Chapter 15 - The everyday truth (2)

At night, I replayed what had happened in my head and thought about some strange feelings. Was it scary at first? Definitely, but... something inside me told me that they were just dust under my feet, strange feelings. This moment showed me that power really solves a lot. If I hadn't been strong and if I hadn't been able to fight, I could have been beaten or even killed, and Saeko could have been raped at all. It is unlikely that she would have coped with three adult men at a time, if she had been a little older and stronger - yes, but so… After school, I'm going to go straight to Oxford University in several directions at once, I need to create a name for myself. I was already a famous person, but lately all the noise about our family has subsided.

Besides... a gun, the same gun pointed in my direction and ready to shoot. It was aimed exactly at me, and the bullet had to hit me, it couldn't have happened any other way. But... something just seemed to push his arm, which caused the shot to hit past me, which gave me a chance to attack.

Yes, and that first blow of mine... I doubt that that person will survive after it. After all, I have enough knowledge to judge this, especially since I perfectly felt the bones breaking under my fist. Most likely, the bones pierced his lungs, perhaps something else, in general, he would not have lived long without help, and the ambulance arrived only twenty-five minutes later.

The next day we were called back to the police station to testify and, as I thought, the one I hit in the chest died in the hospital… I killed a man myself. This thought struck me while we were being shown the video from the surveillance camera. It was hard to see the details there, but they confirmed that these punks themselves approached us, but I struck a preemptive blow. Of course, I was the one who started the fight first and it would have been possible to cling to me ... but my father dealt with it quickly enough and Saeko and I were completely released after an hour, and the surviving punks faces a long time. I still felt strange, because I had killed a man and it almost didn't strike a chord in my soul. He was a scum of society, a scumbag who could have killed a teenager if someone else had been there instead of me. Such is life, the strong devours the weak…

After this incident, our relationship with Saeko became even more confidential and, as if, she accepted me. Alice couldn't help noticing this, so she tried not to leave us alone. Soon the school semester ended, and it was time for the holidays. My parents were busy helping my grandfather with the company, and even my uncle helped them, so we spent this time in this town with friends, and after that I moved to the third grade of high school.

Kendo training has not stopped and now I can keep up the pace without any problems, fighting with Saeko. The girl herself has also grown in skill, perhaps seeing my rapid progress, she herself decided to become better. This spurred her to develop faster and further.

—"You know, I still think you should have changed your clothes first." — I told her after five minutes of fencing. The girl herself decided to start sparring right away and said that this was a test and she had to cope with it.

— "Hmm, it's fine. "— the girl answered, taking a deep breath.

—"That won't do at all." — I shook my head and approached Saeko, gently touched her shoulders and led her towards the locker room. —" Go and change your clothes, otherwise you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. Although I can't help but admit that you look so very good."

—" Do you like it?" — suddenly she asked turning around.

— "Um, Saeko, a normal guy can't help liking you. "— I told her the truth. —" So go and change your clothes... don't bring it to sin. " — I said to her and she nodded with a small smile.

— "Your skill is growing, and you are almost equal to my daughter." — Isao's voice was heard. —" And she is much better than me at her age ... I think in a year or two she will reach my level." — he spoke with pride in his voice.

—" I wouldn't be surprised at that. Hmm, Saeko loves different katanas so much, right?" — I said thoughtfully looking at the stand with katanas.

—" There is such a thing." — he nodded.

—" Is there any Kaji in the city, that is, a blacksmith-gunsmith? I'd like to take a couple of lessons from him." — I confessed, and the man just grinned with understanding and said "Youth".

My idea was pretty simple, I wanted to try to forge a weapon myself. Master Isao gave me the address of this most famous local blacksmith, who usually creates edged weapons for all connoisseurs, so he has enough money. He agreed to my request without any problems and allowed me to observe his work. But besides that, I had other worries, I began to notice oddities around me. Exactly in the morning, when I wake up in Alice's arms and notice scattered things that were clearly lying-in other places.

