Satellite Sky

"Save the world?"

Kira asked.

Misuzu nodded.

"Brother started becoming very strange at some point. He has become a man with two faces now.

"One is a gentle face, and the other is the face of a demon that finds pleasure in leading the world toward destruction."

"As I thought." Kira nodded. "You noticed it too."

Misuzu lowered her head.

"Brother and I were born with the power to see through other people's destinies. This power manifested when we were very young, but it was never a blessing. It was a curse."

She let out a long breath.

"Yes, a curse. Because of it, everyone who noticed kept their distance from us. Nearly everyone we knew felt uncomfortable around us, and gradually, no one associated with us anymore.

"That was why the bond between Brother and me became deeper than that of ordinary siblings.

"But then, one day, even Brother changed. Looking back, it must have been then."

Misuzu rose to her feet and lightly waved her hand. The scene around them abruptly changed.

Flickering yellow candlelight. An eerie mansion. A slightly younger Saiō Takuma sat at a table, facing a man dressed in black with his face hidden behind a scarf.

This was a scene Misuzu had programmed and constructed within the Virtual World, recreating what had happened back then.

"At Big Brother's fortune-telling mansion, someone came to visit. That person brought a card and asked Big Brother to examine it. Even then, I could sense an ominous power from that card."

Misuzu said.

"That very night, I told Big Brother to throw that card away, but—"

The image shifted. Saiō Takuma stood in a gloomy room, holding a card high in his hand, his expression twisted into a savage grimace. The light released from the card was like