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Chapter 11: Interrogation
Anticipation is strong.
“Oh look! Squirrel~!” Kei placed her hand over her brow to spot the distant creatures.
“OH NO! WATCH OUT FOR THE SQUIRREL!” Miyabi shouted out, trying to steady herself in this extreme version of a van drive.
Bump.
“HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO A POOR CREATURE?!” Miki screamed out, falling all over the place.
“Awwww! I killed a squirrel…” Kei frowned. “Oh look! Another one!”
Bump.
“YOU DELIBERATELY DID THAT, DIDN’T YOU?! I’M GIVING YOU A DEDUCTION IF YOU HIT ANYMORE!” Yuko clung to the sides of her seat tightly to the extent where the chair itself is ripping from her nails.
“Oh look a family of squirrels!” Kei’s eyes widened, “I’m sorry! If I try to avoid them, then we’ll crash into the buildings at the side! I’M SORRY KAMI-SAMA~!”
Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump.
“THE POOR SQUIRRELS…”
The tension has risen.
“And those scars… You are the one who shamed me!” Maki called out in anger, lunging forward for an attack. Ayumi couldn’t defend herself against the spiteful maiden.
Immediately, Ayumi was slammed against the wall, all the more painful since Maki’s hands were wrapped around her throat. Before she could proceed to strangle the other to death, Hitomi appeared near them and swiped at the maiden. Maki managed to jump out of the way, but not without harm, for a light bleeding cut appeared on her left leg. Levitating in the air, Maki huffed and panted, having already exerted a lot of her energy to be able to pull off blinding speed to suffocate the scarred woman.
“Get out of the way, Hitomi… That woman has the soul of my nemesis…” the maiden growled at the guard through gritted teeth, eyes clearly enraged at the sight of the descendant alive and coughing behind the enigma.
“That, I can’t do, Maki,” Hitomi gripped the stiletto in her hand tighter, preparing to counter attack should the maiden go after Ayumi again.
“So be it!” the maiden lunged again, this time her target was that ungrateful miscreant who had managed to defeat her before. Maki uttered a quick incantation which summoned her trademark sword into her hands, ready to do an uppercut. Hitomi replied in haste with a blocking attack, and as she held Maki at sword point, she punched her hard in the face. The maiden staggered backwards, but used that opportunity to do a low-sweep kick which had successfully knocked the guard over, causing a big pain to appear where her back collided with the wooden panel floor.
Hitomi couldn’t do anything while on the ground, but immediately countered that by grabbing the nearest thing, which was a flower vase, and threw it at other. When Maki was distracted by batting away the vase, Hitomi was already on her feet and lunched forward with a vertical swing.
Maki blocked with her sword from the air, which made Hitomi land on her feet but still pressing forward with the attack while Maki pressed forward of her own, trying to cancel out the attack.
While the two were in a state of high tension and focus of pushing the other over, guards had appeared from the entrance of the building, pointing their guns at the dueling two.
“Hmmph, so other servants came?” Maki looked at the bewildered guards, still keeping a strong block to Hitomi’s pushing.
“Stay away!” the enigma called out to the other guards, who was now unsure of whether they should shoot the maiden or not, seeing how Hitomi was too close to the firing range.
“Gravijira. I bestow upon you the hell of transcendent suffering!” Maki grinned widely as she watched the guards panic in horror of being attacked by a supernatural being. Black butterflies began streaming out of no where, latching themselves to the guards and eating anything they could offer—that is, their very own flesh.
The poor screaming men were clawing at the butterflies, trying to rip them off only to have another take its place. From that brief second of skin freedom, Hitomi and Ayumi saw in shock that the flesh had become deformed from being fed upon. The guards moved around the area in a frenzy, trying to get the butterflies off of them as if they were set on fire. Soon, their desperate clawing winded up becoming powerful: powerful to the extent of even tearing their now malformed and softened skin out of them, grabbing the butterfly with it as they cast the flesh aside.
Eventually, the guards’ screams became softer—all because there happened to be a few butterflies that managed to devour their vocal chords from the neck. It almost made the enigma and progenitor want to throw up at the grotesque being the guards had become—flesh beyond recognition that would have identify them as human beings. The floor was painted red at the blood which had spurted whenever the butterflies had hit an artery or the men made any movement whatsoever… And that meant almost the entire section which the men had struggled upon was drenched in the crimson which gave them life.
