"Where...
where am I!?" As the young hero in training arose from his
groggy slumber, his eyes adjusted to the sight of soft midday
sunlight streaming down into the building. Beams of daylight
illuminated a dusty, ill-maintained floor, and the various pieces of
decrepit storage equipment scattered across it. Splintered pallets,
rotting boxes, broken chains, and even decommissioned forklifts all
littered the inside of what had to be an old, forgotten warehouse.
The real question was... w

The moon
hung in the sky over the Magatsuchi house, lighting the hot summer
night with its reflective, white glow. It was hot this night… A
little too hot for comfort. July was coming in swift and brutal, so
much so that Magatsuchi Shouta had actually caved into the temptation
for once. For certain reasons, the young wizard always wore a shirt
and pants, or at least some sort of pajamas to bed recently, but for
the first time this summer, that just wasn’t possible if the boy
wanted to get

    

Valentine’s Day. Just the mention of those words had an equal chance of inciting love-struck, dreamy joy or the most hateful scorn imaginable in any given person.

Even if someone wouldn’t associate the holiday with its intended emotion, the 14

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of February seemed to be able to stir some kind of emotional response in them, b