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The police station, early morning;
Eli walks to the communication room along with Nozomi next to her. Nozomi is in a long dark brown jacket with white shirt and dark purple necktie, black trouser and boots with braided hair. Eli is in white long jacket, dark blue shirt, trouser, and boots. Both of them are wearing leather gloves.
Eli let Nozomi sat on the seat as she stood near her. Then a tall woman sat on the other side of the net wall and wooden table… she is in prisoner uniform.
"Morning… Meg…" Eli greeted her.
"Eli…. You're being a gentle one, aren't you?" Meg complimented.
"I always be…" she smiled faintly.
Meg chuckled,
"So what do you want to talk with me?" Eli asked.
"A lot…. But… to tell you the truth, it's more like a request…" Meg said.
"A request?" Eli wondered.
"Yes… it's a request…." Meg nodded.
Eli and Nozomi turned to each other, then they turn back at Meg.
"I want you to give me a death sentence…" Meg said.
Eli and Nozomi surprised slightly, though they remained calm as they heard it.
"Why?" Eli asked.
"It's…. very hard to explain…to put it simply, I just want to pay for everything…" Meg said.
"Is it really? Or you just want to escape?" Eli asked.
"No… what I mean is… if you give me a death sentence, you can pull my heart out and use it to cure someone…" Meg said.
"Someone…?" Eli flustered.
"That...little girl with black hair… she is in danger of being a ghoul… and she probably be the most fragile one between all of you right now…." Meg said.
"We knew that, with you holding her life…. She should be a lot more aware of her surrounding…" Nozomi said.
"Exactly… at first, my intention from that girl is simply because I want to test about how it will be for her to deal in such kind of situation… it's a good test…and I added it to my research… she made me realize that the undead aren't the strongest of them all…" Meg said.
"What do you expect from bunch of rotten flesh walking?" Eli giggled.
"A march of them can take down a building, you know… and would be very scary if they can parkour up to your home when you're asleep…" Meg replied.
"Sure-sure…" Eli giggled,
"Anyway, they are giving out some specific charm— and there are so many kinds of them…. I tell you that they're all very interesting… vampires are just the smallest part of undead who were able to leak out to the human world…" Meg said.
"There's more?" Nozomi asked.
"Of course, and you just never know… but anyway…. The vampire lord is dead, but it doesn't mean that she is safe… please cure her… and let her live freely…" Meg said.
"Do you think she wants to? Because… she might already embrace her power…" Nozomi replied.
"There's another kind of undead that is a lot better than she is right now… but… anyway, the bad part about being undead is that they can't reproduce— but they can spread…" Meg said.
"I don't think Nikochi want to reproduce anyway…" Nozomi said.
"We never know…but either way, I still want you to give me a death sentence, if she doesn't want to eat my heart to cure her—….."
"Wait there for a minute…" Nozomi hold Meg's words.
"Ericchi, if I'm getting this right, to cure Nikochi, she needs to eat Meg's heart?" Nozomi asked as she turn to Eli.
"It's more like, a demon's heart… my heart can works too for Niko's case or the others… but as for your case…. We need a pure blood demon… Like Meg… or Lilith…" Eli said.
"I see… I wonder why you all keeping this a secret for long…" Nozomi said.
"It's going to be bad if one of you suddenly wanted to be cured so badly… there's so many of us living around this world and we do not want to betray our kind… nor our friends…" Eli said.
"But to add your explanation, Eli…. Demon's heart isn't only can be used to such diseases, it also able to cure any diseases or adding power to one's magic…" Meg said.
"Ah— right… Demon's heart is capable of doing such… they even can inherit their ability to cure other's if eaten by magic wielder…" Eli said.
"Then, if we feed that to Hanayo…." Nozomi paused.
Meg looks very surprised,
"That's…." she fixes her glasses,
"That's the most brilliant idea I ever heard…" Meg said.
"Oh—come on! Ericchi is giving that off…" Nozomi said.
"No, the credit is yours…" Meg said.
"You just don't want to admit my brilliant wit…" Eli said.
"Toujou-san. I don't regret to know that you will be the queen of our kind, even if you're not our kind…" Meg completely ignored her.
"Is that so?" Nozomi chuckled, knowing that Eli is completely ignored.
"You know, Toujou-san… at the first time I know you as her lover, I was like, what kind of bullshit is this? For a mistress to be to fall in love with this kind of human… that's a total disgrace… the mistress to be is already a disgrace… she refuses to stay at our world— saying that place is a dirtiest planet she ever know. She prefers to live among human being— they're a lot more cultured… they're a lot more calm and understanding and it suits her… even though she would be surrounded by bunch of idiots and betrayer…" Meg said.
"Then her face was like, look, peoples, all of you… look at you! You offer your dick and hole— or buttholes to everyone around you, you share your sweats with everyone, you share your damned spits with random, then you said, humans are idiot? I rather live with idiots than living with bunch of worthless faggots like you…—that really scares the heck out of Lilith because she has been the person that she doesn't want to live with." Meg continued.
"Ericchi really said that?" Nozomi asked.
"No, but her face is…" Meg said.
"You surely know how to make me looks bad…Meg…" Eli sighed.
"When she left after my little sister's death, Lilith was crying so hard— but she doesn't want to tell to anyone… not even Eve… but I knew it because I'm always watching her from afar… Eli is really cold blooded murderer when she kills one's love…" Meg said.
"I'm really jealous of her, and I'm also mad to myself because I can't ever be better than her… I really want Lilith to see me… and I really want Eli to at least ask me for help…. But in the end, I'm always be in one position under her… or perhaps, worse… and Lilith will never look at me… even until the end… while Eli will never accept her, she is such a bastard…" Meg continued again.
Eli sighed,
"You're talking like I'm not here…" Eli said.
"At one point, I wanted Lilith to be able to be seen by her, or at least, to get all of her attention— but there's you between them, and there's me that has been holding her all the time… it's a very complicated love story, but it's funny because while you and her running inside the wheel together, we keep on chasing in our own wheel— like a rat…" Meg—once again, completely ignoring Eli.
Nozomi giggled.
