(ANOTHER DEAL)ONE. TWO. THREEThe clock that’s ticking. The time that is running still while she is trapped inside the subconsciousness of the character that couldn’t be trusted. Yet, that untrustworthy nature of his is her perfect prison to be. “Right?”Beatrice wonders, planning her perfect step to have her perfect way into the best imperfect world of Death Reincarnate. While giggling and lustfully looking at the first two names with their character that she chooses to be her first two chess pieces. “The king and the bishop. Let’s see how challenging it could get to get you.”She is driving into the thrill. Now laughing loudly all by herself, whiles embracing the fact that this game is getting deep and more interesting than ever before. “Right?”“CAN WE PERHAPS HAVE A LITTLE DEAL?”Beatrice finally said her goal. The deal that is worth everything in this world. Words caught Carlos's attention in all ways possible. Stopping his advances, and all after Beatrice remember her grand
(SECOND CHOICE) EYES fix her plan and the two names that she currently had at hand. Beatrice confidently smiles as she writes another name and reads the words. “Peter Cairo.” Her interest is twerking by the identity of the person that somehow from the long run of this cursed book, hadn’t introduced that much. Not alone, but lurking his way into the side and a bit into the darkness. Beatrice knew that she just found another prey to become that other piece of her chess. The piece that she will put under the bishop. “Well, let us see what I can get from you.” She draws a sinister smile and looks at her prey’s profile. Setting her eyes on the words that will be her key to dragging her prey into the hole where she wanted him to be. “Sagittarius.” The Greek Zodiac name took her interest immediately. The Zodiac that she neither likes nor hated. The sign that is the easiest one to be fooled from the rest of them. “Well, I guess I’ll be hitting
(BISHOP II) “YOU do not worry anymore, everything will be alright, Peter.” The memory that will always be like yesterday for the commandment of chastity. The purity and clean heart of the person that he is grown to look after from the shadows is somewhat turning into an obsession. “Neither this way nor the other. You must remember that you are only a commandment and she is the one we ought to protect and not covet. I hope you understand and know your place, Peter.” The warning that he always receives in different words and forms from his companions and their circle. The fact that he knew that could never be changed. The rule that he couldn’t defy, knowing what’s good and not. Yet, he couldn’t fool himself for the thing that he truly desires. “Tsk! One way and another?” Peter asks to the nothingness, where he is currently walking along the entire world that is stopped by time. From the disappointment and pain, of the Maiden’s mana. “I couldn’t hav
(PETER’S MELODY) THE music box plays, as a melody echoes into that small and dim prison room. On his knees and crying, the little boy who did nothing of any sin is being punished in exchange for freedom and some petty gold for his family’s life and future. “I hate to be here. Someone, could someone accompany me for a while?” His little simple wish. Not for his freedom, nor a chance to get out of her cold prison under the dungeon of the cruel and powerful family in the city. He is chosen to be a doll of the family’s young master and forced to take the sin that he didn’t commit. “Regret is nothing but a word itself.” His principle and conviction that’s keeping him sane from the harsh and poor reality that he is born into. The only path that someone like him could ever have. “This place is just too lonely for me.” The protest of his slowly dire heart. Didn’t mind the cold nor the food that wasn’t served to him in time and sometimes none. All he wante
(LACIE’S SONG) WHEN did it all begin? How did it all start? His meeting with the young and innocent five years old Maiden, the friendship that started, but never flourish. “Let’s just say, you are a threat in every way that is need to be disposed of.” Words that he remembers clearly like it was all yesterday. “Do not think anything about this. I am just protecting the Shrine Priestess.” The protection that he doesn’t want to believe to be true. For all else, it is only for the sake of one person. The person whose jealousy runs deep. The cruelty and the dark heart of the heir of the clan that he once served. “Be gone, will you?” He doesn’t even get the chance to say a word, or to plea. As his mouth is shut close and the pentagram is already activated with the gate appearing right behind him. His tears fall, as he is taken inside and forcefully down into the dark abyss. “I hope I will never see you again, Peter.” The sinister smile that dr
(HIS VOICE) THE music box is playing and Peter’s smile is genuine, just like how glad he is feeling after finishing the song that he promises for the Shrine Priestess. “Lacie’s Melody.” He whispers. Looking at the words that perfectly describes how he sees the Maiden and how warm he felt since the day he becomes her friend. “Just a smile, and it is all enough for me.” The exchange that he only wanted. Just a simple way and appreciation that he surely knew that he will have. With the Maiden’s pure heart and smiles, that is the only thing he wishes to have. “Alright! I better do this right, no, it should be perfect!” He convinces and made it as his conviction for himself. All the hope and dream that he pours into the song for the person that he treasures just like how everyone is, and might as well more than anyone could. “My melody.” The words and meaning of the Lacie that he interpreted and put meaning about. He then plays the music box tha
