I kept staring at Ama and she had the same 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 extreme caution. There should be a proper reason for this Ama but if there is, it will also be an extremely sensitive topic for her.
"Kazu-chan, why are you taking a step back?" Ama said with the same smile on her face and I was being a bit wary. What is she even doing with this boy here? Is he somehow related to her?
"Who is this, Ama?" I changed the question and decided to stand my ground. Ama is strong, yes, but something in me told me she is not going to be attacking me though I believe better to stay cautious than dead.
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"I didnāt mean for it to come to this," she said and started walking towards me. "But I guess now that you have seen it, I canāt do much about it."
She walked past me 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 me 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 me back and rested her head on my neck. Ama was weeping, not crying, maybe she didnāt want me 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 someone close to Ama, I could understand that much but I still didnāt under the relationship between the though. Well, Iāll only ask if Ama feels like talking about this to me, until then, Iāll just be standing there holding her.
"I guess this is repayment for some days ago," I joked and Ama chuckled a little and quickly took her head off me. She let go and stood with her usual demeanor.
"Iām sorry for that embarrassing display I just did. I didnāt expect that I could react that way but knowing I had to open up about it, just the mere thoughts of it makes me weak," she said and I nodded my head.
"Is he your brother?" I asked and Ama nodded. "What happened? If you donāt mind me asking."
Ama turned around and looked at the container before placing her hand on it and looking back at me. "Yes, he is my brother, Thomas Heilberg. Tom for short or at least what I called him. He isā¦a vampire."
Hearing what Ama just said, I couldnāt believe my ears for once. The person in the container wasā¦a vampire? I looked at Ama asking for more explanation but she seemed like she needed her time 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 comes 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 deemed 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 time 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 Amaās 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 comes to certain topics. For Ama, it was most probably her brother.
"Being a Heilberg also comes with backlashes given how high the expectations are from me. 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 memories were being put into a room and being injected by enhancement drugs to make me stronger. The more I failed, the larger was the dosage andā¦I hated every moment of it. My body was in pain, so much pain but I couldnāt 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 donāt have to tell me more right now," I said in a gentle tone.
"Isnāt that wild coming from someone like youā¦" Ama said while trying to keep a strong voice. "Werenāt you someone who is curious about thing."
"Yes, and Iām more caring than curious here," I replied. "You donāt have to tell me everything about yourself if it hurts so much to talk about. So you can s- "
"No," Ama plead. "Donāt make me 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 me now but pleaseā¦I need to do this. Otherwise these feelings, these emotions will crush me."
Someone once told me, 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 me 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 Amaās face lit up. "But not in this room. I think Tom wouldnāt 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 me 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 somewhere under it a not set blanket. For an adult sometimes 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 me straight in the eyes.
"Firstly, Iām sorry Kazu-chan, I am acting this way. I shouldnāt be talking to you about all this and acting this way so please forgive me for it. If it is too much for you, you can stop any time," she said and I let out a sigh. "Whatās wrong?"
"After everything you have done with me, you really find this moment to talk so formally?" I said while rubbing my head. "Seriously now, you werenāt even this formal the first time we ever met so no need to talk like this. Be your usual self Ama."
She pats my head and started playing with me hair. "Look at you, acting like an adult," Ama said and I shrug my shoulders. I have my moments you know. "So, many experiments happened on me and I was going through a lot of experiments and trails. When it was time for me to come to become 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. Itā¦didnāt come out to be as they expected. The mission was a failure with not only the vampire running away, but every hunter except for me were killed. I didnāt survive that day because of my skills of anything Heilberg related. I survived it, merely 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 disappointment, to both my parents. They both took their turns to "discipline" me which was just physical torture in the name of training. I was belittled, abused, insulted, called unworthy to carry the name of the Heilberg name," Ama explained and clenched her fists again. "After that day, my parents had given up on me and kept sending me on suicide missions. One after other, yet I came back alive. Under those situations, my speed helped me either escape death or I just started using others as my shield. Sacrificing their lives to save mine, I did anything to live. I donāt know why but even after the hell I know I was gong to go through after these missions, I couldnāt bring myself to just be killed like that."
She took a pause and took a deep breath, having all those memories come back to her must be taking a toll on Ama. I know hearing all this coming from her mouth made me 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, someone who would be worthy of the name of the Heilberg," Ama continued.
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