Oct. 18, 2011

I hate this place. It's always been so cold, then warm, then cold again, then rainy, then windy, then hot, and so on. One of the many crazy things I despise about the human world is its weather.

Why is that? Well, my human appearance changes along with the weather, so it critically affects my techniques to lure humans closer, because my appearance keeps changing with the slightest breeze.

I don’t lure humans for myself, but for my family. Even though humans are the most stupid creatures you could ever come across with, they are somewhat clever to recognize appearances. You could say they are as observant as they are brainless, which is as much as I am a dark creature, which in other words, even if it doesn’t look like it is as 100% true as this world is 100% full of ineptness, negligence, and greed.

And I'm correct about the greed. I mean, sometimes my people has been stupid enough to reveal their identity to the human they are going to feed on. They tell the human that they’ll give it whatever his or her heart desires, with no tricks or conditions, as long as they surrender their soul in return; a fair deal.

Humans never did fully acknowledge just how significant their souls are to us, so they accept with no second thought or hesitation. After what they believe is a painful, surreal nightmare, they find before them everything they gave up their soul for. But, without a soul, humans don’t feel anything at all, be it material or their so-called things their money cannot buy; a soul, for example.

They can’t even develop their human needs, such as hunger, thirst, sanitary necessities, etc. They end up as fleshed-up piles of emotionless garbage. That's how they end up after my kind feeds from their souls. When they are desouled, humans become so easy to manipulate, since they are unable to tell right from wrong, dangerous from safe. Most of the time, my kind orders them to commit suicide so that their bodies will disappear and cause no more suspicions, and they actually do kill themselves with no hesitation.

Sadly, I cannot do this. (I can manipulate them easily, though)

I was walking by the street like usual, my hair and eyes now dark gray due to the cold, cloudy weather. I suppose it wasn't so bad. I was wearing my dark, long winter coat with my black pants, and even though the coat was the correct thing to wear in this weather, it still drew looks from humans. It probably wasn't the coat. No, not at all.

Even though I wasn't able to transform into my true, monster form, I still released the aura that only creatures of my kind could create. An aura that forces humans to approach us and socialize innocently and ingeniously with us, turning into our victims more easily.

I hated walking around this area. It was a shopping center. I was naturally drawn away from these kinds of places, like two magnets that repel each other and can only be drawn together by force. However, it was my sister's favorite feeding place. I suppose it is logical. After all, it is true that there were hundreds and hundreds of people; hundreds of souls.

The bus approached the stop where I was standing, so I got on with a sigh.

Just like I expected, my presence was immediately acknowledged, drawing the humans' looks. I barely noticed them, walking straight to a seat at the back of the bus. Once I sat down, I looked out the window, bored.

The constant stare of the girl behind me eventually annoyed me enough to acknowledge her. I turned around. "What are you staring at?"

“I don’t know, you’re just weird” The little girl said; she didn’t look any older than seven.

“Oh, you wanna see just how weird I am?” I asked her as my eyes turned to copper. Damn, the stupid bus driver had turned the heater on.

“Wow! Your eyes changed their color!” The girl said, amazed.

I sighed, annoyed. “Ever heard of contacts…?”

“Min, please, don’t bother the gentleman, that’s very rude. I’m sorry” The girl’s mother said, turning to me.

I looked away. “Doesn’t matter. It’s okay; after all, she’s still just an innocent child. She’s actually very sweet, miss. You’re really lucky to have a little girl like her.”

“Well, thank you, sir.”

Among the many things that I hated, faking so much kindness was one of them.

I looked down; decided not to talk to her anymore, considering creating a death for her, since no one would ever realize…But then I gasped a little, feeling something.

Her soul was sweet. The kind of souls my sister enjoyed to eat. I assumed some dessert wouldn’t do her bad.

“Excuse me. Ma’am?” I asked without looking at her.

“Yes?”

“Could I, know what your name is, please?”

“Oh. Sure, it’s Suiko Kitachi” She said.

I smiled, writing the name on a piece of paper. “A very nice name, that is. Do you have any occupation? A job, perhaps?”

“I’m a secretary.”

“Oh, that’s interesting.” I noted her physical description on the paper; writing her information would make luring her so much easier. “Could I know your date of birth?”

“Excuse me?”

Yes, it was probably risky to use my powers in front of so many witnesses. After all, when she died they would ask for the people that talked to her during the last days of her life, and they would get to me. Or…Would they?

When I thought about it, I realized it wasn’t such a big deal. I was a devil, after all. I was able to do what I pleased; things humans could have never imagined.

“Oh, please forgive my manners, I have not introduced myself yet,” I said turning to her, my eyes finding hers.
She gasped.

