Simply Passing By

Part 1

A girl was sitting across the river which has long lost its transparent blue color. The dark sky was covered by even darker clouds.

She sighed.

Her white, knee length hair was laying around her. Messy, dirty and covered in blood.

Around her, dozens of animal-like monster-looking beings were tossed on the ground, lifelessly.

Emilia Roza, that was the girl's name. She was soon to be around her twenties.

[It's been only few days since I've fled from my hometown and now this... Damned stupid bastards...]

The girl had to runaway from her so-called home.

She saw through the people living there.

She saw through their fake smiles, through their fake words.

She saw they were afraid for their lives.

Afraid of her.

Emilia Roza was a half demon. Born to a human mother and a demon father, she brought fear to her hometown villagers, simply by existing.

So she left it all.

She had planned it long ago, to leave and go search for her long lost twin sister.

They were twins. Identical. So how come her sister was feared so much once she was born that she's been abandoned by the village, while Emilia was allowed to stay?...

She didn't know nor tried to find out. Facts were facts and the past wouldn't change even if she knew.

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[Stupid demons... Attacking me only 'cuz I'm a half... Ugh...]

She heard footsteps from behind of her.

"What do you want?" She asked emotionlessly and without even glancing at the approaching stranger.

"Err...sorry for bothering you...~" A male voice said happily.

[Too happily... It's creepy.]

"...I saw you fighting just now and thou-"

"Forget it." Emilia Roza said coldly.

"I haven't even said wha-"

"Don't care. Go away." She retorted.

"..."

The man picked up a stone from the ground and threw it, hitting Emilia right in the middle of her head.

"Da' heck you're doing?!" Emilia yelled, glaring at the man.

"Finally turned around he-he~"

The man came closer to the girl and sat on top of a demon's corpse.

"So~..."

"..."

"My name's Thomas~." The man said.

[Isn't that a human name?...]

"Don't look at me like that! I'm actually a demon!"

Theman was wearing clothes similar to the ones that humans usually wore. His black hair was covering his face completely, leaving only his smile visible. In one of his hands he was holding a cane.

[Look at you, you say... It's not possible to even find your face with your hair like that...] Emilia thought.

"Why are you quiet? Don't believe me?"