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| - . . . 'Where am I? What is this place?' 'This black and empty place. Where am I? How did get here? I can't move.' 'I'm so tired. I can't move. I have no more strength left in me. Why? I can't remember.' I shook out from my puzzled state. A deep and booming voice was all that surrounded me. This black and endless void I was in. I didn't remover how I got here, I didn't know where this was, but I wad just floating here. I couldn't tell where up or down was 'Who? Who are you?' 'I know already. Don't need to tell me that.' 'Wait, I've heard you before.' Who else had been putting me down my whole journey. Telling me what to do and calling me an idiot. 'You were in my head.' 'Are you listening to me?' The voice echoed for minutes. I doubted my perception of time was accurate, but I had no way of telling seconds from minutes I this place. I wasn't even able to speak through my mouth. Words were just sprouting from my thoughts. 'What crows?' 'Reaping? Death, you mean death. People are dying? Whose dying?' 'Don't ignore me. Who's coming?' This voice, sounded like me, at least that's what I thought it always sounded like. But hearing it now, it's too deep and too . . . inhuman. Every syllable vibrates this empty void in hatred and fear. Too simplistic emotions. As it said that, cracks started appearing over the black and peaks of white starting breaking through. Not light, just white. 'Destroy what?' I started feeling something. I had feeling back in my body. I was aching now. It hurt. A sharp pain in my chest, all over it, and a split in my head, between my eyes. 'Who are you?' I wasn't leaving till I know who this was. If he or it, was living in my head, who was it? The pain got sharper. I stared feeling like I was fading away. I couldn't keep on seeing. The whiteness continued cracking through the black. I felt my breathing was back, slow. Too slow. I couldn't stay alert. 'Who are you!' My mouth was awake. It went dry, my tongue was stuck to to bottom of my mouth. My eyes were blurring out. My ears started ringing. I couldn't hear anymore. The White was breaking through. My limbs were too heavy. I couldn't move, and I could feel myself being pulled. 'Who Are You!' I then couldn't go any further. My eyes rolled back and the pain shook me till I couldn't bear it any longer. . . . I was sure I was dead. . . . . . . . . . - Would you die for me? . . . - Uh, pardon? - If, by some random chance, someone comes here and tries to kill me. Would you die for me, Zeni-kun? . . . Zeni-kun? Only one person calls me that. . . . I still ache. But I feel warm now. I feel warmer. I can breathe again. My mouth is no longer dry. - No, I wouldn't . . . I said that didn't I? I did. - I wouldn't let myself die, but I sure as hell wouldn't let anyone hurt you either. The pain, is going. The White is vanishing. The black is already gone. It's being replaced. In green light. I remember saying that. It was my date. My first date. With anyone. With her. - If that chance ever came, I would do all I could to stay alive defending you, so that you'll still have someone you can trust when it's all over. . . . With Akane. Green is her colour. The aura that envelops her. So powerful, and so green. - Thank you. . . . 'No, thank you.' I could feel her kiss again. The way it makes my mind go fuzzy. I don't know why. But, I like it. I was no longer exhausted. I was just asleep. . . . "Is he awake yet?" I opened my eyes. I'm still, nowhere. But I can hear someone talking. "No, he's still resting, Kumi. That power took a lot out if him." This blue void I'm now in. It's unlike the black or the white I saw earlier. There's a golden ring surrounding the horizon. I am alert, but I still cannot move. "If he was a devil, senpai, he could of easily recovered his stamina and taken a few more hits. What I expect from a runt though." I can hear them. Speaking, but I can't tell from where. "Should we do anything else?" "No, I've done all I can. It will take time, but he'll recover." I wasn't able to see anyone. But there were shaped forming; I don't know how I see them, but there are four people here. No doubt the Devils were surrounding me. I can hear them. I saw one with silver wings. Standing over me. I saw one with a purple arm. Leaning against the wall. I saw one with a cyan blade. Standing to the side of coffee table. I saw one with green aura. Sitting on the desk. I saw one with . . . Nothing. just nothing. Sitting on the settee. I only saw them as black shadows. But something that stood out from all of them, I could see those. Not clearly, but it didn't need to be. It was enough of a clue. Cyan blade (Masako) turned her head. The movement looked like dye being pushed through a cloud whilst floating in water. Parts separated and disappeared while others were created to