Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

Kana is an abandoned child.

There are children in this world who break down mentally because they don’t get their parents’ approval, and there are also children who break down because they don’t get their parents’ attention. Kana belongs to the latter.

Even more thorough than not being recognized, the existence of the people called her parents disappeared from her eyes, and hatred arose.

Why did my mother abandon me? There is definitely something wrong with this.

"Adults are stupid and think that children don't think about anything."

Then the man's face appeared before him.

"But in fact, children can learn more than adults think, and there will be more in the future. Children should be treated with the same responsibility as adults. This is what I think, but legal principles are ruthless. If we insist on being strict, it may create more false and wrongful convictions."

"Sentencing for minors is a very difficult thing to grasp. But that is a problem that future legal scholars and police officers will have to worry about. When it comes to a private person like me who can see everything, I can make a flexible choice based on my own wishes."

"Your problem is not to irritate me."

Memories set like the sun at dusk, and I asked;

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Today is the day you and I go to the amusement park."

"Before, I was with my adoptive parents. Why do you want me to be with you this time?"

"What a piercing tone of disgust. Do you think I won't punish you?"

"Then come on."

He squatted down and looked me in the eye seriously.

Then he stretched out his finger and poked me on the forehead.

"...My body is shaking. Let's go."

"..."

After looking at me for a long time, he suddenly stood up, and in the end, the painful feeling did not reach me.

I was right. As long as I didn't do anything bad, this person wouldn't attack me.

But it’s really strange, what is a bad thing? Is what I did a bad thing?

Those adults will definitely make other people feel pain in the future. If we cut them off before the pain occurs, the world will be a kinder place.

We took the subway and then walked to the amusement park. I had the chance to go out because today was a holiday. I thought that my father and mother were not at home, so this person asked me to go out and play.

Why, why does he have to see every little bit of me?

"How old is the child?"

The ticket seller squatted down and smiled at me, but I was not interested in his face at all and didn't want to say a word.

"Six years old."

the man said.

"There is no charge for six-year-olds in our amusement park. Do you have anything to prove your age?"

"No."

"Is that so... But there is no charge for children under 1.2 meters tall. If you don't mind, would you like to measure your height? Then you can go in and play for free?"

The conductor continued to speak to me, as if wanting me to speak, and looked at me very gently.

At this moment, I was thinking, what would happen to the man next to me if I screamed at this moment.

"Kana, go ahead."

He moved the hand he was holding on to me and said to me.

Calling me Kana sounds so intimate and annoying. It doesn’t matter who I call, I just don’t want everyone to call me Kana.

But it would be useless to shout at this time, because this person is not a human being, but a devil.

Or it could be a monster, a demon, or something like that, but definitely not a human.

If I offend him, I'm afraid of blood.

I followed the conductor and measured my height, which was placed next to the ticket counter. He bought his own ticket and went in.

He bought me an ice cream, it was icy and sweet.

The adoptive parents who adopted me seemed to be very rich and could give me things that I couldn't eat before, but I rarely eat ice cream. It was winter when I was adopted, and now it's summer.

"Is it tasty."

"..."

I just licked him and didn't respond to his meaningless words.

He didn't care and just licked the ice cream while walking like me.

There are so many people around, the sun is uncomfortable, and I'm tired after walking for so long. Why should I come out to play? It's really boring.

It's really boring among so many people.

"You seem to find this boring."

He said between licks of his ice cream.

"But you like ice cream just as well. You must have been quite happy when you were playing just now."

He put his feet up and ate his ice cream on the chair.

"That hour just now may not have been meaningful, but you must have felt happier and more interesting. It's great that everyone here can share the same hour just now."

I didn't want to reply, I just looked up slightly.

People come and go, wearing different clothes, with different faces and expressions. Before I can remember what the previous person looks like, the next person has already blocked his view. The only thing that remains in my head is a vague expression. Most people seem to be smiling, but I can't see even more people because they have disappeared.

