"Black★Rock Shooter - Recovering" Chapter 1 (Teaser)

*Gasp*

. . .

I looked at my bedside table, and saw a flickering green light.

. . .

"Two in the morning...", I slowly said with my dry throat, and blinked my eyes a few times, trying to wake myself up.
            I pulled my blanket down, and took a jump down from the bed, trying to warm my legs up. After fixing the bed, I went out the room and downstairs, and reached the bathroom. I opened the tap and caught the water flowing down to wash my face. As water splashed on my face, my mind went awake, and the dream I was trying to remember went back as clear as crystal.

   "That... mechanical armed girl... that was Yuu's other form..."

   I woke up when I was almost punched into the face by a big, black metallic fist.

   I remembered that after since I saved Yomi from the green horned girl with a scythe, and skull servants, who disintegrated as she fell down the cliff there her castle used to stand, after I met the black robed girl with a black cannon, a sword, and a right eye that has blue flames, after I fused with Black★Rock Shooter...

...I got her memories mixed up with mine, and my dreams were always in her point of view, her battles and travels in the world of different colors.

"Why do I have to fight my friends... in that world...?"
"Because, you may not know it, but you are always hurt by others."

I instantly looked up, and I saw a robed girl in the mirror instead of my reflection. She was the one who answered my question.

"...What does that mean, Black★Rock Shooter?", I asked her.

"Just think that those fights represent the pain that you receive from others. We, your other forms, or selves, are those who take the pain from being felt."

I slowly understood what she was saying, and nodded lightly.

"We owe you guys a lot then, fighting for years since we are born."

"...I don't think I have been fighting for that long, to be honest, Mato-kun."

She said as her eyes became filled with seriousness. "However, even the faintest memories in my mind are all fighting."

“Can I ask you another thing, Black★Rock Shooter?”

“What is it, Mato-kun?”

“How am I then able to talk to you through a mirror? Is your world through mirrors too?”, I asked childishly.

 “It’s because we are already one, Mato-kun. You are only talking to the other side of your heart.”

 “Eeeeh, is that so?”

 The girl through the mirror laughed for a second at my reaction.

 “Aha! I see you are not always stoic!”, I pointed my finger to her as I grin.

 “What, are you saying I am not allowed to laugh?”, she complained as her cheeks went red of embarrassment.

I took a towel and started wiping my face.

 “Mato-kun…”

 “What is it?”, I answered under the towel.

 “Just call me Rock.”

 “Is that what others call you?”

 “Only one person called me that though… Someone I happen to remember while talking to you, Mato-kun.”