Chapter 9 Sirus Human

Kapitel 9

Sirus Human.

Miss Nightmare had turned into a Sirus. But what exactly happened and why? Anyway, they were surrounded.

Miss Nightmare: “Hahhh… run as soon as you can…”

She struck the Sirus away.

Miss Nightmare: “Quick… I’ll follow you… after…”
Kenn: “Come on, Liza!”

He grabbed her hand and ran away.

Liza: “Ah… Kenn… your underwear is slipping lower, I can almost see your butt.”
Kenn: “Please… ignore it… just erase it from your memory.”
Liza: “Ok…”

They ran and ran until he found something.

Kenn: “A… corpse…”

He quickly ran over, took the pants, and put them on.
Kenn: “Sorry, had to.”
Liza: “It’s fine.”

They hurried on.
Liza: “Hahhh…”
Kenn: “…ghhhh… there… that… that building! Let’s go inside!”

They stormed in, falling to the ground in the process. Kenn got up immediately and looked for something to secure the door… and found it — a broom. He wedged it against the door.
Kenn: “Ugh… hahhh… hahhh…”
Liza: “……..(silent)”
Kenn: “What… Liza, are you okay?”
Liza: “Don’t come closer…”
Kenn: “What’s wrong, hey… ugh…”

Liza had wet her pants from fear.
Kenn: “…(silent)”
Liza: “This is so embarrassing… I’m sorry… really…”

She covered her face.

Kenn: “…no… no, it’s fine.”
Liza: “It’s disgusting… I’m so embarrassing.”
Kenn: “No… no… it’s really… really okay… you don’t have to be ashamed… it’s okay… hey…”

He held her head and stroked it.

Kenn: “Hey… hey… it’s really okay…”
Liza: “Hmm…”
Kenn: “It happens sometimes to women…”
Liza: “…mmm… my dad always hit me when that happened…”
Kenn: “Oh… does it happen often?”
Liza: “I… suffer from idiopathic overactive bladder / neurogenic bladder disorder… that’s what… the doctor called it…”
Kenn: “Ugh… so at least a doctor examined you.”
Liza: “Not really… the doctor… was… my brother…”
Kenn: “And he… your father hit you even though you couldn’t help it.”
Liza: “Mhm…”
Kenn: “…that’s… that’s… uh… I’m sorry… You know… my parents… were very kind to me and Mia… so… I can’t believe… that parents could do something like that to their own child… in Japan… I don’t hear of it often, and in the Mirica Empire and other countries not so much either…”
Liza: “…well… it’s… like this… I… am not from the same family… I come from an earlier relationship my mother had… hehe… I only know… that he left her because she was pregnant… she was pregnant and I was the baby… after that she met… father… I call him father because I… never knew my biological one… I don’t even know what he looks like… I only know… his name was Roland, from a family called James…”
Kenn: “Oh…”

He looked at Liza… Kenn felt pity for her, especially now that he was seeing her this close for the first time… only now did he notice how tired her eyes looked. He had seen the wounds on her arm before, but never this close…

Kenn: “If… you want… you can change… there are clothes over there… I won’t look, I promise.”
Liza: “Hehe… I know you won’t… even if you wanted to… why would you, with a woman like me…”

She stood up and went toward the clothes. There was also a clothing curtain.
Kenn: “…hmmmm…”
Liza: “Are… are you… still there?”
Kenn: “Yeah…”
Liza: “Okay…”

She came out… wearing an undershirt.

Liza: “I only found these pants and this undershirt…”

She had also found jeans.

Kenn: “Ugh…”

When she turned around and adjusted her undershirt, he saw her back… it was full of injuries… burn marks… whip scars.
Kenn: “Ugh…”

He looked away.

Liza: “It’s okay…”
Kenn: “…hmmm.”

He stood up.
Kenn: “Hey… Liza…”
Liza: “Hmm?”

He walked over to her and suddenly hugged her.

