He was born to please his parent and anyone by meeting their high expectation. The younger boy, not yet an adult have bigger responsibilities that is given to him in order to be praise, no. It's his job to be the pleaser, his parent told him that. If he can't please them, it's fine... He know that he can't please every person.

Akie Hotsuin, live his life by pleasing everyone around him and neglecting his own needs for the sake of the people that surrounds him. If those people want him to do things he didn't want, he'll try to refuse but if they show displeasure towards his refusal he will feel a crippling guilt and starts to berate himself and well he'll agree to them.

He would keep in mind that he can't please anyone, yet he keep trying to please everyone... Like it was his caused to live.

His leadership is sometimes being questioned when the board members pressures him to do the "right" things that he knew are wrong... He, of course know better than their perspective will end up utterly refusing them, slapping them with a logical answer if they ask why he won't heed them and uses his naturally sharp tongue (which he rarely use.) if he didn't like their proposal or it'll cause the staff's grievances at the end. Swallowing the guilty feeling. It sometimes felt good to refuse the people when he knew better than them. He tried not to care if they are displeased.

If his older sister didn't die maybe she'll do better than him. His sister is very nice to him... She never have high expectations for him, she would always said that it's fine if he fail, he did his best and didn't cause anyone to be sad. That he could do better next time. Funny, their parent would be mad if he fail and won't give him second chances to do it better.

Then there's that man who would try to comfort him if his parent scold him for failing their expectation, calling him worthless... Oddly he doesn't remember him nor his face. Akie wonder if it was his hallucination since, his mother would lock him in his room and won't give him food for God knows how long, probably until he passed out. His sister would try to sneak snacks for him but if she got caught... She'll end the same thing but only a day. That was how they punished them, they favored his sister more than him because he failed to met their expectation, miserably. He can't actually hate them, he was at fault here, for failing.

His mother, after his sister's death... Would always force him into things he didn't like but she said she'll be pleased by it. So he nonetheless heed her... Even if that means was to dress in his sister and act like her every time they go out with his parent. His father would sneer at him every time he sees him in dress. Akie wondered if his father would sneer at him once he shows the photo of his father doing adultery to the head of the family, his grandmother... He can but he won't, he's too nice to do that... Well if his father test his patience. He would.

His mother is the real Hotsuin, the Head refuse to name them with their father's name. So. His mother used to be the CEO but when her precious daughter die, she falls into madness after 4 years of lamenting... Which leaves that everything will fall on his frail shoulders. He didn't mind... Not at all.

Akie's mother had insisted that he'll go get cut his male reproductive organ, changing it to a female ones and lived his sister's life... He refused, he cannot stomach the idea of it... Living the life of a dead person is one thing he cannot do, he can act like her, yes but live like her, no. Acting like her gives him a guilt trips, living like his sister will be more crippling than acting. The refusal provoke a violent reaction, it's good that he only got a few scratches.

But his mother threaten him that she'll cut it off herself in his sleep and... That cost him to a week of sleep and eventually caused him insomnia, now he needs to drink alcohol to make himself fall sleep. He's fourteen at that time.

"...Fix marriage with a male?" Akie stared at his grandmother, disbelief is present on his visage. "Are you sure about this, grandmother...? Are you heeding mother's request again?" he asks. This is completely absurd... He's a male, so how...? Oh no, not that cutting his thing off again.

"You know full well that I will always heed your mother's request. She's my only daughter. And we need that contract from that family. Do it for the sake of the company, you ungrateful brat." His grandmother said, sternly while eyeing him from top to toe. He suddenly want to cover himself with his coat, he felt conscious. "With that petite body of yours, I'm sure they won't notice, unless they strip you." She added.

"But—"

"Akie Hotsuin! You are the CEO of the company, next in line of being the head of this family, you should know what you can contribute to the Hotsuin!" His grandmother exclaims, standing up and slamming her hands on the table. Akie flinch, biting his lower lip and reluctantly nodding his head. "I'm sorry. I'll do it." he mumbles. His grandmother huffs "Good, now leave."

Akie bows gracefully then leaves the office. He didn't really had a choice since he can't refuse his grandmother. The boy sighs, he sometimes wish to have a normal life.

He stared at the twelve year old child (?) that is one centimeters taller than him and to the boy whose pretty much taller... He look like his sister... Akie shakes his head, it's not the time to be sentimental. Both of them wore bunny hoodies in alternate colors... It's cute.

The two look at each other, as though trying to argue who is going to speak first. The fifteen years old clears his throat and do the honors to initiate the conversation.

"Is there anything you need?" He asked politely with a professional smile, tucking a strand of his hair behind his ear. The male in black bunny hood awkwardly turns to him and starts spouting gibberish or probably a different language.

"P-Paano ko ba to sasabihin... Ay bwiset. nagpipilipino na pala ako." The latter spoke in a cursing way. (it roughly means: "H-How am I going to say this... Oh damn, I'm speaking in filipino" SaveAlkie2k16)

"... Uh...excuse me, what?" Akie tilts his head, not understanding what is the boy saying. The boy in white bunny hoodie sighs and asked calmly. "Will you believe us if we say that this world will be destroyed any day from now on. A mysterious Void eating it?"

