I kept staring at Ama and she had the sa smile on her face. Instinctively from what I have learned from all the horror and murder mystery I have seen; this is what I should be doing.
"Ama, what is all this?" I spoke with extre caution. There should be a proper reason for this Ama but if there is, it will also be an extrely sensitive topic for her.
"Kazu-chan, why are you taking a step back?" Ama said with the sa smile on her face and I was being a bit wary. What is she even doing with this boy here? Is he sohow related to her?
"Who is this, Ama?" I changed the question and decided to stand my ground. Ama is strong, yes, but sothing in told she is not going to be attacking though I believe better to stay cautious than dead.
"I didn’t an for it to co to this," she said and started walking towards . "But I guess now that you have seen it, I can’t do much about it."
She walked past and towards the glass container where the boy was. Her hand placed on the surface as if caressing the body through the glass she looked at with a sad smile on her face. I could see her lips trembling a little before her mouth opened. It closed again and she closed her eyes before shaking her head. I quickly walked over to her and wrapped my arms around her. She let herself go into the warmth as she hugged back and rested her head on my neck. Ama was weeping, not crying, maybe she didn’t want to see or hear her that way so she hit her face in my neck and just wept quietly with her body trembling. This person in the container was soone close to Ama, I could understand that much but I still didn’t under the relationship between the though. Well, I’ll only ask if Ama feels like talking about this to , until then, I’ll just be standing there holding her.
"I guess this is repaynt for so days ago," I joked and Ama chuckled a little and quickly took her head off . She let go and stood with her usual deanor.
"I’m sorry for that embarrassing display I just did. I didn’t expect that I could react that way but knowing I had to open up about it, just the re thoughts of it makes weak," she said and I nodded my head.
"Is he your brother?" I asked and Ama nodded. "What happened? If you don’t mind asking."
Ama turned around and looked at the container before placing her hand on it and looking back at . "Yes, he is my brother, Thomas Heilberg. Tom for short or at least what I called him. He is…a vampire."
Hearing what Ama just said, I couldn’t believe my ears for once. The person in the container was…a vampire? I looked at Ama asking for more explanation but she seed like she needed her ti to put her thoughts together. That strong, cheeky, and confident Ama who always knew what to say to get a reaction out of anyone was trying to think over and over for her next words.
"You see the Heilberg family cos from a long line of vampire hunters, the best in their class you know. So were my parents, both of them. The reason my father married my mother was because he deed her strong and genetically well enough to give a good heir to the next generations of the Heilberg family. There was no love whatsoever between them, my father needed an heir and my mother wanted money. They were present during most of my childhood but I never saw both of them in one room. When I was born, right from the ti I learned how to walk, I was put into training to be the next genius Heilberg," Ama said and clenched her fists. "But I was no genius, whatever I am right now, as an S class hunter, none of it was my talent, yes maybe my speed and agility but my battle skills were not good enough, not good enough to be called a Heilberg."
I just stood there and listened to Ama’s story and just kept listening. The last thing I wanted to do right now was to interrupt her at any cost. I could slowly see the tears welling up in her eyes yet again, I guess everyone is a bit of a cry-baby when it cos to certain topics. For Ama, it was most probably her brother.
"Being a Heilberg also cos with backlashes given how high the expectations are from . I was called the "best genetic baby" the family could have but my skills were only subpar for their standards. As a result, they made the training even more difficult even with the dozes, my oldest mories were being put into a room and being injected by enhancent drugs to make stronger. The more I failed, the larger was the dosage and…I hated every mont of it. My body was in pain, so much pain but I couldn’t do anything because I was strapped down to a chair left all alone in a white room." Ama started to rub her shoulders and I quickly stepped in and hugged her again.
"Ama, you don’t have to tell more right now," I said in a gentle tone.
"Isn’t that wild coming from soone like you…" Ama said while trying to keep a strong voice. "Weren’t you soone who is curious about thing."
"Yes, and I’m more caring than curious here," I replied. "You don’t have to tell everything about yourself if it hurts so much to talk about. So you can s- "
"No," Ama plead. "Don’t make stop Kazu-chan. I have kept all this to myself all my life and never told it to anyone. Maybe all that is weighing upon now but please…I need to do this. Otherwise these feelings, these emotions will crush ."
Soone once told , emotions are destructive. They are the greatest gift and the definition of a human but they are also the greatest weapon against the humans. But seriously now, to a kid? In his teenage. Ama must really trust a lot for opening up about this. It is all because of a coincidence that I even found this door but now that it has all happened, we were put into this impossible situation.
"Okay then, we can keep going," I said and Ama’s face lit up. "But not in this room. I think Tom wouldn’t like seeing his sister like this."
Ama looked back at the body of tom and nod his head. I looked back and since he was naked in the bathroom, I got a sight of it. Not bad for his age.
Ama took to another room which more like looked it was for her since it had lots of things laying around on the bed. Lots and lots of clothes and sowhere under it a not set blanket. For an adult sotis I wonder how she functions like this. I went and pulled a chair close to the bed right in front of Ama and sat down. She sat on the bed and looked straight in the eyes.
"Firstly, I’m sorry Kazu-chan, I am acting this way. I shouldn’t be talking to you about all this and acting this way so please forgive for it. If it is too much for you, you can stop any ti," she said and I let out a sigh. "What’s wrong?"
"After everything you have done with , you really find this mont to talk so formally?" I said while rubbing my head. "Seriously now, you weren’t even this formal the first ti we ever t so no need to talk like this. Be your usual self Ama."
She pats my head and started playing with hair. "Look at you, acting like an adult," Ama said and I shrug my shoulders. I have my monts you know. "So, many experints happened on and I was going through a lot of experints and trails. When it was ti for to co to beco a vampire hunter, my father insisted that I went to hunt with other S class hunters. Due to his status, he was able to make that happen and I went on the mission. It…didn’t co out to be as they expected. The mission was a failure with not only the vampire running away, but every hunter except for were killed. I didn’t survive that day because of my skills of anything Heilberg related. I survived it, rely by chance. You can say I got lucky. Or unlucky given what was to follow."
I think I already had an idea of what was going to happen to her but just hearing about it brings a different pain.
"I was a disappointnt, to both my parents. They both took their turns to "discipline" which was just physical torture in the na of training. I was belittled, abused, insulted, called unworthy to carry the na of the Heilberg na," Ama explained and clenched her fists again. "After that day, my parents had given up on and kept sending on suicide missions. One after other, yet I ca back alive. Under those situations, my speed helped either escape death or I just started using others as my shield. Sacrificing their lives to save mine, I did anything to live. I don’t know why but even after the hell I know I was gong to go through after these missions, I couldn’t bring myself to just be killed like that."
She took a pause and took a deep breath, having all those mories co back to her must be taking a toll on Ama. I know hearing all this coming from her mouth made a bit wary of her but from what I have seen, maybe this is also why she took a step back as a hunter.
"And then, my parents decided to have another child, soone who would be worthy of the na of the Heilberg," Ama continued.
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