CHAPTER 28
A sudden clap of thunder made Kagami jump violently in her bed. The massive noise abruptly awoke her from her slumber and she growled to herself in frustration. She never liked to be awakened by such blunt noises and assumed a storm was on its way to the Aku District as she tossed in Miyakawa's bed. The bed suddenly felt harder and colder but she didn't care and just wanted to fall asleep again. She suddenly felt a cold drop of water strike her face, followed by another, and then another. Before she knew it, hundreds of tiny drops began to strike her face as she could hear the large rainstorm arrive.
Kagami slowly lifted her eyes and felt the cold water continue to splash her face until her settings cleared and she panicked. She realized she was resting on a cold wooden bench attached to a stone brick wall. A small window covered by iron bars was slowly letting the raindrops fall into the room and land on her, making Kagami sit up and when she saw where she was, she wanted to scream. The twin-tailed girl was in a dungeon that appeared to be from the medieval era as the stone walls, iron bars, and chains with some rusted shackles attached to them hanging from the walls illustrated.
She could feel the heat and humidity from the dank and moldy chamber constrict her sinuses and make it hard to breathe as flies zipped past her head while she tried to make sense of how she ended up here. The last thing she remembered was dancing with Miyakawa at Teasers, they went back to her apartment, Miyakawa injected a black drug into her body that she said was black tar heroin, and then nothing.
Kagami looked to her left and couldn't hold it in anymore. She screamed loudly when she saw a dead and decomposing human body resting on the floor with a severed arm. The arm was still in a shackle attached to a chain above the body but that wasn't the worst part. Aside from the rotting flesh and flies swarming around the decayed head, Kagami saw the entire torso of the body was open and large rats had turned it into their nest and were feasting on the innards. She kept screaming as she dashed for the iron door of her prison cell and started shaking the bars.
"Let me out! Let me out! Let me out!" She screamed over and over again. "Can anybody hear me?! Get me the fuck out of here now!"
As the twin-tailed girl continued her violent and desperate attempts to free herself from her macabre cell, the rusted bolts on the prison door finally broke off and the massive iron door fell. Kagami was in the midst of her panic attack and didn't know the door was pulling her down with it until it was too late. The metal door landed on the brick floor with a mighty crash but Kagami wasted no time in making her escape.
She dashed down a long corridor with wooden torches hanging from the stone brick wall on her left while more prison cell doors lined the wall to her right. As she panted and ran with desperate vigor, skeleton arms reached out through the bars and tried to grab Kagami. Moans and groans of indescribable agony followed from the pitch darkness of the cells while Kagami continued to run while trying to avoid their deathly grips and attempts at snatching her. Some of the skeletal arms were still wrapped in shards of clothing while others still had decomposing flesh on them and Kagami neared a stone staircase that would take her up to a wooden door and hopefully salvation.
Kagami dashed up the stairs and grabbed hold of the iron doorknob and tried to push it down but her heart sped up when she found the door to be locked. In the midst of the groaning from the skeletal prisoners behind her, she could hear the pitter patter of thousands of little feet rushing towards her and Kagami turned her head. She screamed again when she saw tens of thousands of rats with burning red eyes rushing down the dark corridor with her in their sights.
As they began to make their way up the stairs, Kagami kept screaming and pounding on the door with all her might until the knob turned on its own and she pushed the door open. It didn't matter to Kagami that she stepped out onto a balcony in a massive thunderstorm and instantly became drenched. She quickly spun and saw the thousands of dirty animals jump for her bearing their rotten yellow fangs until she slammed the door shut. The angry squeaks of the enraged animals could be heard through the door but began to fade until they were gone and Kagami was alone on the balcony.
Kagami turned and faced her new setting and saw she was standing on the stone balcony in the middle of the torrential downpour and bolts of lightning crossed the sky, followed by deafening claps of thunder. She stared out into the blackened landscape before her and saw thousands of burning lights below her like a city. Kagami discovered she was standing on the balcony of the Notre Dame Church in Paris as the familiar structure clicked in her mind from history courses in school. She glanced around as she shivered in the rainstorm and saw gargoyle statues lining the balcony's edge. Feeling a massive chill run down her spine from the cold, another run ran down her back when she heard a new and disturbing sound.