“My name is Takeru Sakane. I’m a reporter. I was assigned to interview some of the citizens around this area, and I’d like to know if you’d like to participate.”

“Of course. I’d be glad to help out.”

I smiled in a warm, innocent way. “Wow, Mrs. Kitachi, you’re very brave. I never expected someone to be willing to be interviewed so easily.”

“As long as it helps gentlemen like you” She said.

I nodded and looked out the window. “Oh. This is the place I have to go. Mind coming along?”

“Not at all, I love coming to these places.”


We got off, walking through stores. The girl looked around and asked her mother to buy her things, the way all children did, but she didn’t listen. We kept walking.

“Um, excuse me…Pardon me, Takeru, but where exactly are we going?” Suiko asked me.

“Oh. We’re only wandering about, I need to make some notations of this place” I answered with a kind tone of voice.

“I see. I like these kinds of places; they’re so full of familiar environment.”

Hmph. So naïve. “Yes, they certainly are. When I was a kid, I loved coming to the candy and comics stores all the time.”

“Really? That’s so sweet. I suppose you remember those kinds of things every time you come here.”

“In fact, I do. I’m actually glad my boss assigned me such a big center.”

We turned a corner and stopped behind a store that was out of business.

“That’s strange. I didn’t know they had apartments that were out of business here,” Suiko said, looking at the place.

I smirked wickedly as I told her the story; “oh, they do. I’ve been in this case for a while now. The owners and workers of the business all began to behave strange all of a sudden, and within a week later, they all died. What’s curious is that the deaths followed each other for a matter of hours, minutes, even seconds.”

“My god, that’s so terrible! Who could have done such a horrible thing? And how…?”

My eyes glinted bright red for a second, as my smirk grew darker; however, when I turned to face her once again, I was simply looking at her innocently, with only a small, harmless smile. “That might be something we will never know, Mrs. Kitachi.”

“You’re right…But, what are we here for? In such a scary place?” Suiko asked as Min slid behind her.

“Oh. I’m just reviewing my notes. We should be nearly done by now” I said, glancing at the scrap of paper I had been holding in my pocket.

Suiko blinked. “Nearly done…?”

A young woman silently stepped out of the shadows, walking closer to us.

I looked at her a little anxiously.

Suiko looked at her too. “Takeru…?”

Min stepped closer to Suiko.

The woman appeared, looking at me with her typical, dull gaze. She looked somewhat similar to me. As a matter of fact, she was my five-year older sister.

“About time you appeared, Kiyane. I was about to leave for good,” I said, smiling.

“No, you weren’t. I was a little busy.”

“With what, may I ask?” I asked.

“Tsunaro was annoying me. He wanted to come. I couldn’t trick him into staying, you know he’s too smart to buy it when it comes to eating” Kiyane said.

“HIYA, BIG BRO!” My two-year younger brother yelled, charging at me.

“…Tsunaro.” I muttered as I avoided him.

“Um, Takeru, do you know these two?” Suiko asked looking at Kiyane and Tsunaro.

“Well, of course I know them. They’re my siblings,”

“Your siblings? Are they reporters too?”

“Reporters? Is that really what you used to lure her, bro?” Tsunaro asked.

“It’s not like I had another option. She should be a good dessert, Kiyane, her soul smells sweet.”

“What are you talking about, Takeru?”

“Awesome, I’m starving here!” Tsunaro said, walking towards Suiko.

I stopped him, putting my arm in front of him. “Didn’t you hear me? I said she’s a present for Kiyane. And plus, she’s dessert.”

“C’mon, bro. Why didn’t you bring something for me too?”

“’Cause I had no idea you were coming, that’s why.”

“Well, little brother. Sad to break it to you, but it seems you’ll have to lure twice as many souls as before.”

“…You’re not serious. Do you have any idea how hard it is to lure a soul I’ve never seen before from a long distance? Leave alone hundreds of them. Besides, why don’t you do it yourselves? You have that monster form, what’s stopping you?” I asked, folding my arms, annoyed.

“Because you’re even better in this than we are, bro!” Tsunaro said, clinging to me.

I pushed him down.

“If anyone can lure so many souls without being suspected one bit, that’s you, Takeru” Kiyane said, folding her arms, looking at me dully.

I kept looking at her, and then I sighed, resigned. “What do you want?”

“I want fifty young male souls, thirteen average adult males’, five female children’s, and eleven teenagers’” Kiyane said.

“And I want two-hundred, twenty-seven young female souls, sixty-seven males’, eighty infants’, twenty children’s, and eleven teenagers’ as well!” Tsunaro said.

