1 Prologue - Protagonist?

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Hikaru sat up after his eyes opened to a sight of blood, a decapitated black cat and a girl… who was staring back at him as if he were a ghost that had suddenly appeared. She had tears stained black by her eyeliner and was holding a cell phone to her ear.

"Who…" Hikaru said in a faint voice but then he noticed her school uniform matches his school.

"You're a third-year… class 2-E Aimi, Harue-san."

"!" She inhaled and placed her hand close to her mouth. Her cheeks were slightly red.

'Is this the time to blush?' He thought.

"You recognized me? Oh wait… ye-yes, it's an emergency" she said into the phone.

"Wait. I'm fine." Hikaru interrupted her.

"Ehh!? But there's blood on you!"

"That I'm certain, but I'm fine. Please stop the call." He said assertively. "Will you trust me?" He earnestly asked.

"!"

"… Do you still need the ambulance? Hello," the operator said with a hint of irritation in her voice. She thought this to be a non-emergency situation.

Aimi snapped back to reality.

"Ahh yes, I mean no, sorry to bother you, thank you." She hurriedly replied.

'How am I going to explain this ordeal with her?' He contemplated.

"Hikaru-san… Is it alright if I call you that?"

"Yes, the rumours you heard are true."

Hikaru was referring to the rumours that stated that he didn't like to be called by his last name despite etiquette. The students at school suspected that he didn't like his sir name for some reason.

His sir name was Suteki which meant "lovely" or "wonderful". However, he knew the real reason why his father named him after his favourite dish. Suteki also meant "steak". No one else knew that though.

"I… I wasn't…" She stuttered.

"It's okay. It would make it easier if everyone knew what to address me as. Instead, I must ask you to get used to it. Thank you, Harue-san."

"th-thank you. You're welcome Hikaru-san." She smiled with a deepened blush. "Are you really okay?"

"Yes. Fortunately, this blood isn't even mine. Why are you here?"

"But I saw something on your face!"

"You saw that?"

Hikaru wondered how much she saw. Did she see the parasite enter his body?

"Yes. By the time I rushed over, it had disappeared! It could still be around!"

"Not at all. This is very hard to explain but I know it won't be back. Trust me."

"It won't come back?" she asked sounding confused.

Hikaru didn't know if she's the superstitious type, but he believes he can convince her that it was some sort of spirit or curse, as deeply rooted in Japanese superstition. Hikaru thought that it would be easy to convince her to keep it a secret since she was clearly into him.

"Yes. I don't know if you believe in spirits Harue-san, but eh?" A strange expression crept upon his face.

"What's wrong!"

"I don't know…"

He started getting dizzy and salivated a lot. It felt like motion sickness.

"I think I'm feeling very starved…" He said as his vision blurred.

"Geeeeh" He heaved. After sudden nausea went away, he saw that there was clear viscous vomit on the floor.

"I-I'll call the ambulance after all!!" she snapped and brought out her phone.

"Gahhhh!" Tentacles ripped through his shirt and twisted themselves around her. Her shock made her drop the phone.

"Ahhhhh!" She screamed. She struggled to pull the tentacles off, but it was too difficult just using her hands.

"AGH! Stop!" Hikaru yelled as he tried pulling them off her.

"Hikaru!! Please let me go!"

"I can't it's not me! It's the thing! I can't control it!"

Aimi grabbed hold of the kitchen bench as it was reeling her in like a fish.

"AGHHHHH" He screamed in pain. Aimi was slashing at his tentacles with a knife she took from the knife block. It felt like another set of arms were being cut off from him.

"You BITCH! You're HURTING ME!"

Aimi looked at me desperately with tears and snot.

"I'M SORRY! I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. ITS GOING TO KILL ME. I HAVE TO KILL IT. PLEASE SAVE ME!"

'What am I thinking?' He thought.

The tentacles are a part of him now. He might bleed out to death if she kept hacking at him. If she gets away, everyone will go hunt him down. There's no need to pretend anymore. Besides, he felt like he was going to starve to death. He needed to kill Aimi.

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He made a ball with his fists and swung at her face. Her head shot back, and his fridge made a clanging sound. She looked back at him with shock and when she screamed, he could see a tooth missing. Presumably, the tooth flew out and bounced off the fridge.

Hikaru smacked her face again and she fell backwards but the tentacles wouldn't let her upper body fall onto the tiles. Instead, her feet held the ground and she hanged backwards with the tentacles around her like a safety harness.

The tentacles pulled her in sensing she stopped struggling but then she threw her knife-wielding arm at Hikaru with the momentum.

Hikaru caught the blade with his hand as it cut his palm. He pushed the pain aside and clutching onto the knife, he forced the tip backwards and plunged it into her neck. She froze with widened eyes as she wallowed in the pain.

Hikaru threw the knife away and grabbed her by the head and then shoved her into his chest with the tentacles. Blood sprayed all over his body, but it stopped spilling onto the floor when his chest seemed to merge with her wound. The blood was now being sucked into Hikaru with a squelching sound at every pump.

He felt the dizziness go away. He tried pulling her head off, but her body was stuck to him like hot glue. When he looked closely, Hikaru could see that her body was slowly sinking into him.