A young teenager of about fifteen or sixteen years old opened his stunning sapphire-blue eyes. His skin was a surprisingly pale white, yet it looked healthy and smooth. His black hair flowed freely over his face, falling in scattered, disheveled strands.
Sitting up, the young man let out an audible yawn, pulled back the sheets, and stood up. As he took his first step, his feet stumbled, crashing against the wooden floor beneath him.
The sound of the impact was sharp, muffling a low curse.
Using his hands, he picked himself up.
"What a way to start the day," the young man said, standing up. He raised his arms, stretching, listening to his bones crack.
He listened to the sound of birds singing, to the sound of the morning traffic.
Whistling a soft melody from an anime song, the young man left his room and headed for the bathroom of his home.
Turning on the hot water tap, he began to enjoy the human morning ritual.
He washed his head with a special shampoo that had a pleasant, light scent, and after soaping up his body and rinsing off the soap with hot water, he grabbed a towel. Then he put on blue sports pants and a simple, dark red sleeveless t-shirt.
Checking the time, he noticed it was six in the morning.
Turning on his coffee maker, he waited a bit before placing the cup. While the coffee was heating up, he opened his refrigerator, took out some meats, as well as various condiments, and began preparing breakfast and lunch for himself and his younger brother.
...
When it was around seven o'clock, he was sitting, enjoying a cup of hot coffee.
Lifting his face upon hearing footsteps, he looked towards the door and saw a younger figure. It was a boy of about twelve years old, his eyes the same shade of blue as his own, except for his hair, which was a light brown color.
"BwAaaaaH! Is breakfast ready?" the young man asked.
"Yeah," he replied, taking another sip of coffee, pointing to some plates.
With dragging steps, the young man sat at the table and began eating the delicious food.
"Hey, Lumian, I had a dream," the young man suddenly said.
"Oh? And what kind of dream?"
"Well, I think it was a prophetic dream or a vision, I'm not sure yet. But in the dream, you were on a rooftop illuminated by the sunset, there was a girl with pink hair, then another figure appeared that I didn't really recognize who was angry, and then dad showed up, and then the dream ended."
"Are you sure, Ash?"
"Yeah."
Lumian didn't say anything. His brother sometimes had dreams of future events, but that future could change, and he was usually wrong. However, he felt this wouldn't be the case.
'A girl with pink hair?' He thought to himself, then simply shook his head.
He had a good life on Earth. Sure, he had run away, but it wasn't like they were really angry with him.
"Well, anyway, finish your breakfast. Oh, or are you going to keep Mikan waiting?" He asked with an amused smile, watching his younger brother's cheeks turn a bit red.
"Idiot," Ash muttered, finishing his breakfast quickly before going up the stairs. A few minutes later, he came down changed.
"Oh, right, I'll be spending the night at Mikan's house for a school group project," Ren said loudly.
Lumian heard the sound of the front door closing.
Standing up, Lumian changed his clothes, putting on his Seinan High School uniform.
It only took Lumian a few minutes of walking to get to the Japanese school. Of all the countries his Random Machine could have chosen, it had ended up in Japan, the land of the rising sun.
Entering the school, he walked through the hallways before stopping at a corner, looking at a mop of brown hair in another corner of the wall, positioned like a stalker.
Of course, he would recognize that brown hair; after all, it was Rito, his friend.
Giving a sinister smile, Lumian approached stealthily, positioned himself behind him, and tilted his head to look at a cute girl with purple hair and eyes.
"Hey... you know that if you never talk to her, you won't get her interest, right, stalker?"
Rito jumped a mile, startled.
"Who are you calling a stalker, you bastard?"
"Are you not one?" Lumian replied with an amused smile.
"You've been staring at your beloved Haruna since the start of the year without daring to talk to her, and you only look at her from afar... isn't that being a stalker?"
"That's different, I don't stalk her," Rito defended himself quickly.
"...sure, whatever you say, stalker."
