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"Every single night, when the moon turns as sanguine red as blood, my life itself hangs in the balance. When I wake up the very next morning, I am reborn." 

Rika Sato is a freshman university student, she had a cold demeanor and an attitude that was basically screaming her apathy. She did not care for anything at all, she was detached from reality, one might say. The world being full of terrible news, murders, kidnappings, and other twisted things made her that way. She was uncaring and frozen.

One fateful night, Rika was just walking, determined to get home from school. As the night progressed on, the city lights grew brighter and brighter. Perhaps this was the reason that a random child did not think to look before crossing the street. A truck was coming in closer and closer, the driver was not even looking at the road. Rika knew that she had to do something to save the child. She quickly ran and tried to hurl the child away to safety. She succeeded. The child lived, yet she did not. The truck hit Rika right then and there. 

[ Do you wish to live, still? ] A voice asked out to her. “Y-Yes! Yes I do!” she screamed.  

[ Then you shall live once more. You will live in order to become a spectacle. A warrior of the night, if you do not agree with these terms and conditions, we can always just leave you to die. ] 

The image of a red moon was the last thing she would ever see before her life would change for the better—or for worse. As she would be given a chance to reverse what had happened to her. But there was a catch. It was going to shake up her whole world, living on that borrowed life of hers.

Red Moon Reversal

The cemetery that they were transported in definitely had the eeriest vibes attached to it. It felt like there were a million other eyes that were looking at them from the neck down to see if they would be viable targets, at least that was how Rika felt. "This place, it is giving me some sort of senseless dread." She said to Mikoto and Kuro. The two of them nodded, seemingly supporting what she had just said. "The same goes for us here." Kuro said. Finally, the monotonous night would be broken off by the sound of someone screaming, it was the scream of a woman. 


The three of them ran towards where the sound might have come from and saw the monster for themselves. The centuries old samurai who looked like had just sliced off the legs of the woman on the ground, preventing her from running away. "H-Honor…" the samurai kept repeating these words as he slowly but surely approached the woman who was screaming on for her dear life. "We have to save her." Rika said as she jolted forward and took the woman off from the ground and dragged her back to safety. "Get her legs patched up, at least have a little sense of worth as you do shit while we clean up." Rika said to the others who did not wear the red suits; they were petrified in fear at the sight of what they had just seen. 


"You believe it now?" She asked Kuro. Kuro only gulped and was now shaking. "Do we take it on?" he asked Mikoto. "If we want to go back, then of course." He replied to him. "Honor yourself." The monstrous samurai said as his flesh was definitely rotting and oozing with such disgusting and vile pus. His smell surely showed that he was not that clean as well, to put it lightly. 


He was fixated on Rika, as she was the one who interrupted his kill. "Looks like it wants me." She said with the deadest eyes one can ever have. Even Kuro could see that she was no stranger to this happening, she had been here before. The samurai tried to cut off her limbs, but Rika reacted much faster. She parried the blow and immediately went on the offense, cutting off its head in one fell swoop. A few seconds later, it was already moving on its own with a headless body. "M-Monsters! Run!" the others were now fleeing away from the scene. 


"Stop! Your heads are going to explode if you run that way!" Rika shouted at them but they did not listen, she narrowly dodged one more attack from the samurai before Mikoto told her that she has to focus on the foe in front of her. "B-But they are all going to die if they get too far away from here." She said to him. "That is not our problem anymore, Red Moon Renegades only exist to kill these monsters, nothing more, nothing less." Mikoto said.


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