A few days have passed since her hunting mission, but Alma still having conflict with herself. She can't decide which side she should take. Sometimes she feels like running away, but that doesn't solve the problem. After all, no matter where she runs, she will still be no longer human.
Alma stands in front of the kitchen sink, holding a piece of meat in her hand. This meat is human. Alma gulped her saliva, the smell of this meat is nearly making her droll. Her hand trembled when she remembers about the poachers who get skewered by the spike. The sight of some brains that pushed outside on the spike's tip.
"Ugh!!" Alma retched in the sink. Her hand gripping the edge, nearly making the sink crushed.
"If you want to puke just puke, but don't destroy my sink," Amaris commented.
"Sorry…" Alma whispered and released her grip.
"If you can't eat that, put it back to the freezer. Don't waste food," she said again.
"Yeah… okay. Do we still have animal meat?" Alma asked.
"No, if you want animal meat you can hunt in the forest. There's many bird and rabbit. If you're lucky maybe you will find a deer."
"I'll do that then," Alma mumbled. She puts back the meat in the freezer and goes to the forest.
Alma keeps thinking about what she saw in the hunting mission. She knows there is more than what she saw, and Rohan only showed her some of it. She can't bring herself to be angry with the Noctacian. How can she do that when she knows it's not their fault that they were born like this? It's something out of their control. Alma also know why they need human meat, the difference in strength, when they eat animal and human, is huge. She already experienced it.
Despite that, she can't bring herself to eat humans. Every time she tried, she keeps remember about the man that gets skewered and when she thinks that the meat is from him she pukes.
"It's okay, I will just eat animals and become vegan," she mumbled.
Her eyes spotted two rabbits just emerged from the hole.
"Time to hunt," she said.
***
Alma was training with other Noctacian when suddenly Amaris come looking for her.
"What's wrong, Amaris?" Alma asked. Somehow she feels something bad happened because Amaris never look for her before.
"I have something to show you, we better go back now."
"Okay," Alma followed her back to her place.
When they arrived, Alma can see a big box in front of the door. She can smell blood and rotten meat from that box.
"What is that, Amaris?"
"You better look by yourself. I'm going to leave you alone," Amaris said.
Alma looked at the box with apprehension. Countless conjectures running in her mind, she opens the box with a trembling hand. Inside she sees another smaller box made out of metal and a VCD. Her sight then focused on the metal box, the smell of rotten meat comes from this box.
Slowly, she opens the lid, her hand gripped the lid until it's broken after she looked at what's inside the box. Tears streams down her face, her knees buckled down.
"NO, NO, NO! HOW DARE THEY!!!!" she screamed.
Inside the box, lays her brother's head.
Alma gets up and runs. She can't believe they don't even let go of her brother's corpse. She keeps running until she's on the edge of a cliff.
"Brother!!!" she screamed again and burst into tears.
Alma feels heartbroken in pieces, she feels an emotion that she never feels before – hatred.
"I will make them pay! I will tear down their facade!" she vowed.
***
Alma walked back to Amaris' house in silence. She looked different from before. She picks a hoe and digs behind Amaris' house. Then, she buried the metal box along with her brother's head. After doing all of that she picks the VCD and plays it.
The VCD contains footage of her brother being experimented on. She gritted her teeth when she sees what they did to her brother. Instead of calmly monitoring him like what her uncle said, they broke her brother's bone one by one and tore his flesh to see how long it need to heal.
Alma's body trembled when she heard her brother screamed and begged them to stop, but they keep doing it until her brother stopped breathing. Her hand bleeds because she clenched it too hard.
Alma gets up and opens the freezer, she takes the human meat inside and chewed it without hesitation. Her eyes are full of determination.
***
Inside an office, in Visa family headquarters.
"Have you done it?" A man with long grey hair asked.
"Yes, Sir. Everything is according to the plan," another man with black hair answered.
"Good, let's move to phase two. Prepare the gas," the grey-haired man commanded.
"Yes, Sir," the black-haired man saluted and left the office.
"Alma Visa… let me see how much your worth…" the grey-haired man whispered.
***
"Focus, Kumaika" Rohan said to Alma.
Right now they're training with bare hands. Alma keeps getting pushed back and beaten up, but she stands up again.
"You'll never win if you keep attacking me with anger. You have to keep yourself calm, Alma," for the first time Rohan called Alma by her name.
"I know you're grieving, but don't let hatred cloud your judgment. Don't let it consume you," he continued.
"Don't speak as you know me! What did you know about my feeling? Have you ever feels like me before?!" Alma snapped.
"I have. My little sister got caught by the Visa family. They make her pregnant with their seed, it's making her hurt. But then when she finally gave birth they take her baby away and experimented with it. When we arrived at the lab, the baby already dies inside a tub of water with many cables attached. My sister is devastated she can't accept what happened with the baby until now she's still mourning. I feel sad when I see her like that, I hate the people who make her like that. But I know hatred will only break me down. So I don't let myself get swallowed by my hatred."
Alma fell silent with his explanation, she knows what he said is right. She can't let herself be broken because of her hatred. What she can do now is get stronger so she can tear her family façade.
"Thank you, Rohan."