I dropped my eyes and continued eating my ice cream.

There are so many people, so many that once you’re squeezed in, you can’t recognize the next person.

The noisy sound suddenly disappeared, followed by a dangerous ringing sound, and an adult's voice appeared after the ringing sound.

"The monster has appeared. According to its walking route, it will approach the amusement park. Please cooperate with the staff to leave in an orderly manner."

"Please take your luggage and children with you, do not make a mess, leave the amusement park in an orderly manner, the staff will help everyone leave, please leave in an orderly manner..."

The people coming and going around suddenly stopped, and the afterimages of the crowd that kept moving back and forth in my eyes disappeared. They all went to the same place, and an uncomfortable atmosphere enveloped the surroundings.

"Let's go and take shelter."

I stood up without saying a word, and he took my hand and led me away.

There were so many people around, everyone was trembling with fear, the noise was quieter than before, but it was still very crowded, the crowds were not moving in the same direction, and I often felt that unexpected forces were coming from the left and right.

We were in the crowd, and I felt the hand that was being held on me, not with force, and an idea came to my mind.

When he was holding my hand while we were walking, I broke free from his hand and squeezed towards a distant place by myself. I threw away the ice cream in my hand, and the ice cream ball and the edible cup probably fell to the ground, and I squeezed towards a distant place.

It was very crowded, and the gaps in the rows were filled up almost the moment they appeared. I ran away through the gaps. Because there were many adults around, I dodged their long legs like a forest and was never kicked once.

His hands were surprisingly not hard, so he could run away if he wanted to. I was worried and curious about what would happen to him when I ran away, but nothing happened.

I didn't hear any shouts, nor did I hear him pushing through the crowd to chase me. I had left him alone in the crowd, far away from him.

I don’t know how many people I passed before I finally walked out of the crowd. My heart was pounding and I started running, not daring to stop, until I ran into the haunted house.

The haunted house was very quiet. Everyone else had probably left. The staff, adults, and children had all run away because they were scared. I found a cabinet and crawled in, closed the door, squatted inside, covered my ears with my hands, and closed my eyes.

No one can find me, I'm right here.

I don't know when the monster will come, but when I was squatting, I did feel a "footstep".

The ground was shaking, not like a small earthquake, because it was so regular, just like a person walking, the monster was approaching step by step.

Under the monster's feet, no matter how many people there are, they will be crushed into meat paste like ketchup.

No one can save others, everyone will die, everyone will run away desperately, and everyone will be scared to death.

And I am in this world, not going anywhere. It is quiet here, and no one else will come.

I am alone in this place where no one else can find me. If I die, I die.

I'm not afraid of death.

Bang bang bang.

I covered my ears, and could hear nothing except the sound of footsteps moving with the earth.

There is darkness in my eyes. As long as I keep my eyes closed, there seems to be densely packed glowing dots in the darkness. They are far inferior to the stars in the night sky, but they seem to form different shapes, sometimes people, sometimes animals, and sometimes insects.

I don't know where I heard that after a person dies, he or she will go up to the sky and become a star, so the dead will be looking at themselves from the sky.

When I heard it for the first time, I was so scared that I wanted to cry, because, doesn’t this mean that a place as peaceful as the night sky is full of death?

Everyone died there, so why can everyone else still live such an easy life?!

The 'footsteps' of the earth had not yet stopped, and the darkness in my eyes suddenly turned red.

"..."

"I found you, time to go."

It's red because I closed my eyes. When I close my eyes during the day, the light will turn the darkness behind my eyes red. The sunlight is so abominable that it will change the color of black things even if I close my eyes.

I opened my eyes.

"Why, you can find me every time."

"Why? Because I will never let you go."

The man pulled me out, held me in his arms and walked out. The sound of the ground was getting louder and louder. The monster must have arrived.

I was carried out of the haunted house and I closed my eyes.

So red.