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"Here."

A boy said as he handed a woman his ID. She put it through a scanner and confirmed.

"Kamijou Touma-san?"

"Yes."

He confirmed, giving a nod.

The woman typed on the computer for a moment then handed the card back to the boy.

"I've confirmed in the database that you have arrived. Please enjoy your stay." The woman's words were kind, but he couldn't help but feel that they were false, just a part of a script that she had to memorize to get the job.

Kamijou walked out of the mostly glass building that served as the entryway for Kiyoke, an island several hundred miles east of Japan. Despite that, it was considered part of the country and as such, the language there was Japanese.

A gust of wind made the boy's dark spiky hair wave slightly.

He was regarding the city that he would be living in. A large city, he was sure it looked nice at night with all the lights. An apartment had already been arranged for him, so all he had to do was go get the key. After that he needed to go to the school to register.

Walking felt nice to him then. The island was quiet where he was, though he was sure it would get noisier when he got to the city.

There was a main road that lead from the docking port that he had arrived at straight into the city. Many side roads split into different directions when he reached the residential district.

All the boy had with him was a single suitcase which he rolled behind him and a backpack, which he had one strap on so the bag hung from his right shoulder.

He walked through the area slowly. There weren't many people out in the residential district, but it was 19:00, so he didn't expect very many people to be out. The city was sure to be crowded with people anyways, given that it's almost the size of Tokyo.

Kamijou was right in his assumption.

He entered a street leading into the city and he could already see many people walking around, going into shops, going into a restaurant, or just taking a walk.

Seeing all the restaurants as he passed by reminded him how hungry he was. He had to take a very long boat trip to get out there. The boat used for transport only arrived at the island every two months. He should have considered himself lucky to get one in time to enroll in school early.

The school year had already started and he would be enrolling as a second-year. Not that he minded being a transfer student, but at this island it wasn't going to be easy getting along with everyone. At least, that was the thought he had in mind.

He passed by a stand that was selling talismans to be used as catalysts for spells. It had been a long time since he had seen a magic user. For him a long time was only six months.

Kamijou had amnesia. He couldn't remember anything pass six months ago when he awoke in a hospital. The doctor there had said he had no idea what could possibly have happened to him, but according to him it wasn't just temporary amnesia. His brain cells had been destroyed, meaning that he would never regain his lost memories, no matter how hard he tried or how much time passed. It simply wasn't possible.

The boy spent the next two hours searching for his apartment and getting settled in it. He didn't have a lot of unpacking to do. He had decided that he would buy more clothes and supplies after he was settled, but he needed to go to the school first. It closed at 23:00. At least, the office for it did. He could probably go late and use an automated service for it, but he didn't like doing that. He preferred to speak with a human or at least a civilized being.

By the time he arrived at Ishikawa Academy, the sun had gone down.

Ishikawa Academy required a bridge to get to. It was made on a small landmass that was separated from the rest of the island by a few hundred feet of water.

The boy looked at the large school. It looked like it had been built hundreds of years ago in terms of architecture. But it also looked like the school had only been built yesterday as well.

He had been so absorbed in looking at the school, he hadn't even realized that he had gone way off course. He had followed a twisting trail through the forest that surrounded the school just to get a view of it. The office was back where he walked off the bridge.

Kamijou sighed and walked back. Luckily he reached the office in time.

"Here." He said, handing a man his registration papers.

The man looked over them and typed something on a computer.

The boy waited about ten minutes as everything was completed.

"There." The man said. "You're all set. Here's your school ID." He handed the boy an ID card with a picture of Kamijou on it that he had taken in his new uniform before transferring.

"Thank you."

The boy kept his sentences short. It wasn't that he disliked talking to people, it was just that he was tired and he really just wanted to go back to his apartment and sleep.

"H-Help!"

He heard those words as he was walking out of the building.

"Huh?" Kamijou looked around for the source of the voice but didn't see anybody.

"I-Is someone there? Help me please!"

The boy looked at the tree line that started several feet away.

He walked to the trees.

"Hello?" He called out into the darkness.

"H-Help please! Up here!"

The boy looked up. On a tree slightly higher than the others, a girl sat on the highest branch, a good twenty or so feet off the ground.

"What are you doing up there?" The boy called up to her.

"I-I was climbing it to get a better view of the school!"

"And you can't get down?"

He didn't get a response to that.

Kamijou sighed.

"Such misfortune."

