From the Start
Chapter 50
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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Winter's POV
After being told by Licca that I would be the first Dual Wielding God Eater, she reported this finding to Paylor Sakaki, the Director and the Chief Supervisor of the Aragami Technology Development department which is news to me, seeing as how Sakaki never mentioned that to me. Sakaki then summoned me to give him a demonstration of my ability to release my old God Arc from my hand. He had called Lindow in as well so that I could train Lindow how to use it as effectively as me. Tsubaki was called in at the same time as him and was told about these new developments.
Right now, I was walking back to my room after training Lindow until 22:00 when I suddenly remember that I needed to see Kanon. I complete a 180o spin and head back to the lift, pressing the button for the Rookie Section.
"Kanon moved into my old room soon after I moved into Lindow's..." I say quietly to myself whilst tapping my foot, impatiently waiting for the lift to stop at the Rookie Section. After 20 more seconds of foot tapping, the lift stopped and I left it, walking straight to Kanon's room.
"Kanon. Hey, Kanon. Are you in?" I ask as I knock a couple of times on the door. I hear movement from inside as well as a "Hang on!" from Kanon. A few seconds later, Kanon opens the door and leaves the room, shutting the door as she does so and standing right outside of her room. I find this suspicious but don't dwell on it.
"Hey, Winter. What was it that you wanted?" She says with a smile on her face and her hands behind her back.
"Hey, I wanted to ask you something earlier but you were out at the time."
"What was it that you wanted to ask me?" She says with her voice rising slightly higher, as if she was nervous.
"Actually, when we... erm... kissed earlier, did you see anything?" I ask, slightly nervous about talking about an intimate earlier. A puzzled expression crosses Kanon's face,
"See anything? I had my eyes closed so I couldn't see anything."
"What I mean is, did you see images of my past?" I ask.
"What do you mean by th..."
"Your eye is twitching."
"Wha?"
"I've noticed that your eye twitches when you lie." I explain in more depth.
"B-but... I'm not..." Kanon starts but a bang from her room startles us both.
"What was that? Do you have someone in your room, Kanon?"
"Wha? Wha? N-no..." She stutters but we hear more movement from the room.
"So what's all the noise?" I ask sternly and watch her stumble for words. She's saved by the door opening and Alisa popping her head out of the room with a nervous smile on her face,
"You caught me, huh?"
"I didn't think that you'd give up that easily. I would have thought that Kanon would make up an excuse like having rats in there and I would go in to exterminate them." I voice my opinion.
"So what were the two of you doing?" I ask Alisa.
"Kanon told me that she wanted to tell me about something that happened earlier and wanted to talk to me in her room. We had just started talking when you knocked." Alisa says, moving away from the door as Kanon and I enter Kanon's room. I head over to the couch where Kanon sits opposite me with Alisa next to her.
"So, Kanon, I'm assuming that you did, in fact, have a resonance." I state simply with my head hanging over the couch
"I guess you figure it out." She says and I look at her incredulously.
"I thought resonances were unique to the New-Types." Alisa says, looking between the two of us.
"That's what I thought but when Sakaki said there was no evidence to suggest that resonances were unique to us." I reply to Alisa before turning my attention back to Kanon.
"So what did you see in your resonance?" I ask, already knowing the answer to some extent.
"Well, you said it earlier. I seen parts of your past." She says with a nervous smile on her face.
"I see, this must be what you wanted to talk to me about. I mean, when Winter seen my past, he was the only one I could talk to about it until he helped to tell everyone about my history." Alisa says with a hand to her chin in the thinking position.
"Yeah, I wanted your help to talk to Winter about it since he helped you with your past." Kanon tells her.
"That's fine. I'm happy to help but is your past really so bad as to need other people's help?" Alisa asks me and I give a shrug.
"I've forgotten a lot about my life." I tell them and they believe me. "Anyway, what exactly did you see?" I ask Kanon.
"Well, I didn't see too much. Only a few images that I was hoping you could explain." She says with a finger to her chin.
"Well, what were the images?" I ask and bracing myself to explain what will no doubt be some bad memories.
"I'll start with the first image; I saw you living in what looked to be a small town. You were running outside of a rather large building." She describes the image.
