Owari No Seraph-Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Catastrophe Volume 5 & 6

Volume 6: Prologue

He suddenly remembered.

The things which happened when he first met her.

A summer night.

It happened after Guren finished his daily training. He went to the river bed near his house to cool his injured body down.

"......Are you Guren?"

"Who?"

He turned around, a beautiful girl with ashen hair was standing there.

Probably around the same age.

A five or six year old girl.

However, he had never seen this face before. The surrounding land belonged to the Ichinose House, there should be no one he did not recognise in the vicinity.

The young girl looked at Guren's naked upper body and narrowed her eyes.

"Rather serious wounds. Are you being bullied?"

He replied.

"No, I was not being bullied."

"Then why did you suffer such serious injuries?"

"It was because of training."

"Training?"

"Yeah."

"What kind of training?"

He directed his gaze at the wooden sword which was stabbed into the pebbles of the river bed.

Looking at the wooden sword, she said.

"Eh. Then Guren must be strong."

She called Guren again. In other words, she knows who I am.

He asked.

"Oi, where are you from?"

"I wonder where. If I say that I am the fairy of this forest, what are you going to do?"

She gave a mischievous smile.

"This is not a forest, it's a mountain."

"Then the fairy of a mountain."

"Then what business does fairy ojou-san have with me?"

"If you are being bullied, I can help you~"

"I already said that I am not being bullied."

He got up from the river and dried his body with a towel. The young girl approached and was about to touch his injuries when,

"Oi."

he said as he stepped back.

She laughed again.

"Guren is so shy."

"I just don't want to be touched by someone whose name I don't even know."

"Then I can touch if I tell you my name?"

"No."

"Ah Haha."

She said as she laughed.

The moonlight that day was especially ethereal and luminous, illuminating her cuteness. As he was being captivated by her smile, she spoke her name.

"I'm Mahiru."

"Mahiru?"

"Yeah."

"Is it like that the Mahiru which means having lunch?" [note: Mahiru means noon.]

"Yeah yeah. The Mahiru which means having lunch. Nice name right?"

Even though he did not know if that was considered a nice name, he felt that it was rather apt for a girl like her who smiled so brightly.