He held his left hand up.

A glowing blue sphere appeared around it.

"Calculations complete. Execute spell."

The tree shook and started sinking into the ground.

It sunk until the highest branch was about a foot above the ground and it stopped.

"There." Kamijou said to the girl.

Now that he got a better look at her, she looked rather strange. The girl had long wavy blonde hair. Her left eye was green but her right eye had an eye patch over it. She wore a black dress and a black witch's hat that made her look like she was cosplaying.

She jumped off the branch and landed in front of Kamijou.

"Thank you very much." She said with a smile.

She looked like a middle-schooler. She was at least two years younger than the boy.

"No problem."

He turned and started walking away, thinking there was nothing more to do now that he had helped her down.

"That was…" The girl said, getting his attention. Kamijou turned to look at her. "Not magic." She had a frown on now.

"What makes you say that? Of course it was magic."

"No it was not! I would have felt the magic energy!" She said. "I considered the possibility that you're an esper, but you used something akin to magic circles. That wasn't an esper ability either. What was it? What are you?"

"Why should that matter to you?" Kamijou asked, his voice sounding harsher than he meant it to. "It's none of your concern anyways. I helped you, didn't I?"

The girl looked down.

"Sorry… I was just curious."

He sighed.

"I didn't mean to sound like I was angry. I'm not. Anyways, you should get home now."

Kamijou turned and started walking.

He wasn't suspicious when she followed him off the bridge as that was the only way back to the main part of the island, but he was suspicious when the girl continued to follow him as he walked back to his apartment.

"What do you want?" He asked, not stopping.

"Ah…" The girl thought for a second. "I don't have anywhere else to go, so I was just going to follow you."

Kamijou stopped and turned to regard her.

"What do you mean you don't have anywhere else to go? Go home."

"I don't have a home."

"…"

This girl was going to be more trouble than he thought. He remained silent for a bit.

"I don't have-"

"I heard you the first time."

"Then you should reply." She said.

"What do you want me to say? I can't do anything for you." Kamijou knew what she wanted and he wanted to say 'no', but he couldn't bring himself to. He sighed. "Fine. Come with me."

He started walking again.

"Are we going to your place?"

"Yeah." Kamijou said. "I'll let you stay with me for the night. However, I'm going to run an analysis on you to make sure you aren't a vampire or something that could possibly kill me during the night."

"Analyze?"

Kamijou didn't respond. He didn't say anything more to her until they reached his room. He unlocked the door and let her in. After closing and locking it he made a gesture with his hands.

"… Calculations complete. Execute spell."

Something similar to a magic circle appeared on the door for a second before fading away.

The girl was sitting on his couch.

"Stand up and come over here." The boy said, standing next to a dining table.

She stood and walked over to him.

"Stay still."

He held his hand out towards her and that same magic circle appeared. At least it seemed to be a magic circle. It slowly descended on the girl, going down to her feet then back up to her head before disappearing.

Kamijou looked at her.

"You're not a human." He said. "I can't tell what you are, though due to magical interference. What, exactly, are you?"

"I'm a human." The girl said, giving a pouting look.

The boy thought for a second and sighed.

"If you say so. However, I'll be looking into this more tomorrow." He pointed at a door. "The bed's in there. I'm tired, so go to sleep."

The girl opened the door and looked inside.

"Are you sure it's okay for me to take the bed?"

Kamijou laid down on the couch and pulled a blanket around him.

"Just go already."

"Hey. Wake up."

Kamijou felt somebody shaking him. That was strange. He had just moved into an apartment alone so there shouldn't be anybody bothering him in the morning.

"Wake up!"

"Huh?" He opened his eyes.

"It's about time. I've been trying to wake you up for the past five minutes."

Kamijou looked around. He was indeed in his own apartment.

He sat up, turning to face the girl.

"Oh, right. You're that girl from yesterday."

He grabbed his cellphone out of his pocket and looked at it.

"Shit! It's already 6:50? I'm going to be late."

A quick jump over the couch and he ran into his room. He was dressed in two minutes, running back out.

"Where are you going?" The girl asked.

"School." He ran to the door and stopped. Then he turned back to look at the girl. "Look after the house while I'm gone, will you?"

"Sure." She said with a nod.

Kamijou sprinted out the door, shutting it behind him. The boy exited the building and was running down the street. He had already missed the bus that could bring him closest to there, so he would have to get there on foot.

