Chapter 27: Ch 25: A Calamity?
Zircon looked at the man who seemed to have some similar features with Irina, who was now unconscious due to the shock of seeing someone die, even if that 'person' was the devil who attacked them.
Both of them were in guard. Zircon because he could feel the hostility coming from the man, who was pointing his light sword towards him. In the case of the man, he was wary due to the child with an unknown power.
(Maybe a Sacred Gear user.) The man thought.
Alas, even if he was a child, he seemed to be stronger than an normal one. He was even capable to wound severely a devil. Even if the devil was a low-class being, he was still a devil, and he was stronger than a normal human was.
However, there was another thing that bothered him. The eyes of the child when he was about to kill the devil, they had both hesitation and determination. Both of them contradictory feelings.
Zircon then noticed that the man was turning his gaze between him and Irina.
"Who are you? Asked Zircon without lowering his guard.
"It's a little rude to ask someone's name without saying yours." Said the man. He wanted to get more information about the child who might be a Sacred Gear user.
Zircon was dubious of the man who asked him to say his name, but if his suspicions about his identity were, correct, then he preferred to not engage a combat with him.
"Kusakabe Zircon."
"Kusakabe?" Muttered the man. (Why does his last name sounds familiar?)
"Now it's your turn." Said Zircon with a flat tone.
The man snapped out from his thoughts. "I am-"
However, before he could even say his name, he felt something sharp pressing his throat. He widened his eyes in surprise. He couldn't even feel the presence of the one holding the knife.
He tried to move in an attempt to escape, but the knife started to press his throat even more after noticing his movement.
"If you want to live, throw your weapon." Said a female voice in a demanding tone.
She clearly wasn't in the mood to negotiate. He knew that he wasn't in conditions to have a fight in that moment, so as she told him to do, he dropped the hilt of the sword and its blade made of light began to fade off.
Once the hilt fell on the floor, his captor loose the pressure of the blade on his throat, allowing him to relax and take a breath. Then, his attention went towards Zircon, his strange mask was gone now, and oddly enough, by his expression he seemed to be shocked and happy.
"Asa-" He was about to speak in a cheerful tone, but he suddenly stopped when he saw the woman's angry expression.
"Why did you walked away without saying anything?" Asako was definitely not happy. "Do you have any idea of how worried Yuria and I were when we couldn't found you?!"
Zircon kneeled as if it was a natural response, and he felt some tears on his eyes. This was the first time that he saw Asako so mad at him, and it make him feel guilty.
"S-Sorry." He stuttered and kept his head down, not daring to see Asako in the eyes.
Then, he felt her hugging him, placing his head on her shoulder and her hand in his back and the back of his head.
"Please, don't do it again. I was too worried for you." She whispered on his ear. "Even if you are immortal, I don't want to see you die."
He felt Asako's body shaking. Never, neither in his most wild imagination he would have think on seeing Asako trembling. In his mind, Asako was someone who would never have or show fear in front of a danger, but now, she was hugging him and trembling in worry, not for her but for him. This made him feel even guiltier.
(I shouldn't have made them feel worried.) He thought and then he returned her hug, patting her head in a reassuring way.
Her body stopped shaking, and she then started caressing his soft white hair from the back of his head.
The atmosphere around them turned somewhat... pink, and it would be perfect if they were alone but...
(They forgot about me.) Thought the man who just could stand seeing the scene in front of him.
He at the beginning thought that maybe the woman was the child's mother, but after 'seeing' the 'pink aura' around them, he couldn't help to think that maybe it was something more.
He felt that somehow, the woman's blue hair seemed familiar to him, but he couldn't confim it because he couldn't see her face.
However, it didn't take long for him to ignore that scene and concentnrate his attention to Irina, who was still unconscious. He walked towards her, just when he was just a few inches from her.
*Crack*
The tail of Zircon in his {Striker mode} blocked his path by burying it in the ground.
"What are you planning to do to Irina-chan?" Asked Zircon, he had a cautious look in his bare eye.
He was still hugging Asako, be he was aware of his surroundings at certain grade.
Noticing this, the man answered him. "My name is Shidou Touji, I'm Irina's father."
Zircon, even if he was a little surprised by that information, he was still cautious against him. There was the possibility that he might be lying to him and was planning to hurt Irina.
But before he could take action, Asako patted his head, making him to look her at the eyes.
"Don't worry, he is saying the truth." She said with a reassuring voice an then she turned her face to Touji for him to see. "It has passed a while, dumbass."
"A-Asako." He spoke in a nervous way. "What are you doing here?"
"What? I'm not allowed to come?
"It's not like that. It's just that I didn't expect to see the woman known as 'The Blue Nightmare' to come to Kuoh town during my free day."
"You say it as if it was something bad. Do you think in me as some kind of calamity?" She Asked while making a fake innocent look.
(Of course you are!!) He wanted to yell at her, but he contained himself.
There was no way that he could forget that incident five years ago. He was assigned in England along with his subordinates to hunt down some devils who infiltrate themselves in their territory.
However, in one of their fights, they ended up fighting in the streets in the middle of the day in a small town, and by accident they destroyed the only bakery in the place.
Why remember that detail? Because that was the beginning of their nightmare, both the priests and the demons.
Not long after they destroyed the bakery, they felt an incredible pressure over them, like if they were going to be crushed, and then they saw Asako, whose face seemed to be covered in darkness even when it was the middle of the day, with her eyes shining ominously.
"Now, which one of you fuckers is going to bring me a good chocolate cake for my baby?" She said at that moment while cracking her knuckles.
Both sides, priests and devils where confused by her words. Nevertheless, after they recognize her, both sides tried to escape only to end up being beaten up without mercy by her until they bring her a chocolate cake, and an expensive one.
Nobody dared to report he because, well, she was Kusakabe Asako, the Blue Nightmare which neither the leaders of the three factions nor the Shinto gods wanted to mess with.
What they didn't know was that the cake was for Zircon's first birthday and she wanted to give him the best cake in the world.
...
Even the kindest intentions can initiate a calamity, if you allow me to say.
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