The Fractured Soul

Chapter 1

I had been a month since Allen's death in the final battle. The only survivors of the Noah Family were Road and Tyki, the Millennium Earl killed by Allen. While it was a long awaited victory for the Black Order and all of humanity, a depressing gloom covered many despite this. Most of he exorcists stayed at headquarters, having no where else to go. But almost all of the finders and scientists left to reunite with their families.

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/Now/

Lavi walked through the empty halls of headquarters. Everyone else was still asleep, but for some reason, he just wasn't tired. He spent most of his nights like this, roaming the Black Order base. Bookman had left after the war was over, telling Lavi that he would come back a continue teaching him if he wanted. If not he would come back to say goodbye and leave for good. With only a few days left to decide, Lavi had felt uneasy all night. Does he go along with Gramps and leave his friends, or stay and say goodbye to Gramps forever? Shaking the thought from his head, Lavi continued his night-time wandering.

He walked for what felt like hours, but he knew if was only a few minuter. Lavi stopped and looked around to see where his feet had taken him. He was in what looked like an abandoned part of headquarters, this was where he believed Komui used to keep all his robots before they were all destroyed. Slowly he shuffled down the corridor, wary of any Komulins that were forgotten, or most-likely hidden by the crazy director.

Lavi had not gotten far when he heard singing coming from straight ahead of him. He couldn't tell who was singing, but it was clearly a soft male voice. Curious, Lavi crept closer, stepping carefully so he didn't give away his presence and alert the mystery singer. As he got closer, he started to make out the word, which he could now identify as japanese.

"Soshite bouyaha nemuri ni tsuite,

Ikizuku haino naka no hono o. Hitotsu, futatsuto.

...

Ukabu fukurami itoshii yokogao,

Daichini taruru ikusenno yume, yume.

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Ginno hitomi no yuragu yoruni,

Umareochita kagayaku omae.

Ikuo kuno toshitukiga,

Ikutsu inori wo suchihe kaeshitemo.

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Watashi wa inori tsuzukeru, mou kakonnokotoni ai wo,

Tsunaidateni kisu wo."

Lavi recognized the melody as the one Allen used to sing, but he thought that only Allen knew it. Finally finding the room that the mystery singer was in, Lavi silently peered through a gap in the door.

"Kanda?"

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Somewhere else, a certain white-haired teen opened their eyes.