'May you find the angel who guides you to the far fields of fortune.
May you travel with diamonds on your head made from the moon.
May angels guard you till you reach the reaches of beauty and boon?
Will you become my only angel from birth to death, and death to doom?'

"You still remember this prayer?" Fate asked "We used to pray this all the time back then."
"It still calms me down." Lucus said. Fate looked at him and then his book started glowing "Alright, gotta go."

He disappeared in the dark smoke while Fate stood there with her book. "Humans and angels can't be together, Death. For the simple fact that humans are mortals while angels are not. You've made a mortal-- immortal. Surely, life will take it's toll."

Suddenly she felt cold and looked around her "A free spirit," Her blue book turned into a huge angel sword and she turned back-- suddenly blacking out.

The next morning, Vivian got up and prepared the breakfast while Kirito got ready for the office.

"Vivian," He said.
"Yes?" Vivian asked.
"We have the founding day coming up. That's the day when our grandpa established this company and it has been flourishing ever since then."

"Talking about that-- What does your company make, Kirito?" Vivian asked.
"Ah-- I didn't tell you-- Belleneé is a luxury lingerie enterprise," Kirito said while biting a piece of bread.

"Lingerie?"
"Women's underwear."
"Oh! You make underwear Kirito?! What a perverted job."
"I don't make underwear, that's the designers' job. It's a complete fashion industry"

"Then what do you do?"
"Look after the works, assignments, form contracts with other huge companies, paper matters-- stuff like that" Kirito looking into his phone.

"What are you doing?" Vivian asked as she looked into his phone.
"Just going through the share market and reading news."
"I can't understand anything"
"You need to study business and economics to understand this."

"Okay-- not my thing,"
"Anyways, I was talking about the founding ceremony. It's a huge celebration and quite famous personalities and celebrities are there. You are expected to be at the best of your behaviour."

"Jeez! So much for underwears." Vivian picked up the dishes and cleaned the table. Kirito took a deep breath "Nevermind. It's useless to explain to you. We even have fashion shows though."

"So, you must have models in your company too?"
"Yeah, that's our other business. Once Aoi graduate, he'll be passed down the business of the modelling agency. Right now dad handles it."

"You must be surrounded by pretty women,"
"Stop thinking weird things, they are just working people-- Nothing else," Vivian remembered of that night when she saw Kirito and Erika kiss. Did he kiss her like he kissed her Vivian the previous night?

"I'm going," He walked towards the door "Ah! Bye!" She said as she ran after but he had closed the door already. Vivian looked at her feet.

She suddenly felt something warm on her forehead and looked up. Kirito kissed her forehead and moved back "I'm off to work, Vivian" He said. Her face turned red and Kirito grinned turned back.

She hugged him from behind and pressed her head on his coat.
"What are you doing?" Kirito turned back at her "I want more world's best hugs" Vivian looked into his eyes.

He smirked and turned back "Somebody's turning into a pervert" Vivian blushed.
"Then tonight, be ready," He closed the door.

"Ready?! Ready for what?"

Lucus walked on the stairs with an old woman.
"Thank you, dear" She thanked him as he left her hand and she walked on the blue stairs. He smiled as the stairs disappeared. He walked back to the construction buildings and sat on the metal bars.

"Fate!" He said but no one appeared. "Fate?" He got up. He closed his eyes and traced her blue footprints in the dark. He reached the bottom corner of the construction area and found blue blood laying on the floor. At a corner, Fate lay with her hands and legs tied and her angel sword fallen near her.

"Fate!" He ran towards her and picked her up. She opened her eyes "Who did this?!" He asked.
"A free spirit is out. Some stupid angel forgot to write the time of death again."

"Where is your Grecabulum?" Lucus asked
"They took it. It is strong and fast-- A dead woman, mentally ill. Death--" Fate pressed her hand on Lucus' cheek. He looked into her eyes which began bleeding "Please find me my Grecabulum."

"Fate."
He heard laughing voices behind him. He kept her back on the ground and turned back. It was a young woman with Fate's antabulam into her hand.

"You want this?!" She said as began laughing. Lucus stared at her hatefully. "Oh! Your book looks better! I'd rather take that one"

Lucus smirked "This?" He said as he raised his book "You're too young for this."
"We will see that!" She threw away Fate's book and ran towards Lucus. "Mistake~," He said and disappeared. He grabbed Fate's book and soon disappeared along with Fate.

Fate's wounds healed as soon as she touched her book "You should be careful at night, you know there are dark spirits everywhere." Lucus said as they sat on the terrace of a building.

"Death, why didn't you free that spirit by killing it? It was a person once."
"Nah! I don't kill people anymore." Lucus kept his book on the dirty terrace railings and sat on it.

"Aren't you a death reaper?" She asked but he didn't answer. "You've stopped killing altogether, it's affecting the balance now. You don't want the two worlds to--"
"They will, Fate. They will. You can't stop it since you are Fate and I can't kill it since I'm death."

"What the hell does that mean? Why are you so difficult to understand?"
"I'll say that in simple words. You can't stop that first snow that will hit the grounds, you can write all you want in that book but someday you'll realize everything still comes down to that thing. It's just that this time it's faster" He said as slowly the morning rays struck his face.

"You've changed Death. I don't love you anymore. You aren't the Death I loved and decided to leave heaven for."

- To be continued

Vivian Hiomi
My Heart Hates Me