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Ayase's family house, family room—Morning;
They just finished with their breakfast.
"Your appetite still great as ever, Nozomi…" Eli said.
"I didn't eat a single thing last night…" Nozomi replied.
They're quiet for a moment as Arisa finished her breakfast.
"So how are you a werewolf?" Eli asked as she took everyone's dishes and takes it to the washing machine. Arisa walk to her own room and start to prepare for her class.
"It's a long story…" Nozomi replied.
"You have all day, I don't have any work today…" Eli replied.
"Ahh! But I want to listen too!" Arisa said from distance.
"I'll tell you later, Arisa… focus on your class." Eli said.
"Aawww…. I want to hear it from Nozomi-nee-san." Arisa said.
"Then I'll tell you later, Arisa…" Nozomi said.
"Ok!" Arisa replied before she run out from her room.
"I'm going to class, bye-bye!" Arisa said before she left the house.
Eli sighed weakly.
"She still listens to you more than me…." she said.
Nozomi giggled,
"That's because Ericchi is always too strict…"she replied.
"Ah well… now… how's your story….?" Eli asked.
"Hmm.. where do we start it…" Nozomi is thinking for a while…
"Ah, maybe this, do you remember the temple where we spend our time together with just two of us for the very first time?" Nozomi asked.
"I do, what about it?"
"After you left to return to your homeland, I spend most of my time there… from early morning to night, maybe some time I went to hang out with the others— they're… concerned about me when you left. They though I'll be lonely… I really was…" Nozomi said as she smiled softly.
"Even if they tried though, there's still no one that can make me smile more than you… I feel like I've lost my reason to be happy… so I never tried to ask them out, and somehow wish they do that more rarely. I just always want to be lonely and treasure the torture you gave to me… Ericchi…." Nozomi continued.
"So… why are you a werewolf?" Eli asked.
"Listen to me first, sheesh!" Nozomi said.
"Okay-okay…"
"Hmm..where was I before… You ruined the mellow mood! A sad story is good you know! It makes your heart aches and cringing yourself out!"
"Kay….."
"So I was really sad because I'm lonely, but I'm happy because I'm sad… It's a very complex feeling, but it made me realize that my love to you is true…. Not a work of charm or whatever it is… I've always known that you're a demon girl that God gives to me, Ericchi…."
"Are you done?"
"Almost…." Nozomi still in her dramatic mood…
"So I just believe… maybe— just maybe, I won't need any other to pamper me, because Ericchi is the one for me, our thread of fate linked to each other— you belongs to me and I belongs to you. Even though our—…." Nozomi keep blabbering about her dramatic story of being lonely.
Eli put her palm on her face,
"Ericchi! Don't your palm on her face, you need to look at me!" Nozomi pulled her hands off her face.
Eli just gave up on trying to retort, she knows her Nozomi will not let her do that…
"Then-then… uhm… where am I… Oh! Did you remember the fox that we often feed together, the one that really likes deep fried tofu! She is already grown old now, but she has so many kids! There's white one with a hint of yellow on his furs, I really like that one! I name him… Elichika!" Nozomi said cheerfully.
"You're naming a male fox with a female name…" Eli said.
"He didn't know! He still answers me when I call him, Elichika-Elichika-Elichika! Then the only thing I will wish is to hear him answer me like Chika-chika-chika! Something like that! But the only thing he say is like Ku-ku-ku-ku… so.. too bad… but it's okay! He likes taking bath— and rains! Then-then… uh… it's too bad he don't eat chocolate…."
"Don't feed him chocolate!"
"But Ericchi eats Chocolate…"
"He isn't me, silly! You're killing him!"
"I know… but anyway, I'm still buying him chocolate every once a month, just like when we were together! Then I will eat it myself, pretend that it was you who eat it…. I don't know how bitter your favorite dark chocolate is… but it's fine, because it really smells like your breath after I ate it…" Nozomi replied with a soft smile.
"In summer, I will go to the beach— one where you usually take me to. Then I'll walk from where you usually park your bike, then take a stroll around until I can find the takoyaki shop— the same one with the one where we usually stop by together. I'll order one without nori because you don't like them…"
"In autumn, I will also stop by near our high-school to find the sweet potato shop, one where you usually buy sweet potatoes for me after practice, then I'll go to the park at where we usually hang out together! It's strange because I couldn't hear you scolding me for eating too much during that season… but it doesn't mean I will eat much just because you're not there! I'm eating in moderation!"