"While Lilith chasing her in silence, I shouted her name over and over, helping her to stand back up when she falls and pushing her when she needs— yet her eyes glued to her and you, crying as her heart keep falling apart— the big heart that she owns, even until it was taken away by one that not supposed to do such things… but that also made me realize, a love story doesn't have to be ended in a line where I love you is spoken, or in a line when lips met each other… it could be just ended at where one pair of eyes gaze into a bright light with shade of sorrow…"
"Hell, I wished that my love story could be ended up to be as happy as yours, Toujou-san… but there's a truth that I cannot prevent and there's a big wall that I'll never pass. Lilith is dead… and I'll never be able to reach her again…" Meg sighed weakly.
"Meg, the time when you chase her, there might be someone else that having the same feeling as you…" Nozomi said.
Meg smiled wryly,
"What kind of a person who will like someone like me? Even a big hearted person like Lilith never like me— and I don't believe I'm your type, knowing you're already in one specific person that is a lot different than I…" Meg said.
Nozomi just smiled faintly at her,
"Lilith was right, I'm such a psychopath or no…. more like a sociopath, I don't know how things work and always ended up to do what my family told me to back then, my way of talking, my way of expressing myself, and my way to treat someone… I always ended up to be tormenting them and it's a lie if I said I don't enjoy it … and my sister agreed." Meg said.
"When I lost Alizee... my dearest sister, part of me is broken into pieces, for me, she is the only one who treats me like what I want to be treated as… a big sister… I want to protect, I want to be needed… and I want to be respected… when I know you might've gone berserk, there's one selfish desire in me that I really wanted Eli to need me, to ask me one critical question… but… I'm only wasting my time for it…" Meg continued.
"What is this question?" Nozomi asked.
"I want her to ask… what she should do to you… because I know she loves you more than anything else in this world, I know that you're her pride… and I know that you're the source of her caring nature… and I know she will never let you go even if she has to…" Meg said.
"And what kind of answer you're going to answer?" Nozomi asked again.
"At first, I want to offer this heart to you… I've heard somewhere that it's possible to turn into demon with a pure blood demon's heart… but then as I look for it… there's no chance of it. It's zero… no…even minus… It's just impossible and no one is able to do it… You have to be born as one… so that's why I dropped it…." Meg replied.
"That's kind of you to try though…" Nozomi said.
"Indeed" Meg said.
"Wow, she is confirming that she is kind… so much wow…" Eli said sarcastically.
"…and… I realized that the blood I offered you before, it actually can be an answer to the problem of 'how do we have a queen that could stay forever with our mistress' but then it will also prevent the possibility of a new generation which could be born from you… I bet it will just be tormenting if at one point you want to have more child…" Meg still completely ignoring Eli…
"Why do I have to stay forever? If I have to grow old, then let I be…" Nozomi replied.
Meg is slightly surprised, Eli remained quiet to it,
"I don't actually remember this, but… did I insist to stay young at some point? If I did, I want to change my words about it… I don't mind with it… There always be a start and an end for one in this world…and that's how The God makes it… For now though, I believe we're talking too far further… I only want to enjoy this very time softly and gently with Ericchi…" Nozomi said as she smiled,
"I didn't expect you'll say that…I thought you'll be a lot more brutes… but… ah well…" Meg said.
"Did I make you regret saying such deep stuff?" Nozomi asked.
"No, I thought you'll be someone who could be rough since our mistress is clearly too gentle…" Meg said,
"You're underestimating Ericchi, she could be very rough if she wants to…" Nozomi giggled,
"Is that so? I think the roughest thing she ever done is when she giving out her death glare…" Meg said.
"If you're talking about death glare, there's someone else that is better than her among us… and she is also able to do a supersonic pillow shot which used to be right on Ericchi's face…." Nozomi said.
"Umi…." Eli whispered.
Nozomi giggled, Meg looks somewhat curious.
"Seriously though, Ericchi isn't that perfect, she isn't that godly, there's so many part of her is fragile and weak… and what make her perfect isn't because she do things on her own…. It was because she listens and she is willing to learn…perhaps what makes this place a lot more exciting for her isn't simply because she hates your kind—I believe it just part of it…" Nozomi glanced at Eli,
"What makes this world a lot more exciting for her is…that she isn't worshiped and there's more excitement when one couldn't do some things because they're limited into that point. I'm not saying that able to do what everyone say impossible isn't exciting too, but it just that the colorful experience makes this place beautiful and perfect… success of failure, that's what God want to happen…" Nozomi continued.
"Am I saying the right things, Ericchi?" Nozomi asked as she turned to Eli,
Eli gave her a smile,
"Sort of, but you know what, it's not that we can do everything we like in our world— not right now. They've slowly changed and my coronation ceremony is an example to their change… it used to be terrible…" Eli said.
"You know what, Eli? You should change the bonding system in our world, I doubt you're going to do it with the old ways, right?" Meg said.
Eli looks very surprised.
"Oh God…" Eli said.
"How was it?" Nozomi asked.
"It was making your first baby…and for a mistress, you have to do it in front of everyone because it's a party… then everyone will have a sexual party as well… in front of you." Meg said.
"M-Meg! Sh-sheeesh! Of course I'll change it! I can't possibly do that! I'm not an exhibitionist!" Eli said.
"I knew that… that's why I mention it… because such thing would sound very abnormal to human being, right?" Meg said.
"To begin with, the artifacts that we make for our source of powers are already beyond abnormal for human being– it's gross for them!" Eli said.
"UHm…Ericchi, why does your world suddenly sound like a porn movie…" Nozomi said.
"T-there! You said that too before! But anyway! I told you they're not cultured yet! That's why I like it here, ok?" Eli said.
Meg chuckled,
"You said you'll make a change right? Good luck… I know it will be hard to change the old ways…" Meg said.
"Honestly though Ericchi, I think it's not that your kind isn't cultured, there's more description to the culture itself… it just that as the time change, the cultures follows… and there's a lot of way to do it… do you remember our lesson back in high school? One about how cultures are spreading…"
"Diffusion, Acculturation, Assimilation, and Innovation…" Eli replied.
"Yup, that's what I meant… I think if you want to make a change, you can do a research about it… hmm.. didn't we talk about this before?" Nozomi said.