"Anyway, I wasn't just looking at her today. I was waiting for the right moment."
"Right moment?" Lumian asked, looking at his friend, who nodded quickly.
"Today, Lumian, I've made up my mind. I'm going to confess my love to her today." Rito's expression was one filled with determination and pride.
However, Lumian sighed, shaking his head.
"Sure, whatever you say." Lumian walked directly to class 1-A, where he took his usual seat.
Because he was beautiful and took pride in his beauty, he learned that this was a problem and that it attracted too much attention. It bothered him, so he had to use special glasses that altered the perception others had of him, reducing his beauty by 57%. However, even with that, he was still handsome.
Lumian chatted with some of his friends during class, had lunch, and once the afternoon had arrived and classes ended, he left school and headed straight home.
Lumian lay down on his bed, bored, and started reading his latest volume of manga.
After an hour passed, he took out his phone and dialed Rito's number. After waiting a few moments, he heard a voice on the other end.
"Oh, Rito, so tell me, were you able to declare your love?"
"No, I couldn't do it. The weather wasn't good, so I decided to postpone it."
Lumian let out an amused laugh that irritated Rito.
"So you failed, just as I expected."
"Bastard, don't say you expected it."
"I did. It's already a usual pattern. Normally you're aggressive, but when it comes to love, you're really pathetic, Rito."
"Besides that, you're the type of guy who faints when he sees pictures of girls in swimsuits."
"What?!"
"That was a long time ago, and it will never happen again!"
Lumian rolled his eyes, turning the page of his manga.
"Alright, let's do a test. Try to imagine Haruna in a swimsuit."
Lumian waited a few moments before hearing a yell from the other side.
"Spe-... idiot, what are you saying?"
"See, you haven't changed at all! You should improve your resistance to women first, and then think about confessing."
"Tsk. I don't know why I'm even talking to you right now."
Lumian heard the call disconnect.
...
Thousands of kilometers from Earth, a chase was underway. One ship was firing at a smaller ship that was fleeing at full speed.
Inside the smaller ship, a huge screen lit up, showing a silver-haired man in an imposing, bone-like armor.
"Lala-sama, I advise you to give up and return. This game ends now."
A girl with pink hair and green eyes pursed her lips.
"I won't go back!" she finally said, with a determined voice.
"Lala-sama, it's your father's orders!"
"I already told you, I'm not going back!" Lala replied as she guided the ship, dodging the laser fire.
Pressing a button, the ship's thrusters increased their initial power, and a second later, it jumped into space.
"Sir, she made a space jump!"
"Do you know where she's heading?"
"Sir, the only planet with intelligent life is Earth."
"Take us to Earth immediately. We can't lose her. Earth is a big planet; it would take us too long to find her."
"Yes, sir!"
....
Lumian was relaxing in his bathtub, looking at a rubber ducky and a toy boat floating slowly.
'Well, it's time to ge-'
Lumian didn't finish that thought when, out of nowhere, the water in his tub exploded, startling him.
"What the hell!" he shouted, extending his hand. But instead of finding nothing, he felt a soft, somewhat warm sensation, which he squeezed several times.
Looking forward, he saw a girl with light pink hair, who was stretching with a smile on her face and was completely naked—and Lumian was touching her large breasts.
"Escape successful!" the girl sang.
She opened her eyes, staring intently at Lumian, then lowered her gaze, seeing that his hands were still grasping her chest.
Lumian finally reacted, pulling his hands away from the girl.
'What the hell? What the heck is going on?' he thought, his internal panic growing rapidly.
"Are you done?" the girl asked.
Lumian got out of the bathtub without a word, grabbing a towel.
"What? Who are you?"
The girl pointed at herself.
"Me? I'm Lala."
"Lala?"
"Yep! I come from the planet Deviluke," she explained.
Lumian felt his heart sink into his chest, before turning paler than he already was.
