Chapter 16

Promises (約束, Yakusoku) is the 16th chapter of the Gleipnir manga series.

Characters

 * Sayaka Koyanagi
 * Claire Aoki
 * Shuichi Kagaya
 * Chihiro Yoshioka
 * Yota Murakami
 * Ikeuchi
 * Isao Kasuga
 * Miku Aihara

Summary
Sayaka said to Claire that’s she does not trust her and also it was her who wants to join her. Claire questioned her that it was she who said that they will be making a contract and now what it her act here. Sayaka laughed and said that if she where and evil collector she would have killed there in that instant and she don’t know how Claire make Ikeuchi to agree to them. She questioned Claire did she threaten him to get close to her group. If they were to pick a fight with a group which they don’t know about the members and their power and she also hates people who do not keep their promises. Claire mentioned that if she wants to threaten him then how was he is alive now. Sayaka said she will be the one to decide where she will be joining her group or not. While the conversation is going on Claire asked her that she wants to get her phone and left that room. When Claire saw Yoshioka with Shuichi she looks a bit anger. Shuichi asked Claire about the contract. But she asked in for her phone. She went back to the room and showed Elena’s photo to Sayaka and said that she was looking for her because she is the one who killed Claire's parents and the one who changed Shuichi into a monster. She is a monster like them. Sayaka pronounced her name suddenly Claire takes to look into Sayaka and asked for her detail. Finally, Sayaka demand her to join them for the detail of Elena. Yota praised Shuichi for his great sense of smell. Shuichi asked Yoshioka the detail about the contract but she refused to talk about it but she is willing to talk about anything about herself. Shuichi asked her to explain why she needs the coin. Yoshioka said she does not even care about the coins nor the power that the Alien said to them. But if someone gets the power and something bad happen to this town and someone weak like her cannot able do anything. That would really scare her. Yoshioka asked if that his sense of smell is that great, she wants to get her wallet which she lost in the mountain. Shuichi have a fearful look in his face and asked that did she have her ID in that. That would become a problem for her. Ikeuchi gets anger when she looks so excited and happy with him. At the meanwhile Claire asks Sayaka that what the alien said was the power will turn them to what they desire but Sayaka looks like a normal human and able to keep the secret seal without taking monster form. She replied simply that it was her heart what taken the monster form it has nothing to do with her outlook. Sayaka said about her past that she was look with a teacher then one day the teacher feared that their relationship will lead them bad and cutup their try’s and he explain her situation to her whom she trusts that she will keep their secret and one day she died because of she failed to keep the secret. Sayaka asked Claire to lie-down to make their contact and asked her who would be her lover a man or a woman. Claire replied that was a man. On the other hand, Shuichi and Yoshioka went to the mountain, looking for her wallet.