Location: Saint Lycoris Academy / Citywide Neural Net Channel 47Time: 03:03 a.m.
The city wakes to static.
Every screen, phone, and hologram across Lumeris blinks into the same feed —a rose-tinted room lit like an open wound, neon dripping from mirrored walls.Soft laughter. The sound of someone sighing like they just confessed a sin.
Five girls sit in a circle — alive.Dressed in lace, bandages, and microphones.They smile like idols and confess like executioners.
At the center of the stage: a single empty chair.
MEI (smiling to the lens): "Good morning, Lumeris~ Tonight's program is called Win His Heart."SORA: "We're the contestants."LIRA (tracing a crimson finger along her throat): "And the prize…" she grins "…is him."
The logo spins in glossy red script:THE NOIR CYCLE SHOW — Presented by Saint Lycoris.
Scene — Ren's Apartment
Ren bolts upright. The city hums with overlapping female voices.Outside the window, the skyline itself flickers with their faces.
Kana stands motionless at the glass, her reflection tinted rose and white, eyes glowing faintly — like a living broadcast tower.
REN: "They're alive… they're broadcasting?"KANA: "No. They're confessing."REN: "What—"KANA: "To me. To you. To us."
From the speakers, her own name spills like honey through the static.
REIKA (on air): "Kana Haruno — the original subject. We thank you for showing us how to love so completely that it hurts."HINA: "But you never taught us how to stop."
Scene — The Broadcast Inside
The feed cuts between faces.Each girl speaks into the camera, alone, spotlighted — five altars, five confessions.
Sora injects glowing serum into her arm, eyes dilating to silver.
"You healed my wounds, Sensei. Now let me heal the world by erasing everyone but you."
Mei floods the studio with holograms of Ren's face — hundreds of them.
"Every follower voted for me. Love is a number I already own."
Lira lights her palm on fire, smiling through the flame.
"You stopped my explosion. So I'll ignite again until you watch."
Reika kneels in a gown of ash.
"Faith isn't blind. It's jealous."
Hina sings a lullaby that trembles like a threat.
"If he won't choose, we'll make his heart choose for him."
Their voices intertwine — love notes rewritten as funeral hymns.
Scene — Kana Unraveling
The glow in Kana's chest flares, reflection fracturing in the windowpane.Six familiar shadows bloom behind her, each voice a ghost at her ear.
TACTICAL ANGEL: "They've weaponized emotion."HEARTBREAKER: "They made a reality show out of our jealousy — genius."CRIMSON DOLL: "We can't let him watch."SAINT: "We can't let them breathe."GHOST: "He'll try to save them again."DOLLMAKER: "Then we save him from saving."
The glass spiderwebs under her hand.
Seven smiles stare back — her and the six.
KANA: "They want his love on camera? Then I'll give them a show."
Scene — Midnight Infiltration
The broadcast studio pulses like a heartbeat — his heartbeat.Every corridor glows with projected roses, walls breathing in rhythm.Perfume, ozone, and electricity burn the air.
Screens replay Ren's past missions: the lives he saved, the hands he held, the smiles that became altars.Each act of compassion is edited into seduction.
KANA (whisper): "He never lied to you. You just heard what you wanted."
From the dark, Sora steps out, scalpel twirling between fingers.
SORA: "You should thank us. We're making him famous."KANA: "He was mine before he was yours."SORA: "Then prove it."
Lights explode on.Five silhouettes form a circle around her — lace, blood, and microphones gleaming like knives.
Scene — Emotional Clash
They don't fight at first.They confess.
REIKA: "He told me once, 'You're safe now.' Do you know what that means to someone like me?"HINA: "He remembered my birthday."MEI: "He said my voice was nice."LIRA: "He looked at me without fear."SORA: "He smiled."
Each word lands like a blade turned inward.
KANA: "You fell in love with his mercy.I fell in love with his pain.That's the difference between you and me."
Static floods the walls.On every screen, Ren's face appears — watching, calling her name.Her pulse spikes; the six inside scream in perfect harmony.
Scene — Collapse
Kana slams her palms into the control board. Sparks leap.The feed fractures, multiplies, and spills across the entire city.
Every screen now shows her: hair whipping in red wind, eyes bright as sirens, standing over the five girls — not killing, not sparing — commanding the stage.
KANA (on live feed):"This is what love looks like when you try to steal it."
Behind her, the five collapse — crying, breathing, alive.The audience cheers, screams, and panics.
Hashtags swarm the Net like wildfire:#NoirCycle #KanaVsFive #TrueLoveWar
Diary Fragment
[Fragment Log #29 — Scarlet Broadcast]Incident: Citywide emotional hijackVictims: Five subjects, non-fatal
They turned their love into a signal.I turned mine into silence.
Ren is watching.He saw me choose violence for him.And the worst part is…He still said my name like it was beautiful.
Closing Scene — Aftermath
Dawn crawls over Saint Lycoris.The academy's digital billboards flicker with the final frozen frame:Kana's smile dissolving into static.
Ren sits in his apartment, city sirens distant, a vial of silver dust glinting between his fingers.Outside, crimson petals fall through the quiet — soft as ash.
REN (whisper): "Kana… what are you becoming?"
Through the broken speaker, a voice answers — faint, electric, unmistakably hers.
KANA: "Exactly what you made me."
The lights across Lumeris pulse once, red.Then darkness.
The broadcast ends —But the war of love has only just begun.
End of Diary #29 — "Scarlet Broadcast."