"Kagami…" A voice whispered her name in the midst of the storm.
The frightened girl looked around anxiously for the source of the noise but she was still alone on the balcony with the gargoyles.
"Over here, baby." Another voice, only female this time whispered and Kagami saw two gargoyles moving their heads slightly as they watched the activity below.
Kagami slowly approached them in hopes of an explanation of what was happening around her and when the two gargoyles turned their heads, she saw two familiar faces. She uttered their names through her freezing voice. "Ryuji…? Yuka…?"
The two gargoyles had demon bodies with wings and demon faces with features that matched Kagami's two evil friends. The female gargoyle giggled and replied, "In the flesh, sweetheart. Well, more or less."
"What's happening here, Yuka?!" Kagami cried.
"It's the revolution, my dear. The world around us is burning and we will be victorious." Miyakawa replied with a grin.
"You better hurry, Kagami. Your family is in real trouble." Ryuji replied. "The enemies of your Miko world have your parents and will execute them soon."
Kagami gasped while covering her mouth with her hands. "Where are they?! Tell me where they are!"
Before either of her gargoyle friends could reply, another deafening noise rattled Kagami's eardrums. The massive bells of the Notre Dame Church banged and their rings echoed all across the drenched city. The bells tolled three times and the two gargoyles looked at each other and started laughing.
"It's 3 A.M., Yuka, and you know what that means." Ryuji said with a creepy smile.
Miyakawa was reaping in the most pleasure from this news as she laughed. "Yes, dear cousin, I do. It's the demonic witching hour, which means it's our time to take flight and wreak havoc on the innocent. Come Ryuji, let's take flight and mock the Holy Trinity."
As the two gargoyles began to spread their wings, Kagami stopped them. "Wait, where are you guys going?! You need to tell me where my family is!"
Miyakawa sighed. "Oh Kagami, we talked about this last night. If you want to save your family, you must kill the pink-haired one. Good luck to you, baby."
The two stone statues spread their wings and began to flap them. Kagami shielded her eyes from the gravel and dirt they were kicking up until the two demons took flight and gained altitude. As they got higher and higher, Kagami still needed further instruction on how to find her family before they would be executed. She still had no idea where she was but that detail was considered trivial now that she knew her parents about to die.
"Wait! What do I do?!" Kagami called as she cried.
"Even the most perilous of quests begin with simply retracing your steps, my baby!" Miyakawa's voice called and the two gargoyles disappeared into the raining sky.
Kagami tried to think. She looked around the balcony and the only way she could get down was through the same door she just came through. Of course, an army of demonic rats was waiting for her on the other side. Did Miyakawa instruct Kagami to go back through that same door? It couldn't be that simple. Kagami looked over the ledge of the balcony and she could've jumped, but it would be at least a one hundred story plummet into darkness. She had to go back through the door.
The twin-tailed girl gulped and began to tiptoe back to the door as she continued to shiver and tremble from the freezing rain drenching her. She grasped the door handle and gulped. As she slowly opened it, another bolt of lightning streaked across the sky and was abruptly followed by another thunder clap, making Kagami scream and slam the door shut again. She tried to calm herself by breathing deeply until she gulped again and slowly opened the door, expecting to be mauled by the infinite vile rodents.
As soon as Kagami opened the door, the entire setting that once stood on the other side had changed. To her astonishment, the dungeon she just escaped from was gone. The only thing before her was a spiraling staircase with more torches held to the walls that illuminated the vertical climb. Desperate to get out of the cold, Kagami quickly stormed into the shelter and closed the door behind her. She grabbed one of the wooden torches and began ascending the staircase. It once again was deafly quiet aside from her steps echoing loudly across the tubular structure she was climbing up. She passed more torches burning in their iron holders attached to the stone brick walls and kept walking upward still trying to figure out if she was truly in Paris and if so, what did Miyakawa mean when she said that it was the revolution? Was it the French Revolution? Had Kagami truly traveled back more than two hundred years ago?
