Chapter 2 - Micha and Ange (4/?)

"…Ah."

His usual face was back. Everything was back to normal, right eye and all.

Noticing the tension leave his face, the woman smiled his way again. His heart skipped a beat when he looking at her again and realized how beautiful she was.

"The world has begun to move."

She whispered to him with a meaningful alto voice.

"The world has begun to move with you at the center."

"Eh?"

"Gather heaven, earth, and hell and you will have everything. The entire world is revolving around you."

That was when he realized something else.

"I'll explain what's going on, since I'm sure you're frightened with all this strange stuff happening."

He recognized the strangely cute yet mature alto voice.

It was the voice he had heard over the phone earlier.

"Would you mind going on a date with me?"

After removing both Mutsuki's tension and caution, she gave him a playful wink.

The woman said her name was Jiyuuni Micha and Mutsuki decided to believe her for the time being.

At the very least, she was not his enemy. Or so he thought. She had told him to run away over the phone and she had defeated that slime with her fire. She had even made sure to give Chiaki a bath while the girl was still unconscious, so he decided to trust her for now.

Although it mostly came down to wanting someone to explain what was going on.

Micha dressed Chiaki and laid her on the sofa and Mutsuki left with Micha after his older sister returned home. He was riding on the back of Micha's motorcycle. It seemed to be an off-road motorcycle because its tires were as thick as a car's and its long frame had no extra accessories.

He quickly regretted climbing onboard.

"Waaahhhhhhh! J-J-J-J-J-Jiyuuni-san! Too fast! You're going too fast!"

"Call me Micha. Jiyuuni is a fake name for the human world, so I'm not used to responding to it."

"Fine! I'll call you Micha! But this is too fast! I'm going to fall off!"

"Then hold on more tightly. Just to be clear, you'll definitely die if you fall off."

He could only tremble as they moved so quickly the surrounding cars did not seem to be moving at all, but the woman did not slow down in the slightest.

In fact, she seemed to be enjoying this. When she saw him on the verge of tears, she laughed happily and squeezed the throttle even further.

"Uuh…"

He would normally have been too embarrassed to grab onto a woman he had only just met, but his life was on the line here. He wrapped his arms around her narrow waist lest he be thrown off the motorcycle entirely.

The motorcycle did not have a back seat or a luggage rack and he could not have balanced on the back tire's frame, so he was forced to share the one seat with Micha. By this point, her butt was resting on top of his thighs.

It was embarrassing, but his life really was in danger if he fell. He said "excuse me" and pressed his cheek up against her back. He felt more stable when pressing that tightly against her.

He had changed out of his soaking wet uniform, but the wind was cold and Micha's body warmth felt nice through her white coat. The scent of the adult woman was enough to embarrass him even further.

"Anyway, Mutsuki-kun."

"Y-yes?"

The wind would have drowned out her voice, but their close contact let him hear her through her body.

"I'm sure you've figured out by now that your body isn't that of a normal human."

He was having trouble focusing, but she began with the exact kind of talk he had expected.

"I'm perfectly normal."

"Even after what you did to Chiaki-chan?"

"…"

Had it really been his fault that approaching his sister had made her grow confused, piss herself, and pass out? Pain began to fill his heart.

"Don't worry. Although it is true that was due to your power. It was the power of the Serpent's Eye that appeared in your right eye, but that's sealed away right now."

"The Serpent's Eye?"

He recalled Lucia calling it that as well. When he thought back, he realized the black eye he had seen in the road mirror had been just like a snake's.

"Wh-what was that? Why did that happen to my eye?"

"It was unavoidable. From the moment god designed human DNA, it was made to create a bearer of the Serpent's Eye once every hundred or thousand years. It's just one of god's rules."

He had been born with it. That was the most hopeless explanation there was.

"The Serpent's Eye has a tremendous effect on the opposite sex. In other words, women. I'm sure you can tell based on what happened to Chiaki-chan. Just looking at them is enough to do that. If you wanted to, you could conquer half the world."

"Oh…"

"Ever since ancient times, the ones known in the human world as demons have been especially obsessed with that power. You saw them earlier, didn't you? There was that intelligent demon named Lucia and his followers, the Succubi. If they gain your power, it's game over for the human world."

"Um. Wait a second."

The boy frowned.

This was on such a large scale he was having trouble keeping up, but it all seemed a little too "out there". It was true his right eye – the Serpent's Eye – had caused Chiaki to faint just by looking at her, but it seemed like an exaggeration to say he could "conquer the world" with that.

The woman brushed back her blonde hair and looked back at him.

"You're so naïve♪"

"What?"

She gave him a coquettish wink and his heart skipped a beat.

His puzzled look seemed to delight her all the more.

And then…

"Excuse me, excuse me. You on the motorcycle, please stop."

A noisy siren suddenly started up and a voice shouted at them through a megaphone.

Mutsuki looked back and saw three police cars following them.

They were breaking the speed limit with two people on a one-person bike, so this result was hardly surprising. The boy could only sigh.

But…

"You two not wearing helmets, please slow down and pull over."

"Um…Micha-san?"

He mentally begged her to stop, but when she faced forward again, she twisted the throttle as if this were none of her concern. She was speeding up.

Mutsuki was on the verge of tears and he squeezed his arms around her waist even more. He had only met this woman fifteen minutes ago, but he could somehow tell she intended to lose them.

"Anyway, how far did I get?"

She calmly continued her discussion as the boy buried his face in her back due to the cold and his fear. She had raised her voice because the sirens were so loud, but that was the only change.

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