Then the butterflies dispersed, satisfied with their fullness and then faded into the air. The men—no, not men anymore, but the repulsive mounds of flesh—collapsed onto the ground, having suffered a very painful way to die.
The smell of death was absolutely revolting.
To think I could have been the one to suffer that attack if I did not have my magic nullification! Hitomi thought, no longer feeling confident over her eventual victory, but now afraid and wary of her future loss.
Maki shifted the weight of her sword heavier to her left, causing Hitomi to weaken her advance.
Damn it… My shoulder…Hitomi gritted her teeth to suppress a scream, feeling the wound of her shoulder reopening forcefully.
“Oh? Attacked your injury, have I?” Maki smirked, pressing even harder onto her position, causing the other to let out a grunt.
“Oh really?” the guard managed to make out despite her injury, and then used the opportunity to slide down, letting Maki’s force swing her sword above her head, and then did an uppercut punch to the maiden’s face.
The long haired woman stumbled backwards, hitting the floor hard as she landed. The maiden used her hand to try and relocate her jaw in place, giving the other two shudders with the consecutive cracking noises heard. Maki slowly stood up, the blood trickling down her mouth as she did so.
She was about to charge forward for another attack.
That is, until there was an interference.
Ayumi ran over to hug her.
“Stop this madness!” Ayumi shouted, “Rika! I know you’re still in there somewhere! It’s me! We’re finally back together, and I know you wanted to see me! Rika! Fight the maiden possessing you! You can hear me, right?!”
The maiden softened.
Then she kicked the other away, sending her crashing into Hitomi’s arms. The two were nearly slammed against the wall if Hitomi hadn’t stopped her footing on time.
“Don’t you DARE touch me again…” Maki huffed, bending her knees low and keeping her back arched in a primitive counter-striking stance.
“What is Ayumi to you? What are her origins with you?” Hitomi called out, holding the other protectively.
“She’s the reason… No… Her ancestor is the reason…” Maki’s voice was filled with contemplation, “When I came down from heaven… That fool stole my robes… And on top of that, forced me to…” the maiden stood up, trying to maintain a calmer stance, “That vulgar person defiled me and forced me to stay in this filthy realm! See those wounds?! Those scars were my response to that!”
“It can’t be true…” fear crawled into Ayumi’s face, “I’m the descendant of THAT?”
“Because of you, I could never find my Hagoromo. I vowed revenge and I will have it. I will continue reincarnating until I find them and destroy your clan in the process!”
“Listen to me!” Ayumi screamed in reply, “I have absolutely NO memories of that whatsoever! I can’t be of help and I’m definitely NOT like that man! I’m Shibata Ayumi, and you are my best friend, Ishikawa Rika!”
“I am no such thing to you…” Maki raised her sword in another stance, “You along all others who side with you are my enemies!”
She was about to lunge for another attack too…
But something had stopped her midway.
Maki sensed the presence of a ball which had hit her back and then out of it…
…Came gas.
Immediately, she felt her body become numb and she collapsed onto the ground, immobile.
Hitomi and Ayumi were shocked to find Kagami standing in the bloody doorway, composed in his jet black suit and readjusting his glasses. The man walked over to the maiden, stepping over the dead guards’ bodies as he did so.
“So you finally decide to appear to us, Maki? It saves Hitomi the trouble of retrieving you while you are in that form.” Kagami said, kneeling down next to the maiden.
“Gravijira…” Maki started, but was interrupted in the middle of her incantation when Kagami shoved the side of his hand into the maiden’s mouth, causing her to cease. Maki then tried to bite the man, but found it useless because no matter how hard she bit, he didn’t do as much as blink.
“I put this hand under a heavy dose of anesthetic before our confrontation,” Kagami removed his hand, now stained in blood from the teeth marks.
“What are you going to do with me then?” Maki’s eyes became half-lidded in defeat , “do you also wish to have your way with me… Like Ayumi’s past-life did?”
Kagami’s eyes widened, then he began formulating questions and saying them as he thought of them.
“Ayumi… Is she the current host of that spirit which stole your robes?”
“Yes.”
“How do you transform into the other?”
“Love.”
Kagami raised a brow, “Elaborate on that.”
“Whenever one of us feels an intense feeling of love, it gives the other an opportunity to take over because of the host’s fragile state of mind.”
“So that means it is one’s choice to possess the other once the condition of ‘opening the gate’ is met, right?”
“Correct.”
