"Ah... please, spare me!"
"Please!"
A terrified man, his face covered in blood, cowered in the corner, leaning against the wall to keep from sliding down, his whole body trembling violently.
"Tsk."
A tall figure in front of him disdainfully dropped a stack of photos. They fluttered down, one landing on the man's face. The man, whose hands were shaking, picked up the photo and his pupils dilated in shock.
"In just one day, you actually went on dates with four different women!"
He held a photo of the man's terrified, ugly expression, slapping it against his face repeatedly, his vertical pupils filled with icy coldness.
He looked at the man with disgust. He hated people who were impure in their emotions and treated love as a game.
Yi Shui couldn't remember exactly how he became a demon, but he clearly remembered one obsession in his heart.
He wanted to understand what love was.
Unfortunately... not everyone understood.
Take this guy in front of him, for instance. Wandering the world, Yi Shui had seen many who were unfaithful in love. When he encountered them, without exception, he either ate them or killed them.
Perhaps because of this, these people were all very unappetizing.
Of course, occasionally there were those who didn't abandon their partners, and he would let them go.
"Eating you would make me sick. Just die!"
Blood Demon Art: Scorching Water.
A large pool of viscous liquid appeared beneath the man. Frightened, he immediately tried to stand up but found it useless. His body continuously sank downwards until it submerged his mouth, and he couldn't even let out a final cry.
His body was completely dissolved.
Finally, Yi Shui threw the photo in his hand into the viscous liquid, then turned and left. He remembered that tomorrow was Valentine's Day.
Would he be able to witness it?
Stopping their run, both Shinobu and Yoizumi knew what had happened to the udon shop owner. They exchanged glances and, as if by prior agreement, both began to laugh.
Shinobu covered her mouth, her bell-like laughter spilling out from between her fingers. Yoizumi laughed silently, merely watching Shinobu's smiling face, his sapphire eyes filled with her adorable image.
No wonder Yoizumi acted that way.
A person with his personality was most afraid of troublesome individuals.
"Attention travelers! There are 30 minutes until the fireworks display begins," a voice announced from a loudspeaker high above.
"Shinobu, let's go. We're going to miss it," he had already found the best viewing spot yesterday.
"Yoizumi, don't you dislike fireworks?" Shinobu asked, recalling Yoizumi's actions then, her voice filled with concern.
"If I'm with Shinobu, I don't dislike them."
He disliked the smell emitted by fireworks and the loud noise when they exploded.
But he loved the fireworks in Shinobu's eyes.
Many couples gathered, all eagerly anticipating the ignition of the fireworks.
A couple beside them, the man said something that made the woman blush, and she shyly hid in his arms.
Seeing this, Shinobu lowered her head to look at her hand clasped with Yoizumi's. Turning her head, she met Yoizumi's beautiful sapphire eyes.
How strange... every time she looked at Yoizumi, why could she always see his eyes?
Even though Yoizumi was so much taller than her... How strange... She, too, would be like any ordinary girl, celebrating a special holiday with her beloved.
It was something she had never imagined in the past... Truly incredible... From the loudspeaker, the countdown for the fireworks began.
"Five!"
"Four!"
"Three!"
Voices rose and fell around them as everyone looked up, ready to welcome the grand and splendid beauty.
Shinobu looked up at the dark sky, silently counting down in her heart.
"Two!"
"One!"
"Whoosh~"
"Boom!"
An eye-catching light illuminated the night sky, a dazzling golden-white, which then unfurled into countless fine, shimmering golden tassels, with hot, fiery red sparks splashing from the edges.
After a few moments, it began to fall and scatter downwards, transforming into billions of tiny meteors, trailing long tails of light, rustling and slowly descending, elegantly sinking into the deep, dark night.
The light gradually dimmed and cooled as it fell, leaving countless fleeting trails.
More followed, and the night sky was completely lit up.
Everyone's faces were bathed in flickering light.
The strong smell of gunpowder and the violent roar did not affect Yoizumi. He did not look up; he was simply intently focused on one person.
Because.
A more captivating presence was right beside him.
The fireworks dancing in Shinobu's eyes, her face illuminated by the dazzling light, were enough to capture all his attention.
Beautiful.
While Shinobu was engrossed in the fireworks in the night sky, she didn't notice the way Yoizumi was gazing at her... "Meow~"
In an unnoticed corner, the light from the exploding fireworks made it brighter and brighter. A figure appeared within it, with the unique grayish-blue skin of a demon, wicked horns on its head, and ferocious vertical pupils in its chestnut-colored eyes.
Yi Shui carefully retracted the sharp claws on his fingertips, gently stroking the kitten's soft fur with his thumb, calming the extreme discomfort within him.
There was too much nauseating falsehood here.
A hand that had just been gently caressing a lover's hair could brazenly grasp another person's hand the next second.
He watched from the side as the betrayed person, completely unaware, still smiled and spoke to their lover.
"I'm so happy..."
How pathetic... Why can those who defile love smile so happily?
Yi Shui clutched the photo he had taken in his palm. He liked to record things with photos; memories might fade, but photos would forever preserve that moment.
There were too many people now, making it difficult to act.
Yi Shui's sharp nails slowly scratched marks onto the faces of the woman and her cheating partner in the photo.
Once the crowd thinned out, he would personally kill this disgusting individual.
Gently patting the kitten's head, water appeared beneath Yi Shui's feet, and he vanished from the spot.
Reappearing elsewhere, Yi Shui conjured a camera in his hand. He wanted to see if there were other defilers here.
The camera gradually focused on one spot.
"..."
The golden-haired young man was perhaps too conspicuous; Yi Shui immediately locked onto him.
The young man's eyes were incredibly focused, his gentle brows smiling. Even the noisy fireworks couldn't make him shift his gaze a single inch.
The perfectly matched lovers held each other's hands tightly. The girl watched the fireworks, and the boy watched her.
It was as beautiful as he had imagined.
Yi Shui involuntarily pressed the shutter button, and a photograph was thus captured.
He held up the photo in his hand and looked up at the sky.
As the brilliance fell from the night sky, he instinctively reached out, as if to catch the last falling glimmer, but his fingertips only met a void, a night wind carrying the smell of gunpowder.
(I feel like what I wrote is a bit awkward... (ㅎ ᗨ ㅎ))
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