"Then at winter, I'll buy myself that warm and sweet canned milk from that vending machine, then drinking it on the very bench that we usually sit on together. I will remember how you embrace me that time, with your fuzzy wool scarf that never fails to warm me up. I wish that I could snuggle on your shoulder— but you're not there so the bench is hard enough to be compared to your shoulder— it just missing your scent…"
"Then you know what I usually do in new year, helping out at shrine and open up a fortune telling service, we usually stay at the shrine together until early morning, sitting down near that big tree and telling our promise to each other… I remember that last new year celebration we have together— not the one when Nikochi come to help us, it's the one where you stop by the shrine to tell me that you will have to leave and never return to Japan. You told me, even if we are apart—…." Nozomi began to sobs,
"…even….if we're apart…." She repeated again, her voice fading.
"….we will always be a best friend…." She said as her tears falling from her.
Eli remained quiet, but she gives out a hint of caring in her face.
"I …. I don't know how painful that words to me— I always wished that we're more than just a best friend, but I know if I said that, you will think that as a joke… then say an old fashion joke like something that is more than a best friend is best of the best-best friend…. But I'm fine with! I really am!" Nozomi cried.
"Nozomi…. sorry….. I….." Eli reached her hand to Nozomi's cheek.
"Ericchi is so cruel…. You know that there is only one love and it's a torture…. Yet you think that I could forget that first and the only love like the others…" Nozomi continued as she cried.
Eli hugged her immediately.
"Nozomi…. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to leave you like that… I love you…." Eli said kindly.
"I know… but that story is interesting, right?" Nozomi asked teasingly. She already stopped crying all so sudden…
"D-did you just…..?"
"I just want to hear you say that to me…." Nozomi said.
She giggled.
"N-n-…..NOZOMI!" Eli yelled, her face is all red.
Nozomi started to laugh.
"I thought after you show your true self… with that big horns, big wings, and claws, you'll be at least a little more resistant to something like that— but you're still my Ericchi after all, one that easily being touched by dramatic story…." Nozomi said teasingly.
"Y-You're not getting away with that!" Eli started to run to Nozomi— Nozomi quickly run away from her.
"Aaaah! Ericchi is going to catch me!" Nozomi said as she quickly run to the bedroom.
"Nozomiiiiii!" Eli keeps chasing her.
Nozomi quickly jumped on the bed— letting herself being pinned down by Eli. Eli started to pinch her cheek very gently and stretching it.
"You still like doing that kind of thing after all those years!" Eli protested.
"Bwud id's fwair! Ywou're owftewn pwaying wifh my emopfion foo!" Nozomi replied.
"Bad Nozomi! bad!" Eli said as she keep stretching her cheek.
"I awso dwidn' wie apfoud dwad…. I weawy mwiss ywou dwad mwuch" Nozomi said. Eli released her cheek.
"You really didn't lie….?" Eli asked.
"No…. I really did all that…. because those are too important to be forgotten. Everyone can call me as someone who refuses to move on for the better— but I have my own belief and no one can tell me what to do…." Nozomi continued crying.
Eli sighed at her weakly…
"Silly Nozomi…" Eli said gently.
"I even touch myself as I watch a picture of you…. In my bedroom… until that day when I got driven out from my own apartment…" Nozomi replied.
"Tell me more about it…" Eli said.
"You tell me first, why did you never show this form to me back then…?" Nozomi asked.
"Do you think I'll go like : Hey Look I'm a Succubus! Wanna play with me?... or something like that…? I must be having a death wish…" Eli replied.
"Succubus? I thought you are a werebull or something…" Nozomi said.
Eli pouts and claps her hands on Nozomi's cheek.
"Ouch! That hurt!" Nozomi smiled— she is somewhat really happy.
Eli still pouting at her.
"Werebats…" Nozomi said.
Eli claps her hands on Nozomi's cheek again. Nozomi laughed happily.
"It hurts, werehuman!" she said.
And Eli began to claps her hands a lot of time on her cheek. Nozomi keep on laughing and cried along with it. Eli stopped and still pouting at her as she watch her cheek getting all red...
