At an airport somewhere in Komveena...
"Can I just ask Mr. Weiss a few questions?"
"We need an explanation for all of this, Mr. Weiss!"
"Erios! I love you!!"
…
There’s a commotion on the outside of the airport because one of the country's business moguls got arrested and was in the process of transporting him in a private transport plane. Airburst Airburst staff and even the police have been recruited to keep the media and outsiders out of the area. Inside the transport plane, two technicians rechecked the special capsule cage that holds the only prisoner inside. Both of them were sweaty, like they were in a sauna, despite the fact that the air conditioner in the plane was working normally. Each of them nodded at each other emphasizing that a mistake is not an option for this job. The reason behind their distress was a gray-haired man who was imprisoned in this special AB prison. On the prison's base is a nameplate that reads Weiss Schobilde with a letter (A) and a club symbol in front. Within AB's glass-like capsule cage, the prisoner had a restraint that sealed every part of his body. Additionally, the capsules are filled with fluids that slow his brain activity to prevent anyone from enforcing the sophisticated ability such as Lost Wisdom. Nevertheless, that doesn't make these technicians feel safe until the gentle voice of a young man sounds.
"Don't worry guys. I will guarantee that he will never see the light of day for as long as he deserves."
Erios grabbed the technicians' shoulders to comfort them.
... To think that someone who has always kept things low-key like you is causing such a big fuss. What are you really up to, Weiss?…
His eyes calmly stared directly at the paralyzed prisoner in a cage.
...The prelude has ended.. Don't you dare kick the bucket before we meet again, Lavender Knight. You must get stronger.. to protect my princess...
Weiss's face smirked as much as the corners of his mouth were able to move in the bondage.
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A beautiful brown-haired woman in her mid-30s holds hands with a man with gray hair and yellow eyes. They both stared at each other with overflowing love. But the face of a man who was supposed to be as handsome as a statue of a god flinched in pain and bloody tears flowed from his eyes. The atmosphere around the two lovers was pure white, with the sound of thunder roaring continuously. He was teleporting to beautiful sights around the world, one place after another in the blink of an eye, and ended up at the memorable place where the two first met. Before the brown-haired girl's rustling breath was over, the couple had repeatedly said how much they loved each other and hugged the love of their life so tightly. They share their bodies’ warmth until none is left in one of them.
"NOOOO…!!"
The junior high school student, Weiss, just experienced a terrible lucid dream in broad daylight and screamed from an extreme headache before blacking out.
When Weiss opened his eyes again, he saw Little Yu's face followed by a soft touch from her lap, supporting his head. The gray-haired youth burst into tears as he realized that what he had seen was not what happened.
" There, there, don't cry. Everything is going to be fine."
A young girl with brown hair gently patted the cheeky little Weiss’s head on her lap.
... She's right, it is just a dream. Everything will be fine.. But it felt so real...
That was the first time Weiss, then 14, encountered his most terrifying premonition.
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And going a few years back...
It was when Weiss moved to Themeise, the first day that he met Yu. Little Weiss was feeding fish with bread crumbs in the park. All of a sudden, 6-7 big men with dark glasses surrounded him armed with a knife. In those days, the Prism group was not very influential, so there were no guards for the heir. Young Weiss was almost attacked by the underlings of a rival gang if not for a tough-looking girl who came to rescue him. The moves and martial arts that she used were so resolute and thrashed those terrible adults that they had to flee their ass. During one versus many gangsters, she dropped her glasses.
"Are you alright?"
The little girl with short brown hair, seemingly around the same age as Weiss, walked past him to the trash can and asked. On her tanned skin and streaks of muscles visible all over her body, there was a slight wound from the knife cut by the gangster.
"You’re hurt."
Weiss, seeing the girl's cheeks bleed, walked up to her and handed over her fallen glasses from beside her.
Yu's face flushes as she realizes that she’s not talking to a person but something else. Then she grabbed her glasses and ran away. Weiss still remembers it clearly; the sight of Yu’s muscular back in the distance, the back of a person who is his hero.
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Their paths crossed again when Weiss met Yu at the elementary school that they attended.
…Why is she all alone and being bullied like this...
On that very first day, Weiss reached out to the girl who had saved his life back then.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
Despite having an athletic body that seems odd in the eyes of other kids, the girl that fell to the ground in front of Little Weiss was still a young girl. A girl that smiled broadly and happily. Not a freak like others say.
...Her smile is more precious and brighter than anyone else's. She is like my sun...
8 years have passed...
From each other's first friends to becoming each other's first sweetheart, Weiss and Yu were both happy after a year of dating. Two young people in high school become a couple that their friends are both happy about and envious of.
But then one day, on the way home, the gangs that had lost benefits from the Prism group’s dominance had gathered a dozen cars loaded with armed men to assassinate him. Weiss's escort henchmen weren't enough to fight such a large number of armed men. The shoot-out killed all the guards from Weiss’s side, and there were over 20 enemies left. Weiss can't fight, so he tries to negotiate, but they come here to kill. Yu, walking along with him, got no choice but to unleash her special moves to knock them all out. With a desperate struggle. Her upper arms and legs were buried with bullets. Doctors said the injury to her leg had caused her to have tetanus along with a high fever for at least a week.
