Chapter 2: New Beginnings

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PRESENT TIME

...Location: Somewhere in Tokyo

Two teenage boys, one with blond, scruffy hair with yellowish-brown eyes and the other with black hair in a topknot style with green eyes bickered. Upon arrival at a certain apartment door that was proceeded to open.

The blonde boy known as Denji ran inside excitedly admiring every aspect of the home. Due to his past situation of living in severe poverty, this would be the first-ever to live in an adequate living space. Regardless of the fact, he would be living with a stranger who disliked him very much and he felt the same way about him.

The other boy with black hair known as Hayakawa Aki was scowling on his way inside as he watched Denji run all over the place. He shook his head and walked towards the kitchen checking inside the fridge thinking about what they could eat for dinner.

"HAHAHAHAHAH! WHAT IS UP WITH THESE FROGS!" Denji yelled as he pointed at one tiny frog sculpture playing with a guitar. 

Aki averted his attention to the assortment of odd tiny frog sculptures on a shelf in the living room.

"I had a roommate who was obsessed with collecting frog stuff. Hey! Don't touch that!" Aki yelled at Denji from the kitchen.

"Geez, what kind of guy collects this stuff?" He chortled as he backed away from the shelf and looked elsewhere.

"That guy you're talking about is a girl. She's also a devil hunter," Aki corrected as proceeded to gather things from the fridge.

"A girl!? You've been living with a girl! Is she here!?" Eyes wide Denji looked around.

"No. Enough about her. I don't think she's coming back here." He declared as if he was trying to make himself believe that it was the case. The last time he had heard from her was two years ago when she was assigned to find the Gun Devil's bullets out of Japan. In this line of job, many people's lives are lost, even though he knew that she was a devil. If he hasn't heard or seen them for a long time that usually means they are dead.

Denji proceeded to groan loudly. "I guess I'm stuck living with you."

"I could say the same." Aki spat back as he started to cook a meal for them.

... Location: Devil Hunter Tokyo Headquarters

The silver-haired devil with luggage and briefcase in hand stood in front of the Headquarters building. She looked at her stuff and sighed as things did not go as planned. Her Master forgot, as usual, to book a hotel for her. Devils like her who work as devil hunters get limited privileges.

'I'm here to do the job' She sighed again as she walked inside the building with her stuff. 

Others immediately noticed her presence. It was well known in the organization about the silver-haired devil who was among the youngest devil to become a devil hunter. Her being recruited and trained by Kishibe made her popular and a subject to many rumors may it be negative or positive. 

There were whispers about her that she almost heard. The words she heard from most of the people's mouths who passed by her were, dead, pretty, and monster. There were others but those struck her the most.

In no time, she was in front of an office. She knocked on the door and waited for a response.

"Come in." Love recognized that voice all too well, it was Makima's, one of the leading figures in the Public Safety Bureau. 

Love opened the door of the office and for the first time in a while saw the light red-haired woman having the same braided hairstyle. She headed towards in front of Makima who was at her desk.  Makima's yellow eyes eyed her every move which Love noticed and in return eyed Makima. 

"Hello, Love it's nice to see you again. How was your trip?" Makima greeted smiling towards Love. However, her smile did not reach her eyes as she continued to watch Love.

"It's nice seeing you again, Ms.Makima. The trip went well." Love responded with a professional tone as she bowed down. Love lets go of her luggage beside her and handled the briefcase now with two hands and presented it to Makima.

"The Gun Devil's bullets." Love declared opening the suitcase. 

"Good work, Love. It looks like Kishibe was right to trust you. I acknowledge your hard work in finding the bullets." She praised closing the briefcase.

"Thank you for your kind words." The silver-haired girl watches the red-haired girl stand up from her chair and advance towards Love with a smile on her face.

"You may have heard already from Kishibe that I am putting you in an experiment group. The further details will include you, the Love Devil, a fiend and hybrid. Along with the Hayakawa squad in the 4th Special Division." She emphasized.

'Aki Hayakawa?'  Love knew that name all too well. She cringed as she was triggered to remember memories. Unfortunately, most of the memories were not that great. What she remembered the most was that Aki Hayakawa has a deep hatred for devils. 

"I understand. When will we start working?" Love inquired.

"Tomorrow. Today will be your day off since you just came back." Makima answered. 

The Love Devil started to wonder if there were rooms in the headquarters she could stay until tomorrow. 

"Miss Makima, are there any rooms I could stay in the headquarters?" Love asked as she grabbed her suitcase indicating that she had no place to go. 

Makima rested on her chin and tilted her head as she kept a focused gaze on Love.

"Weren't you assigned to live with Aki? If there is no place for you to go unannounced. That place is still your home assigned to you and Aki Hayakawa. Also, Denji, the hybrid I mentioned. I'm hoping that he will learn a lot from you as you are a devil with many skills." The red-haired woman walked along the side of her desk and sat back down.

"He is a newbie hybrid devil hunter. So please take care of him." Makima smiled her head rested on her fingers. 

With a suitcase in hand Love escorted herself out of the building. The aforementioned home was only a few minutes walk from the building. If she just could only remember where it was. She took a moment to look around her surroundings and saw that not much has changed, maybe a couple of buildings that were noticeably been renovated due to the devils that wreak havoc in the city. 

'I can't sense any devils around at the moment.' Love thought as she saw many people walking around peacefully. There were a few devil hunters she noticed patrolling near the building. Then in the distance, she saw a familiar building, a flower shop.

Then it was completely clear to her where she was going next. Minutes after she passed by the flower shop, a restaurant, and then a bakery. Behold the apartment complex she remembered. After walking a few flights of stairs there before her the door that she recognized.

'Well, here it goes.'



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