Koru awoke to see an unfamiliar ceiling. Getting up he noticed he couldn't move.
"Why can't I move?" "Ugh. my head." "Where am I?" he thought. Looking around he notices his hands and legs are bound by shackles. "I'm in a dungeon?" he says noticing the the iron bars in front of him.
Koru hears foot steps coming his way. Two figures appear in front of him. "Your awake thief." the smaller figure says.
"Its Koru not thief." "Also didn't steal anything the sword was given to me by a mysterious fortune-teller." "Wait! That makes me just as suspicious."
The two figures glance at him.
"Miss this brat sounds even more suspicious than before." The taller figure says.
"Sigh, thank you captain obvious." the small one replies.
"Wait those voices! You are the two that attacked me earlier! What do you want from me?" "You already have the sword!"
They open the jail cell's door coming closer to Koru. The light above him lite up their proving Koru words correct.
Ame walks up to Koru grabbing his face.
"You better remember the name Ame Yuuki, you monster." "You didn't just steal a sword, you stole our only defense against the Demon Queen." "If you so much as think about stealing it again I will hunt you down." Ame says moves her face closer to his.
"Monster? I'm human! Like I said before I didn't steal the sword!"
Koru tries to move in the shackles.
Ame and Aron walk away from Koru towards the door.
When Koru pleads one last time, his face serious. "Please, I'm telling you the truth! Release me, please!"
The two turn around "Release him from the shackles." Ame commands guarding the jail cell's door.
"But Miss I saw his eye and it wasn't human." Aron whines.
"Fine release him from the cell but keep the shackles on, and blindfold him. I don't completely trust him." Ame commands as she walks towards the door.
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Aron escorts Koru to another room.
Koru is blindfolded, struggling the whole way.
"It would be quicker if you stopped struggling human." Aron remarks stopping.
"Sit him down and take off the blindfold." Ame says stopping in next room.
"Ugh, my eyes." He said shielding his eyes from the many lights in the room.
Koru looked in front of him he saw Ame sitting a brown chair in front in him. She hade her quiver and bow by her side.
"If you're not a thief, then why attack us?" Ame asks folding her legs.
"I guess it would better to tell them." Koru thought before speaking.
He shifts on the couch before he spoke "I don't really know as soon as he touched the sword, my eye started to burn, and it was like I wasn't in control of my body."
Aron and Ame watched cafefully as Koru spoke to make sure he was telling the truth.
Koru noticed that they were watching and hoped they believed him.
"I guess if you were lying. You would have changed your story but you stuck with one story. But that doesn't mean I trust you." Ame says.
Aron whispers to himself "Miss has been watching too TV crime shows."
"Okay I get it, you don't trust me." Koru thought to himself.
Ame gets up, turns around, thinking.
She turns around facing Koru.
"At this point, even without trusting when we locked you up we have noticed the sword has different aura with you. Then anyone else on the clan." "It looks like you are the only one who can unlock the Fortune sword's potential."
"The Fortune Sword?" Koru asked.
"Its the sword that can change someone's destiny. It connected to the Demon Queen." Aron explains.
As soon as Aron says words Demon Queen the lights flicker off catching everyone off guard.
"What's going on?" Koru asks.
"It's her the demon queen!" Ame yells going to grab her quiver and bow.
On the the ceiling were black flames. The flames transformed into a face.
A voice is heard overhead "I see the humans and pawns of the detestable Yuuki's still have my Fortune Sword."
"That sword is rightfully ours!" Ame says.
"Silence! I am not here to a conversation!"
"I like I care!"
"I am here to make a deal. In a year bring my Fortune Sword to me and I will spare your world. If you don't I will take it over!"
Ame shoots an arrow towards the flame saying "Like we would accept those terms !"
The arrow is engulfed by the flames.
"If don't comply to my terms your brother will be killed and everyone will be killed." "But if you do comply your brother will be sent to without harm and your world will safe."
Ame hesitates lowering her bow.
Aron goes to speak but the flames stop him.
"Demon Queen. I accept these terms!"
Ame says.
"As I expected." The Demon Queen says as her flames dissolve and the lights flicker on.
The room's silence is cut short by a knocking at the front door.