2 The Neverending Death In Little Garden

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"Talking"

'Thinking'

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𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓹𝓽 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝔂. 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓪 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓪𝓵. 𝓐𝓷 𝓲𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓪𝓵. 𝓐 𝓰𝓸𝓭. 𝓝𝓸𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮, 𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓿𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓰𝓮.

𝓐𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓮.

𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝓘 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓼𝓪𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓪𝓶𝓮...

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"Wha-?"

"Kya-!"

"...!"

Before the eyes of the four children, their scenery had all changed drastically as they were all now finding themselves falling through the sky. Despite their current situation of falling from a height of most definitely more than three thousand meters, they all couldn't help but wonder the exact same thing as they kept falling.

'Where is this?!"

They looked around to find themselves falling through a foreign scenery that had unfolded before their very eyes. Looking towards the horizon, their gazes met what appeared to be a steep fall that was acting as if it was the edge of the world. A strange massive covered area beneath them as well, the sheer size of what they assumed might have been a city confusing them greatly.

Taking this in, they all knew one thing... this was an entirely different world altogether.

They all looked down to see that they were all heading towards what appeared to be a large lake of sorts. They didn't really react too much before finding themselves having crashed right into the lake, resulting in a large splash to occur. It was expected as the altitude that they had fallen was incredible. It was a miracle they had survived.

Well, Kosuka felt that some kind of barrier slowed their fall near the end.

When they all managed to swim back up to the surface, they all quickly made their way to the edge of the lake while not at all looking at one another. They just quickly made their way and pulled themselves onto solid ground, to which they all began silently drying themselves off as they wrung out the water from their clothes.

"I seriously cannot believe they would just toss us into the sky without a warning in advance!" Asuka complained as her white shirt was soaking wet. Due to it being white, the water revealed her undergarments. Though, none of the others seemed to care at all as they were all drying themselves off like her. "If they messed up, all of us would be ground pizza!"

"No kidding. Without the water, it would have been a game over for sure." Izayoi agreed as he flicked his hair to dry himself. The blonde then turned to look towards the black-haired girl, Asuka, as he narrowed his eyes slightly at the other three. "So, it seems we're all in the same predicament. Who are you guys anyway?"

"Shouldn't you introduce yourself first, Mr Mean Looking Highschool Boy?" Asuka frowned as she turned her head to look towards the blonde as she placed her hands on her hips. The other two in the group a few meters away from them as they were busy with themselves. Izayoi just calmly responded.

"Meh. So, you guys got the same letter?"

"Yes, yes I did." Asuka was the one that answered first as she then gave him a slight glare. "Also, would you mind not addressing us as if we're old friends. "My name is Asuka Kudou, and don't you forget it. Well, how about telling us your name, cat girl."

Asuka had brought her attention down towards Yo as she was seen crouching down beside Calico Cat, helping him dry off his fur. The girl in question looked behind her shoulder slightly towards the blonde and the other female before she responded. "Kasukabe Yo. I'm in the same situation as the rest of you..."

"Very well. Nice to meet you, Kasukabe." Asuka nodded. She then looked towards the blonde. "Okay, how about you, mean face? Does a name come with your incredibly uncivilised and savage-looking appearance?"

"Wow, I appreciate that rather pompous self-introduction." Izayoi grinned before he crossed his arms and smirked towards her. "Just as you said, I am uncivilised and savage. The name is Sakamaki Izayoi. Completely vulgar, brutal, and hedonistic. All that I need to be the most hopeless person to ever exist! So, I would advise you to follow the rules and guidelines when interacting, Little Missy."

Asuka just gave him the biggest deadpan she could ever muster after having heard his introductions. "I'll make sure to think about it if you happen to give me a manual with all these guidelines that you speak of..."

"Ah~. I'll make sure to prepare something then!" Izayoi grinned before turning his head towards the fourth member of their group. The male in question currently sitting down on a fallen over tree as he let the water run off and dry in the sun, though his hair was still quite wet as droplets dripped off. "How about you, kid?"

Kosuke, the male that appeared only a year younger than the cat girl, just turned his head towards the other three. This allowed them to blink as they saw his rather dead silver eyes, which displayed no amount of emotion at all. The male just responded simply, the mask covering his mouth moving due to him speaking.

"Kosuke..."

"Kosuke... Who?" Izayoi asked with a smile.

"Just call me Kosuke."

"Yeah, but what about a last name?"

"JUST Kosuke."

