I didn't recognize my father the first time i saw him, other than his black hair and venomous green eyes, his build what caught my attention the most, he was quite muscler and his moves were abnormally steady, it was like each step he took was calculated beforehand, he was also quite tall, tall enough to be only a little bit short of reaching the door frame .
I'm not sure why but for some reason i felt as if i was being depraved out of air, the moment that Man came through the door, i was able to tell that he was releasing a cold aura and was piercingly staring at me, as if he wanted to discern something, anything about me by doing that .
The man cold aura was enough to lower the temperature in the room by many degrees, the breathing of the doctors around me began to even come out with a bit of fog, but that can't be right, we were in the middle of August, the silence in the room was so loud to the point that the only sound in the room was the ticking sounds of the clock that was on the wall, i can swear that he glared at it for a fraction of a second, before focusing again on me .
The man raised his hand and made a small gesture and the doctors seemed to have understood what he wanted and began to fled the room in a hurry as if they were afraid to stay any longer in the room with that Man, after the doctors left the room, he stood at a distance from my bed and kept sizing me up and i too was doing the same thing .
He looked quite intimidating, but i have seen in my dreams what was worse, me surviving that encounter with the Metaphysical must have affected my state of mind and steeled my heart a bit, normally i would have cowered and felt a bit uncomfortable at his continues stares, but at that moment i wasn't intimidated by him one bit .
Seeing that our staring contest was taking so long, the man turned his sizing stares into glares, i felt that he was showing real anger while looking at me, something that was quite incomprehensible to me, after all this was the first time that i had seen this guy, so why was he glaring at me like i was his sworn enemy or something .
I was about to break my eye contact with him, sensing the temperature of the room dropping even more and was telling myself that nothing good comes from dealing with fools, but the sudden shake of my mother's embrace where i was currently in for some reason made me glare back at the man and felt that if the Man in front of me didn't back down, i will directly kill him .
Seeing my intense glare, the man smiled coldly and his cold aura began to have a smell of blood to it, that normally would have me become nauseous, but today i felt nothing of it, if anything i felt the guy in front of me to be quite pitiful, if that blood to his aura was what came to be through killing his enemies, what a meager amount of kills that was and what a weird inquiry on my part, killing was killing more or less that wasn't the issue .
That was what my mother told me after i stomped on a cockroach that appeared on our apartment and was terrorizing her in the living room, she said "killingwas bad " , she even tried to help the cockroach that she was so afraid to even stay in the same block as it a few seconds ago, but it had already been long dead, she looked quite sad that he passed away .
But funnily enough,She asked me to use anything and remove it out of the apartment, looking to be quite disgusted at being near it, she even marked the place where it died as a red zone and asked me not to step into it .
I'm mentioning that topic because of the similarities in both of the two situation, back then the cockroach was terrorizing my mom so i put an end to it, it was the same this time too, but instead of the cockroach terrorizing my mom, it was the guy in front of me and that triggered the same reaction as with the cockroach, i will stomp on him too .
At my thoughts, i felt my head began to ache suddenly, but it was somewhat happening occasionally so i just grimaced a bit and paid no much attention to it, doctors before said that all my tests were good and my headache are most likely due to stress, so everytime it happened, i tend to ignore it until it go away, remembering the palace of light and the warm smile tends to alleviate the pain a lot .
But something that i hadn't got accustomed to was the fact that every time this headache hit me, it was always accompanied with a great amount of visions or more like pictures, standing still pictures of people panicking and staring at me with wide eyes .
But this time it wasn't a still picture, it was like the reply of a short video, one that i was wielding a sword in and was standing in front of an army acting as the lead general, in the far distance ahead of me were our enemies a huge army that outnumbered our troops by many times over .
As the enemies started to drew near my eyes were flashing with words, then the moment my eyes stooped flashing with words, the world came to stand still and my vision went dark, then my vision came back a second later and i was suddenly standing in a sea of blood, neither an enemy or a friend were in sight .
Then my conscious returned back to the current scene in front of me and as if his killing intent was the trigger, the room completely came to stand still, i saw a figure resembling me taking unhurried strides towards the guy who was standing still with the same provoking smile on his face, he was standing there frozen like a statue .
The silhouette that resembled me finally arrived in front of the man and with a fruit knife from who knows where, the silhouette that resembled me directly slit the man throat, then the world resumed his turning .
My first thought at that time was that i was hallucinating, no chance that actually happened, right ?.
I asked myself this question but looked at the man in front of me to confirm that he was indeed alive and well, but his face have become paler than before and his suit was drenched in sweet as if he just went to the gates of hell and luckily or unluckily was able to come back, his smile turned into a frown, his carefree attitude turned to one of uneasiness and he began to look around the room as if trying to see what or who was the one to causing him to act like this, his body shook but a second later he covered himself with blue like energy and was able to steady himself, the cold aura and his killing intent were completely vanquished .
What does this mean, was that really happened and i wasn't hallucinating, does this mean that the visions i had were real too, i don't even know how to hold a sword properly, it isn't like i tried holding a sword, but i never gotten the chance, nor did i ever signed for kendo lesson and wait a minute if the last vision i had a second ago was true and i was indeed standing in that sea of blood, what happened to the army i was leading, there was no sign of them in my vision, did they die too .
