'Ha!　Yuto!

　Mari woke up in a dormitory room that had been assigned to Seisei Academy.
　When she looked at the clock, it was still early enough to get ready for school.

''A........dream?　Now, Yuto is........

　She shook her head lightly, feeling a little head-heavy, but there was a strange feeling of unexplainable unease in Mari's mind.
　And suddenly, she couldn't help but be curious about Yuto.

(As if she could see the injured Yuto... is it her imagination?　(Am I thinking too much about Yuto...)

　Thinking that far, Mari smiled bitterly, a little embarrassed.
　Mari is usually aware of Yuto. She was concerned about how she looked to Yuto, whether it was in her usual uniform or her hair style. That was always the case, at all times.
　He just hadn't admitted this until now. He hadn't even tried to admit it.
　I thought that grooming was important, and that I was only taking care of it so as not to give a bad impression to all the people I interacted with.
　The other day, however, Mari found out that this was not the case.
　The trigger for this was the day she found out that Yuto was an able-bodied person.

(Umm........it doesn't matter that Yuto is an able-bodied person. At that time, I saw Yuto.......Yuto seemed so big. (That's not true either, I just didn't realize it)

　

(But.........what was that just now?　(I felt Yujin in a very real way...)

　And........that wasn't the only thing that happened inside Mari.
　It was difficult to put it into words, but she remembered a strange sensation that seemed to remove the entrenched thoughts and even the way she perceived things within herself.
　It's as if something interfering with my vision, something I couldn't see or understand until now, came into clear view and opened up my vision to a seemingly infinite extent.

''........Yuto. What are you doing right now?

　Mari moved away from the bed and stared out the window, remembering the look on Yuto's face yesterday when he said he wouldn't quit fighting the dead bird hired by the organization known as the Dark Night No Leopard.

"I'm not going to lose........ Not at all."

　Mari thought of the injured Yuto who had just popped into her head and meditated with a hint of anxiety in her eyes.
　Then, after a while, she opened her eyes and showed a pair of raw eyes.

''.......It's okay. It will work out, Yuto. So I'll................I'll protect your daily life!

　Mari threw her nightie jacket onto the bed to take a shower to get ready for school, although it was a bit early.



''What's up, Yuto Dou Dou!　You're not going to beat me and see it all resolved!　Come and try to kill me!

　Yuto raised his manacles and approached the water stoppage, grasping the Aiken倚bai with his right hand and unleashing a series of attacks in a circular trajectory.

''Who said I'm going to kill you!　I said you're going to be dragged out alive in front of Shihira-san!

Nuh!　Just like that!

　Stopwater cudgeled off a barrage of posture blows while gritting his teeth at Yuto's reply.

''Don't think you can defeat this dead bird with such........lukewarm resolve!

!

　As if motivated by a fierce feeling of anger and disappointment mixed together, Stopwater unleashes a cudgel to reap from the side of Yuto's unusable left arm.
　Then Yuto made an unexpected move.
　Yuto spun around without disturbing his torso while being shot down with a series of blows, and turned his back to stop the water.

''........!

　While turning away, Yuto supports his right-hand posture with the elbow of his broken left arm and tames the cudgel as it slides upward at an angle.

(This guy, how dare he!)

　Cleaving with all his strength, Stopwater began to swing his cudgel and his body flowed slightly.
　With less than a tenth of a second gap created by this cessation, a heel was swung up on the chest of the cessation from downward at the perfect moment from Yuto, who should have been invisible with his back turned to this cessation.
　Quickly protecting his chest with his left arm, Tomomizu is able to see his own left arm abducting him as if he were watching a slow motion video.

''Guh!''

　The cessation was blown up into the sky and fell through the ceiling of the deep mountain forest as well, falling in the direction of the square where Mizuho and the others were fighting with Hyakugan.
　When you look back up into the sky with a sharp gaze, you follow the figure of the cessation with your eyes and try to move.
　At that time.
　A figure that looked like a lady in a dress entered Yuto's field of vision.

''Ha!　What's that?!

　The woman's evil gaze and Yuto's gaze intersected with the woman's evil gaze, which was covered with a dim magic even with the sunrise all over her body and looked like a shadow itself.

''What a little boy........ You can still fight that much after receiving my curse!''

'That's the guy I've been feeling for a while now!　And this chill has been putting a curse on me, hasn't it!　

　Yuto considers what to do for a moment, but he can't stop fighting with the water stopper now.

''Tch!''

(It's a swallow stop now!)　(And I'm curious about Mizuho and the others!)

　Yuto glared at Lorenza and ran after the water stoppage that had blown away. At the same time, he chewed the posture hilt with his mouth and picked up a few leaves and released them towards Lorenza.
　Yuto continues to move at breakneck speed in the direction of the square.

''Oh my, I was wondering what I should do if they came this way, but it looks like you gave priority to the dead bird.

　Lorenza hides her mouth with a fan stuck in a tree leaf.

'Kukuku, who are they?　You are. It's a bit of a miscalculation that the curse has such a thin effect on you. I need to get to know you a little better...

　Magic flooded out of the inside of the dress and enveloped Lorenza's entire body.
　Lorenza, a sorcerer and excellent fortune teller, snapped open her dark eyes with no whites and stared at the moving Yuto.

''Then let me show you!　Where does the thread of your destiny come from and where is it headed? That will tell you a little bit about who and what you are.

　As if in a trance, Lorenza began to stare at the figure of Yuto as if she were absorbing it into her eyes. As Lorenza's jet-black eyes began to reflect the figure of the young man, Lorenza's thoughts began to peek inside the person of Yuto Dou Dou Dou, beyond and beyond.
　Lorenza's vision of fate is the unraveling of a complex web of threads that connect the person's past, present, and likely future.
　
　Lorenza passes through the threads of fate entangled in Yuto and goes deeper and deeper into them....

(..........?　What is it?　(This is...)

　Then Lorenza's eyes widened in surprise.
　It was the threads of fate intertwined with Yuto that were broken in places, not connecting the past, the present and the future.
　She had never seen anything like this before. Lorenza's face contorts as if she is seeing something lurid. A complex and bizarre tangle of threads of fate that is difficult to understand as a fortune teller....
　This would mean repeating the present over and over again and changing the future over and over again.
　

(What the hell is that little boy......... From now on........)

　Lorenza carefully arrived at the center of the building with her face tightened, and found it.
　The reason for the existence of the person named Du Du Yuto, the principles of his actions and the collection of his thoughts.
　A torrent called fate is blowing around it.

(.........!　

　Lorenza was astonished.
　Most human beings ride this torrent of fate, or are swept away, but shine or lose their brilliance, each one struggling with their own struggles.
　And yet.........the aggregate of these people stubbornly refused to accept the torrent and remained there.
　And yet, they shine brightly and show a wealth of color.

"Kid...!　No way, you!　Does that make the curse less effective!



　As if in a huff, Lorenza regained consciousness and clutched the fan with her trembling hands.

''........I'm not kidding. Kid you will surely beat me to hell. You are our most hated being, for you affirm this accursed, rotten world. Even if you ... no, only if you are!　I will surely knock you down into the abyss of despair!

　Lorenza showed a horrible expression of rage, her mouth widening to reveal her blade-like teeth.

'Unforgivable existence my boy. Even if you are the Pioneer of Destiny (Ildestino Pioniere)!　A mere boy is not enough to take on the vindictiveness and hatred of the humans. The curse that pervades this world will destroy you!　And know that this curse can only be dispelled by ruling under a demon god! That this curse can only be dispelled by being ruled by a demon god!

　Lorenza's screams and high laughter wooded the mountains, and Lorenza was already not there.