"Please hurt me more, Ericchi… I like it… I like every pain you're giving to me…" Nozomi sobs,
Eli began to feel concerned.
"I want more of you … I want to feel you…because this is what I feel whenever I'm close to you, a sweet pain, not one without meaning… I really love you… I really want you…. And I never had the courage to tell you outright…even until we have to be apart… even after you told me that you will never return here… I only can stare into you… your mesmerizing eyes... which eventually fading from my sight…." She cried.
Eli remained quiet to listen to her,
"I wanted to forget you… but I can't…. and the more I tried, the more painful it becomes.. then when I saw you again with those horns and wings, I doubted myself that I've seen a miracle, a hope, so I denied myself… you too are acting like you never know me… then tricking me to say all that… It's torturing me, you know… but in the bright side… now that I know you're not a human, I have less worry about telling you the truth about why am I picking up that oath to be a werewolf…"
She keeps crying, Eli wiped her tears gently.
"I was in that temple, working as usual and staying up until midnight as usual… then I could hear a noise from distance… there was a woman and a boy, also a man who looked like her husband. He was… trying to protect them from some polices. I have no idea what's going on there until I realize… those agents of justice feel strange. They don't even try to make a justice… they didn't intimidate him to give up, they just… shot him…in front of his family…"
"Then by the time he fall on his knee, they started to shot his wife, then before they could shoot his son, he turned into a werewolf… trying his best to stay alive and began to attack those police. The boy ran away and I believe I saw one of the police running to chase him. It's like they really don't want anyone to survive. It's really strange…"
"The fight keeps going on and on— but he was only managed to kill one of them until they barrage him with gunshots. I waited for those police to leave him— they're still after the boy. I approached his body, I thought he was dead, but he wasn't. I tried to help him, but he refused. He couldn't tell me much, but he just said, he wanted a real justice and I… as a shrine maiden, should bring that justice…"
"I know it's not my job… I told him that too… but… things are changing when they're also after me just because I witness such cruelty happening. The boy returned with a few polices still after him, they saw me… and they started to try shooting me. Thanks to you who made me be good at such kind of thing, I managed to dodge them and fight them off… but that's not holding up forever… their reinforcement start to keep coming… "
"That was the time when that man said, he can offer me an oath to hold the power of the beast while at the other side those police also offered an alliance with me…"
"So you chose to become a werewolf and fight them off…?" Eli asked.
Nozomi nodded.
"They're clearly doing something wrong… so I'm not afraid to fight them off— though I couldn't say what I did was right… I couldn't control myself…and… that was the first time I tasted raw human flesh… I fought them all off with his help, I wish that he managed to survive but he prefer to die after slaughtering them… he said its better this way so that I could walk free and find this justice that he wants…."
"W-wait! So he saw you naked?!"Eli said.
"H-Huh? Of course, that werewolf form was bigger than I thought. It tore my shrine maiden clothes! But I was lucky that I still have my casual clothes in bag—…"
"Nooooooo! Someone else saw you naked!" Eli screamed.
"He is dead, Ericchi… beside, he didn't see my nipples or my genitals, I covered it with the torn shrine maiden dress right before I turn back to human… but anyway! Why are you worrying about that one instead?"
"Because… I think that's more important?"
"Silly Ericchi! People are dying! We need to stop that!"
"You care about people too much. They can kill each other if they want…as long you're safe, there's nothing I need to worry…"
"I'm not safe! I believe if they found me alive, they will be still after me!"
"I'll protect you, problem solved…"
"No! It's not solved if you're just giving me a safety! They're corrupting this country! We need to find the root of everything!"
"Why would you want to do that for them. I thought you said you like being alone or let's say being with me? If I say, let's go out and have fun, will you stop trying to involve yourself in such danger?"
"You said this before, it doesn't matter how important a person is, you know it's wrong and you will protect the right…"
"Yep, but doesn't mean you can do the same…"
"I promised to bring the real justice!"
"He is dead... besides, a dirty thing like that won't last long. Just leave it to them…"
"When you said 'them' here…who you're talking about?"
"The real agent of justice… not the corrupted one. They can't be all like that…"
"Then let me tell you something… where do you put my wallet?"
