Swallowtail Butterfly

Summary
Swallowtail Butterfly is a Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs The Soulless Army fanfiction (don't worry, I won't write the entire title again) detailing the further adventures of our favorite demon-summoning, teenage detective with a cool hat and pointy sideburns as he deals with a new enemy, a little ( Read more... )

Louis, what do I do…?  Beelzebub relayed what he’d heard to him as he soared through the air on his own wings, following the Hiruko.

“Louis” sighed.  Miyu had shown such promise when she had recited the Blake poem at Hikaru’s funeral.  She was so strong-willed, full of potential.

And now she was this helpless, dependent creature that could ( Read more... )

“B…Boss…” A Haguro-gumi member, pale from shock and blood loss, dragged himself out of Denpachi’s house as they approached, his legs torn and battered.  “Go back…go back…”

Satake scowled.  “The Red Cape did this?”

“What about Denpachi?” Narumi asked.

“Denpachi’s…alive…”  The yakuza winced as he dragged himself further along.  “Hurry…she ( Read more... )

“But I thought yakuza are bad people,” Sora said as Denpachi stopped near the entrance to Fukagawa-Cho.

“Most of them are, but not these,” said Narumi, helping her out of the rickshaw.  “The Kantou Haguro-gumi are good eggs.  They still do bad things, but they’re not bad people.”

“I don’t understand…”

“You will when you meet their boss. ( Read more... )

The double-rickshaw’s wheels were unsteady as Denpachi pulled it along the forested path, uncertainly taking directions from his passengers.  It was a tight fit for both Kiyoshi and Narumi, but, on the brighter side of things, Satake had originally been the one to offer to show the way.    There would have been slim chances both men could be seated ( Read more... )

Satake would have traveled back to Shinoda that night if he hadn’t seen a familiar figure standing on the Ushigome-gaeri Bridge.  Instead, he got off the streetcar in Yarai-Ku, and made his way to join Narumi, where he stood looking at the water pensively.

“Hey there, Satake,” said the detective, offering the older man a weak grin.

“What’s ( Read more... )

“That was quite a gamble,” the figure remarked as Anastasia woke from her defragmentation process.  “It worked.  The Fourteenth is still alive.”

“It wasn’t a gamble,” said Anastasia, stretching as she stood.  “I simmed the butterflies, and one of them turned out a hundred percent in the Fourteenth’s favor.”

“A hundred percent?  I didn’t ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, inventory started at the store I work at, and I'll be too tired from counting everything in the store, so I don't think I'll have the inspiration to write.  As it stands, what I've posted is already way too close to what I've written, so I'm going to put the fic on a two-week hiatus until inventory ends.  I'm sorry.

I'll still respond ( Read more... )

Kaya felt strange, sleeping next to Raidou.  Well, technically, on a futon beside his.  It had been a strange evening, in any case.

After sending Miyu to tell her family where she was and what she was doing, the Herald of Yatagarasu had explained that Raidou was in a state of “raw endurance”, in which he was not conscious of his surroundings ( Read more... )

Kaya relaxed in the warm water, eyes closed, resting her back against the edge of the tub, the foam from washed-out shampoo still clinging to her shoulders.  There had been some sort of bug in the grass, because after coming home, her skin had itched like crazy.  After trying unsuccessfully to scratch it away all afternoon, taking a bath seemed to ( Read more... )