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Wandering around the mall, Towa and Rei looked at each other, holding hands.
๐ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
The mannequins looked so still, so fragile, yet the haunting gaze their fake eyes showed was enough to make anyone scared.
Why was the mall so empty?
๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ. ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ?
Towa eyed the reflection that the mirrored store walls exhibited. His scarred face, Rei's beautiful face. His cut hand, holding Rei's tightly, as if trying not to let go.
With his eye, Towa saw a man wearing black. Was he behind them for some time now?
๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ?
He and Rei went down the electric stairway down to the first floor of the mall.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ: ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
The said black clothed man, who had been following them for a bit of time, kept on walking behind them as if they were his prey.
As Rei and Towa walked in the store, said man was still on their track.
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ?
Rei let go off Towa's hand, just to go pick up a black hooded jacket that was almost identical to his lover's.
"This one is great, Towa!" He smiled.
"Which one?" The painter asked in return, eyeing his lover.
"It's almost like yours!" The boxing fighter responded.
"You think so, heh?" Towa looked at him.
"I do! It looks so good!" Rei answered as he put it on over his sweater.
The man was still behind them.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ป๐บ, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ฐ.
๐๐ฉ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ฐ?
๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ... ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ.
๐๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ต?
๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ.
๐๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ต?!
๐๐ฉ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐บ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐บ ๐ช๐ต! ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ.
"Towa! Here's those ripped black jeans you kept looking for!" Rei gestured for his lover to come to where he was.
"I'll buy one for you too, since you seem to like it." Towa answered.
Rei smiled and waved his hand as if to say "no need".
"No, Towa- I'll buy it for you!" Rei smirked.
They agreed to go home afterwards.
๐๐บ๐ฆ-๐๐บ๐ฆ.
When they went home, Towa layed down on the couch and fell asleep while Rei was on the second floor's balcony, watering the plants.
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ?
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐จ๐ถ๐บ?
What was this nightmare? Towa was waltzing with a man who's face showed no emotion. As if it was carved out by hand, ripped off and a mask with no face glued back on it.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ.
๐๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐จ๐ด ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
๐๐ด- ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ?
๐ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
Putting his hand on his waist, the man bit at Towa's shoulder lightly.
"O-oh-" Towa slightly mumbled.
๐ ๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ.
Towa moaned out at the feeling of bare teeth sinking into his skin.
๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ?
๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช...
๐๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ, ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ.
The faceless, emotionless man brought Towa down to the floor, clutching onto his thin body, biting into his flesh.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ-
๐๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด?
๐๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด?
Towa felt himself being stripped.
Fingers made their way into him.
"Ah-" He moaned out at the feeling.
๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ.
Towa felt the skin on his shoulder get bit off entirely.
What the fuck was going on?
A vision of himself, spraweled on a bed, roses surrounding him, flashed in his eyes.
He woke up. The man.
That man who was always behind them in the mall.
He was outside.
On the street in front of Rei and Towa's house.
Why was he there?
๐๐บ๐ฆ-๐๐บ๐ฆ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐น๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ฆ'๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ'๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด.
๐๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ'๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ.
๐๐ฆ'๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ'๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข, ๐ฉ๐ฆ'๐ฅ ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ.
Towa heard the doorbell ring. Rei was still upstairs.
Fuck.
He got up to the door, crouching so the man wouldn't see him through the peep hole.
If Rei could hear it, he could easily beat the man.
He was the best boxing fighter in Shinkomi's underground matches, so?
๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ?
๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ.
๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ.
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ, ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข?
๐๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ด๐ข๐ธ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ?
๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, ๐ฉ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ-๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ.
๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข?
๐๐๐๐!
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ?
๐๐ฆ'๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ง.
๐๐๐๐! ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐?!
๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ... ๐๐ฆ'๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข-
A stone hit the window.
Worms were stuck to the rock. Did the man pick it up from the garden outside?
The man climbed up and went inside the hall. Towa quickly hid behind the sofa.
๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ.
It was not a smart move.
The man found him quickly, pulling him upwards by the shoulders and throwing him down on the couch.
๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด.
๐๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ.
๐๐ณ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ค๐ถ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง.
๐๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ.
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ต ๐ด๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ญ๐บ.
๐๐ฉ๐บ?
"STOP!" Towa screamed.
๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ.
๐๐ถ๐ต- ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ- ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ-
๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ?
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ- ๐ด๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ-
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ.
๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด?
๐๐ช๐น.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ... ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ-
๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ.
"TOWA!" Rei's voice rang as Towa felt the weight of the man rise off of him.
Rei had thrown himself at the man, punching him over and over.
On the floor, Rei was on top of the man.
The emotionless face the man held was now bloodied by Rei's fists.
He wasn't breathing anymore.
Rei looked at Towa and smiled with furrowed brows.
So did Towa, he did the same, eyeing Rei.
They dragged the now dead body to the kitchen.
With a knife, they cut the feet off.
Towa was looking at Rei, lusting after him as he watched him cut the man's limbs off.
His pants were becoming incredibely tight.
Rei smiled.
Cutting the arms off was easy enough.
Chopping the head off, trying to keep some of the bones in tact was slightly difficult, but Rei managed.
Towa's jeans really were tight at this point, the bulge evident on his pants.
They cooked the head in a large stove, making a broth from some veggies. Yeah they aint vegans.
Taking a spoon from the broth, Rei put it in his mouth to taste it, then gave the same spoon to Towa.
ย
Pouring some of the blood in a wine glass, Rei and Towa made a toast and raised them in the air before drinking.
After taking sips of it, both men exchanged a long, lustful kiss.
Tongues fighting for dominance, they opened their eyes just to gaze at each other.
Taking a small bite off of the bone, Towa smiled as he eyed Rei.
What the fuck had they done?
It didn't matter.
At least they were alive.
ย
Exhaling the smoke of the cigarette, Towa felt Rei hug him from behind.
Smiling, he took the cigarette out of his mouth and turned so he could kiss Rei.
The taste of tobacco lingered.