Eli quietly crawled to the end table next to the bed, opening up the drawer and gives it to Nozomi. Nozomi opened her wallet and show her a badge…"
"I'm Detective Toujou Nozomi…. an agent of justice, if you don't mind…"
Eli swears that she just wanted to shake her best friend off, yet she remains quiet to listen if there's something that can soothe her feeling coming out from her mouth.
"I've started working since two years ago… moving from station to station to solve smaller mysteries. I've made names but not obvious. You might've seen initial A.N from time to time… only if you read enough news and stop reading fashion magazine all day…"
"I'm working in that career… can't be outdated. I'm a model, Nozomi… I've been in fashion magazine— you should've seen me only if you stop reading too much newspaper and browse around bookstore… Kotori knows about me… she is planning to use me for her model later…"
"Why are you telling her you're here but never tell me?"
"I didn't tell her, she is searching me and I doubt she know I am her friend— never told her too. I didn't plan to meet anyone I knew, that's why I'm moving to this small town…"
"How did she contact you then?"
"I've been using initial name as a model. You're not the only one who need initial name, you know… You don't use your real name in media especially when you're supposed to promote their lingerie with your body…" Eli replied.
"My co-worker has been checking out fashion magazine and talking about it, what's your initial name…?"
"I'm C2NE, some people read it as Catherine, that's how Kotori address me too. She hasn't met me, but she already mailed me and I approved her offer. I'm going to meet up with her for job next week…"
"C2NE….Catherine….. I've heard that a few times… but I never bother trying to look… but…. anyway! That means you've posed in camera and parade your body! Didn't you say you will never show off that to the world?!"
"I'm still wearing lingerie! Beside… it's a fashion! I'm not whoring around! It's beauty, an art! Not the lowly prostitution!"
"I know it's not! But still… you're showing your body to the world! That's not allowed!"
"What?! Why it's not allowed?!"
"People are going to pervert their mind on you! Not allowed!"
"That's their problem! Besides, even if I wear a suit like a ninja, pervert is still a pervert. They don't even need any provocation to think pervert!"
"Aaaaa! Not allowweeeeddd!" Nozomi grab's Eli's horn and shake her head.
"N-Nozomi! T-there! You're acting like a child!"
"Why do everyone get to see Ericchi in lingerie and I'm not?!"
"W-what?! You're the only one who never wants to see fashion magazine, that's your fault!"
"Aaaaaaaa….! Not fair! Not fair!" Nozomi keep shaking her head.
"N-Nozomi! I-I'll give you a few copies! R-release my horns already!"
"I want special treatment!" Nozomi demanded as she pouts cutely.
"W-what?"
"I want to see Ericchi in lingerie…. Live show! Me only!"
"Fine…."
"T-then-then! I also want Ericchi to strip me… then… kiss me!"
"W-what?"
"I also want Ericchi to touch me!"
"You sound like one of the perverts…"
"No-way-no-way! I don't pervert over the other like them! I just want Ericchi!"
"That's what they said too…"
Nozomi pouts and shoved Ericchi away—releasing her hand off her horns.
"Fine, I'm just a mere pervert… ignore me…"
Eli giggled— Nozomi still pouting, a tear falling from her eye, yet she tried to look like she isn't crying. She wiped her own tears, looking away and crossed her arm.
"I'm teasing you, Nozomi…" Eli said before she turned Nozomi's face to her and kissed her forehead.
"I know you're nothing like them…" Eli said again.
Nozomi remained quiet,
"I can sense a pure love in you…" Eli added,
"Then you must be just stingy like always…"
"What? I already kissed you…"
"Just forehead? I expect more… after all these years…" Nozomi replied—still pouting.
"Nozomi….." Eli sighed.
"Will it be hurt?" Nozomi asked.
"No…. but…the other reason why I never want to confess my love is… because I can't…."
"Why? Is it because we're different?"
"Part of it… but you do realize what succubus do when they kiss?"
"No… never really read about them…" Nozomi replied.
Eli sighed, she left the bed, unpinning herself from Nozomi then fly up to her hammock.
