Chapter 2: Past, and Book

Ten Years Ago -

He was watching the black sun that was up in the night sky. The same sun that gushed that black mud that destroyed the city. He turned around to watch his surroundings.

Everything was on fire.

The buildings were collapsing.

The air and smoke around him were so hot that it burned his lungs and his throat for every breath that he took.

The smell of burned human meat filled the air.

He could only hear screams, pleas, and cries, they were so strong that his ears bleed. They were calling him, they were praying, begging and pleading for his help, but he ignored them.

He saw them dying one by one, as he could hear them cursing him moments before they died.

He didn't know anymore who those people were...strangers? friends? parents?

He did not care, he had to leave, the fire was getting closer with a steady pace.

The thing was still far away from him, but somehow it burned him... It burned him inside, and that pain was terrible.

He wanted to cry and scream in pain... but he could only keep moving forward. But no matter how fast he tried to crawl, the mud was reaching him.

He didn't want to die.

But the more he moved the more he was getting weaker. His arms and legs felt heavier and heavier with every movement that he did.

As he crawled he started to cry, he didn't want to die, he didn't want to die!

But despite that he knew that soon he would soon reach his limit, he knew that soon he would collapse...

But the only thing that collapsed at that moment was a building near him.

His body was assaulted by soul crushing pain, he gritted his teeth, trying to remain to remain conscious, but the pain was too much for him to bear that his vision started to darken.

Eventually, he lost his consciousness.

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After sometime he recovered his senses, but he could not open his eyes. Somehow he had survived until that moment, but now his body had been in part crushed and now he was stuck.

He could feel the pain, he could feel that many of his bones were snapped in half or outright shredded because of the heavy rubbles of the building that fell on him and destroyed his frail body.

His body was somehow also burned both inside and out, he could feel every organ burning... but luckily that pain, the terrible pain that burned him inside earlier, now had disappeared.

Now he could only hear the sound of the fire, everything else was silent... everything was dead.

He didn't want to die.

He wanted to cry and beg for help, but his throat and his mouth have been burned. The only thing that got out of his mouth was a cough of blood and some smoke.

'...'

'...'

'I...'

'I still want to live...'

At that point, he managed to open his eyes and now he was watching the sky.

He reached his hand toward the sky, hoping someone to save him, hoping anything to happen...

And right before he lost all of his strengths in his arm and he could lose all of his hopes...

...someone took his hand.

He was still numb and in a daze, his mind was pretty much blank. But what he saw that moment will stay with him for the rest of his life.

Beautiful face, mesmerizing purple eyes, long purple hair. He felt as if he saw an angel— no, a goddess. He had never before seen anything so...so...beautiful, so perfect.

Yes. He thought at that moment, the word "perfect", and "beautiful" was made for that single person, it was made to describe the beauty that was in front of him.

Only that woman is worthy of those words.

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Present Day -

Mayumi was smirking evilly as she sneaked inside her human fiance's room. She learned from a book she read yesterday that humans were mostly defenseless and easily startled and scared when they just woke up.

She tiptoed to Alexis' bed and observed him for a moment. He was sleeping peacefully, and looks so defenseless at this moment.

At least the book is actually useful.

She pondered for a moment, wondering what kind of monster she'd turn into that would terrify this man before her.

It took her awhile to think of something, and when she did, she immediately went on top of him and changed her appearance before waiting for him to wake up.

For her appearance, she went with pale white skin, six pairs of glowing red eyes, snakes for hair, sharp teeth, and a vampire-like wings. She also decided to add some blood(fake) on her mouth and splash them on her upper body.

After a few minutes, Alexis stirred, much to Mayumi's excitement. A few moments later, Alexis groggily opened his eyes and was immediately greeted by the sight of Mayumi in her monstrous form.

"You look tasty~" she opened her mouth wide, staring at Alexis with a predatory look.

Alexis blinked his eyes. Twice. Before yawning.

"Damn it!" Mayumi reverted to her normal appearance, "Why aren't you scared!? That book lied to me! I knew I couldn't trust something written and made by humans!"

"It's probably made in China." Alexis muttered.

"You're going with the stereotype!? Their products aren't that bad!" Mayumi growled at him, "They also have a lot of urban legends there that gave birth to some of the most terrifying supernatural creatures ever to exist, like the Jiangshi."

She pointed her finger at Alexis, giving him an annoyed look, "I think you're the problem here! You're not even a little scared by my appearance, don't tell me you have some strange fetish or something?"

"Of course I don't," he mused, before his thoughts wandered at that distant memory that he will never ever forget.

He stared at the annoyed Mayumi before giving a soft smile and pulling her towards him.

Her eyes widened in surprise, "W-What? What are you doing!?"

He caressed her hair, softly whispering to her ears, "I don't have some strange fetish or anything. Its just, for me, no matter what you look, you will always be beautiful. You're perfect regardless of your appearance."

She blushed, staring at Alexis. She was about to struggle out of his grasp and yell at him, but stop when she noticed that he went back to sleep.

She sighed. Staring at his face before laying her head on his chest.

Well, he really does look defenseless.

You speak some truth after all, book.

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