" Who am I? Where am I? What is this place?" Sitting in a endless darkness with nothing else beside himself, a figure questions his own existence.
He had forgotten his own face even his name, with no knowledge of who he was not where he came from. His eyes which have always been shut tighter than a hollow sphere opened for the first time.
"Ao. Nao. Na.nao." the seemingly broken words entered his ears which seemed to have no value or meaning for him.
He opened his fully and found himself in a wierd place, he couldn't move his arms nor could he move his legs but surprisingly he felt a sense of happiness he has never felt before.
"Well well it seems you have woken up. Nanao." He heard a voice call out a name he didn't remember but felt the need to answer back, he turned to side to see a person wearing a military cap staring at him while sitting on a chair.
In daze he looks around to find no one else in the room. "Who are. You?" He asks weakly to the military man.
"Tsuruoka, the one in charge of the talented. Do you remember why you are here?" He asks and recieved a look of no expression from Nanao.
"Talented? What is that? Some food?" H
Nanao asks while Tsuruoka's eyes widen slightly in surprise, he saw no emotion in those eyes as if looking into a void.
"You don't remember? Do you remember who you are?" He asked again but Nanao just shock his head while looking around like a toddler. The general gestures for someone to enter and a moustached middle-aged man enters the room.
"Nanao, do you know h- General?" The person stops mid sentence as the general raised his hand, "He has memory loss, even I don't know why but he doesn't even remember who he is. As much I want to ask him questions, he is nothing more than toddler now." The general says with regret.
Nanao however is looking around like a curious infrant, trying to eat anything he could. The father gets on his knees and cries tears that he could no longer hold back.
"Nanao, you remember your father right? I don't care if you hate or something for pressuring just please tell me you remember." The man panicks and quickly embraced the kid sitting in the bed but the blackness in eyes didn't change.
A bunch of doctors wearing a mask walked in and took a sample of Nanao's blood and quickly ran a few tests through his body in front of them.
"General. *Hands tsuruoka a report* His brain seems have lost memories due to the impact and also.. his talent seems to have removed itself as his body no longer contains that energy but the brain seems much more developed." The doctor announced with regret and recieved a regretful stare from the general.
"Mr· Nakajima.. i am regretful to say it but your son seems to have lost both his memories and talent, as much I would try to help.. it's better if you take him back home with you." , "I .. see. I don't know if it was a accident or a suicide attempt but.. I will try to give him a better life this time." Nakajima Saito sayed when apologizing to the general.
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Three days have passed since then, Nanao was sent home after he was declared a normal human by the doctors of the military and was returned to his home back to his father.
His father has almost completely changed his character now that he could finally look at the child in front of him not as a talented monster thatcan do the impossible but just his son.
Sitting on the dining table at the evening, Nanao devours rice and some curry like a eating machine with no restrain whatsoever and his father just silently stared at him in happiness.
"Do you like it Nanao? Want some more?" Saito asks while holding a bowl of rice in his hand and slides it towards Nanao who devoured it like a madman. Saito laughed and quietly patted his son on the head.
"D.ad I feel wierd." How ever The happiness didn't last , Nanao collapsed onto the floor while the bowl hits the ground at shattered, Saito felt his fear rise again as he quickly carried Nanao into their car and quickly drove to the hospital.
'Huh? Where am I? I was supposed to be on the island with Na- Argh. " Nanao clutches onto his imaginary head inside his consciousness. Unknown memories he never saw or remember came flooding in like a broken dam.
Questions, not one or two but thousands. The memories of someone else who he never knew the name of, of someone who knew even the future he had ingrained themselves into his mind.
"NOO" he woke up again and felt his body in a similar atmosphere he was in a few days ago but just more gentle and caring, he saw a few nurses taking care of fellow patients looking at him while sweat flows down his head.
"Patient 18 Woke up!! I will go call the doctors" a nurse said and left Quickly while Nanao tries to comprehend the memories in his brain. After dazing around for a few minutes, he was woken up from a unexpected voice.
"NANAO" he saw his father dash into the room and straight towards him, his eyes begin crying subconsciously while lets himself be embraced by his father.
"I was no worried. The doctors said you had a bleeding in the brain and the chances were very low... Lord has mercy on my little family." He hugs Nanao tighter before being pulled back by the doctors. Nanao was then led through a bunch of tests before the doctor came back with big smile on his face.
"Good news mr· saito, the bleeding has recovered. His life is no longer in any sort of danger but i suggest not putting him under any pressure." The doctor announced his statement and gave Saito a bunch of medicines and prescriptions to follow.
Two more days passed in a blink of a eye but for Nanao, he was suffering from the highest level of internal crisis ever. Through tough, he managed to sort out his memories one by one.
The memories of a unknown man who watches the lives of the students like a comic book, the reason for Nana's actions and what would have happened if he hadn't lost his memories at the army base.
'to control living beings to the level of puppets, disgusting.. I wish a blade of wind punish me for my future deeds' he thought and suddenly Nanao felt something flowing down his hand.
He opens his eyes to see a deep gashing cut on his hand with nothing sharp in sight, then the pain kicked and he sparwled onto the floor clutching his hand.
"This hurttss. Make it stop." He yelled and saw his senses of pain leaving like a cold on a summer day, the bleeding was still there but not the pain.
He rose up to his knees while applying pressure on the wound, the bleeding constant with no stop in it's pace. "Just how did I get this cut? I want to get this bleeding treated right now" he said lightly and the bleeding suddenly stopped in front of his eyes.
