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Previously on Scarlet Memories...
"Kurapika!" Kuroro called as he run toward the unconscious Kuruta. He knelt to reach Kurapika's neck so he could find out if he is still alive. When he found the pulse on his neck, a sign of relief escaped his mouth.
The pulse is still there. It's week but it's there and that is what important to him. He then looked over Kurapika's body to see if something is missing. But instead finding a missing part, he saw a change in the blonde's body. He frowned.
'A girl?' he asked to himself. Then, he remembered the sound of the crack he heard earlier. He looked at Kurapika's left ear and his suspicion was confirmed. The earring was gone.
'So, that sound was from the earring. It did not able to handle the force then,' he thought. 'Wait... Force? ... Could it be?' He looked at Kurapika's face wonderingly. 'Now, this is something,' he thought as a smile formed on his lips.
Reminiscence 05 – Flasback to Kuroro's arrival
'Could you really be the one I am looking for?' Kuroro asked himself as he was contemplating on the past occurrence before his arrival in the Kuruta village. He was now in a room, sitting on a chair beside the bed where Kurapika is sleeping.
'The companion that was mentioned in the prediction?' he continued on his contemplation.
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Flashback
To the land where the sun rises,
The companion you seek would be found.
The force of life is in your pages
To reveal the one that was bound.
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To complete the name that was yours,
This is the light that you would bear.
Behold the wings spread to the wind the blows,
But all the time you should beware.
o
A journey for another search would begin
And a test for you is waiting to be taken.
You would found a way to your origin
And a part of you would be awakened.
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Fear not of a sad memory
For in the past, the answers lie beneath.
Acceptance is the key,
As a path for a new beginning awaits.
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That was Kuroro's prediction he made for himself after being freed by the nen exorcist as he had decided to find more clues about the companion he is seeking using the ability he had stolen some months ago. After all, it was also that ability which gave him the reason to seek for a new companion.
And that was the clue form the prediction he got. Yes, it's a clue, a complicated and confusing one though. And Kuroro felt challenged upon seeing it, but kept his confidence. He loves challenge anyway.
In this kind of prediction, there are lots of things that should be thought carefully.
First, 'To the land where the sun rises.' It means the east, but there are lots of places that can be considered as east. But then he thought, if Greed Island, which is the east of York Shin, is not the east that was stated in the prediction, then what about the east of the world? That is still a huge place as a searching ground. But there is a certain place in the east that was on Kuroro's mind, it was a place that has something to do with his past.
So there he was, standing in front of the Kuruta village. He knows very well that the place was uninhabited for years but he continued with it anyway.
Next, 'The companion you seek would be found,' doesn't mean that the said companion is leaving there. It may be a visitor like him; a passer-by who lost its way (that's just ridiculous considering the way to get into the place, but chances are..) and the list goes on.
When Kuroro entered the village, the first thing he noticed are the dark spots all over the place. They must be from the huge fire that was set during the massacre. But the weird thing is, all the houses are still standing and whole. Shouldn't they have turned into ashes by the huge fire since they were made of woods?
'Could it be'…. He used gyo on his eyes to confirm his suspicion. Upon seeing the whole place with his gyo, Kuroro cannot help but to be amazed and his suspicion was right. The whole place was protected with nen and until now, the nen is still protecting it.
Kuroro looked around the place, entering each and every house to see what was there. The houses are typical just like any other ordinary houses, if not for the nen that was protecting them. Everything inside are still neat and clean as if there are actually people that maintaining them.
Since Kuroro had a lot of free time, he continued on looking inside the other houses. Just looking at those houses amuse him, and he was even more amused when he found an interesting room, or rather, something in that room that interests him: books, lots of different kinds of books.
After Kuroro found that room, he decided to stay there for a while, but then he felt a presence. 'Could it be the person he is looking for?' he thought as he opened the door to see who it was.
He cannot believe it. The one that was in front of him was Kurapika? Well, he was in the Kuruta village anyway. Then he smiled.
"It's you!" He said, not hiding his delight to see him. 'Could it be Kurapika the one I am looking for?'
End of flashback
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