As Kagami made it her first quarter of the way, the unexpected began to happen. The inside of the stone structure began to rumble like an earthquake and she quickly knelt to knees to remain balanced. She could suddenly hear cackling laughs in the darkness and the stone walls surrounding her began to shift. Kagami screamed her lungs dry when hundreds of giant eyeballs opened and stared at her, all with iris's that glowed red with black veins and some that formed into the number 666. The wooden door at the bottom level suddenly blew into splinters and a violent freezing wind rushed in and chilled her to the core.
As the giant eyes continued to stare at her, she heard an endless shrieking at the bottom level and suddenly, millions of cockroaches began rushing into tubular structure and began flooding it. It was only a matter of time until the insects would reach Kagami, which prompted her to start running and panicking again. The structure continued to shake and the cackling laughs continued as the eyeballs staring at Kagami now seemed to form perfect horizontal lines across the middle of the eyes and the eyeballs opened like mouths, revealing thousands of razor teeth inside with forked tongues made of chains.
The strangest of creatures began fluttering out of the eyeballs turned fang-filled mouths. Skulls with bat wings fluttered out while laughing a high-pitch chuckle at Kagami. They were followed by smaller eyeballs using fishtails attached to their backs to fly. Octopus tentacles also emerged from the open mouths and tried to pursue Kagami as she kept running and screaming up the seemingly endless staircase.
As she kept running up the staircase, the structure holding her up that she dashed on also began to mutate. The staircase turned from a solid stone structure into a twisted thorn bush branch, the thorns serving as unstable steps that cracked every time Kagami's foot struck one. Some fell away when she kicked off one to the next, only increasing her panic and fear that at any second she would fall into the pit of cockroaches that still pursued her. Her sweat drenched her face and clothing as to her relief she approached the top of the staircase and the wooden door. The cockroaches continued to pour into the tubular structure and ascend the walls and approach her.
She finally arrived at the door and turned the knob and pushed with all her might. To her blast of sensational relief, the door quickly swung open and she tore into the next room and slammed the door behind her just as she felt one of the cockroaches land on her shoulder. Still screaming her lungs out, she grabbed it, threw it to the floor, and squashed it underneath her boot onto a luxurious red velvet carpet. When she removed her boot, she saw the dead insect begin to smoke until it suddenly burst into flames and burned into ashes that quickly scattered into thin air.
Kagami was free from yet another horrifying scene and as she continued to shake and tremble while crying from the post-traumatic fear, she was finally able to take a deep breath and be able to truly absorb her surroundings. It was nothing short of lavishing and beautiful, a complete polar opposite of the horrors she had escaped from. She stood in a very spacious corridor with walls made of glistening marble and large portraits of former leaders and military generals draped in red velvet curtains with gold trim. Vases decorated with jewels also stood on stone pillars. The floor's tile was also reflecting the diamond chandeliers hanging from the ceiling while another red velvet carpet also covered the middle of the floor.
Still hell-bent on finding her parents, Kagami was torn on which direction to go. She suddenly heard voices coming from a room down one direction of the corridor and it was also complemented by a violin playing a relaxing song. It was an ominous feeling considering where Kagami had just come from and she had a sinking feeling she was about to be in for more shock and even horror but for now those voices were the only signs of life so she decided to investigate. As she walked down the lavishing corridor, something abruptly caught her eyes hanging from the wall.
She spotted a portrait of her father in a king's dazzling wardrobe. Right next to Tadao Hiiragi's image was one of Miki Hiiragi, dressed as a queen and was also very stunning in her dress and natural looks. Right below Tadao's portrait however was a gold plaque with the name "Louis XVI of France" and directly under Miki's image was another sparkling plaque that stated "Marie Antoinette" as her name. Kagami was not only more confused, but she was scared now more than ever. These two names belonged to the last two monarchs of France before they were executed by guillotine in the year 1793 during the French Revolution. She remembered this from Nanako Kuroi's class.