The blood stopped flowing and the wound begin to heal in front of his very eyes, first a small coating of blood formed and then the skin repaired underneath in a near instant.
He rips away the coating to reveal fair skin that has no sign of any cut or bleeding on it as if it never happened in the first place.
He felt himself going weak, similar to a day's workout he used to do in classes at the island, his body felt a machine of hunger ready to devour anything edible.
Gritting his teeth, Nanao took his handkerchief and dipped it in tap water from his bathroom before cleaning away the strains on the floor and feel asleep on the ground.
He woke up the next morning, all refreshed but very hungry. He found a note from his father that he will leave for work early today on the dining table. Opening the fridge, he saw bunch of raw vegetables like tomatoes and onions, alongside a few slices of bread and cheese and decided to make a sandwich real quick.
He heated up the bread and added a few slices of onion, tomato and cucumber alongside a strip of cheese and devoured it down in two bites.
"Finally.. I feel alive now." He lays down on the dining chair in relief and satisfaction while the moments of yesterday re-enter his mind. Out of pure curiosity he took a piece of paper and tried something.
"Burn to ash" He sayed and the paper caught on fire in front of him, he quickly dipped it into the water and the fire went out but the paper still became ash or atleast a portion of it did.
" Even In the memories I don't remember anything like this.. this is not even in the realm of common logic anymore. I want to know what this power is.. the heck?" His mind was flooded with a single sentence that repeated itself in his brain, ' The voice of command.' it said and nothing else.
"Voice of command? What is that? How did I even get it, could it have mutated again?" He rambles to himself while trying to understand the truth behind the ability he now possessed.
He spent the rest of the day trying to understand his ability and managed to figure something out, the skill takes his stamina to work and there is a limit to what he could. Atmost he could do something like make a ball float or wind cut something but not create something. He can command existing things but not create them.
He could ignite a piece of paper but not create a fuelless flame from nothing.
He lay on his couch thinking of what he could do when he felt himself thinking about Nana, he decided to test something that may very well cause everything to back fire at once.
He stood up and took calculated breaths as he commanded, "Join space, create a quick path across distance." He felt the world in front of him stretch but from the side it was the same.
Taking a deep breath, he took whatever food he could and passed the bending and as he leaves, the path reverted back to normal while he almost fell face first from exhaustion.
"It takes a lot of do something like that.. but i had to do something even if it was risky." He stuffed his mouth with a sandwich again and quickly digested it. He stood up and begins walking while remanencing in the scenery.
He walked around the bushes while avoiding anybody that could come his way and eventually reached the living quarters by the evening.
He walked into his room which still had some of his stuff they haven't taken away yet, a smile forms on his face when the door suddenly opened behind him.
"As expected, it will be you.. kyoya." Nanao turns back to watch the figure with ruffled hair looking at him with a daze with a watch in his hand.
"You're not Nanao, everything feels different about you. *Gets into a fighting posture* Identify yourself." Nanao stare at th battle ready Kyoya with no emotion behind his eyes.
"You suffer from memory loss Don't you? As much I would want to stay, I got things to do so... Forget everything you saw here." Nanao walks forward in low strides and took the watch from kyoya's hands.
He didn't stop but kept going while Kyoya just stood there like a malfunctioning machine. Only to come out of his daze a few seconds later.
"What was I doing here? Where is the watch?" Kyoya asks himself in bafflement while looking around the room which he came to investigate.
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"I managed to avoid their suspicions for now but I have to deal with Kyoya if I want my plan to keep going, death to enemies of humanity." Nana says lightly to herself while laying down in her own room, she had stabbed herself while acting as if she was fighting a enemy of humanity.
"Just a few more days and then i-", "will kill everyone on the island and destroy the enemies of humanity." Another voice calls out from behind her, she quickly tries to stand up when she saw his face.
"Nanao? Impossible!! You are supposed to be dead." She grabs a pen she had in her pocket and looked at him as if seeing a ghost.
"Do you really believe the words of those politicians? The words of those military man who knows nothing but greed and fame.. the path you're on will bring you Nothing but pain and regret." He says only to see Nana lunge at him and stab at him.
'Rewind positions ten seconds.' he commanded in his mind and they both reappeared where they were before.
"Nanao? Impossible!!! You are- what?", " Shocked? What if I am not even real?" 'rewind time one min.' he commanded again and this time the room reverted back to one min ago.
"I managed to-.. *grabs the pen* What is going on? This can't be real.", "you catch on quick don't you? Like a manupilative b**** you are Nana." Nanao comes from behind again and sat on the table across her with no fear whatsoever.
"You are supposed to be dead, then what is this?", "i am indeed dead, but i decided why not haunt my killer anyway since I am a spirit anyway." Nanao says calmly while standing up and sitting beside Nanao who almost wanted to kill him.
"Try it, you hand will just pass through me." He taunts her to try her best but before she try it he added a extra memory in her mind of her hand passing through him, "see I am not even real." He said while slowly coming closer to face.
" A mere illusion, even in death you enemies of humanity try to harm others. My conv-", "the list is false, before I died.. The general Tsuruoka took me to a lab and did tests, not to find a counter but to copy my talent." He drops a bomb shell on her which was a lie but she couldn't believe her eyes.
'Just some more effects. My body must float' he commanded and begins hovering above her like a spirit. "Did you really think we are enemies of humanity? I suppose some of us are but what about your general? He didn't get to his position by work but by destroying his completion."
"They fear what they can't control and that is the only reason you were sent here. The more you believe them, the higher will be your regret." 'rewind 2 mins, put nana to sleep' he made his final command and left the room like a phantom he was.