When I made eye contact with him I quickly looked away. I recalled the last time I was here. He begged me to save him, yet I just ran away. A feeling of guilt ran over my mind.
"It's alright, it's not your fault. If I were in your place I would have done the same thing" he said to me. His tone could barely be heard. His voice was dry and tired.
He sounded like a completely different person than the last time I saw him. Not only that, he seems different than when I saw him the first time I arrived in this city. When he was with his parents he was obnoxious, arrogant, and full of confidence. But now he sounds more mature. It's as him his personality was broken.
"I know, but I am still sorry," I said looking at the brick floor underneath my feet. Then the conversation stopped. An awkward silence took over.
"S..-so what happened?" I said awkwardly as I looked at his missing arm.
"This huh… it's a rather weird story" he said gently grabbing the cut-off place with his other arm.
Suddenly Sis who was sleeping next to me started to move a little. She was waking up. Her senses started to return. Immediately she could feel the hard bricks surrounding her. When she slowly started to open her eyes, they met with the dim darkness of the cell. Her eyes were still weak. Maybe those needle-like things that stabbed us in the neck had some kind of sleeping drugs.
She saw me beside her. "Shin?" she said with a weak voice. Before she could talk any further the disgusting breath of corpses entered her lungs causing her to immediately cough and then vomit.
Her mind kept on registering more and more information on where she was. After vomiting she slowly raised her head and started to look around. The sheer view of death and massacre left her legs shaking in fear. "Wh-..what is this place!" her voice filled with terror. She turned around to look at me with worried eyes and then she gave me a tight hug. "You are not hurt are you!" she started to check for any wounds or injuries on my body with shaking hands. She was genuinely worried about me. Even in this horrifying place, she was worried about me instead of her. She didn't even realize Ricky was in the cell.
When she saw that I was fine she proceeded to give me another hug but this time gently. She said "Don't worry..okay, I am going to get us out of here" her voice still shaking yet calm.
"Ahem..Ahem" Ricky trying to get our attention looked directly at us with an annoyed look that clearly said 'Did you guys forget I am here?'
Sis turned around and saw Ricky's torn-up body that almost looked like a corpse. If he didn't move for some time he could easily blend in this environment. Sis glared at Ricky as if she was looking at an object. The room fell into silence. "What?" Ricky said breaking the silence. All of a sudden Sis gasped and "Aaaah!" she screamed like she had a jumpscare. She walked a step back "The corpse is talking!" she added. Apparently, she mistook him for a corpse. *did she not notice him all this time because she thought he was a corpse?* I wondered in my head.
"Really?" Ricky asked with a blank and funny expression on his face. "That's a little mean you know" he further added.
"Sis, he is alive. Stop acting like an idiot!" I said
"I am really sorry. It's just that, I am a little paranoid" she hesitated before continuing "in this weird place"
"I remember seeing you when I first came to the city. I saw you with your parents at the bakery shop. Your name is Ricky right?" I said slowly raising my head up to meet his eyes.
"Yes, I am Rick Falkner. Son of Darius Falkner. He is the deputy minister of Gehenis. Whats your name?" Ricky asked both of us.
Sis calmed herself sat next to me, and said "Miyu Nomiya. My name is Miyu Nomiya. And this right here is my little brother" she pointed at me. "His name is Shin Nomiya"
Hearing this Ricky was slightly taken aback."Nomiya? Thats strange. Why does it sound oddly familiar? I feel like I have heard it before"
He thought hard in his head for a short time and then "This place…this bar…whats it called again?" he murmured to himself while thinking intensely.
sis decided to answer his question "I think you find it familiar because of this place's name. This Bar's name is Kiky-" Just as sis was about to finish her sentence Ricky interrupted and finished it for her "Kikyo Nomiya" he said.
"Strange, why is your family name the same as this bar's name? It can't be?" Ricky said while trying to piece things together in his head
Sis suddenly spoke up "Kikyo Nomiya, that's our mother's name"