"Okay, okay." Izayou held his hands up in surrender as his smile didn't leave his face. Kosuke's face may not display any emotion, but the coldness in his tone was prominent, sending shivers down the two female's spines as Izayoi just kept his smile. He may be a brute, but he could tell that he was stepping into sensitive territory.

As they doing their own things, with Asuka and Izayoi seemingly glaring at one another as electricity danced between their gazes, a certain blue-haired bunny girl could be seen hiding in the bushes close by observing them all. She also had shivered upon having heard the cold tone that Kosuke had used.

'A-Ah... they all seem to be problem children!' The bunny girl shouted inside her mind as she continued to observe them from the bushes. While she did summon them here to this world, she felt like they wouldn't really be able to cooperate with one another. Not at all. All she could do was release a melancholic sigh.

As seemingly nothing happened for the next few minutes, Izayoi seriously began to become irritated as he tapped his foot impatiently on the ground as he kept his arms crossed over his chest. "It's all dandy that we got summoned here, but why isn't anyone here? A situation like this usually has someone explaining about this 'Little Garden' we were told about."

"Certainly. Without any form of explanation, there isn't much meaning to leaving this place."

As the two were saying this, the bunny girl was rustling around uncomfortably as she couldn't find a good situation to jump in, pun not intended. If the group were to panic some more about their current situation then it would allow her an opening to jump out. But, with how things were going right now, there was no appropriate time!

She was seriously getting cold feet!

"I suppose we should just ask the one hiding in the bush."

Hearing this, the rabbit girl panicked massively and ducked down at rapid speeds. Asuka just gave Izayoi an impressed look as the male was staring towards the bushes. Yo and Kosuke just still minding their own business as this took place. "Impressive, rude boy. I didn't expect you to have noticed their presence."

"Whatever. I'm just good at hide and seek. Nothing more." Izayoi then looked back towards Yo and Kosuke. "I assume that both of you also noticed them, Cat Lady? Emo Kid?"

"I smelt them more than I saw them."

"Noticed them before we even landed..."

"Hoh~? You're both quite interesting." Izayoi said with an interested look on his face upon hearing their responses. Meanwhile, the rabbit girl was still in a massive panick as she seriously had no idea what to do in this situation. She hadn't expected them to know she was here! "Oi! Come on out already. We know you're there!"

"Y-You know, you really shouldn't act so scary when..."

"If you're not going to come out, then I'll force you!" Izayoi shouted as the rabbit girl poked her head out, but not completely. Though, she began panicking once more when Izayoi suddenly leapt more than ten meters into the sky before rocketing down towards the tree that the rabbit girl was hiding behind.

The two females in their group didn't show it, but were rather surprised by his physical capability. Kosuke didn't react at all and remained sitting on the tree as his eyes remained closed.

"A-Ahh~!"

The rabbit girl screamed out in terror as the ground exploded and the tree was uprooted. She had barely managed to avoid being hit as Izayoi just calmly looked towards her, though he soon gained a confused look, along with Asuka and Yo as they stared at her rather bizarre choice of clothing.

"What with her outfit?"

"Cosplay perhaps?"

"Wh-What? No! Black Rabbit does not cosplay! This is just- ah!" The one now known as Black Rabbit stopped her sentence as she noticed Izayoi heading straight down towards her again with another kick. She then backflipped back quickly and onto the branch of a tree to avoid being hit. "Pl-Please wait! I- ah~!"

Yo had suddenly appeared on one of the other branches before pouncing at her in a similar fashion to an animal. Though Black Rabbit managed to continue dodging and avoiding the young girl as Yo continued to chase after her through the trees. This didn't last long before Asuka soon used her powers as she held her hand forwards.

"𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬. 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!"

As soon as Asuka gave those command, the birds of the surrounding area suddenly began to flock towards Black Rabbit. This resulted in the bunny girl panicking while waving frantically around mid-air to try and force the birds away from her. Though, this, unfortunately, didn't work as she soon came falling down to the ground.

"O-Ow~... that really hurt!"

Black Rabbit soon froze when Izayoi, Asuka and Yo stopped right in front of her while she was on the ground.

"So, who are you?"

"W-Wait, I'm not your enemy!"

As this was going on, Kosuke was still sitting down calmly without making a sound. He soon opened his eyes and looked to see Black Rabbit struggling as the three others were pulling on her rabbit ears, causing the rabbit girl to feel flushes as she was trying to get them to stop as she continued to struggle.

Though, to no avail.

Kosuke just sighed at the sight as he decided to not get involved.

He was just going to wait for them to finish.

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