“Why are you currently in this body?”
Maki seemed to have bit her lip, as if hesitating to answer, “Shibata stole my Hagoromo and forced me to be his wife and bear his children… And we are his descendants. I will continue to reincarnate into those with my blood—those who satisfy my requirements… I will continue to do so until my goal is fulfilled.”
Kagami cocked his head to the side, narrowing his eyes at the maiden. The first things she said seemed so… planned? Was the maiden lying to him? No matter, the rest of the information seemed genuine.
“To those who satisfy the requirements for your body, huh? Do you mean by appearance or the one with the closest genetic makeup…?”
Maki ignored that question and continued on, “I was reincarnated many times. And every time, I would awaken, but then your clan… Your clan figured out that I would appear exactly 22 years after the death of my host, so you would always keep track of those born on the date of my host’s death. And then when someone showed signs of supernatural capabilities or was said to be seeing unnatural things, you would kill that person…Thus, I was forced to flee to an unborn body every single time… You Shibata clansmen call it “ritual” of all words as well…!”
Kagami remained silent.
“How ironic that the progenitor was born to my rising in power as well! Born as my best friend of all things!”
“So that’s the case, huh?”
“Why are you acting so nonchalant, chief? Aren’t you being a little too confident in all of this?” Hitomi asked.
“If you are worried that I may forget, don’t fret, Abe-san is monitoring everything that’s going on right now, visually and auditory. As for you…. We have a sample of Ishikawa’s blood, but now that you, the maiden, are here, I will take a little sample of you too…” Kagami took out a needle, cleaning the tip of it.
Maki flinched slightly when it dug into her arm, drawing out her blood.
“There was one hint I had…”
“Hmm?” Kagami said as he pulled out the needle, satisfied with the amount that was in it. “A hint… Legends say that you had listened for your children’s song and had found it…”
“I see…” Maki smirked, “So your clan has long forgotten the song?”
“We had a song in the past? Interesting…” Kagami’s glasses seemed to have flashed. “Do you mind reciting the lyrics?”
“Sorry bastard, she ain’t gonna recite anything to you!” came a familiar voice.
Miki had her chopsticks pointing at the back of Kagami’s neck. Meanwhile, from the door frame, Miyabi had one gun pointed at the chief while the other was aiming at Hitomi.
“Now now, hand over the sexy maiden and I won’t shove these sharpened and black diamond chopsticks through your windpipe,” Miki said with a confident smirk, feeling very arrogant now that she and Miyabi had the complete advantage.
“Who are you?” Kagami asked.
“I’m Fujimoto Miki and I’m—”
Miyabi shot the gun in the air, surprising Miki.
“What the hell was that for?!” the demon turned her head to look at her sister.
“You’re such an idiot, Nee-san!” Miyabi retorted, “Why don’t you give him our address and invite him to dinner too?!”
“What are you—Oh shit…” Miki blinked a few times, realizing her mistake of giving her name to the enemy.
“…Fujimoto Miki, huh?” Kagami’s mouth turned upwards in a small smile.
“ANYWHO~!” Miki laughed excessively loud, trying to give her arrogance a boost from the embarrassment earlier, “I’ll just be taking Rika and we’ll be off~!” the demon nervously glanced left and right to make sure that the coast was clear.
Gunfire was heard.
Miki turned around to find that Miyabi had a bullet just slightly graze her hip. Immediately, Miki reverted to a defensive pose, running over to hoist Maki over her shoulder like a prehistoric caveman. Miyabi on the meanwhile, went on the defensive as well and took cover from the guards firing from the elevator by leaning against the doorframe, watching and listening carefully as the bullets grazed the frame.
“I’m sad we just can’t sit around and have tea, grope each other, all that fun,” Miki shrugged.
When Miyabi heard the guards reloading their guns, she went on the offensive and stood in the doorway and aimed with precision. The guards, seeing Miyabi in an open zone, tried furiously to load their weapons faster, unfortunately, the young teen saw to that first, and shot them straight in the legs.
“Nee-san! The way’s open! Let’s go!” Miyabi’s voice trailed off as the person herself ran down the hallway.
“You heard the kid, I’m off now~! Thanks for a good time, and I now take my leave!” Miki said before breaking into a run over the couch, then sliding across the bloody floor and then running down the hallway after her younger sister. When Miki came into the hallway, Miyabi was already at the elevator, waiting for her older sister to come in it.
