. We know that… but that doesn't automatically make it your fault as well!"
"How is it not my fault? I started this! I boarded 01… and… and now, you, Inuzuka-senpai, Aina-chan, Yusuke… It's like I'm continuing on my father's work!"
"You boarded the Valvrave because Dorssia attacked us. You protected us!"
"Did I?" Haruto moaned. "Look at what happened! Dorssia kept attacking us, time and again. Each time it killed more and more of my friends!"
"If you DIED then… And how many would've died NOW if you weren't here to protect them?"
"But I keep hurting them too! I keep hurting Shoko… and I keep hurting…" Haruto slunk deep as the events that had played out… the brutal event that had happened between them in the last several days replayed in his mind. "Enough… I don't want to hurt anybody anymore…" And he whispered to himself. "I don't want to… hurt you… anymore…"
"Hurt… me?" Saki heard it. And she understood. "You mean when you raped me in the last few days because you lost your mind?" That's right. Discounting the whole… Haruto finds his long lost memory and all… there's an unspoken episode that they cannot utter to anyone back in that meeting. A few days ago, during the early times when Haruto was at his craziest.
Flashback a few days ago…
Right after Saki found Haruto and brought him to the prison… JIOR prison…
Haruto, carried over Saki's shoulders, looked at the mark on the wall of his previous cell, which showed the ineffectiveness of JIOR prisoner restraints. Saki suggested. "Then we'll put you in Dorssian prison. Maybe they'll have stronger restraints there."
Haruto and Saki decided to use the Valvraves to board the Potemkin. Saki didn't argue because… for a moment there… Haruto looked all the better. So much better in fact that he managed to convince her to let him pilot the Valvrave all the way to the Potemkin.
He was doing fine the first few miles… and then she heard shouting and screaming in her com, and Valvrave flight pattern, which should've been a straight flight, gone haywire.
Aboard the Potemkin, several of the freed hostages had decided to stay aboard the space cruiser as hangar crews as they began retrofitting the ship to accommodate the Valvraves. That was when they noticed 01's erratic flight pattern, and how, despite its chaotic flying, it grew steadily closer and closer… until finally…
"GET OFF THE RUNWAY!" the hangar crews float away in panic as 01 crashed landed violently across the launchpad before finally stopping when it collided with a pile of inactive Waffes.
The hangar crew looked angrily at 01, questioning what sort of blinkered maniac was at the helm. To their surprise, that blinkered maniac was no other than the main pilot himself. But given his current state, everyone agreed that he was anything but sane.
Haruto jumped away from 01 and after giving everyone a wild crazed look, he ran off just as Carmilla landed in a gentler, more appropriate manner. "HARUTO!" Saki yelled as soon as she got out of the cockpit. Haruto walked haphazardly, his eyes seem dazed and he kept holding on to his head. Until he finally fell to his knees and seemingly fainted then and there, just as she feared. Saki quickly rushed to his side and upon checking his condition and realize that nothing is okay, she barked. "HEY! WHERE'S THE PRISON!?"
Fortunately, Dorssia does have sturdier restraints. Saki put Haruto inside a maximum security prison with strait jackets and iron straps. Against his wishes to be left alone, Saki insisted that she stay at his side. Giving him the therapy needed by way of singing, in order to keep him sane. Haruto finally allowed it under one condition; she must never take off his restraints, for whatever reason.
Day 1, was quite… trying for Saki. Haruto wouldn't stop screaming. Worse, he was overwhelmed by suicidal impulses (now she knew why). He kept trying to bang his head to a wall multiple times. Her song seems ineffective. Only managing to keep him sober for seconds. But she managed.
Day 2, Haruto made tremendous progress. Only occasional bouts… but Saki can actually spend time chatting with Haruto, and even her song was not needed either.
Day 3… Saki was quite confident of Haruto's condition. They were able to chat and talk calmly. But she still doesn't want to leave him behind… but they are running out of food. So she decided to stretch her leg for that day, getting an update on the situation on the Module while grabbing something tasty for Haruto. She left while he slept, leaving a small memo so that he won't panic.
And she did some stretching. Took her long overdue shower, take off that awfully uncomfortable pilot suit (a bit tight around the chest), putting on her almost forgotten civilian dress… a rather open dress. But she thought it might be a good idea to dress up in front of Haruto, if not to impress him then maybe to tease him… as she does want to look pretty for him. She meets up with people… even attending that icy lecture with that one eyed Dorssian agent, A-Drei, for the sheer heck of it. She spent almost a whole day in the module, relaxing, having fun… That's when she realized she got carried away and she almost forgot about Haruto. Almost. She came back in the evening in a hurry, bringing lots of food, wearing the cutest and sexiest dress she had in her wardrobe. She was hoping to find Haruto smiling weakly at him when she showed up, and then she can have fun teasing him.
What she found was Haruto on the floor, frothing and gasping with the room looked like they were being ripped apart inside out, most of his restraints were ripped off, but he was still tied down… though his twitching mouth was foaming, and his eyes rolled backwards.
What happened can be blamed with how she break her promise not to let him go no matter what happened. But if you saw the love of your life lying face down on the floor and comatose with restraint jacket making him hard to breathe, releasing him seems like the best idea of the day.
Today… she could probably say that was indeed the best idea she had all day.
But she doesn't really think so when it first happened.
As soon as he was free, Haruto's markings appeared and he pushed her down. "Haruto! What are you doing!?" at first she tried to struggle, her legs jerking and swinging, struggling in vain to get away under his weight.
"GRAARGH! GRAAAHHH!" His eyes were feral and desperate. His fangs protruding and he's clawing at her like a beast. Ignoring everything else, her hands clawed into Saki's clothes, and before she can stop him, he tore the flimsy dress apart, revealing her bra. And it was then Saki realized what Haruto is going to do. He ripped open her bra, and beheld her beautiful, well formed breasts. Saki watched helplessly as the blank red eyed Haruto viciously bite and sucked her supple nipples, while his hands continue to violently rip apart whatever modesty she had left, one piece at a time. Saki tried to resist… but she felt powerless, even after Haruto finally tear apart her underwear and now in the process of removing his own.
"H… Haru… to…"
When she first saw its size… she shrieked. She had heard this rumor about how monstrous Haruto's 'third leg' is… BUT what is that!? He… he's gonna shove that… that thing into her… he's going to break her! "No… Nooo!" Saki cried as she suddenly found her strength and pushed the crazed Haruto off her. Saki quickly run away scared towards the door, but then she gasped in horror as she can feel the iron hard grip from Haruto reached her ankle, causing her to fall and closed the door shut instead of opening it. "No! HAruto! NO NO! NOT…" Haruto pulled her back and finally ripped the last of her impressive dress, rendering her fully naked. And then she finally felt it rubbing her now completely exposed womanhood… "Haruto… not… like… this…" She loved him. She would love to do this with him… but not like this…
But Haruto didn't seem to care and then the inevitable thrust came in, violently so, and she screamed when she felt something was ripped. "AAAAAARGGHHH!" One of his hands clawed into her breast, violently messaging, squeezing it as if he desperately wanted something to come out of it, and while his other hand clawed desperately at her lower waist to prevent her from getting away and to thrust into her deeper. In fact Haruto's nails actually sank and clawed deep into her flesh, much to a screaming and crying Saki's pain. Even worse when they are coupled with how violent Haruto was pounding her from behind, drawing blood that trickled allover her beautiful body, mixing with blood trickling from her torn virginity.
As they do this, trickles of green energy began to flow around their skin.