"Yes, and I think you're right… I'll go get anthropology study… it perfectly fits with what I need…" Eli said.
"That sounds very interesting… but perhaps, Eli, would you like to inherit my research as well? I left all reports in my home…" Meg said.
"Are you sure? You've worked up to it…" Eli said.
"Just make sure you're giving me the credits… and also… the undead also have their own culture, you should look at it as your reference…" Meg said.
"Thanks… Meg…." Eli said with a smile— a little shy smile.
"You're welcome… now, please hurry up prepare everything for me, I'll add the other thing later, if you could, please put all the blame on me — and minor part on Leon so I can get the death sentence and… whatever for him as long it's not death sentence…" Meg said—she turned away with a slight blush on her cheek and she fixes her glasses.
"Why not?" Eli asked.
"Leon is still too young for it… he need to learn his lesson… and— oh… don't forget to feed my heart to Hanayo….then cure him before you put him to jail… I don't know how you will do it, but good luck…again …" Meg said.
"What about Eve? Have she heard about your wish?" Nozomi asked.
"Ah— her…. I'll call her later… but just promise me to do this for me, ok?" Meg said.
Eli and Nozomi sighed,
"Still a little heavy, but you do have reason…so…. I can't complain…" Eli said.
"Just this once and for the last time, Eli… please put all the burdens on me… and… keep yourself clean… you need to get more knowledge while you're accepted among humans…" Meg said.
"I know...i know…" Eli said.
"You too, Nozomi… you're going to be a mother…" Meg said— she is still looking away.
"I understand, thanks a lot…Meg…" Nozomi smiled.
Eli and Nozomi gestured and left, Meg gives out a sweet smile as they did.
Before the court started,
Eli and Nozomi decided to wait outside the building, sitting on the bench at the garden near a big tree,
They leaned against each other, holding hands and enjoying the morning breeze.
"I can't believe Meg wanted to do it… I mean… I always thought her as a heartless…" Nozomi said.
"Well, she will be heartless when she died…" Eli said.
"Ericchi! I'm not joking!" Nozomi pouts.
Eli chuckled,
"There's no use of mourning… that's what we always believe… remember?" Eli said.
"You, Lilith, and Eve, three of you shares the same believes… can I have your opinions?" Nozomi asked.
"Because I don't value someone from their existence, I value them because of what they made me feel in my life… because however it will be, how hard we're trying or how many times we do it, life isn't simply something that we can control at will… you believe that too, right?" Eli replied.
"So if I died, will you mourn?" Nozomi asked.
Eli remained quiet for a moment,
"No…" Eli replied.
Nozomi smiled faintly.
"Why do I get a feeling you're just trying to look tough…" Nozomi said.
"I really won't… ok? So don't die… you won't be mourned at…" Eli said.
Nozomi giggled,
"If that's your intention…. But I won't die easily, so don't worry…" Nozomi said.
"But, have you thought about it…? I know I might've asked this question before, but, do you ever wish to return to your normal life? As human… after everything that happened…?" Eli asked.
"I'm feeling calm and well, as...for real now… I'm not feeling insecure again when we are apart, and I'm less worrying about who you will hang out with when you're away from me…. so I suppose, it will be fine if I keep this power… the power that given to me so that I can protect everyone…" Nozomi replied.
"Sure? It's not because you want to be able to have sex with me?" Eli said teasingly.
"That's part of it…." Nozomi replied cheerfully.
"You still can have sex with me although you're human, you know… we just need moderation…" Eli said.
"It will be a lie though if I said I don't enjoy being molested by Ericchi… I enjoy it and it's really coming from myself… except I'm not as eager as before… and I'm fine with soft one…" Nozomi said.
"So you really is a masochist…. I thought it's another thing that coming from those evil spirits to destroy you…." Eli said with a chuckle,
"Ericchi, didn't I told you that I've started to like it since you left me that day?"
"And you're still blaming me for that…" Eli said playfully.
Nozomi giggled,
"Who else to blame… there won't be much different from me, I swear…I think they're just making me a lot more aggressive… but anyway, Ericchi… I tried my best to jog my memory last night… about when I started to feel like being aggressive…" Nozomi said.
"I hope this is for real now, I keep getting confused with who the real you is— because I fell in love with any of your side…" Eli said.
Nozomi blushed,
"Said the one person who almost chops me off… sheesh… now I lost my will to say it…" Nozomi said.
Eli giggled,
"There… you know what Nozomi, the time when I see you on my feet, the only thing in my mind was.. why, from all person in the world, you'll be the one who made me fall in love so madly then betrayed me as I bat my eyes elsewhere… I really want to kill myself instead that time… until Umi suddenly crashed me with those hard horns… I totally thought I'll died from that instead and when I was inside the bush, I'm like, am I in heaven already? Have my sins be forgiven so quickly?"
Nozomi laughed.
"But then I realize, how come everything suddenly feels like a joke when I'm actually serious? I was really upset, and I think I lost it for a moment there—until you attacked me and shoved ourselves down from that hill, it made me understand the logic of their story where… you-lost it and Umi attacks you… except this time we both are in danger of dying. A demon won't be killed before all connection to their heart is cut off… once its cut off, then it's over… but the heart itself will never die… it will eternally beating… the risk of losing the connection when falling is high— especially when you got trees stabbing their branches on your back… and seeing that you're actually trying to protect others from me made me feel like—ah, this is the real Nozomi that I want… perhaps she isn't that twisted after all…" Eli said.
"You're just trying to make yourself doesn't look so crappy, I know you're ashamed when you're temporary died because of branches stuck on your back…" Nozomi said.
"Nozomi! It was just an incident, ok?"
"Ericchi sucks…" Nozomi said teasingly.
"Nozomi! I'm going to tickle you until you cried!" Eli frowned.
Nozomi quickly stood up,
"Do it if you can!" Nozomi stick out her tongue at her and ran— Eli quickly chased her. They ran around the garden playfully,
"There! Come back here! Tell me that again right on my face!" Eli yelled,
"Ericchi sucks…" Nozomi yelled as she keeps running around.
"Nozomiii!"
And as the two playfully running around the garden, an ambulance arrived at the parking lot and strangely it doesn't looks like it's on duty. Nozomi stopped as she looks at it which it gives a chance for Eli to catch her.
