Intrusive Feelings. 004

Firstly, you must try to create a bond with our first target. His name is Brandon Kyle. He is studying in our school, Jarret View. He surprisingly seems to be studying in your class, here is a picture of him. That was the first text. The second was a picture of the student, Brandon. I do not have a habit of remembering all of my classmates' names but this boy seems slightly familiar. If I remember correctly, he is a back-bencher. I've never really seen him being interactive or attentive in class. Sounds like a typical back-bencher. 

Reminder: While creating a friendship chain between yourselves, be extra cautious and DO NOT let your guard down. Make sure you don't make a single blunder during this step. Not even a single one. Neither utter it nor show it in actions. That was the third text. He sounded like an A.I. in this one for some reason. I shouldn't make any mistakes, eh? I'll remember that. But first things first, create affinity and bond with a total stranger?! I barely know anything about him, how am I even supposed to approach him? Does Denis even know what I am not the type of person to walk up to someone so casually and start conversations? This already seems tough from the beginning. 

Secondly, after you have created a successful chain of friendship between him, you should kindly invite him to the football field on a certain day and time which I'll be telling you after the first step. That was the fourth text. Bring him to the football field, eh? Kindly....so that means I must invite him to the football field in a convincing way. I am being a hundred percent meticulous in everything Denis is saying right now. The following fifth text was nothing but, Today is Wednesday, your deadline is next week Monday. Make sure you are at least something to be called 'good friends' with him before Monday. I see now. This small amount of time wouldn't be enough for us to be called 'best friends' with him. This is going to be hard. Boys usually prefer befriending boys, it wouldn't be that hard if it were a girl but...I should scheme it accordingly now. 

I went downstairs for dinner. The deadline is Monday....This isn't going to be easy. Not a piece of cake at all. I have horrible socializing skills, I am just terrible at starting conversations. Well, I'll have to try, I don't know what kind of person this Brandon guy is. After I was done with my dinner I headed upstairs. I entered my room. 

"Keiko Andro Marion. Can thou hear me?" I heard a voice from behind as I felt those cold hands rubbing my shoulder blades which actually felt like I was being abused but not really. 

"Yes, I can hear you quite well, Makkura. That wicked voice of yours." I can easily feel it's cold presence behind me, it felt like my body temperature was going down. 

"Grah. Well well well, looks like thou didn't listen to my words and thou acted on thy own. What a pessimistic, disobedient little brat thou art."

"You are acting like some old geezer right now, you know that?"

"That is because I am 379 years old. I used to be a plain old dire wolf who thrived in the rich woods of this country thou art living in currently."

"So you were an actual wolf before despite your appearance being all corrupted and grotesque?" I asked as Makkura came in front of me. I took a full head to tail glance of it. "You seemed to have lived for quite a long time and what was the cause of you turning into such a monster?" I asked which kind of seemed like something rude to ask. I am still not aware of whether this thing even has emotions and feelings or not. I can't judge it from it's appearance. 

"There is a long long story behind it. I do not wish to disclose it so easily."

"Oh, that's fine." I said as I took another small glance at this feisty beast from head to tail. I didn't properly realize this until now. The gem engraved on it's chest was in an ice cold blue color. The gem which is part of my necklace is the exact opposite. A fire red color. It also resembled a fire-ish theme. But…there was just a tiny little portion of the same exact blue color placed at the very edge of the top portion of the necklace. I wanted to know…the answer to this now, to quench my curiosity. 

"Art thou wondering why thy necklace and my gem art both different?" It asked as it caught me looking at my necklace.

"Yes, you could say that."

"Well. There art two entities residing inside of thy necklace including me myself." It said pointing one of it's four fingers at my necklace. "I am the most active out of the total two. Thy necklace is the source of our powers and sustenance." 

"What and who is the other one who resides inside of my necklace?"

"Burnsmith. It resembles a phoenix-looking creature."

"A phoenix? So just like you it used to be just an ordinary phoenix thriving in the skies of wherever or….?"

"From what I recall, it was not a phoenix before. Burnsmith was a majestic golden eagle."

"I see…..it got reincarnated into a phoenix?"

"Aye, thou could interpret it that way."

"Got it. Why is it only you appearing and making contact with me and not Burnsmith?"

"Burnsmith is unable to wake up from it's long long hibernation."

"Huh? Hibernation? It hibernates?"

"I am not completely sure. Burnsmith is either in an eternal sleep or is hibernating for an unusually long time or has simply died and perished in it's sleep perhaps due to starvation."

"Oh. How long has it been asleep?"

"107 years right now."

"...…." I stood there inaudibly. 

"Thou shalt face some true dire consequences now."

"W-W-What?!" I stood there puzzled

"How dare thou disobey my advice."

"Um....I understand what you art trying to say right now b-but—" before I could finish what I was trying to say Makkura picked it back up.

"But what? He is the real danger thou have now. Forget the swindler, I have to help you deal with him now."

"....." I looked up at Makkura, eye-to-eye this time because I was looking at that gem this whole time while having this awkward conversation. "He seems to be someone who is very intrigued about the concept of this elements, entities, etc. and is on the stake to exorcise and execute all the users who bear such power."

"Thou art partially right. But he doesn't really want to 'exorcise' and 'execute' the users, he instead wants such accessories and the only way to achieve them is to either manipulate the users and make them be at his beck and call otherwise simply slaughter them to unwind it right from their necks."

"....so in short he wants those accessories and wants to use them for his own personal and selfish purposes?"

"Not for his purposes, but I can sense that that boy must be working under someone." 

"Maybe he is getting paid, so?."

"I can easily tell that he has recently gotten engaged into this work."

"This is against us, right?"

"Not really, I feel like it's mixed. Very mixed. Could be against us or it could be even supporting us."

"In what way is it supportive."

"I cannot disclose too much."

"Aren't you supposed to be helping me in this, whatever you art scheming on, that is."

"Thou art like a mere infant in this. Thou have no experience in this sort of thing at all."

"Well, I am just a typical teenager at the moment, I wouldn't know much, it just recently starting occurring to me. All these predicaments I keep getting into. All this suffering."

"They art signs which mean something, if thou figured it out yet or not, I still wonder."

"I know they are due to the accessories but—"

"But what? Thou keep using that 'but' for almost everything right now. Makes me sick."

"You sure do care about yourself first, don't you?"

"I care about nothing."

"...…" 

"There is no going back now, so listen to me at least now, thou little brat." It shut me off with those words. "Thou have made it even worse, but I sorted out something while I was inside of thy necklace. Whatever thou do, just act like thee do not know a single thing about this. Do not utter a single word about this. There will surely be dire consequences to thy blunders." It said as it crouched down to face me eye-to-eye clearly. 

"Elaborate."

"....?"

"About these accessories and the powers they each hold."

"I cannot disclose much but the one thing I can say is that," It paused as it's small black snout came closer to my face. "There art several other entities like myself. They were once my playmates. They were like my brothers and sisters even though we had to abandon our true sexes. We all prefer 'it'."