Kagami dashed forward until she entered an even more stunning dining room where she saw seven people at a very lengthy dinner table. As Kagami approached them, she was surprised to see Yuka Miyakawa standing at the head of the table with a goblet in her hand and she was dressed in a tuxedo, a wardrobe that somehow didn't seem appropriate for the end of the 18th Century. As Kagami approached, she gulped when she saw a violin hovering in thin air and playing the tunes. Crosses and crucifixes also hung on the walls all around them but they dangled upside-down.
Miyakawa looked up from her dinner guests and smiled at Kagami. "Ah, the guest of honor has arrived. Please have a seat and join us for dinner, Kagami."
It was when Kagami saw Miyakawa's dinner guests that she realized she may have died and was sent to Hell. To Miyakawa's right sat Inori and Tsukasa Hiiragi. Inori's face was beaten to a bloody pulp with two black eyes, a bruised and bloodied lip, and marks of physical abuse all around her. Her top was also torn and stained around her breasts. Tsukasa's condition however was what made Kagami shriek. Her little sister's face was painted white with black eye shadow that covered her eye sockets and her cheeks had a red swirling pattern also painted on them. Her mouth was also covered by a red ball gag and Tsukasa was crying her eyes out. Her left bicep was also wrapped in a bandage that had a large red spot of fresh blood on it.
Kagami dashed to her little sister and removed the gag from her mouth and hugged her tightly while also crying. "Tsukasa…good god…what happened to you?!"
"Sis…why did you fail me? Why didn't you protect me?" Tsukasa whimpered, prompting Kagami to discontinue her hug and look into her sister's weeping eyes. "Why did you let Miyakawa-san do all those horrible things to me? And then you…scarred me for life…personally. Why, Kagami, why?"
"Tsukasa, I…I…" Kagami stuttered through her tears until she turned back to Miyakawa. "Why are you here, Yuka?! I just saw you outside! And why did you do this to her?!"
Miyakawa giggled. "I believe your late sister once referred to me as a shape shifter…and that's exactly what I am. I come in many different forms. Sometimes I'm the girl who you do drugs with and have sex with. Sometimes I'm just the main ingredient to your worst nightmare…but most of all, I am the cause of everything that is evil in the world…"
Before Kagami could reply, Inori added her weakened voice.
"Kagami…why did you betray me like that? Why did you deceive me? You said you needed my help. I wanted to help you…but you led me into that trap. Why, Kagami, why?" Inori groaned in agony.
"Inori…I didn't do anything!" Kagami cried and turned her attention to Miyakawa, who took a sip from her goblet. "Yuka! What did you do to them?!"
Miyakawa shrugged. "Believe it or not, Kagami, I didn't do any of this. You did."
Kagami retorted with a broken and perplexed look.
"I did however do this to your other friends, whom you haven't said hello to yet which I find very rude for such a civilized setting we're in." Miyakawa scolded and allowed Kagami to see the two other dinner guests.
Kagami looked and saw the long blue-hair of Konata Izumi with her face resting on the table and the orange hair of Ayano Minegishi also resting and covering its owner's head. The twin-tailed Hiiragi screamed once again when she saw a large medieval axe was buried into the back of Ayano's head and her body was pale and lifeless.
Kagami sprinted over and could see her friend was dead from the axe and she could only scream and cry as she moved to Konata. She only had to shake Konata twice until the short girl's body shifted and revealed a slash in her neck that went as deep as the back of her neck and it was still oozing blood. Konata too was dead and bleeding at the dinner table. The twin-tailed Hiiragi screamed again when she saw how deep Konata's throat was cut and she held her hand over her mouth to stop herself from vomiting.
"Now, now, Kagami, throwing up at a dinner party…that isn't very classy for a girl like you." Miyakawa said with a giggle and drank a little more from her silver goblet.
