Episode 11: Akuma Kakuzawa
Thirty minutes after Kanai's surprise attack, Kouta and Nyuu awoke in a daze.
Nyuu: "What happened? Did I? Kanai!"
Nyuu's memories started to surge back, and her heart ached again with a fresh pain. Nyuu and Kouta frantically searched the inn but there was no sign of Kanai. Thankfully the other kids had been watching a rather noisy action film at the time and didn't hear what was said during the altercation.
Nyuu: "Have any of you seen Kanai?!"
Hiro: "No mom, we haven't seen her in about an hour. Although Kei thought he heard someone running out the front door maybe 30 minutes ago.
Nyuu walked out of the room without saying a word and fell to her knees on the kitchen floor.
Kouta: "Nyuu! Just breathe easy. I know we can make this right."
Nyuu: "She's gone. My own little girl hates me now and is wandering around town with a killer on the loose! Kouta, we need to find her right now! I don't care if she never forgives me. I can't bear the thought of something happening to her! If she wanted to cut my head off, I wouldn't even put up a fight. I just…I refuse to see her get hurt!"
Kouta: "Nyuu, she doesn't hate you. She just needs time to process all that she's just learned. She's my daughter, remember? She has a very good heart. I think we'll hear from her in a couple hours. If we don't, I'll help you search the entire country to find her!"
The scene now shifts back over to Kanai and her confrontation with Akuma. He smiled at the terrified young girl, but it wasn't exactly warm or reassuring.
Akuma: "So what is your name little Diclonius?"
Kanai was far too scared and nervous to lie at that moment.
Kanai: "It's…it's Kanai"
Akuma: "Such a pretty name! I want to know all about you and where you came from, but I don't wish to be rude. I should tell you a bit about myself. Do forgive me for being a tad longwinded, but I've been waiting SO long to tell my story to a worthy audience. My father was Director Kakuzawa of the Diclonius Research Institute. He was to be the God of all our kind. During my father's time, the future of our species was so bright. All he needed was a natural born or "Queen" Diclonius to work with. He found one quickly after the first silpelit outbreak of 1990. Unfortunately, this was before he knew the true value of a Queen. You see, it turns out that girl was the one solely responsible for the great Silpelit outbreak. Queens have the ability to infect human males and force them to give birth to superior offspring of our kind. We tragically mistook her for just another silpelit and called her #3. She died in 1994, when my idiot half-brother took it upon himself to blow her head off with a shotgun. She was only 7 years old at that time."
Kanai: "That's awful! How could he do something like that!"
Kanai blushed as she realized what she had just blurted out. She was talking to a man who had probably killed hundreds. An unwanted voice in her head also took the opportunity to remind her that her own mother had murdered children even younger.
Akuma: "It was only later that he discovered the gravity of his mistake. All seemed lost, but then something wonderful happened during the summer of 1996. A massacre committed by another Queen. This Queen was given the codename Lucy by my father, for she would be the key to the next step of human evolution. My father had every doctor and hospital in Japan put to intense questioning to find out who had given birth to a girl with horns prior to 1990. By 1999, he found a candidate. She was a Russian nuclear physicist who had defected to Japan and had been exposed to intense radiation while working in Ozyorsk. As a devout Christian, she foolishly believed that the horns were a punishment from God for the crime of working for a Godless regime. She abandoned her child in a field outside the hospital. By chance, a passerby must have heard her cries and placed her in an orphanage.
Kanai: (thinking) "This has to be my mother he's talking about!"
Akuma: "My father came for this woman and offered her a great opportunity to lead a new Mankind. Her husband, a fellow Russian nuclear physicist, refused of course. However, my father "dealt" with him. This lovely scientist was taken back to the Diclonius Research Institute, where my father impregnated her and kept her in a cell for all 9 months. She was my mother. When she discovered she had given birth to second child with horns, she decided to take her own life, but not before leaving a note that I was to be named "Akuma". My half-sister Lucy was finally captured in 2001, but our mother was of course dead by then. I was only 5 when Lucy broke free and ruined the destiny of our race. Had she agreed to stay put, my father could have completed the mutagen and Humankind would likely be an unpleasant memory by now. It's almost funny when you think about it. We Diclonius are said to have IQs a full 20 to 30 points higher than humans on average. Personally, I think that alone would justify our subjugation of humans, but when you factor in our psychic powers and healing factor, the superiority of our race is simply an objective fact.
Kanai: (thinking) "This guy thinks he's a superior being? He just sounds like the worst assholes on Futaba channel that I see when Dad and I post Gundam memes"
Akuma: "Yet thanks to a traitor within our own race and that cur Arakawa, our superior race has lost to the human vermin. We lost to a bunch of grotesque monkeys whose only talent is their endless copulation. I am aware I will never gain my rightful place as king. Instead, I simply wish to kill as many humans as possible. I plan on finding Arakawa and paying a visit to her little family as my 25th birthday present in a couple years. As for my traitorous half-sister, I heard she perished fighting my father's forces. Such a pity. There is NOTHING I wouldn't give to kill her myself. Anyways, I'm sure I've rambled on too long. So, who are your parents?"
Kanai felt certain this man was going to kill her soon. If she was to die anyways, she may as well go out fighting.
Kanai: "My father is an ordinary human. I'm proud that he's human!"
Akuma frowned with disgust.
"You don't look like a Silpelit. You don't even have pink hair. So, you are just a half breed? How disappointing! Who is your whore mother that would lay with a human?!"
Kanai: (smiling) "My mother is the one you call Lucy and I'm PROUD she is my mother!"
Akuma roared with rage and his whole body trembled! "
Akuma: "You will tell me the location of that bitch NOW!"
His vectors targeted her nervous system and suddenly her entire body throbbed with intense pain.
Akuma: "I can make this pain stop at any time. Just call out to your mother. You do think she cares enough about you to try rescue you right?"
Kanai tried her hardest to resist the torture, but even when she passed out from the pain, he simply began the torture again. Kanai finally relented and sent out the strongest telepathic signal she possibly could!
Akuma: "Nice one! My telepathic abilities are terrible and even I felt that one. I'm sure your mother with her much weaker vectors heard it loud and clear. Now all we have to do is wait for my dear sister to show up. This will be a wonderful little family reunion.