"Ah… Ah… Ahiih! NAh! AHAH!" Saki squealed again and again… but then the pain began to dissipate… and replaced by this… feeling that grew bigger and bigger with each motion: pleasure… mind shattering pleasure. She cried and shouted, her mind was so lost, her hands holding on to the door so hard until her nails clawed it down… trying to do anything to make sense of this… indescribably good feeling. But eventually, the pain hasn't gone entirely, but Saki gave in to the pleasure. Haruto pulled her back into a standing up position, hugging, and clawing her body even tighter as he pierced her even deeper, earning another squeal. But this time, Saki didn't resist anymore. Not even when Haruto grasped her breast and pulled it up so that he can suck on it from behind. In fact, she began to actively moved her hips up and down like there's no tomorrow. Sweat pouring out of the two teens like flood, dampening the floor below them. But they don't care.
As their lust grew, the green light grew larger and brighter, enveloping the two. The particles of light began to dance and formed flowing streams of light that engulf them both, curtaining the two lust maddened couple… both were too overwhelmed by the pleasure of their activity to notice what happened around them.
"This… ah! is… Ahiih! a curse…!? Ah! Ah!" she muttered weakly.
Her limp weak hand moved and grasped Haruto's head, pulling him away from her bouncing breasts. She smiled and then brought his lips to hers with her hand holding on to his head, their tongue wrestling furiously with one another. Finally, Haruto's grunts and growls grew faster, and Saki also felt something is building up… "Ah… ah… ah…" something that is ready to explode. Their lips finally let go as their sensual movements grew more violent and faster. "Ahh..! Ahhh!... AHh! AHH!" But for Saki, the pounding mind blowing pleasure is also growing bigger and bigger. "Ah!Ah!Ah!AH! AAARGH! HARUTO! HARUTO! I! AH!" She's about to reach the epicenter of the critical point. "AH! AH! AH! AH! GRGHH! AaH! AAAH! AAAAAH! AAAAAHHH!" And it's driving her insane.
And then finally… they did it. Saki screamed her lungs out when she felt something spill from her womb, and something hot flooded in, overflowing past the seams. The pleasure was beyond what her mind can handle… and then…
"GRAAAAAAARGHH!"
At the peak of their mutual pleasure, Haruto, completely maddened… either by curse or lust, bit her in the neck. He bit her so violently, his fangs sank deep… deeper than he's ever been and blood gushed out of wound. But Saki felt no pain. No. Quite the opposite. She felt pleasure. When Haruto bit someone, he could either: suck the consciousness out of a victim until the victim dies or transfer his consciousness to overtake the victim. In the latter case, it seems it can also be used to transfer sensation… whatever sensation he's feeling right now. And that is exactly what he's doing to Saki. When he bit her, she felt everything that Haruto was feeling at the moment of climax: his unbridled animalistic lust… and the immeasurably pleasure of doing it with her.
Saki's eyes rolled backwards as she felt her mind shattered beyond recovery when the doubled sensation bombarded her senses and her foaming jaw opened slack in disbelief. Disbelief that something so good is actually humanly possible. But… they're not human anymore, so yeah… this is quite humanly impossible. Saki's body went rigid as her back arched and kept hanged there, pierced by Haruto, while his fangs were still sank deep into her neck. But something else happened. The light streams that engulfed the two now sip into her body, coruscating across her twitching naked body until they finally slunk into the place where Haruto's fang pierced her flesh.
When the light was gone, Haruto let go, and Saki fell on the floor, face down, mouth foaming in insane smile having endure a pleasure no human had ever tasted. She can also feel white hot liquid spilling out in-between her legs. A small green glowing web like markings appeared right on the spot where Haruto bit her… and then it disappeared.
'If this is a curse…' Saki smirked in her swings between consciousness and unconsciousness, sanity and insanity… 'I'll gladly bear it for eternity…'
And much to Saki's pleasure… this was not the last.
Haruto's unstable condition continued for days. It seems every time whatever's causing Haruto pain reached its very threshold, he went berserk, and reduced to an animalistic instinct. At first, she wondered what would happened if she left him alone. At first… that's exactly what she did. She left him alone and then she consulted to a being she thought could help.
"You know anything about this?" Saki consulted Pino. She had the knowledge on how to deal Inuzuka-senpai's condition… so she correctly deduced she would know. And she did. Regrettably, she doesn't make it easy for Saki (who had yet to understand a thing about Runes and Magius at the time) to absorb what she says."
"I see… I see…" Pino nodded several times. "Judging by the way you describe it, Haruto showed symptoms of Rune Overload."
"Rune… Overload." Saki repeated. (Dumbly.)
"Rune Overload is a very common symptom that happens to young Magius who had eaten too much Runes in too short of a time." Pino explain short.
"You're saying he fucked me senseless because he ate too much?"
"Haruto is still a very young Magius, albeit a very powerful one, I grant you. He fed on… over 40 people, you say? Well… I already told him that he need to catalogue his memory… dividing which one is his memory, which one isn't. But his body clearly cannot yet maintain such huge amount of runes that he had drained. He needs to transfer it to another person, else his body will be broken down, inside out. His survival instinct subconsciously realized this… and right now its defense mechanism as a Magius went active: he'll try to desperately transfer some of that excess rune to another host that can help him kept his Rune level in check… I guess in this case, he chose you. Rune transfer is most efficient when done through exchange of fluids and bodily substances. Humans have that activity right? You know… those things that come out from those ball things on the groin into the slit of a female…"
"…you mean sex?" Saki doesn't understand this Rune thing and Magius and all… but she get the point. "Look… I don't mind… he's doing it to me…" He quickly added under her breath (and it felt good) "But don't you… Magius…whatcallit… don't you develop any other… more… gentler method?"
"Well… I don't know how you humans do it and why you do it. Really. For us Magius, Rune Transfer is something ve~ery simple. We touched and that's it. What's more, where I came from, hatchling creation doesn't seem to be a very tiring activity for us… doesn't seem to be so much fun either…" Pino quirked, and Saki rolled her eyes. "Gender is something quite alien for us. We don't fully understand the need to separate gender of male and female. But still… from I gather, human Magius actions are gender specific. If you are male… then he'll probably just try to bit you, ferociously and repeatedly. But you are a female. And when Haruto was reduced to a feral state, his hormones are raging out control. When faced against an attractive opposite sex, male will instinctively try to mate with you. It doesn't matter, the point is, Haruto needs to transfer all that excess runes to another vessel, else he'll explode. But… I don't see what's the problem is. You did have sex with him before, did you?"
"What?"
"I still had the picture! See!?" And Pino showed the picture when Saki kissed Haruto for the first time.
"That's not sex."
"Really? I was told sex always started with that…"
"Young lady… when this is done… you and I gotta talk."
When she came back to the cage, to her horror, she finds out that, left to his own devices, a berserk Haruto was in so much pain that he would desperately banged his head to a wall, literally denting it and caused his head to nearly split open. Of course, his immortal nature means he'll survive… but after witnessing that, Saki vowed to never let it happened again. Better she let him raped her senseless, bite her to her very bones than to watch him try to kill himself.
Saki even took to confine herself inside that cage, ready to receive whatever a berserk Haruto will throw at her next. Their mating was violent, with much blood were spilled-from both sides… but their immortality regeneration power ensured they're ready for another violent mating within minutes. Saki had even opted to forgo clothing entirely inside that room and spend most of the time naked around him, much to Haruto's embarrassment (when he was sane). But as time went on, Saki came to realize, when she became able to maintain her thoughts during another biting – and climaxing, that this was not as it seems. It was not his usual seizure. It was something else entirely. For a start, she began to realize that Haruto's biting of her in each intercourse was not to suck something… it was to transfer something in. What's more, the frequencies of their… sessions are decreasing at a rapid pace. In the beginning they do it 3 times every session, at 4 sessions a day… then twice each 3 times a day… and then once, twice a day… and recently only once a day, owing to the fact that Haruto grew saner and saner as the time went by.
Flashback ends…
Now…
"Hurt me? You? Now that, Tokishima Haruto, is what I call insulting!"