"You…you did this to them! I should kill you!" Kagami screamed at Yuka.
"I was only carrying out my orders, sweetheart. From the High Executioner." Miyakawa replied. "If you have a grievance with it perhaps you should talk to the executioner yourself, but I would hurry if I were you. The High Executioner is about to behead the former king and his wife."
Kagami suddenly remembered the portraits in the corridor. Her mother and father. "Where are they?!" She cried.
Yuka made a gesture with her arm holding the goblet to one of the windows. Kagami dashed to the window and saw a new setting before her eyes. Below her in the courtyard of the church was a large gathering of people dressed in hooded cloaks holding torches, pitchforks, and scythes. They were gathered around a large platform with two guillotine structures and Kagami could see a person standing next to them dressed in a black cloak with a black mask concealing their identity and Kagami assumed this person was the executioner. What made Kagami scream yet again was when she saw her mother and father struggling with their captors as they pushed them up the stairs on the platform and to the guillotines.
Kagami disregarded everyone and everything bizarre in the dining room and dashed out as Miyakawa began laughing and she took another sip from her goblet, allowing a red liquid to drip over the side of her mouth. Kagami ran strong and hard and eventually made it outside and into the night where the ghastly rainstorm had stopped and she was now in a scene of twisted horrors.
Thousands of skeletons littered the ground she ran on, some with swords imbedded in ribcages while wooden spikes seemed to have sprouted up from under the ground and also held skulls and other bones. The night sky above her had cleared and she could see the glowing moon, which also had shadows of a skull around it with bat wings. The clouds above also formed into faces of demonic creatures as Kagami continued to press forward and into the crowd of cloaked beings. She screamed her parents names, drawing attention to herself and Kagami finally collided with one of the cloaked figures and she fell to the ground.
When Kagami looked up at the figure that made her fall, she once again cried in fright. The hood fell off, revealing the head of a goat with long, twisted horns. As Kagami yelled, another cloaked figure seized her and Kagami looked into the black eyes of a human body with a pig's head with rotting tusks and moldy warts all across its face. The two creatures dragged the thrashing Kagami up the platform, catching her parents' attention and they also added their screams of sorrow to the mix.
They tried to calm Kagami down and Miki even begged the guards for them to kill her and Tadao instead of their daughter but the animal guards heeded the executioner's orders. Kagami was tied to a board and slid underneath the guillotine and she looked up at the massive and shining blade towering above her waiting to fall onto her neck. Her tears drenched her face as she shook her head and cried for mercy at the executioner, who suddenly began to laugh a familiar cackle.
"We all have to die someday, Kagami!" The executioner laughed and abruptly removed the black mask hiding the identity.
Kagami screamed yet again when she saw her executioner was Miyuki Takara with a sinister look upon her face while she laughed and gripped the release pin on the guillotine that would make the blade fall. Kagami called her name one last time in a desperate attempt to gain pity from her but it was no use. With a final smile and wink, Miyuki pulled the pin and Kagami looked up and saw the silver blade plummet for her neck. She only heard an avalanche of sinister laughing and her parents screaming her name until the blade made contact with her soft flesh and opened it, sending a painful and blunt shockwave throughout Kagami's entire body.
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Sounding another scream of terror, Kagami Hiiragi jumped and jolted awake from her nightmare and kept crying. Once again drenched in sweat and trembling uncontrollably, Kagami searched her settings and found she was in Miyakawa's bed and she nearly shrieked when she discovered someone was in it with her and was also awakened by her screams. It was Miyakawa herself and she looked up at the crying Kagami.
"Kagami, what's wrong? What's going on?" She asked quickly, as if Miyakawa herself was expecting company and Kagami heard a noise or saw something.
"Yuka…I had another nightmare!" Kagami cried.
Hearing this made Miyakawa smile again. She slowly sat up and hugged Kagami gently and the crying Hiiragi wasted no time in burying her face in Miyakawa's bosom and sobbed uncontrollably. Miyakawa began stroking Kagami's long hair while also patting her back and shushed her gently.