Therefore, by installing a camera at home… I was able to capture how these very things levitate above me and spin, and at some point, just fall, creating this very mess. And because of this, I would really need a place to study my body, since it is impractical to do this in Tokyo, since the main specialists have access to any studies or analysis, and I don't want to become an experimental animal, so I decided to equip my laboratory.

But again, my plans were ruined before the implementation began, because one evening a very pale uncle arrived and he had urgent news for his parents. In addition, the serious situation was shown by the fact that he also called Alex, who was just in Tokyo, that is, not far from here.

—"You don't look very well." — I commented on his appearance.

— "There's a reason... a very unpleasant reason and... Felix, I don't think you need to... although you're a smart guy." — he breathed out. — "I'll explain everything in the living room. Where is Alice?" — he asked.

— "She fell asleep after training and sleeps in my room. "— I answered him, paying attention to his certain twitchiness due to fatigue.

—" Let it be so." — he nodded. Soon everyone gathered in the living room.

—" Roma, what happened that you are so worried?" — the father began to worry seriously.

—"I'd like to know, too." — Alex said in a serious tone, and Grandma didn't say anything, but it's clear that she's interested.

—" Uh, Felix, can you connect this flash drive to your laptop?" — he asked me, and I did it without any problems and there were several files and one video on the flash drive. I also connected the laptop itself to the TV so that everyone could see better. — "This flash drive came to me by mail today and the sender did not give his name but paid quite a lot of money. In the flash drive itself there is a letter from my friend ... he was at one of the Umbrella bases built in Africa, the letter says that monstrous experiments on humans are being performed there. And yet, they invented some kind of virus that changes people." — he said.

— "Does it change? "— my father did not understand. — "Do the test subjects have a fever? Do blisters appear on the skin?"

—" No, no, it's much worse. Turn on the video. " — he asked me. The video itself was shot on a phone, it was understandable because of the frequent twitching of the camera from side to side, and it was clear from the heavy breathing of the person filming that he was afraid of something. He walked past ampoules with kind of people, this place resembled a torture chamber or the place of the mad scientist. After that, shots came from other compartments where there were strangely walking people ... and a screaming man was thrown into the room and soon they attacked him and began to naturally bite off pieces from him. It was perfectly visible how a part of his throat was torn off... and after rewinding, this already dead man gets up and starts walking as strangely as the others. This video did not stop, and it was visible some kind of map on which all the branches of the Umbrella company, which were located in every major country, were marked.

Then the face of the man who filmed it all appeared, he began to say that Umbrella was planning something so serious that it would change the whole world. He also notes that if this flash drive fell into Roman's hands, then he is most likely dead. Very often, a certain virus, mutations and genetically modified people were mentioned in the video. And especially impressive was the holographic map of our planet where large red distribution zones were marked.

— "This is all for a reason." — my uncle spoke first. —"They're fucking uniformed zombies!" — he raised his head, clenching his fists, and got up from the sofa. —" There is various documentation that I checked with ... in general, it can't be a fake and a simple dust in the eyes. My friend really died, he is listed as deceased and the cause of this is an accident, as recorded in the documents."

—"That's all... it can't be true, can it, dear?" — Alice asked her father quietly.

— "Umbrella started its ascent relatively recently and it happened after they discovered something in Africa, it is recorded in the documents. Only it does not explain what exactly it is, only there is a name "Sonnetreppe" or "Stairway to the sun" ". — my uncle said, and this name translates as "Stairs to the sun".

— "You all saw that a part of his throat was naturally bitten off, and after a while he got up and started behaving like the others... if it's a virus, then Umbrella has a very powerful biological weapon and it's unlikely even the general knows about it." — Alex spoke seriously.

— "By the way... since everyone is here. "— I started talking, which attracted the attention of the family. — "I also have something to show." — I went to get my camera and connected it to my laptop and showed how objects fly around me at night. In addition, it was also seen how Alice quite intimately cuddles and hugs me in my sleep, but my parents preferred not to pay attention to this. —" I also found a strange virus in my body, well, I guess it's a virus. I couldn't figure out what exactly it is, because I just didn't find an analogue."

Roma pressed his palms to his face. —" Now there are also flying objects… shit"