"Got you!" Eli said as she began to tickle Nozomi.
"Ahhh! Ericchi! It's serious time! Serious! Serious!" Nozomi said as she tried to endure the tickles.
Eli stopped
"What?"
"Look…" Nozomi said as she pointed to the ambulance.
Eli and Nozomi kept staring at the ambulance,
As the ambulance fully parked, they could see a familiar figure, pale skin, short dark purple haired, slim and tall, wearing a clinic worker uniform. She steps down from the car and then turning at their direction. They could see her sighed weakly before she walks to approach them.
"Morning…" Eve said as she steps near Nozomi and Eli.
"Ah–morning, Eve…" Eli greeted back.
"Morning!" Nozomi greeted her cheerfully.
"I'm glad you two look fresh today…" Eve said.
"You look somewhat calm too today…" Eli said.
"I am?" Eve asked.
"More like, a lot mature…" Nozomi said.
Eve blushed madly,
"W-wha-what are you saying, you two! Shouldn't you talk about something else? Like, Nozomi! You're going to present as the detective of the show, right? You should just ask me if you have any other question!" Eve yelled.
Eli and Nozomi giggled,
"Well, Eve, maybe the only question I have now is about Meg…. have you got her call?" Nozomi asked.
Eve remained quiet for a moment,
"You mean her request?" Eve asked.
"Yes…" Eli replied.
"She did call me… and I already said my word to her…" Eve said.
Nozomi and Eli remained quiet to listen,
"I said… that's her choice to pick… as long she thinks that is something right to do…" Eve said— she is somewhat looks sad.
Eli smiled faintly,
"What's your opinion though?" Eli asked.
"My opinion?" Eve a little flustered.
"Yes, your opinion..." Eli replied with a smile.
Eve remained quiet for a moment. She turned to her ambulance car for a moment, then turn back at them again.
"I think she should be just fined and Leon should be in the death sentence…" Eve said.
"Why?" Eli asked.
"Because that is the proper justice we have…" Eve said.
Eli smiled wryly.
"I think she have a point, Ericchi…" Nozomi said, Eli turned to her…
"You think so?" Eli asked.
"The court will explain it…" Nozomi smiled faintly.
The Court room, morning;
The audiences already gathered in the courtroom, they are looks very enthusiastic as they keep reading the material that was given to them as they bought the tickets. Maki, Niko, Rin, Hanayo, Kotori, and Arisa sat on the middle line while Eli sitting on the front line along with a few other audiences, Eve is on the most back line, right in the corner along with someone who wears thick coats and hoodie— covering half of face.
The Moderator steps to the stage,
"Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the courtroom— today we're going to have a very extremely serious case. This case was started all the way back from many years ago— and now it's finally solved… special thanks to our detective, prosecutors, attorneys, and the police for—…" he started the greeting.
Eli sighed weakly as her eyes keep focusing on a few figures that she saw trying to peek from behind the curtains.
Maki, Rin, Hanayo and Arisa looks somewhat tense, Niko looks very serious, Kotori looks a little nervous, while Eve staying calm.
"…and now, please welcome our prosecutor, Sonoda Umi!" and as he said it, a very-very fast wind blow like a slash of blade, gray feathers falling out of nowhere, then the spotlight aimed to a figure— dark blue hair with a few strands of white, black leather coat with white shirt and black samurai skirt with white samurai sheathed on her waist.
She turned her face around slowly and quietly— her eyes are sharp and scary.
"U-uhhn…. Ok…. Thanks for the very welcoming eyes, prosecutor Sonoda… Now next—…"
"Silence!" Umi suddenly cuts in.
The moderator smirked,
The room suddenly becomes very quiet.
Umi turned around fully with chains wrapped on both of her hands— then she slammed it to the table and it broke.
The Moderator widen his eyes— scared for his life.
"My name is…." Umi said very seriously.
"U—….."
The Moderator looks very scared, the audience becomes very tense,
"Ucchimorin of Tiger…" Umi said.
"What…." Niko's voice heard among the silence.
And in that very moment, a very fast gray feather thrown into her— Niko quickly hide into shadow.
"Wow-what the hell?!" Niko yelled as she pops out.
"Silence…" Umi said in a very-very serious mode.
"W-why the hell you're samurai with bird feathers then suddenly your name says Ucchimorin of Tiger, who the fuck is Ucchimorin and why the hell is it a Tiger?" Niko yelled.
Another sharp feather thrown to her, Niko hides again.
"Do not question my wit— I am justice… and that's what my script said." Umi said.
"Then we should've ask, who the hell is the scriptwriter?" Maki said.
"Ahaha..that's….." Kotori laughed awkwardly.
Maki, Niko, Rin, Hanayo, and Arisa turned at her.
"Hahaha….no…no one…. not me…" Kotori still laughing awkwardly.
Maki, Niko, Rin, Hanayo squints their eyes at her.
"Anyway… you can welcome the attorney…" Umi said.
"O-Okay…" the moderator said in panic.
"N-n-next! Please welcome, Attorney Kousaka Honoka!" The moderator said,
Suddenly another wind passing by— but now it feels like a fast tornado with tree leaves, a ginger haired girl with double small braids appear—she is wearing dark green ninja suit with big dark blue ribbon tail. Then as she turned around,
"I…."
She is wearing an eye patch with heart shape,
"I am Yagyuu Kousaka Honoka… the ninja girl with lovely eye patch…." Honoka said seriously.
Then a violin background music played.
"W-wait a minute! Honoka! I mean… Honoka-dono! I thought we agreed our theme is samurai!" Umi yelled— the music stopped.
"Oh? It's a samurai?"
"Yes! Samurai! Not Ninja!" Umi yelled.
"Ah….sorry!" Honoka scratch her head shyly,
"Why is this court too confusing for my head already nya…" Rin said.
"What I'm confused at is, if it's really a mistake… how could she get the costume…?" Maki asked.
"Scripted mistake?" Hanayo asked.
Everyone turned to Kotori,
"Huunnnnnnnn…." Kotori already all teary.
"Ehh?!"
"That's really a mistake— it's not even her costume…"Kotori said.
