"Alright, there are some stairs to go up for-"

Without me being able to say more, the men working for the moving company carries the wardrobe with ease inside and up the stairs.

Yep, it's finally moving day and Touko is going to get to live with me at last. Man, I have been waiting for this for way too long and to finally have my source of happiness this close to me? Just amazing, so amazing...

"Aww, finally~! Felt like forever before the day would come!" Touko tells me as she clings onto my back and hugs tightly onto me. "Best thing, we will be able to study together as well! Perhaps you can tutor me some once we go up a year later in March~?"

"Honestly, forget about it. I won't remember shit of what I have learnt." I tell Touko as we both laugh as she continues clinging onto me.

"Oh my dear daughter..!" Mrs Kirigaya says as she goes up to us, just so she can look at Touko some more before eventually it will be that she won't see her at all for most of the time. "You are such a big woman now, moving out from home and living with the one you love..."

"Haha, it's not the end of the world, mom, is it now~? I will be good here with Stephy and of course I will come by the kimono shop to visit you all while I need to do possible new outfits for my band!" Touko reassures her mom as her dad and grandma too comes up to her.

"Well, well, guess you will spend more time with your boyfriend than doing activities with us. But once you come visit us, you need to participate in tea ceremonies!" Her grandma tells her as she sighs before nodding.

"Yeah yeah, grandma..."

"I can be with you on such events." I tell her as she beams up while looking at me.

"For reals?! Oh my gosh, yes please~!" Touko replies as she kisses me on my cheek repeatedly, happy over me being there so otherwise boring things for her will become much more fun of them.

I would do anything for my beloved after all, and if being by her side as much as possible is what she wants, then sure as hell I will let that wish come true, every time.

After the men for the moving company had finished moving in all the stuff, Mr Kirigaya comes forward with the huge travel bag containing Touko's clothes. "Should be everything, just come by if something is missing!"

Touko's parents and grandma soon says their farewells as her mother still has tears running down her cheeks.

"Want to do a movie marathon later tonight?" I ask Touko as she turns to me and beam up in that beautiful smile she always does when she is with me.

"Yes, that would be awesome! You choose~"

"Godzilla." I reply as she laughs before nodding as we head inside.

Getting inside our slightly renovated home, Touko stretches on herself, before telling me that she will head to our room for a little bit.

But as she walks towards it, she begins... stripping off her clothes?! W-wait, what is she up to now then..?

Following after her, I soon step inside and see Touko stand by a mirror, facing away from me, but the back of her is quite visible thanks to her taking her hair to the side and brushing it.

"Ahem, I see, you were just brushing your hair-"

"Eheh, there you are~" She replies as she turns around, once again showing that only her bra and underwear is on as she puts her hairbrush to the side before walking up to me. "Just you and me here now, fully home alone and no need to think about having to go back a specific time~"

"It certainly is great, isn't it." I reply, which Touko nods in agreement to, before she looks to my bed.

"I need to lay down for a bit~"

"U-uh, I think it's still sorta dirty from me jerking off to your nudes you sent me the other day-"

"No problem, that's just even better~" she replies before soon after throwing herself at my bed. Seeing as our king sized bed hasn't arrived yet, sharing on the same, smaller bed shouldn't hurt.

"Before we watch kaiju movies and I faint from how adorable you will be during it, how about destroying something else first~?" Touko asks me as she giggles while looking at me with her very seductive eyes.

"...Yeah sure thing~"

And soon enough, we were full throttle... with playing BlazBlue.

Yes, got you there, no need to think that me and Touko do it all the time~

After our play session and me winning over Touko with Rachel the whole time, even if she did really well, we decide to continue setting up stuff inside the home before we sit down for the movie marathon we initially planned.

I haven't lived with another person since last year, and I would've been alone completely if it weren't for Touko coming into my life.

"It's not usual for me to just go around in my bra and underwear. I tend to do it when I am home alone and have time for myself, hehe~"

"Ah, feeling more free like that, I assume?" I ask Touko from what she told me, which she nods to. "Well, feel more than free to walk around here with either a good amount of clothes, or no clothes at all."