"E… Eh?" Haruto blinked. Saki suddenly sounded… angry…
"You sir, have NO idea what it means about getting hurt! W… Who are you!? Forget your nutjob of a father… You grew up in a nice neighborhood… your childhood sweetheart and her daddy liked you so much, you're as good as his son… and he happens to be the PRIME MINISTER for cryin' out loud! Your life was as good as made even before all this crap happened!"
"…"
"Haruto…" Saki sighed. "…my mother tried to kill me from the day I was inside her womb. Alcohol, drugs, pregnant prostitution… she wants me to die before I even draw breath! When that didn't work and I became a rising idol… she tried to sell me into an Adult Video. My loser of a dad left my mom… and left me alone to cope with her increasing insanity and die in the gutter. I had to work with sweat, blood, and tears for every bit of happiness I get! And then this VVV project came along and snuffs it all away in a heartbeat! Hurt? HURT!? I watched my life's work crumbled to nothingness because of that stupid project, even before I became a Vampire!" Saki grew angrier by the minute. "And let's not forget: YOU raped me! You raped me for days! Sometimes you even do me in my sleep so violently until I went wide awake screaming! So don't you dare talk to me about getting hurt you beast! Talking to me about getting hurt! You don't even know the meaning of the word! Don't underestimate me, Tokishima Haruto!"
Inside… Haruto curled himself even deeper into a ball. "B… But… But I still… hurt you… Just… leave me… alone… I…"
"You still talk like that you… wait…" And then… Saki's tone suddenly changed again. "Wait… I get it now…" Her voice trembled. "That's all I am to you, right? Just… a replacement for her! You thought with you being monster and all, and so you can't be with Shoko, you make do with me who happens to be a monster too!?" She was on the verge of crying.
"What? No…! wait…!"
"And now you realized she can be like you too, she can be the same as you, and so you can go back to her!?" Saki's voice trembled to a rage. "Oh it all makes sense now isn't it!? I'm just a bed warmer for you! Someone to took care of your burning loin until you can leave me behind and dump me like I'm a disposable condom!"
"NO! NO! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!" Now Haruto panicked for an entirely different reason. Saki's voice is cracking into cries.
"FINE! DUMP ME! GO BACK TO SHOKO-SAN! THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTED ISN'T IT!? THAT'S WHAT THEY MAKE YOU DO ANYWAY! GOOD BYE TOKISHIMA HARUTO!" And then Saki quickly open the door and left the cage. Her footsteps indicates that she's going away.
"WAIT!" That was the last straw. Haruto finally breaks out of his stupor and run towards the prison door as fast as he could. As soon as the door opened, he quickly screamed: "SAKI! It's not like that at all-mmmrrmph!?"
His scream was cut short as soon as Saki's lips covered his, with her arms hugging the back of his head, pushing his face deeper until it touched hers. Haruto blinked several times, not understanding what happened… not one bit. Meanwhile, Saki's tongue took the liberty to push past his lips and played with his.
"Wfa… Swaki? Hwat…?" Haruto blinked several times as he mumbled while Saki's tongue rummaged his mouth. "I thought you were leaving…"
Saki's lips pulled apart from Haruto's leaving behind a trail of saliva. "Ba~aka. That last ones were a lie, you know?" She smiled sweetly. "Or did you forget I'm a super star idol? Changing the tone of my voice is an ABC for an actress."
"Boy, you're good." Haruto dumbly stated.
She gave him one more naughty smile and pushed Haruto back into the cage, and then she entered it herself and locked the door from inside.
Once inside, Saki wasted no time to fell right on top of the downed Haruto, kept him pinned down as she hungrily devour his lips. Her tongue entered his mouth and Haruto instinctively had to play along. Though right now, Saki held dominance. But she parted and she erotically stick her tongue out seductively at Haruto, letting her saliva dripped over his lips. Causing Haruto to blush furiously. But she wasn't done. She started licking him… teasing him… gently… slowly… wetting his features with her saliva, as if marking him as her possession. The smell of her face mixed with the sensation of her drool was intoxicating. Haruto couldn't resist and his mouth hung open in ecstasy.
But then she momentarily stopped as Saki lovingly rubbed Haruto's cheek. "Haruto… you are the reason… that I haven't cracked after so much bad things happened to me. When… when you volunteered to go into this damn ship alone to take it all by yourself… do you have any idea how scared I was? You will be here… the whole time you will be here." Saki pointed at her ears. "And I was going to hear you die. That's what you made me do. You're about to make me hear your last voice on earth."
"S… Saki…" Haruto moaned. "Saki… I… I… didn't mean… to hurt you-AH!"
"Hurt me?" Saki cut him short with a sensual lick to his ears. "Hurt me?" She even took a nibble before she licked it again, much to Haruto's shock. "You nearly ripped my heart out." She kissed his ear again, earning another gasp. And then she kissed him again, and again, trailing towards his open aghast mouth, and then she shoved her tongue in as their lips meet again. Saki poured her drool into Haruto's gargling mouth, forcing him to drink it. After a while, their lips parted again and Saki looked lovingly at Haruto… who looked like he's about to reach his limits. "You hurt me… too many times… especially in the last few days." As she said this, Saki began to take off her pilot suit, opening the upper portion of said suit until she's wearing only a blue shirt waist up. And even with that, Haruto can easily see her beautiful figure behind that shirt. "The worst part is… you think you can get away with it… you didn't let me pay you back and hurt you too." Saki seductively and purposefully moved her groin to lay on top of Haruto's. She can feel it bulging beneath his suit. "So now… I'm going to hurt you." She smiled seductively again and grabbed the collar of her shirt and tear it open, revealing her left neck, her shoulder, and a good part of her cleavage, its modesty dangling by her nipples. "After all… I owe you… for this…" As she said this, green glowing scars appeared on the left part of her neck, extending up to almost reached her eyes… who began to glow green.
Haruto gasped. Upon seeing that mark… he can feel his own mark is appearing, and his eyes heating up, a sign it's starting to turn red as well.
Saki chuckled seductively as she sensually and happily showed the green scars on the left side of her neck. It appeared right after their first sex… its size was no bigger than a mole… and then with each session..., it grew and spread… now its size rivaled the one that began to appear on Haruto's face. "Last time… you said one more…" She chortled. "I distinctly recalled… you said… one more time… riii~ight?"
"I… said that?" Haruto gasped. "Wait! I don't remember I said that!?"
"No~ooo." Saki didn't bother removing the already torn shirt, she tear it open, revealing her beautiful, beautiful naked upper body. "You said… one… more… time…" Saki's seductive voice trailed to a whisper as she closed Haruto's fidgeting lips with her own. Haruto fretted. Oh yes. This is completely different with all those time he was out of control. This time he can feel Saki's warming up breasts smothering his chest. He can taste her hot saliva dripping sensually down into his throat. He can smell the scent of her sweat, her paced breathing blowing from her nose against his lips. He can hear the sound of their lips and tongue smacking with each other… the stifling of her arms undoing his clothes… and her eyes… God help him… her intoxicating beautiful violet eyes seamlessly shifting into bright green… and his eyes are slowly seeing red. All his five senses are now going 'against' him… It is but a matter of time before his curse took over and he… they'll be reduced to animals in heat.
She suddenly parted, smacking her salivating lips. "No~o… it won't be that easy… I want to hurt you… more…" She looked lovingly at Haruto completely disheveled and flustered face. "Payback ti~ime…!" She looked down and saw that Haruto's groin is bulging painfully. "Uhh… that looks painful… but… no can do!" And then she happily undid Haruto's upper pilot suits… just his upper pilot suit. The two teens are now naked waist up, but their tight pilot suit still covers their lower area. Saki was back to kissing, licking and nibbling at Haruto's exposed upper body: his face, his lips, his neck, his lips, his throat, his lips, his chest, his lips again… his body is already wet with her saliva, and the sweat from her hot body smothered with his as well. Each kiss, each bite, each caress drove him nuts… while the pain on his loin kept him sane.