“Seventy-nine from Kiyane, plus four-hundred, five from Tsunaro, that makes it…Four-hundred, eighty-four souls?! What are you guys thinking?!”

“What? We’re hungry!” Tsunaro said.

“Why do you always eat so much, anyway?” I asked them, annoyed.

“Hey, don’t look at me; I don’t eat as much as he does” Kiyane muttered.

“C’mon, bro, hurry it up!”

“Alright, alright! Just shut up already” I said and closed my eyes. When I opened them, the irises were bright red, as well as my hair, and the marks that appeared on my face glowed.

That was as close as I could get to my monster form for the moment. I started to release waves of attracting aura, spreading them throughout the whole center. “Four-hundred…Eighty-four souls…Four-hundred, eighty-four human souls…” I whispered this in my demonic voice, summoning the souls I wanted.

“T-Takeru, what are you?!” Suiko yelled, horrified.

I crooked my mouth into a soulless smirk, and then glared back at her with my bright red, dark eyes. You…Will DIE, I thought.

She gasped, stepping back with terror as Kiyane walked to her slowly, smiling a tiny little.

I decided to look straight ahead as my sister dove on Suiko and began to devour her soul.

The people began to approach the place where we were. The four hundred, eighty-four humans I had requested.

“Well, that was quick. Hey, you two. Lunch just got here.”

“Ah, great, feeding time!” Tsunaro said, excited as Kiyane wiped her mouth slowly, her eyes starting to turn dark red, the same demonic marks appearing in her face.

“I ate the dessert first, Takeru” She said, walking closer to me.

“Doesn’t matter.”

“C’mon, sis, I’m starving!” Tsunaro said as the people stopped before them.

I rolled my eyes, and turned around. “Bon appetite.”

All the people yelled, trying to run away when Kiyane and Tsunaro finally revealed what they really were, and started to hunt them down, one by one. But it was useless to try. We were devils, so it was impossible for mere, powerless humans to outrun us.

I stopped, seeing Min shaking behind a cardboard box, whimpering. Smiled coldly, walking slowly to the box. It was impossible for humans to outrun us.

Or hide from us.

“Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. You’re scared, aren’t you, little girl? Yes. I can smell your fear. I can feel your terror. I can almost taste it” I whispered as I approached her refuge.

She whimpered more, trying to get away.

I chuckled, making her shiver. Then I pushed the box away, and she screamed, looking at me in utter horror, screaming for Suiko. “Oh, don’t worry, my dear girl. You will see your mother shortly. Very shortly.”

I snapped my fingers, and the girl moaned, falling on the floor, dying as I pleasantly heard the last feeble beats of her heart. I had stopped her heart from beating.


After about twenty minutes, my siblings and I were walking through the street as if nothing had happened in the back of that bankrupted business.

"So, how's your plan going, Takeru?" Kiyane asked me.

"Actually, it's running rather well.”

"I didn't get it when you explained it the first time. Could you explain it once again, bro?"

"That wasn't the first time, Tsunaro. That was the FOURTH time" I said as my eyebrow twitched in annoyance.

"Ohhhh...Still, could you explain it again?" He asked, and I sighed.

Then I looked over my shoulder cautiously, making sure no one was overhearing or anything of the sort. "As you know, I cannot transform into a monster, like you guys can." I said.

"We know" Kiyane said, folding her arms.

"Go on already!"

I frowned, annoyed at their impatience. Clearly, they were being really ungrateful to my careful details. Well, serves me right for trying to explain as clearly as possible.

"Hmph. Because I can't feed from the human souls thanks to that, I am planning to create chaos in another way, not the way we've been educated. I will turn Heaven into a second Hell, and will unleash both of their powers over the Earth, condemning all souls to be ours to devour. Once I do this, there will be no sign of angels around to interfere, and I will finally become the dignified ruler of Hell, Earth, and Heaven. Everybody will suffer my eternal domain of chaos" I said, smiling darkly and wickedly.

"...All this because you can't devour human souls like we do?" Kiyane asked; I gave her a look.

"C'mon, Kiyane, don't blow it! It sounds so beautiful, and...(Sob) Destructive...!"

"It does sound very interesting. But...How are you going to turn Heaven into another Hell?"

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO BLOW IT! But, she's right, though. How ARE you gonna do that, bro? Not that I'm not trusting you, it just sounds a little--"

I chuckled. “I already thought that over...And you're not going to like the answer."

"I'm not liking it already..." Tsunaro whispered, scurrying behind Kiyane.

Kiane rolled her eyes at her younger brother’s stupidity. "How are you going to do that?"

I smiled as I looked at them. “My siblings. I will make an angel become infatuated with me."

They kept staring at me; I waited for the expected reaction.

