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He felt Krad´s breath inside of him. Satoshi was on a way to Niwa´s house. His other-half was gasping for air. Satoshi could sense his pain. This time it was as if the roles were reversed. But unlike Krad, he decided to look for help. After all, this was quite unusual.
Satoshi could feel presence of something far more sinister going on. Yet he couldn´t point a finger on it. Daisuke was already awaiting him. Satoshi quickly went inside and closed the doors. „Sorry for the visit. My other half went insane. “
”Well that´s nothing new. “Dark was speaking to Daisuke casually, completely ignoring the horrific expression of Satoshi´s face. The blue haired boy continued speaking. “He went missing for few months after the Eternal mask heist. I thought he was resting, but yesterday night he came back. He destroyed multiple artworks, while being in pain himself and constantly coughing. At first, I didn´t feel as though it was out of the ordinary but the pain is getting worse and worse for me as well. Is there a way for us to be separated? I have a feeling Krad is about to die.” Everyone looked at Satoshi.
“Krad is dying? Hell yes!” Obviously, everyone felt like that – especially Dark, yet they´ve stayed silent. Satoshi suddenly felt pain in his chest, he stumbled and tried to breath. “J.D.” Satoshi´s eyes became narrow as he heard Krad´s voice. That information from Krad was enough. A quite recent Hikari artwork, only he knew about. Should he tell the story to the Niwa´s… “Satoshi are you alright?!” Daisuke ran towards his friend as he helped him to sit down. “It´s a virus. As a child I drew a painting for my friend. I hated it so I destroyed it right away. Somehow, it´s back.”
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Risa was changing in front of a mirror. Just few hours of school and then she can hopefully go on a date with Dark. She tossed her hair before putting her two hairstreaks in the bow, leaving the shorter front hair down as usually. Suddenly she noticed a white winged angel in the mirror. The angel had an appearance of a 20-year-old woman. She looked quite similar to Risa. Her hair was deep brown reaching to her waist, she had beautiful pink lips, larger chest, was just few inches taller than Risa and her eyes were cold and blue. “Is this my future self?” Risa though to herself, looking at the unknown woman. She looked bit similar to her grandmother. “It would be wonderful, if becoming a wife of phantom thief would give me wings as well. I wonder if Dark is immortal?”
“Who´s Dark?” The lady spoke in a Russian accent. Risa got nervous, took few steps back and almost stumbled over her own leg. “Risa, what are you doing?!” She could hear her sister´s voice. “Nothing.” Risa closed the doors and ran downstairs.
The whole way in the car, she was thinking about the mysterious woman. Maybe she didn´t drank enough water or didn´t get a good sleep. Possibly just a hallucination. She knew she was always daydreaming, so there was nothing too weird about it. As she arrived to school, she still couldn´t stop thinking about the experience. Paying no attention to her studies nor her friends. The girls didn´t care about her much anyways, usually as soon as she mentioned Dark, they´ve brushed her off and Riku also didn´t care.
“Hey girl.” A voice inside her head spoke to her. Risa gasped. “Geez, act normal. Do you want to be a weirdo?” As if the voice understood the surroundings. “Who are you?” Risa whispered. “My name is Katarin de la Martines. I´m a Mognavian princess. Who are you? Also, you know you can speak internally to me, right?” Risa nodded. “My name is Risa Harada.” Risa was unsure about the situation. She didn´t know about the Niwa and Hikari course, so this experience was new to her. Katarin also didn´t enjoy having a host.
Daisuke looked at Risa. Nothing out of the ordinary for him. Yet Dark had a much different feeling. Was it because of Rika or what? He didn´t know about Katarin´s existence. Satoshi was too busy with work to pay any attention to stargazed Daisuke and even if he did, he wouldn´t think anything of it. For Katarin Risa was the best host she could get. After all, young girls can be easily manipulated.
The only thing rubbing her head was wishing for Risa to be more popular. Katarin had a thing for money and loved to attend parties. But at least for her, her host was from rich family, so if she makes a good impression in no time, she´ll be back to her usual lifestyle. Who needs a man, when you have already enough money to go around.
Risa sat down by herself in the cafeteria. Not that she didn´t want to join anybody, just wanted to have a time to chat to her new invisible friend. She already considered Katarin as one. She seemed to care about her and she was also beautiful. “I wish, she was our schoolmate.” Risa though to herself. Satoshi noticed Risa. “Satoshi-sama, please avoid her.” Krad spoke to Satoshi, sensing Katarin as he walked by. Satoshi walked bit closer towards Risa. “Ignore her!” He could feel anger of his other half, but he knew Krad wouldn´t show himself at a place like this. “Is the seat empty.” Satoshi smiled at Risa.
Takeshi and Daisuke walked into a cafeteria as well. “Look at Satoshi, stealing your “girlfriend”.” Daisuke ignored his words. He no longer knew how he felt about Risa. It was weird knowing she was “a girlfriend” to his other-half. He couldn´t tell anyone about it. “Come, have a seat.” Risa waved at her friends. “Two more underage idiots how nice.” Katarin though to herself. These two boys won´t do Risa´s social standing justice. Satoshi at least looked somewhat decent, plus she already knew his other half.
“This is bad.” Dark sensed Katarin. He didn´t know if letting Risa alone with Satoshi was a good idea. Unlike Krad, he had no knowledge of Katarin´s existence. But now he was sure, his unsure feelings towards Risa that morning wasn´t because of love. His lust towards having part of his true love back was always strong but not in a way he felt towards artworks. “This one must be new.”