"There, there, baby. It was only a dream." She said with a conniving smile. "Now tell me, what was it about?"
"I…I was in this dungeon…and then I was in a castle being chased by all these horrible things and then…" Kagami suddenly paused.
Miyakawa stopped rubbing Kagami's head and looked down at her after the pause went on for too long. Kagami had nothing but utter rage and boiling hatred in her eyes and her grinding teeth also showed it. The depraved sociopath that was Kagami's string puller grinned slightly and believed that her drug was once again taking its malicious toll on Kagami. She started petting her again and added more.
"Did you see someone familiar in your nightmare?" Miyakawa asked.
"I saw you…and what you did to my friends…" Kagami hissed, making Miyakawa look up with a face that illustrated genuine fear.
Before she could react, Kagami's hand latched onto her throat and Miyakawa shrieked when Kagami forced her back onto the bed and the enraged girl planted herself on top of her. Kagami latched onto Miyakawa's throat with her other hand and began to slowly constrict her of air and she began to thrash under Kagami's weight. Miyakawa could see the redness in Kagami's eyes and the black blood-shot veins within the whites. She knew her life was now in danger as Kagami squeezed tighter and tighter.
"You killed my friends…I'm going to kill you…" Kagami hissed quickly as she strangled Miyakawa.
Miyakawa knew that her drug caused immense blind fury but she had no idea it would be so intense that it would be able to wipe even Kagami's memories of her clean in the blink of an eye. She kicked and thrashed and tried to detach Kagami's vice-like grip off her neck but it was no good. The drugs had full control of Kagami and she was an endless hurricane of uncontrollable hate and rage. As Miyakawa felt herself losing consciousness, she tried one final attempt at getting Kagami off her and she hoped that this person was also in Kagami's nightmare.
"The pink-haired one…she was there…too…!" Miyakawa choked as her lips started to change color.
The image of Miyuki Takara playing the role of Kagami's executioner suddenly reappeared in her mind and Kagami slowly let go of Miyakawa. She wasted no time in sucking in more precious oxygen but Kagami still had her hand around her neck. The twin-tailed girl's face now showed a look of curiosity in the sea of burning contempt that was her two eyes.
"How the fuck did you know that, Yuka?" Kagami snarled with a sinister frown.
"You…you talked about her…last night." Miyakawa coughed. "I told you…to teach her a lesson. You need to find her, Kagami. She's the one who is your enemy and needs to be dealt with. Break through her perfect little bubble of perfection as you put it last night and fuck her up. I'll help you…"
With Yuka's voice stoking more flames, Kagami released Miyakawa completely. Miyakawa quickly sat up and coughed repeatedly while holding her throbbing throat. The twin-tailed girl was calmed by Miyakawa's reassurance for now but Kagami was still high as the stars and the drugs made her believe the entire world was conspiring against her. Miyakawa knew this as fact and kept talking to Kagami while rubbing her neck.
"Listen to me, Kagami, I'm the only one you can trust. Everyone else is trying to take you away from your drugs as I've said before. Remember that intervention they tricked you into going. Your friends lied and deceived you." Miyakawa said. "Please, baby, let's go to this Takara bitch's house tonight and you can show her a thing or two. Get even with her. Skin that bitch alive!"
Kagami held her glare at Miyakawa until she huffed and climbed out of bed. Miyakawa knew Kagami was too high on the drugs and rage to fall back asleep and because of the blind fury involved, Miyakawa also got up with the time reading four o'clock in the morning for fear of Kagami coming back and killing her in her sleep. Because Miyakawa's degeneracy knew no bounds, she was immensely aroused by the idea of death befalling her and it only made her want to keep Kagami for herself even more.
Keeping Kagami both hooked on the Satan's Blood drug and calm at the same time proved to be a herculean task for Miyakawa but she was able to do so by reminding Kagami that Miyuki Takara was the true enemy that needed to be dealt with. By the time dusk had come once again, Kagami was like a rabid dog on a leash begging to be let off and tear its target to pieces. As Miyakawa allowed Kagami to lead the way to the upscale neighborhood, Miyuki herself, innocent to the dangers approaching her, sat complacently on a long couch in the spacious living room reading a book.
