The two ninteen year old boys stood there in the dark alley
Itsuki spoke softly
"Yuzuru"
Itsuki looked up at the night sky, his golden eyes reflecting the moonlight
"I want to love someone… and have a family, Yuzuru."
"I won't leave the gang ...We still need to protect the innocent."
He paused for a moment
"But I want to live a normal life too."
"I want to love someone"
"I want to raise my kids."
A small smile appeared on his lips
"A beautiful dream… isn't it?"
Yuzuru chuckled his eyes were so warm
"Then go find someone."
Yuzuru :
"With your power…you can find a beautiful love for yourself
A cold wind passed through the alley, brushing against Itsuki's hair
His golden eyes slowly shifted toward Yuzuru
"I can see and felt everything ..... everything of one's soul "
His voice was calm
Itsuki
"The human soul is really beautiful ."
his expression softened
Yuzuru smiled
Yuzuru pov:
"I hope you get a beautiful life… with someone who will love you more than anyone."
Some Days Later
one night, something unexpected happened
Someone tried to assassinate him
Rain poured heavily over the silent streets
Itsuki walked alone when suddenly—
A blade flashed toward his neck
But before it could reach him, Itsuki caught the assassin's wrist
Their eyes met
Her eyes were dark gray
Cold empty Focused Completely unreadable
Instead of any other emotions—
He felt was to smile
Itsuki smiled
"So you're the one they sent to kill me?"
The assassin didn't answer
She twisted her wrist and attacked again, but Itsuki stepped back easily
The fight lasted only seconds
Then Itsuki stopped moving
He eyes wandered on her soul
His lips curved a smile
"How can someone look so empty…"
".…yet have such a beautiful soul?"
Her eyes widened
No one had ever said something like that to her
"What's your name?" he asked
Rain fell between them
For a moment, she said nothing
Then she spoke quietly
"Seris."
Itsuki smiled softly
Seris had been sent to kill someone
A powerful gangster who protected a countless innocent from the under ground messed up world
His name was Itsuki
She waited in darkness on a rooftop, her blade ready
But when she saw him below—
Something felt wrong
He wasn't hurting anyone
Instead, he was protecting a group wounded children from another gang
Seris watched silently
For the first time in years…
She hesitated
And that hesitation changed everything
Seris muttered
He really is different…
Seris' Past
Her world had always been dark
She survived only because someone found her in the ruins of a burning city
But that person wasn't a savior
He was a recruiter for an assassin organization
He saw something in the girl standing in the smoke while everything burned around her
Her eyes weren't crying
They were empty
and empty children were the easiest to turn into weapons
So Seris was taken away
The organization raised children like tools
They were trained to fight
To disappear.
To kill without hesitation
Seris learned quickly
Faster than the others
She learned how to move without sound
How to read the tension in someone's body before they attacked
How to end a life in seconds
By the time she was sixteen, she had become one of the most feared assassins in the organization
They gave her a name
Seris
A name that meant emptiness
But she wasn't cold
She had simply seen the cruelest side of the world
Sometimes she wondered what it meant to truly breathe…
To truly live
Itsuki's eyes were soft
A kindness she had never seen before
Seris asked quietly,
"You can read people's souls, right?"
"So tell me… what do you see inside me?"
Itsuki answered without hesitation
"Loneliness."
She froze
Her eyes widened...
... she left from there
Days passed
Seris kept watching him
itsuki always noticed he knows seris following him
At first, she told herself it was just to make sure he wasn't dangerous
But slowly—
Silence turned into comfort
Itsuki always smiled when he saw her
One day she finally spoke
"You know I'm a killer."
Itsuki walked closer
"And I know you hate it."
She didn't moved she stood there
Seris
" You always notice my presence why aren't you being aware of me "
Itsuki kept walking closer to her
"Do i really need to be aware "
His eyes lingered on her
She looked away
" why aren't you afraid of me?"
Itsuki gently lifted her chin so she had to look at him
"Because the soul I see… is kinder than most people in this world."
Her heart pounded
Dangerous
Reckless
Impossible
Yet she stepped closer
"Careful," she whispered in his ears
"People who stay near me… die."
Itsuki chuckled
"Then I'll just stay alive."
For the first time in her life—
The assassin laughed
Itsuki's eyes widened
And in that moment…
She realized—
She had already fallen in love