"It's not a good idea to show off in public places, but…"

He held out his left hand in front of him.

"Give me speed!" He raised his hand. "Calculations complete. Execute spell."

His shoes glowed with magic circles and he jumped. Instead of just going a foot or so in the air before falling, he shot into the air, landing on top of the closest building. Then he shot off of that building.

The basic idea was to use the buildings as stepping stones, which he did expertly.

Kamijou landed in front of the road that led to the school. He couldn't see anybody on the path so he assumed that they were probably already through the gate.

"Calculations complete. Modifying spell to specify needs. Complete. Redirect energy. Execute spell."

He shot into the air then shot forward at an astonishing speed.

Kamijou landed perfectly on the other side of the school gate just as it closed.

"I wonder if that counts as me being late still."

He shrugged and walked into the large doorway that served as the entrance to the school. After a quick rush he made it to his classroom right as the teacher arrived.

"You must be the transfer student." The teacher said. The teacher was a man with short black hair that looked like he was in his mid-thirties. His dark eyes regarded the boy. "You shouldn't be late on your first day. Well, come on, let's get you introduced."

The teacher walked in and got everybody to sit down.

Kamijou walked in and he could hear whispers as soon as he stepped foot in the classroom.

"We have a transfer student joining us today, class." He looked at the boy. "Introduce yourself."

Kamijou looked around the classroom.

"I'm Kamijou Touma." He said. "I'll be in your class as of today. Nice to meet you."

He took the only empty seat in the second to last row, a seat one away from the window.

"Nice to meet you, Kamijou-san." He was greeted by a girl with long light blue hair and matching eyes. "I'm Isakayo Kana. You can just call me Kana-chan though."

Kamijou smiled.

"I think I'll drop the 'chan', but nice to meet you Kana."

After class he was bombarded with random questions about what he liked and why he was transferring into the school.

Then a girl with short red hair pushed her way through the crowd of students to get to the front. Her red eyes were shining with curiosity.

"What are you?" She asked, silencing everybody.

"… What do you mean?"

"Are you an ordinary human? A vampire? Esper? Magic user? Werewolf? Demon?"

Kamijou sighed inwardly.

He wasn't exactly a normal human, but he wasn't any of what she listed.

"You can put me under the human category."

That vague response had everybody whispering to each other with speculation.

"Anyways," The boy said. "I should really be getting home today. I'll talk more with you guys tomorrow. See you later."

With that, he left the school, maneuvering down the twisted trail through the forest and out onto the bridge. He couldn't help but think at times like that.

"I used that as an excuse, but I really do need to check up on my guest." He paused. "Come to think of it, I never got her name. Maybe it's better like that."

After a stop at a store to buy some ingredients for dinner, he made it back to his apartment. He had bought enough ingredients for two assuming that the girl was still there.

Kamijou opened the door to his apartment and walked in, shutting it behind him.

"I'm home." He said, not expecting a response.

"Welcome home!"

The girl was there to greet him. She wore nothing but one of his shirts for school and a pair of her own underwear.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"Aren't you going to say something?"

"What, exactly, do you expect me to say?"

"I don't know, a comment about how cute I am in this?" The girl seemed angry, but he really didn't care.

"I probably would if that wasn't my shirt. Why are you wearing that anyways?"

"Well, my clothes were dirty and since that was the only set of clothes I had, I put them in the washer. I didn't want to walk around naked though, so I put on one of your shirts."

"…" He sighed. "Nice to see that you didn't take something and run off or destroy the place at least."

"What did you think I was going to do?"

"Nothing really. If I had thought you were actually going to do something, I wouldn't have let you sleep over here." He replied. "Anyways, I'm going to make dinner. I hope curry is okay with you."

Kamijou walked to the kitchen and started taking the ingredients out of the bag.

"Curry?" The girl asked, tilting her head.

He stopped to look at her.

"You've never had curry before? Even though you live in Japan?"

She looked conflicted.

Kamijou was about to say something until she spoke up.

"I lived… in England my whole life."

"England? Why would you come to Japan then? Foreign exchange program?"

Several moments of silence passed. The boy started preparing the curry and the girl just stood there, looking uncomfortable.

After a bit she just sat down at the table and waited until he was finished. Kamijou brought two plates of curry to the table and they ate in relative silence.

After they were finished, he cleaned the plates then sat down on the couch.

"So, what are you going to do?" Kamijou asked the girl.

