• April 1st
    ((Rin’s point of view))
    The cherry blossoms that spread throughout the town flourish and live well in this month. There is something that always happens this week, the cherry blossoms turn Akane, which means a deep shade of red. It is the only time of the year when I am allowed to leave my tree. I gave up my live so long ago, all for this world; it is what you could call a “paradise”

    I was just a normal girl living a normal life in this little town; it is the exact one we live in now. I was a demon slayer you could say when I became 15. Demons ran loose killing many different people, but there were a few good demons in the lot of them. Some just killed for no reason, while others just stood there with a purpose, to protect the weak.

    One day a priest told me that there was a way to stop them; there was a way to stop the demons from terrorizing the family. There was a jewel that could stop them from entering the town ever again; it lay in the neck of the demon lord.

    Then I went to fight him, he always sat in the middle of town, and there I went to fight him. We fought and I eventually killed him, but by doing that I was bitten. I grew the wings of a demon, and black wings at that. I lay there dying, gasping for air and I grabbed the jewel and buried it. The same priest chained my soul to that spot, where my tree now grows.

    I felt myself thrust out of the tree and onto the ground in front of me. And there sat a girl who cried steadily.

    “Shhh,” I murmured, “Don’t cry.”