Satsuriku no Tenshi:Volume 1 Prologue
Prologue[edit]
The world is always dim and blue.
I think that that’s definitely because of these blue eyes of mine. That’s why I see the world like this.
(Father and mother are getting along today, as well.)
Whenever I’m at home, father and mother sit on the sofa, holding each other’s hands tightly as if they can’t bear to ever be apart. They don’t move at all – it’s like they’ve been turned into dolls.
I gaze upon that happy scene from the entrance to the room.
“Come on, Ray, sit with us.” Mother calls my name with a smile.
My father’s eyes are black; I inherited my blue eyes from my mother. But my eyes are a little different from hers. Her eyes are murky, as if clouded by dirty water. I wonder when it was that mother’s eyes became muddy…I can’t remember.
“Okay.”
Staring intently at those clouded eyes, I give a small nod, and make to rush toward them. But no matter how hard I run, I can’t budge even an inch from the doorway.
(Why…?)
Short of breath, I crouch down where I stand. The word despair piles up in my chest.
“Ray, what’s wrong?” My father, who always sits in the same position on the sofa, asks me this in a kind voice without any hostility.
“I can’t go there,” I answer my father as he stares at me with his black eyes. They look like buttons.
In that moment –
Suddenly, I become unbearably dizzy. It’s like someone’s painted the inside of my brain pure white.
Ring…ring…
(What’s happening…?)
Somewhere, I hear a bell ringing.
As if it’s sounding out from beneath a pool of water…
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