She whipped her head in the direction of the unfamiliar male voice. In front of her stood three men that seemed her age. They had a priceless expression as they stared at her. "W-who..." She started to respond to their previous comment. Mika fell to the ground, passing out from the shock of the traumatizing event earlier.
After a moment's hesitation, one of the young men walked over towards where Mika had fallen. "You don't s'pose she's one of them now?" The one who spoke up was named Menes Isa - he was also the same one that spoke up earlier. Rai had a dark complexion with dark wavy hair, but what stood out the most, were his piercing electric blue eyes. He knelt down, proceeding to pick her up.
It wasn't just a simple question. Before Mika fainted, the three men didn't just see a girl crying, rather a girl who had no eyeballs. Visually, it looked as if someone had gauged her eyes out, but that wasn't the case. It was just something temporary. Her eyes returned to their normal state as she fell out of consciousness.
"No... She just temporarily overused her powers." This time, another spoke up. Shou Bordeaux. Unlike Rai, he had a fair complexion, but similar to his companion, he had odd colored eyes - golden. To add upon his uniqueness, he had light pink hair. Something most normal people don't have. He sighed while making his way over towards the second girl. There was a moment of grief as he looked at the corpse and proceeded to pick her up, being delicate to the bruised body. "First of all, we need to take her to her family..."
Some time passed before Mika woke up. She opened her eyes slowly, noticing that everything was a blur. The girl sat up and looked around with confusion written all over her face. What she noticed, first of all, was that the bed she was lying in, wasn't hers. Next - was that it wasn't her room that she was in. Her brows furrowed and she frowned. 'Where am I?' Swinging her legs over the edge of the bed, she pushed herself off the mattress.
For a moment, she stopped and stood there, retracing her memories. There wasn't much that she could remember - just after school, she and Nao made her way back home. But - what was the stinging pain she kept on feeling in her chest? She bit her lower lip, pondering once more. ...Why don't I remember making my way home? Why... Her left hand gripped at her chest, scared that someone was going to rip her heart out of her chest. She closed her eyes tightly as she kept replaying the scene over and over again in her mind.
School, convenience store, park - home?
School, convenience store, park... home...?
School, convenience store, park...
School, convenience store, park...
Her eyes opened all of a sudden, while stumbling backwards back onto the bed. In her memories, she imagined a black dripping monster coming towards her. Sweat started to roll down her cheeks and her breath quickened. It was all coming to her. She remembered. She remembered. They were in the park, sitting innocently on the swings, talking about their day before they were engulfed in darkness. She remembered the screaming. The crying. She remembered Nao. Nao. Nao. Tears began to form. Mika remembered her best friend calling for her help, while she cowered, praying that everything was happening was a mere joke.
She covered her face behind trembling hands as everything became clear. She remembered seeing her best friend's lifeless body in the hands of the demon. She remembered how it shook Nao and taunted Mika. Her shoulders trembled and her cries came out as loud sobs.
It was a few minutes later before the door opened slowly. Shou peaked into the room with a worried expression painted across his face. Mika didn't notice the visitor until he knocked on the door. She quickly lifted her head and silenced her sobs into little hiccups.
"There's no need to stop." He spoke softly, "The best way to relieve pain is to cry it out." He made his way into the room, carrying a set of extra clothes.
"W-where am I?" Mika spoke slowly as she paid close attention to him. Her crying came to an almost stop but the hiccup continued on.
"You're at my house. We brought you back after you passed out. You slept for about twenty hours." There was a sympathetic smile to his response. "Here." He handed Mika the clothes. "You must be hungry." Mika took the clothes but made no comment. "If you want to eat, feel free to just head over to the kitchen. Just take a left and make a way downstairs and you'll hear a lot of voices. Just let it guide you to the kitchen." Mika nodded and stared down at her feet.
Shou headed back towards the door, "Oh, I'm Shou Bordeaux. Feel free to just call me Shou."
"I- I'm Mika." She quickly looked up as she noticed his presence growing smaller.
"Sorry that we had to meet under these circumstances, Mika." He nodded and closed to door behind him.
Her shoulders slumped as soon as she heard the click of the door. She sniffled a few times before standing up and making her way to the mirror that rested on the drawers. She stared at herself in the mirror for a moment, raking her fingers through her hair straightening them. Once that was done, she proceeded to move her fingers over her left eye, pressing into them lightly. It was gray unlike her right one which was brown. Mika was blind in her left eye. Aside from that, her eyes were puffy and red from the crying. She glanced down at her clothes, noticing that they were dirtied and caked with dried blood.
'Right, the clothes...'
Although Shou invited her down to the kitchen for some food, she didn't feel up to meeting whoever else was living in the house. She also didn't have much of an appetite with all the remembering she was doing. Even though the pink haired guy claimed that she slept for nearly twenty hours, Mika still felt exhausted. So, with doing just that, she laid back down on the bed and fell asleep almost immediately.
It was only a few hours later when she woke up. The lights that were previously on were turned off. She shut them tightly, afraid that it was another replay of the event in the park.
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