"Are you serious? A demon?" Zero sighed. "Don't tell me you believe all that paranormal crap she put in your head. She played that card on me as well. I think it's just overdue angst, or hysteria. She's looking for excuses to something that happened while she was gone. She'll get over it." "That's the problem." Takuma swallowed. They sat in the moon dorm gardens, as Takuma pulled out a file. "I found this man, Francis Verona. He's a priest from a Catholic Church in the area that has come in contact with Yuki before." Zero frowned. "He said Yuki-sama had come to 'confess her sins' quite a bit, and that she had a lot of disturbing things to say each time...so she had to be lying about what happened to her in the 2 years." Takuma said. Zero frowned as he took the file from him.
He was ordained priest not long ago, and gave masses at a church a few miles away from the school. "I asked him...if he could tell me about any of the things she'd told him, or confessed. He said he wasn't allowed to at first but...he told about some of the things she'd say to him that weren't confession. From what it looks like, everything she told us about "Chindi" and the sorority group was a lie. Apparently one day she was there for hours, just crying and asking him to help her, but she never told him with what..." Zero looked at Yuki's file. Her headshot wasn't taken too long ago.
Her grown out bangs dangled over one of her eyes and she had a sullen and saddened look to her. Her status read as missing. "Then let me talk with Verona." Zero sighed. Takuma looked at him. "Because frankly, I can't really trust you Ichijo." Takuma sighed. "Alright, if you insist. I'll take you to him." he said. They went out to town and were at the church within minutes. However, on their path, Zero and Takuma recognized some faces; mainly because they all were the same.
Whether Yuki had released them, or they were protecting/looking for her, the skeleton-faced servants she'd once had were everywhere. He lead Zero into the church and let the large wooden doors close behind him. The church wasn't like he remembered.
The grey skies didn't let light cast into the stained glass windows and the room was very warm with all the candles lit. Zero swallowed, feeling uncomfortable just looking at the large carvings of angels above the altar. Father Verona appeared on the altar steps. "Welcome." he said in a raspy voice. Zero snapped back to attention looking at the man before him. "Father Verona..." Takuma said. Verona stood silent in wait. "I've returned. My friend here has some questions for you..."
"Very well." Father Verona said gesturing to the sanctuary in the back. Takuma and Zero sat in a pair of wooden chairs while the father sat at his desk and waited for them to talk. "This is Zero Kiryu...he's lived with Yuki before since she was a child...he's helping me to help her." Takuma continued. The father nodded. "I see. What may I do to assist you today?" he said. Zero looked up from his lap, looking at Verona's stone cross that sat on his desk as decor. "I want you to tell me. Whatever she confessed. Anything at all that stood out to you." Zero requested. The Father sighed and rubbed his forehead.
"I am sorry, but it is against my vows as an ordained priest, as I have told Mr. Ichijo." Verona responded. Zero sighed. "I've have already asked the same question, Father Verona. But she's a danger to herself and others." Takuma persisted. Father sighed and then leaned forward to Zero. "I know this is all true, I know the girl personally enough. She used to come here once a month, then it was twice a week, and then it was everyday. But, I can tell you what I've told Mr. Ichijo, Zero." Verona told Zero. He got up and walked to the window. "Miss Kuran first came to my church two years ago. She was always asking me for a confession each time I saw her, and other days she wouldn't ask, just appear in the confession room waiting for me. She'd be in tears most days, others very calm. But through her confessions I found it to be rather a case of severe traumatic stress and depression that she was suffering from."
Takuma looked at his shoes while Zero frowned. "Each day I knew exactly what she'd confess, because usually it was the same thing every time. Just days before the first time she appeared for her first confession, Miss Kuran was a victim of rape." Verona said sadly. Zero sat up. "Can you elaborate? Did she give any detail? Did she say who it was?" he asked in an angered voice, that was enough to make Takuma cringe. He'd seen Zero upset, but not angry. Verona sighed heavily and sat back down.
"As her story goes, she had been walking back from a friend's small gathering to where she was staying, when she claimed she was grabbed by a group of men and taken into an old barn where it took place. She claims that they had done other things to her before then; they'd talked about putting her in human trafficking, or just killing her off when all was said and done. She said her hearing and most of her senses drowned out and her body went into shock during the event; but it's normal to mentally shut down during any sort of attack. Anyhow, her story is very tragic, but everything else she is experiencing is quite a mix of things. Negative energy can be made by post traumatic stress and depression, and could cause fatal starvation or dehydration." Verona explained.
"So then...should we take her to a doctor? A therapist?" Takuma asked. "No. The one person that can help her for now, is me." Verona said monotonously. "And why would that be? Is she really possessed?" Zero asked, standing up. Verona turned to them both, with a few minutes of silence, his breath hitching a bit before he began to speak. "Miss Kuran is not 'possessed'. Possession is a one way street in which the paranormal parasite benefits while the person is selected against their will, and often occurs by random. Yuki has been harvesting so much pain and angst, she's trying to tell herself her sexual attack was done for a reason. Collision is a term used to describe a person who is mentally possessed, not by a spirit, but by a second personality. I'd find her talking to herself at times, and so I gave her an object to place her demons into. She now has a lighter which lets her believe her evil is caged inside it." Verona said.
"Miss Kuran's odd behavior is a product of collision. Any violent mood swings or illusion she creates is only a baby step toward full on insanity, both her own and in the vampire world." "You know about vampires?" Takuma asked in shock. "The Catholic church is a supporter of this goal. Miss Kuran was once a pureblood, but now she is stronger than an army of them." Verona said. Zero frowned. "What do you mean? Isn't she just ill?" he asked. Verona shook his head taking off his glasses.
"Yuki is very dangerous, too much denial means a human poltergeist. Not demonic possession, but just a human with a brain that gets charged by negative signals. Soon, she will be able to have unwordly abilities, like a vampire. She will not be one, but stronger than an army of her once pureblood crowd. She in the flesh will be what is called a Host."