Chapter 19: Watching Memories

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"Papa!!" I flung myself into his arms, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Kimi? Why...how on earth are you here?!?!" He asked, clutching me back.

I didn't care. I had him. I was safe.
"Oh Papa! We need to get Jacket! Let's just leave! Let's just go home!"
I was sick of that horrid world. Every since I'd been there things had just gone wrong.

"Kimi, we're not in Kakadelia."

"What?"
I looked around.
It was true.
Everywhere was just black.
It was like nothing but me and Papa did or ever had existed.

"Papa...where are we?" I asked, staring ahead into the nothingness.

"...we're in my mind, Kimi" he whispered, his voice shaking "and you can't stay here, I need you to leave. There's things in here-"

"That you don't want her to see, right?" Kito was there. Standing in front of us.
"But that's the whole reason I brought her here. I thought, with the last of my existence, I could at least make sure the little Yorune knows the truth." He said, fading.

"The mind works backwards. The memories will be shown from newest, to oldest. This is because the mind knows. It KNOWS which memories are dark. And it saves those for last...." he said, disappearing into the darkness.

"P-papa? What did he mean?" I asked, still clutching onto him.
Papa was silent.

I looked in the same direction as him to see a familiar scene.

Papa and the others were all downstairs, me and Jacket were asleep and things were normal.
Until some teens burst through the door with guns, shooting at everyone!
But Papa just pulled his hands back and used a spell i'd never seen before.
Black shot from his hands and the teens disappeared into thin air. Papa ran out the door. A few seconds later, I was sneaking down the stairs and the image was fading.

"Kimi, please get out of here!" Papa tried to pull me away but I refused to move.

"No. I'm staying." I pushed him off me and waited for the next scene.

The next scene appeared.
This one was from about two years ago.

Me and Jacket had come home with almost a five pounds worth of change. Papa praised us and took the money to buy dinner.
Me and Jacket ran off upstairs to practise our powers and Papa shoved the money in his pocket.

"Why can't I see this Papa? There's nothing wrong with it."

Papa just looked around, nervously. As if someone was watching his every move.
He did the same in the scene.
He then smiled and opened a portal, stepping through straight away.

We were then taken to the scene of Papa in Kakadelia.
He was with Kito!
I couldn't hear the voices, but they're lips moved, Kito smiled and Papa left.

In the next one, Papa and Kito were standing over the 13 year old me.
Kito kneeled down and smiled at me for a moment.
Papa kicked him and left.
Before Kito followed him, he leaned down and kissed my head.

"What the hell is this?!?!" I shouted. Why was Kito there? Why did he...do that?!?

In the next, Me and Jacket were about 7 and running around Kakadelian buildings while Nai chased us.

Papa watched for a moment before traveling somewhere else.
Once again, he was with Kito. Still the same age, as he was now. It seemed like Kito never aged!

I still couldn't hear anything but Papa seemed to be shouting a lot at Kito.
Kito shouted back and Papa pulled out a knife!
Kito knocked it from his hand with his magic and pushed him to the ground. He then walked off, leaving Papa on the floor.

The next one...
They got bad...
It was horrible.

I had to re-watch the scene where I found Jacket. I saw Papa in the other alley.
He had walked over and seen me with the dying boy.
He went back into his alley and conjured a horrible man.
This time I could hear what he was saying.
'Right, go into that alley and kill the boy. But if I find out you touched the Yorune..."
He then sent the man into our alley...

I looked at him.
"......Papa?...."
He stayed silent.

The final scene I saw...
My god...
The final scene...

It was the most horrible thing...
But it was the truth.
It was what Kito wanted me to know.

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