“Ouch…the sun’s up already? Wow Yukina really hit me hard there…” I held onto my jaw as I made my way to the bathroom to wash up. “Souta-kun good morning, did you have the nightmare again?” “Good morning, no and what the heck are you doing in the male’s bathroom? Put on some clothes idiot if Yukina sees us she would knock me out again indefinitely.” I quickly hand Hanabi a towel to cover up her body. “You don’t like my body? Is it ugly? I’m sorry if it’s a sore to see.” Hanabi wraps the towel around her and looks away. Shit, what do I say? What kind of a scenario is this? In this situation even a tsundere ending would be easier to escape from, hell I’d gladly take a kick or a punch than to answer this question… “Well, your body is nice? I guess? But I’m a guy and you are a girl, it’s weird and awkward for me.” Hanabi gave me a blank look as if she didn’t understand why it would be weird. “Anyways let’s head down for breakfast after we are done, wouldn’t wanna keep Yukina waiting.”

After making our way down, we sat down and started digging into our breakfast. “Well Hanabi told me what happened yesterday night but still, you deserved that punch for violating her hmph.” “Yukina what is this food? It’s so delicious!” How delicious can egg and ham get anyways…this girl is really weird. “So, Hanabi tell us where you are from? And maybe why you are here?” I looked up at Yukina and turned my head over to Hanabi. “Well… I can’t really say where I am from but…there are people after me who want me dead so I have to disguise myself as a student in Sendo. Sorry I really can’t tell you where I am from or not now at least.” What the heck, so having hitmen and assassins after you is less of a secret than where you are from? Weird might even be a compliment used to describe her. “Oh, well you can stay here as long as you want until the bad guys give up chasing you right Onii-chan.” “Haiz…whatever.” “Thank you for letting me stay at your place!” Hanabi gets up and bows down towards us, “I, Hanabi Van Astrea, swear to protect this household till death from this day on.”

“Van Astrea?” My sister got up and stared down at Hanabi. “Daughter of Wilfred Van Astrea? Creator of Crisis Zero?” “Errr Yuki what are you saying?” “Souta stay out of this. You, your name isn’t Hanabi, tell me what your real name is. Answer me!” “Yuki-chan…whatever my father did I wasn’t part of it, if you are angry at me I can understand that, then I am sorry.” “Souta, get out of the house. I said get out! You are the daughter of Van Astrea, as a protector of the light, I will end your life right here demon!” A blade forms into Yukina’s hand as she lunges at Hanabi striking down hard with killing intent. Then purple light began to shine from the impact, the dust soon cleared and before me Hanabi stood holding onto Yukina’s blade. Hanabi completely changed, she had two horns protruding from her head, a tail with a heart at the end and was clad in a skintight revealing costume, kinda hot to be honest but heck what is going on. “Yukina, I don’t want to fight you, listen I am not my father not anything like him at all trust me. I’m sorry but I really don’t want to fight you.” “Shut up, you would never understand how it feels like to lose someone dear to you, if Crisis Zero never happened…father and mother would still be here!” Without warning, she dives at Hanabi again, “Enough!” I put my body between Hanabi and Yukina, “Look Yukina put the blade away, we don’t have to resort to violence.” “What are you saying? Get out of my way!”

I grab onto Yukina’s arm, “Put the blade away, please you don’t want the house crashing down and attracting attention ok? Besides I trust her, she said it herself she is against her father so she probably didn’t contribute to Crisis Zero.” “Hmph…fine” The blade vanishes from Yukina’s hand and she walked back into her room. “Souta-kun, I’m sorry, I…I should leave, I can understand why Yukina hates me and my family name. It is true my father caused Crisis Zero but I was affected too, my mother she tried to stop him but in the end, she failed and the virus killed her. I have been through the pain your sister and you both went through, I am truly sorry Souta…”

“I’ll calm Yukina down, don’t worry, no one knows of your real identity so let us just keep it as Hanabi ok? No Van Astrea and all that alright? We both lost someone precious in our lives, I’m truly sorry for your loss as well. Cheer up!”

After that day, Yukina went back to her normal self and I guess looked over the fact that Hanabi was a Van Astrea. So this is how my life with a demon princess began, who knows what the future holds anymore and I really don’t wanna find out.

Two years ago…

“Wilfred! This is madness! If you unleash this radiation, it will kill all human life both on Earth and here in the Zero Dimension! Never mind me dying, but our daughter, she’s part human too! She could die as well, Wilfred please stop.”

“You two will merely be sacrifices for the greater good, now finally all mankind will end and I shall take their place and become Earth’s one true ruler.”

“Not if I stop you!”

“Celeste, stop don’t touch that!”

“Mother! No mother what is happening to you. Those spikes what is that. Mother!”

“From now on, you will be Hanabi, my Hanabi, you must live, I don’t have much time left go, take this pearl and crush it, you will be warped to the world of the living. Remember, I will always love you my dear Hanabi, now go.”

“Mother I won’t leave you…please mother don’t let go off me we will both leave this place together! Mother? No…I love you…no…”

Crisis Zero, it was a worldwide pandemic where some humans started to grow purple spikes on their bodies and soon their flesh will rot away leaving only a crystalized skeleton behind. Approximately 40% of the world’s population was affected and killed off by this pandemic, it was chaotic with riots everywhere. I, Souta Kentaro, and my sister, Yukina Kentaro, were unaffected by the virus however our mother was unfortunate. Why were we unaffected we didn’t know, but after the incident, Yukina developed abilities that a normal human would not have but I on the other hand did not. The world was never the same again after Crisis Zero for some it caused their time to end, for others it served as a motivation to continue living. You may ask what Crisis Zero meant to me, well it gave my sister and I strength to continue living day after day after day.