I Thought Strawberry Smells Sweet, So Why Does This One Smells Like Blood?

Chapter 6: The Devil Prince's Side

🎓Nagisa🔪

"I told you, that was too much!" We're now walking to the station, still arguing, even though the darkness almost covered everything up. It's already 6 when we left the restaurant, and now it's 7 in the evening.

"Like I said, Nagisa-kun. It's fine! That's how I wanted it to be in our first proper outing after a while!" He argued back. This guy really...

"Ya two noisy attractive kids, care to hang out with us?" A man smugly walked towards us with a smugly smirk. I turned to him and bowed a little, still engulfed in our fighting.

"Thank you for the compliment but we must take our leave." And with that, Karma-kun and I started at it again while walking away.

Wrong move, I guess.

"Oy, oy. Ya dare talk to me like that, ya brat?" A hand grabbed my shoulder roughly and shoved me to a wall. He smirked and leaned closer to my face dangerously, his breath stinks of alcohol and the smell crept up my nose.

"How 'bout we have some fun?"

"How about no?" We both looked to his back and saw Karma-kun with that signature smile of his. My eyes widened and I gulped nervously.

"U-um, please---"

"Whaddya say, kid? Tryin' to mess with me or somethin'?" The person then dropped me and turned to Karma-kun, shoving his hands in his pockets while trying to look intimidating. Karma-kun just continued with a close-eyed smile, teasingly fake and sweet.

Dangerously innocent and harmless.

"I should be the one asking you that." He said with an amused tone. Just then I noticed the chuckles and laughs coming from our sides. I looked and saw four more good-for-nothings showing up.

Now this really isn't good.

"Karma-kun let's just g---" I was abruptly stopped when I was pushed hardly to the wall behind me, choking the air out of my lungs.

"Shuttup brat. I'll deal with ya later." The man, who pushed me, hissed angrily. I looked up and saw Karma-kun's golden mercury eyes glistening murderously, mumbling a few words under his breath that I didn't hear. But still, I knew that he's angry.

"You dared to hurt my Nagi..."

"Karma-kun, NO!!" My words never reached him on time as he started to fight with them. He kicked one's feet, making them stumble down the hard path. The other was kicked on the stomach when he tried to launch at Karma-kun with a punch. One of them ran towards him with a baseball bat, but still was kicked on the face. I heard a sickening crack and immediately closed my eyes, not wanting to see anymore violence.

When I opened them up, I saw Karma-kun looking down at the pile of unconscious bodies he made. I breathed out in relief, but then my eyes widened when I saw the guy from before holding a knife behind him.

"K-Karma-kun!!" Without even thinking anymore, I dashed towards him and pushed him out of the way. I managed to save him in time, just for the knife to  hit me instead. As I felt the stinging pain through my arm, the time slowed down. I saw the look of surprise in Karma-kun's eyes when he looked at me, without failing to notice the change of emotion he held.

Oh no...

"N-Nagisa-kun..." I tried to stop myself from hissing in pain when I heard Karma-kun's trembling voice. Thankfully, I managed to look up at him and gave him a reassuring smile as I covered my arm.

"I'm fine..."

Karma-kun then turned to the man sharply and glared at him. A cold shiver ran up my spine when I felt the same bloodlust from before. I hastily looked up at him and almost stepped back in fear as I saw how furious he was.

Full of rage, he ran towards the guy who can't move a muscle and punched him right on the face. Another crack was heard which made my shaking body step forward, attempting to stop the redhead from his merciless outrage. Karma-kun punched the guy again, now straight to the stomach, so hard the victim almost cough out his dinner. This went on and on until the guy fell on the rough ground with a heavy thud. He's almost unconscious, but the devil still had not enough.

"You...you bastard...you..." Karma-kun kept blurting as he continuously stepped on the beaten man's stomach, causing blood to cough out of his mouth. And this time, I gathered all my strength to stop the anger of my best friend.

"KARMA-KUN ENOUGH ALREADY!!" I yelled as I pulled him away from the poor man. He pointed a finger at the body on the ground accusingly and turned to me, his face held the emotion of so much anger.

"But Nagisa-kun he hurt you! Y-You're bleeding now! He dared to hurt you!"

"I'm fine now! It's alright. It's just a small scratch." I tried to reassure him but he shook his head.

"N-no...he...he hurt you. You're bleeding. I--" He stopped midway and his eyes went wide. Slowly, he looked to the ground as if he had a sudden realization.

Oh please no.

"I was the reason..." He continued and I immediately shook my head in disapproval. "It was because of me. I am the one at fault. If I hadn't..."

"No, Karma-kun. No, oh no, no. It's not your fault." I reached my hand to his face and gently cupped it, trying my best to muster a gentle and reassuring smile despite the stinging pain on my arm. "It's not yours."

Please go back to yourself.

His head turned to the ground and his hair covered his eyes. I soothingly rubbed his cheeks, making him look at me with his seemingly sad and dull golden mercury orbs. I smiled at him and he did too, even though it was weak, I was still grateful for that.

At least this went better.

I slowly removed my hands and grabbed his, before tugging it lightly. I looked up at him and smiled again.

"Let's go?" He slowly nodded and I started to walk away, with him following behind. But then he hugged me and nuzzled his face on my hair, making me chuckle. I reached his hair with my un-injured arm and gently rustled it, earning a sigh of satisfaction from the strawberry.

"Everything's fine now, don't worry." I said softly as we started walking. I heard his reply, even though it's low and sounded a bit lifeless.

"Mm. Everything will be." And he smiled at me. I nodded and went home, even if I got confused at his words.

Nor what will happen next.

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A/N: Um...so, that's it.

I'm quite nervous if you'll like this or not. Ahaha, but I hope you do. And...I guess you already got a few clues on what happened.

But heeeeeyyy! It's OD!! (It's today, right?) So yeah, I gotta celebrate this day!

Happy Friday~!!

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