"They're draining your energy… that's why when one woke up from their sleep after a night with our kind… they will still be tired— that too if they're allowed to live on. Most of us wouldn't want to let them live so they set us free… having a relationship with a succubus is very addictive and people tends to be very clingy to them…." Eli explained,
"Then…. Don't you think we're fit together…?" Nozomi asked.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm a werewolf, I have a lot of energy— even too much sometime… when the full moon appears, our energy increases drastically… and if it reach our limit… we will be forced to transform….. just like when we can smell blood while hungry…."
"I see….."
"I don't like transforming, you know… it's hard to control… and wasting fashion… I've lost a lot of my clothes just because I can't control myself… and I totally didn't expect myself to transform last night…"
"Now that you mention it… what actually happen last night?"
"I was just being a little too close to an evidence… those polices are after something no good…"
"What evidence…?"
"You didn't know?"
"No… I just… made them kill themselves outright…"
"Sheesh, you should've asked… but anyway, I'm still investigating about it… there's so much question on my head because… it feels like everything that happened— the serial murder which has been happening around, it's related to this justice insanity…"
"I'm never being up to date about that… never cares too…"
"I know, but you should care about that now— be my assistant! I've been your assistant in high-school… right?"
"Not interested, that's your promise to that guy…. Your problem…. I'll just be a good guardian for you and that's about it…."
"If you help, it's not about promise to that guy again… it's going to be about everyone's life… just imagine how many criminals will rise if the law enforcement falling? You won't be seeing a beautiful place to live again, everyone will always be in worry and fear…."
"Why is it only when I help you? You're doing it for that dead guy now?"
"No… I just think that if you and me unite, we can do something more than just bringing a real justice… we're always be a good team, Ericchi!"
"Why would I want to do that…. in the end, you're still doing it for that guy, right? I'm not going to be fooled…"
"Ericchi…. You're being stubborn…"
"I do what I want, you do what you want… that's how it always is…" Eli said as she turned away from Nozomi.
"How about the µ's? They can be one of the victims if we are just staying quiet…" Nozomi said.
Eli turned to her a bit, she is thinking for a while before she said,
"The victim of the serial murder is always be part of law enforcement, right? I doubt they're going to be them… so basically, you're the only one that I need to protect… so I can care nothing about them… besides, people die when they're meant to die… it can be by any cause… doesn't have to be by the murder…."
"The murder might be still only on law enforcement now, but who knows what will happen later… I get a feeling this case is actually a beginning of bigger plot. Then if you're talking about God and His will, my dear Ericchi, that's true, but he might plan for a miracle that only can work through your hands. So you will still need to do your best! Just like when we became those school idols, Ericchi!"
"I did that because I want to, but I clearly don't want to be involved in this kind of matter…"
"Is that a lie did I hear? I believe Ericchi do wants to save people too… just like what Ericchi did to me last night!"
"Maybe I was just meant to meet you last night and nothing more.. to make your miracle happen perhaps? You miss me right?"
"Our meeting never be just caused by that, Ericchi… there always be something more…"
"You want to me my girlfriend? I can grant you that… you don't need to spin around…"
"R-really?"
"Of course, I can show you a lot of incredible things, magic, madness, heaven, sins, whichever you like…"
"Please show me—! Wait…. Ericchi, you're just changing the topic aren't you?"
"I'm just going to be to the point, maybe your incident last night s just to make you meet me— to get a protection from me… and also some charm when you're losing control of your curse… but maybe that's about it. You don't need to drag me to your problem…"
"It's not a curse, it comes at handy, it just that I'm having a hard time controlling it at some point… my senses have become stronger ever since I embrace this power, it helps me to solve cases. The criminal fears me and the true law enforcement respect me. Put that aside though! I know my fate to meet you again also mean that you're the only one who can help me! This case has been going on for three years now, people are losing interest to work as law enforcement. I keep losing evidences and my witness keeps disappearing at the day before I could question them— or they just simply refuse to talk and running from me."
"You can always say that you're just suck at that job, Nozomi. You might be a good fortune teller, but doesn't mean you can solve an actual crime cases. Give up and just stay with me or something if you really want me. You'll be safe… I'm good with my money too."
"That's very tempting but no, that's not the only thing I want! I feel like this is my calling to solve this case!" Nozomi said.