“Watch out!” Miyabi called out to the other.
Miki didn’t need a warning, she jumped to the side as Hitomi zoomed past her with her stiletto in a thrusting position. The demon then jumped backwards, now in a staredown with the other.
“Nee-san!”
“Go on ahead. If I don’t come back to the van by the rendezvous time, just go straight home and forget me,” Miki said calmly, her glare locked with the enigma’s eyes.
“But Nee-san…” Miyabi’s voice grew inaudible, but shut the elevator door despite her own wishes. She knew that her sister was stubborn, and she knew that she will survive. She pressed the button to the ground floor and inhaled deeply, wishing for the best.
Questions that desire to be answered…
“So it’s come down to this, huh?” Miki uttered, having a slight tone of dislike in her voice.
“I guess it does, huh?” Hitomi replied, lowering herself into an attacking pose.
“Such a narrow hallway too…”
Indeed, behind Miki was the door to the residential complex and behind Hitomi was the only means of escape. Other than that, to Miki’s left was a beige wall and to her right was a wall of windows.
There was no escaping unless she manages to go around Hitomi…
…And that was going to be a hard thing.
Especially when she had someone slung over her shoulder…
“Well that’s unfair, I have a handicap…” Miki sighed, only to become stiff when she heard Maki growling behind her.
“My job is to capture the maiden only, so if you would just hand her over…”
“No way in hell, dear,” Miki pointed her black chopsticks at the other, “There’s this thing, you see? Even though you’re hot, I don’t like you. And I don’t intend to give Rika up to the likes of you either. My job is to protect her.”
“I see…” The corners of Hitomi’s mouth turned up into a rather scheming grin, “Then you should protect her from me!” the enigma charged at the other.
Miki batted the thrust away with her chopsticks and head-butted the surprised Hitomi. The guard staggered backwards, but then came to being and swiped again at the shorter. Miki held her chopsticks upside down, that is, holding it so that the sharp end protruded downwards instead of upwards since she was holding it at the top, and began to defend herself against the barrage of slashes and swipes that the taller dealt.
It was a rather close fight too. There were many times where Hitomi was sure that she could hit Miki, but the demon was able to bat the blow away at the very last second. There were many times where Miki was sure that she could counter attack Hitomi, but the enigma was able to deflect the strike at the very last second. There was an instance where the stiletto thrust itself in between the tightly wrapped chopsticks, where Miki flicked the stiletto into the air and then kicked it at the other. Though, Hitomi dodged the incoming stiletto and did a roundhouse kick, hitting the other hard in the face. Then the taller pulled her stiletto out of the wall and moved in for the attack again.
Unguarded, Miki suffered a few scars here and there before returning to the defensive, deflecting most of the blows. Only this time, her back was to the window. Then, Miki realized that it was enough time stalling her escape. When she held Hitomi’s stiletto at a point, she kicked the guard against the wall. Stunned, Hitomi couldn’t do a thing when Miki jumped off of her knee and kicked against her chest. Since she kicked far enough, Miki ended up launching from Hitomi to the upper part of the window. She kicked off of that window to launch her final kick, her fatal blow to knock out the other.
However, Hitomi recovered by then and used her own foot to meet with Miki’s. Despite the altitude, the guard’s foot made it just in time, and she repelled the other with that foot alone…
…And that sent Miki, along with Maki, crashing through the window… Falling from the 68th floor…
“Ack!” Miki tried her best to hang on tightly to Maki. Miki tried to think of something that would aid the situation…
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“OKAAASAAAAAN~!” Miki screamed at the top of her lungs as they both fell to their doom.
“Oh just shut up…” Maki sighed.
“SAVE ME DAMN IT~!” the demon pleaded, clinging even tighter to the distraught maiden.
“Gravijira. Dispel all unnatural air from this body and return me to my condition which preceded the contamination…” Maki said quickly, and with that, the effect of the numbing gases disappeared, and they stopped JUST before hitting the cement below…
“I fucking love you…” Miki’s eyes were as wide as dinner plates and yet, she still clung onto the maiden who felt like she was about to explode had the demon held her any tighter.
“Loosen your grip if you intend to flatter me with that,” Maki exhaled in frustration, flying upwards into the sky and zooming towards the location of the Fujimoto home.
“Hey uh… Thanks?” Miki looked around to find that she somehow ended up being held bridal style by the cursed woman.
Maki remained silent throughout the flight thus far.