And yet the worst part was the rubbing down his loin. He can feel it. It's bulging against the 'freakishly tough' pilot trousers, painfully squeezing his' tight. Well… they were made to increase the survivability of the pilot in extreme combat, so yeah they were supposed to be tough. Saki knew this. Which is why her hip is furiously swaying back and forth, rubbing their lower area against each other at rapid pace, stimulating him like crazy. She was already gushing and bulging herself, but no… She wants him to hurt more. Oh yes. Saki is enjoying this sweet, sweet payback. She's been patiently enduring (and taking no small amount of enjoyment) of berserk Haruto's pounding… all for the sake of a chance of taking her payback on her beloved sweet and sane Haruto. And she's gonna take her time…
Haruto couldn't take it anymore. The markings on his head briefly appear and he momentarily let it overtake him… but then he realized his hands can't move. "!?" His hands were tightly bound by his pilot suit, courtesy of Saki's naughty hands and distracting kisses and licks. His sanity returned and with it, Haruto looked at Saki smirking, smacking his lips. "Oh no… you don't get to fall into the curse this time~e!" fact is… it seems Saki is allowing her curse to engulf her, given how the green web like markings appeared brightly on her white skin, and her now insane eyes glowed green. And she kept kissing Haruto again and again in such a way, each kiss cause him to wince and fell further into heat… Haruto even suspect that it possess aphrodisiac properties… judging by how each kiss made him wanted so badly to grab her and tear her a new one… but this damn tough pilot suit tied his arms tight. How did she do this without him realizing it… god… she's such a good kisser…
This torment went on and on for what seems like forever… and when Saki finally pulled away, there isn't a single part of Haruto's now sticky upper body that she hadn't teased, kissed, and licked senseless. Haruto pant and gasp… barely conscious, but his mind can now think nothing but to release these damn restraints and fuck her silly. He went into seizures several times throughout the process, but for the first time in the long time… these seizures felt torturously good… And then Saki began teasingly unbuckle her belt… and much to Haruto's horror, she took off her pants, standing completely nude before him, causing his burning loin to hurt even worse and swell even bigger. Haruto even feared it might get bent at this rate. Haruto pleadingly looked at Saki, hoping some mercy.
"Saki… please…"
"Oh no. You remember when you attacked me in my sleeping bag? I was asleep, and you ripped into my sleeping bag. I was trapped in a sleeping bag when you fuck my brains out from the front! A sleeping bag! Haruto! A sleeping bag! So no. I'm gonna make you 'suffer' in revenge of my favorite sleeping bag and my pajamas… and all my torn clothes."
Lord help him. Days of brutally pounding the hell out of his lover had made her a sadistic pervert. She turned around, briefly showing her sexy backside before she pressed her groin to his mouth, shaking her waist back and forth, rubbing his mouth, smothering it wet. And as for her mouth… she happily, and sadistically, sensually licked, teasingly kissed and sometimes bites his bulging groin with her lips. Haruto squirmed and grumbled against her gushing wet groin, his body whimpered and his legs trashed violently, but Saki held on to it tight. Just when he thought his loin couldn't hurt anymore than it already has.
However, too much of this had finally pushed Haruto beyond even his inhuman limit, and as mentioned before, these two couple are no longer human. Red markings appeared over his head and his eyes glowed red. Haruto whimpers turned into growls, and before long, it turned into a roar.
R…. RIIIPP! The tough pilot suit that bind Haruto's arm together was finally ripped apart. And with his hands are free, at last, Haruto grabbed Saki's waist, and tossed her to the side, causing her to fell on her back, revealing her whole forward body in all its naked glory. Saki squealed happily. This is what she was waiting for. The moment where they'll go absolutely crazy. Saki also no longer held her curse's sway, and let it overwhelm all her human sanity. Her green mad eyes soon locked with a pair of equally insane red ones. They're not Tokishima Haruto and Rukino Saki anymore. They're just two animals in heat. Male and female wanting to mate. BAD.
Haruto lunged at her and their hungry mouths devoured one another, tongue battling for dominance, saliva pouring, flooding into each other's mouths. Their arms sling over one another, their nails clawing, earning scratches and some trickling blood, which they hungrily licked. Haruto clawed her breasts, twisting and playing with her nipples. Saki rubbed his bulging manhood. As they did this, streams of energy began to flow. Red and gold from Haruto, green and gold from Saki. Unlike before, the energy, the Runes, no longer trickle… they flow out like rivers, encircling the two teens in heat. And then came the moment. Haruto impatiently tried to remove this restrictive clothing that covered his lower half. Saki also helped him. The two succeeded in tearing the last garment that covered Haruto's modesty apart, and without further ado, the male entered the female. Saki's back arched when she felt the deep strong thrust piercing through until her womb felt the jerk. Her eyes rolled upward in ecstasy and her salivating tongue sticks out and then she began to squeal and gargle. "AAARGH! Aah! AhAh! AH!"
Their sweating bodies glued with one another as they moved up and down, mouth desperately and hungrily engulfing one another. And as the two joined as one, so did their runes, merged together into golden streams of light that caress and enveloped their bodies… tying them together. At this phenomenon, Saki gasped just as Haruto gawked. Suddenly, they can feel what each other was feeling. There's pleasure, yes. But unlike the raw unfeeling pleasure they felt before, there's much emotion imbued in this pleasure. One more deep thrust and Saki fell to her back and Haruto followed her as he lay over her, their body motion intensified. The markings on their faces had also changed color… no longer the contrasting red and green… but one united color of gold. Haruto looked at Saki, Saki looked at Haruto. Their hearts and minds suddenly become one. "Haruto… My Haruto…" She loved him… and now he realized, he loved her too. "Saki… Saki…" They smiled. This is what they both wanted. Saki caressed Haruto's cheek, and Haruto smiled as he brought his head down and they kissed. Their swaying intensified, Saki's legs tightened her hold over Haruto's thrusting waist… their fingers clasped together tightly, not wanting to let go…
And finally, with one final thrust, both screams in ecstasy, as the heat exploded and released in Saki's womb… a heat intensified by the glowing golden light that enveloped them. It connected and united their hearts, body, and soul… until it finally dispersed into sparks of light when they climaxed together.
Haruto fell right next to Saki, both panting, the pleasure didn't fade… the feelings… carved into their soul. But instead of dying down, their passion burgeoned out of control, their lustful desire for each other gushing out. Haruto looked at Saki, and beheld her dazed but hungry expression. They're far from done. They want more… Saki's breasts were squeezed deep by Haruto's chest as their mouths melded and Haruto's hip keep going in and out of hers uncontrollably… more… Saki humped up and down on top of Haruto even though they've been drenched by all sorts of liquid now… more… Haruto groaned as he pounded for the final time into the now downed and utterly mind broken as well as completely drenched Saki, unleashing everything, much to her pleasant scream…
And they still want more…
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Hours later…
Haruto rested with his back against the cold hard cell and Saki resting her head on Haruto's bare chest, lying on top of his naked figure. They were both still naked and sticky, with only a small blanket covering a small part of their modesty. They've torn every muscle strands on their hip and waist, and now they're resting, waiting for their regenerative power to do the job. Haruto's eyes glows red with the blood red markings of scratches, and Saki with her verdant green glow on her eyes, and a spider web like pattern glowing on her left neck.
"All things considered… I think Pino had a seriously wrong idea about how things work on earth. Really, we need to sort that out one day." Saki remembered the time she talked to Pino about Haruto's condition, and how nonchalant she was about the fact that Haruto had just raped her. Given the fact she doesn't mind, she's in no position to argue.
"Hah." Haruto chuckled.
"Haruto?"
"You know… before all this, I thought the weirdest thing that can happen to me was… when I was asked by Inuzuka-senpai to buy some of his stock for wooden legged crickets." Haruto looked at his hand. "And now we're talking about… Runes, Magius… aliens? And I'm getting afflicted by a medical disorder that no human would ever understand."