Listening to the crickets outside added to the tranquil atmosphere of her reading until she heard the garage door opening. Her father had arrived home from work but was waiting to pick her mother up for their planned dinner reservations. Yukari Takara soon came downstairs and walked past her daughter.
"Okay we're leaving now, dear." She said happily. "We'll be home late so take care of the house for us."
Miyuki looked up from her book at her mother dressed in an expensive dress with diamond earrings and necklace complementing the wardrobe. Miyuki smiled and replied, "Okay, mother, I will. Have a pleasant dinner."
Yukari left the house and Miyuki was able to hear the garage door close again and the car drive away, allowing the crickets to continue their uninterrupted serenade while fireflies added a light show to the night. As Miyuki's ongoing reading continued, she began to feel sleepy from the book and decided to make a cup of tea to allow herself to keep going. As she heated the drink in the microwave, she heard a sudden knock on her front door.
She wasn't expecting company, especially at this hour so was cautious as she approached the door and looked through the peephole. She was able to see the black-colored hair of Kagami Hiiragi's pigtails, as well as her whitening flesh from malnutrition and greenish black ovals around her eyes. Miyuki wasted no time in unlocking the door and she ripped it open.
"Kagami-san?! What are you doing here and at this hour?! Are you okay? Do you need help?" Miyuki lambasted Kagami with the endless questions.
Silence was Kagami's first response until her right eye began twitching and it was then that Miyuki noticed the reddish iris's and black veins in her eyes. Kagami finally opened her mouth and said, "May I come in, please? I would like to talk about something."
To Miyuki this seemed to be a good sign on the surface. Because the pink-haired girl was who she was, she automatically assumed the best case scenario and believed that Kagami had seen the error of her ways. Maybe she was here to ask for help in making amends with everyone. It was this optimistic thinking that prompted Miyuki to open the door further and allow Kagami to enter her home. Once she was in, Miyuki locked it again, not knowing that she might as well be locking her own prison door closed.
Miyuki showed her hospitable side to her friend and guided her into the living room and sat her down on a comfortable recliner. The pink-haired girl took a seat on the large couch next to her and examined Kagami over before she started talking again. "Kagami-san, are you okay? May I get you anything?"
Kagami stared into space with her bizarre eyes and slowly shook her head. "No thank you, Miyuki."
"Then please tell me what you want to talk about. Is it about the intervention?" Miyuki abruptly replied.
Still staring into space, Kagami's eye twitched again. "Actually…it's about you."
Miyuki tilted her head with curiosity. Before she could reply however, the microwave dinged and the drink was ready. Miyuki excused herself quickly and now intended to give her drink to Kagami. With silence now in the large house, Miyuki rushed to the microwave and opened the door. She took the mug out and placed it on the counter and when she looked up to close the glass door, she saw the reflection of the twin-tailed girl standing directly behind her with her head tilted downward.
Miyuki shrieked at the surprise and quickly spun around to see Kagami standing only twelve inches away from her. "Ka…Kagami…san?" She uttered.
Kagami slowly lifted her head and reared the face of an animal ready to attack, making Miyuki gulp and suddenly feel an emotion she never felt before of her friend. Miyuki felt fear.
"Goodbye, Miyuki Takara." Kagami whispered.
It happened so fast and so maliciously, Miyuki couldn't even fathom it let alone block it. Kagami swung her arm around and her clenched fist made razor contact with the right side of Miyuki's head. The gruesome blow knocked Miyuki's glasses off and sent her to the floor as stars now clouded her vision. As her head pulsated, Miyuki felt an unbearable crunch against her stomach when she felt Kagami's boot kick her in the abdomen. It wasn't a single strike. Kagami kicked her three more times in a row until she reached down, latched onto her pink hair, and hoisted her up, making Miyuki scream in pain and fear.