"WHAT?!” They yelled together.

"Are you insane?! How can you even think that?!"

"How can you be willing to risk your life like that?! What would infatuating an angel do?!" Kiyane asked, glaring at me.

"Well, if I convince said angel to use its holy powers to please me, I will doubtlessly have access through the sacred portals that shall take me to Heaven itself. After I have used the angel enough, I will kill it, corrupting its home with its cursed blood" I explained.

“...Woow. That's elaborated."

"But of course it is, you idiot! What I'm planning to do is complex, I'm planning to destroy the world here!" I said.

"In deed it is. But...I guess you know what you are doing, since you created this plan and sound so darn sure about it" Kiyane said.

“And, say, bro. What will the angel's gender be?"

I sighed. “A woman, of course.”

"Oh, awesome! I'll be able to rape her!" Tsunaro said, excited.

We stared at him.

"What? We're going to torture her, aren't we? This is one good torture I have here! And we'll both enjoy it, bro."

I punched him down.

"I hope you know how hard angels are to locate. Unless they're in their true form, one cannot find them" Kiyane said.

"She's right, bro! They're freaking impossible to find" Tsunaro said, standing up in less than a second.

"...I know. However, it's not as hard if you know what to look for. When they are in their human disguise, no human can equal such purity, beauty, and innocence."

"Well, it really does look like you know how you're gonna do your thing" Kiyane said as we stopped in front of a building.

"Um, can you two explain me why we have to be in college?" Tsunaro asked.

"Do you forget everything you're told...? Because we need a convincing human profile to avoid investigation."

"But, it doesn't make any sense! We could kill anyone that tried to investigate us and leave no trace behind, why in the name of Hell do we have to be among the souls we eat? It's completely disgusting!”

"Because we want to save ourselves any complications. Besides, you two could use a little adjusting to the human world. To get to know it better" I said, walking forward with ease.

We entered the apartment where we lived together with our younger half-sister, Myralein.

Myralein Tatsukiya was daughter of my mother and a human. Sixteen years ago, Mother was going to devour a man's soul, but instead she decided to abandon the three of us and leave with him, having a child. After having Myralein, she left again with another man, leaving Kino Tatsukiya with his daughter.

Her father didn't want to have anything that reminded him of Mother, so he came to us and deliberately left his child with us. I ended up killing him because he pissed me off, dumping the child of the woman I begrudged on us like we were supposed to take care of her. For some weird reason, though, I didn’t hold any grudge against Myralein.

"I'll take a shower. You guys can cook something for me while I'm at it" I said, walking to the stairs.

What?" Tsunaro asked, sitting up right on the sofa.

"Hey, I delivered your food, now you deliver mine. You can order pizza and take the delivery boy as a dessert."

"Sweet!" Tsunaro said, already on the phone.

I sighed and opened the door of the bathroom, finding Myralein about to put her bra on. "...Oh, crap."

She gasped, blushed, and then yelled so loud and high (damn, my eardrums really suffered torture) it was heard through the entire house.


Next I was in my room; Tsunaro was sitting on the chair beside me, looking at the side of my face that had the red mark of a hand. "…What were you doing in the bathroom when she was in there anyway, bro?"

"Shut up.”

"My, my. I didn't know you were that kind of guy, big bro.”

"I told you to shut the hell up!"

"Takeru, you pervert!! How dare you go into the bathroom when I was there naked?!" Myralein hissed at me from outside the room.

"Oh, you shut up too! Like I knew you were there! Besides, you had everything on; you were only missing the bra!" I yelled, sitting up from the floor, glaring back at her.

She blushed, opened the door and threw a basket full of clothes at me. "By the way! There's your stupid laundry!"

"You fool! Why did you throw it at me like that?!"

"And why not?! You pervert!"

"I am NOT a pervert, you idiot!"

"That's how you thank me after I wash all your clothes!"

"Just so you know, I never asked you to wash them in the first place!"

"You know what? Screw you!" She said, running out of the room.

"Hey, where are you going?!" I yelled, glaring at her from the door jamb.

"What's it to you!"

I growled angrily, and then dropped myself on the floor again. Maybe now I begrudged her.

Tsunaro just stared at me. "Whoa...That was flaming."

"Oh, shut up, will you?!"

Myralein was always annoying.


After dinner, I wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone anymore, so I just dropped on my bed and fell asleep. The day wasn't anything exciting, anyway. Most days were actually rather boring; especially the annoying fights with Myralein.

I dreamed of my plan. Of the angel I was going to use and then dispose of. I also dreamed of the dangers my plan would bring. But these did not matter. I WOULD reach my goal, whatever it took.