"Are you all right, Weiss?"
Yu asked her boyfriend on the edge of her patient's bed.
"*sob* Geez.. *sob* Please worry about yourself first. I’m fine, totally fine."
Weiss replied with tears of guilt in his eyes.
"Don't cry, you know how formidable I am. I will be better soon. "
Yu raised her arms in a strong gesture with a smile at her boyfriend. Weiss knew wholeheartedly that his girlfriend was trying to act cheerfully to not make him worry too much. He clenched his fists and was very angry with himself. What Weiss was feeling triggered the worst nightmare he had had years ago. The sight of Yu slowly suffocating before falling asleep forever in his arms began to pop up. Young Weiss had a headache so bad that he staggered and swayed, trying to get something to hold on to. After Yu fell asleep, the time to visit the patient was over. Weiss, walking home, had a headache that was as intense as being struck by lightning repeatedly until he passed out.
Upon waking up, Weiss found that he was embedded with memories that weren't in his time but all of his future self’s life-time experience. Both the good memories and the unbearable pain. Every moment spent with someone whom he loves with all his heart, as well as the best countermeasures prepared to prevent his worst future from beginning to the end of it.
"Hahaha…Is this all really necessary? Hahahaha.. Alright, I’ll do it! Bring it, you cursed fate! Hahahahahahahahaha…"
The gray-haired youth sat on his bed with his hand clutching his face, laughing madly, and he started pulling his hair. Since then, Weiss has sworn to protect Yu and her smile, no matter the costs.
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"What brings you here? You said you hate me more than anything, don't you?"
The biggest mafia boss in Themeise at that time raised one eyebrow, never expecting that his son would come to visit his mansion.
"I’m going to take on the position of Prism's boss’s heir."
Weiss said solemnly.
"Did you hit your head or something? You don't even have the stomach to kill an insect.."
*Bang!*
Weiss didn't wait for his father’s words of disbelief to finish; he took a gun from the waist of a subordinate standing nearby and shot a hostage in the head in front of him. The Prism's godfather just lost a hostage to a rival affiliation for interrogation, but he seems more content than ever.
"Ho ho, have a seat, son."
After working for Prism, Weiss broke up with Yu so that she wouldn’t have to protect him and get hurt again.
...I will mold you into a great lady, beautiful, strong, and capable of living a good, long life. Even without me next to you...
Prism's young master, Weiss, hires a super model for millions of coins an hour. This does not include compensation for damage to her reputation caused by taking her to Yu. And he spoke to his girlfriend with a lifeless and heartless statue-like face like never before.
"I hate women like you the most."
...I love you more than anything...
"Your beefy figure full of veins is so sickening."
...What does it matter?...
"You’re pathetic."
...You’re strong. Please stay strong...
"Don't act like you know me anymore."
...I'm going to miss you...
Every step back for Weiss was as heavy as being crushed by the entire world. And Yu’s cry made the young man's heart constrict in pain from holding him back from turning back to comfort her.
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A few years later, in the secret base of the Prism group...
*voomp!*
*RAT* *TAT* *TAT*…
*voomp!*
"Seriously, what the hell is that Airburst thing? All it do is jumping around for a few months, and almost all of our group and partners were dumped in the clink. This is freaking annoying. Weiss, what are your plans?"
Prism's godfather yelled at his son while frantically loading bullets into his magazine. In the Prism’s secret hideout tunnel, Weiss, his father, and a few of the elite armies are running hopelessly from Airburst.
"You’ve done evil deeds for long enough, Father. I think it's not a bad idea for you to have a long stay and chat with your friends in prison. "
Weiss replied in a low voice and with a statue-like face that had changed since that day.
"Our group will be troublesome for her in the future. And this will give her a bonus after this as well."
*..zzz...*
He continued as the white lightning aura around him gradually became brighter.
"You! For the sake of a mere woman, are you hell-seriously willing to abandon our family?! Have you lost your mind?!"
The founder of the mighty Prism kingdom was so infuriated that his face turned red and he pointed the gun at his son.
...I’m sorry, father. I’ll make sure that the place I’ll end up in is worse than yours...
"I will visit you often."
*zzzz-PANG!!*
The gray-haired man disappeared with white lightning before anyone could even pull the trigger.
"Weiss! Come back here! Damn it, Weiss!"
Soon after the shout of the godfather, Airburst obtained this secret hideout entry from Weiss, showing up and ending Prism, a gang whose power was formerly second to none in Themeise.
On every important anniversary, there were always white lightning bolts appearing at a high altitude point not far away from Yu. And at the end of those lightning bolts stood a gray-haired, yellow-eyed man with a statue-like face. Holding a bouquet of edelweiss flowers that signify deep love, he hands it over to her direction and disappears before it can be given.
...I’ll be a demon, be someone you hate, be anything. As long as I get to see you live on...
*..zzzzzzz-PANG!!*