"You feel weird?"
"I'm just saying… I think it's time we face the facts." Haruto sighed. "L-Elf was right. I'm not human anymore. I'm… something else. And there's no going back. The human me died a long time ago. Now I have to live with it, as a Magius. Forever." Haruto looked at Saki. "I will need to talk to Pino. I need her to teach us all how to live as a Magius. What about you?"
Saki smiled as she kissed Haruto and then hugged him lovingly. "I don't mind living in this world till the end of eternity… as long there's you in it."
"But… what Ryuuji-san said… my father… did this to me… to us… what if…" Saki placed a pair of fingers at Haruto's lips.
"Haruto, you're making me angry again." Saki pouted. "…will you stop beating yourself up over this? So your father's a mad man. He made you… like that. If you don't like it, you can prove him wrong. Be something more than what he wanted you to become. That's why I so aspire to become an idol, see?" Saki tucked her forehead to Haruto's. "My mom was unstable… my dad was a drunkard. Not the kind of parentage that can qualify for a cheerful future. But I didn't give up. I decided to move up… being an idol… so that one day, they look up… and they saw me in billboards and movie posters… and they'll found out what they're missing. My way of teaching them a lesson."
And Haruto couldn't help not to admire Rukino Saki. She has a strong heart, and the determination to carry through with whatever path she set herself upon. "But now… you're cursed too… Those markings… those eyes…"
"You gave it to me. And I will love you all the more because of it." Saki lovingly caressed her new gifts. "I don't mind being Magius… or whatever. In fact I'm very grateful for it now. Enough to thank your father for his trouble of bringing you back from the dead." Saki smiled sweetly at Haruto. "I get to meet you. Of course after that I'm gonna beat the snot out of him for doing all this awful things to my beloved Haruto."
Haruto looked at Saki, and she smiled as she kissed him again deeply. When they parted, Haruto sighed in content, but he's still in deep thought. "…we need to… see the others… the other pilots… and Shoko too."
"…" Saki smile faltered a bit.
Haruto understood why. "Saki… I love you. I understand that now. But… you know I loved Shoko too. I don't care if my affection was implanted for the sake of mental stability or whatever… it was real for me… but…" Haruto quickly grabbed Saki and kissed her again. Saki joyfully enjoyed this kiss. "…but I love you now. I want to spend my life with you… but to get us anywhere… I need to… let some things go… otherwise… I'll never move forward, not if I want to go there together… with you."
To Saki, nothing matters anymore. Upon hearing that proclamation from Haruto, her joy knows no bounds. She loved him and he loved her back, and he wanted to spend an eternity with her. That was more than she could've asked for. "You do… what you have to, Haruto."
They kissed again. A bit longer this time.
And then when she parted, they realized their waist had healed. They can walk up again. But Haruto had thought to put some clothes on first… until he saw the mangled remains of his supposedly tough pilot suit. "…you… brought any spares?"
Saki paused and looked at Haruto's naked form… "…remind me again to bring spares the next time you're about to have a nervous breakdown."
"I distinctly recall somebody tie me up with it before she mercilessly torture me senseless!"
"And I distinctly recall somebody tear it to pieces in his zeal to nail me up six ways to Sunday!"
Both sighed. Saki stated. "Luckily my clothes are still intact. I'll go outside and see if I can borrow some clothes." Saki was about to do that… until she get another glimpse of Haruto's monstrosity beneath the blanket. She blushed. "…after… we do it… one more time… I think."
"Again!?" Haruto gaped. "You said 'one more time' three 'one more time's ago!"
"That's why…" Saki began rubbing it again with her hand, her lips approaches. "Just one… more… time… okay? Besides… if I recall… I never get to use this…" the still curse afflicted Saki sensually pointed at her cute salivating open mouth… with fangs protruding and all…
And Haruto came to the conclusion: Vampires and blowjobs don't mix.
Too late, mouth opened up… and swallow.
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An hour and half later… give or take a few 'one more times'…
Back in Module 77 hangar…
Haruto, now dressed in the white of Dorssia (ones that Saki stripped from one of the prisoners) and Saki in her pilot suit is showing the bewildered hangar crew the torn remains of his suit.
"We designed this thing for the extreme combat endured by Valvrave pilots. They're durable, tough as nails… and you two jokers rip right through it!? What on earth were you two doing?"
"Well… this and that." A blushing Haruto answered.
"This and that." A blushing Saki echoed.
The hangar crew shook his head. "Oh well. Fine. We got spares… but… come to think of it, we have a prototype specialized pilot suit that we can…urm… you should ask the prime minister first."
"Where is he?"
Not long after… in Akira's shack…
Ryuuji is standing in front of Akira's shack. The blast door was still closed, with the prime minister kneeling right in front of it, trying to find a way through.
"Shashinami-san?"
Ryuuji saw Haruto and Saki approached him. "Haruto-kun."
Haruto looked at the closed door of Akira's shack. Ryuuji nodded. "She's in here. And she refused to speak to anyone. Especially me."
Inside, Akira looked with concern at Shoko, who had mimicked her panicked state by curling herself into a ball. She came to her crying, and there she stayed, crying for hours. She's still fidget every now and then, but she remained where she is.
"…" Haruto stood at the web cam over Akira's Shack's door. "…Shoko? Shoko it's me."
Shoko gasped. "Haruto…?"
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Moments later…
Haruto and Shoko stood on the railings at the roof of the school, watching the artificial sun set.
"You alright?" Haruto started.
"Hey… Haruto…"
"Hm?"
"You remember… when we plan to run away… and we ended up in a cave?"
"…"
"My memory says… you wanted to elope with me. You remember that?"
"Yes."
"…that was fake wasn't it?" Haruto looked at Shoko, her face cracking. "I don't know anymore… Haruto… everything is so… messed up… all of this…" She fell and her black slide down the railings as she sat on the floor, burying her head in her knees. "What is real, what is fake!?"
Haruto sighed. "…no. That wasn't a fake." Haruto added. "We really did ran away. We even plan on eloping. We get stuck in that cave… and play house to waste time." Of course there's the part of the fact that they ran away from… nah… that can wait.
Shoko's miserable face brightened a bit. "We did?"
"Yeah." Haruto smiled reassuringly. "I remember that. First time I actually see you fret like an actual girl. You know I always thought you were a boy… the way you carry yourself up until that point?"
Shoko pouted and blushed in embarrassment. "Haruto! I'm serious!"
"So do I." Haruto knelt down and sat on Shoko's level. "My head is still in a bit of a buzz… so many of my past memories are still… clouded. I can't tell you which one is fake, which one is real. But… this much I know: all those times we spent together… those happy memories… I don't care if they're implanted or not. The happiness is real enough for me."
Shoko looked at Haruto's face. He looked… mature… the revelation by her father that should've devastated him… he resolved it. "…and… my feelings?"
Haruto looked at Shoko, she was blushing.
"…Haruto… my feelings for you… were they… fake too?"
And Haruto's eyes widened. So this is the answer. She loves him. She really did love him. "Remember… remember that time… back in the shrine? When… I was going to say something to you and then the whole Dorssian attack thing?"
Shoko looked at Haruto with hopeful gaze.
"Yes, Shoko. It doesn't matter that my feelings were implanted… it is… was real for me too." Haruto touched Shoko's blushing cheek gently. But as she felt the caress of Haruto's fingers on her cheek… she realized something. He loves her then… and now… he loved her.
Shoko closed her eyes, forcing a tear off her eyes. Understanding that this is not a continuation.
This is a reaffirmation of goodbye.
"…I lied to you." Haruto mourned. "When I first turned into a Magius… I was scared that, if I tell you the truth, you would hate me. You would reject me. I should've told you from the very beginning. I didn't trust you enough to tell you, how can I love you? That's what I finally figured out that things will never work between us."
