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In the alleyway.
Miku lied face first against the concrete floor, her body glowing brightly before it faded.
"Oww, my nose hurt" Miku exclaim, she slowly stood up and held her nose painfully.
Miku hadn't expected herself to fly 20 meters into the sky! Which resulted in her hitting her nose.
How could she predicted that sprinting at full speed towards the screen would launch her into the sky?!
If she had known that her momentum ws enough to fly 20 meters upwards, could she have prevented the pain in her nose?
No, the battery was going to die at any minute. If she had wasted a single second there, she might have died again.
Miku thought to herself in a comforting manner. She rubbed her nose gently, easing the pain.
She gaze down and saw an anroid phone with a broken screen lying there, she was immediately reminded by how close she was at dying just now.
Miku sighed, her stomach growling to remind her that she was not full despite draining the phone of all its energy.
She couldn't help but subconsciously lick her lips. The taste of the phone electricity still linger in her tongue.
*Sss*
Her body begin to glitch in and out of reality. Spark of electricity begin to flow out of her hair and dissipate into the pavement.
The moment it left her, she felt hungrier then before if not more then she had expected.
"I should find food to eat first. If not then I'll just absorb energy from some random devices or outlet" Miku muttered.
She look away from the broken phone and walked towards what she assumed to be the exit of the alleyway.
What Miku hadn't notice was her body fading in and out of reality, unfortunately she was too hungry to pay attention to her own condition.
While Miku is walking, her mind wondered...
Eating the notification panel had help her absorb the phones electricity. Does that mean, she need to bite a electronic to absorb their energy as well?
If she could absorb electricity does that mean that this world has Superpower? Miku didn't know whether she was in another world or her modern world.
But what she does know is that, she needed nutrition and electricity is the way to go considering she has no money to buy food.
"I really need to find another phone to test whether I need to bit it or not, maybe a vending machine will be a good test subject. I'm starting to feel really hungry~" Miku exclaim, her stomach growling and her body flickering in and out of reality.
Spark of electricity flow down the tip of her hair and dissipate into the ground as her body fade in and out.
Miku continued walking not noticing the anomaly of her own body. Hunger taking over her awarenes.
Just when she turn a conner, her eyes caught the sight of a boy surrounded by thugs?
Miku abruptly stopped in her track, her eyes fixed on the five men surrounding a helpless boy.
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POV The Boy (Narrator)
He didn't remember how it started.
These group of thug had dragged him in an alleyway, started recording and threatening his father for money.
Pain spread from his leg, and with the help of the moonlights he saw his own blood flowing and his bone sticking out of his leg.
Tears flow down his cheek, he gritted his teeth, eyes burning red, he glared at them pure rage.
The alley smelled like trash and iron. His back pressed against the cold floor, as the five men circled around him.
One of them laughed.
"C'mon, don't look so fierce. Wasn't it your father fault for not taking us seriously?" He mocked, chuckling in amusement.
A phone was pointed at his face, his father was there on the otherside.
While an old camera stood beside the tall muscular men, blinking in red and recording the whole thing.
They had called his father and had watch him being beaten until his leg broke were broken.
The boy clenched his teeth, fingers digging into the ground. His legs trembled, vision blurring, and blood continue to flow out.
He stared towards the alleyway entrance and then at the five of them.
There was no way out... No one was around. They had planned this for a long time.
"Look at him, his about to cry like a baby" The thug mocked, his eyes full of pride.
"I'm not..." The boy snapped, even if his voice was a mere whisper he couldn't stand being seen as weak.
*Kek*
That earned him a kick to the side.
Pain exploded through his ribs. His body folded slightly, breath hitching as the world tilted for a moment.
"Ughh."
"Still got some bite, eh?" the thug smirked.
The father watching the scene from a video call shouted desperately, "Stop! Stop! Don't hurt my son anymore! The money is on its way! Please!"
The father spoke with gritted teeth.
Laughter erupted from the five thug. It echoed loudly in the alleyway.
The boy lowered his head, strands of hair falling over his eyes. His hands clenched together.
No one was coming to help him, not even his father, one of the wealthiest men in the word couldn't do anything to save him.
*Shine*
Blue light emitted faintly from the corner of his eyes.
"Who?" one of them spoke.
Something felt… off. The air shifted and temperature raised.
He frowned slightly and glanced toward the right, he froze at the sight.
For a moment, he thought he was hallucinating. Because standing there,
at the edge of the alley, half-lit by the light emitted from the figure, was a girl.
No, it wasn't just a girl. She had Teal twin tail hair that glowed in the dark and clothes that didn't belong in a place like this.
Suddenly, her body begin to flicker in and out of reality as if the world itself rejected her very existence.
"…Huh?" The word slipped out of his mouth.
Faint sparks flow down the end of her hair before disappearing into the ground.
The boy blinked, Twice. Unable to believe such a scene.
"…Oi," one of the thug spoke, squinting his eyes at the figure. "The hell is that girl doing here?" The thug exclaim.
The girl simply stood there, unmoving, unblinking, and constantly flickering in and out of reality as if she was a hologram.
"Hey girl!" One of the thug called out, stepping forward and walking towards her. "Aren't you a pretty one, eh? Want to join us and have some fun?" The thug spoke, his face morphing into an ugly grin.
No response.
The girl didn't even look at him.
"Oi, I'm talking to you!" The thug walked towards her, his face turning uglier by the second.
He grab her shoulder and the moment his hand made contact.
"ZEZEZEZEZE"
A sharp burst of raw electricity entered his body in that instant.
"GAAAH—!" His body shook violently before collapsing to the ground, twitching and unconscious.
The alley went dead silent, the phone dropped to the ground and the four thug stared at her as if encountering a monster.
The boy's eyes widened.
The girl on the other hand blinked, staring down at her own palm as if she didn't expect that to happen.
Then slowly, she turn to look at the four thug and a faint spark of electricity flow out of her hair. Her eyes glowing an aminous blue light.
"Shit, let's get out of here!" The skinny thug exclaim.
"Get out? What about the money?!" The greedy looking thug shouted at the skinng guy.
"Who cares about that! I ain't dealing with that shitty supernatural shit!" The skinng guy exclaim, he turn and bolted away.
The three thug seeing one of them had already left with their tail tuck between their leg. They decided to leave as well.
The four thug sprinted away, not one of them looked back like the coward they are.
The girl stared at the retreating thug with an expressionless face, when he looked at her closely, his eyes widen once more.
"Hatsune Miku.." He muttered, eyes locked on her as he struggled to stay conscious...
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