'No, no, no, no, no... this is bad, this is terrible,' he thought, feeling himself break out in a cold sweat.
"Hey, are you okay? Have Earthlings never seen a being from another planet?" Lala asked, as from the lower part of her back emerged a tail that ended in an inverse heart shape.
Lumian froze.
"Ah, even though I have a tail, that doesn't mean I'm going to transform when I look at the full moon."
'Okay, I get it, I need to think, and fast,' Lumian said to himself. He started walking, leaving the bathroom and heading to his room, with Lala grabbing a towel to wrap around her body and following him to his room.
"Why are you so upset? You're pretty adorable."
Lumian stopped.
"Yeah, really. You're from Deviluke... how did you end up in my bathtub out of nowhere?" Lumian asked.
"Ah, that's because I used this." Lumian looked at a bracelet wrapped around Lala's wrist that resembled a rabbit.
"This is my invention! Pyon Pyon-wand-kun! I can't specify the destination, but it makes it possible for a person to teleport a distance!"
"So... you teleported?"
"Yep. I used it from the spaceship and teleported into this house's bathtub," Lala explained.
"Why did you do it?"
"I'm being chased."
Lumian blinked while changing clothes quickly, taking advantage of the fact that Lala wasn't looking.
"I thought it would be safe to come to Earth, but they followed me here... I was about to be taken to their ship. If I hadn't used this bracelet, I probably would have..."
'So, a pursuer. Should I help her? No, that's impossible. I can't get involved with the people of Deviluke,' Lumian thought to himself.
"Lala-sama!" A voice was heard shouting as a figure smashed through a window.
Lumian froze, seeing the broken glass that was one of his two windows.
"My window!" he shouted, in shock and sadness. He liked that window; it was his first favorite window.
"Are you okay, Lala-sama?" shouted a robot, flying into Lala's arms. Lala caught the robot.
"Peke!"
"Oh, I'm so happy! You were able to escape safely too!"
"Yes! I was lucky the ship wasn't outside Earth's atmosphere!" said the little robot before looking at Lumian, who was sadly staring at his broken window.
"Lala-sama, who is that wimpy Earthling?"
"He's the one who lives here," Lala replied, looking at her robot.
"Oh, I don't know your name."
"I'm Lumian," the black-haired man replied, picking up the larger glass shards.
"I see. This here is Peke."
The robot raised one of its hands.
"Nice to meet you."
"It's a customized multi-purpose robot I made."
Lumian nodded. He watched as Lala discarded the towel, standing naked, looking at the robot.
"Well, Peke, I'm counting on you."
"Understood."
Lumian was blinded for a moment by a flash of light, and the next moment, he saw Lala wearing a tight white and purple latex suit.
"Tada!"
"Lala-sama, it's not too tight, is it?" Peke asked through the wide hat covering Lala's head.
"It's perfect," the girl replied.
Lumian observed Lala's curvaceous and attractive body, but only looked for more than a few seconds before averting his gaze to the wall.
"How is it? Do I look pretty?"
"Oh, yeah, you look good."
"By the way, Lala-sama, what are you going to do now?"
"Well, about that, I have some ideas," she replied with a smile.
Lumian was about to tell them to get out of his house, however, before he could, he heard the sound of glass breaking.
Turning his head, he saw his second glass window explode into a shower of fragments.
"No! My second favorite window!" he shouted in shock, watching the fragments fall to the wooden floor, ignoring the two Devilukians in his room who were now surrounding Lala.
"Man, what a troublesome girl. You should have restrained her movements, even if it meant tying her hands and feet until we left Earth..."
Lala gave a bewildered look at the two men in front of her, then her expression changed to one of slight annoyance mixed with anger.
"Peke..." she said in a falsely calm voice.
"Y-yes."
"Didn't I tell you to be careful that these guys didn't follow you?" Lala asked, one of her eyebrows twitching.
"...yes." Lumian felt a little sorry for the poor robot.