Shoko nodded in understanding. "…I was bad too, you know." She smiled sadly. "When… when L-Elf showed me about that thing you became… when you blow your heads off with a gun… and then you went into rampage inside a ship… I tried… so hard… not to think of you as a monster. But I couldn't. I couldn't."
"I'm not human anymore, Shoko. I will live forever… like Vampires in the movie and all. I sucked in people's lives… well… more like its equivalent… out of their necks. I drain their memories and thoughts and I just learnt how to compartmentalize my brain, the hard way."
"After dad told me of how I can be like you too… I thought many times of turning myself into a magius." Shoko looked at Haruto gave him a terrified look. "I was actually inside 01's cockpit… read that question about resigning humanity a hundred times… I found out… I don't have the guts needed to press yes. Not even for you. Even when you've done it for me… I'm horrible…"
Both teens remained silent for some time, coming to terms with what they are now. They're now living as two different beings in two different worlds. An Immortal and a mortal. A Magius and human.
"Haruto…"
"…hmm?"
"I'm gonna ask a terrible but hypothetical question…" But Shoko wanted to allow herself some selfishness. "If I'm… if I'm in Rukino-san's position… turned into a Magius and all… would you choose me over her?"
Haruto choked at that question. Boy, it was fortunate Saki wasn't here; she might go ballistic if she heard that. She might. But after a second of thought, Haruto answered simply: "No… I'd probably still choose her… even if she's not a Magius."
Contrary to what everyone expected, Shoko grinned wide and light. As if a burden had been removed off her shoulders. "Yeah. That's what I thought." And then she thought… "…kiss me."
Haruto gasped. He looked at Shoko, who tilted her head towards him. "Please?"
Haruto frowned… and he finally nodded. They closed the distance between their faces together… slowly and slowly…
And their lips met.
Just for an instant, and then it was over. Shoko smiled sadly at Haruto. This is a kiss of goodbye.
"Tasted like… blood…" Shoko winced a bit. "You really are a vampire now…"
"Yours taste like… squid ink." Haruto frowned. "I told you Squid Ink Pasta taste weird!"
"IT TASTES GOOD! YOU TRY IT!"
"No thank you, I prefer drinking people's blood."
And the two childhood friends looked at each other… and they realized they were finally at peace with their emotions and choices as they chuckled together under the evening sky before they burst into uncontrollable laughter, as close bosom friends.
Now that they got the hard stuff out of the way, they start discussing other problems. "So… what do you want to do now? You still want to go to the moon?"
"I'm conflicted. I promised Akira-chan that I will bring her to the Supermarket to buy snacks together. But seriously? After all that? I don't know Haruto… my head was in splinters trying to figure out the things between us and our parents… and while that get cleared up… I still don't know what to decide about all this… I don't know if I can decide."
"Maybe you shouldn't." Haruto chuckled. "Remember what I used to say? When you have something everybody wants. Share it. Split it. Let's be halfsies. If you can't decide then maybe other people can do it for you. You have the truth. And everybody wants it, they deserve it. So share it."
Shoko laughed. "You want me to go out there… and tell all other students, tell the whole world… that parents had consented for their children to be turned into space vampire gonnabes?"
"Maybe you should." Haruto nodded. "They're in deep, anyway. They've seen me, they've seen the Valvraves. They've dealt with the truth, and worse. Just not all of it yet."
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Moments later… in Sakimori School's Auditorium…
Shoko stood in front of all the students, with L-Elf and a pale faced Satomi at her side, while she discussed something with Saki. Burnett and all reporters were standing at the front, with all Sakimori students just behind them, but within earshot.
Takumi Kibukawa asked Ryuuji. "Is this wise, Prime Minister? The Council of 101 wouldn't stay quiet at this…"
"This is her own decision. She won't listen to me either… I have no intention to interfere, even if she does."
"This is as good as a declaration of war. What if they tried to attack her mid speech?"
"We are ALREADY at war. That's why the Valvraves are out there right now and that L-Elf is right at her side."
True enough, outside Module 77, Valvraves 01, 03. And 05 are on patrol, encircling the module, with Potemkin on standby.
Haruto looked at the preparation of Shoko's speech through his monitor. "Everyone… stay alert. If the Council of 101 is really what Shashinami-san said… I just know they won't stay quiet at this. Yusuke… you alright?"
Yusuke looked like he just got punched in the face. "I don't know Haruto. I just found out my brain got tinkered with… Kibukawa didn't say anything to me."
"Kibukawa-sensei wanted to protect you. That's why he lied to you. He doesn't want you to get hurt."
"But he still lied to me! Him! The one person I admire the most! I…" Yusuke looked like he was about to hyperventilate again… but then he managed to calm down. "Blast it! I don't know what to believe anymore… but I trust you Haruto. The only reason I agree to this because you also said Shoko is going to reveal everything?"
"We're going to unveil the world."
"So be it. Let's just hope the world knows what to do next… because I sure as hell don't know."
"Don't fall apart now, Yusuke." Haruto smiled kindly and reassuringly at the bespectacled boy. "Stay strong! We'll figure it out together."
Seeing Haruto's reassuring smile brought some bits of calmness to Yusuke. "Yeah. Roger that. Thanks Haruto." He smiled back. "V-03, over and out."
And then Haruto contacted Inuzuka.
"I told Aina everything." Inuzuka started. "Just Aina, though. She was… for the lack of better term, shocked… very shocked. But… I told her that doesn't change the fact that I will still do everything in my power to give her back her body… and then live a happy life together with her… even if I have to also become a Magius as well."
"Inuzuka-senpai! Don't!" Aina protested. "I can't stand it… you… you will become… I…" She was still a bit rattled over the fact they were brain washed during school.
"I won't become a monster… I will become a Holy Spirit. Just like you said." Inuzuka confidently replied. "Let's do this Haruto. We're with you all the way. V-05, over and out!"
Haruto smiled. And then, Pino appeared on Haruto's screen. "Haruto~o…" She purred sadly.
"Pino." Haruto sighed. "We're going to tell the world everything. Magius, Councill of 101… us. We're going to unveil all the lies in the world."
"I'm sorry."
"?"
"When I made a deal with your father, I agreed to bring you back from the dead. In return, he promised that, when the time comes, and you became a Magius… you will bond with me. Another reason you were so violent, you weren't just feeding yourself, Haruto… you were feeding me as well. And… I'm sorry to say… I have a rather ravenous appetite." Pino reiterated.
"If you brought me back from the dead, years ago… I remember I haven't had the need to feed ferociously until I turned into a Magius!"
"Because I brought you back as a mortal human then." Pino answered. "Restoring a limited human's mortal lifespan is easy… but now… you're a Magius. An immortal. Things changed… I can't extend your life indefinitely with my own Runes… I'll die! That's why I need you to feed. It's to keep your own life as well."
"So… if I don't feed aggressively… I'll die?"
"Not necessarily. That Rune Overload incident had one silver lining. It… stabilized you." Pino cheerfully stated. "And then you bonded with your lover… your runes are aligning nicely. You two now share your burden, so it'll lighten the load half and half."
"Half and ha…" Haruto was somewhat bewildered. It felt funny when one's word, one's own favorite principle are now being used against him. "So I won't go berserk again?"
"You might, if you use too much runes… so be careful." Contrary to what Pino might expect, Haruto doesn't seem to be particularly thrilled over the fact that he no longer had to go berserk. "What is it?"
"It's just… I'm okay now… but 47 people had to die for just one me to recover… it felt… wrong." Haruto frowned. "But if I think about it… perhaps that's what they designed me to be… a weapon to kill my enemies."