"No clothes at all is for when we know fully we won't have guests over or Chiyu won't come downstairs to speak with you~"

"Eh, I can just ask her if we can meet at her penthouse instead to talk anything regarding the UAA."

"Mhm, she is a little bit of an insider, isn't she?"

"Quite so. While Reona for example is good already with knowing quite a hefty amount about people, the UAA has to be kept secret from everyone else, so only Chiyu knows about it in that regard." I reply to Touko as I sigh, just feeling anxious again thinking about that I am still not done with this ranking BS.

"Stephy, let's not think about your assassin stuff for now. Let's live in the moment and have a great time, okay?"

"You're right, my love. Well, let's sit down and watch some Godzilla-"

But I soon get interrupted by my phone getting two messages at once. I quickly check, and...

"HUH?!"

"E-eh, what's the matter, Stephy?!"

I show her the messages, and she gets shocked as well. "You have gone up two ranks without doing anything? How's that possible..?"

"Well, it actually is possible. If the ranked assassin is for some reason killed, it will still count as me going up ranks."

"So you mean someone killed 24 and 23?"

"Indeed so, Touko. So I am at rank 23 now." I reply to her as I suddenly get a phone call, and it's from Miu. "Yes, I saw, now leave me alone. I want to spend time with Touko-"

"No, no, before you go!" Miu stops me as she seems to click on a mouse in the background. "The drones that capture the footage of every fight picked up who went inside the Akashic Points and outside again, and he seems to be a dark brown-blonde haired male around your age. But I have never seen him before!"

"Bullshit, no person isn't just unknown like that."

"Well, this guy certainly is! He took down Matt and Cloe with great ease, so he knows what he is doing at least."

"Ah well, at least less fighting for me-"

"Nope, I actually got a letter sent to my office not too long ago, which is actually designated to you. It has blood here and there, but I can send you a scan of it."

"A letter? From whom?"

"Well, maybe you will be able to figure it out yourself. I will also send over the drone photos, so take a look at those as well!"

Miu soon hangs up the call as I soon after get the photos and scanned letter in the mail. "Welp, guess I didn't get to be as free as I thought today."

"No, it's okay! I understand things comes suddenly." Touko says, though she is pretty clearly distraught over all these news.

"Hey babe, I promise you; Once the UAA is gone, we shall spend as much time as possible with each other, you have my word."

"Hehe, I know, Stephy~" She replies before planting a kiss on my cheek. "Well, I will head to prepare some snacks for now."

"Of course, that will be great. I will look into this letter and the photos before we sit down to watch some movies."

After that, we head to different places in the apartment. Touko in the kitchen for the snacks, and me in the small storage room, where I have a printer stored.

Printing out the photos and letter to get a better look at them, I bring them back out to the living room as Touko timely comes back with the snacks ready to go, just missing the popcorn.

"The popcorn is done soon, but chips and cheese doodlez will do for now, right?"

"Yeah, it will, don't worry. But hey, wanna look at the photos as well?"

"Yeah sure!" She replies as she goes up next to me as I show her the first printed out photo. "Hmm... Yeah no, I have not either seen him around."

"Yeah, yet he seems to exist, and is an actual person and all. However, Miu can't find anything about him, so maybe asking Reona about him is futile."

"I mean, we could try! If she keeps good track on many of us, why not try with this unknown guy?"

"Yeah, try that is. I still feel awkward after she saw my assassin identity out in the open, and I have no idea if she recognized it was me or not."

"True, even if she has crazy energy, it isn't Kokoro Tsurumaki-crazy, haha~!" Touko says as we both laugh from her joke.

"Well, you have a lot of energy as well, after all!"

"Come on now, while I might be hyped up about lives or parties, no way I have that sort of energy~"

We laugh some more before we continue observing the photos, before we get to the letter. Though, something tells me this is not from the unknown guy. In fact, the hand writing feels familiar somehow.