"Calling? What calling? Nature call? Always can do that in the toilet… and flush it…"
Eli replied with a mocking face, Nozomi pouts. Eli smiled teasingly at her before she turned around and began to close her eyes for a nap. Nozomi went down from the bed silently as she pick up a nearby chair, place it under Eli's hammock. She climbed up the chair,
"Ericchi, do you like raw sushi…?"
"Huh? What?" Eli smirked.
Nozomi smirked at her,
"like…. SUCCUBUS ROLL!" She rolled Eli inside the hammock.
"W-whoa?! N-Nozomi!"
Nozomi keep rolling it— warping Eli inside the net.
"I'M GOING TO EAT YOU!" Nozomi jumped and hugging Eli.
"W-wait! Nozomi! This Hammock only strong enough for one person!"
And just in a few second…
"Nozoommiiiiiii!" The hammock cuts down and they both fell together on the floor.
Akiba's shopping district, before noon;
Eli— already in her human form and wearing her outings fashion walk along with Nozomi to the shopping district. Nozomi borrowed a few clothing from Eli, luckily their size isn't much different so all of her clothes are still fit on her.
"Sheesh…. I'm lucky my horn didn't break… I only can grow it once, you know…" Eli said.
"That's for making fun of me…" Nozomi said.
"Why you insist so much anyway… I really don't think it's worth it to put yourself in danger for a stranger…"
"Said someone who did it…"
"Huh? That because they're humans… they can't even hurt me… beside, why are you not fighting back…? You can always maul them with your power…"
"I didn't plan to kill them, I was expecting them to show me another evidence… I'm trying to put them in my trap!"
"Your trap? You're clearly being humiliated…"
"I'm not going to die that easily! I can regenerate very quickly! You don't see any bruise on me now, right?"
"I know, I can do that too… even better, but still… what if they shot you? You can raise from the dead, you're just a werewolf… you can't do that far…"
"That's why I want you to help me…."
"I'm not going to help you if you're being stupid like that…"
"I'm not! Look, I can tell you about everything I know… about how the cases actually are and all, but I just need your help, or actually… no… we can work together instead of just… help…. We can make a bigger miracle!"
"And the next thing you will say, let's involve the µ's…."
"I haven't involve them… the only contact I made with them is to order some stretchable fashion from Kotori-chan… I need them… so that I won't be naked when I transformed…"
"You have those…? Why not always wear it…?"
"Money… Ericchi… I can't just… ask her…. besides, I'm good with my anger control— unlike… someone… so I don't really need them when it's not full moon." Nozomi said.
Eli rolled her eyes,
"But anyway! You know what, maybe the first help you will need to give me is… let me stay with you… I'm tired of living on the street… or cheap ass hotel…."
"Right, so why did you lost your apartment?"
"I have to go out from my apartment because… I've been becoming a worry for others…. I've been… uhm… getting some terror mail from unknown recipient… and… uh.. howling… in full moon."
"And you're assigning yourself as agent of justice… great…."
"It was my first time, ok? I can control it better now… and shouldn't worry much if I'm close to you, you can always… you know…kiss me….. or something…drain my energy… keep me in my human form…"
"You know what, we should test that… I don't know how long you will last, but we really should test that out… if you're weakening in just a few second… then it's absolutely not working.. and I won't kiss you anymore, got it?"
"It's not my first kiss with you…"
"What….?'
"I stole it once… when you were staying in my apartment…"
"And then….?"
"I've felt that… I feel myself weakening, it's like you're draining me…. but it was just one second kiss anyway… so I don't really know how it actually was… I was more scared that you figured it out…"
"Look, Nozomi… I don't care about that anymore… but... you see… I don't want you to die of exhaustion, don't force yourself if you can't make it…so… make sure you tell me if you feel a little tired… if it is too hard, just shove me away or slap me or anything, let me know…"
"When are we going to start?" Nozomi asked— she is somewhat enthusiastic.
"After we buy the new hammock! Thanks to you! This is your first visit and you already broke something…"
"I can break more if I want…" Nozomi replied teasingly.
"Nozomi…"
Nozomi laughed.
"I love you Ericchi…"
"I know…. you don't need to repeat that over and over…"
"I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you…"
"Nozomi….."
"Yes?"
"Shut up…"
"Oh-oh! Ericchi! Look! That's the shop we often go together back then!" Nozomi dragged Eli— completely ignoring her previous protest.
"Huh? Yeah? What about it…?"