"No! When I gave your father and his team of scientist the genetic blueprint to create Earthborn Magius… I never wanted you to become weapons." Pino mourned. "You know, I admire you humans. Magius' native world is a world of imaginary numbers: we're not supposed to exist, but we exist anyway. We're beings made of thoughts and dreams. We simply think about it and it happened. Whatever we think turn to actions, into objects of our desire. We're naked instinct – no control. We can't, because we don't know… we don't need it. We're like an exposed wound. But humans… in our eyes, humans are a severely limited creature. You are limited by your physical form, you are limited by your mortality… but humans create, you struggle… everything you do has a meaning, has a purpose. What you create is precious to you because you put everything you got to make it. That struggle is beautiful. It made you all resilient. Strong. I admire that… and I want the Magius to be able to feel it too."
"So you created us?"
"Magius who possess great power but empty beings of thoughts. Humans who are powerless and yet resilient and resourceful due to their limitation. Part human… part magius. You were to embody the best of both of our worlds… That's what you were meant to be… a bridge towards a world where Magius and humanity can coexist as equals."
Haruto frowned. "But the council of 101 enslaved humanity from the shadows."
"It's all wrong. Magius were not supposed to rule over other beings. We're docile overseers. We watch. We influence and let it as is, never interfere as we like it, giving suggestions through wisdom, never enforce with fear. They've forgotten the principles that define our race… they were cut off from our people for so long… without guidance, without oversight… they've gone all wrong… and it's all my fault." Pino mourned in sorrow.
"Your fault? Why is it your fault?"
But before Pino can answer, a transmission came from L-Elf down below.
"V-01, Tokishima Haruto, do you read?"
"I'm here L-Elf. Nothing to report."
"I am aware. The speech will begin in 10 seconds. Stay frosty, V-01."
"Roger that. V-01, over and out."
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And while L-Elf was overseeing the Auditorium, A-Drei gave other parts of the module one last sweep, just in case. Every occupant of module is currently gathered in the Auditorium, including all the reporters, so every place was supposedly deserted.
"This is sector 2772… all clear." A-Drei reported. And then he entered sector 2773. "Sector 2773… all cl… wait."
A-Drei watched dumbly as a cardbox with holes for eyes had just crawled past right in front of him. The Cardbox stopped, swiveled around. The eye holes on the cardbox looked at him… and apparently whoever inside it panicked and quickly scurried away. A-drei twitched in disbelief. 'Cardbox. Seriously? Cardbox?'
Needless to say, A-Drei gave chase to that wayward Cardbox, and within seconds he caught up with it. He pulled out the cardbox and…
"KYAAAAAAAARGGHH! WAAAARGHH! WWAAARGGHH!"
He caught a plush mechanical doll heading towards his face, but got hit by a pillow, he blocked a book, followed swiftly by a portable tin trashcan to the head, before a big bag full of external hard disks knock him down cold.
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Shoko had never been this nervous. But… she had to tell them. Haruto was right. She can't make this decision alone. It's too big. This matter is something that has to be decided by all.
"Uh… hum."
The Auditorium was silent.
"Good… morning… or wait, this is evening… or is it night? Uhh…"
Everyone chuckled. Great start.
"My name… is Shashinami Shoko. I'm the daughter of Jior Prime Minister, Shashinami Ryuuji." Shoko bowed down. "There's something… I want to tell you all… both to my classmates… and to the world… to anyone willing to hear this."
She took a deep breath… "For many days, we the students of this school had inhabited this module ever since we parted from the main Dyson Sphere. We explored various parts of its place. From there… we excavated the super weapons called Valvrave. Which… I hate to say… were indeed made by my country, Jior, spearheaded by my own father, Shashinami Ryuuji, all in a blatant contradiction to our claim of neutrality."
Ryuuji closed his eyes.
"However… as we study them… and bear witness to their performance… we began to have… doubts. Their abilities surpassed anything the world has ever built. Even surpassing Jior's technological capability. We just don't see how… a human can make something like it. A suspicion began to grow… and it was proven." Shoko took the pictures that she gained from A-Drei's confiscated camera, the one found with him when they arrested him. The photos of various half broken and half intact Valvrave-like mech, held suspended in giant test-tubes were then displayed on the screen behind her. "This… photo… was taken from the lower basement of this module. We confirmed it. It's real. But here's the spooky part. We took a piece of the unit at the center… we tested it… and we found that… the material doesn't match anything in the periodic table. Whatever it is… it's literally OUT of this world."
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In ARUS…
Jeffry's eyes widened when he saw this broadcast. He made an emergency call to Dorssia right that instant. "Amadeus!? Are you watching this?!"
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The reporters murmured amongst themselves.
"Which is another way of saying… it's alien."
At that comment, the murmurs turned into an uproar. "You're saying that Valvraves were made by aliens?" "Does Jior made contact with aliens?" Questions exploded from the reporters.
Shoko lifted his hands to silence the reporters. "There's more going on… in this module… than just the construction of Valvraves. I've uncovered… many disturbing proofs… that not only this module is creating alien derived super weapons… they're also… experimenting with humans."
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In Dorssia…
Amadeus had just received the call as he gritted his teeth in disbelief at the balls of this young girl. "Is that girl sane?"
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The students gasped, and the reporters grew wilder. "Is this true?" "How did you find out about this?"
"We found proof… that humanity had… quite in fact… made contact with Aliens… a long time ago. And that contact ended up badly with frightening number of casualties on both sides… mostly ours, really. We now knew that these aliens were called Magius. An extraterrestrial type 7 energy lifeform. The human experimentation that we uncovered… was an attempt to create super soldiers, by combining DNAs of a human… with that of Magius… in preparation when we will fight them again."
"Again?" "You're saying they will come back?"
"No. They're not coming back." Shoko declared. "They just never left."
The reporters and the students gasped in horror.
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In the undisclosed location of the Council of 101…
Shoko's speech was also being broadcasted in the council's screen.
"What ridiculousness is this?"
"Where did that girl know about us?"
"No need to panic." The head councilor calmed everyone down. "Firstly, she hasn't mentioned anything about us yet. Secondly, even if she does… why would the world believed the words of a young snot nosed girl? Still… one thing for sure… she knows too much. We must silence her."
"Worry not councilor. It's been arranged."
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"There's a secret society. A society that was composed of Magius. For centuries, they've been hiding in the shadows, like puppeteers, they've been playing this shadow game, controlling the rule of political leaders who administrate the world's greatest nations, made a puppet leader out of all them. The Fuhrer of Dorssia, the President of Arus, and yes… even my father, the prime minister of JIOR. The attack on this module by Dorssian forces that you've heard so much about… was in fact an attack orchestrated by this illuminati council, whose sole goal… was to ensure the failure of this project, destroying all valvraves and other existing test subjects."
"Test subjects?" "Test subjects?" "Are you saying you succeeded?" "You managed to create a human alien hybrid?" "What's the proof?"
"Proof…" Shoko turned to Saki. "…are you sure about this?" She whispered.
"Not exactly what I had in mind when I said I want to become famous…" Saki nervously looked at the knife in her hand. "But… I don't really care about it anymore so… why the hell not."
Shoko give way to Saki. All eyes instantly turned to Saki, the rising pop idol… holding a knife.
And then…
STAB.
Saki stabbed her own throat with the knife and slit it open, much to everyone's horror.
Every person watching at the tv gaped in shock. Even a car crashed on a firefighter truck when its driver, a fan of Saki, was so shocked when he saw his idol had just gored herself to death on live broadcast on his car tv.
But then, much to the horror of the audience, Saki is still alive. She even used her sleeve to wipe the blood clean off her throat to show them clearly how the wound on her neck heal rapidly… until they disappeared completely. Her eyes momentarily glowed green when the wound disappeared.
The crowd fell silent for the longest time… digesting what they just witnessed.
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The Magius Council members who watched this on tv fell silent. They looked at the Head Councilor, hoping for some kind of answer.
The Head Councilor gritted his teeth. "Enough… shut it down. SHUT HER DOWN! NOW!"
