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Prologue
Bang bang!
Sounds of gunshots echoed through the night as the students of the Daemon-hunter academy rushed to their target.
"Mission clear."
"Alright, now make a contract with it, Yukiya."
"Understood."
The raven-haired girl nodded before turning back to the black little ball-like creature, known in this world as a Daemon: creatures which were born from the World's Malice, that's cowering before her. The young thirteen year old girl had and was about to complete the second task of her entrance examination of capturing a Daemon in the location she was sent to in order to become a full-fledged student of the West Daemon-hunter Academy.
The test site was at a small abandoned village in the West area of the Capital of Silver Future. And since no one was living here in this village, it enable her to use her dual guns known as Virtue, an inner Psyche of being which was manifested as a weapon for combat.
After the pair of guns in her hands had faded off into thin air, Yukiya simply showed a small reassured smile and removes the eyepatch on her right eye. Even though her left eye was the color of black, it mismatched against the right icy blue silted pupils shown on her face. Despite that, the little creature begin to drop its defense and lowering its guard down with ease; probably having to assume that she's a comrade or so. It's a cheap disgusting trick to use, but if it could get the job done, why not?
"Kiiii!" The little Daemon out of the blue became frightened and head-butt against Yukiya's face, making her to fall back onto the ground.
"Ouch!" Yukiya rubbed her head and watches the little creature scurried away from her. Yukiya stood up and was about to chase after the Daemon–
BOOM!
Turning to her back immediately by the loud sound, an enormous unnatural White flame was burning right in the middle of the city which was meters apart from where she us. It's no doubt the works of Daemons as they were only the ones who were capable to create such unnatural and malicious disaster.
Without hesitating, Yukiya picked up a rectangular device from her pocket and called "This is examinee Yukiya, there is a White flame burning in the city—!!"
"Bzzt...!"
"Hello, this is—!"
"Bzzt...!Bzzt...!"
'No one is picking up... Did something to network line over there...?' Looking at the phone in her hand, the signal bar was average; being be able to pick a call earlier before. Yukiya turns back to the White flame which was still burning the city.
Currently to say, she's in the middle of her entrance exam. But, what concerns her was the lives of people in that city that was burning by that White Flame. Before she could even allow herself to decide–
Beep!
A short ringtone alert her from her phone, Yukiya looked back to see her phone screen had a mail notification. She tapped onto her screen and it changes to her message screen, revealing the mail contents to her.
[Will you make a contract with me?]
— Was the only sentence that contains in the message. No subject but what was even stranger was that, not even the sender's number was displayed on the screen. However, as Yukiya mumbled the phrase silently to herself... This is the work of a Daemon but, she can't detect any signs of them being close by despite being her own capability that was only half inherited in her blood...
By right, she should ignore the prank message and focus on trying to report to the instructor of that fire before returning back to her test and find that little Daemon to complete it.
... Or looks like she's going to regret this, with a deep sigh from her lips, Yukiya replied back the message with her fingers tapping onto the screen keyboard swiftly and replied the message to the mysterious sender.
Beep!
'That's fast.' Yukiya thought after seeing the return message on the screen. It shows to her [Come to where I am.]
A howl was heard, it had come from where the burning city was. Looks like she don't need to search for that culprit that was burning the city down. So, should she go back to where her instructor and have them hunt and capture that Daemon down?
No... She knew better, lying to a Daemon would make her be marked and hunted down for the rest of their life until her soul and blood are devoured by that said Daemon. With another sigh that says she's going to regret doing something as stupid as this. Yukiya put her phone back into her pocket of her pants and runs off to where the White Flame was swallowing the city.
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In the midst of the burning city, there were no survivors. Only the color red was painted across the city as though a massive massacre was conducted, she was too late –Yukiya thought grimly.
Naturally, all this lies beneath was the malice presence of a Daemon that had killed all innocence lives as though it was purely amusing to them. However, the presence she felt was much more than that.
Evil, Darkness, Terror just pure absolute Malice of what they truly are, she had never encountered before such evil atmosphere... Except the pure Malice she had felt before when it had killed her parents in cold-blood.
“Come forth, Frost Guillotine!” A cool mist forms and shapes a pair of icy blueish-white gun formed in her hands. Yukiya examined around the massacre for unexpected ambush, Daemons are creatures are not to be trusted with their words, her gun pointing at areas which had deemed to be suspicious.
"Over here to your right." A deep alluring masculine voice echoed in her mind out of the blue, making Yukiya to shook up in surprise. What had she really gotten herself into?
To her right, the bloodied broken door was already laid open; as though telling her to come in. Without further ado, Yukiya walks to where the door is and entered into the building with her pair of guns still in her hands.
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Like above, the underground hallway was covered in still fresh blood with bodies either chopped or even burned to ashes. However, the evil dark presence was thickly clouding the atmosphere, so what the Daemon said may have been true to her.
Yukiya had examined each door to see the same state as outside of the hallway. There were waiters, gamblers, host and even high class rich nobles were all horribly killed, regardless whether they were a Daemon or a Human. But mainly concerned her was the prolonged and overwhelming stench of blood had awakened her hidden hunger for blood, Yukiya covered her nose with her hand as she continue to examine each of the room as much as she could tolerate.
There were also some external members of the Daemon-Hunter Academy had come over to investigate or even probably tried to stop the Daemon from the massacre, however……
Not even they could stopped the Daemon too. Their motionless bodies with their eyes open wide in absolute terror, Yukiya could only do is to close their opened eyes into an eternal rest she had prayed in silence before standing up to resume her investigation onto the last door she had yet to check.
