Chapter 12:The Hidden Power
"It's Chitose! She backs earlier! What should we do! What should we DO!?" Toya's panicking. It makes me panic too.
"I'll say that you're sleeping. Just stay here, Ok?"
"Huh? W-wait…"
He burst out hurriedly. I try to chase him, but rather than that I off my balance and fall off to the ground. I bump into floor right on my right arm. I thought it must be hurt, but in fact I can't feel any pain. It starts to worry me. Am I can't use my arm anymore?! It can't be! I immediately open the bandage that wraps my arm. Toya wrapped it too many. Luckily, he wrapped it very neatly, so it's easy to unwrap it. I can hear Chitose and Toya are talking, it's seems really serious.
Suddenly, someone open my door. It makes me more nervous, I haven't done unwrap the bandage yet.
"Chitose, Atsuma is sleeping!" Toya voice is panicking. I can feel his trembling voice.
"But I heard falling sound. Maybe it's Atsuma" Chitose's voice is panicking too. She's trying to look inside my room, but Toya pushes Chitose so she can't enter my room.
"Toya! I just want to see Atsuma."
It seems not only Toya is panicking, but Chitose is starting to panic too. I don't want Chitose and Toya brawling all day just to argue about this simple problem. So I decide to go out and stop this argument at once.
I step down from my bed and walk through the door. I can see Toya is still pushing Chitose. Man, Toya has a very strong power; it can't be because of his ancient blood right? Anyway, I step out the door, Toya who sees me suddenly scream.
"AGH! Atsuma!"
Chitose quickly turn her head on me, her smiling face makes me happy.
"There you are! Are you hurt?"
I can hear Toya's small gasp, and on my reflex I hide my right arm behind my body.
"Did you the one who make the fall sound?"
My palms are sweating. I can just say no, but it means I've already lie to Chitose. No, wait, I've already lied to her. Since I went to the warehouse, dropping her boxes just to know what's inside, and the most terrible is we used the boxes for our enchantment training.
While I'm still thinking about my crimes, Chitose surprised me by standing behind me.
"Hmm…"
Toya's sweating a lot and his face looks pale, it makes my sweat warm drenches like a pig for just look at him. Chitose looks carefully on my right arm, sometimes she comes out with 'hmm' sound. Like a teacher observing her bad student, trying to find his false, even a very tiny little fault. I try not to look at Toya, he makes me more nervous.
"Well, nothing is wrong with you. Good grief, then. I thought you might break your little arm and you are too afraid to tell Me.", then Chitose walks to the kitchen and washes the vegetables she bought.
True! I'm afraid to tell her about my arm. But why she can't see my wound? I can say that my arm is terribly wounded. Although I haven't seen how badly my wound is. One thing that I'm sure, I must see it for myself. So I turn around to look for my arm, I don't want Toya to look at it. I'm afraid when he sees it, his face will make me nervous again. Finally, I see what my right arm looks like after the accident, but I couldn't say anything.
"Hey, how's your wound? Is it still hurt? Or maybe bleeding?" Toya jumps several times on my back, trying to see my hand.
"What the…!?" Toya's eyes bulging.
My wound… It's not like what Toya described earlier. There's no blood, no scar, no pain, there's no wound at all.
"It can't be! I swear I helped you clean the blood!" said Toya hysterically.
He then drags me to the closet and shows me a bundle of cloth covers with red fresh blood. The blood is dripping from the tip of the white cloth. I can feel it must be a lot of blood wasted from my body when I was unconsioused. I stun and tremble. How come this happens? My wound…. was it real?
"See? I won't lie to you.", Toya insists.
"I know, I know, alright. Please, lower your voice." I say it while I'm rubbing my head. My head is still hurting me.
It starts confusing me a lot, my wound, the voices, the dream, that room, I don't want to think that anymore, but those are always coming on my mind.