"Huh?!"
"Thank you, Attorney Wagyu Kousaka, Now-next…"
"Objection!" Honoka cuts in.
"Eh?"
"It's Yagyuu! Not Wagyu!" Honoka said very seriously.
"Oh...Okay!"
"Ha-ha-ha!" Suddenly another voice came in.
Everyone began to get flustered,
"Wagyu or Yagyuu— it's not going to be a matter…." The voice said again.
Suddenly the spotlight went to the judge seats. Three judges appears,
"…because once a wise man said, wagyu is always be too expensive for the wallet of poor, let's just get fillet…." The middle judge said— she is wearing white hakama with blue pattern, black shirt with red lining.
"T-that's! that's Honoka-chan's costume!" Kotori said.
"H-How could that be ended in Tsubasa's hand…" Maki said as she smirked.
"I….I'm lost…." Hanayo said.
"I am… the legend of egg samurai…" Tsubasa said.
"W-what the hell… what even relates yagyuu, wagyu, fillet, and egg together?!" Niko protested.
"Food names-nya?" Rin said.
"No…" Kotori said weakly.
"Eh?" Everyone turn at her.
"They're all just not in the script!" Kotori said as her eyes getting all teary.
"Tsubasa-dono! We should get a cooler names!" Honoka shouted.
"Huh? Like what?" Tsubasa asked.
"Like...uh...Umi-chan! give us a good name!" Honoka yelled.
"Huh? Well...hmmm... let's go with... Justice League?" Umi said.
"Why does it sounds like a comic book..." Maki said.
"Sounds cool!" Tsubasa said.
"Tsubasa!" two other voices.
As the two other judges appear— Erena and Anjuu, they're wearing a completely different costume…
"Tsubasa, you're handing us an American super heroes costume!" Erena said, she is wearing purple tight suit with red ribbon belt and shining violet katana.
"Ah— sorry… wait… really?" Tsubasa said.
"Yeah…uhhm… I totally can see the relation of Erena's costume, but…why am I wearing this tiger pattern tight suit and black bikinis—and why do I have to mess my hair?" Anjuu asked.
"Ah…that must be my error… sorry… I must've handed wrong package and script…" Honoka said.
Kotori pouts,
"Honoka-chan!" she yelled from distance.
"W-whoa-woa! I'm sorry! Kotori-chan!" Honoka said.
"There…Honoka, how could you do this kind of error…" Tsubasa said.
"Yeah… now we're just don't have a real theme…" Anjuu said.
Erena nodded,
And suddenly someone slammed the table,
"Silence!" Umi said.
"We have to move on with what we got…" Umi said in all seriousness.
"O-Okay!" everyone said.
"But we can't move on without name..." Umi said.
"Errrhh..." everyone began to wonder.
"What about Revenant of Justice?" Eli said.
"Eh?" everyone turned at Eli.
"This is a show of Justice to avenge against the fallen justice, right? Revenant of Justice is a good name..." Eli said.
"I like it..." Umi said.
"Sounds good..." Tsubasa said.
The crowds looks agreeing to it.
"Yeah! Whooho! Now the theme!" Honoka said.
"The theme is… the battle in the Edo jungle…" Umi said.
"And at least we can relate her scripted name with Anjuu's costume…" Maki said.
"Y-yeah…." Hanayo sighed.
Suddenly, someone knocked the table of the stage,
"Uhn…sorry…but… if that's the theme…. Why am I be given with a red riding hood costume?" Nozomi asked—she is already in red riding hood costume…she really looks cute in it.
"Harasho…." Eli said in awe.
"That's because…." Umi paused, she turned to Honoka with a frown.
"uhn… because Nozomi-chan is a wolf?" Honoka said.
"Oh—okay! I'll grow ears and tail!" Nozomi said before she ran out from stage again.
"But…that's not even related with Edo Jungle…." Umi said.
Everyone awkwardly become quiet.
"Just…who cares about theme, why don't you all start already?!" Niko yelled.
After a moment,
Everything finally under control and Umi began to explain everyone about the rule of the court as always,
"…once again… ladies and gentlemen, please keep it in mind that we are still holding up our rules— be observant, be neutral, we will decide their fate through the vote of audiences… We hope for the understanding and cooperation… thank you…" Umi finished her speech.
The audiences clap their hands.
"Thank you for the kind explanation, prosecutor Sonoda, now let's welcome, our detective who have been investigating the case from ever since it started five years ago…" The moderator gestured,
"Detective Toujou Nozomi!" he said as Nozomi came out from the curtain.
The audience claps their hands again, Eli giving a gentle claps and smile at her— Nozomi noticed her though she only replied with an elegant and cute body gesture.
"Good morning, everyone…" she greeted.
Then as the audiences began to be quiet, Nozomi coughed slightly and she tidy up her clothes for a moment.
"To be honest, I'm not someone who could give my report formally like how every detectives done it… so… I wanted to tell you about how it began and how it ends like a story...a terribly written story…" Nozomi said with a slight playful smile, the audience chuckled at her.
"At the day of my first encounter with this case— I wasn't very sure of how things were going from the very beginning or how it feels like for the family of the very first victim. But I believe it must be hard— because someone important has died and the police never cared about them… or perhaps, they promised them to find the truth and put a real justice in the stage? Or perhaps they just simply ignore their sorrow? I wouldn't know and hope to not witness such cruelty in the future…"
"The first thing that make me feel very curious about this case is where those police are somehow acting like they're the villain in the mask of justice, murdering and innocents family at their will— but then after I tried to match this experience with the Note that Prosecutor Sonoda found, and also a few research from the defendant's files and documents… I realize that the beginning of it wasn't started from the police, but from the one that I thought to be innocent…"
"I know this will sounds unbelievable for some people, but you know what? The man— is an alpha werewolf… he have a wife—one that I do not care to notice before. His wife is in fact another creature that came from another world, and I really knew her well. Her name is Lilith Faith…"
Eli looks slightly surprised, Maki, Niko, Rin, Hanayo, and Kotori getting very tense, Arisa remained quiet, and Eve still calm as ever.