(STITCHES) “YOU see, Kyle is one hell of a jealous one. But he also is the type to not show it to anyone else. Let’s just say, that he is a devil with an angel’s wing.” Words that Peter doesn’t want to know. Too far for him to dwell especially since the ones involved are the people that he couldn’t and will never be able to reach. “He’s the Maiden’s knight and the only heir of the clan of Dionne. His status is almost like the Shrine Priestess herself, and most of all he loves Daniela.” Taken aback by the last two words which he shouldn’t have done. The little cunning Miss draws a contented sinister smile on her face. Delighted by his small gesture that was more than enough for her to know everything that she wanted to know. “I-I do-don’t understand what you are trying to say, Miss.” Peter stutters in fear. Completely aware and knowing that his stupidity and that slight movement that he made just caused him the interest of little Miss. Now with the eyes
(ENVIOUS HEART) “COME with me. From now on you are one of us.” Not even had the choice to hesitate anymore from the deal that he just took. Peter took Alliah’s hand to change his life and the path that he’s been walking his entire life. “That’s right. I like that expression that I am seeing with you right now.” Out from that cold and dimly lit prison. Paying the sin that he never commits. His life is out for a new start. “I’ll be in your care, Alliah.” “No, please, you are not.” Alliah protested, but not rejecting that thought from Peter. “You are on your own. I’ll just be giving you a head start that’s all. The rest is up to you.” The deal that was made at that very moment in time. Now with conviction and the reason to move forward. Peter doesn’t think of anything right now, but to be with the Maiden whom he grows to care about more than anything in the world. “Let’s go, there are plenty of things that we need to work on with you.” The
(BUTTERFLIES)“THE butterflies have been sent. Everyone should have received it by now, right, Chie?”HE asks in a bit of a threatening tone. Sitting perfectly to his throne and tapping the helm of his chair with his right pointer finger. With a drawn sinister smile and the Mistress of Time standing beside him, the meeting place are all set and perfectly placed with the chairs that resembles the chess board.“Just as you wish for it.”The Mistress smile that is equally threatening and hiding something that she prefers to keep like a souvenir. With the grand clock ticking and finally to its very last seconds. A bit of a change from the past are corrected. Now presenting it in the way that is better than before and too perfect to be told to be a fault.Then.“Here I thought that you wouldn’t came.”“Tsk! I’ve been thinking about it and I realize that I couldn’t miss this for the world and books.”An echoing footstep sounded. With the smile and the sinister one that they both knew and re
(BOOKS)“STOP!”The protest and utter denial of Alliah for the truth that is presented right in front of her. The words and the said facts shake her entire world and currently put her into the deepest darkest corner that she has ever been in her entire life. “No, it can’t be. I am not her. I am me. I am!”She screams in frustration, and wide eyes, and expresses the kind of fear that is a mix of horror and surprise. All for the reality and the truth that she doesn’t want to believe, she thinks that she didn’t deserve it, and all along is an utter lie. “Open your eyes and face the truth. You are not who you think you are, Alliah.”“No, no, no. It can’t be.”Tears fall inconsolably from her eyes. Her body trembles with fear, and the knocking words and reality that she couldn’t escape from somewhat pulled her deeper into that demise. She wanted to escape, she wanted to run away and think that this is all nothing, but a nightmare.“That’s right! This is all but a nightmare, everything of
(ROSES)“YOU do not need to say anything anymore Pauleen. I understand and know my sin from the past that ruined our relationship. I should have accepted the fact that he chooses you, so, for this life and this final loop. I promise to stay by your side.”“Jade!”Overwhelmed with joy and relief that Pauleen felt. She hugs her sister tight, after reminiscing and the very first loop where their relationship breaks and crumbles into ruins. Didn’t go through any bumps and cracks, nor Jade felt the excruciating pain of remembering the past loops. Christopher is true to his words when everything on the side of the sisters is done and in peace. Or is it?”“I see that you came with Gen.”“I guess, from now on things will change between us?”“A bit, for right now we are a family and to think about it, I am your aunt.”A little teasing, and giggling about the present and the future that they will be facing. A light atmosphere that Pauleen couldn’t help but be more than glad of receiving. Now th