Liza: “Huh… Kenn…”
Kenn: “…(silent)”
Liza: “Kenn…?”
Kenn: “You don’t have to be afraid… not anymore… we’ll protect you…”
Liza: “…ugh…”

(Knock) (Knock!)

They startled and turned around — Miss Nightmare was standing there.

Miss Nightmare: “Hahh… it would be really nice if you opened the door.”

They opened it, and when Liza saw her, she hugged her.
Miss Nightmare: “Hey… is it open-hug day or something… (sniffs)… smells weird… did you wet your pants… wait… you’re not hugging me with those pants, are you?”
Liza: “It’s fine… these are different pants…”
Miss Nightmare: “Hahh… good… now can you let go for a second…”

She did so.
Kenn: “Hey… what was that…”
Miss Nightmare: “You mean… this!”

She showed her hand — it was made of stone and glowing green.
Miss Nightmare: “I’m half human… half Sirus… that’s called a Sirus Human.”
Kenn: “…uh…”
Miss Nightmare: “Let me guess, you’re more confused about the… name… than the fact that such a thing works.”
Kenn: “Yeah… how did you know that?”
Miss Nightmare: “Well… I reacted the same way… The Black Eye are working on a project that makes this possible… you have to undergo incredibly harsh torture for it… three weeks… they leave you in a forest… no food, no water, you have to find everything yourself, you also have to kill others who are also fighting to survive, plus the Sirus… so far only 4 have survived… and I, Miss Nightmare, am one of them.”
Kenn: “Who are the others?”
Miss Nightmare: “A girl named Gretel… and a boy named Hänsel, siblings… and then comes… Dark Poison… that’s what they call him… his real name is… Hilbert Steinhauer…”
Kenn: “And Hänsel and Gretel?”
Miss Nightmare: “Sounds weird, but that’s really their names… that’s not a nickname, their mother named them that. She was very… very against the Black Eye… so they killed her in front of the two… poor little ones… anyway… there’s good news, bad news, and very bad news.”
Kenn: “…ok… let’s start with the very bad.”
Miss Nightmare: “Oh… we’re surrounded… by Sirus…”
Kenn: “The… bad?”
Miss Nightmare: “We don’t know where we are… we went too far.”
Liza: “And… the good?”
Miss Nightmare: “Kenn found pants…”
Kenn: “Seriously… now?”
Miss Nightmare: “Hey… better than you being stuck here in… those Tom and Jerry underpants…”
Kenn: “Don’t insult my childhood.”
Miss Nightmare: “…Friend, if we don’t find a way out… there’ll be no childhood… no freedom… and… no life…”
Kenn: “That didn’t even fit.”
Miss Nightmare: “…I know… I know.”

She sat down.
Miss Nightmare: “Oh… I wish we could shower… but then Kenn would sneak up on me… oh dear, oh dear.”
Kenn: “Uh.”
Miss Nightmare: “Then he’d see my breasts… and make weird noises because he’s never seen something so cool…”
Kenn: “Okay… I’ve seen breasts before.”
Miss Nightmare: “Your mom’s don’t count… nor your sister’s.”
Kenn: “(sweats)”
Miss Nightmare: “Your humor is sick.”
Miss Nightmare: “…I’ll take that as a compliment… thanks…”

She sighed, stood up again, and searched for something to eat.

Miss Nightmare: “Let’s see… no… no… no…!”

She tossed things aside without looking where they landed.

Kenn: “Hey…”
Liza: “Oh dear…”
Miss Nightmare: “No… no… pudding… hmm… nope… cigarettes… no… beer… no… ah… here… we have it… yes…”
Kenn: “What…”
Liza: “Something good?”
Miss Nightmare: “The best… gummy bears!”
Kenn: “…(silent)”
Liza: “…oh… cool… so cool!”
Miss Nightmare: “Right? Come on, let’s eat them…”
Kenn: “We’re not in kindergarten…”

He saw Liza looking happy while eating them… he realized Miss Nightmare only did it to cheer Liza up.

