Theft Twelve

[demonfoxthief]

Hmm... I've gotten too used to that other bed. This one will take a while to break in.

...What?

[A sudden image of a younger-looking Youko, racing through a bamboo forest with another demon, both of them holding various items. Suddenly, the necklace around the other demon's neck breaks, and he runs after it

Comments

[vi952]

[Here's a Wei, quietly watching your angst. Well, mostly quietly.]

... So you had a boyfriend, Youko?

[demonfoxthief]

[Looks up angrily.] [With gritted teeth.] No.

[vi952]

... [Yea, not believing that.]

Then what was that about?

[demonfoxthief]

... It was...

We were too slow... I... should have gone back for him... but I was too concerned with self-preservation, and he...

Kuronue...

[vi952]

... You did what any logical being would have done in that situation.

[demonfoxthief]

Heh... I know. But I still can't help but think I might not have done the right thing.

[vi952]

What would you have rather done? If you had turned to help, who knows what could have happened to yourself.

[demonfoxthief]

I might have been able to save him... maybe.

...I know I couldn't have. But it doesn't stop me from wishing things had been different.

[vi952]

It doesn't matter now. What happened, happened. That was the past, after all. No one can change the past.

[Contractors have no guilt, orz.]

[demonfoxthief]

...True enough.

I don't understand this city. It doesn't seem to have any logical sense.

[vi952]

It doesn't. My existence here barely makes any sense.

Contractors aren't supposed to exist, without the Gate.

[demonfoxthief]

...The Gate?

[vi952]

Mmm. Hell's and Heaven's Gate. Heaven's Gate was destroyed but Hell's Gate is the connection to Heaven's, in Tokyo.

[demonfoxthief]

What does it do?

[vi952]

Gives Contractors their power.

[demonfoxthief]

...I see. Interesting.