APRICITAS [ENG] || Johan Liebert || Monster

Chapter 33 - The Eternal Dream

****

The entire Ruhenheim was taken over by police patrols and, on a special call, a medical helicopter arrived to save those who were still possible to cure. Calls could be heard everywhere and the increasing work of emergency services.

"Eastern sector secured. Start searching for the inhabitants of this city!"

"It's terrible... Has anyone survived here?"

"Finally, our DNN team managed to enter the city from the hill. There was a massacre here! The city revealed to us the enormity of the entire tragedy. What could happen in such a quiet town in southern Germany?"

"As I said, we have managed to detain only one suspect so far..."

"We found an injured police officer at the Versteck Hotel!"

While all these calls were going on, Emiko, Kenzo and Nina were sitting in complete silence at the closed entrance to one of the tenement houses, leaning against each other. At one point, police officers's footsteps approached them.

"Excuse me..." Nina raised her head slightly, while Kenzo and Emiko remained motionless. "But aren't you...?" The policeman took a closer look at him. "There is no doubt. You are wanted on an arrest warrant!"

"Doctor Tenma!" Suddenly they heard another person screaming, approaching them. The out of breath medic stood in front of them. "Are you Dr. Tenma? Please come with me."

"Hey! What do you mean?" The policeman growled at him.

"Inspector Lunge from BKA is calling you." The two siblings lifted their faces. "He told me to tell you that there is a patient who needs you." Tenma clenched his hands into fists, but he felt someone's touch on them and turned his head towards his sister.

"Please..." She started slowly, looking at him with tearful eyes. "I would like to see his smile again..."

"And I would like to..." Nina also spoke towards him. "...forgive him. I would like to forgive. Tenma, you weren't wrong. You didn't hesitate then... and you shouldn't hesitate now either."

Nina and Emiko stood up, and Kenzo went towards the helicopter heralding the circle of the history. He went to save the Monster again. This time, however, he had two crystal-clear hearts with him, holding hands and looking at his retreating figure.

Two hearts that opened him the world to a better tomorrow.

****

Shortly after the events in Ruhenheim, Emiko called her home in Japan for the first time to say that she was safe and sound.

It took her several hours to tell the whole story and then her personal experiences, alternately laughing and crying with the people on the other end of the phone. Even her mother, after those few years when the news about her daughter went missing, calmed down and began to treat her more cordially.

The girl told her parents that she didn't intend to return to the country for now and would stay in Germany to live with her brother. They didn't oppose her. She managed to survive difficult events, so she would certainly be able to cope with another - her parents were convinced of that. They just made her promise that she would visit them at least once a year. The girl agreed, but noted that in the summer semester she would start studies at the university of Frieddrich Emmanuel in Munich.

"Criminal psychology, dad. I want to help people, opening the new development opportunities in their brains."

"Stop it."He laughed with her mother on the phone. "You talk as if you were going to become a neurosurgeon, not a psychologist." All three of them burst out laughing. Helping people's minds must have been instilled in her genes, the same as it was with her brother. There was no other way to explain it.