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"As you can see. We've succeeded. Rukino Saki is one of the pilots of Valvrave. And all Valvrave pilots… are like her. A hybrid race of Human and Magius… Homo Sapien Novus Magius." Shoko stated while Saki returned to her post. "They are, in essence, a biological weapon created for the sole purpose of combating and ending the reign of this council of Magius… the Council of 101."
"EXCUSE ME!" A yell suddenly echoed across the auditorium. A reporter raised his hand.
"I'm sorry… but I'm having trouble listening to your fantastic nonsense, Ms. Shashinami." A reporter suddenly took a few steps ahead of the crowd, separating himself so as to be seen. "First… let me ask this… what are your proofs that this… Council of Aliens… magius… this… Council 101… isn't just some fruit of your wild imagination?"
The students in support of Shoko and known her well enough to know when she's not joking heard the gloating ridiculing tone in that reporter's words and instantly roared in anger. "WATCH YER TONGUE, YA CREEP!" It was Raizo.
But Shoko remained calm. "Have I not showed you the proof? Aliens called magius… exist. This being standing right next to me… Rukino Saki here… is the living proof. She is a hybrid of human and Magius DNA in one body."
"Ah, I'm sorry. It's just… you mentioned earlier that the political leaders in the world, the most powerful men in their respective nations are all puppets to these… Magius. Am I the only one who found that hard to believe?" The man continued. "And… the… uh… Aliens. You said… they've been living among us. That's awkward because I don't remember ever seeing a grey skinned man with large round eyes and all tentacles."
"Magius have a very unique disposition. As I understand it, they cannot exist physically in our atmosphere. They are beings of pure energy. Almost like a ghost, quite in fact." Shoko continued. "But I'm told of this. The Magius possess an ability to literally hijack a person's body. They enter your being, possessed you, and then took complete control over your identity."
"Oh, so now you're saying we're dealing with ghosts now?" The Reporter's smirk grew wider.
Shoko didn't respond to that.
Suddenly, everyone's attentions were focused on these two individuals. Waiting to see how this will play out.
"We know that medical sciences had advanced greatly. Wounds can be made to disappear in a flash with proper treatment. Special effects and CG techniques had also progressed well enough… they can look as realistic as the actual thing."
"Let me stop you right there, buster." Saki suddenly stepped forward and spoke. "I used to be an actress. And I can tell you right now, there are limits to those special effects. As real as they can look like, there's always a noticeable difference that anyone with half a brain can see right away. What I just did, I did it before your very eyes. There's no tricks, no special effects that can fake it." Saki growled. "So if you say that was a lie… then either you need to get your eyes checked… or you don't even know what the hell are you talking about."
The man's smirk grew wider and more sinister. "Alright. Alright. Let's say… you were right. That there's a mind jacking alien who lived among us by hijacking people's bodies, taking over their place seamlessly. Then let me ask this… How do we know that YOU are NOT possessed by those aliens?"
Shoko's eyes widened upon hearing that question. Now that's a question she did not expect to get.
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Meanwhile, out in space… Pino glanced in concern at the proceeding of the speech… "Haruto!"
"Pino?"
Pino moved her hands and filtered the Valvrave screens through several vision mode. One in particular was a mode where everything became green. "Scan the auditorium, quickly!"
Haruto moved the 01 and scanned the Auditorium. All the students are there… as do Shoko, as do Saki, L-Elf… and… "Pino… is that…!?"
"GO!"
Without further ado, 01 quickly dashed back into the module at full speed.
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"Can you prove to us right now, that it is you who are speaking to us out of your own free will? Not those aliens, those… magiuses?" Shoko gaped. She couldn't answer that question. The doubt and hesitation clearly shown in her face simply made the said journalist even bolder. "If you say the Magius had been manipulating the whole world from the shadow… then what's the guarantee that all that you've uttered is not also some ploy by the Magius to throw humanity's stability into chaos? Perhaps this is some… pre-preparation to weaken humanity's unity for an… alien invasion or something!"
"HEY! Watch your tongue!" Saki barked, but Shoko couldn't answer it.
"And what is this… Novus Magius? Some make believe super soldier who happens to be able to regenerate using fancy special effects? Even if she is what she claims to be… how can we know that we can trust these… these monsters!" The journalist spat in disgust at Saki, whose face grew more terrible as anger took over her. "What's the guarantee that they really are here for humanity? What's the guarantee that she won't turn against us in a heartbeat?"
"Hey!" Saki's anger exploded. Glowing green spider web like markings appeared on the left side of her face as her eyes turned green. "One more word from you, fatso, and I'll tear you apart!" She roared angrily, revealing the fangs protruding from her teeth.
"Rukino-san, no!" Shoko halted Saki by grabbing her shoulder. Saki stopped, and that's when she realized her folly. Upon seeing her terrible transformation, the crowd grew more terrified. Her anger merely made things worse, proving the gloating journalist's point on how Valvrave pilots cannot be trusted.
"See?" The journalist feigned fear in his triumph. "See? Look at that thing! And you want us to trust that… that monster to fight for us?"
Saki back away in regret over her blunder. Shoko still don't know what to say.
"Trust a silly little girl to come up with such crazy idea! What's even more crazier, you still can't prove any of your ramblings about mind jacking Aliens who lived among us! Of course you can't! Because they. Don't. Exist!"
CRASH!
At that exact moment, the auditorium shook to its foundation when Valvrave 01 had just crash landed straight into the main hall, its upper body smashed through the wall. And the rest of its body crashed in soon after, landing violently right at the stage. Haruto quickly climbed out of the cockpit and angrily tossed his helmet as he furiously eyed at that journalist. "L-Elf. He's a Magius spy. Let's test him."
Before anybody can react, a smirking L-Elf pulled out his side arm and put a bullet to the man's mouth, straight into his brain.
The crowd squealed and cried upon seeing the man's head splattered the floor. But Haruto approached the body and pulled his head up to show the bullet hole to everyone… and by extension, to the camera.
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The Magius council members truly panicked this time. They didn't expect this to happen.
"CUT THE FEED! CUT THE DAMN FEED!" But they know it's too late.
"How did they figure him out so quickly?"
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Meanwhile, as expected, the Magius' agent's head began to regenerate before everyone's very eyes. The hole disappeared, and moments later, the Magius coughed and choked several times, having just resurrected himself as he spit the bullet back out. People allover the world looked as a man had just returned back to life after being shot in the mouth.
Saki smiled in triumph. "How's that for a special effect?"
Haruto also smirked.
But then, a journalist… Burnett in fact, stepped forward and asked. "Mr. Tokishima… how did you know he was a… urm… a Magius?"
Haruto looked at the journalist and answered. "I didn't. She did." Haruto nodded at the crashed Valvrave 01.
As he did so, Valvrave 01's chest piece suddenly opened up, revealing its Rave Engine. And then, enormous amount of green rune energy spill out as a small but bright spark of light floated out of the said core. The runes coalesce and condensed around the said spark of light, enclosing it, slowly forming the shape of a woman…
And then, moments later, the woman's feature became more vivid, and finally, it formed a fairy like a woman with a very revealing dress, a magenta colored cloak that covered her shoulders, and her head wears a magenta hat with green glowing ribbons and a very long hair that was even longer than her lithe legs. She floats several feet off the ground. Everyone was momentarily entranced by the woman's beauty.
The Fairy Girl, Pino, opened her eyes and then she lowered down until her feet levitate merely centimeters off the floor. She moved… glided towards the podium and Shoko gave way. She gently thanked Shoko with a nod before she looked at the audience and then she cleared her throat. "Uh-hum. Uhmm… test… test… 1-2-3… is this thing on?"
Everyone dumbly nodded.
And then, Pino began by introducing herself.
"My name is Pino." She paused and added: "Pinovalkia Acachia Walvralvia. High Raven Queen of the Empire of Valvravia, and supreme ruler of all Magius race!"
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And there we go. My first lemon chapter that I published on Fanfiction. Please clean yourself up properly after you fap.