"What do you mean?" She seemed genuinely confused about that question.

"I'm fine with letting you stay here for another night if you don't have anywhere else to go. Are you going to stay here or are you going to go to wherever you live?"

"I'll… stay here."

"Very well. Well, I'm going to go sleep considering I have school tomorrow. You should get some sleep to. If you're going to still be here tomorrow, we're going shopping."

He laid out on the couch.

The girl opened to door to his room.

"I came to Japan…" She said, getting his attention. "Because I escaped."

She quickly walked in and shut the door behind her.

"Escaped?" The boy looked confused.

Kamijou's eyes opened.

He quickly sat up and looked around. There was nobody in the apartment besides the girl in the room and him.

"I felt it…" He stood up and walked over to the window overlooking the city and looked straight down. He didn't see anybody but he knew that someone was there.

Kamijou was in the same clothes as yesterday, as he had planned to shower in the morning before going to school, so he ran out the door and down.

After exiting the building he took a look around.

"Oh? So you didn't sense my presence."

He turned to see a boy with blonde hair and sunglasses on looking at him.

"Who are you?" Kamijou asked. "Why are you here?"

"You have the something that doesn't belong to you." The boy said. "I'd like to take it."

The boy looked around his age, but Kamijou sensed that he had more experience than him. He looked like the kind of guy who had been in many fights.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

The boy sighed.

"I suppose I should introduce myself." He smiled. "I'm Tsuchimikado Motoharu, a member of the Anglican Church. I'm here to take back the girl that's in your apartment right now.

"Huh? What do you want with her?"

Tsuchimikado laughed.

"As I thought, you have no idea, do you?" He shook his head. "That girl isn't human. Nor is she anything else that resides in this world."

"What are you talking about?"

"That girl… is a Key." Tsuchimikado replied. "The Sixth Key to be exact."

"Sixth… Key…?" Kamijou thought about what that could mean but nothing came to mind. "Should that mean something to me?"

"You don't know about Keys either? I thought people like yourself were all about urban legends."

"I don't have any interest in things like that."

"You're quite the interesting person." Tsuchimikado said. "It wouldn't be any fun for me to give it all away. How about you do a little research on what's beneath this island?"

Kamijou shook his head.

"Regardless of what you tell me, I'm not going to let you take the girl."

"I'll take her by force if I have to."

Tsuchimikado raised his hand and a swirling torrent of wind surrounded it, the force threatening to knock Kamijou down. He stood his ground however.

"Using magic in a place like this…" Kamijou said.

"Gather, elements of the world. From beyond the realm that we know, let your powers slip through. Make my enemy yours. Deliver swift justice unto the defiant!" He smiled. "The light of the world, fire! The home of all, earth! The eternal nourishment, water! The first force, air!"

"He's using something as simple as elemental magic, but on an entirely different level than what any school can teach."

The wind stopped.

"I hope you're ready." Tsuchimikado said. "I'll end you in one move."

Flames lit up around his arms. They rolled up his arms to form a single ball of flame between his hands. He raised one arm, with the ball in it, and threw it at the boy.

"Like hell I'll go down like this!"

The ball exploded right in front of the boy, the fire pouring over him in a massive outburst.

"If you couldn't even prepare a spell to protect yourself from that, you had no chance of defeating me from the start."

There was silence for a bit as Tsuchimikado watched the flames. The only sound was the crackling of flames.

He sighed.

"I guess I'll go her now. The sooner this job is done, the better."

"Stop."

Tsuchimikado's eyes widened a little, but he regained his calm. He looked at the flames again.

Suddenly they were swept away, disappearing as if they had never been there.

"So you are still alive then. I'm impressed that you could bring up a spell quick enough to block that."

"I didn't need a spell."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Tsuchimikado asked.

A drop of rain fell. Then more drops. In a few moments it was pouring on the two.

"Leave." Kamijou said. "If you leave now, you won't get hurt."

Tsuchimikado laughed at that.

"I think you should be the one worried about getting hurt."

Water started rising from the ground behind him. It was coming together to form a shape. The water gathered, growing larger, until it was in the form of a dragon above the boy.

"A water dragon spell?" Kamijou sighed. "You're going to try to overpower me, huh? That won't work."

"Crush him." Tsuchimikado said.

The water dragon roared and charged the boy, it's mouth wide open as if it intended to bite him in half.

"Back off already!"