Kagami abruptly followed it up with a callous punch to the nose, making the blood fly from the nostrils in an instant. The raging Hiiragi pulled the screaming Miyuki to her feet and threw her, making the frightened girl strike the kitchen's island, adding more searing pain to her back but before she could respond, Kagami grabbed Miyuki's hair again and forced her head into the glass door of the microwave, shattering it and cutting her face.
Miyuki fell to the floor and tried to crawl away as she cried relentlessly and dripped blood from her face until Kagami grabbed her by her ankle and forced her to turn onto her back. Miyuki looked up through her crying eyes and saw Kagami holding the mug of searing hot liquid and the crazed girl tilted the mug, making the liquid fall and splash on her glass-riddled wounds. The burning pain was intense as Miyuki cried louder for help and for Kagami to stop but her cries went on deaf ears. Kagami grabbed a pottery bowl full of fresh fruit sitting in the middle of the kitchen island and threw it with all her might, making it shatter over Miyuki's ribs.
Kagami dropped herself to her knees, each one pinning themselves on both of Miyuki's arms and she was held down. Miyuki felt Kagami's hands slap her endlessly one right after the other for an unknown amount of time until Miyuki's face became swollen. Kagami abruptly followed it up by placing her thumb on Miyuki's right eyeball and began to press hard with all her might, making Miyuki deepen her screams while latching onto Kagami's arm and tried to pull it out of her as her thumb dug deeper and deeper.
Kagami soon pulled her thumb out of Miyuki's bleeding eye socket and looked around as the pink-haired girl continued to bleed and cry for mercy. Kagami reached off to the side and found Miyuki's fractured glasses and formed a slight grin and the twin-tailed girl's nostrils began to drip blood from the surging drugs sending all her bodily functions into overdrive. As Kagami observed the fractured glasses, Miyuki was finally able to find her voice.
She looked up, spat out a bit of blood, and squeaked, "…Why…?"
"Why? For your own good, Yuki-chan. Payback…for what you did to me…in Paris." Kagami growled with a satisfied smirk that mimicked Miyakawa's.
Miyuki gave a devastated and confused face at the answer. "I…I don't know…what you're talking about…Kagami-san…"
"Don't you fuck with me you little bitch!" Kagami shrieked, making Miyuki scream and cry louder.
Kagami held Miyuki's glasses in her one hand while she continued to slap and punch the pinned girl with the other. Miyuki was able to cry, "Kagami-san, it hurts! Please…let go! You're my friend! Please stop hitting me!"
Kagami abruptly stopped hitting Miyuki but the pink-haired girl's attack wasn't over. Still keeping her smile, Kagami giggled as she opened the broken glasses and gently placed them over Miyuki's eyes and gazed at her victim through the broken lenses. Knowing that Miyuki was too dazed and battered to stand on her own, Kagami stood above her while giggling wildly.
"Now say goodnight, little miss so-called High Executioner!" Kagami shrieked, raised her boot high, and plummeted it downward onto Miyuki's face, creating a gut-wrenching glass shattering sound across the house and suddenly all was quiet in the Takara residence.
Outside the quiet mansion, Yuka Miyakawa sat on the street curb playing with her favorite piece of jewelry around her neck with one hand while fiddling with a metal tool in the other. When she heard the front door open, she turned and saw Kagami casually walk out and close it behind her. Silent and her wardrobe stained in foreign blood, Kagami unceremoniously walked down the marble walkway and past Miyakawa.
"The deed is done. Let's go." Kagami snapped as the effect of the Satan's Blood was wearing off.
Miyakawa grinned and turned back to the door and began walking for the house. "You go ahead, baby girl. I'll catch up. I have something in there I want. You once told me she hated the dentist, right? Then she's going to truly despise me if she wakes up."
Kagami turned her head and saw Yuka Miyakawa open the front door, allowing the light inside to illuminate the necklace of human teeth around her neck and the metal pair of pliers in her hand and she entered the house and closed the door.