Chapter 4: 4. Healing up

Kaede POV

It has been one week since my kidnapping and forced adoption.

I noticed that I'm physically way stronger than before the awakening of my vectors. Not on some Superman level, just approximately two times stronger, which isn't a lot but an exhilarating feeling all the same.

Malnourished prepubescent girls aren't known for their herculean strength but it's steadily increasing as I healed.

Speaking of healing, my left horn stopped hurting two days ago. It has been slowly but steadily growing back. At this speed, it should be back as good as new in less than two weeks. I didn't like this feeling of powerlessness.

I took the whole affair very well, didn't I? Well not being constantly reminded that you're the scorn of the Earth helps.

Anyway, it really changed from the orphanage.

Bedding, no old smelly, and a moldy bed filled with bedbugs and other unspeakable things. I can eat three full meals a day, a real shower with hot water, fucking soap, etc.

I have clean and new clothes that Eto bought for me and she has very unique tastes. She seems to really try but grandma's clothes are yeah, no. 

But it's a thousand times better than the rags I wear and I don't know shit about how I should dress myself. And so I'm currently wearing a crimson red suspender, a pink shirt and white socks with the face of pugs on them. At least I was cute.

Normal clothing, hygiene, food, Internet, technology, and every little thing that I took for granted in my past life were back and it felt extremely alien, ten years is a long time after all. It was heaven compared to before.

I profusely hated that shitty orphanage and everyone in it. Good thing it was burned to the ground with everyone inside, thanks to the creepy guy with glasses. 

I was ecstatic and slightly smiled when Eto announced this fabulous news to me.

She is a nutjob, not that I think of myself as a saint or better either. I never thought of myself as such, well since I killed the brats. 

They deserved it but that doesn't change that I brutally killed them and that I only felt sadistic pleasure at their pains and an intense feeling of gratification when they died by my own hands. Like it's not normal or maybe it is, I'm not really human now am I?

It was as if a human killed an insect, hmm now that I think about it. Aren't I insulting insects by comparing them to those pieces of trash? Insects have at least value and are useful to the environment when they aren't an invasive species.

The nights when I sleep in my comfy bed, in my room, not that horrendous broom closet even smaller than Harry Potter's 'room'. 

I have those pleasant dreams, yes dreams, not nightmares, it was me killing the brats in very different and imaginative ways. 

Even if murdering people sound fun and are a good hobby, I sadly won't go around murdering random innocent people, very easy way to get killed or captured.

My adoptive Mother knew I was very different and I was fine with that, it's the reason I'm even alive, she knew of my vectors that I can't really use for the moment.

And probably more. She has every right to have her secrets as long as I knew them later on and that they won't cause me to die prematurely. My life comes first and will always come first.

Nevertheless, she did inform me about what was mainly different about me compared to ghouls and humans. 

I didn't possess any RC-cells at all. 

Something that even the first humans possessed, it is nearly exclusively found in the homo sapiens species and the species that came from them, the ghouls. 

The latter have on average an RC-factor ten times higher than an average healthy human.

They presumably originated from one unknown tribe of cannibals at the dawn of humanity. The RC-factor was able to be transmitted from generation to generation and at some point, it was probably enough for the first ghoul to be born. 

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Other species have been found to have a very small amount of RC-cell, they are mostly animals that ate humans at some point in their lives or one of their ancestors did, like dogs for example.

Ghouls are a species similar to humans on every point except for their alimentation composed of human and coffee, superhuman strength, resistance, senses, overall longer lifespan, their kakugans, and last but not least a plethora of kagune.

RC-cells are a mystery and still not understood they seem to be a very interesting subject to study and my body is apparently an even bigger mystery.

"Kaede~!", I heard the overly joyous voice of Eto as she burst through the door of my room, the bloody body of a young woman on her left shoulder, held by her feet. 

I looked at the clock on the wall, it was dinner time. I slammed my forehead head on my desk as I groaned. Pork would have been fine but I guess I will make do. Meat is meat.

"Don't worry sweetheart I have also bought spice, salt, and vegetables for you! I watched a video on the Internet about cooking. I'm not an expert but it should be alright", she said, showing me a plastic bag full of things she bought.

She burned the kitchen. Though the meat was alright.

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Two weeks later.

Third POV

'Yes! They work!', the horned little girl internally cheered, she touched her left horn while she was using her four vectors for the third time in her life. 

The four invisible arms coming out of her were moving around while she jumped out of her bed in her pink pajama, yawned, and started to go through her wardrobe with her vectors. 

She briskly thought of running away but crushed the idea, it has its advantages and inconvenience. 

On the plus side, she will be free to do what she wants but on the downside she will be alone, hunted down, uneducated, moneyless, and homeless. The choice was obvious.

She rapidly dressed up with her four new invisible members and was now testing them by doing menial tasks. Such as making her bed.

The red-eyed girl was impressed with the precision she had, on her bed Bubble was glaring at a 'floating' ball, fruitlessly trying to grab it. Kaede chuckled and made the ball go only slightly lower.

Eto opened the door with a wide smile and closed her eyes not caring to knock on the door or anything, the half-ghoul declared and opened her eyes wide in shock, "Goodmorniiiiiing….. What the fuck?"

The half-ghoul gawked as she saw four objects float around her adopted daughter as if she was a fucking princess with a magical broom. Kaede didn't hear the half-ghoul, caught in her own world.

'That is an interesting way to use it…', though a bemused Eto, excitement was building inside her. She ran and slammed herself into Kaede and hugged the little girl that was completely caught by surprise.

All of the 'floating' objects were called to the ground with a squeak for the ball and three thuds for the others.

Eto felt four invisible hands take hold of her body, trying to get her off with only little success. She noted that the smell of sakura on her adopted daughter was more intense. 

She madly giggled, her right eyes turning on instinct, she was alive. If Kaede wanted her dead she would have died right here and there. She perfectly understands the danger that the strange invisible 'kagune' represented.

"Can't breathe…", she heard the suffocating Kaede and released her hold on the little girl who tried to get her breathing back together. Kaede glared at the green-haired woman and umphed in annoyance as she put everything back to its respective place, using her vectors.

Vectors were really useful. Using them was addictive.

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