To The Reign Empire

Maou has long since gone while Kuro was stressing things out. He figured out that his voice will not reach Kuro so he decided that it was pointless waiting around.

As such, Kuro woke up from his stress. "Ye-yes, what is it? Ayame-chan."

Ayame said worriedly. "Are there something stressing you?"

Which then, this expression from her surprised Kuro. "Would you leave me if my future appearances turned to be a more girly rather than cool…?"

Even though Kuro has grew up more faster, rotten quicker than children, he was still a children. If a girl he is interested into said that she will dislike him, it'll be an huge impact to his confidence in the growth.

As an author who hav-… as 17 experienced it, he knows that feeling. The feeling of liking some only to be rejected.

Due to this question of childish Kuro, the little girl who has silver hair couldn't hep but hold her stomach and explode in laughter. "Hahaha! You were worried about trivial thing such as that?"

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"It's not a trivial thing!"

But then, Ayame disagreed with him once again. "No it's a trivial thing! You will meet many more people from now on. Someday in the future, you will forget about me."

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"But right now, you're the most important person to me! Besides, I will never forget about what you did for me, what I owe to you!"

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Even though Nakiri was half-playing, some of her word carried a nature of what she thinks about herself. But she didn't notices it. "Even I may not seems like it, I have lived for more than 1,500+ years! So I have more life experience compared to you. Memory is but an information. Someday, time will wash it up clean."

"No matter how much important to you when you're a children, in the end, you will forget about me!"

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Kuro looked at her. Deep into her eyes. It's as if, she don't want to expect something from someone anymore. "…why don't you be more confident in yourself, more?"

After saying his last word to her, Kuro left the place with all his might, without sparing any efforts.

Without noticing the tears flowing down Ayame's face. "This is why I don't want to get serious over something… it always ends up badly."

The moment she saw the pained looks in Kuro's face, she knew that she messed up something and she don't know about what she messed up. But the pains of other can be the enjoyment of other, at the same time, it can also be the causes of pains to other.

"ah… it's Kuro's birthday tomorrow…"

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"Shit. I messed up. I've let my emotion get into me. If it was 17 or 21, they could have shrugged it off easily."

"Was I seeking for her 'trust' that much? Did I felt that I deserved more trust than se should give me? Or did I want her to be more confidence in herself? Damn it. What did pisses me off? Why can't I understand about myself more?"

"Then I'll just ask 17 or 21."

'You there?'

'…'

'…'

'You sleeping?'

'Dead?'

'Gone?'

'Where're you guys?'

'This is not a good time to be joking around.'

Without knowing it, the person he relies the most, himself, was not there.

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'Whilst at it le-let's enjoy the temporal freedom I have… and, return to her tomorrow.'

…Can I return to her place tomorrow?

…Aren't she angry at me for being angry at her for no reason?

T-t-t-trust her… she, she's not the type of person to be this easily angered.

When my Chrono Trigger (Kuro's Trigger) has activated and I hurt, she didn't get angry at me, though so, it should be fine!

But mental attacks and physical attacks is entirely different conceptions.

Ah shit, I am so scared…

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Something appeared from inside the forest but Kuro didn't notice it.

As it got closer to Kuro, it eventually raised it's arm and, placed it to Kuro's hand. "Yo, Kuro."

Kuro screamed as if he saw a ghost. "UWAA&@#F4*@"

Maou in his disguise form looks surprised to Kuro. "You can scream that loud?"

"W-whaddya want? Wanna fight?" As if to hides his embarrassment, Kuro said with gangster accent.

Maou just decided to ignore that. "Wanna come to Reign Empire with me? You want an iVhone, right?"

"Oh, ou… since I don't have anything to do…, ah, wait a minute. Before I go lemme wear my caps" Although it's crude and honestly uncomfortable to wears, it hides his forehead, and eyes.

Maou looked confused at Kuro. "What is that for…?"

"2 years later, I'm going to get sold at Child Auction, right? Just in case, I shouldn't let people see me, although I doubt someone can even remember a stranger they saw 2 years ago."

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"That's true. I also don't want to get misunderstood of having a daughter."

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"How rude of you I am a boy." Kuro looked at Maou half-pissed, half-smiling.

"Hah! I pissed you in purpose because you are basically scamming me into buying you an iVhone."

"Tch, you're quite petty considering how strong you are, aren't you?" Kuro also mocked Maou.

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"Oh, by the way, Kuro. When're you taking off that aura? You know, you can't go around the town wearing dark aura like that."

"Now that you point it… no wonder my view is a little bit darker. It's not because the sun has set, but because of this dark aura. Can you do something about it?" Kuro pointed to the dark mist covering his body surfaces.

"Well I'll try." Maou's irises turned golden. as he flickered his finger, the dark mist bounced off, and it stop sticking from Kuro.

It was now in the ground, although, the darkness still remained strongly, stuck in the ground.

"Ohh, it's much lighter right now… not that much different. It's like wearing sunglasses or taking it off. By the way, Maou. Eliminate that darkness not just take it off. Although it's something that came inside me, I don't know what it can do. It may grows up on its own and bring an harming changes not only to her, but this forest."

Kuro pointed to the darkness stuck on the ground. 'Now that I look at it, it's quite darker than from the view inside. Although it's so dark, it feels transparent to me. Like, no matter how dark it is, I can see what's past it. Maybe I can use this at battle?'

Maou sighed. "For a child you really demands many things to demon king, aren't you?"

"Shut up, I am having an existential crisis right now, and I am trying to not think about it. Don't remind me about that. :P"

Ignoring Kuro's complaint, Maou's palm pointed toward the darkness and gripped it, before crashing it to nothingness.

"Ohh, that looks cool." Kuro glimmered his pupils (if there's any glimmers left) to Maou. Because that demonstration seemed like the 'force' from short youtube video he saw.

"That's right, human. Praise me." At this sentences of his, Kuro remembered that he was talking to Maou.

"Sure whatever. Let's go already." So, he lost a portion of astonishment he had.

The two flew off, rather, one carried the another one for them to fly off. This time, their speed wasn't nearly fast as when Maou rushed to Kuro's tree house. This was because both of them wanted to laze off.