"Something wrong again?"

"No just... A very similar handwriting to somebody..." I reply to her as I observe the letter more.

Meet me behind Yoba Academy!
-Signed, Night Hawk's Biggest Fan

Fans, how in the world am I getting fans? If all the people knew the true nature of why I go around here, they would hate me.

Well, guess I have to see who this is, because the handwriting just feels so familiar. It's still kinda early on the day though, so for now...

I hug onto Touko, causing her to giggle.

"Let's spend time together for now, aight?" I tell her as she gives me a smug smile.

"Mmmh, you bet~" She only replies before I am pinned down to the sofa by her. "I am going to kiss you so much, hehe~!"

After being smothered with kisses from my beloved, we finally begin watching some Godzilla movies all the way into the late afternoon.

As we begin feeling tired from it all, I decide to prepare myself to meet up with whoever wants to see me, as "Night Hawk" that is.

"Just be ready, Stephy. You never know what this person could want."

"Indeed, I will be as careful as I can." I reply back as I hug her, this time with her having clothes on again. She wanted to put them back on during the movies after all.

Heading out, I make my way down the stairs and soon outside the complex, heading at once towards my school where I will meet this supposed fan of mine.

As I approach the backside of the school, someone playing on a recorder can be heard and only getting louder the closer I get, until I arrive by the tree the source comes from.

The one playing the recorder stops, before revealing themselves- Wait.

Wait, wait, wait... What..?

The one who sent the letter and possibly wanting to battle me is...

KURUMI?!

"Well, there you are, Stephan! I were wondering if you would show up after I sent that letter via the UAA office."

"Why just not send it directly to me though? You know where I live after all, no?"

"Naaah, where's the fun in that~" Kurumi innocently says as I just raise my eyebrows. Fun? This?

"Nothing about this is fun, Kurumi! So this whole time, you have been a fellow assassin, or what?"

"Well, not exactly. After seeing you perform so well and defeating Skelter-Helter the day you came back, I were inspired to do the same." Kurumi explains to me like she would about anything else. "So while you were busy having Touko ride on your cock, I decided to become an assassin myself!"

"Then I suggest you opt out of this shit at once! There is nothing fun at all with being an assassin."

"Well, Miu told me you seemed to enjoy the first times taking lives." Kurumi says as her expression become very blank of it as she keeps on staring at me. "And... I love you, Stephan. But of course, Touko was first and you are enjoying your time with each other already."

"Keep yourself out of my love business!"

"Just saying; She will miss you a lot after all when I kill you today."

"So just trying to take my rank in the end, huh?" I reply as I clench my fists while starting to prepare myself for combat. "I thought much better about you, Kurumi. But I won't lose my rank to someone like you anytime soon."

"Hehe, well, give it your all~" She replies as she holds the recorder in front of her before it becomes a double bladed beam katana. What the hell, am I fighting Darth Maul or what?!

"Yeah, give it my all indeed. To protect Touko and everyone ele, including you as well I hope."

"Nooo need, I have killed before, so I know what strategies to use!" Kurumi replies as I just snicker. Well then, let's just see how good a prankster does in a battle with someone like me, not be cocky.

"Well then, draw!"

I immediately feel weird about all this, because why do I need to fight one of my friends?

Well, Kurumi chose herself to for some reason go down this path, so her fault. But even so, she got inspired by me after my battle for rank 51.

Is it my fault in the end if more people joins the UAA?

Still, even with all these thoughts, me and Kurumi rush at each other, before fighting each other like we are in a lightsaber duel.

Hell, "Duel Of The Fates" would be even greater for this, but Kurumi is still just so innocent of her, damn it...

After several strikes against each other's beam katana, Kurumi steps back and swings around her beam katana a bit before swinging at me again, going for my legs, but I block it just in time.

"Kurumi, we don't need to do this! Get yourself together, being an assassin brings with nothing more than absolute crap!"

