Renya felt energy crackle in the air. Sparks of blue light made small explosions around Myon, her face a mask of stone. Myon's eyes grew dull, looking in Renya's general direction, Myon's body rose to it's full height.

Myon charged. Her spearpoint hit Renya's sheath. A small light blue circle appeared where Myon hit, blocking her from pushing forward. Pulling her spear back, Myon rained stabs into Renya. Renya adjusted a blocked every hit with the slim sheath, until Myon sped up. More blue arcs crackled around Myon's spear as it went even faster. Renya grimaced and did a backstep when the amount was too much to calculate.

Myon twirled the spear, slamming the butt end planting it into the building's floor. She sighed, releasing the spear haft. Myon walked over to Renya, as Syon still on the ground spread out her iron fan. Myon held out her hand.

"You're annoying, I'm tired. I'll give up. Let's be friends."

"Friends?" Renya said, her smile worn like a mask. She held out her hand not carrying the sheath.

As Myon grabbed Renya's hand, she threw her out the window. Renya spun in midair, twirling her body as Syon appeared behind her. Syon whipped her iron fan, a gust of snowflakes shot Renya back through the window. Renya made a landing on her feet as if nothing had happened.

"I seem to have made one new friend already tonight. That's too much for someone closeted like me." Renya waved her hand at Myon as she landed.

Syon floated in behind Renya, eyeing Myon.

"She is serious."

Myon grabbed the spear haft. She stomped down with her foot and pulled it free from the building's floor. Crackling blue light began to burn around her like an aura. Then it doubled. Lightning started pouring down from the sky snapping the skyscrapers roof apart as chunks melted from the repeated fire.

Renya gasped at the sight. She clutched her sword with both hands, frozen. Syon wrapped Renya in thread with a flick of her silver glove. Swinging the iron fan, a gust blew both of them out of a window. Syon aimed at rooftop across the street dragging Renya with her as she fell through the air. As Syon landed with one foot lightly, Renya crashed into the roof cracking it. Despite that, she rose, looking at the skyscraper in wonder. Syon shielded her eyes and looked away from the lightning raining down as it increased. The top of the skyscraper began to melt away from the cascade of furious lightning strikes.

"She is like this sometimes." Syon said.

Renya was still tied up in silver thread from Syon's glove, hugging her katana. Renya looked at the ground where she landed. Her head rang from the impact. A normal human would have died, Renya thought, how lucky.

"It's your fault."

Syon kept her eyes covered as blue light began to fill the horizon behind them.

"Really?"

"Didn't you leave her in a room with a bunch of monsters that were ripping her apart?" Renya said, calling her own recently deceased family 'monsters', clearly, out of respect and love for the time they spent together, and out of years of deep-seated revulsion.

"As one of those monsters - you should not be complaining. I gave you a fair shot. This is our normal." Syon said.

Renya enjoyed the sight as she watched her home burn away in the lightning. All of them were burning away, Renya thought. The experiments, her family, the top of the skyscraper leveled out entirely from the force of the lighting hits. As if her entire life turned to ash before her. Renya's heart thumped at the thought. She didn't realize her whole family was really dead until that moment.

"Never seen such beautiful fireworks before." Renya smiled at the lightning. She looked down at her tied up body.

Struggling against the silver thread, Renya complained.

"Syon?"

"What?" Syon kept looking away from the engulfing blue light.

"Could you...?"

"There is not a chance."

A year and a half went by with Renya stuck in the village, until Ichi came, Renya kept quiet and enjoyed the countryside. She wrote extremely detailed novels about human suffering to relieve stress. Renya started a garden, and watered it everyday. At school, she read math books.

Then, Ichi came. His heart became her new hobby.