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I was beaten and bruised but, my time fighting with the shadows have toughened me. The stuff the polices injected however, was a different story.
My once blurry vision worsened and it became hard to stay conscious at times.
I was sitting at a metal table with my hands uncuffed. Mokoto's sister, Sae, was sitting across from me, legs and arms crossed.
"I didn't expect it to be you." Sae said with genuine surprise. "You'll be answering my questions this time."
I barely acknowledged her as she looked to the side, she gasped a little. "Those bastards." She muttered.
"Can you hear me? it seemed like you've been through a lot." Sae commented.
"Clear as day." I responded a bit horsely.
Sae nodded. "I need you answer honestly, I don't have much time."
"Typical." Arsane said a bit Annoyed.
"What was your objective? Why did you cause such a major incident?"
"I knew it wasn't a prank from the get-go, but I couldn't assemble a case for prosecution." Sae explained.
"It's because I couldn't figure the method behind it." She continued.
I smiled. "Most people wouldn't be able to." I said quietly. "Now I ask, why do you want to know?"
"It's for my case." Sae explained.
"When and where did you find out about this other world? How's it even possible to steal another person's heart? Now tell me your account of everything."
"Before I begin, I will not betray the identity of my confidants, so don't even bother asking." I said sternly.
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I held my bag closely as I rode metro train.
I had, not to long ago, been accused and convicted of a crime I did not commit.
I sighed when my phone buzzed.
"Hello kid." A unknown person texted.
"Who are you? How did you get my number?" I texted back
"How I got your number isn't important. My name is Orpheus and get used to me texting you out of the blue." Orpheus texted.
"Why?" I texted.
"Listen kid, a lot of weird stuff is gonna happen and you will be at the center of it all." Orpheus texted.
"What?" I texted.
"You'll under stand soon enough kid." Orpheus said.
The chat I had with Orpheus deleted it self ten seconds after his last message. Weird.
I over heard some girls talking about people shutting down, I didn't think much of it.
Tokyo is pretty big so I had to use a guidance app, thank the lord for technology.
I was crossing a huge street when some app with a red eye popped up. I tapped it to try and get rid of it when I felt some thing was off. Everyone was frozen in place.
I looked around frantically, looking for others who weren't frozen in time.
I noticed a roaring blue flame in the middle of the crowd. It grew even larger. There was demonic looking face, which turned to my own with out my glasses and with golden eyes.
People started to walk again. I was about drag the app to the trash when the earlier conversation came to mind. I closed the navigation app and opened it again, the eye was gone.
Navigating through the crowd of people started up an old itch, one that I obliged too.
Once I got into the alley that Sakura's, the last name of the man who's supposed to take me in, home is on I took out the wad of cash that I pickpocketed.
50,000 yen, not a bad haul. I quietly store the cash as I walked down the street. Not the biggest haul I ever stolen but hey, I'm trying to keep on the down low.
I approached the gate to the complex and rang the bell, nothing. I waited a few and tried again.
I shook my head as there was no response.
"You looking for Sakura?" A mail man asked from behind me.
"Yes." I said calmly as I turned around. My heart was beating fast and I was cursing myself, I'm losing my touch.
"He's probably at his shop, Leblanc." The mailman explained.
I nodded and inputted it into the navigation app.
I quietly wandered to Leblanc.
It was cafe that had a retro design to it.
A balding man was solving a cross word puzzle with an elderly couple in front of him. The TV in the background went on about a accident with a public bus.
"Oh." The balding man said as he spotted me. "They did say it was today."
The elderly couple left with the money on the table and the balding man complained about how long hey stayed.
"So your Akria." The man stated.
I nodded. "That would be me."
The balding man had a black beard and hair. He wore a pink dress shirt, tan pants and black apron. Grey eyes studied my own.
The man introduced himself Sojiru Sakura. I was apparently gonna stay in the attic.
It was big, dusty and cluttered. Sojiru criticized me for interfering with a man forcing himself upon a women.
I kept my mouth shut even though I wanted snap at him.
He left to clean up, which I got to right away.
I got it done fast enough but it still was somewhat cluttered.
Sojiru was kind enough to give me blankets, so that was something.
Sojiru came up the stairs looking the slightest bit surprised.
"I really didn't think you would actually clean, then again you would clean up where you live." He said.
I nodded and pushed up my glasses.
He soon left. As soon as the be ring for the front door, I checked the floor for a louse floor board.
After finding a louse board I dressed into my pjs and went to bed, hoping that I can fall asleep.
Velvet room
I woke up and found my hands chained together. There was velvet walls, a single Toliet and i was wearing a old styled prisoner uniform.
I got up. Two little girls that were twin walked up to the bars of what I can assume is my cell.
They had eye patches that were on the opposite eye. They both wore a velvet uniform.
Past them was a man at a desk. He had a huge nose. Grey hair covered the sides of his head.
"Trickster, welcome to the Velvet room." The man greeted.
A few hours later, real world
I woke with a start and my phone rang.
"I'm guessing that at you met Igor?" Orpheus texted.
"I did, he said something about ruin and rehabilitation." I texted.
"I got something similar, you can trust him, he means well. Igor is bit odd." Orpheus said before it deleted it self. Just great.
The day was just mostly registering for shujin academy. I bet they took me in for some kinda of prestige.
My home teacher at seemed nice at least.
Before I fell asleep that night I checked my phone, the mysterious navigation app was still there.
I hope where ever this thing leads me, will not be my doom.
I fell asleep well enough with that happy thought.
I woke up the next groggy. I shook it as best I could and got dressed in the shujin uniform.
I slung my satchel over my shoulder and walked down the stairs to the cafe.
"Hm? So your actually going to school." Sojiru commented.
I rolled my eyes. "Of course I'm going to school."
Sojiru stared at me for a second before sighing. "On your way out, flip the sign."
I nodded and did as I nodded as told.
Navigating the underground was issue. I nearly got in the wrong train several times.
When I finally got to the surface, it started to rain.
"Kuso." I muttered as I got under a overhang.
I was working with my navigation app, turning to find the shortest route when someone with a white hood ran into the space underneath the overhang.
The person took off they're hood. I knew from then on, I would have a hard time keeping my eyes off her.
She had soft blue eyes, blond hair that was split into two pony tails. Her shiny pink lips were more than a little captivating.
She looked at the rain for a little bit before noticing me. She turned her head to me.
"My name is Akria." I said looking into her eyes.
"Ann." She replied. We both then turned our heads to the street as a white car stopped in front of us.
A man with a square chin, short curly black hair and brown hair was behind the driver wheel.
"Need a ride? Your gonna be late." The man said.
Ann got in with out any words.
"You need a ride too?" The man asked.
I shook my head. "Nah."
The man shrugged and drove off.
There was something off about the man. He just rubbed me the wrong way, even if we just exchanged few words.
A guy with short blond hair ran past and stopped a few feet to the left of me.
"Damm pervy teacher." The boy spat.
"Prevy teacher?" I questioned.