Got the picture of Mitsu to be better quality. Warning mentions of suicide

"It kinda sucks that we are considered traitors now." Ai pouted at the table after she finished her breakfast. "Now we won't be able to freely walk any towns..."

"That isn't true." Kuroyami relied. "It'll take a long time before they can even spread the word. Besides ordinary people won't know our faces, and it'll be easy enough to avoid Royal Knights."

Mitsu let out a sad sigh.

"Don't be such a drama queen. Avoiding them won't be hard." Kuroyami rolled her eyes.

"That isn't why I'm upset." He snapped slightly. "Did you ever maybe think I'd want to talk to some of my old friends? Ask them what happened to the Royal Knights? Now I can't even do that... not to mention everyone I've ever known and loved now thinks I'm a traitor to the kingdom we all swore to protect..."

Ai frowned sympathetically.

"Don't-" Kuroyami started, but was cut off by the house shaking tremendously. "Abalon what's going on?!" She shouted over the loud ruckus of everything on the house clattering or falling to the ground.

"And I just cleaned..." Mitsu frowned.

"I don't know! It feels like something's forcing us out of the inbetween! Hold on, this may get a little bumpy!"

There suddenly was a large flash of light and Ai screamed.

-&-

"Ouch..." Mitsu grumbled pushing a chair off his back with his elbow. "Ai, are you okay?"

"Yeah..." she replied crawling out from under the table and standing.

"Abalon..?" Kuroyami grumbled rolling of the couch and falling to the ground. She then pulled herself up removing a fork from her hair and throwing it to the side. "Where are we?"

"Wrntwncldsly..." Abalone tried to speak, but his voice was muffled by a pot that had landed on his head and was hanging from him.

"Oh..." Mitsu pushed himself up and walked over removing the pot. "There you go."

"Thank you..." Abalon let out a breath. "We're in a town called Sailey."

"Sailey..? Good so at least we're still in our dimension." Kuroyami fixed her clothing. "What happened?"

"I'm not exactly sure, but the house was temporarily pulled from my control. I won't be able to do anything with it until I make some preparations. In other words it needs fixed." He answered.

"Great..." she heaved an exasperated sigh. "So how long are we stuck here?"

"At most, a week. Least, a couple days." He replied.

"Wow~ even better..." she said sarcasm lacing her tone. "Well seeing as we didn't buy groceries in the last town, we may as well do it here. We'll leave you to it Abalon."

"I'll go as fast as I can." He nodded as they all composed themselves and left.

-&-

"This town is so dark and gloomy..." Ai stated moving closer to her two companions. "Even it's people... it's nothing like the last one. And are any of these shops even open?"

"Doesn't seem like it..." Kuroyami sighed. "So much for groceries. Honestly what's going on around here, Sailey has never been the best place, but not this bad."

"It doesn't help it's so cloudy..." Mitsu added. "Still I think the shops should be open, and more people out. It's almost like the weather is reflecting the people's moods and not the other way around."

"NO STOP! AH!" They heard a woman's scream.

Mitsu automatically ran toward the noise. The girls following behind him.

They all widened their eyes, and Ai gasped, as they turned into the alleyway and saw a crying woman crouched over the body of a man, lying face down on the stone.

"What happened?" Mitsu asked going over to try and comfort the spastic woman.

"H-he jumped." She replied pointing to the top of the rather tall building.

"It's going to be okay, just try and calm down." Mitsu continued to smooth her. "Ai, get her away someplace safe, and meet us back here."

"Right." Ai nodded seeming perfectly fine with leaving the scene. "Mam come with me." She helped the woman as they walked away.

A small crowd of people were gathering outside the alley.

Kuroyami walked over to the opposite side of the body and kneeled down. She carefully turned the corpse onto its back, revealing the crimson blood on his body.

"A suicide? This town really is the epitome of gloom." Mitsu sighed.

Kuroyami stared at the body quizzically. "I'm not so sure this was a suicide, not exactly anyway."

"What are you-" he let his voice cut out as voices became loud through the crowd.

"Out of the way! Police coming through!" The crowd started to make a path.

"Let's let them do their job." Kuroyami replied setting the body back and standing.

The two left after getting looks from the police and stood in the crowd, waiting for Ai to return.

-&-

They were in a dimly lit restaurant later that evening, the only place that anyone seemed to be at.

"Did you hear about the blacksmith, he jumped off a building this morning." One of the men in a group sat at the table next to them told.

