"You haven't changed at all, huh? Even now, all you care about...Is others...Don't you....brother?" Scar said with a smile.
"Brother?" Vierne said.
"LICT!!" Akagi shouted.
Suddenly, they were surrounded by a blue light.
"W- What is...happening?" Scar said.
Soon they were engulfed in the blue light and when they opened their eyes, they were back inside the mansion.
"What.... happened?" Melissa said.
"I have never seen anything like that.... Someone helped us out..." Lict said.
"Huh? But who?" Melissa said "And why?"
"I don't know." Lict said.
"Lict... what that girl said...Is it true? Are you really siblings?"
"Yeah! I never knew you had an elder sister." Melissa said.
"She's younger." Lict said.
"What?" Melissa said.
"But... How is it possible? Hey, how are stars born anyways?" Vierne said.
"LET MELISSA TEACH YOU ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF HER LOVELY LIFE!!" Melissa said with a smile.
"Who asked you?" Akagi said.
"*Cough* Alright, listen students...
A star is born when atoms of light elements are squeezed under enough pressure for their nuclei to undergo fusion.
All stars are the result of a balance of forces: the force of gravity compresses atoms in interstellar gas until the fusion reactions begin. And once the fusion reactions begin, they exert an outward pressure. As long as the inward force of gravity and the outward force generated by the fusion reactions are equal, the star remains stable.
Clouds of gas are common in our galaxy and in other galaxies like ours. These clouds are called nebulae.
A typical nebula is many light-years across and contains enough mass to make several thousand stars the size of our sun. The majority of the gas in nebulae consists of molecules of hydrogen and helium--but most nebulae also contain atoms of other elements, as well as some surprisingly complex organic molecules. These heavier atoms are remnants of older stars, which have exploded in an event we call a supernova."
"....What?" Vierne asked.
"In short, she means that stars are formed by compression of light elements." Lict said.
"Then... how are siblings formed from the elements?" Vierne said.
"Imagine it like this... what if the star formed is not stable, it will further break to achieve stability. So now those two parts are siblings." Lict said.
"Is that so?" Vierne said.
"Yes. Usually, the siblings are of two opposite nature."
"Like you and Scar! Hey, but... how do you come to Earth?" Vierne said.
"We come when we are called." Lict said.
"What?" Vierne said.
"That is.... we come when you wish for something..... humans wished for Music and I came here, when they wished for Lust, Melissa came to Earth." Lict said "We are here to fulfill your wishes."
"Somehow…. I feel like everyone takes you for granted….." Vierne said.
"Aww! You care about us, Vierne!!!" Melissa said as she hugged Vierne.
"So....why are those people after you?" Vierne said.
"T- That's-" Melissa said.
"It's okay.... I had to tell it someday anyway." Akagi said.
"Are you sure?" Melissa said.
"It's okay. You don't have to force yourself to tell me about it. Everyone has a chapter that they don't wanna read out loud." Vierne said.
"No, I'm not forcing myself. Better tell it myself than make you hear it from someone else." Akagi said "But before that...."
He moved towards Vierne and punched her head.
"OW... why did you do that, Lord Akagi?" Vierne said.
"Lict…I feel something on my neck...." Akagi said.
"It's just your imagination, my Lord." Lict said as he kept a fork behind Akagi's neck, about to pierce it.
"....You're not planning on doing it...Music is not violent" Akagi said.
"Ever heard of metal, my Lord?" Lict said.
"Melissa...What are you doing...help me.…" Akagi said.
"Un....The front or the back?" Melissa said.
"....Nevermind. Hey, calm your t*ts bro. Drop it, it's dangerous." Akagi said with monotone.
"Well, as long as you understand, my Lord." Lict said as he kept the fork aside.
"You cannot touch Vierne in front of Lict." Melissa said.
"Lord Akagi... you were telling me something before-"
"Vierne." He said as he pulled Vierne towards him and touched his forehead to Vierne's forehead.
"WHAT ARE YOU-" Lict said.
"Shhhh!" Melissa said.
"L- Lord Akagi?" Vierne said.
"Vierne, look into my eyes.... carefully...and tell me.... what can you see?" He said.
Vierne looked into his blood red eyes. Deeper and deeper.....
She quickly got up as she shouted in horror.
"What happened, Milady?!" Lict said.
"T- T- There's.... Someone i- i- inside it" She said.
"Huh? What are you saying? That's just your imagination." Lict said.
"No, you are right." Akagi said "There is someone... inside my eyes"
"Really? W- Who is it?" Lict said.
"At the age of 12, I had already undergone 10 major and 4 minor surgeries just to find out who is it."
"WHAT?" Vierne said.
"It was not as if anything was wrong with me. But, it was my Sila that people were after." Akagi said.
"Really?" Vierne said.
"You are quite lucky Vierne. You are an Earl, that's why you could remain hidden from the world for 10 years but I was different...." Akagi said "My Sila... is a curse to humanity."
"What are you saying? It's just a speed power." Lict said "How is it a curse? It's a boon."
Akagi removed his shirt and pointed at his tattoo "What do you think this is?" He said.
"A- A tattoo?" Lict said.
Akagi smiled and said "Really?"
"WAIT- Look beneath the tattoo, Lict" Vierne said.
"Burn marks and cut marks...." Lict said.
"Even stitches." Akagi said as he wore back his shirt.
"Still think it's a boon?" Akagi said.
"But- Why would anyone go this far?" Lict said.
"Human greed... has no limits.... Do you know how my Sila works?" Akagi said as he turned towards Lict.
"It makes you like....10 times faster?" Lict said.
"It doesn't make me 10 times faster....it makes the world around me 10 times slower for me." Akagi said.
"What?" Vierne said.
"Just imagine..... everyone is doing everything at their pace but to you, everything is 10 times slower. What will happen to you?...
....You'll go mad....." Akagi said "That's what happened to me too. And not just eyes, I had wings too."
"Had?" Lict said.
"Yes, I had. But... now I don't…." Akagi said.
"Why?" Lict said.
"They needed it more than me. So, they just took them away.....
By forcefully tearing them from my body..... and breaking two of my floating ribs and one thoracic vertebrae. They replaced it with an artificial one in a surgery." Akagi said.
"Who did this?!! When did it happen!!?" Vierne said.
"....It all started when my parents died" Akagi said.
"BUT IT'S CRAZY!! DIDN'T THEY HAVE EVEN A SPECK OF PITY??!! THEY ARE HUMANS!!" Vierne said.
"Those who bullied you... Were also human." Akagi said.
"The one due to whom Lict got a curse, was also a former human.
It's always been this way.... humans have been hurting us and yet we go to them, we help them and what do we get in return? Betrayals? Pain?....It's as if we are torturing ourselves...."
"I..." Vierne said.
"Why did you never tell anyone about this?" Lict said.
"....Nobody asked" Akagi said.
"Maybe.... but even a white rose has a black shadow.....
Things change and so do people." Vierne said.
"Will that give me back my wings?" Akagi said.
"No.... that-"
"Then, will that bring back your parents?" Akagi said.
"......" Vierne was speechless.
"From the flow of things in mundanity
I think even Satan weeps over human vanity
We pleasure ourselves with pinches of profanity, yet don't understand...
That there are humans.... but no humanity." Akagi said.
-To be continued