fix in the gaps. "My lady, can I ask why you decided on him?" "You've seen the Gear he had. That's obviously why, take him before someone else snatches him up." Purple arm (Takeshi) answered. "Still, I don't like it." "Is something wrong, Masako-san?" "I don't know. I smell something from him. An aura. I don't know, but I definitely don't like it." Who are they taking about. I don't understand why I am able to hear them, but barely see them. "Do you mean like in Kumi's Gear? There's something in there?" "That's what confuses me, Takeshi; it's definitely not like Ayida. It's . . . something more dread. But it's broken, that's what I don't like about it." "Could you sense it too, Ayida?" I heard another voice. I saw something flashing from silver wings (Kumi). A few short bursts of green light every syllable. I think, I've heard it before. "Incomplete huh? So you think he's even aware?" Cyan blade started getting edgy with the sword. "Either way, I think that we cannot leave it on him. I say we cut that thing from him and destroy the Gear." Black shadow (Suzue, I presume) shook her head. Parts of her figure broke away and reformed when she finished. "You can't. You'd kill him." Purple arm moved he moved forward, like he was getting bigger. No, he was getting closer. Wait, they're taking about me, aren't they? "Then, I'll just take it. Gear!" "I wouldn't-" My whole space light up in golden light. [Equate!] Purple arm shook like a puff of smoke and rippled a long distance and a crash against the wall was heard. "Told you." "The fuck just happened?" Green aura (Akane) stepped up and walked closer to my view. A trail of light followed behind her and parts of her still emitted aura even after they broke off till they disappeared like always. "It seems to work on physical attacks too." I heard a cling of china as black shadow retracted. I'm guessing she had tea, or whatever she was drinking earlier today again. "Whatever is there, doesn't want to leave." "You think it can hear us?" silver wings asked her wings. Green aura knelt by. I felt her hand press over my view. No, I can see her hand. Not a black shadow. Her hand. Rubbing against the view. She pulled her hand and the blotches encassed it again. "For now we'd better leave it. Since we know very little about it, maybe this would actually be a good time to do a club activity." "Senpai?" "As the Esotericism Club, it's our job to research religion and mythologies. With the books the school has provided us, and some personal literacies from the House of Naberius' collection." "Yes, that would be best, Akane-oneesan." "Alright then, now we just need to move him. According to the school schedules, if he misses his afternoon lessons, they wonder where he's gone, and since he hasn't signed up with us, he won't have any excuses. Suzu-chan, can you take care of that for me?" "Yes, my King. I'll do what you ask." "Great. Hmmhmm." "What was funny?" "Zeni-kun's like a little puppy when he's sleeping." Sleeping? Me? So, I am really here, then, where is this me? If they have my body, where has my consciousness wound up? I saw black shadow approach me, then I felt my whole perspective being tossed over her. . . . Wait? She's holding my body. So that means I'm still here. Blue? Where on earth is me where there is blue? "Ayida!" Silver wings complained, but green aura stopped her with her raised hand. Her arm broke, but it remerged as her image stopped moving. "I saw something I knew was missing-" Then the shadows dropped like pillars of sand, and soon were scattered like starry sky. 'Wait! She isn't finished!' The voice was back. But it was weaker. I could feel myself able to move again. My limbs weren't aching, my eyes weren't blurry and my breathing wasn't slow. A light erupted. It was neither gold or white, but light. I couldn't see what was there. But I felt weight under my feet all of a sudden. The floor. The light was the floor. Gravity was showing me. I felt my body being slowly lowered out of this endless ocean of blue. I felt a light drag like I was sinking, but I was still breathing, and I felt dry. A shadow started to form over the light, but it kept retreating when it covered too much. It clawed at it, but it made no mark. A glowing read eyes and multiplied blue lights emitted from it. It's mouth moved. It's the same voice. It's the voice. But's it's scared. No, not scared. Not worse than that either. In pain? It continue stockade at the light, but couldn't break it. I looked down upon it. It's face was broken and shredded. It's lights stared dampening. It turned its head away from the light and stare at me. Half its body and several other pieces were missing. It wasn't human. It's was some beast. Agreed teeth and claws. Horns and wings. Tails and spikes. . . . . . . 'Who are you?'
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