Entry #21: Sugar Rush

Hyoudo Mikanto, a 15 year old boy. A loyalty. I don’t know the specifics about his situation, but he asked me for help.

I entered the mansion, everything inside was breathtaking, the interior design reminded me of a Spanish-style thing. But there’s something I noticed.

I can't see Hyoudo anywhere, other than that, why are there sugarcane bamboos everywhere? As well as sweets. So I proceed to ask the people inside, during which I met Hyoudo’s parents. They are great, they are kind, and they are happy with me being there, but the moment I told them about my intent, they changed colors and felt despair.

I asked them about Hyoudo’s situation, but they were too scared to tell. I tried to ask them where Hyoudo is but the moment I spoke, a scream was heard from upstairs. It was Hyoudo, begging for the maids to lock him in the cellars. I went with him to the cellars and asked why he doesn’t like to be with everyone in the mansion. He replied:

“I-I’m too scared, I-I don’t want to go on a rampage by the stuff they placed everywhere… if I just get a sniff of it, my blood circulation suddenly goes wild and my sight went black, after that, everything in the mansion is ruined, and I don’t want that to happen again”

Hyoudo starts to cry in despair, I left him and went to talk to his parents about my observation, and that observation is that he has Saccharophobia. The parents were shocked. As they were crying and sober, I went outside to get some fresh air.

In the afternoon, I went back to the residence. The moment I stood foot, Hyoudo’s sharp voice overwhelmed the pianist’s music. I don’t know what’s going on with many people inside, but I went upstairs while the parents were continuing their conversation with the guests.

On the second floor, I saw the maids gathering in front of Hyoudo’s door. The moment I peeked in, I screamed to stop the maids as they forced to feed the boy with honey, but the moment they noticed, Hyoudo’s tongue and the honey is already in contact, as I walk to him, he cried:

“H-Help m-m-me”

After those words, Hyoudo’s veins start to swell and his eyes start to roll back. I tried to carry him downstairs, but he started to resist and landed me a heavy kick making me fly and fall to the piano on the first floor. At that time, my legs got pierced by the piano’s strings while the guests and the parents wondered about the situation and proceeded to go upstairs. I tried to warn them, but before they noticed, an explosion occurred in the wall near the wall of the stairs they’re in.

The moment the smoke clears out, it’s Hyoudo holding a maid while biting its neck like a vampire. As the maid passed out, Hyoudo threw it to the first floor. The guest starts to make a worry face while Hyoudo hisses and said:

“95 grams per liter, not bad after a 9 year slumber”

I don’t know what he meant but the scene he caused pissed me off. His parents tried to calm him down while the guests started to rush downstairs, causing others to fall down the stairs. As Hyoudo’s parents calm him down, he smirks and throws them from the stairs. After I witnessed such a horrible sight, my adrenaline rose up and forced me to move my leg, almost severing it in the process and managed to catch the parents.

As I roll the parents aside, Hyoudo jumped from the top of the stairs and landed to my side, pinned my head in the ground with his hand, and whispered:

“More, sugar”

Before I responded, Hyoudo’s father struck him with a pole making Hyoudo release his grip. As the father helped me stand up, a maid from the kitchen came out with a cup and attracted Hyoudo’s attention. I tried to tell the maid to run but Hyoudo reached the cup early and drank it.

I asked the maid about the content of the cup. But Hyoudo cuts her by punching its breast, making the maid collapse. At that time, Hyoudo threw the cup towards us and saw several particles of brown sugar landing on my shoe.

Hyoudo jumped up towards us while the parents dragged me on the run, I start to get suspicious and started to ask the parents about their knowledge about their son’s disease, the father replied:

“We already knew it for a long time, but we thought it’s his gimmick to get more sweets so we let him stay… looks like it's time”

I asked him about the “it’s time” he was talking about and stopped running while the mother started to cry. As Hyoudo draws near, the father grabs a concerning-looking red button from his coat and said:

“Farewell, child”

Before I asked another question, the father pressed the button and half of the ground suddenly blew up, knocking Hyoudo back to the fire. I asked them where the explosives were set-upped but they didn’t respond. As we walked to the front door, several snapping noises were heard from the roof. As we look up, a ton of white sugar is coming close to our faces that covered the ground and made the fire weak.

As my instinct calls, I threw the parents to the door and just what I expected. A burned Hyoudo with melted sugar jumped from my front and attempted to bite my shoulder that’s covered by sugar. I swiftly removed my sugar-exposed coat and threw it to his face.

I proceeded to run, but the moment I reached the entrance, Hyoudo’s parents ran in the opposite direction of where I’m going. I stopped them by holding their shoulders, making us drop to the ground. I wondered and asked why they were coming back despite their son’s current rampage, the mother replied with tears:

“We can’t leave our son, I know that he has a disease, and I know for sure that it will become more dangerous… but despite that, he’s still my son, and I love him… Sorry for making our son call you, and witness this horrifying event… we know that this is painful for us, the ones who took care of him and made him… we will do anything to make him not hated by everyone… and that’s why we caused this explosion… we want to go back to him, so he can die… with his parent’s arms, wrapped around him”

The parents started to smile as a gas lamp from the walls fell down and made the fire more active. I tried to bring them with me, but the father pushed me to the entrance door, and pressed the button from earlier once more and the wood ground suddenly catapulted me outside of the mansion and landed outside of the gates.

As the fire blazed brighter and higher, it consumed the whole mansion, with its owners within.

Several minutes later, I started to walk to the nearest hospital. Then another explosion occurred from the mansion and a great amount of burning debris got pierced to the front gate. As the fire on the debris weakened, I saw the parents hugging Hyoudo, covered in blood and molten sugar.

My reflection of this entry is what is sweeter? Love or Sugar.