"I want juice, can I have them?"
"Alright….only if you're quiet, ok?"
"Ok, I'll be quiet…. While drinking…"
"Sure… want me to buy you a gallon?"
"Hmm.. just a glass is enough, I'll drink it verrrryyy slowllllyyy….!"
Eli sighed,
"Alright…"
"Then..then… can we go to the arcade too?"
"What about my hammock?"
"You can buy that later…"
"Then the kiss?"
"We can do that at night before bed…"
Eli sighed again.
"I thought a few minutes ago you're all enthusiastic about it?"
"I am! I just think that I should save the best for the last… I still have a lot of energy to spend!"
"Why do I just want to kiss you now…"
"Ericchi, you're being so lustful… I know you're a succubus… and I know my lips are so tempting—….."
"Forget it Nozomi, let's buy your juice…" Eli cuts in.
"I haven't finish! I'm trying to convince you to not lust over me… it's important you know… what if you lose control or something?"
"I don't need that!"
"… you must have missed my scent too— it's getting stronger you know and….." Nozomi keep rambling about herself. Eli only could sigh and keep listening to her until they reached the juice stand…
The Arcade, Dusk;
They're ended up playing all day in the arcade. Nozomi is been very enthusiastic for everything around her. She dragged Eli everywhere and to every single station— spending a lot of money to buy the voucher for it. Eli swears she never made this much outcome in a day, but she can't refuse either…
Nozomi…you really miss me this much….
She thought as she watches Nozomi playing the shooting game. The game was themed as zombie apocalypse— Nozomi looks like very fluent with using the gun.
I wonder if her job as detective allow her to bring a gun with her… but I didn't find one in her clothes….
Eli thought again.
"Nozomi…" Eli called.
"Hmm…?" Nozomi replied as she keeps moving on in her game.
"Do you have a real gun?" Eli asked.
"I don't…. but I have the permission to use it…. it just that I can't afford one…" Nozomi replied.
"Is being detective make you that poor?"
"I've been living on the streets, didn't I told you that before?"
"Where's your parents?"
Nozomi remained quiet as she focus on winning her game. Eli waited her.
"Dead…." Nozomi shots her last shot and win the game.
Eli surprised to hear it.
"They were hunted by those murders— the same one with what I've been looking for… they've blackmailed me and I totally ignored it… didn't expect them to actually did it…"
Eli remained quiet.
"I didn't told you that because I don't want you to think that my motivation is just simply a revenge… I'm not… I really just want to make a real justice… for that guy… and for everyone else… I don't care about myself anymore…" Nozomi puts down the arcade gun back to its place.
"You can tell me I'm just being dramatic and all, but I just want to let you know… how my life go is not important to me anymore… I'm willing to live on the streets… being humiliated… being left alone or anything else… I'll do whatever it cost to solve this case…" Nozomi continued.
Eli sighed weakly.
"So you are really serious…"
"I really am… and when I know you're still…. you know… exist…. I just think that… maybe… the God hasn't abandoned me… for what sins I've done… but anyway, we should stop by the town's park to pick up my belonging before we go home."
Town's park, dusk;
Eli already bought her new hammock, she is carrying it on her arm as she watch Nozomi who is been picking up her belonging and unsetting her tent in the park.
"How's life on the street?" Eli asked.
"Still being watched by the enemies, thank you…"
"Why not staying on the shrine?"
"The last incident on the shrine is enough… I don't want them chasing after me and stain their blood on that holy ground… remember that I did it also because I wanted to make them hardly find me…"
"Hmm… so are you still on the run now?"
"I think they may have already lost track of me since yesterday… except if they already found the dead body…"
"They won't… I devoured them…" Eli said.
"What?"
"I can devour….but since I'm not into eating savagely, I turned them into some kind of pill then eat it… so you'll only see blood stains there, no one going to care about that…"
"You could've checked them first! They might still hold the evidence! I was expecting some newspaper or just at least a report about them from the police station!"
"Then that confirms it, right? You don't want my help and you need to give this up…"
"No…. I'm not going to give up…. I've been following blind-tracks too anyway…" Nozomi said as she finally set with her belonging.
Eli sighed.
"Thanks for that though, I'm a lot safer for now…" Nozomi said.