"That sounds normal." Alisa comments before turning to me, waiting for my explanation.
"Ah, yeah, I was living in a small town with my family and getting up to the typical child-like shenanigans." I reflect on my memories.
"That sounds normal." Alisa says again and we turn to Kanon to let her describe the next image.
"In the next image, I seen the very same building on fire." Kanon states and it brings a sad smile to my face. I look down and reflect on the memory.
"That doesn't sound good." Alisa states and I feel them staring at me.
"That day, an Aragami attacked the town. I now know that it was a Hannibal. The Hannibal caused the building to be set aflame." My sad smile grows. "After a little argument with my family and friends, I jumped out of the building from the fifth floor. I ran to the entrance to wait for them to leave the building but they never did." I feel the tears begin falling from my face and I lift my head up so that it is now tilting over the couch, just like it was before we started this discussion. I hear one of the two come over and sit next to me, they must have noticed my tears.
"The building collapsed, crushing all those that I had known at the time." I close me eyes as I am forced into the shoulder of the person by my side. I don't care who it is, I just needed to release my tears. This isn't my most painful memory after all. Once I have calmed down, I lift my head from the person's shoulder and notice that it was Kanon.
"What was the next image?"
"That was it after our first kiss but then when I kissed you again, a couple more images flashed through my head. The first one was just a forest." She states in confusion with a small, sympathetic smile on her face.
"Just a forest? Were there any more details?" Alisa asks.
"It's all right, Alisa, I know what she saw." I tell her before sitting in my former position.
"Well, after I had lost my family and friends, I had to fend for myself. It was difficult to live as a child in an Aragami infested world so I mostly had to use forests for cover. If I would find anything that looked edible, I would take it. When I had the time, I would craft weapons. I ran across a recently deceased Cocoon Maiden once and thought about using its spikes as weapons. It took a while to get used to the pain that touching an Aragami directly caused me but I got over it. In fact, my body adjusted to it."
"That sounds rough." Alisa comments and I hear a hum from Kanon, suggesting she agrees with her.
"I remember coming across some wild mushrooms," I continue despite their gasps, "My stomach ached for a long time but ate them poisonous mushrooms because there was a chance that they weren't. Hunger can make you do strange things. Anyway, the next image?" I ask Kanon.
"Well, the last one I had saw was you and a boy that looked to be your age."
"Do you remember any details about the boy?" Alisa asked
"No details are needed. I only met one other person while I was out on my own. His name was Aleksander." I said.
"Was?" Alisa questions my use of the past tense.
"Aleksander? Wasn't his name on the stone that I seen you at the other day?" Kanon asks.
"Yeah, Aleksander was the one that lost his way. I'm sure I told you that Lindow isn't the only person I know that became an Aragami. But the troubling thing is, Aleksander became a Hannibal." I feel the sad smile on my face returning.
"Do you remember when Sakuya said that I was a monster?" I ask them and wait for their response. They both nod and apologise for not saying anything at the time.
"Well, she upset me greatly in that day and I was enraged. I thought I was invincible and started slaughtering Aragami left, right and centre. But..." The tears start flowing again. I feel Kanon direct me to her shoulder but I fight against it.
"That day, I came across a Hannibal."
"I remember seeing you kneeling in front of a Hannibal." Alisa comments.
"Yeah. I noticed that the Hannibal was backing away and I rushed towards it, jumping into the air as I got close to it." The tears flow at an even quicker pace than before. I tilt my head down towards the floor and I feel Kanon's arms on my shoulder. I also feel a hand on my head that couldn't be Kanon's. It would be at an impossible angle to be her hand so I correctly assumed it to be Alisa's.
"As my God Arc was coming down, ready to decapitate it, I heard it say my name." I hear their gasps,
"The Aragami talked?" Alisa questions, confirming my suspicions that they hadn't caught on yet.
"That Hannibal backed away and I rushed towards it. It said my name before I decapitated it. That Hannibal was my friend Aleksander." I say it and hear them gasp again. I feel hugs from both my right and left side and feel my shoulders getting wet.
"I killed my friend!" Their grips tightened and I sobbed into the night.