Miss Nightmare: “Does it taste good?”
Liza: “Yes… I’ve never had this before…”
Miss Nightmare: “Oh… you’ll be eating more of these now… hehe…”

(It became evening)

Liza fell asleep.

Miss Nightmare: “…hmmm… hmmm.”

She stroked Liza’s head as she lay in her lap.
Kenn: “Hmmm.”
Miss Nightmare: “She’s tired.”
Kenn: “Hey…”
Miss Nightmare: “Hmm?”
Kenn: “Thank you… thank you for taking care of her… I’ve never seen her smile before… but you… you make it happen…”
Miss Nightmare: “You must know… since she was in a basement for so long… she still thinks like a child in many ways… that’s normal…”

She stroked her hair.
Miss Nightmare: “…hmmm.”
Kenn: “…why did you say… that you hate the Black Eye?”
Miss Nightmare: “Because I do.”
Kenn: “…hmm…”
Miss Nightmare: “…but unfortunately I have no place to go… or escape to… so… I have to stay with them…”
Kenn: “Hmm… hey…”
Miss Nightmare: “Yeah?”
Kenn: “I’m sure you didn’t know about Mia’s illness… I trust you now.”
Miss Nightmare: “Why the sudden change of heart… hey buddy… are you trying to butter me up… so I’ll say something like… ‘oh Kenny’… and then take off my clothes and you’ll see my breasts?”
Kenn: “What is wrong with your head?”
Miss Nightmare: “Hey… the only thing Sir Eisenberg ever gave me was perverted pictures… I thought you guys liked that sort of thing.”
Kenn: “Well… we do… but… I’m not a pervert…”
Miss Nightmare: “Okay… okay…”

She looked outside.
Miss Nightmare: “Tomorrow we have to leave… oh… great… Liza wet her pants again…”
Kenn: “Oh… she said she has a disease… idiopathic overactive bladder / neurogenic bladder disorder, it’s called…”
Miss Nightmare: “Well, that’s fine…”

She kept stroking her hair…
Liza: “…(moans in sleep)”
Miss Nightmare: “Before my parents died… I had several siblings… I was the youngest… so I know the feeling… of wanting closeness…”
Kenn: “Is that why you’re so nice to Liza?”
Miss Nightmare: “Mhm… like I said… she’s 18… but… because of her past… she’s never experienced something like this… it’s new… to her… people need warmth…”
Kenn: “Mhm…”

Kenn looked at her.
Miss Nightmare: “I’m really sorry… about your sister… I… think… Heinrich… actually lied to me…”
Kenn: “Why?”
Miss Nightmare: “The camp we went to… he said it was safe… but he lied… it was full of Sirus… even though he said he had been observing it for days… and I found out… the fence… was only recently closed… someone must have led those Sirus there… through… victims… humans… animals… I found human and animal corpses… someone was feeding them, or rather luring them… then they tied the fence shut…”
Kenn: “Why would he betray you?”
Miss Nightmare: “I already told you… I do things the Black Eye don’t like… I don’t kill children… I don’t kill parents with children… and most of the blood energy I use comes from either already dead people, or those close to death, or from animals — mostly animals similar to humans… like pigs, for example…”
Kenn: “Hmmm…”
Miss Nightmare: “Once we’re back, we’ll deal with it… now sleep… I’ll stay awake for a while…”
Kenn: “Okay…”

He fell asleep.

Miss Nightmare: “Hmmm…”

She almost fell asleep by accident.

(Sister!)
Miss Nightmare: “Huh… what…”

She looked around… no one was there… but then, two hands grabbed her face… from above… from the roof… there she was… a figure with white skin… and dark eyes from which blood flowed.
Miss Nightmare: “Hahhh…”
(Sister… be careful…)

And then she suddenly vanished.