Owari no Seraph Vol 1 Prologue

When I was a kid, I thought that any kind of dream I had would be granted.

Being with the person I like, obtaining whatever I want, and living my days happily.

I thought it was a simple thing.

I thought it was really a simple thing.

"Hey Glen."

"............"

"Hey, Ichinose Glen."

"Hn?"

"About us...... you know......"

"............"

"When we become adults...... erm, will we be able to get married......?

"............"

"Will we be able to stay together forever like now?"

On the green lawn.

Under the cloudless, clear sky.

Said the girl who was grasping my hand beside me.

She was so close that I could hear her breathing. I liked that voice. I liked that voice of hers. I liked her pulse. I liked everything about her.

But, I replied without looking at her.

"Impossible."

"Why?"

Her voice trembled a little.

And I said.

"You know it right?"

"It's because...... of my house?"

"...... I'm from the branch house. And you are the successor to head of the main house. we're a bad match for each other."

"But, but that doesn't matter......"

"It does."

I cut her off.

And she kept quiet. No, she might have been crying. Since she knew that as well. Since she truly knew that as well. Which was why her breathing became a little chaotic, and her grasp became much, much tighter.

At the same time, voices rang out from afar.

"There she is!"

Mahiru-sama!"

"It's that Ichinose brat again, were you the one who brought Mahiru-sama out!?"

"For someone of a lowly branch house, what the hell are you scheming!"

I looked up.

I spoke to the girl with ashen hair beside me.

"Your escorts are here."

She was indeed crying. While grasping my hand tightly,

"I...... don't want to separated from Glen."

"............"

"I...... I......"

However, at that moment, I could no longer hear the girl's voice. But it was not because the girl stopped speaking.

I was getting beaten up.

Grown-ups came and beat me up.

"Stooooppppppppp!"

The girl screamed, but her voice did not reach the grown-ups.

"Know your place, shitty brat!"

"Let's just kill him! He's just an unneeded Ichinose from the branch family!"

"Kill him! Kill him!"

Said the grown-ups as they continued beating me.

I looked at the crying girl vacantly while I was getting beaten up.

The girl called Mahiru.

To me, who was lowly born, she was the sun......

"Stop! Please, stop!"

At that moment, I lost consciousness for an instant.

The iron smell of blood.

The endless clear blue sky.

The nice feeling of the lawn.

As I started to fall amongst those things, I thought.

About the time when I was a kid, when I thought that any kind of dream I had would be granted, but yet.

Being with the person I like, obtaining whatever I want, and living my days happily.

Those seemed like really simple things, but yet.

Those truly seemed like really simple things, but yet.

"...... power."

I murmured as I was falling to the ground.

I clenched my fist tightly,

"...... I don't have, enough power...... to obtain the things I want."

And looked up.

It seemed like the girl was about to be taken away.

She looked at me with tears in her eyes.

And she appeared to be apologizing to me, again and again.

Sorry.

It's all my fault. Sorry.

Even when she was not at fault.

Even when the one who was at fault was the lowly born, powerless me.

"............"

I looked at her and extended my hand.

Towards empty space.

Towards the sun.

Towards Mahiru.

While I was thinking about, 'what should I do in order to obtain anything, anything that I want', I......

♦

And then, 10 years went by.

Chapter end