Extraordinary Minds: Road to Hell

Chapter 30: Making Memories

Akira, Yutaka, and Kioka made their way into Ayakas lab, looking around for some arts and crafts items to help make a new bracelet. Once everything was gathered together, they needed to ask just..one more thing.

"Hmm...Where are we gonna put it together?" Kioka asked.

"Well, how about in your dorm room, Kioka?" Akira asked, as Kioka nodded hesitantly.

"I-Id like to but..but what if I perform my forbidden action?" Kioka asked nervously. "I..tend to slip into littlespace when in my dorm room, but...I know sometimes I gotta learn to be a big girl!" Kioka said. "So..Maybe this could be good practice!"

The 3 headed to Kiokas dorm room, as they got in and sat down at the table near the center of her dorm room. Yutaka looked at all the pink around him in curiosity, intrigued by the color scheme of this room seeming so bright and all.

"Well, should we get started?" Akira asked Kioka and Yutaka, as they nodded in agreement.

As they began working and putting together this new bracelet for Mitsuko, Kioka was the one to start the conversation.

"Yutaka? Can I ask...Why do you always speak out of your puppets so much?"

Yutaka froze in fear. His hands shaking immensely, as he could be seen trembling as Kioka immediately shouted "Oh, oh no! I'm sorry, I-"

Akira walked over to Yutaka putting a hand on his shoulder, and walked him through his breathing. Helping him take deep breaths in and out, to take a look around the room to notice where he is, and that things are gonna be ok.

"I...I...I...Puppets...Daddy...used to love...Puppets." Yutaka stuttered out. "D..Daddy? Is...Is daddy..coming home?"

Akira could feel his heart sinking immensely. He clearly also had a father he admired just like Kioka, and yet..something tragic must have happened.

Then he remembered.

When Yutaka mentioned...Her

How she hit him..

And she hit him..

He was an abuse victim. Him and Kioka in a sense were one in the same. Maybe this bonding session could be good for the both of them. A chance for Kioka to realize shes not alone.

Kioka winced, realizing it herself too. She didnt show it much, but she was very observant with ones words and speech patterns..

As she stood up, she walked over to Yutaka and showed him something.

"See this tattoo on my leg, Yutaka?"

Yutaka looked down as did Akira at a tattoo of a trophy on Kiokas leg. As she spoke.

"This is what I got in memory of my Daddy when he died. So that I can always have a reminder of why I'm continuing to fight. Your puppet was..like that too, wasn't it?"

Yutaka nodded. "Puppet...Remind me..Of Daddy.." Yutaka said nervously.

"Was your daddy a famous ventriloquist too?" Kioka asked.

Yutaka nodded, before..looking down and seeming even more sad than before.

"Daddy...His...head explode...Gun...Boom...Mo-"

He began to panic, as he started tearing up.

"N-No..I'm sorry...Mommy...I...It's not my fault...PLEASE...stop.."

And then it hit. Yutaka was trying to say that..

"Yutaka, did..Did your mother hurt you, and your dad...killed himself?" Akira asked, regretting the question out of pure concern for his friend as Yutaka nodded through his sobs.