"You can't decide what I should! Now die for me!" Kurumi shouts back as she skillfully does a cartwheel, even with the doubled bladed beam katana in hand, before retracting it and blowing very hard in the recorder handle.

As she does, bubbles appears, but they have a strange color, so I will just have to avoid them- WHOA!

I dodge one of the bubbles, which lands on the grass and immediately corrodes the patch of grass it lands on. "Acid bubbles, huh?"

"Like them~? I can blow more-"

But as Kurumi is talking, I begin rushing at her again, which she responds with glaring at me and deploying her beam katana again.

Engaging in a blade lock, she surprisingly is able to push me away quite well, but I eventually overpower and strike her.

"Not fair!' She tells me soon after as we continue fighting, striking the blades of our katanas against each other.

While Kurumi is clearly set on killing me, I however am not. I refuse to kill one of my friends, no matter what path they have chosen to walk.

...However, I really gotta keep in mind about the weaknesses of my beam katanas I own.

Because as I keep on striking against Kurumi's beam katana, Blood Berry begins flickering. And not too long after, it runs out of battery...

"God damn it, not now-!"

Kurumi sees her opportunity and strikes Blood Berry out of my hand before she begins trying to slice at me.

Panicking I feel around on my belt, to which I find the cross bladed beam katana I got from Chiyu. Welp, guess I am using it again..!

Quickly taking it out and deploying it, I do one big swoop at Kurumi, before charging up to throw the energy orbs I can form with the help of this katana.

Throwing them at Kurumi, she gets knocked back tremendously, even losing her grip of her beam katana, causing it to retract and just be a regular old recorder.

-music end-

With the katana still in hand, I approach Kurumi as she soon stands up, having gotten her school uniform dirty from getting flung back.

"So this is it... The Great Stephan strikes me down with his own hands, claiming yet another victory." Kurumi says before she looks rather satisfied. "At least I finally said my true feelings unlike Haruna~"

"And I do not feel the same." I reply to her as she giggles before closing her eyes, most likely preparing for me to kill her.

But instead, I retract my beam katana before sighing...

"...YOU GOD DAMN FUCKING GREMLIN!" I yell at her before I grab her under her arms and lift her up so her legs comes over my shoulders.

"E-eeeeh?!"

Holding tight onto her, I fall backwards with her and slam her hard into the ground, causing her to hit her head quite hard against the grass, but not to the point of getting any major trauma. I know when to hold back with wrestling moves.

"And stay the fuck down before you come to your senses about why being an assassin is absolutely the worst thing you can do!" I tell her as she is laying in the grass, twitching and drooling from having her head slammed so hard into the ground.

Picking up Blood Berry, I also confiscate Kurumi's recorder, before looking to her again. "Anyways, see you around."

Walking away, Kurumi can only mutter three words seeing me disappear. "Stephan... the Great..."

KURUMI SHIRATORI, K.O

Soon arriving back home, Touko immediately goes up to me and spots that I have been in another fight.

"Everything went well if you wonder, I didn't kill them though."

"Oh, how so?"

"I fought Kurumi, my love. One of our friends, I can't kill her damn it."

"Kurumi? So she is an assassin like you?"

"Hopefully no more after this. At least she got her thrills from it, but seriously hope she rethinks stuff after this fight." I tell Touko while sighing, which she decides to hug me tightly in response to.

"Your heart being in the right place as usual, hehe~" She tells me as we both laugh a little before kissing each other on the lips.

"When it comes to my friends, I will do my best for them, even if they try to kill me."

Touko giggles more before I head to patch up myself some so we can continue our movie marathon. We have a lot of popcorn to eat after all!

Meanwhile, somewhere else...

"...I need to wait before I show myself to them." A certain dark brown-blonde haired young man says as he is looking with a pair of very futuristic looking binoculars, right into Stephan and Touko's apartment living room window.

"Once the time comes, I have to tell them why I am here." He continues as he looks to a photo. "Because after all, your past selves are the only ones who can help us all. Right, dad and mom?"

To be continued