Eli smirked at it.
"Ah! Anyway, now that you are going to protect me… you should expect some thugs or something like that attacking your home…" Nozomi said.
"Hmm… should be exciting then…"
"Then.. uh… pile of terror mails…"
"Alright…. What next?"
"Then….. hmm…. Not sure…."
"Question though, how are you going to investigate things if you can't get your hands on the police? I mean… everything goes there…." Eli asked.
"You know what Ericchi, I still can go there…. Those twisted police are too scared to work in the daylight. Their groups aren't that big but they're very troublesome. We don't even know where they dispose their evidence or the body. So as long someone keep me company…. I'm not going to be attacked…"
"But thing is, I know they're just trying to protect one case— that serial murder of law enforcement to be exact, I'm still not sure where it start since I didn't start from where it begin and all evidences to it are disposed and there's only some files that leads to it. Investigating the dead also impossible because they're just disappearing…"
"I thought they already know that you knew something…?"
"They do, but like I said, I'm going to change how I work. I'm a detective, I have the right to keep evidence… and the dead body if possible…"
"Don't tell me…. you're also going to use my home as your office and your storage…"
"You won't mind…. Right?"
Eli sighed again.
"I can let you keep evidence but I can't let you keep the dead body there… put it somewhere… hospital perhaps?"
"Ah! Right, Maki-chan can help us with that… It's not going to hurt her to keep a few dead bodies in her hospital. I can take care of the permission and all…"
"Tell me, are they— those…. twisted polices, working for someone? The root might be sitting on a higher tier of police, you know… So if you're going to get permission… isn't that mean you'll be telling them where you will put your evidence?"
"Ahh! You're right! Hmm…."
"Why do you need to keep the dead body anyway? Is it for autopsy?"
"Yes… the autopsy report of the previous dead body always comes out but I never able to get my hands on it… they always dispose it before I can get it… I don't even know which one in the police station did it…"
"So if you can get immediately, will that help?"
"Yeah.. it will, though… I'm not sure where to ask.. asking the member of law enforcement will be too risky… can Maki-chan send a few doctors I wonder…?"
"You know what, everything comes with money, if you're also asking me to be your sponsor….."
Eli frowned.
"You said you're good with your money?" Nozomi smiled at her teasingly.
Eli sighed again,
"Not that good…. I can take care of your daily need but I can't spend it for that… Arisa is still studying, you know…"
"It's only for that serial murder case, we don't need to do that on the other cases! They've been helpful on the other cases, you know…"
"Trying to put your focus away from it I suppose…"
"Yup, probably… but Ericchi will help me with that too…. right?"
Eli rolled her eyes…
"Nozomi, you're like… just met again with me and already give me that much trouble…."
"Aren't we girlfriends now? You shouldn't mind to help me take cares a small part of my trouble…"
"Small part…. Great….. and I haven't heard you say you are willing to be my girlfriend…"
"Isn't that already obvious? I mean, I did say I really want to see this… magic… madness… heaven… and sins…. So that's a yes…"
"Uh-huh…" Eli sighed weakly.
"Hmm… so… where will you show me those…?" Nozomi asked shyly.
"At home…" Eli replied plainly.
"On the bed…?"
"Yes…."
"Can we do it naked?"
"This is our first attempt and you're already after that?"
"No— it just… that… maybe… we can go further too…? or… uhm… well… maybe if a kiss on the lips weaken me…. you can at least kiss me somewhere else…?" Nozomi said shyly,
"I don't even know how it works, I never kissed anyone… I just know theories…"
"Then you will thank me for volunteering myself to you…" Nozomi said cheerfully.
Eli sighed at her,
"Just because you also need it…" she said.
"Yup, then…uhh…. Hmm… can we stop at the vending machine for a moment? I want to buy some milk…" Nozomi said excitedly.
"Yeah, sure… what else?" Eli replied.
"Hmm… nope. Nothing else…. I can't wait to go home and be in your heaven!" Nozomi said excitedly as she grabs Eli's hand.
Eli sighed heavily.
Nozomi…. never changes….
She thought as she walks home with Nozomi who excitedly walk along aside with her with a giant bag on her shoulder.
A/N : K that's it... I only can write that much atm. Tell me if it still exciting to move on...and if I confuse you with things.
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