High Above the City as Scarlet’s Leaving

Kitsugami Shirou slowly smirks as he watches the girl stepping outside of his city from the skies, his seven tails fluttering in the wind behind him, the fur on the tails looking a pale white with hints of gray. Meanwhile each tail is tipped with pure black as bolts of death magic dance along the tips between the tails. But as he continues to watch the girl, the smirk on his face slowly turns manic and light chuckles begin to bubble up from him.

That’s the one! I will have her no matter what!!!

He slowly begins to laugh louder and louder, only to sometimes drop in volume and grow again for no reason.

Please show me what His Majesty will do! I want to see it!!! With my own eyes!

Shirou knows perfectly well that going after the Princess is suicide.

But he doesn’t care. In fact, he wants to know just how angry the Demon King will be at him for trying to take his precious Princess.

Mostly Shirou just wants to see despair on the lovely Princess’s face though.

And if the Demon King doesn’t manage to find the Princess thanks to that wonderful stealth magic she has on her, Shirou knows very well how much that’ll increase the fun.

He continues laughing, making some of the demons down in the city who are able to hear him automatically begin heading towards the city gates in order to leave the city. Because no one wants to be around when the city lord, Viscount Kitsugami, is out and about.

And Shirou is perfectly happy with that.

Whatever causes the most chaos will always be perfect in my book! And capturing that pretty and adorable little Princess?! What better way to cause chaos!

Shirou, an undead kitsune who has completely lost himself to his Sin over the years without a care in the world, spreads his arms out and continues laughing into the sky, sending a shiver down the spines of the many demons in the city below. Each of whom are all hoping against hope that the man decides to turn his insanity outwards, away from the city.

Unfortunately for them, Shirou’s gaze immediately snaps downwards, a look halfway between insanity and that of a mischievous kid about to play a prank as he stares at them without blinking. And he just continues staring without laughing anymore for an entire hour, simply waiting for the Princess to get far away to give her a head start.

Then he begins laughing again and shouts for all the city to hear, “Let’s play a little game everyone! A game I knoooow you’ll all love!” Shivers run down the spines of everyone listening, but even as he knows that, all it does is make Shirou’s pitch black eyes flare with a black light, a very faint amber slit appearing in the middle of the black orbs for a split second before vanishing again. “How about you all capture the lovely little girl currently running Southwest of here! She is wearing a black cloak that completely hides her appearance, and has a fully redacted Identify result!”

Shirou sucks in a breath of air, simply breathing in the fear he feels the people of his city below feeling. And without a hint of shame or hesitation, he tilts his head, sticks his tongue out of his mouth, and adds, “And if you don’t, then I’ll slaughter the lot of you!”

Almost immediately everyone in the city begins to leave, marching towards the Southwest. But only the Class IVs manage to keep pace with the Princess, and even they aren’t able to gain any ground on catching up to her.

Awww, looks like they’re too slooow…

“Shirou, what the fucking hell do you think you’re doing now?!” A voice very familiar to Shirou echoes out in his mind, but he, of course, ignores it by speaking out loud, “Oh, lookie there! I hear a voice in my head! I think I’ve gone insane, don’t you voice?”

Then he bursts out laughing again and starts flying around in circles.

“Kitsugami Shirou! Are you ever going to fucking snap out of it and-” the voice stops after Shirou sticks out his tongue and points his index finger at his head, saying “Boop!” as he shoots out a small bolt of death mana straight at his head, using a skill to clear any mental effects on him. Including the telepathy from the familiar voice he is ignoring. Because the voice doesn’t exist.

“One, two,” Shirou begins, locking his hands together behind his back by the fingers as he sways back and forth from side to side while hanging upside down. “Death comes for you.” Then he flips around, orienting himself with his head towards the sky. “Three, four,” he pauses again as a wide smile stretches across his face at the sight of all the demons speeding up slightly like their lives depended on it. “Aww, don’t you wanna see what happens when it comes? That’s too bad.”

He rocks back and forth midair as he watches the army chase after the girl from high up in the sky, wondering just how long they’ll be able to play with her before news of this gets back to the Demon King. But it doesn’t take long for him to break out into chuckles at the thought again. The thought of seeing the Demon King massacring the entire city for targeting his granddaughter.

I love this!

Shirou breaks out into hysterical laughter before slowly floating along in the direction that the Princess is running.

I should let her reach the Battlefield before I attack. It should give me some time to toy with her before His Majesty arrives to kill me.

His laughter cuts off and he grins as if he had just won the lottery.

This is going to be soooo much fun!!! Maybe I can even kill the Princess after toying with her? Just to see what he’d do!!

Shirou starts humming while flying through the air and occasionally muttering, “One, two, death comes for youuuuu.”