Shattering Humanity-Chapter 139: The Existentialism Of A Six Year Old Girl Growing Up In An Apocalypse
From the V.I.P Press Box room within the Initiation Arena, Katsu and Saku are staring each other down with their respective Sanpaku. From the other side of the portal, the light flicks on and Daisuki can be heard with a slight tone of hope in his voice.
Daisuki: "Well, well, well, is this a bachelor party for m-...w-wait, why is there a young teenage boy with the strip-... You ladies aren’t dancers, are you?"
Saku runs to the portal and pokes his head through.
Daisuki and Scylia are standing at the door of the Captains room, looking at their three new nonthreatening guests. Saku with his head in the Sanpaku Sanctuary but his body in enemy territory, Roronora City, quickly lets the Sanpaku founder and the fiancee know the situation before going back to his spat with Katsu.
Saku: "Hey D, so uhhh, those guys are our friends now. Katsu and I are gunna help Shelly fight off these goons real quick. We’ll be right back Later!"
Daisuki makes haste for the portal.
Daisuki: "Wait, Saku-!"
The open portal closes almost instantly, before the Mentor can get a look at the scene. His hand rests on the wall where the portal disappeared. The regretful man looks at the back of his hand, his broken heart tattoo on his pointer finger to symbolize being ’the Jupiter’, the supposed ’teacher’ of Takamagahara.
Scylia walks up to him and rubs his back. She then looks back at the unconscious young boy with only one hand.She taps Daisuki’s shoulder and whispers in his ear.
Scylia: "Hey, Master Daisuki, don’t be so sure your words aren’t reaching them."
Daisuki turns around and looks at Drakaina and the poorly bandaged Jorm. There is a lack of blood leaking from the severed hand, indicating it was cut off with a SunSword. The mentor gives the nervous young woman one of his comforting smiles.
Daisuki: "Welp, I hope he wasn’t a left-handed writer, hahahe..."
The young girl looks at her brother’s stub and tears begin to fall onto Katsu’s bedsheets.
Scylia lightly smacks the back of his head and walks over to the fellow older sister. She crouches down to get eye level with Drakaina but the timid girl doesn’t make eye contact with the beautiful blood red haired woman.
Scylia: "I can only assume you’re his older sister?"Drakaina lightly nods, silently.
Scylia looks at the sleeping boy who successfully proved he was one type of fighter in this world. She brushes a strand of purple hair off of his forehead and carefully opens his right eyelid.
Drakaina gasps and puts her hands over her mouth. Where Jorm’s orange right eye once was, is now an IceEye that moves on its own while its host is asleep.
Scylia: "Don’t worry, Hun. The fact he has one of these alien eyes now, means it is making sure his body is suitable for survival."
The woman looks at his missing hand.
Scylia: "However, I’m afraid that no matter how great the healing powers of these eyes are, regrowing limbs isn’t possible for-"
As if on queue, before the woman can finish her alien symbiotic medical opinion, Drakaina yelps and Daisuki looks over to see something ’moving’ from within the bandages covering Jorm’s stub. Everyone watches in bated breath as the bandages start tearing the gauze and five points of what looks like ice, starts poking out the medical wrapping.
Daisuki looks down at Jormungand’s wrist. Attached to his human wrist, is a hand made of ice and long pointy appendages. It looks exactly like an Iceman’s hand.
Daisuki: "Welp, it’s official, and excuse my language ladies, but this kid is completely set up to be one notorious mother fucker."
The ’Head Honcho’ looks at Scylia, her mouth agape from the brand new discovery and revealed capabilities of these alien symbiotic eyes.
Daisuki: "I feel ya, Scyl...but how? The bodies of humans and those Icemen are nothing alike. How did his IceEye make hard ice out of soft tissue cells?"
Scylia: "What’s also important, is to consider it might be possible that these symbiotes can regenerate more than just a hand. What if someone lost their arm or both legs? Would the IceEye be capable of making working appendages out of ’whatever matter’ they’re using to replace skin and bone?"
From the other bed, Zoram clears up the confusion with her now extremely valuable knowledge of the world’s once considered "mythical knowledge". Her tone lacks the sense of confusion as the other two full grown adults, but provides a certain tone of confidence, actually knowing what she’s talking about, like how Aiden and Shelly do. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Zoram: "These symbiotes are most likely learning about Seiõr while you all, and the rest of the world does. Since these eyes release a kind of aura that resembles our world’s Seiõr, they must’ve seen a pattern and are learning how to ’trade matter’ out of the powerful energy."
Drakaina’s ears twitch and she looks across the bed at Zoram.
Drakaina: "You mean, like alchemy?!"
Zoram gives a smile at the enthusiasm, but shakes her head.
