The North PacificBoard

A week later it was the 28th, you were still in complete shock, denial, and hiding in the corner. And despite our best attempts Hanswilhelms wounds got infected, causing him to weaken until eventually going into a coma a day earlier. Eventually they dragged me out of the cell and into the room for the daily round of beatings. And they..." he began breathing deeper and faster no "they told me it was going to be the last day... their leader told me the special service was on our trail and it would not be long until they found the place. A sparkle of hope manifested itself in my mind before quickly being crushed to dust. They must have recognized some bit of relief from my face after hearing that as they started to laugh.

He told me that since the special service was on our trail our time together had to come to an end, and that meant we had to come to an end. He told me that soon he would soon gather the rest of you and lead us to an abandoned mine shaft nearby where they would do unspeakable things to you and make me wat-" "what were they planning to do?" Helene interrupted "you don't want to know Helene.." Bryan responded "but i do want to know, i need to know. Tell me. What were they going to do?" he breathed in deeply and continued "he told me that upon getting there they would hang up your brother from the ceiling and hit him with clubs, knives, bayonets and who knows what else, until 'they candy inside would fall out' and make us watch it to the end, after this they would get your mother and 'use her until she would broke' making you and me watch and then they would do they same to you. And that after they were done they would have much fun planned for me..." Helene looked up with great open eyes "By everything that is holy... how... how can anyone be so wicked" she softly whispered in disbelief.

"I cried out, begging them, asking them why they would do such a thing, why they would tell me this, and god knows what else i got out. He simply laughed and told me that telling me meant i would be aware of everything that was going to happen in the coming hours. And that there was nothing, absolutely nothing that i could do about it but watch in terror. He then gave the word to his people that it was time to go and to get all of us ready for transport. I pleaded and begged 'No, no, no, please, please god, please god no, no, no, please, i beg you, don't do this, please, please' but to no avail. He just kept laughing and leaned in and told me 'there is no god here to save you, nothing here but a piece of meat ready for slaughter' it was then i heard you let out a cry and... something inside me turned... something deep within me... i no longer felt fear, no longer felt pain, no longer felt anything. The only thing i felt was sheer and utter rage and power.

And to this day i have no idea how i did it but with something i cannot describe any different from raw primordial strength i broke the restraints holding me in place and within a blink of an eye i found myself with my hands around his neck and i started hitting his head against anything and everything solid in the room. All the while squeezing with my hands harder and harder until things started to crack and then harder until eventually there was nothing left to crack beneath my hands anymore. It was then it hit me, they were coming for you and i ran, ran as fast as i physically could to intercept them. And shortly before they reached the cell door i managed to catch up to them, and one of them was talking about how much fun it would be to use you. After that however... like you said in Nordlando... red... nothing but red... when i came to everything was smeared with blood and i had been shot in the chest and leg once and was slowly bleeding out. After i got back on my legs i stumbled my way towards one of their bodies to find a radio, instead i found a strange type of phone that needed no line and could be carried around. It was a mobile phone of sorts, i took it out and opened it, and by a miracle when i called the police number it actually worked. I told them as much as i could about where we approximately were and lied down, thinking it was the end, but being reassured that i had done everything i could to keep all of you safe.

When i came to again i was in a hospital back in the capital. They managed to get to me just in time and brought you to a different place i do not recall. I called upon the ministry and asked them what had happened. They said soldiers found me surrounded by 5 dead bodies in the warehouse, covered in wounds and blood, unconscious but alive. It was then i realized what i had done, and told them to give the kills to the soldiers and that the truth could never be found out. A couple days later i left the hospital to get all of you so we could go home together and hopefully recover from what we had been through." he finished up. "god.. i.. i never knew father, i..i..i.." Helene was gasping for words "i know, i know." he said as he tried to calm her. "But it's over now, after we returned home the secret police systematically routed out the anarchist networks. Nothing like this will ever happen again."

They sat in silence for a couple of minutes, looking out over the moonlit water as the wind blew a soft breeze in the night. "So what will you do with the cat..girl..thing..?" He asked eventually. "I'm going to keep her and raise her as my own i think" Helene responded "But.. how.. she is not human, i think, she.. how would that even work?" "I.. i don't know but i just feel... good with her, with her next to me i felt better and happier than i have i a long time. I can't explain it but i just feel like i belong with her and she belongs with me. I'll find out how. But for now the important thing is that i love her and i need to keep her safe" Bryan smiled as he looked at Helene with a tear in his eye and said "i'm so proud of you, no matter what." after which they embraced for a bit.

"judging by the coast we are going south, but wouldn't going north be faster father?" Helene asked after a while as she looked at the coast over to the starboard side, "I have to get something in the new Chudokuren colony of Satina" Bryan said "Sa-what now?" "The former nation of Sartinaynia, some small hellhole nation i hadn't heard of before. The Chudokuren took over a while back after the Nightmare War since most of the islands were devastated. During renovations or excavations in Satina district as the Chudokuren call it, workers have found an item of magical properties. due to the lack of Chudokuren capable of handling and securing the artifact i will contain and research it. We will arrive in the port city of Bastion tomorrow where they will hand it over to me."

Soon after this both of them returned to their individual cabins, Helene closed the door behind her and noticed that the little Kisaragi had moved to the center of the bed. Not wanting to wake her up she very carefully crawled around her, stuffing herself between the wall and Kisaragi, grabbed what she could of the blanket and went back to sleep.