Sword Saint Of The Omniverse (On Indefinite Hiatus)

Ashes of Normality

AN: clarification,

... =flash back

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Kaede: "how..."

How do you ask someone questions you don't want to know? How...

How do you ask how much of your life was faked?

Was anything real? Mikoto was her best friend ever since her Dad had introduced her years ago, they mostly kept in touch through the internet that Dad said was in its infancy. Trading E-mails with each other since Mikoto was supposedly the daughter of a business partner.

That was fake.

And if the information she got from Touma was correct, Mikoto was made by her Dad.

That thought is so weird, isn't it?

Life, in all the shows and books she's consumed over the years, was something sacred, and those who tampered with life are bound to suffer.

So she never thought that her dad was one of those who thought only of what they could know, not whether they should know.

So...Was she the way that her Dad would suffer?

The one who cared for her for 7 years, who never raised his voice and always took time out of his Investment Firm- or was it the Esper Faction?-Whatever he was working on to spend time with her.

He was never malicious.

That thought rang out to me. Yet my Dad always taught me about the consequences of seeing only "Ends justifying the Means", just look at the likes of Mao Zedong, Stalin, and Hitler, all of these dreamed of Utopia, yet they are seen as some of the worst monsters in history.

I feel...Just heartbroken at the lack of trust he had in me.

Just, everything I did, I do it in an attempt to get him to trust me.

I trusted him with every fiber of my being yet he can't trust me with something as simple as making friends?!

Biting my lips at the sheer indignation and disrespect I felt at that moment-

Kaede: "why don't you trust me?"

I finally said after the silence.

It felt good. Like a huge weight has been lifted out of my chest, like the feeling of freedom after spending months trapped within the house.

I stared into his eyes for any signs of deceit.

He opened his mouth but no sounds came out, before closing it. As if he's trying to think of something to say.

Oh no, like I'd let him

Kaede: "give me the truth, nothing but the truth."

What he had attempted was a stalling technique during negotiations- when caught off guard, it's okay to show some weakness to get the other side overconfident- that was what he had taught me.

He looked like he's in great pain as if he wants to tell me but knows he can't like it's torturing him to not say it yet knows it's best if he doesn't say it.

It took him a minute before he spoke again, I can wait as long as it's needed, I WILL get my answer today.

Bismark: "it's not that I don't trust you...It's just...

Complicated."

Fury courses through my veins.

Kaede: "Of course it's complicated, I would be positively furious if it wasn't. now tell me...We have time after all."