Kamijou swung out his right hand as the beast reached him. And he punched right through it.

The water dispersed and fell back to the ground.

"Wha-?"

Tsuchimikado had no idea what just happened. The boy had just destroyed his spell with a punch.

"That's nothing an ordinary human can do." He said. "What the hell are you?"

Kamijou smiled.

"Just your average ordinary high school boy." He ran forward and swung at Tsuchimikado who dodged to the side.

Tsuchimikado motioned with his hand and a spike of rock shot up from the ground for the boy he was fighting.

Kamijou didn't give it a second look. He simply swung his right hand down and the second it touched it, the rock shattered. He punched Tsuchimikado in the face then again in the stomach with his other hand.

"Gah!" The blonde-haired boy coughed as the punch expelled the air from his lungs. He took in a deep breath, but Kamijou didn't give him time to recover. He punched the boy several more times, then drew back his left hand.

"I call upon the spirits of force. Let not he who abuses the elements escape judgment." A green light enveloped his left hand.

He punched Tsuchimikado in the stomach with his left hand, sending him flying into a building opposite the one Kamijou lived in.

He hit the building and fell to the ground. Blood came out of his mouth when he coughed as he tried to get up.

Kamijou walked to stand in front of him.

"That was… spirit magic." Tsuchimikado said. "How…? You didn't… have a… medium."

"If I see you on this island again, I'm going to kill you."

With that, Kamijou left the boy.

"Oh," He turned to regard the boy. "Tell whoever's in charge that that applies to anyone affiliated with the Anglican Church. I don't know why you were after the girl and I don't care why. Later."

Kamijou walked back inside his apartment building.

He made it to his apartment and sighed as he walked in.

"That was a lot of work." He thought as he shut the door and locked it, reactivating the spell on it.

He walked forward and stopped when he got to the living room.

The girl was standing there, looking out the window.

"Sorry, did I wake you when I left?"

"He was after me, wasn't he?"

"So you did see the whole thing…" He sighed. "He was after you, but it's okay now. He's gone."

"It's not okay…" She said. "You got hurt because of me…"

Kamijou hadn't even noticed his current state. Parts of his clothes had been burned and he had several cuts on him.

"These? They aren't anything. They'll heal in no time with magic."

"That's not my point!" The girl turned around to face him. The light from the moon illuminated the room enough for him to see her face. Her cheeks had a pink tint to them and tears flowed freely from her eye. "Why…? Why does everybody who gets near me get hurt!? It happens every time! They try to protect me! But they just end up dead! They always kill them! And what do you think the first thing is the person who tried to protect me does!? They save me! They teleport me away or get me out of there by some means! But always me! They don't even think for a second to protect themselves!"

Kamijou let her yell at him, grateful that he didn't have anyone living in the apartments next to his.

"Even you!" She yelled. "Even you tried to protect me! And you got hurt because of it!"

"I told you, it's not that-"

"I don't care if it's not that bad! What if it's worse next time!? What if you die!? You selflessly let me into your home and even cooked for me! You let me sleep in your bed while you slept on the couch! And yet all I've done is brought trouble for you! Even though we just met… you were nice to me! I don't' want to see somebody nice like you die ever again because of me!"

"I won't die."

"That's what they said to me! That's what everyone who has died because of me said to me! They all said that they would live for me and that they would protect me! I was so happy when I heard them, but… but…"

She fell to her knees, crying.

Kamijou walked up to her.

"Listen." He said, making her look up at him. "It's true that we've only just met. However, there's something about you. Something that makes people want to protect you. I'm not swayed by things like that. I don't protect a girl just because she's cute or just because of the fact that she's a girl."

"What are you…?"

He held his hand out and she took it. He helped her stand.

"I'll protect you. I won't die either. I promise."

The girl held up her pinky.

He laughed and held up his.

They grabbed each other's pinky fingers with theirs.

"It's a promise." The girl said with a smile.

An hour later, the boy sat on the couch and the girl laid on it with her head on his lap.

"By the way," Kamijou said, remembering a thought from earlier. "What's your name?"

She seemed hesitant to tell him.

"My name is Kamijou Touma." The boy said.

"…"

A few moments of silence passed between the two.

"My name is…"

Kamijou looked at her, barely hearing what she said.

"Huh?"

She looked up at him.

"My name is Othinus."

I hope you guys enjoyed. Don't question anything. Everything will be explained.