Chapter 16- The Queen Of The King

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()= Thinking/ Replacing

*= Actions

""= Phone

/= Whispers

--= Narrator

~~= Timeskip

Darren POV:

I kicked open the door to the roof as I pocketed my sunglasses.

Darren: Did you team up with a sorcerer to trap me in here?

Kurumi: To say team-up is incorrect, I killed him and took this.

She pointed at the nail which was supposed to be the catalyst for the curtain.

Darren: That curtain is what's trapping me in here, right?

Kurumi: Exactly.

Darren: Then... what did you exactly do besides this curtain?

Kurumi: Splendid, isn't it? The time-consuming castle. A barrier that sucks the time out of those who tread my shadow.  

Darren: By the time...

I raised my bangs and revealed the clock eye I have on my left eye.

Darren: Can I assume that you and I are the same with this?

I pointed at her clock eye and the minute hand was quickly going backwards.

Kurumi: You're quite sharp, Darren, you figured it all out with just one look? Yes, this represents my time. You could also call it my lifespan.

Darren: We're the same. So our angel possesses quite marvellous powers, don't you think so? Unfortunately, because the drawback was quite big and I wasn't able to activate it... I gave up on trying to use it.

Kurumi: The drawback was the large amount of time that is consumed on each occasion you used them, right?

Darren: Exactly. I'll say that the way you replenish your time is in this manner, from an external source such as humans. By absorbing the humans' time, you can turn that into your lifespan.

Kurumi started to giggle as she stared at me.

Kurumi: Yes, they're all my cute and unfortunate prey. Ah... but, Darren-San, you're special.

 but, Darren-San, you're special

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Kurumi: After all...

Kurumi licked her finger and kept on staring at me, while I stared back at her in the same way.

Kurumi: I came here to become one with you, to devour you in a more traditional way.

I looked around our surroundings before sighing.

Darren: So you got everyone else involved just because you wanted to eat me? Personally, I appreciate the effort, but... seriously, there was no need to do that.

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