Mitakihara Original

Category: Chapter 21

  • 15 — Blood and Bones

    Farther along the river’s edge, another lone shack. Another place where Divider had gone to hide. Empty. Another dead end.  Kiwako lowers her battleaxe to the ground and sighs. She expected this. She knew this was the most likely outcome. But somehow, she let herself hope again. This spot seemed more lively, at least. This…

  • EX — Caro Sine Sanguine

    Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. Buzz.  Silence. Two missed calls. The phone beside Niko’s bed buzzes. It is not Niko’s phone, but another phone entirely. An older phone, one that Niko would not recognize as one belonging to anyone else. A burner phone, planted by the caller, no doubt. There’s equally no doubt who that…

  • 14 — Fairy Tale

    The trap is set. At some point, Diana Caelum had to have passed by here. Kiwako knows Diana’s habits well enough to know this much. She also knows Diana to be the type to revisit the scene of the crime. The only things she does not know are when Diana is going to come back,…

  • 13 — In Focus

    Cecilia: Yui, god damn it… should you even be sitting up right now? Swirling, iridescent darkness Cecilia: I know you’re stronger than most. That doesn’t mean— Fierce wind Television static Cecilia: For the love of— Thunder Hanako: I-Is she awake?! A symphony born of chaos and filled with harmonious noise rising to a crescendo— Cecilia:…

  • 12 — The Girl and The Serpent (pt. 3)

    Strings of crystals. Everywhere. Lethally sharp crystals on thick, metal wire. Strung up everywhere, criss-crossing the room to saw you up like barbed wire. Aoi reaches out for one near her bed. It slices through her hand. No pain, only blood.  Her Soul Gem rests in her other hand, fully black. She can see she’s…

  • 11 — Backbone

    Naomi: Hey— About to open the back entrance to the Smile, hidden away in a back alley just wide enough for the small trucks transporting the equipments of touring bands, or the booze that fuels them and their audiences, to park there, Alice jumps when her newest bandmate calls out to her, seemingly out of…

  • 10 — Sunburn

    Yosuke was right. The only real option Yui had right now, the only chance at answers she had was Melati.  Seia was right. If Aoi was on an Incubator transport and outside of Earth’s orbit, it was already too late. Kiwako was right. This was all one, giant, elaborate script, with the pieces involving Diana…

  • 9 — The Girl and The Serpent (pt. 2)

    There was no clock in here, nor a window. It was impossible to know if it was day or night, but nonetheless Aoi awakes. Something wasn’t right.  She stumbles through the now-familiar path to the light switch. The light blinds her after hours in the dark, like it always does.  Aoi had closed the shutter…

  • 8 — Relay

    Yui: Breathe, Hanako. Nice an’ easy, now.  Yui’s voice is uncharacteristically calm, the mask of indifference and self-burden completely off. The worry on her face is obvious as she sat with Hanako on the bench presses. Seia and Shinju were nearby, Shinju much closer to Hanako, and Yosuke was there as well, keeping watch from…

  • 7 — Moth Into Flame

    Hidamari Bathhouse isn’t like the quaint, traditional places you see in movies, with their faux-wooden curved roofings and inviting signs. From the outside, hidden away in a small alley, it looks indistinguishable from a laundromat, a realtor or a money lender’s office — and the family that owns it regularly have to push back against…