Heading back to the hallway and reached to the last untouched bloodied close door, Yukiya opened the door cautiously and immediately pointed one of the Frost Guillotine gun at whatever that is right before her. Unexpectedly, a deep amused chuckle echoed loudly in the room "You came at last, human child."
The feelings to react aggressively at the mocking tone was completely replaced by the feeling of awed. Short Platinum Blonde colored hair with Heterochromica colors of fiery orange and azure blue was gazing at her with an amused expression.
But what had caught her attention was the feeling of pure admiration of the indescribable beauty before Yukiya as he sat down on the leather swivel chair with perfect casual posture wearing a complete matching white shirt and pants…...
"Before me, what had come into my mind was that a beautiful creature like an angel of pure innocent had descended down from the heavens, with that brimmed filled confidence and gentleness was coming from him."
But what destroyed those impression was that faint blurry black dragon-like wing on his back, and the color of blood red behind him piled with dead bodies on top of each other to stack like a mountain. That man was no doubt the mastermind who had created the horrible massacre in the city.
A being that exuded with overwhelming sense of presence. The heterochromica eyes that made contact with Yukiya's, she immediately felt chills of amusement, steadying her killing finger on Frost Guillotine’s trigger. It made her be reminded that she's nothing more than a fool with no experience to face against such powerful Daemon. If the Daemon before did so much as just as to speak a command, she would be killed regardless of any attempt to escape
The existence which was causing all of this fright let out another loud amused chuckle that echoes loudly in the room, Yukiya could feel chills of terror shivering down her spine and brought her gun to point at that Daemon before her; make again another foolish mistake in attempt to bare her fangs boldly.
However, the threat she impose onto the Daemon had no absolute effect on him, as he spoke in the deep alluring tone she had heard in her mind from before "You've nothing to fret about, I've not called you here to be devoured by hands."
"Weren't you the one who created this bloodied grave from the entire city itself?" Yukiya glowered dangerously.
With a smile, or better yet, an amused smirk, the Daemon simply said "I simply wanted to satisfy both my curiosity and hunger at the same time."
“I'm sure one body's blood would have filled at least most of your hunger. So, why do you need to kill them all for?” glared Yukiya.
The Daemon merely shrugged as he stood up from his seat and approached to the young girl, answered casually with no hints of stutter “It's as I said, I want to satisfy my curiosity too.”
“What…. Curiosity….?”
“To see what sorts of reaction would be made if one entire city is covered with nothing but blood and bodies by a person like me.” A devious smirk appeared on his face, he leaned his body close to her ears and murmured with light hint of pride and mostly amusement “And also…. I want to see you struggling with all your little, brittle will to resist the temptation to drink up the blood of your own kind—
Or should I put it as the last living of your own kind that fits of the neither lesser being, the ‘Cross’ of a Daemon and a Human, my little Yukiya~?”
At that moment, Yukiya lost her words to speak as what the Daemon had simply revealed and known the truth of her existence of, a Cross: In summary of what she have experience through, a being with one Daemon on either of their eyes, hated by both races of Daemons and Humans.
It's completely humiliating and angry that a Daemon like him had mocked of her, but she knew it's the truth no matter where she goes. Yukiya knew she could just eliminate him right now since she have a few more magazines of bullet filled with Divine Silver, however, she don't really the true strength and abilities lies under this Daemon. As far as she could tell, no Daemon other than him would be powerful enough to wipe out the entire city alone.
Pulling back one of her Frost Guillotine up with a icicle-shape blade out at the end of the gun's side, the blade was close to the Daemon's neck, growled “I hope you have a sane sense of reason why you brought me here, you fiend!”
“Of course, as I said—”
“Get your hands away from the girl, you monster!!” Out of the unexpected surprise as if right on cue, a middle-aged man was holding up a arrow-equipped crossbow pointing at the Daemon and had yelled at the two. Yukiya knew that he's one of the Daemon-hunter faculty member and had nearly forgotten that her call she given earlier must have been able reach to them.
Though the Daemon let out a short sigh tragically, he merely said in a casual tone with a friendly smile as though he was talking to an old friend “Do you mind for a moment? I would like to finish my chat with this little lady with me?”
“You shut up and get away from—!!”
“Looks like you didn't hear me from the first time, I would like to speak with this child so would you please—” The voice of the Daemon had still remained calm but there was disturbing that Yukiya could tell….
Before she knew, as the hunter screamed once more “TO HELL WITH IT!! I'LL KILL YOU—!!”
The white burst of light has been sparked out, ignited a White flame that swallowed his feet with an excruciating burning pain. Before he could even screamed, the flame completely burned him whole and leave nothing but grey burnt ashes onto the ground.
“Hahahahaha~! Now that's what you call entertainment~” The Daemon laughed loudly and cheerily as though an amusing comedy was played before his eyes, his face had resumed back to its usual amused expression “It's really funny how those lesser crazed-saints beings often looking down on the other when they are easily killed as those other lesser weak Daemons as well, hahahaha~!”
Yukiya who had witness this had her face completely white with absolute terror. The death of a person was truly nothing to a Daemon, the malicious laughter that sounded innocent was sending shiver once more down to her spine. Yukiya couldn't even keep her hand from remaining still from all that trembling and all she could do was to stand still in fear.
The Daemon merely turned back with a warm gentle smile as one of his hands stretched out to firmly calm and grabbed hold of the hand holding the gun, and the other which was used to cup her cheek with much gentleness. He then spoke out once more "Now where was I.... Ah yes.... Let me repeat my question that I've asked earlier:
“Will you make a contract with me, Yukiya?"
"At that time, I didn't know... Our meetings and connection, had brought forth an even greater darkness and trouble before me."
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