Miki also chose to remain silent, for she knew that if she said something, Maki did have the nerve to drop her…
The demon took the time to admire the nature around them instead.
It was a nice feeling, actually…
Feeling the breeze against her skin…
Miki was never really fond of flying planes or anything of the sort. The loud sounds gave her headaches and having to sit uncomfortably in a seat for long periods of time were simply not her thing so to speak. But with this experience… It was different…
It was calming…
It was relaxing…
“I should not have done that…”
Miki looked up at the maiden, a question in her eyes. Maki saw the bemusement in her face and added on.
“Going straight to the enemy without a plan was a naive idea… And to think that I was subdued by a man-made chemical…”
“It’s the modern times, we’re not as ill-prepared as you think, anymore…” the demon said warily.
“I suppose I’ll wait until the opportunity presents itself…” Maki muttered, feeling humiliated from being defeated by humans consecutive times since her awakening.
“So uh…” Miki looked down to find that they were losing altitude in the air now that the mansion was in their vicinity.
“Hm?” Golden eyes stare at the other.
“I’ll just uh, wait to ask until we touch the ground, I’m feelin’ a bit light-headed from being in the air for so long…”
Soon, the two found themselves back in the garden after a half-hour flight. Miki felt awkward and utterly embarrassed to have been rescued by the damsel in distress instead of rescuing the said damsel in distress.
“What is your question?” Maki said as she walked over to the small bridge suspended over the ponds and connecting various pieces of land together, her back turned to the demon.
“That song… Can you recite the lyrics?”
“For what purpose do you want to hear the song?”
“Pfft, I dunno,” Miki scoffed, a little upset with Maki’s obliviousness, “Maybe I can help you find the robes…”
“…Then you will have what you want,” Maki finally said after some consideration. “Listen carefully.”
Then, the maiden sang in a choir-like tone which almost sounded like a whisper…
Shine, bright morning light
Now in the air, the spring is coming
Sweet blowing wind…
Singing down the hills and valleys…
Keep your eyes on me…
Now we’re on the edge of hell…
Dear my love… Sweet morning light
Wait for me, you’ve gone much farther…
Too far…
“There you have it…” the maiden crossed her arms, seemingly discontent with Miki’s indifferent reaction.
“I was never good at this sort of thing, sorry.”
“There’s no need for an apology. There is nothing that you have done wrong…”
“So why is it just the Shibata family? Why all of them?” Miki tried to interrogate, hoping to see if there were any other intentions that the maiden had.
“When Ishikawa ‘woke up’ as me, they all tried to kill her. That proves that they all agreed with the ritual of killing me and none of them would stand up to defend my cause. That makes all of them my enemies.”
“Does it really have to be that way?”
Maki glared at the woman now standing in front of her.
“What will happen once you receive your robes?” Miki became slightly uneasy, fearing what the answer might be.
“I will return to heaven.”
“And Rika?”
“I’ll probably end up taking over her completely, erasing all trace of her existence in this body.”
The demon looked down, clenching her fists tightly at what she feared might come true. She wanted to ask if there was any way to prevent that… But deep down, she knew that Maki would tell her that there was no other way…. But further in her heart, she told herself that what Maki said wasn’t true…
There could be a way to separate them…
There has to be a way to separate them…
But for now, she must settle with the time she had with Rika before finding the robes…
“How do you transform back into Rika?”
“Do you really prefer her that much?” Maki let out a smirk.
Miki crossed her arms, glaring at the other, “Perhaps.”
“Kiss me.”
The demon gave a look of bemusement.
“For me to transform into her, and vice versa, we would have to experience ‘love’ which sends our minds into a weak and unstable condition, which the other could easily take over…” Maki raised a brow at Miki’s hesitation, “I believe this is something you would not mind handling personally?”
Miki had already walked closer to Maki by the time she had finished that sentence. “Don’t you dare forget what we had talked about, maiden…”
And so, the distance closed between their lips.
To Miki, this maiden was especially intriguing to her. Seeing how the other didn’t seem to be too affected by the intimate contact due to the rather light blush—tint rather, the demon decided to go further by adding her tongue to the fever. With a practiced familiarity of having been with many people, Miki made sure that her exploration was delicate and soft, as if wary of the fragility Maki had.
