Mahou Sensou:Volume 2 Prologue
Prologue[edit]
A man was hanging in the air, desperately trying to free himself from the silver threads wrapped around his neck.
"Guuuuuh...!"
The threads were already embedded in his skin and his face was slowly losing its colors. Meanwhile, two women were watching the scene standing in front of him. One of them, who was hiding a cold look behind huge sunglasses, took a few steps back to get a better look. Her abundant blonde hair, spilling down the wide neckline of her deep red one-piece dress. As she watched, she tapped the floor repeatedly with the toe of her impeccably fine shoes impatiently. The other woman on the other hand, wore a deep black garment that covered her completely from head to ankles giving her a very religious air. The only feature that could be seen of her were her black eyes which did not seem to express any emotion.
The end of those silver threads were connected to the nun's fingertips. And the moment she heard the sighs of the woman in red behind her back, she moved her fingers slightly. The man's moans quickly turned into gasps of despair and after having been fighting for his life, the man finally stopped moving and his head hung limply. After that, the nun made a great movement with her hands and those silver threads released the man's neck and then retracted towards her, dropping the body.
"That's enough, sister"
The nun stepped back immediately upon hearing the other woman's order and bowed. The woman in red was holding a card in her fingertips, which immediately turned into magic particles and disappeared. The nun at the same instant, turned into blue magic particles and disappeared just like the card.
Once she was alone, the woman in red looked around her. The wind carried a smell of blood through the spaces between the buildings of the place. Finally, the morning sunlight had peeked through and the woman looked up to see a flock of crows standing on the power line. They were just ordinary crows. She therefore proceeded to leave the place. Suddenly, however, he felt the tips of his feet getting wet. She had stood in a pool of blood that was slowly spreading from dozens of corpses lying around the place and which she did not even flinch from observing. Dozens of corpses, most of which were children and teenagers. Her sight was completely devoid of vitality, as if her eyes were two simple crystal spheres. Then she looked up, and noticed a car stopped in the middle of a wide eight-lane road in a peaceful district full of corporate buildings. She started to walk in the direction of the car, but no sooner had she walked about fifty meters, when her displeasure at feeling all dirty became apparent and she immediately set about using magic.
"<FLOAT!>" she exclaimed.
A blue magic circle appeared under her feet, and with a single jump she reached the vehicle, landing right next to it. Inside, a man was waiting for her in the driver's seat, who leaned over and peeked his face through the passenger window and spoke to her:
"Hello, Good job...."
"Kippei, if you were watching, you could have helped me..."
Hearing that, Washizu Kippei burst out laughing and replied:
"I didn't think it was right to interrupt your fun."
The man seemed in a good mood. Even she was able to notice that good humor in the scarlet pupils he showed through his glasses.
"Hey, don't you think it would have been better if you hadn't killed anyone?" Kippei asked as he returned to the driver's seat and unlocked the door.
"I had no choice. They saw my face." The woman answered, opening the door and getting into the vehicle.
"That's why you were wearing the sunglasses, isn't it?"
"Do you think I can hide my beautiful face with these things alone?"
Certainly she was wearing black sunglasses that were very large. But, being a naturally blonde woman, she could not go unnoticed in Japan. Not to mention that her skin was as white as snow.
She suddenly, distorted her bright, luscious red lips, and leaned back in her seat averting her gaze to the window. Crows were landing on the road where there was no sign of human life. There was no landscape worth looking at.
"You even killed children..." Kippei commented.
However, in his voice there did not seem to be any kind of reproach. The woman replied:
"They were the ones I was most worried about. The summer vacation is almost over so I have to be very careful."
"I see. So it's time?"
As she looked out the window, the crows began to gather around the corpses, which she didn't want to look at so she looked away and looked back at Kippei. However, her view was suddenly blocked, becoming completely immobilized. It was Kippei who had suddenly moved from the driver's seat towards her and had jumped over her to kiss her hair. Feeling the warmth of his breath on her ear, she said:
"Kippei, do you want me to make you see hell?"
"Wow, that sounds scary..."
After being threatened, Kippei took his hands off her and resignedly returned to his seat and said:
"All right. Then let's go back to our castle, princess."
In less than a second, he started the vehicle.
"The "Sleeping prince" is waiting for us."
After saying those words, he put the vehicle in gear and quickly accelerated to full throttle. A red magic circle appeared above the car while it was in motion and transformed into a beam of light that left the place immediately.
Translator's Notes and References[edit]
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