2 Chapter 2

Twenty years have passed since that moment. During this time, I realized what it means to live. My sister and I have been almost everywhere in America. They even managed to participate in the US Civil War. Victoria was always by my side, and I was with her. We had the same interests and no secrets from each other.

There's only one thing I didn't tell her. After Thomas, our common father, died, I decided to play amnesia and said that I didn't remember most of my life. The nurse thought it was because of that shot in the head, so she accepted it. Every year it was more and more difficult for me, because I really began to consider this girl as an older sister. And I was disgusted by the fact that I could not reveal that a complete stranger had taken the place of her own brother. But I was scared. I'm afraid that she will turn away from me when she finds out about this.

The civil war has recently ended. My sister and I were awarded as the most courageous and courageous fighters who fought on the front line. But if it were not for our ability to self-regenerate, we would have died long ago. Because of it, we were not afraid of anything, because we were not afraid of any wounds or diseases, as well as aging. We discovered this ability of ours at the very beginning of our journey, when they decided to rob us both and kill us by stabbing us with a knife.

It didn't work out. The result was four corpses with a bunch of extra holes on the body. I then woke up first and thought that my sister had been killed, so I took out all my anger on the intruders. I was stopped then by Victoria herself, who came to her senses when I was madly sticking my claws into the last bandit, just hugging me from behind. From that moment on, I began to train so that there would be no more such cases.

Now we were on our way to Japan, because they say that martial arts are more developed there, and we just lack structuring in our movements. All we can do is give in to the animal instinct and attack. I hope that we will be able to find someone there who can teach us how to properly use our power. For this, they even devoted several years of their lives to learn Japanese.

I also noticed that the scale that I had in the upper right corner was already a little more than half full. I still didn't understand what it was, but after each battle, it gradually filled up. This became noticeable precisely during the war. I have a theory that this scale is replenished when I get injured. No, rather, when I regenerate them.

After a while, we were still able to find a martial arts teacher. He was already a gray-haired old man in his seventies, but we should not be deceived by his appearance, because even together with my sister, we could not touch him. He had other students, but this did not prevent us from studying with him, too, since he said that before his death he did not want his "Running with the Wind" style to go with him.

Five years later, our teacher died, but he managed to fully transfer his knowledge, and my sister and I went free swimming again. This time I was no longer afraid for our safety, so I decided to start studying. I was wondering how our ability works and how it appeared. To do this, he began to study physics, chemistry, biology, and all their branches.

I knew most of it, because I had read about it in the previous world, but even here science somehow goes wrong, because some discoveries occurred much earlier than it was in my world. Because of this, we had to start all over again. Victoria also decided to devote herself to science, but after five years she got tired of it, and she just started traveling with me to different countries where I drew knowledge.

She was more interested in fighting and our sparring with her was not enough for her, so she participated in underground fights. I could also be seen there sometimes, but only when there were worthy opponents. Victoria didn't care who to fight, as long as she released all the energy that was accumulating in her.

I have already noticed for a long time that she has mental problems, but I also have them, and increased aggressiveness is a family thing. The main thing is that our relationship is still strong, so I close my eyes to this little flaw of hers. Although sometimes she has attacks of aggression in ordinary life. For example, when girls want to meet me, my sister begins to speak very sharply about them, which is why they soon leave.

If I were some kind of hero of the film, I would be annoyed by this and would not notice something, but the fact is that I am not the hero of the film, so I have long noticed that Victoria looks at me not just as a brother, but as an individual of the opposite sex, that is, with attraction. At first, I decided not to pay attention to it, because I thought that it would pass with time. It didn't pass. On the contrary, it intensified and I could no longer ignore it.

Today, when Victoria came to our apartment after another fight, I decided to have a conversation with her about this. But it didn't work out right away — she went to the bathroom, and then we had dinner. Only then did I decide to start:

"Vic, we need to talk," I stopped her when she started to get up from the table.

"About what, Jimmy?" — What is it? " she asked calmly.

- About you and me.

— Did something happen to us? the girl grinned.

— No, but I wanted to talk about our feelings for each other — - after my words, she frowned, — I have long noticed your views on me, but I preferred not to pay attention to them, because I thought that it would pass with time.

"Noticed what?" Vika made an uncomprehending face.

- Don't play the fool — it doesn't suit you. You know exactly what I mean, " I looked at her seriously.

She was silent for a while, but soon sighed and answered in a resigned way:

- Yes, I fell in love with my own brother, are you satisfied? - the girl looked at me with resentment.

"It's good that you understand this yourself, — I replied with relief.

— I understand, but I can't do anything about it, — Vika said irritably, and this made her nails begin to lengthen.

- Calm down — - I sat down next to her and put my arm around her shoulders — - It's not bad, it's just that because you were constantly near me, you began to feel not exactly the feelings that a sister should feel for her brother — - she put her head on my shoulder and closed her eyes.

— Why are they wrong at once? - she answered softly, pulling her nails back, — I've already thought about it a lot and realized that if I'm with someone else, I'll still be alone, because we have long found out that our ability does not allow us to grow old. And you are the same as me, so together we can live as long as we want.

— It is true, but we are brother and sister... - I tried to explain to her again that this is wrong.

— And what? - the girl moved to my lap, — I have long decided everything for myself and I don't need anyone but you.

— But... mmm... - I was interrupted in the most brazen way, just by kissing.