I threw a petal of the rose in the direction I sensed an aura. It was our target. That deceit must have some sort of camouflage. The deceit turned its head towards me with a horrifying grin.

“That’s not a nice way to greet someone.”

“Using dirty tricks like camouflage isn’t very formal either.” 

My weapon is Crimson. It’s a seal that takes the form of a five petal rose and every petal is a form of a lock. Once a petal strikes something or someone, it unlocks that ability that the petal had sealed off. The first petal allows me to slowly poison the enemy.

The Deceit quickly moves far ahead of us and leans into an intimidating stance. He tries to snatch the petal out of its neck, but it didn’t even budge. He quickly gives up and starts to laugh. 

“Yo, Deceit. I’m going to need to give you a name so that we can name this case something after I kill you.” The deceit looks up into the cloudy sky. Out of nowhere, rain started pouring. Is he some kind of weather deceit? The deceit opened its mouth while pointing at me with its head leaned back in an odd position. 

“Ruina Cael.” 

“Write that down, Mayumi.” Mayumi grabs a pen and a handbook from his suitcase. I turn my attention back at the deceit. I start to observe it’s appearance. It wouldn’t come off as a deceit even if you were a special rank of the DES. It looked like a casual pretty boy with red dyed hair and very smooth looking skin. 

The deceit starts doing stretches as if its waiting for somethig  to happen.  I take another petal from the rose and start to aim to towards Cael. It starts flying in Cael’s direction and he maneuvers it and rushes towards me with extreme speed. I’m able to jump around him, draw the petal that missed Cael back towards me, and threw it into his neck. 

Second hit. The second petal thankfully slows down the speed of an opponent to the same level of my own. 

“Tell me your ability, I need that for the documents also.” Cael turns in my direction and gives me a sly grin. 

“Acceleration.” That explains his high speeds. But does that mean that my second petal is now rendered useless? I’ve never fought an opponent with a speed enhancing ability at all. Cael gets in a stance. I thought he was coming for me but he instead dashes towards Mayumi. 

“WATCH OUT, MAYUMI!” Mayumi and Cael trade blows. Cael rips his eye out and Mayumi cuts one of Cael’s arms off. Damn it. Is he already going to die? This isn’t a first for me I suppose. Mayumi grunts and gets on his knees while covering his eye. I throw another petal at Cael’s neck and it strikes. 

This petal unlocks 50% of the power of my Shinkuro. Cael rushes at me again but at a slower speed. It seems he really has slowed down. It was obvious since Mayumi was able to even remove limb from him. I’m able to grab Cael and pin him down. I stab him with the last two petals and open my mouth.

“Sanguis Ruptis!” I snap my fingers and one of the petals make a huge explosion of blood. I rip out one of the petals and turn it into a blood knife. I raise it and quickly lower it at Cael’s throat…

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The three of us are on top of a roof in the Shimogyo ward. I followed Mythgoris’s directions on where to go. She told me that the executioners that were suppose to be carrying out the operation were going to arrive here. I informed Mya and Nex about the plan on our way here, but it seemed like they were zoned out. 

“How long are we gonna be sitting here…” Nex sighs loudly. 

“Just give it a few more minutes.” 

I start to see two people on the road walking together. It was hard to get a good at them but I could tell by the color of their clothing that they were the DES. Mythgoris starts speaking in my head. “60 seconds.”

I start to wear a worried expression. “Only 60? That’s such a short time! How strong are those executioners?”

“It’s only the cute girl that's strong. The other one is just some push over.” Mythgoris starts to chuckle. 

If that other guy is nothing to be worried about, then that will make this way easier. I redirect my focus on the executioners and the fight has already escalated. Mya pulls out her scythe and Nex stands on the edge of the building. Looks like they weren’t completely ignoring my plans. 

“Once you see blood flying, attack.” Mythgoris says in an urgent voice. I relay the message to Mya and Nex. Nex creates a woldo out of thin air and I do the same with the seal. I’m scared. On our way here, Mythgoris kept telling me how that if we fail this, the world will fall. Saying that I hold the fate of the world in my hands and that I’m a messiah. It was all weird but also frightening.

A loud splashing noise erupted along with the oddly satisfying sight of blood being splashed all over the city. This was our cue. Nex jumps towards the woman and Mya goes for the other DES executioner. I jump down and wait for Nex to make an opening. He lands his foot on the woman's face and aims his weapon at her but she attempts to slash Nex with a blood knife. Nex jumps back and opens his mouth.

“Sorry if I messed up your good lookin face, but we’re gonna need that guy.” Nex raises his weapon. “And I’m not afraid to kill an executioner. I’ll gladly be hunted down and kill more of you.” The woman has a dumbfounded expression on her face. It looked so funny that I accidentally began to laugh. 

“Are you three kids together?” A petal from the deceits neck flies into Nex. “Taking such a young life hurts me so much every time.” She position her hands as if she is about to snap her fingers, but Mya throws her scythe and cuts her hand off. The woman smirks and stares Mya who was behind her. 

“Now!” Nex grabs the deceit and throws it towards me. I get the seal and stab it inside of the deceit’s chest. The entire seal sunk into the deceits body like quicksand.  I catch the deceit and carried it on my back. “We need to go!”

The executioner that is missing an eye starts talking in a shaky voice. “No… we need… t-to… kill! Daitan Yukimura!!!” I knew he looked familiar. It was a extremely pathetic and wounded Mayumi. The woman goes over to Mayumi. 

“Let them run. Our job here is done. We won.”

End of Prologue