Summary: She was a human until she is turned into a vampire. While she began to ask the purpose of her rebirth after the night of rejection of her being, she never expect that her current state of monstrosity is tangled with the will of the world. A collaboration with Eulyin Huan, Medieval + Vampire AU.
Character(s): Kurosawa Dia, Kurosawa Ruby
Notes: One day, a certain berry is doing a collab with @eulyin and this is happening. I still wonder to this second why, of all competent writer out there, this poisonous berry (a.k.a me) is chosen to be her collab partner. This is our third collab, hey senpai there, are you regretting to be with me (wink)?
Anyways. This will be updated once per month if things go well. Also ... I think senpai will fill in for her beautifulalmightygodly illustrations for each chapter?
Enjoy the world~
Word count: 923
< fragment 0. fool is sin. she is standing by the door of netherworld, but she pulled. >
I can no longer hear any of them screaming and screeching, my battle is ending. My breath went harder when my body finally gave in, falling flat across the grass field filled with flowers when I put a slash to my last enemy.
It’s over—yes, I feel that I’m really close to dying. I want to puke, but it doesn’t seem like my hands or my entire body will obey, no more strength left inside me, there’s nothing can heal my critical wound, and I even lost my voice to simply call for help.
The realization that my left eye was scarred sending me to another writhe of pain. This is stupid, I groaned inwardly and swallows. I can taste my own blood on my lips as my bleeding eye doesn’t stop flowing-a coppery, hollow tang that makes me sick.
So this is what death feels like, I suddenly think to myself. Death is as simple as losing your strength and your blood isn’t stopping, then you waited for the time to come, I summarized. Well, I should be happy that at least I’m dying in the bed of flowers, surrounded by nature and tranquility. I’m not dying in the grounds of the city, watched by people, being showed off my weakness in front of others ...
Yes, I should be happy that I’m dying now, but why am I crying? Why do my right eye, who should be looking up idly to the sky full of stars above, flowing with tears?
I felt my heart ache as I asked, It’s about that person.
I almost ... forgot about them as I’m too occupied with the pain. What if that person came and discovered my corpse while I never say my farewells to them? What face will that person make to know that I overstepped my boundaries, doing such reckless attitude beyond her knowledge? What will become of her when they know that I ceased to exist ...?
My vision blurred because of tears. My consciousness fading because of blood loss. I can no longer think straight. I’m close to embracing death.
A foreign sensation comes to contact with my skin. Maybe a soft trace of a finger, maybe a claw from the enemy that I missed, I feel far too numb to know what it is.
Is it the Angel of Death who finally come to put an end to my misery? I want to ask.
“Do you want to live?”
I sense my chin being lifted up, the voice is near, whispering to my being as it echoes.
“I repeat; do you want to live?” the Angel of Death asks. “Or do you want me to bury you so you can die in peace?”
As much as I want to confirm the second option, the vision of that person’s back is haunting my thoughts. I ... really want to die, I don’t want to be back there, I don’t want to be a tool. I don’t want to be such a fool. The longer I scream, that person in my mind slowly disappears ...
“I ...” I manage to find my breath to answer. “I ... want ... to live.”
The Angel of Death smiles as I say, so is that person in my dreams.
“Onee-chan?”
Ruby scanned inside their living room to find her older sister has yet to show up. It’s ten minutes to midnight and ten minutes to the gathering area, they have been preparing all day for the mission tonight.
“Sorry for the wait,” Ruby let out a relaxed smile as the black-haired hunter came out from her room, putting back her saber safely to the sheath. “I was checking our first-aid kits.”
Ruby looked up to see Dia smiled back at her. “Let’s go, Onee-chan!” she exclaimed happily, her older sister nodded.
Both of them walked to the direction of town, their equipment and weapons are ready in respective bags.
“Do you know any details for tonight, Ruby?”
“E, Eh? I thought Onee-chan knew.”
“I see, well then,” Dia gave Ruby a light pat on the shoulder. “Let’s both do our best.”
What kind of mission is this, then? Dia couldn’t help but wonder upon hearing Ruby’s answer. The Guild didn’t tell her anything beside the time and the place of meeting.
“Speaking of which, the Guild is a handful, right?” Dia sighs as she begins. “Maybe because you’re too good in wielding arms that they asked you to supervise juniors?”
Indeed, at long last, she can choose Ruby to be her partner after her younger sister being put on the watch for other novice gunmen in the hunter’s Guild. She would no need to worry about an ambush because Ruby will cover for ranged attack with her firearms. This mission will be smooth, Dia thought to herself.
“T-That’s not the case, Onee-chan! Ru, Ruby isn’t that good ...” she hid her embarrassed face with her hands. “Onee-chan gets more missions than Ruby everytime, Onee-chan is better than Ruby.”
Dia put a relaxed smile. Ruby is always like that, just like in the past, she never put herself on a pedestal. Well, it’s not like she conversed about Ruby much because the little sister was always being called somewhere else and also Dia was busy with her missions as well. This will be one of the perfect opportunity to talk with Ruby after long, but they must concentrate on the mission first.
Talking casually with her sister like the old times, it can wait, right?
3D animation, 8′ 45″, loop, watch in 4K if possible.
Fragment 0 takes place in an organic area devoided of universal physical laws, natural processes and mankind, whose absence indicates the latent forms of the world in either the final or the initial state of the moment 0.
Fragment 0 takes place in an organic area devoided of universal physical laws, natural processes and mankind, whose absence indicates the latent forms of the world in either the final or the initial state of the moment 0.