"…for the first few things that happen, as I was faced to the corpses, listing them one by one before they gone 'missing', I didn't see this woman to be laying around them… but I do see the boy who lived in that day, hiding inside the bushes in fear. I'm not good at comforting a boy, not in that day… so I just left him alone, hoping that he will go somewhere safe…"
"…if only I care a little about him that time, I probably be able to safe him— because after the very event, according to the note and the explanation from the other defendant, Margaret Bathory during the interview with Attorney Kousaka Honoka, the boy ran to his step brother's home. An abandoned factory… he was screaming for help in front of his step brother and Margaret Bathory herself…"
"For they who have a human heart, I believe they will try to ask for the real deal and help the boy out— but they…do not have such kind of thing inside…" Nozomi somewhat gloomed.
She sighed heavily,
"According to Margaret Bathory confession in her interview with Attorney Kousaka Honoka, she suggested Leon to eat the boy while his father gone and her mother went somewhere else…. And he did… and the reason was simply because Leon wanted to inherit an alpha blood…"
"Lilith Faith knows about this— yet she does not wish to speak about it until she finally reached her limit as she found out that Leon began to enter the street fights to show off his might. So she told him— you will never be a better creature than the true alpha werewolf who inherits the power from her husband… her dead husband that already eaten by the next true alpha werewolf…"
Nozomi sighed again,
"Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps you began to question, what kind of crime the man has done until the police began to look for him? Then why does it feel like he should be killed? The reason is pretty simple— because he doesn't have a place to live on. He has been a victim of social discrimination… firstly because of who he is born as, second because his wife— the only person who's willing to accept him, is someone who earn money from giving a physical pleasure to others, is a loving wife who cares a lot about his need, and is someone who is willing to spend time to help him, then third, his son—who is currently learning of how to control his power, he was hated by his classmates because he often show his wild-side, expelled from school from time to time, being the talk of the town, ashamed and left out…"
"Those kind of things are the things that made them forced to always move around, seeking for a place where they are accepted— even though the wife was actually already have one place to go, she prefer to keep moving with him, because she wanted him to know that a person like him and his son will be accepted not just in one place…"
Nozomi glanced at Eli, she remained quiet with a faint smile,
"Lilith Faith might sounds like a lowly being at the first sight— but she has a heart of gold deep inside…then as what written in your guide books of this case, ladies and gentlemen, Leon is one of Lilith's adopted son, a human being…and it may look like Lilith abandon him but according to the story from Margaret Bathory in her interview with attorney Kousaka Honoka, Eve Faith in her interview with me, and Lilith Faith herself from her notebook, Lilith has never abandon him. She always watches him from afar, giving him her love through wealth that she transfers to his account from time to time, wealth that she earned from working in a lot of places— she hoped that he would use it to pay his debt that he created after he made a big mistake in his business…."
"I know it's a mistake to give love through money, and I know it's wrong for a parent to watch from afar instead of guiding their children slowly, but ladies and gentlemen— think about it… Have I mentioned that Lilith Faith isn't coming from our world? From what I've known about her kind…." Nozomi glanced to Eli, she smiled slightly,
"…most of them are very loyal, very grateful, very understanding, and very independent. Perhaps we should learn from them— not at the way they feast their body around, but at how they keep in heart for every single kindness that others do to them, turning a vengeance to an act of caring, always trying their best on their own, passionate about what they wish to do, and of course, willing to learn for the better…"
"It's true that Leon Faith is an example of our kind that we need to look at— a side where the heart of our kind blinded by the charming life of luxury, but we also have to remember that it just one side of us…For how many sins that Leon did to this place, controlling over the police, corrupting them slowly, turning this beautiful world into a holy ground for every tyrant, and for his cruelest sins— killing the one who cares about him most, his foster mother, Lilith Faith…."
And as Nozomi said it, a very loud thump heard from a direction, a few police officers began to move very quickly, the audiences turned their sight to the source of the voice.
"My Mother is not dead! She can't be dead that easily! You're the one that supposed to be dead! You're a bitch! You're just framing me for her death!" Leon yelled as he tried to get off the grip from specific police officer,
"I didn't kill her! I really didn't kill her! She must be still alive somewhere else! Besides! The money in my account was really coming from my own hard work, I managed my business well and it is going well!" Leon yelled.
"I'm sorry… Leon… but it is what the truth is, Lilith send the money to your loyal workers, then telling them to send it to your account— your business supposed to be dead, because you've never make an effort to take care of it. You didn't work hard… you're just fed from other's pity…" Umi said.
"Umi-chan… be a little gentle with your words…" Nozomi said.
"I'm sorry, Nozomi… but I just cannot give a mercy to him. I want him to see what he has done… what his pride has done to him. When I interviewed Clerk, he said, Leon never visit his place, never care about maintenance, and never wants to care about it… he always told the workers to just deal with it or get a new one somehow… Lilith was the one who often came by—and sometime it's Meg. Meg usually will just fix everything directly while Lilith listing the broken stuff to be replaced at other day… His profit isn't going well because he keeps hiring random peoples and sometime in unnecessary amount…" Umi replied.
"He also keeps making a lot of strange programs to his workers, wasting money on unnecessary upgrades, then hitting on random female workers even after he got married to his current wife— Calista… the one that he used as experiment…" Umi continued as she frowns at Leon.
"Objection!" Honoka shouted.
Umi turned to Honoka,
"According to my interview with Meg, it was her idea to use her as an experiment— because Leon wanted to have a strong wife… but its ended up to mess with her DNA because she was injected with too much blood and fed too much alpha heart which already gone wasted by now… Meg confirmed this to be true because she is the one who did the work… she even tormented her to test her power… Leon is just Meg's puppet in this case…" Honoka said.
"Objection!" Umi shouted.
"For whatever reason, using his wife as a tool for experiment is sick. He is still responsible that Calista wasn't able to act like a human being anymore at the end of her life time…"Umi continued.
"Objection!" Honoka shouted.
"Leon didn't know the fact that she is already dead— Meg placed her in ice cube with an excuse of trying to put her in cold sleep but it just doesn't work and couldn't be able to resurrect her…" Honoka said.
"Hold it!" Umi shouted.
"Honoka-dono, putting a Chimera to a cold sleep to resurrect her— you need to explain that further…" Umi said.
