* Sanae - wake up ... *
Emilia - what's your name?
("Unknown") - At our next meeting, I look forward to it.
Emilia - are you ...?
("Unknown") - I don't have a sex. But, by my voice, I can say that I am a kind of woman.
Emilia - * Did she read my mind? * - Where are we?
("Unknown") - We are inside you, this whole plane that we are around, is your subconscious.
* Sanae - come back ... *
Emilia - um ... what do you want with me ..?
("Unknown") - My mission is to protect you.
Emilia - who gave you that mission?
("Unknown") - someone who does not wish to be identified, at least not yet.
* Sanae - please ... *
Emilia - what are you ...?
("Unknown") - me? I am an angel.
Emilia - did I ... die?
("Unknown") - You offered your body in exchange for power, you did not die, you are unconscious in a hospital bed in that village that you and your friends had to protect.
Emilia - I think ... I want to go back.
("Unknown") - I'm sure it is.
An iron door appears behind his cell, I walk over to the door and look behind me.
Emilia - When can I go back?
("Unknown") - I have no idea. It will depend on you. Now go, your friends are waiting for you.
I open the door and a white light fills everything inside, as soon as I enter the light consumes me.
When I open my eyes, I am lying on a hospital bed, Sanae is beside me, sleeping with her arms over my body and Rika was in a chair by the door.
Rika - Emilia ?!
Sanae - huh ..?
Emilia - hi people ..
Sanae hugs me and starts to cry.
Sanae - Don't do this anymore, Emilia! If you had died, I ... Please don't die ...
Rika - sister, go get some food, you haven't eaten all night.
Sanae - Alright…
As soon as sanae leaves, Rika sits on the bench next to my bed.
Rika - you know ... My sister considers you a second sister for her. When we were teleported, we ended up stopping far away from the forest. Sanae was furious, it didn't take long and she chopped up that demon and went looking for you, when we met you, you were on the floor, all hurt and unconscious.
Rika was silent for a moment, then she took my hand and started talking about her story with her sister.
Sanae did not have many friends during her childhood. Their grandfather is known as one of the people who opened the door for creatures in Japan.
Little did he know that the creatures planned a massive attack. Humans won this battle, but many died that day.
The deeds of their grandfather cursed the Ichida, made them a family that deserves the pure hatred of the population.
They gave all Ichida generations, including the two sisters, two study options: the first was private lessons; The second was to continue attending school. Rika chose to stay at home, but sanae had a lot of friends at school at the time, so she chose to go back to school.
That was the worst thing that Sanae could have done.
Sanae was abandoned by everyone she considered a "friend". Always, at the end of the day she came back beaten, limping, with dirty clothes and black eyes.
When rika found out what her sister was going through, she ended up backing down, she was afraid to go there to defend her.
But when she decided to go back to school, it was too late.
Rika pretended to have another name, it helped her to have friends without knowing that she was an Ichida.
Sometimes, at the end of class, she would find Sanae being beaten by students in her class. That was supposed to be the time that Rika should have let go of cowardice and helped her sister, but she walked away again and ignored her sister. When she saw her, her sad eyes did not make Rika help her, cries for help came from her mouth.
After weeks of that, he had a day, at the end of class on a Tuesday. Rika was coming home with some girls she considered classmates, that's when she found Sanae in an alley like any other.
The difference was that Sanae was lying on the floor without her clothes on, she had been sexually abused that late afternoon.
Rika ran to sanae and gave her to put on her jacket. She couldn't move, so she called her dad to pick them up by car.
For months, sanae did not go to class, for months sanae was a vegetable person, she was in bed all day, she had to be fed in bed because she was unable to eat.
Until finally she came back to herself, and from that day Rika was no longer afraid, she started following sanae everywhere, they were always together.
But, there was a day that wasn't so good.
Four boys, they tried to follow us and cornered them behind the school, so one of them leaned on Sanae's shoulder.
Rika pulled out a knife and threatened them, she was determined to kill them to protect her sister, but one of them came from behind and hit her on the head with a bottle of wine.
When Rika opened her eyes, they were already taking off their clothes, Sanae was crying, she couldn't do anything but try to kick them, but it was no use.
That's when he showed up, an old friend of mine, he never mistreated Sanae, I think he even liked her. He was not a hunter or anything, he was the son of a policeman, he was pointing a gun at those boys who were trying to abuse us.
All those boys ran in fear and the boy started to cry in front of us.
The boy was expelled from school and soon after we left too.
Since we were expelled, we started taking private lessons, everything seemed to be going well, that's when a man came to our door saying that she was our stepfather. Our father said that living with him would be the best choice, because he lived in the countryside and there was hardly any news from the big city because the people there are a bit distant from the world, there were almost no creatures there.
It was a great idea, we started to live with our stepfather, for weeks it was a normal thing, until one day our stepfather took us to a river, he said: "take this sword and cut the river with it, and don't come home until dusk or until they cross the river ".
For days they did this, without rest ... I mean, we were playing in the river for a few hours but we also did what we had to do.
After days, we got tired of this routine, that's when we went to our stepfather and complained about that test. We said "this is ridiculous, why are you making us do this ?!" then he told us "to make you stronger. To liberate people who have suffered or still suffer today as you suffered".
I wanted and want that, after that we try to cut the river again.
After 1 year it started to be fun for us, and yes, we managed to open the river and then a waterfall. There were two other tests, one that I think I told you was the championship and I even faced Sanae in the end and the other test was a fight against our stepfather, it lasted for about three days until we could join forces to defeat him.
When sanae finished telling her story, I was in tears.
Emília - I… I… I'm sorry…! I don't think I ever said that, but ... Please be my friends
Rika - Emilia ..? Silly, of course I want to be your friend.
Rika hugs me and I return her hug.
Behind my bedroom door was Sanae, she was listening to our conversation.
She entered the room crying, and with a smile on her face she joined in the hug. This hug ... So warm, I think that's what the three of us needed.
To be continued…