An Enclosed Purpose

Chapter 7.3 Just a Destiny?

In a month, Sora decides to go for Mum. She tells Nobu nothing,

because she doesn't want to endanger him. While he's gone, the girl

wears a sport suit and goes out at once. On a train, Sora sits down near a

window. She forgets everything, and in front of her there are pictures of

farewell with Mum. Her tears, her eyes, her words. Sora's hands again

start to shiver. Without understanding that she is talking aloud, she says,

"I am coming for you, Mummy."

"You always fulfill your promises," insisting, a very familiar voice

says, "and I love you even more for it."

Nobu is standing in front of Sora. He smiles again, sits down near

her and says, "I have thought that you would need someone's help. You

will take me with you, won't you?"

It is enough to receive these words. Sora needed this support, but

did not want to burden Nobu. She embraces him. But all the same she

asks one question, "How you have found out, that I will go?"

"You weren't acting like yourself. You started being scattered and

uncertain and seemed to be thinking about something that scared you.

You tried to hide it, but I noticed. I can't let you go back there by yourself.

You hardly escaped the first time."

The girl would not like to get off the train, but she should make it

for the sake of her mother. She leaves the fear here and goes on a

platform. Strong and assured, with Nobu's support, Sora goes to the

parents' house. Nobu did not expect to see a big and private residence.

Sora never told him that her family was wealthy but unhappy. The house

is a traditional wooden house suitable for Japan's climate. It has three

floors with a massive gable roof and a stone base. The central column

and thick beams make a strong skeleton. Its design is simple and

compliments its surroundings.

"What are you doing here?!" An old woman who knows Sora asks

them why they are there. "Isn't enough that your mother committed

suicide because of you?"

Sora faints. Nobu picks her up, and the old woman says that he

can carry her to woman's house.

In a couple of hours Sora comes to her senses. The first that she

hears - words of this wealthy old woman, "Forgive me, my child. I also did

not know what was going on in your family. I didn't know your father was

capable of this kind of behavior. I didn't know what he was capable of.

He's an animal, and he'll sit in a cage for the rest of his life. He made up

what he called traditions. I didn't know he could intimidate your mother.

Everything the family had belonged to your mother. But she never told

me anything. Child, we'll jail him." The pleasant old woman stops and

looks sympathetically at the Sora and Nobu. Sora silently and abruptly

leaves the room.

Sora feels empty, but the emptiness is soon replaced with fury.

She doesn't feel any fear as she starts for her parents' house. Nobu tries

to stop her, but she's clear about what she needs to do, and nothing can

stop her. Sora runs into the house and sees a horrific picture. Very young

girls in bathing suits wander through her mother's house, and her father

and brother sit at a glass table with several other men. White powder is

scattered across the table top. Loud music throbs. The house is lit

brightly, and it's filthy. Sora sees a gun. She gets it without thinking and

moves closer to the table. She points the barrel at her father's head. The

girls in bathing suits scream. One of the men grabs her and twists her arm

behind her back. Three men don't have time to put her on the floor

because Nobu runs up and kicks one in the stomach. He jumps and hits

another in the head with his elbow. Nobu takes a gun from a holster and

shoots the third in his forehead. Sora is free now, but her father hits her

in the back of the head, and her brother shoots Nobu in the leg. The pain

make Nobu lose his balance and fall. The men kick him in the stomach

and face. The last thing he sees is Sora's father pulling her across the

floor by the hair. She doesn't resist any more. She sees Nobu laid out on

the floor and thinks it's the end.

The girl occasionally hears that the most malicious person in her

life - the father – says, "Your mother suffered not too long when I

poisoned her. And all because of you. I told you that you already had a

groom, but you had all in your own way," he says sharply in an animal

voice.

Sora finds inside the last straight and says, "After all there was no

tradition of the dynasty, you intimidated and destroyed Mum that you

got all her money. You wanted to get rid of me, you had made the

brother become a drug addict who was easy for your control. I hate you,

and you will burn in the hell." After the last word, Sora receives a punch

on her head and she faints.