Zoram: "You see, equivalent exchange isn’t special, the balance of the universe handles that on its own. There are certain types of the world’s Seiõr, that can be molded and crafted into physical armor and clothing, in this case, it was a ’gauntlet’ that got crafted by this mysterious alien to ensure the ultimate chance of survival of the host."
Drakaina: "Wait so what actually is this ’Seior’ stuff anyway, and how can it just ’create’ things out of nothing?"
Zoram: "It’s not ’creating things out of nothing’, my dear. ’Seiõr’ is what all humans would refer to as, ’energy’. To ’make’ anything possible, one must use Seiõr/’energy’.Because of certain growing religious beliefs, the advanced control and techniques of Seiõr became known as witchcraft and blasphemy against most young practiced faiths. Over time, humans became aware of certain forces of the Earth’s Seiõr, such as electric, wind, and unfortunately nuclear. The innocence and learning process of these optical creatures is similar to humans as proof from this boy’s anomaly. That individual eye only knows the existence of its original icy host. It most likely used the world’s Seiõr to fix its current host, this boy, but unaware that the biological make-up is now different, it turned Seiõr into ’the ice skin’ of an Iceman. Most likely starting from his severed muscles and tendons in his wrist and grew outward to regenerate a functional hand made of the same ’skin’ as the actual enemy."
She gets up and elegantly walks towards the newly engaged couple. Daisuki can’t help but blush at the beauty of the woman. She holds out her hand with yellow painted nails.
Zoram: "I’m sorry, I said a mouth full without introducing myself. It’s nice to finally meet you, Mina Daisuki. I am Zoram, a ’Child of Seiõr’ that was saved by your honorable disciple, Saku. You should be proud, he managed to not only save me from my 1,000 years of captivity, but he went out of his way to make sure these two siblings could grow stronger together both physically and as a family."
It takes a second for Daisuki to regain his composure and he lightly shakes her hand with a respectful bow.
Daisuki: "O-Oh, Y-Yea, Saku’s pretty cool...I-I’m sorry, how do you know my name?"
Zoram lets out a soft laugh that compliments her beauty.
Zoram: "Well, you weren’t just the first person in those Sister Mountains to obtain an alien eye. As far as we of Roronora are concerned, you are also the first in the world with a successful Eyelien transfer. When word got to Roronora City, your story made the Don sceptical but intrigued. So with the manufactured replicas of her stolen legendary sword, she had her strongest fighters go out and kill Icemen within the city. With the help from the ’taken’ love from the world’s Seiõr, she eventually succeeded in clearing the entire city of both giant and smaller Icemen. Afterwards, with enough testing, and the visible proof of men successfully transferring an alien eye, Laban got hers and took control with her absolute watchdog of an ability. She became unstoppable to the people around her... until today."
Daisuki looks at Scylia next to him. His fiancee seems to be twice as entranced at the natural beauty of the ’woman born and loved by Seiõr’. Zoram notices the other gorgeous woman and gives her a smile.
Zoram: "Your expression is a compliment in itself, Madame. I can only assume an also prepossessing complexion like yours, comes along with an alluring name attached to it."
Scylia closes her mouth and looks at Daisuki, then back at Zoram, then back at Daisuki.
Scylia: "I-I’m Scylia."
Daisuki does a double take at his wife-to-be, confused, then manually turns Scylia’s head, pointing her completely red face towards their new guest, who is also blushing as they EyeEngage.
Scylia: "M-Master Daisuki...C-Can we m-marry her too?"
Everyone who is awake in the room is completely caught off guard by the confusion of the woman in love. Zoram is now bright red blushing from the polyamorous marriage proposal.
Zoram: "Huh-?"
Daisuki: "Scylia! What are you talking about?! ...I mean if you... if you wa- Wait, hold on!When I proposed, I said you were the final woman I would do that to. I don’t want to go back on that promise. Plus, we just met her!"
From behind them, the soft, unsure voice of Zoram can be heard.
Zoram: "Uh-Um- If you’re willing to kindly accept me as a sister wife so suddenly, I-I don’t mind if you don’t. You two seem a lot more kinder than my last spouse, haha."
{In Itsuka’s Hospital Room.}
Friend has hopped up onto the bed and is being pet by the strong but also delicate hand of Itsuka.
The injured woman is still staring at Katsu’s sweatshirt of assurance and lets out a deep sigh. Her nightstand has an empty plate and glass on a metal tray.
There is a delicate little knock at the metal door. Friend shoots his head up, his floppy ears bounce once and while sitting up in her bed, Itsuka doesn’t look at the entrance.
Itsuka: "Come on in!"
There is the sound of cute little struggling trying to push open the heavy door.
Princess Kawaii: "Uurrgggh!"
Friend jumps down from the bed and goes to help the Princess. The strong German Shepherd holds open the door with his head for Princess Kawaii and she squeaks in surprise/excitement from seeing her ’soldier in furry armor’.
