"Why are you here?"

Setsuna questioned her purpose as she entered the room wearing her nearly undressed jacket again. I didn't even have to ask you where you had broken in from. Cold air was coming in, and the light of the Demonic Crystal lamp was making the swinging curtains float. I don't know how, but I guess I opened a locked window and came in.

Very, I don't think he came in through the front door. He is suspicious because of his appearance. The Lion's Tail building has been certified as an Urban Guard guard since this time, and the guards' eyes are always shining. If a masked woman had asked me in black, I would have reported it when Setuna and the others came back to the camp, but it didn't.

"If we don't do this, we can't be alone."

"That's not what I'm saying."

"... I'm interested. To Lady Setuna."

She laid her hands on the lion's mask, spitting such words in white. Remove slowly and expose your face. Most importantly, she attended the dinner party face-to-face and Setsuna did not know why she would wear the mask. Maybe it shouldn't be known that the Reaper VII and Rem Wau-Marlow are the same person. For example, when she exposed herself to the face before Setsuna, she could be said to have a lot of breadth.

The drunkenness is chilled.

The fact that I walked back from the palace to the battalion was a tribute. The freezing night air seemed to tension Setuna's consciousness and encourage her to awaken. Thanks to him, he was also able to respond calmly to Rem's face. A beauty with dark hair is smiling. Even Faria and Miliu don't pull on the appearance that a concurrent man could seem overwhelmed by that smile alone.

"Nevertheless, you have a qualitative life besides. I was hoping for something more luxurious."

"This is the Lion's Tail building. It's not my mansion."

"Oh, I was. So, where is Master Setuna's mansion?

"Hey."

Setuna, remaining on the top of the Buddha, proceeded towards the window. Cross in front of Rem, but she didn't do anything. Close the window with a few claps and take a breath. Then I noticed Rem's gaze and explained it reflexively.

'Cause it's cold.

"I don't need an excuse."

It's not an excuse.

Suddenly, I look back at her.

Rem stared at this one with challenging eyes as he lowered his back onto the sleeping table he had placed in the corner of the room.

"What is the right thing to do at a time like this?

"Ha... no right answer, no shit."

Answer to throw up and continue the words further.

"What the hell are you?

"I am Rem Wau-Marlow. I found Reaper in Setuna."

"What's the purpose? Why are you following me?"

Setuna asked repeatedly to ignore her words. Rem clouded his expression for a moment, but after a while, he shrugged his shoulders like he'd given up.

"... right. I'm not sure myself."

I got up and slowly stretched out. Then they approach me in casual footsteps. The room is large. But even though it is large, there are limits to the size of an individual's room. Distance, in an instant, shrinks.

"It's just that when I look at you, you kind of want to make fun of me"

"What?"

'Cause you're not a kid.

"Sorry, kid."

Reluctant, but rebelling may also be evidence that he recognizes himself as a child, he thought. It's also a fact that I don't want to deny.

Rem laughed at the goodness of it all.

"There's nothing wrong with that. You're not saying that. It could be a good thing."

"What?"

"It's not normal to be innocent of killing so many people, killing the Imperial Devil, and being innocent like a child"

……

The words that Rem uttered without any concern mutilated Setuna's earlobes as though they were ice blades. It penetrates from the tympanic membrane into consciousness and hardens the heart.

(Like a child... because?

As I argue, I can't think of a word. Sure, she's right. So far, I've killed more than I can count. It's not just humans. The Imperial Demon who killed him is so inexplicable if he counts. Yet Setuna continues to be present in Setuna. I haven't lost sight of myself, even though I kill so much that I don't like it, I kill one so much that I'm tired of it, and I bleed so much that I stain it under my skin. Does it mean you don't feel guilty? That's not true, I shook my head in my chest, but it wasn't as convincing.

"Oh well... I finally get it. That's why I don't like it..."

She has tried to push Setuna against the wall, spinning bumps and solitaires, wondering if she has roughly packed the distance. The impact hit the wall from the back shakes the window and the glass makes a slight noise. But it's also the kind of noise someone in the other room would notice. Even if you realize it, shouldn't it sound like you care?

It's not like I couldn't react. If I wanted to avoid it, I could avoid it as much as I wanted. But Setuna had her earlier words caught on, and they weren't.

"How come you're not desperate?"

I felt like I was sucked into Rem's black eyes, probably because the darkness was spreading deep inside. One light I don't see. Dark darkness. Eyes of what was hopeless. Though desperate, eyes.

"You are desperate...?

"We Reapers are despair."

So she touched Setuna's cheek with her right hand. A cold fingertip strokes his cheek, wrapped in his palm. Setuna doesn't know what she wants to do. I know that it's not a mouthful.

"Is that why you're asking me to save you?

"... I see, is that what you mean? That......"

The window opened unexpectedly. I see. A man in black had his foot on the edge of the window. The black mask emits a different colour among the reapers of the Reaper Squad. Somehow I can see that that gaze is poured on Setuna and Rem. Hidden in the mask, but the front of his face pointed this way.

"Captain..."

"I've searched, Reaper. What are you doing here?

Not that it sounded caged because of the mask, but the man's low, heavy voice had clearly reached Setuna's ear. A desperate voice, Setuna thought.

"It's..."

In anticipation of Lem releasing the hand he was turning to the back of Setuna's head, he turns to the captain of the Reaper unit and the person he thinks he is. There couldn't be an expression on a pitch-black mask, and I didn't know what they were thinking.

"Reapers are so rude."

"Preaching manners to reapers who relentlessly take the lives of others is also synonymous with preaching manners to the Imperial Devil"

I suppose you understand that Reaper has gone unpleasant, but there is no way that it can be done. I've introduced myself right away.

"I am Reaper Zero. I'm captain of the Reaper unit. Even after his men's stupidity, the captain's job… I am familiar with Setsuna, who is captain of The Lion's Tail."

"What are we gonna do with all this foolishness for the sake of the end?"

"It's also a pleasure..."

"Ha... what's so exciting about it"

Setsuna, it also got ridiculous to be dealing with him. Zero is an attitude of decency, but that is the right behavior such as disrespect. The same is true of Rem in that regard, but is that what all the humans who belong to Zibel's Reaper unit are?

"Don't you mind?

Reaper Zero has asked in a voice as quiet as deep darkness.