A group of men and women gathered in the weird room.

Ornaments adorned the pillars and drapes hung on the walls. Flowers were displayed from vases with delicate designs, the tables and chairs were plated with gold. But they paled in comparison to the lively congregation.

There present were the four members with colorful personalities and their posse.

“Where did Lucia go?”

A man wearing clothes like a court official’s and glasses asked.

“I don’t know but she would be fine no matter where she goes. Don’t worry about her too much you will look like her mother.”

The woman in crimson attire replied.

The other member should be showing up soon. But it was hard to say whether she would really show up. She was whimsical and seemed uninterested in many things, missing most meetings of such nature.

The meeting would probably begin when she showed up.

“It has been a while since we have been gathered together … is something going to happen ?”

“Who knows, but I heard that the ‘Eclipse’ is near~”

“The ‘Eclipse’? ”

“Ah, apparently, brother has been reborn once again; though it’s only a rumor.”

“You mean the ‘Devourer’?”

“Oh ? Is he called by that name today ?”

The young voices filled with arrogance joined in with interest, mixing with one another.

“Hey everyone, is everybody here?”

“You have the guts to come late, Undead Princess!”

“It’s good manners for the young ones to wait for their elders.”

“Don’t talk like that Dva-chan, you sound like a grandma.”

The one who said that was the newly arrived member. It was a very familiar little girl around twelve or thirteen years of age.

She has an absolute baby face, with silky violet-blonde hair flowing on her thin shoulders and purple colored irises.

This room they were in was shaped like a stairwell, with the steps about 2 meters apart . Instead of steps, it was closer to a series of platforms floating in the air with ascending height, an interesting room.

Each platform had an unique style, bringing with it an unique flavor. On the top was a blue colored platform, then purple, crimson, black, white and green respectively.

“Where did you go, Lucia ?”

“Hm ? Me, hehe I went to play … but unexpectedly I was suddenly kidnapped~ That’s why I was late.”

“Kidnapped ?”

Hearing that word, the four people present couldn’t help but looked at the girl with distorted faces.

The undead princess feared in the underworld was actually kidnapped ? What kind of nonsense was that ?

“What do you mean kidnapped ?”

The undead princess; Lucia laughed nonstop while holding her stomach. “Listen to this, while I was walking I was suddenly put inside a huge sack … what the hell … I thought at that time~”

Listening to the laughter of this undead princess, the other could only exchange some weird glances.

“… hehe, at that time I didn’t care about my surroundings so I was caught off guard. I should have expected that my beautiful looks would make anyone go crazy as to even attempt to kidnapped me …. ahahahaha”

Seeing her laughing like a crazy maniac, the man wearing glasses could only shake his head while wearing a bitter smile.

“Poor humans~”

“So don’t tell me you made them into your servants again ?”

The four of them expected for her to consume their souls and made them through hellish punishments for doing such things but unexpectedly, Lucia shook her head while wiping the tears on her eyes.

This caused them to become bewildered.

“I wanted to do that at first, but who would expect ‘Him’ to show up~”

“By ‘Him’ … don’t tell me?”

“Yeah, you do know that I’m quite sensitive in regards to ‘his’ presence … although I’m not really that sure but I felt ‘his’ presence a little bit so I acted like a kidnapped princess … hehe, you should have seen my spectacular acting … I even managed to fool him, hohoho. I had now something to tease ‘him’ for a while when he return~”

Her words fell at the place like a hammer that came from the sky. The atmosphere suddenly change in that instant.

The two who were sitting in the crimson and green platform, were not in a state that could be called peaceful.

The temperature inside rose up and became even hotter. The woman sitting on the crimson platform slowly muttered: “Where is ‘he’?” her voice held some unmasked excitement.

“Who knows where he was actually staying. I just met him by chance~”

“It’s pointless to lie to me, Lucia? These idiots aside, you will most likely follow him … am I right ?”

“Relax, Dva-chan~ Although I felt his presence, but I only said ‘a little’. I’m still not quite sure if he really is the one.”

“Even still …”

“Besides, I couldn’t follow him. Judging from his range of perception, he would be able to sense me. I’m not as good as Dura-cchi in playing hide and seek. In addition there seemed a capable guard protecting him … although I can crush him like a bug, but seeing that he isn’t an enemy, I don’t want to do it~”

“Lucia, where did you met him?” The young man who was standing on the green platform asked. He has a horn protruding on his forehead.

“At the place called Academy City~” Lucia shrugged her shoulders while answering. “I sense his presence there a while ago, so I went to confirm it.”

At this moment, on the white colored platform, the rolled up expensive looking blanket——-started to wiggle about.

The blanket lump continued squirming around but, there were no other actions other than that.

Then suddenly the blanket stopped moving. The person inside then slowly showed her face as if a tulip was blooming.

“………..Hnaaa~~”

A young and cute voice appeared, was it a yawn or not because it was impossible to distinguish which.

” …What … are you all talking … about?”

The person that appeared from inside the blanket—-was a woman wearing one shirt.

She has the height of a twenty year old mature woman but her young face eliminated any of that mature charm.

She has glowing blonde hair but, spiky bed hair could be seen all over her head. The face is extremely cute but, she was blinking repeatedly and was yawning. She looked really sleepy.

“Nothing that needs your immediate attention, Dreams … you should go back to your sleep.” The man with glasses said.

“Okay~” Without caring anything, the girl called Dreams returned to her sleep.

“That’s kinda harsh Du-cchi. Dai-chan also need to hear this you know~”

“Dreams would just get heated up … ” The man wearing glasses rebuked Lucia. “… anyway, it’s still not the time for our appearance. The stage isn’t ready yet.”

“Well, if that’s what you want~ Anyway, I don’t think the gods have noticed ‘him’ yet, and even if ‘they’ did, ‘his’ presence was still unnoticeable so they would just think that it was our doing~”

“But what about that ‘woman’?”

“‘Her’ huh ? I don’t know.”

Lucia shook her head.

“…Anyways. It would be best to watch him for now and …”

Once the man wearing glasses mumbled that, the other three people except the still sleeping woman, immediately straightened their expressions . The man then continued.

“… It would probably be for the best if we proceeded with caution in the future. The gods might noticed something …”

“It had already been a miracle for him to be reborn in this world again, we must protect him at all cost. ”

As he proposed that, the other three nodded their heads in agreement. After listening to him, they all understood the seriousness of the situation.

“Crimson and Abyss, you two should hurry towards this so called Academy City but make sure that no one noticed you even him. And gather information, I don’t trust Lucia’s carefree attitude.”

“Hey four eyes! What do you mean by that!? Are you asking for a fight!?”

“Affirmative!”

“Even without you telling me that … ”

Crimson had no objections; either way, she need to make sure whether he was really ‘Him’.

“…Don’t go too crazy, Crimson.”

With those words serving as parting words, the people on top of each platform disappeared.

My beloved brother! This time, I will be able to protect you!

Determination boiled inside of Crimson, as if she hadn’t heard her allies warnings.