Chapters 3.2

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Sonohara Anri was an ordinary human.

Or at least had been until five years ago.

She came to host an "otherworldly" being in her after her fate brought her into contact with an "otherworldly" being like Celty Sturluson.

Namely, a demon blade Kishitani Shingen - Shinra's father - had once used to cut the Headless Rider's soul and steal her head. 

"Demon blade" was the only way one could describe it.

After he had finished using it, Shingen had sold the demon blade named "Saika" to the antique store Anri's father had run. After a series of events, Anri ended up losing her parents, and the demon blade ended up in her body.

The demon blade had not caused her parents' death.

In fact, she and her mother would probably have already died under her father's violence had it not been for the demon blade.

That her mother would have died either way was indeed a thought that rendered her wordless, but Anri had come to accept the fact that only she was saved just like she accepted the existence of the demon blade in her body.

Anri had had such thoughts before:

Had her consciousness been completely in the demon blade's control like the way things were in the slasher tales set in old times, she would probably been able to feel better about her life.

Or, alternatively, had the blade been one that could talk to her freely like the ones in manga, she would actually have felt fortunate.

But Saika was nothing more than a wicked curse that had found a home deep down in her heart.

Saika had only one wish.

To love humans.

To fall in love with the entire human race.

That was it.

But for Saika, "loving" meant becoming one with the person it loved.

In other words, with the entire human race.

It wanted to infect every human being in the world with its curse and fill their bodies and souls with its loving whisper. In that way, it wanted to swarm the earth with its countless "daughters" born in its union with human consciousness. 

That was all to Saika's wish. 

But it was suppressed to a certain degree by Anri's consciousness. 

Anri, who had always seen things around her through a "picture frame", simply regarded Saika's overwhelming "loving whispers" as yet another picture far, far way from her in the frame. 

She was never loved by her father, and the instant she felt loved by her mother - her mother slitted her own belly with Saika.

What she felt for Saika, which loved human beings as if it could never get tired of it, was - a strong sense of uneasiness and a smidgen of friendship and overwhelming jealousy. 

 - This child……Saika…she can love anyone in the world as if her life depended on it.

 - How fortunate.

A powerful sense of guilt seized Anri as she caught herself having such thoughts; yet the sense of guilt was not directed at anyone.

On the other hand, Saika did nothing to save Anri from her hell.

It couldn't hurt Anri, who was its host, so it had to exclude Anri from the humans it "loved". 

Anri admired Saika. Saika used her but was at the same time suppressed by her. 

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