The waitress gasped slightly. "Mr. Shiraguya? But why? He was in here last night happier than a bee. Talking about how excited he was for his wife to be having a baby."

"I don't know sounds a little fishy to me." Another guy spoke up.

"I guess you really can't know what's going on in someone's head." Another shrugged.

Kuroyami listened intently till she was snapped away by someone calling he name.

"Kuroyami, Oi." Mitsu waved a hand in front of her.

"What?" She snapped back to her table with Mitsu and Ai.

"What do you want to drink?" Mitsu asked gesturing to the waitress who stood next to them.

"Oh, Beer, lots of it." She replied, and the waitress walked off.

"So what did you mean earlier when you said you didn't believe that man's death was actually a suicide?" Mitsu asked lowering his voice.

"What else could it have been?" Ai added curious about the new information.

"I mean what I said." Kurami explained. "Even after someone dies their soul is still around for a fairly short amount of time, especially with something like a suicide. If the man had jumped merely moments before we got there like the lady saw, and his injuries expressed, I would have been able to sense his soul. But I didn't, it wasn't even nearby."

"But that would mean..." Ai trailed off.

"Exactly he didn't have one when he died." Kurami nodded.

"How exactly?" Mitsu wondered.

"Oh come on, you should know the answer to that." The purple haired girl smirked at him. "The only way for a human to die, or live for that matter, without a soul is when a demon takes it."

"Another demon?" Mitsu asked his eyes widening slightly. "You think that's what killed him?"

"Yes, even if the demon wasn't on the roof, they still could have ordered him to walk off of it. The poor man probably didn't even have a choice, he was forced to end his own life." Ai frowned.

"Well that's just great, so now there is a demon committing murder by forcing people into suicide we have to worry about." Mitsu sighed.

"No we don't." Kurami replied. "He can't control other demons' souls, so me and Ai are fine. And as for you, I already took your soul, so you're safe as well. It's impossible for a demon to steal a human soul from another demon. We just have to wait for Abalon to fix the house and we're out of here."

"You mean we aren't going to find them?" Mitsu asked in slight shock.

"Why bother, it's none of my concern." Kuroyami replied nonchalantly as their drinks arrived.

"What do you mean? What if they kill again? This is murder." Mitsu felt anger spark inside him and glared at the girl across from him.

Kuroyami just simply grabbed her large mug of beer, place it to her lips, and tipped it back. She glutted down more than half of it at once before slamming it back to the table and taking a large satisfied breath. "So? What do I care about these humans problems, they can deal with it themselves. I've got my own things to worry about."

"You truly are horrible." Mitsu growled.

"I take that as a compliment." Kuroyami smiled.

"You shouldn't. How is not that when you saw Ai in such a bad situation it seemed natural for you to help, but when innocent people are dying you couldn't care less?" He asked.

She finished off the beer and moved to grab her second. "God you humans are so annoying with your philosophies on death! Everyone's life ends eventually. There are plenty of fates in this world worse than death, trust me."

Mitsu scoffed shaking his head. "Maybe, but some of us don't live for hundreds of years. We have a short time to make what we can out of life before we-"

"Die?" She cut him off. "That always seems to be humans worst nightmare right? Death. What happens to a soul after you stop breathing? No one knows, and that's what's so terrifying to you humans right? People have given up their lives, and other people's lives for that matter, to find something as ridiculous as a chance at immortality. How selfish can one species get? Tell me something Mitsu how many terrible things have happened because of humans constant fear of death? Wars have destroyed countries, people have sacrificed others they had no right to, slavery, sickness, murder..." she paused. "Fear of death only creates more death."

"Are you trying to say you don't fear death?" Mitsu asked.

"Everyone fears it, but humans need to learn how to not let that fear take over everything." She rolled her eyes. "Besides... living is a hell of a lot scarier than dying."

He gave her a strange look, but she simply chugged down her second beer, this time all at once.

"Don't you think you should slow down there?" He raised an eyebrow figuring now it was best to drop their previous subject.

A few people around looked surprised at the woman chugging down the booze so quickly.

"Nope." She replied. "I'm a powerful demon with a high alcohol tolerance, so don't patronize me."

"Whatever..." he muttered siping his drink in annoyance.

Hey guys, so I was writing this part and then once I was done, I realized it was nearly 5000 words. So yeah this is only part one, part two was posted as well. Vote and comment, bye!
~Hannah😋