To Maki, it had brought back many memories. From observing the world around her from Rika’s eyes, the one who had been the most interesting was this certain Fujimoto. She couldn’t place her finger on it exactly…But there was something about this woman that forced her to remember… Was it her stubbornness? Was it her arrogance? Was it her strong will? No matter, there was a certain quality of the demon that Maki somehow traced back to that person…
Maki’s hair grew slightly shorter, transforming back into a brunette color. The maiden shifted slightly as her body faded and finally became the original owner’s.
Despite noticing the changes, Miki still kept going, using this opportunity to finally taste the lips of the cursed woman. However, it was short-lived as she felt a stinging force upon her cheek which caused her to pull out of the kiss.
Rika had slapped her.
“You pervert!” Rika backed away, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, “What do you think you’re doing?!”
“Come now, it looked like you were enjoying it for a second there~!” Miki tilted her head in a smile, rubbing her reddening cheek.
“If I was, you wouldn’t be standing there with a swollen cheek,” Rika crossed her arms and looked away with a ‘hmph!’
“Oh well, at least you’re normal again.”
“Normal…? Oh no…” Rika’s face became distorted in panic, “What happened? Did I transform again?”
“Don’t worry about that for now… Just rest,” Miki turned around to walk into the house again, if it weren’t for Rika tugging onto her arm.
“Did I attack Ayumi? In the darkness… I heard her voice crying out for me…” Rika said almost inaudibly, looking down in the floor.
“Listen, I can tell you that the maiden won’t try to attack anyone for the time being…”
“So I did attack her… I think I attacked Hitomi too…” Rika released her grip on Miki’s sleeve. “Why can’t I remember anything at all? This all has to do with me and yet I don’t have a single clue…I don’t understand anything at all… I couldn’t do anything at all!”
Miki remained silent.
“I’m helpless…”
I want to learn the answers.
“So that was the celestial maiden—a real-life tennyo…” Kagami said, watching as Hitomi bandaged his hand.
“Yup, told you so,” was her simple add-on.
“I got all of the visuals and audio feed~!” came a singsong voice from the door in the lab.
“Abe-san?” Kagami looked up at the cheerful woman, questioning her rather cutesy attitude about all of this…
“Maki was so COOL! She was like BAM BOP WAP BAM and Hitomi was like ACK! AHHH! EEK! And then! And then! AND THEEEEN! The guards came in and she had this really cool fatality that like, TOTALLY ripped their skin off (I wish Mortal Kombat had a character with THAT move!) and they were screaming and all bloody and OH MY GOD… She’s so amazing… Like the secret character that’s the hardest to unlock because of her super strength, yo!”
Silence.
“Sorry, it was the gamer in me,” Natsumi squeaked, suddenly embarrassed at her frivolous outburst and shrinking slightly into herself.
“…Good job on retrieving the visuals and audio…” Kagami completely ignored the otaku’s small speech, “analyze the sample I got from her,” he held out the needle with the maiden’s blood inside of it.
“Will do!” Natsumi squeaked even higher, walking over to take the sample.
Kagami turned to look at Ayumi and Hitomi, “So now you’ve seen what Ishikawa was capable of, what are your thoughts on this, Ayumi-chan?”
“It was…” Ayumi fought for what words to use in her head, “it really slapped me in the face, you know? Rika becoming this whole other entity… claiming that I stole her robes and accusing me of rape…”
“Now, will you cooperate with us for the project that’s to come?” Natsumi asked, giving a small pout in hopes that the other would agree thanks to her cute face.
“ I need to learn more about my past and about those robes… Despite my wishes, I’ll have to stay away from her until we find a way to make the maiden’s spirit leave her body. So yes, I will cooperate…”
“Lovely!” Kagami clapped his hands together, glad that his relative complied.
“Only under the condition that Rika becomes normal at the benefit of this project however…” the scarred woman shot a glare at her older cousin, leaving no trace of being timid about her decision whatsoever.
“So, is the project initiated?” Hitomi asked, feeling that she has been silent for too long.
“Indeed it has,” Kagami replied, “Let the Celestial Project begin.”
All of them.
To those of you who read Ceres and think I'm following it like I did with Fruits Basket, guess again :3
I only took the premises of Ceres, and now that the song is introduced, I'd love to see people try to make interpretations of it to see if they can find the location of the hagoromo themselves :] Teehee, and you get an invisible cookie if you find out what the song was originally from too, roffle xD
Anywho, as said before, there's new things to be elaborated on, so I'd like to see theories on that too.
<3
Love you all <3
5 or 10 comments please <3
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