"Then I suppose you didn't get this information, Umi-dono… but according to my interview with Meg, she confessed that she was influenced by the formulas book that we found along with Lilith's note book. There's a formula saying that an alpha heart's system is actually copied from Demon's heart system, modified by the master in the past who introduced Chimeras to the human world..." Honoka replied.
"I think Lilith mentioned in the book too— the only successful attempt of Alpha chimeras is only on the werewolf type which made them able to grow exoskeleton which appears to be looks like an armored claws…"
"Exactly, Umi-dono… but let's put it simple, my point is, such kind of complexity is not known by Leon— because he was convinced by Lilith herself that he is an Alpha while in fact, he is just a reinforced Chimera just like the other "Alphas"…. Calista's death is all Meg's fault… not his.. he is a victim of that misfortune…" Honoka said.
"Hold it!" Umi said.
"So how can you explain about his method to corrupt the polices?" Umi said.
"That was also Meg— she is friend with the Lord of Vampire, their army concept is actually a bunch of ghouls that turned into Chimeras— because Ghouls will always be able to be controlled easily. The first living Chimera that they made is actually Maki-chan, because Lilith likes Maki-chan as her boss and they wanted to give the 'gift' to Maki-chan. They introduced her with the power by doing that gunshot incident… which is also Meg's idea…" Honoka said.
"Then explain about Kotori's case… if you have the information" Umi said.
"Kotori-chan's was actually a misunderstanding. It wasn't supposed to be that rough but since their workers just don't know how to be gentle, they ended up to did it like how you knew it… then Lilith knew it and she did what she did… the first idea of it is just to offer Kotori-chan the alliance so that when Leon able to take over the government, Kotori-chan's business is safely secured." Honoka replied.
Umi smiled,
"Which mean that he can still be sued with his act of trying to mess up with the town's peace and corrupt their system! He have a bigger plot for the previously mentioned case, he is still the mastermind of it! Besides, why would he take one suggestion if it's just not what he planned to do? He agreed to it so of course he is planning to do so!" Umi said.
"Objection!" Honoka shouted.
"Meg suggested it and I assume it will be very tricky, knowing the wit of hers— and she admits that she has been a puppeteer of him! She is the mastermind of the previous case and—…."
Before Honoka finished her words, Leon suddenly screamed in frustration— then he quickly ran out from the courtroom.
"Oh-crap! Secure him before he attacks Meg!" Umi shouted.
The polices quickly ran to catch him.
The audiences began to roar in panic as they watch it happen.
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Please quiet down!" The moderator said.
The audiences are still crowded. Tsubasa knock her judge hammer and they began to quiet down as they heard it.
"Now, we should just proceed with the next discussion— Detective Toujou, thank you for your speech…you may step down so that our officer can read the report about Margaret Bathory's crime…" the moderator said,
"Can I say something first?" Nozomi asked.
"Judges?" the moderator asked.
"Yes, of course…" Tsubasa said.
"Thank you, my majesty…" Nozomi gestured.
"To make it quick, ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, the defendants have their own reasons and dramas in their own action and life. We all are given with our own challenge and we should consider it as a reason to give mercy and guidance to them who're lost in their way… I hope that the ladies and gentlemen wise in giving opinions and voice because that will be what decide the fate of our defendants…"
The audiences smiled faintly at her,
"Thank you for your attention… farewell…"
Ayase's residence, night time;
Arisa is already in her room, Nozomi is cleaning up the dishes while Eli reading on the report of today's court. Eli smiled faintly,
"Nozomi…" Eli said.
"Yes, Ericchi?" Nozomi replied cutely, her voice is a lot lighter than before.
"You're doing great…" Eli said.
Nozomi giggled,
"Am I?" Nozomi asked as her face blushes slightly,
"I'm very proud of you, now I'm very sure I can take you to my world and show off to everyone…" Eli said playfully.
"Ah? Then you mean we can get married there for real?" Nozomi said.
"Of course, and it's a good chance to teach them about the new way as well… one classic wedding with just a sweet kiss and not to forget the decent fashion and decorations… ah… it's a little dreamy, isn't it?" Eli said.
Nozomi giggled again,
"Of course… to be standing on the altar with you already feels like a dream to me— especially when I'll get to wear a nice crown… hmm… maybe we should teach them how to take photos too?" Nozomi said.
"Uh…sure… I think some of them already knew it— but anyway, not everyone is that dorky… some are advanced enough because they live in human world for long enough…" Eli said.
"I see… I'm glad they did… I thought they all be like a caveman carrying wooden club and bones…" Nozomi said.
Eli giggled,
"There… but anyway, honey, do you have anything you want to do tonight? I really want to praise you… and your great speech…. Even though is still funny to see you there with cute wolf ears, tail, then red riding hood costume… totally off from everything else in the court." Eli said.
Nozomi smiled faintly, she finished her dishes and dry her hands with the towel next to her,
"The court entertainment is a big mess, they don't even know what the theme actually is— I think Kotori-chan is crying on the back..." Nozomi said as she approaches Eli.
"Guess the poor girl got her scripts screwed up by the error… but I hope she still get decent rating from the show…" Eli said as she placed the report on the table.
"She will— the errors have their own charm…." Nozomi sat on Eli's lap. She placed both of her hands on Eli's shoulder. Eli smiled at her,
"Somehow I know where this is going…" Eli said.
"You do? I might just want to comfort you today…" Nozomi said as she fix Eli's collar.
"Right…." Eli smiled teasingly.
Nozomi giggled,
"There's still so much days to pass, Ericchi… and your burden on your shoulder is going to be heavier and heavier…. The only thing I want to do right now is just to give you more support— I'm always be the support type than front-line… right?" Nozomi said.
"Not really…. You did become the front line at some points.." Eli smiled as she watches how Nozomi pressed her breast against hers.
"Let's forget those embarrassing days, ok? We should start to live like a real family… and since the case that has become my burden is already over…. Maybe….. we can…." Nozomi blushed.
"See? I know this is going to be here…" Eli chuckled.
Nozomi's blush getting redder, Eli started to laugh at her.
"Sheesh, Ericchi… stop teasing me from now on, ok?"