(VIENNA BLOOD)“I have the hunch, but I didn’t expect to see you here, Honey.”“So, do I, Gen.”Their bland, but casual greeting. They’re not so usual encounters, but both know who they are in this world and what role they are playing. Honey recognizes Gen and not in the way that always starts with a fight. Gen immediately knew that it already came to Honey’s ears that her little game of guarding and spying over JK had ended. “Then I guess you being here and without any ominous aura and a façade like one, means that JK already knew about you and everything that you have done since the very beginning.”“Well, I am not his guide in the first place, nor he is one of the original holders in this book and world. I am only attracted to him because he had the essence of my birth father. Besides, it is my task to be spied and pretend that I am loyal to him with my utter disgusting desire. But right now that almost everything is set, I came here to ask for that thing, Honey.”“I see.”Couldn’
(CHALK NIGHTMARE)“DEATH, DIE, THE DEAD.”An eerie song is echoing all around the place and under the bright full moon. The melody of the song will bring chills down anyone’s spine. Making all the gentle animals around hide in fear, while the owl coos and the ravens are screaming. In that not-so-dead night, Gennivier is singing the song while marking the points and the necessary corners in the middle of the biggest pentagram and where they are about to open the gate and fulfill the end most perfectly. “Are you done, Gen?”“Please. I know that you miss me and all, but just wait for a moment for I am almost done, my dear sister, Pauleen.”She still addresses the original holder of God Aries, of this world and book in the same way as she used to do. Looking at her with those envious eyes, and an untrusting heart that she is still working on correcting. The reality will always stay the same, for even though she is one of the directions that HE is a bit proud to be HIS puppet. She still h
(A SMALL LIGHT)“TSK! Do not make me laugh, Bianca.”“Tsk!”Still he is being stubborn, protecting and not accepting anything from what he just saw even though it was the damn real thing and his inner consciousness is screaming at him to believe. Bianca couldn’t help but be in dismay. Angered and wanted to curse Aaron deeper and worse to the core. But she is still thinking of the civil way to do things. Calming her nerves and composing herself. Looks back at him and tries again for the third time.“Just what is it that you do not want to understand Aaron? You who is one of the holders that should and will always protect the Shrine Maiden shouldn’t be stubborn like this. No matter how hard you try to convince yourself because you are blinded by love. The Alliah that you know is only the half, the yang of her whole who also had its own dark past, while the yin had the biggest tragedy that was used and played by the Supreme One and becomes, Beatrice.”“Beatrice? Damn! Now it is Beatrice?
(A DUEL IN THE MIST OF INSANITY)SILENCE is eminent, that even the wind is somehow frightened in some way to blow its presence. The night is too quiet and not a single insect an be seen or to be heard. Everyone seems hiding for something, with everything is like in a mid of chaos. In that small garden in the residence of the Gomez, footsteps suddenly echo. It’s sound that is menacing and screaming a dark warning that no one even the smallest living thing will dare to see, face and make a sound in front of it.Arthur looks back, drawing a confident and a bit of a mocking smile and welcomes his guess.“So, you decided to come and face me after all, Kyle.”“And I can see that you are waiting for my arrival, Arthur.”The challenge that they both know that they wanted and at the same time not. The unnecessary but necessary thing to do, and a contradiction that they both know that is stupid, yet it is the only way to prove their strengths and wits to one another.“You do know that there is
(LABYRINTHAL CORRIDOR)“THE destruction for this loop and this sixth is about to begin.”Words that she didn’t want to hear. The fact that she needed to face and swallow up and whole for it is the reality and the written plot that was the plan all along and from the very beginning that they wouldn’t, couldn’t, and will never escape from. “Everything is settled on your parts, am I right, JK, Kyle?”“Tsk! It’s long been done.”“Everything is set on my part.”The confirmation and the exchange of assurance and confidence that JK and Kyle expresses. Amuses, no, giving the hell lot of confidence towards Him. But without knowing what had happened in between the loop of six, the secrets and the deals that took place are one hell of an exciting roller coaster ride that Kyle made and secretly had. All for his benefit and nothing more but for him. “Kyle.”“Just like what I have said, it’s long been done. I did my part perfectly according to our deal. I set everything up without any flaws and r
(THE QUEEN SHALL BE SAVED)“BE prepared, for what you are about to see will shatter you to pieces, Aaron.”Damn, that was cruel and dark. Deeper and more menacing than Aaron had experienced and had known so far. He holds his breath for a few seconds, then coughs multiple times while covering his mouth and somehow chocking about something that Bianca knew that it is all due to what he had seen so far. “Had enough? Did you understand what I am trying to say and make you, Aaron?’“Enough? Are those for real?”The in denial that is screaming inside his mind and for who he is in totality. More than being stubborn about the truth and the facts that were just presented to him, Aaron still believes that the Alliah that he met back then is not the one Bianca just showed her. “I didn’t expect that you will be this foolish because of love big brother Aaron. You above all people that I know who had the greatest sense of justice and smart enough to know what is right from wrong.”“Then, you didn