Princess Kawaii: "Hi, Buppy and thank you, sir!"
The cute 6 year old waddles into the room and wiggles her way up on the bed.Itsuka can’t help but smile at the adorable little girl.
Princess Kawaii: "How- How do you feel, Big Sitter?"
Itsuka: "A lot better after seeing your cute face, Princess Kawaii."
The little girl gives a small half smile, then looks at Friend who lays down at her feet while she sits on the bed with Itsuka in silence. The older woman can sense something is stuck in the mind of ’her Majesty’.
Itsuka: "Did Auntie Scylia send you to come get my food tray? Or did you come to say ’Hi’?"
The Princess gives a sad nod in response, to which question, Itsuka doesn’t know. Even Friend senses something wrong with Princess Kawaii, so he gets up and puts his soft head on her lap for easily accessible pets, which she accepts.
Princess Kawaii: "Your fur is always so soft and relaxing, Buppy, please don’t ever leave me alone."
Itsuka gets a different type of heartbreak from hearing the emotionally deflated child.
Itsuka: "Is everything alright, babe? You seem off.I should be the cranky one, since I’m stuck in this dark, scary room.So why does the Princess seem so sad?"
The child carefully pets Friend’s head, holding back tears.
Princess Kawaii: "After- after hearing you all talk about the reason ’why’ our mommies(deep breath mid-sentence) and daddies made us, I’ve had a lot of ’scary questions’. But I feel like, if I found out the answer to those scary questions, I would be even more scared."
Itsuka tries to decode what the Princess is trying to tell her.
Itsuka: "If you feel comfortable enough to tell me, Beautiful, then what are some of the questions you have? I’m not going anywhere, anytime soon, so I can try to help you figure things out in the meantime.Just us girls."
The Princess wipes her nose with her free hand and continues petting at Friend with the other as she reveals a couple of the surprising questions.
Princess Kawaii: "Well... H-hearing you all talk about the fun y-you had... in the times before I was born, it kinda makes me sad. Everyday that I can remember, it being scary, cold, and my Daddy keeping me up because of his coughing. Why don’t I get to go to school and make friends like you, Big Sidder Shelly and my Big Brudders? Why don’t I get to go on boats like Big Sidder ’Seeweeya’ and Big Brudder Char? I want to play in the park and on the swing with my Daddy too. Why don’t I get to know how beautiful my Mommy was?"
Itsuka is emotionally stunned and hit harder than any truck or freight train ever could.Tears immediately fall from her eyes in their respective condensed forms.
Itsuka: "Y-your only six years old, and you thought of these questions all on your own, my Love?"
Princess Kawaii nods and sniffles. She bites her free hand’s thumb nail in nervousness.Princess Kawaii: "Am I in trouble for asking?"
Itsuka finally takes Katsu’s sweatshirt off her lap and embraces the young Princess of Sanpaku from behind, making her squeak. Through heartbroken tears, Itsuka tries to keep her voice in a good high spirited attitude, like any great ’Big Sidder’ would.
Itsuka: "No, no, no honey, you’re not in trouble at all, I promise. To be honest, most people would assume those are questions a 6 year old wouldn’t realistically ask. Then again, those people probably wouldn’t take into account you are a 6 year old that grew up and gained a mental consciousness during an alien apocalypse. All you know is this world that even adults are completely scared in.
Hmmm, if Saku were here, I bet he would probably say something like ’without the unnecessary mental distractions of the pre-apocalypse, you’ve naturally learned to meditate and let your mind think freely to ask freeing questions’."
Princess Kawaii : "But I don’t feel free, Big Sidder. I never have. My only good memories with Papa, are when we got away from those scary monsters, or meeting Uncle Ski. Did my Mommy and Daddy make me, just so I can be scared and cold all the time? And if my Daddy doesn’t get better, did they make me just so I could be left alone, scared, and cold?"
Itsuka: "Of course not, baby! And you’re never alone, you’ll always have us. Your Mama and Papa didn’t know an apocalypse would happen when they decided to create you.
Before this ’scary world’ happened, if a cute little angel like yourself was unhappy or wasn’t grateful for their life, it was completely the parents or caregivers to blame.Now, humans have a common enemy that doesn’t care what race, age, or intelligence level their victim is."
She leans back and looks at her injuries.
Itsuka: "Yet we still hate and fight one another amongst being hunted."
Princess Kawaii: "That was another question I had. Why do you adults kill each other? Why can’t I just play the other Princesses in a board game, and the winner of that, is the winner of a war without people dying."
Itsuka(whispers): "...’You adults’..?"
Itsuka(thinking): *Well, since fuzed Dom killed those Roronora guys that attacked us, we are all now partially guilty for ending the lives of others.*
She takes a deep breath and gives the most simple answer she can.
Itsuka: "Well Hun, us adults really do suck, but I promise we are all a family now, and we will never leave you."