Cough, cough , the Man suddenly coughed as if trying to remove the awkwardness he caused in the room, i till this moment don't even know who was that guy and what his intention in coming here .
At least, i felt my mom shaking body finally calming down as i held her hands, still looking at the guy in front of with a hint of wary, my mom stood up and pointed at the guy standing in front of the door and said with a flat tone :
Ryuu, this Man here is your father .
" Huh " ?!.
Don't huh me, he is the father that i told you about when you were little .
" Oh, he is the selfish bastard that our neighbor Troska-san kept cursing at every time she came to visit, he doesn't look selfish though, hi dad ".
Now that i look closely at him, i'm beginning to see a bit of resemblance, especially those venomous green eyes of his, mine was quite different, they were shining like emeralds and gave a rejuvenating feeling to those who looked at, at least that how my mother described, the classmates of mine didn't see it that way .
My mom coughed so hard and her face reddened instantly as she held my ear and twisted a bit before letting go, but she didn't apologize to my so-called father, his expression was stern as before, but i was just telling the truth, he dressed like that won't make anyone suspect that he was selfish, a bastard on the other hand, he did seem to have a natural affinity with it .
I wasn't sure how to react to the sudden appearance of my father in our life, but i hope that he wasn't here asking for the family to reunite, after 14 years of absence .
" So what do you want, Dad " .
I asked bluntly wanting to wrap everything up as quickly as possible, we still have a birthday cake that i was craving to have a taste of it .
He completely disregarded my question and took a step forward towards my mom, while saying :
What did you tell him about me ?.
My mother flinched a bit, but it wasn't without a reason, that guy tone was quite rough and heavy, she squeezed my hand a bit more as if trying to find the long lost comfort and replied a bit weakly :
Nothing, he didn't even know of your existence until you appeared in front of us today, but he must have heard me talking with the neighbor .
I was trying my best to not to let the clone of me get out and slit his throat again at the disrespect he was showing me, luckily it seemed that i'm incapable of controlling him, so he might appear at any moment and do it on his own accord .
The name of the woman he heard that from was Troska, right ?.
My mother face paled a bit and she hurriedly tried to say that it was all a misunderstanding, but from the looks on that man face, he didn't seem to buy it one bit, but he suddenly turned in my direction and asked :
How old are you now, boy .
" Why does it matter to you, did you bring me a present "
I was beginning to enjoy being a bit cheeky, so my mom went ahed and destroyed the fun i was having by saying :
His 15 birthday was yesterday .
Huh, yesterday, have i slept the whole day in the hospital, not paying any regards to my father, i hurriedly asked my mom :
" What about my birthday cake " .
My mother looked quite apologetic as she said :
It had been in the fridge for an entire day now, it must had spoiled, tell you what when we are on our way back, i will buy you the biggest piece of cake in the entire shop, what do you say .
I fully knowing the circumstances of our small family, refused and asked for a homemade cake like the one that got spoiled, my mother nodded her head and said it was a promise .
Ryuu, that's your name right, take this consider it as my late gift to you .
He handed me a weird envelope, i cut the wrapping in half, thinking that it might be money or something, from how he looked and dressed, he appeared to be quite rich, but no the inside of the envelope wasn't cash or anything like that, it was an acceptance letter to a school under the name Akane Academy .
I passed the envelope to my curious mother on the side and as she read what was written on the letter, she clenched her hands hard to the point of wrinkling the paper, then she asked what was the meaning of this, this question was directed at my father .
I too looked in his direction wanting to know what will his reply be, it wasn't uncommon thing to transfer from one school to another, but it became quite weird when the one who was suggesting the transfer was your father who you hadn't had the slightest bit of interaction with since you was born .
I wanted to discuss this with him alone, a normal woman like you will only be a nuisance, leave now .
Quite an ill mannered too, wow that my father of mine really like being the villain so much, but wait what did he mean by a normal woman, what did that could possibly mean .
I won't do such a thing, you should be the one to leave, we don't have any relation with you nor we want to .
My mom throw the paper at him, but due to the air conditioner in the room the paper didn't travel far in the air before it lost its momentum and landed on the ground near his feet, i thought about what his reaction would be, but i never would have expected his reaction to be this violent .
In a second i saw him appear in front of my mom and hold her by the neck, raising her from the ground and suffocating here, i the moment i sensed that i felt the room no the whole world came to a sudden stop, the clone appeared once again but this time it had a silver scalpel in hands and without a second it cleaved the head of the Man holding my mother by the throat .
Then the world continued it turning, with the man suddenly losing his balance and he dropped to the ground and let go of my mother's neck, but she was unbalanced and was about to hit the floor as well, but as if i had teleported i hopped from the bed and appeared directly beside her and caught her before she fall down .
The man was bulging his eyes in a hysterical way as if he seen something that left him completely frightened, but even seeing him like that didn't quenched the raging anger i felt on my heart, i first checked on my Mom, her neck had a few bruising marks, but luckily nothing too serious happened .
I turned my attention back to that guy and saw that he was able to regain his footing and was standing there with fire burning in his eyes looking as if he wanted to skin me alive, but so do i too .
I sat my mom on the bed and stood in front of that guy and said :
" DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AGAIN AND I WON'T CARE ABOUT WHO YOU ARE, YOU WILL DIE " .