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[h3][color=black]『[color=maroon]C[/color]olton [color=maroon]B[/color]onds 』[/color][/h3]
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[center][i]What happens when you open your eyes?
[color=silver]The images you have been accustomed with your imaginative mind suddenly disappear. 
Reality knocks the doors, and you just— observe.[/color][/i][/center]
The silence did nothing but intensify his gaze, grey visual orbs with the exact lustrous color of a polished shard of metal, fixated onto unfamiliar watery blue ones with no sense of curiosity or compassion, or any feeling for that matter. And there she is, a lithe black-haired female dressed in a button-up white shirt, black skirt and black high heels. Add the black jacket slung over her shoulder, and the woman's aura particularly screamed [color=silver][b]C[/b]rime [b]F[/b]ighter[/color] in disguise.

[center][i]And maybe,
Just maybe,
[color=firebrick]She is trying to see through him right now.[/color] 
And maybe,
Just maybe,
[color=firebrick]Whatever she thinks this is going to be like.
[b]It's going to be worse.[/b][/color][/i][/center]

[center][i]Yes.
A mind-reading box.[/i][/center]

The common thing about women like herself and boxes, he thought, is that you can open them up. Even though they're completely boring on the outside, there might be something interesting on the inside. So while she's using these stupid, boring Introduction methods, he's literally imagining what it would be like to cut her open and see what she has got in there. 

Reply? That's not real entertainment. Therefore, Colton decided to be quiet, painting a picture of uncommunicativeness with his eyes whilst his indifferent stance and blank expression remained; a statue, there was no motion towards or against her. 

[center][i]Within these walls, she might be able to find a tale typically left unsaid in polite society...
 It is a story about rule-breaking, curse-making, and life stealing.

There is no neat and tidy ending, no white knight that rides in and delivers freedom, 
nor salvation—— There is no escape. 

Like life, stories like these don't always end with elegant edges.[/i][/center]