Chapter 19: Afterwards

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Scream were heard in small muffles and it seemed as every step was a loud bang in your ears.

Your hands felt soggy and wet but you couldn't tell from your blurried vision.

Finally after a few minutes it cleared but you immediately regretted it.

In your hands was a dead pigeon, its body was almost half devoured with its guts almost dripping from its corpse. The blood of the bird was splattered all over you, with the taste of iron in your mouth.

'D-Did I do this...?' You trembled greatly dropping the body on the ground.

You stumbled away from the piece of meet scared.

Looking up you saw your classmates and caretakers edging away from you. You felt tears puddle your eyes as you curled up in a fetal position.

"I'm sorry...! I'm sorry...! I'm sorry..!" You sobbed.

Why you? Why now? Just when everything was settling down, why does this have to happen!?

"(Y/N)!" You heard your name being called looking up you saw your friends... well your sure they don't wanna be friends with you now..

"I am so sorry..!" You sobbed loudly trying to get of the dead bird out of your head.

'Somebody please help me..!'

[--]

"Is she gonna be okay?" You heard the voice of your mother ask making your fin-like ears twitch.

"She's fine the trauma just made her pass out, no injury that is all." Replied the voice of Dr. Kōzō

"Did you know the reason that made her do that?" Your father asked.

"It may be an animal instinct that came with the mutation..."

"I see.."

Hearing nothing but silence after that you cracked your eyes open to find yourself in a hospital room.

Blinking in ignorance you looked over to your mom. "Momma.." your voice cracked.

"Oh (Y/N)..!" She smiled in relief and brought you into a hug in which you hugged back.

"Momma, I had the most gross dream ever.." you say looking up to the ceiling.

"And what is your dream?" She asked a little bit worried.

"I was eating a bird." You told them making the room grow quiet. "Oh wait not just a bird but all kinds of meat." You continued.

"And then after my plate, someone came in with another plateful of meat.. it was so yummy..!" Lightly drooling from the vision the adults looked at each other in confusion.

"Uh... (Y/N) are you hungry?" Dr. Kōzō asked.

"Yes yes! I am super hungry! So hungry I could eat a whole cow!" You grinned.

[--]

"Wow it really is like a whole cow..." you blinked in surprise at the raw meat of the cow placed on seperate plates in front of you.

"Yeah, well you said you were really hungry..! Eheh!" Dr. Kōzō nervously laughed trying to hide the fact that this was a little expirement.

"Hmm... but thet aren't even cooked..." You crossed your arms childishly.

"But how would you know you don't like it if you don't try it?" She tried to convince.

"No!" You insisted turning away.

Sighing Dr. Kōzō wrote something down first before she asked some help to get the meat out.

[--]

"Haah... I am so full!" You say patting your stomach.

"A... Amazing..." Dr. Kōzō and your parents blink in surprise.

"But I didn't even eat the entire cow..!" You say looking at the plates. 1/3 of the entire portion eaten by you.

"No no its fine..." Dr. Kōzō say still bewildered since it was unusual for a kid to be able to eat their weight, 18kg, none the less a four year old did so in half an hour.

"These will all go to waste.." you say looking around. "Can we bring some home?"

"S-Sure dear!" Mitsuki nervously smiled she, herself also still in shock.

"Yay!"

[--]

And with that you followed the diet of meat.

But because of budget you only are able to eat 3kg of meat in four meals a day.

It would made sense cause last week the week of your incident you berely ate enough meat.

After a week of the diet there was no sign of your episode coming. They called your episode the 'predator'.

Called so because you suddenly turn into a hungry animal and will catch and eat anything that may be worth your hunger. As they feared you would also attack a human.

And after a week and a half of experimenting your behavior they were able to conclude that they found a way to keep you stable.

[--]

You look down on your lap as you sat on the back seat of your parents car.

Your mom is at the driver seat driving you to your school to discuss some matters from last weeks' incident.

Your mom noticed your sad face and tried to start a conversation.

"Hey, why the long face?" She asked.

Hearing her you looked up in surprise but gave off a smile. "Oh nothing mom" you say.

"Just thinking."

"Thinking of what?" She asked, at that you look out the window watching the buldings go by.

"If I still have friends..."

[--]

"Just stay out here, okay?" You nod as your mother closed the door behind her.

It was a school day, today. But it seems as classes already started, so the halls were empty and still.

Deciding that standing there in the middle of an empty hall would be boring you decided to roam around.

Not really knowing where to go, you just jumped out the closest window. It wasn't tall the office your mom went in was on the first floor.

And wandering about you spotted a big tree ahead.

'Guess I can wait up there..' You thought to yourself and got comfortable on a sturdy branch.

You sighed in exhaustion as you looked at your hands and feet.

"You sound so derpessing it reeks."

"Waah!" You jumped in surprise but doing so you slipped. Squeezing your eyes shut you prepare to hit the other branch below you but you didnt feel yourself falling.

"You are seriously a magnet for trouble." Opening your eyes you found yourself wrapped by a vine.

The vine pulled you up to a different branch where a certain green thumb sat.

"K-Kōyō?" You say in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"Its play time, I usually get away from the other kids." He answered.

"Why?"

"Cause they are noisy." He blantly say making you deadpan.

"Um.. I am noisy.." looking away from his book of plants you gave you a serious look.

"Do you want me to drop you?"

"N-No..! " You squeaked clinging on to him.

"What the—?! Hey—stop you are gonne make us fall!" He yelled as you both started to lean to much to the side.

And like he said you fell.

A loud thud was heard followed by a groan. And that voice was yours.

Opening his eyes Kōyō met your pain strucked face. Once he found out you used your body to shield him from the fall he immediately got off of you.

"Ow! Geez can't you not struggle so much if you want to get off..?" You say still laying on the floor because of your aching back.

"Oh yeah, said the person who made us fall in the first place." You rolled your eyes at him and sat up.

"Well at least I took responsibility and cushioned your fall."

"I didn't ask you to." Kōyō argued helping you to stand up.

"Well you didn't have to.. Your my friend and I care about you." You say grinning wildly.

Kōyō's lightly turned pink and let go of your arm letting you fall back. "Geez, your all talk and talk with no conscience whatsoever!" He stubbornly spoke.

"What was that for Kōyō?!" You whined at Kōyō for your hurting back.

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