"Geez, stupid robot! Now everything has just gone down the drain!" Lala shouted.
"I'm sorry."
'Damn it, now there are two more Devilukians in my room. Why, in the name of the Dragon God, does this have to happen to me?' Lumian thought.
"Alright. Are you ready to come with us now?"
"Lala-sama, why don't you use the bracelet again?" Peke asked.
"I can't. After using the bracelet, it needs a whole day to recharge its energy."
One of the men grabbed Lala's hand tightly.
"Come on. It's time to go!"
"No! Let me go!" Lala shouted, biting the arm of the guard who was trying to hold her by force.
"Let go!"
Lumian watched from a corner of the room with a blank expression.
'Truly, the Devilukians are the weirdest race.' Lumian watched as Lala kicked to get out of the grip.
'If I leave them here, they'll destroy my house. I need to get them outside.'
Thinking that, he looked around and noticed he still had the soccer ball that his younger brother had bought him a few weeks ago and that he had simply thrown around.
Grabbing the ball, he threw it at the Devilukian's face. He fell backwards, releasing Lala. A moment later, he grabbed Lala's arm and jumped through the window onto the roof of a nearby house, starting to run.
'Crap! Crap! I must be crazy to do this!' he thought in a panic.
'I must definitely be crazy!'
"Lumian, why?"
"I don't know!" he replied.
"But in a situation where someone is about to be kidnapped against their will, I can't just sit idly by and let it happen."
Jumping, the duo reached a nearby park. However, a truck passed overhead, blocking their path.
Stopping, he turned and watched as the two Devilukians approached with serious faces.
"Don't interfere, Earthling," said the first one.
"Lala-sama," said the second, the one with blonde hair.
"Please stop trying to run away from home!"
"I don't want to!"
"Yeah, if she doesn't wa-!" Lumian froze and blinked, looking at Lala before something clicked in his mind.
'Damn it, I'm an idiot for not realizing it sooner!' An expression of horror crossed his face, filled with despair.
"I've had enough! I don't care if I'm a successor or whatever! I'm tired of seeing future husband candidates every day!"
Upon hearing the declaration, Lumian turned even paler and grimaced upon hearing the word "candidates."
'Hello, God, it's me again. Please don't let them find out what I am.'
"No matter what my dad says!" Sticking out her tongue, Lala pulled out a strange phone. After pressing a button, a purple, floating octopus materialized above her head, with a spiral symbol ending in an arrow.
"Go, Vacuum-kun!"
"Oh no, it's one of Lala-sama's inventions!" shouted the blonde-haired guard.
"Go ahead! Suck them up!" Lala ordered.
The octopus's mouth opened, beginning to suck in enormous amounts of air, dragging the two bodyguards. Lumian opened his eyes in bewilderment, then his expression changed to one of fear as he watched everything begin to be sucked into the vortex, including himself.
"WhaaaaaaHHH! Lala, turn that machine off now!" Lumian shouted, tumbling over and over as he was dragged inside the machine.
Lala, who was flying in the air with Peke's wings, put a complicated expression on her face.
"What's wrong, Lala-sama?"
"....this... how do I put it... how do I stop it?"
"..."
Lumian was dragged inside the machine, getting stuck for a few moments before the machine glowed, releasing a gigantic explosion that was felt throughout the city.
When the smoke cleared, Lumian was hanging from a branch, exhausted.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I made it so long ago that I forgot how to use it."
"But thank you for your help, Lumian. I'm happy you helped me."
"Cough cough... don't... mention it," Lumian replied.
....
Hundreds of billions of kilometers from the solar system, a titanic ship about five kilometers long was flying at a speed faster than light.
Guards in advanced golden armor stood before a figure hidden by shadows, seated in a command chair.
"....I see....So the princes were hiding on Earth all this time?"
"Yes, ma'am. We have recently confirmed them," said one of the guards.
"Good. It's time to put an end to this game. This time, I will catch them myself."