The horned girl walks in a dark forest, with her lilac-to-cyan hair being the only clothing to cover, the rest of her body covered in scratches and blood. In her hand is the piece of the remaining meat she cooked during the stay in one of the mysterious caves; she moves her eyes towards the food and bites it with silence.
Ignoring the crunchy sounds of the leaves under her bare feet, she gets up from a hike at the cliff to see a few illuminating dots from far, locating in the city of lights.
Hearing the sounds of cars at the nightly landscape, she has thought they were only described as 'paradise on Earth' due to the fact she never sees an advanced civilization before, other than the people who brought her into life.
But those people only treated her as a product of pleasure, not an actual child of the household.
Due to the fact she was a newborn with chartreuse horns and cyan hair, she never cried like any other children, which was very weird for her parents to witness after her birth.
Her father wasn't that happy with the result, but he still loved his wife.
'But they never loved you…'
Hearing the mature voice of a woman, she recalls her in her mind as a white-haired woman, with a shocked expression.
Kawaki Mizukawa, her relative, did tell her that her parents only cared for themselves, as her father was a psychopath who took a demon mother to release his stress through pleasure.
But that was all the girl is taught by Kawaki. She can never comprehend why her parents treated her like a useless being, even they tried to kill her since they never cared about her anyway. That was the time she manifested her blood weapons from their abuse.
That is all she remembered so far due to her never-ending hunger for blood.
"Where… is blood…?"
BANG!
She feels a sharp pain on her left shoulder and smells her fresh crimson blood as she turns her back to a group of brunettes.
Her eyes widen, recalling her parents who were dark-haired, like those girls she witnesses now.
Her instincts tell her to attack, thus she moves her blood and it forms into a medium-sized axe. Grasping on the red axe, she realises those girls are going to abduct her-
She swings her axe towards the leader, having them watch her bleed from the horizontal wound on the torso.
"Die… DIE DIE DIE!!!"
Watching their leader fall with the pool of red, the girls evade the rogue's kicks while some of them get kicked down along with being stabbed by a matching red machete.
Some are beheaded by an instant from her sprinting, leaving her old weapon behind, being stuck onto the member's body.
With more slashes from the girl, the more blood spreads on the leafless ground, until the point it turns into a blood puddle.
After killing the last of the members, she pants very hard, laughing at the fact she is covered in the metallic taste of blood she has a longing to wish for after she escaped from her abusive parents.
"Hey, there."
She snaps and turns around to slash the individual behind her-
The machete is blocked by two fingers of the leader, though it slightly penetrates her hand.
"Mikan Cairo. What is your name, dear fiend?"
"I'm not a fiend! I'm a person, and you shall never get in my way, woman!"
Mikan laughs with her smile still intact.
"What?! You wanna fight me or-"
Mikan penetrates her fist through the girl's stomach, causing her to bleed profusely from the wound and mouth.
"Ack- Dammit!!" She falls into the bloodied floor, now jerking while seeing her blood mixed with her enemies', while Mikan lets go of her with the arm coated with the same red.
"Well? Can you recover from that?"
"Woman! How… HOW COULD… You…!!!"
From Mikan's eyes are the wound fusing itself with the blood on the floor, now enclosing with the opening turning smaller and smaller, until the wound closes.
"Hmm?" Mikan then sees the girl, now getting up with no visible scarring, and staggering with her red large hammer lifted with little effort.
"I see… So you were that demon child from the Mizukawa peerage-"
She throws the hammer upwards to Mikan-
BOOM!
Mikan dodges the attack and jumps off the cliff, with the girl watching her fall.
But Mikan never expected her to jump along, now with the girl's horns growing long, and they both fall onto the steep slope, rolling as the girl is ready to hammer Mikan down.
She stabilises herself to a slide and pounds the ground as she always misses Mikan's swift rolling.
After the slope turns flat for their fall, both girls get up and brace into a fighting stance; now the girl discards the disintegrating hammer, while Mikan's smile turns into a neutral face.
"I'm calling you 'Vladi' from now on. Would that help?"
"Who the hell is 'Bloody'?!", an angry 'Vladi' asks while she clenches her fists with crimson blades connects on them.
"You're naked, girl. I guess you need a-"
'Vladi''s eyes open wide enough to protrude veins over her face. She dashes towards Mikan with her blades slicing the leader's shoulder open. "Vicious! You're vicious!!!", 'Vladi' feels her arm grabbed by Mikan and is rammed down to the ground. 'Vladi' lands on her stomach, raising her head to reveal her nosebleed.
Mikan, still with the same expression, watches 'Vladi' pant hard while seeing her face getting pale, and gets closer.
"It hurts, doesn't it? Oh well… I guess I will have to kill you right now-"
"My boo…"
"What? Are you referring to Kawaki-"
SLASH!!
'Vladi' slashes Mikan's upper body once again and gets up, but this time, she immediately cuts the head off before even regenerating in even a few seconds.
"I just… want to eat you, woman…" 'Vladi' then grabs Mikan's head and throws it in the dark region of the forest, while seeing pouring blood from her headless body; thus, she has a very satisfying dinner, which is her enemy's blood.
Drinking blood from the body and the grass, she finally sees a flash of light from the torch, revealing a group of blue-uniformed men with yellow helmets.
"Oh, crap. This is a violent monster we're dealing with, Captain…" a young Guardian only shies away from her sight.
"Don't complain and bring her over. She already killed the Hacker Associate members here."
While 'Vladi' only raises her hands as she thinks she is already caught, a Guardian with a captain armband walks out of his group.
"Someone called you 'Vladi'?"
She only stares fearfully towards the man, now seeing his green eyes and straight brown hair.
"No worries, girl. We will protect you…"
Realising that this is the reaction from a stranger who knows nothing of her family and her life with them, she can only either feel sad or feel nothing.
He finally hugs her, despite the bloody mess on her naked body.
"It's Armour here. Don't worry. How old are you right now?"
Due to her scrawny teenage appearance as seen, Armour, now covered in blood, observes her body, and asks, "How did you get this far-"
"I'm… Nineteen?"
"Nineteen? Well, it looks like you still need protection, then we will have to send-"
"No. I don't have any home to return to anymore. Please… I want to live with you, 'papa'..."
Upon hearing 'papa' from the girl, Armour then asks, "What is your name?"
"I- Isn't it obvious? I was called 'Vladi'-"
"No. Your real name."
She only freezes as she can't recall her name.
"Okay, why not I call you…", Armour puts his finger on his chin.
"No…"
"Haki Busou?"
"Haki… Busou…???"