Arc-1: Kimi ga Tame

Chapter 1: Retrospect

Author's note: I take the chapter's name from Ali Project's song title...So please forgive me, nano desu!

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With an absolute theory of her won mind, sharpening her eyes, focusing at the man she clearly stated a clever and direct principal;

"Yesterday, you hurried and said that you have some 'matters' to do in Tartarus and you didn't come back until the dark hour finishes. It does make sense that you going to the farthest floor, but what happened with the fingerprints on the shotgun?"

The man gasped. He stopped pulling the trigger of the brown, cold metal that almost killed the female 'detective'.

Trembling and freezing, he could not open his mouth as if sewed. Her theory is just right; there is no reason of debating it back. He stopped clutching the gun, as his hands gone limp of his shock.

"YOU are the culprit."

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Sunday, 7th January 2013

At the next day, the sun rises dazzlingly again. Yukari quickly stood from her bed, seemingly thinking, and sighed in relief.

Last night, the dark hour did not occur. Therefore, indeed, it was a lie after all. The sender must be joking about it.

Beside that, today is Sunday. She is free from the tiring works. With a happy feeling, she started to walk to the bathroom, yet as she takes her towel; Yukari notices a letter lying before her. Curious and slightly uneasy she lifts the paper and began to read it.

Greetings; I hope you have a pleasant morning today.

I am Philotes, Beatrice's mistress, and the one who is responsible to assist you and your friends in our new gameboard.

Our enemy shall commence their first move today; we cannot lose, now do we?

Do not worry; both of you are not alone. My pieces shall not be a bad one. They are trained, confident, and perfect. They should have been able to accompany you right now.

Dear miss Yukari Takeba, and droid Aigis, we shall send our move too for them. They are nothing but kittens to me.

The game will commence at 00:00.

At that time, the beloved one shall returned and assist you. So, no worries.

Best regards,

Philotes

Enraged by the letter, Yukari impetuously rip the paper into tiny thin pieces and stomped it, accidentally making banging noises. Aigis, who heard over the sound, running about to her and grabbed over her shoulders.

"Yukari-san, what's the matter?"

"It was the prank like yesterday! She--she-she is saying that the game will begin! That is BS!" Yukari angered that she said it under her breath. "I won't accept it! The sender must be send to police!"

"Yukari-san, please leave here and take your shower first; I'll handle it." Aigis informed. The brown-haired woman sighs and immediately walked approaching the bathroom.

Aigis noticed that the letter has ripped into pieces. With her work, she could solve the paper in a short time. She began to read the wrecked paper with her robotic scans.

"The beloved one shall resurrect and the game will commence…."

The droid began to notice the word at the seventh line. The beloved ones….Does that mean?

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Port Island Station, 07.45. A.M.

Her finger played briskly at the keyboard of her laptop, as she thinks of the teacher's anger if she did not do the homework. Time is as precious as ten tones of gold, that what she always taught by her rich father.

Yet, she had to waste her minutes for yelling at the stranger who casually touched her shoulder, as if they ever known each other.

"Hey! Watch your hand, silly!" Glared her, loudly. "Do you know who are you speaking into?"

She reveals her face from a hat that has been her mask since then, making a beauty appears before the man who approached her.

Katsumi Hideo, sixteen. She is a new student council president in Gekkoukan High School, a beauty and a preserved woman, yet she acted so bossy before the society, something that often angered her staffs.

"Oh, Miss! I'm sorry; I didn't intend to do something like that to you." A soft voice escaped from the mouth of the stranger. It was a highly similar voice to us, if you ever heard it.

"Hee? So that's just your reply!? "Katsumi began to stood, her feet staggered. "You owe me apologize, Mister!"

"Miss, you should be embarrassed by that demeanor." The man said sharply.

Katsumi gotten a little embarrassed as people starts gazed at her. She sits back at the bench, typing again.

"….So, what do you need?" She quickly covered her face with hat that she can hide her red face.

The man chuckled at her sarcastically. "Well then, I'm very new at here, so I don't know the direction in this town. Unfortunately, I'm searching for my friend…."he paused, to see the girl's agreement. Katsumi stopped typing to think of her decisions.

If I take him out, maybe Sumiko and Akio Nii-san will have me spotted somewhere.

However, if I denied it, well…Maybe he is ready to RAPE me!

Thinking for a minute, she began to type again. The stranger is still standing beside him, waiting for an answer. Tired, Katsumi nodded as an agreement….Or else that she did not waste her time.

"Well then, it is said that there's a newly-built apartment here….It is said that my friend lived there! Can you, minimally, tell me where it is?" He pleads.

"….Just get outta this station, go past that abandoned dorm, the Gekkoukan University, and you'll find it somewhere." She informed lazily.

"You're so helping Miss! You have my gratitude!" The man ended the conversation by bowing beside her.

"Huh, you still owe me apologize, and you decided to redeem it with your gratitude. Never mind, you're welcome- hey, tell me your name!" Katsumi said back.

"Oh, my name is Minato Arisato…I hope we can meet again!" The man, who his name revealed to be Minato, walked away and waved her a goodbye. Katsumi breathes a sigh of relief and finally continue typing. Ignorant is bliss, right?

Meanwhile, Minato stopped his step and began to look curiously on Katsumi.

Is she the new piece? How interesting. He whispered with a smirk. The atmosphere entire him seems darkened…

Indeed that he is one of the game players.

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The orange flash of sunset shines dazzlingly over the town. It was calming and beautiful.

However, will it be this peaceful anymore? These days will be never the same, maybe. It has commenced the game will begin at 00:00—possibly dark hour.

For Yukari, it means that it was despair in retrospect. It was as if no use for her to fight dark hour. There is no use for her to fight Nyx. She will appear when she is ready nor she is not, and the world will come to its end.