"Yes, yes honey… yes…" Eli said playfully.
"Ericchi!"
The Faith's estate,
Eve parked the ambulance at her garage. Then she pushed someone on a wheelchair,
"I can't believe it's over now…" Eve said as she parked the wheelchair to the hallway.
"….and I also still can't believe that anyone will trust Kotori to be still needing wheelchair, she just want to be pushed around by her friends…" Eve continued,
A playful giggles,
"Kotori-chan loves being pushed around… she always do…" a soft yet playful voice…
Eve sighed, then she crouched and placed her chin on that someone's lap.
"Say… is that really all you want to see? I'm fine if you want to move around a bit more…" Eve said.
She giggled,
"I'm sure that's it… but… there's one more thing that I really wonder…" she said.
"Just say it, sis…." Eve said.
Lilith giggled,
"What will you do next? You can't be spending your time in apothecary forever…" Lilith said.
"I enjoy that work— thank you… but if you really want me to do something else… what do you think I should do?" Eve asked.
Lilith turned to a capsule that was placed on top of the table neatly.
"That heart…. Have you tried to offer to the others?" Lilith asked.
"I did…. Honoka said she loves being an error since Kotori said so, Umi also said the same thing, except she said she like protecting others with that power… she kind of wish that she doesn't have to meditate at the time she becomes very tense though—and to be able to stop thinking about other's body when talking to them…." Eve replied,
"That's one thing to notice, what about the others?" Lilith asked,
"Maki said, she likes it to be what she was forced to be, except she wishes that she isn't weak against red dot and boxes… then Niko said, she want to enjoy her time as a living vampire for a moment…. Rin won't have any use of it, then Hanayo… she said she is going to practice her magic first before accepting anything like that… then Leon…. I just don't think how sad he will be to do it… he is just simply went insane when he knew he killed you instead of that person…." Eve replied.
"What about that person?" Lilith asked.
"Do you think she wants to be cured? I don't think so…" Eve said.
"Have you asked her?"
"Not yet, but I'm very sure she won't…." Eve replied.
"Then… why don't we try to make it interesting?" Lilith asked.
"Huh? What the hell you mean…" Eve said.
"Actually— maybe I shouldn't interfere… you have to start living on your own… for real…" Lilith said.
Eve gloomed slightly,
"You're right…. I can't keep you like this forever…" Eve said. Lilith chuckled,
"Just glad that I'm not decomposing…. But anyway, Eve… have you ever think of why demons and humans are different? Like… what kind of ingredients inside of them and why do they born in two different worlds?"
"Because the Lord said so…" Eve said.
"That's a very simple minded answer, Eve, be a little more playful, maybe like, because human eats rice and we eat them…" Lilith said.
"Goofball…" Eve smirked,
Lilith giggled,
"Creativity is coming from and to them who is brave to be different… despite any difference they have… it's going to be always impossible when we never tried, and it's going to be difficult if we never want to understand…" Lilith said.
"It's easy for you to say…" Eve said.
"But I've got through it, Eve…its tough, it's painful, but it's amusing… and I learn all those from watching someone struggling and working so hard to make a change… you know who it is…" Lilith said.
"Her…again…. you just can't stop that already…" Eve said.
"The time when I met her, the only thing in my mind was, baby, please don't be in love with someone else, please don't have somebody waiting for you… then as she turned to me, I was like, Oh-my god, look at that face, you look like my next mistake… and funny I keep on running to chase after that mistake— a mistake that will never be corrected."
"So you like her because of her face?"
"Part of it because she is hot, and it just can't be helped… I keep praying that it's just where the page starts, not at where the story line ends, my thoughts keep echoing her name, and I always want to see her again… and yet I keep holding my words back and leaving to soon as we parted away….she is really enchanting me…" Lilith said.
Eve sighed heavily.
"Love is a game, for us at least… just play on it… even though you'll always lose in it… it's still fun…" Lilith said again.
Eve sighed again and rolled her eyes,
"I'm not you…. I don't like to play in this…. love game…" Eve said.
Lilith giggled.
Eve peeked at her and smiled very sweetly at her,
"Goofball…" Eve said.
Lilith paused as her eyes look into Eve's sweetest smile.
"There…now… Eve…. Time is up, promise me you'll be a great girl, ok?"
"You don't need to stay that over and over… just be gone already… Lord is waiting…" Eve said.
Lilith giggled again before she took a deep breath.
"Dear Lord, I've witness my wish to come true— Let all my powers and abilities be inherited to my dearest twin sister, Eve then to one who have made me happy in my entire life, Elichika…"
Eve and Lilith close their eyes together…
"… Hear my voice, hear my prayer, take me back to you, M'lord…. I'm yours…." Lilith said as she began to dissolves into ashes then to the transparent airs. Eve's cheek fell to the wheel chair very gently,
Eve still smiling sweetly as she whispers…
"You just can't move on… can you?"
And as the Revenant of Justice waited for the voices to gather
Two worlds slowly began to unite their thoughts.
Creating a new way of life
Teaching and Learning from each other
For whatever fate will fall upon the corrupts
They're sure that this world is going to be a lot more peaceful than it was.
Even though the world is already perfect like how it always is...
-END-
Soo...ppl, extra chapter next... if you want, you can give opinion about Meg and Leon's fate. It would affect with what comes next in extra chapter. I'm sorry for all the mistakes I did in this FF.
then,lastly... Thanks for all the support and the encouragement, and your enthusiasm... I really love writing this because of you and your reaction!
CREDITS:
Love Live! (of course, its an LL fan fiction LOL)
Ace Attorney Series (for the awesome idea of circus ..I mean...courtroom...)
Taylor Swift and her awesome lyrics (Blank Space, Enchanted to be specific)
Wolf Among Us (for the idea of werewolves and some other creatures in 1)
Some other detectives novels (I'm learning their plot so I can keep things surprising and twisting)
Toukyou Ghoul (For the main concept of Succubus/Incubus which I tweaked here and there)
Bible (For a few characters concepts and a few understanding too)
Anthropology and Psychology Book (For the social concept)
Lianacm for requesting this fan fiction.
Next fan fiction : made from my conversation with Kurosea, NozoEli in Tech vs Magic AU!