Akie squints, is this one of those faux prophets who speak that the world will be at its doom? "No... I don't think so." he stated. Oddly, someone said the same thing before, he wondered who it was? The boy smiled, knowingly at him.

"Is that so... A purge will take place, no one knew when it'll occur but... It's certain that it will happen. Once it did, we'll come and asked you, something..." Said the boy while standing up, grabbing the taller one and make their leave.

He watch them leave... It actually disturbed him, he feels that someone had already told him. Who? He ponders the same thing as he fills his paper work... Oh... He still needs to set a personal meeting with that person, he just found out that the person was his sister's supposed to be fiancé. Hiro Kageyama. Akie heave a sigh, he just wish he could tell him that his sister is dead since it seems that no one told him. He didn't wished to trick this man but if he angered his grandmother. A severe punishment will be ensued. Another sigh escape his lips, he's doing it for the company.

"Catastrophe." He mumbles to himself.

After a week of encountering the two seemingly strange children. A calamity happened. Earthquakes, people losing themselves, strange creatures and demons? He was actually running away from one of it, strangely. He knew what 'Race' it is, how come though? It's a Jaki, Wendigo, it's called. Akie manage to dodge its attack but its chasing him with some other demons.

He can't believe he turned in an ally and unfortunately reached its dead end. Oh no, this is a disaster. The silverette stared at the enormous monster in front of him. He took a deep breath and start mumbling an ancient summoning incantation that was playing at the back of his mind, ever since the earthquake.

A summoning circle starts to form under him, there's a melancholic feeling about this. Akie huffs after finishing the summoning incantation. Two four-legged demons appear in front of him, snarling viciously at the demon. One look like a white tiger and the other one is a greyish lion with a rat like tail, swishing behind it. Akie tilts his head to the right...

So...what's next? He didn't had any clue. The tiger and the lion stares at him as if judging him, like their telling him. "Seriously?"

The silverette stares back. He opened his mouth and say. "A... Attack them, please?" he is uncertain but he needs to check if his mother is doing fine, well not that fine... Alive, perhaps? The two demons heeds him and kill the demons that was barricading the only way out.

The young CEO watched as the two big cats kills the horde of demon, maybe he should escape but he can't just leave the demons. So he decided to wait for his demons to finish their thing...?

Once Byakko and Cerberus finished the remaining demons, Akie slowly approached them and pat their head, petting the two demons. He smiled as he heard them purred, they certainly are big cats but deadly. "Will you accompany me for a bit...? I just want to see if mother and father survive, please?" He asked politely. The demons look at each other before nodding their heads.

They walk their way to his house, slowly hoping that they won't get into trouble.

Akie pales out as soon as he saw his mother, stabbing his now dead father. He left the two big kitties on the porch since his mother won't appreciate them. The silverette slowly approach his mother, thinking that she'll stop if he got the knife.

Sadly, his mother noticed him and she suddenly stood up, taking a big stride towards him... Ready to stab him. This is bad, he can't move... Like that time...

That... Time...?

"Bring back my daughter you monster!" She screamed agonizingly, swinging the knife at the so-called monster, stabbing it to its chest. Once... Twice... Thrice... Multiple of times... She... didn't wished to kill her daughter, Aruki was protecting this putrid monster...! So she accidentally stab her when they're fighting over the knife.

Why is it coming back now!? Why?!

"A-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" She screech, stabbing the knife in Akie's body.

Byakko roared, sprinting to Akie and his mother who sat atop of him as she stabs her son. The tiger whack her with its powerful paw, grabbing Akie's body by his shirt. Cerberus help the tiger put the body on it's back and run for it. The lion burns the house with a fire spell before catching up with Byakko.

The two demons ran and ran until they saw two person in rabbit jackets... One seems to be crying?

"You're crying again, this is the nth time you cried." Says Yasu who was staring at Alkie as he wipe his eyes.

"Shut up, it's sad, okay?" The taller sniffs and go to the two demons, the demons snarled at him but he paid it no heed. He patted Byakko, muttering something.

"Good work, Aruki. You may not be able to save him now...but it's better than getting erase. You both will come with us..." Alkie solemnly said before disappearing with Cerberus, Byakko and a dead Akie.

Yasu sighs softly. Aruki Hotsuin, her data was split into half since it got corrupted for some reason, so Alcor who was the current Administrator of this world, split her data into Akie's Byakko and Cerberus to prevent it getting corrupted further. He also edited the incident. four years ago so that it won't be traumatic for Akie, perhaps.

The incident was about Akie, showing how much potential a Hotsuin can do in demon summoning, thanks to Alcor's teaching. The mother saw it and out of fear, she took a knife and it's obvious what she had in mind...

Luckily, his sister sees mother, knife in hand. The two females fought over with the knife... Their mother accidentally stabs her daughter and oddly... The mother stab Aruki, more... Once... Twice... Thrice, until the child who was watching. lost count, frozen into place with a terrified expression on his childish features.

It all happened because of the Administrator's love for humans... How selfish.

The sword heave another sigh, they do say... "The more the merrier." Right.

"Oh, right... I couldn't had the chance to asked him... What shampoo he was using. It smells good." Yasu mumbled, disappearing while looking conflicted.