It is useless for Minato too, right?

As she heard a knock in her feet, Yukari knocked back to her senses. All of sudden, she is standing in Nagasaki shrine, all alone…..Or maybe not? Except Yukari, there is still one person left.

A fair-skinned young woman with a stunning beauty settled in one of the bench. Her black hair parted with the wind's breeze. She was looked more like a doll than a normal human was, regarding her dull, lightless eyes was. Rather than alone, Yukari prefer to sit along with her, even they will not exchange any words.

Curious, she began to look over her entire body. She wears an unusual medieval black dress, rather than a more modern dress.

"…Good afternoon," Yukari greeted politely, "What is your name?" Blue pair of eyes turned. She looked pale and a deep grief seen from her seemingly-made-from-porcelain face.

"….My name?" The blackhead smiled weakly.

"…Yes, your name. Let us introduce ourselves now, do we?" Yukari grinned cheerfully. "I'm in a bad mood now, so maybe it's better to have someone to share with."

The woman does not reply, but she just looked away from Yukari, much to the brown-haired woman's dismay. Sighing, Yukari stood from the bench and stepping away from her.

"….I, as a doll never had a name."

The woman finally speaks. Nevertheless, with that rare reply, it makes Yukari curious and suddenly dragged back to the bench.

"Hey, what in the world are you? Every human absolutely have their name!" Yukari glared to the woman.

"….Ever since I loses this game…..I was cursed." The woman has given the absolute answer, but it made Yukari more surprised. How did she know this? She thought.

"I am weak….He was more powerful than me. He consumed my power, everything….Now, all I have to do is die, am I?"

Now, all I have to do is dying, am I?

In instant, the word is stuck in my head.

The woman…She cannot be….

"…Nyx?"

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The time has moving forward, quickly to 23.45.

Aigis closed the photo album she had read since afternoon. For some reason, she could not stop reading the book. And it is because she knows; the dark hour will come soon.

All she could do is letting the fate chose her own life. Isn't that obvious? If she does not fight the dark hour back, some risky circumstances will approach her soon.

It was helpless. Moreover, the time is now 23.56.

"It's almost midnight," She whispered as she stepped away from the bed, immediately removed her clothes which revealed her droid body.

"I must get Yukari-san back, or else she will be in danger." She said.

"But I shall accompany you."

Aigis suddenly heard a footstep behind her. It was definitely that voice. The voice, which she misses dearly…. Those marks make her desired to turn to her backside. Navy hair, gray coat….It was….Him.

"Minato-san…Good…Night…"Aigis said, subsided.

"Nice to see you again, Aigis." Minato smiled softly. "Now, shall we begin?"

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23.57…

23.58…

23.59…

00:00.

The people suddenly turned into coffins.

Blood shed everywhere on the street.

The moon is no longer shining pale as pearl; but it was a shivering green.

It is more terrifying when the Gekkoukan High School's look also changed…. The building suddenly moved by itself, making its own bizarre shape by moving the rooftop into a bigger and taller building.

Yukari, whom she is amazed, terrified, grieved by this obviousness in front of her own eyes, freezing in the place while she is stomped by the tower's shadow.

Lamented, she entered the tower; even her weapon now is just a metal pipe.

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"Impossible…Nyx is defeated?"

Minato nodded at the droid. He just explained the cause why he can back to the world without breaking the seal. Beside that he was resurrected by Elizabeth, there is another reason that he came back here. Nyx, the most powerful being in universe, defeated. Regarding this problem, she is out of the game, and turned human as the 'punishment; from now on, she must have her own way to keep her responsibilities, so that is the cause becoming a human is a punishment.

"Yes. It seems that this enemy is very powerful…We can't let our guard down, or else our life will be in danger." He said, slightly warning.

"I'm sure if we lend our hands together, he can be defeated with our own hands." Aigis steadied.

Minato nodded at the gynoid. He desired to finish this foolish game as fast as possible, too….Because what he wishes for is a peaceful humanity.

"Let's take down these shadows first; then we head to Tartarus, understand?"

"Understood." Aigis said steadily.

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With an extreme rage, she slaughtered the Shadows who always crawled down the floor like a worthless piece of junk. Some black blotch smeared her clothes, but she does not care. She only wanted to get out of this cursed time as fast as possible!

Yukari was in despair. Why did this have to happen? Which that sentence simply stuck in her head ever since her old school become this creepy tower.

So enraged, saddened that she did not look over the path. She stumbled disgracefully to the ground; her pipe thrown quite far from her location. With the damage still aching over her elbow, she looked above her. She surrounded. However, instead of panicking, she grinned proudly, knowing that this time she will definitely die. If she dies, then she does not have to fight the dark hour, and she will meet her father and Minato in heaven! She is now ready, closing her eyes that she will not feel the pain.

Nevertheless, nothing happened. There is no sound of her ripped skin. There is no sound of her crunching bone.

Instead, a black-haired girl with a Gothic Lolita fashioned dress is the one who faced her. Meanwhile, on the girl's back however, the shadows crawled quickly, seemingly to avoid her.

"Long time no see, Yukari-san," The girl giggled naughtily, "You've gotten a little mature by now."

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I'm back!! Yay! Sorry for the slowness of mine, but yeah, the exams are coming approximately 117 days left and I must study!! There is no much time left people! I don't want to be a fool, how dare you making Yuri-chan looked stupid?! Nyaa, besides that, I make some old character's appearance here…The human version of Nyx (she looked so weak! HAH! –Stabbed to death-) and that girl….Everyone who loves a trick, guess who that Gothic girl is! Was that Chidori or someone, hmm?

Hope we'll meet again~! R&R pleaase~!