Aunt.

I checked my hand and it looked brand new! As if I was never injured in the first place.

"I guess our Emma is a healer!" I patted her head.

"What about you Silius, what did you get?" Asked Urgan.

"Ummm, I don't really know."

They all went silent for a minute, then gave me hugs and pats on the back.

They comforted me and reassured me that not being an awakened doesn't mean that I'm powerless.

"Hahaha, guys, do I look like someone who cares about being awakened?"

"Yeah."

"Yes, you definitely do."

"Mhm, I agree."

"…. Cough, it doesn't matter, look what I have here." I showed them the pistol I grabbed earlier.

[This doesn't look like a gun back from earth, it doesn't have a chamber to put the magazine in, and I don't seem to recognize the type of the gun, it's a mixture of a Glock and a revolver-]

'I don't care.'

[YOU FUCKING SON OF A BITCH, I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU!]

"Whoa, Can I hold it?" Asked Ruto.

"Yeah, I don't mind." I replied, I gave him the gun, and he observed it, then fidgeted it around his fingers.

"Stop, you'll accidentally press the trigger-"

*Pow!*

Urgan's head was only inches away from facing doom, the bullet went through the wall.

"What the fuck did I tell you? Hah!?" Urgan turned Ruto's face into a masterpiece.

"Pfff, cough, give me back my toy." I ordered.

Urgan snatched the gun from Ruto's hand and returned it to me.

"But now that we consumed the four potions, what are we going to do with the other eight?" Asked Emma.

"Good question, I don't have a clue." I smiled.

"…"

"It'll be probably better to hide it in our little underground bunker." I added.

They all nodded.

"But what about the tobacco?" Asked Emma.

"Oh, that? We're drying it here."

"WHAT? Where are we going to live then?" Shouted Ruto.

"Oh come on, your house looks like complete shit, no offense, but I'd rather live on the streets." As we were talking, cockroaches crawled on the walls.

"…"

"I take that back I'm sorry, but, you'll move out with us, will that suit you?"

"Sigh… Okay… Why are we even making these cigarettes, I don't want to question your decision, but what's its use?" Asked Emma, something that I expected as she loves knowing stuff.

"Hmm…. You can say that smoking a cigarette feels like masturbating, but stackable." I answered with a smirk, Emma didn't reply, but her flushed face told a lot about what was going on in her head.

"So it's all set, boys, It's time to dry some tobacco!" I said, we started by getting the leaves tied to a rope and hanging that rope on the wall, we repeated the process until we were done with all the leaves.

It took us a lot of time to finish our little activity, so we spent the night there.

The next day we left the house, we made our way home to inform aunt about Ruto and Emma moving with us.

Ash piles increased bit by bit the more we advanced to the house, the ash soon turned to wood, and the wood turned to stone bits.

"What in…." Ruto murmured, Our neighborhood's houses were all shattered, only a few managed to keep their base.

Smoke inflated my lungs, it was suffocating.

Urgan didn't even give us notice, he just ran to our home, the only sound he gave us was some heavy breaths.

I took steps that felt so heavy toward our home, my surroundings darkened, and the only thing that was on my mind is the state of Aunt.

[Calm down Silius. Think before acting... Fuck!]

I continued my path towards the house, it met the same fate as the other houses, its foundations were destroyed, and the only evidence of a house being here is the pile of stone, wood, and dirt.

"MOM! MOM CAN YOU HEAR ME, MOM!" Screamed Urgan, his voice kept cracking while saying the sentence.

I was right behind Urgan, he was digging, digging hard with his hands, they were bloodied and some fingernails missed, but he didn't stop digging.

"I'm getting you out mom, just wait!" He said while smiling, that smile didn't fit the tears that terrorized his face.

"Just wait! Ju-ust wa-ai-it…" His arms gave in, they weren't in the state to do anything, the only progress he made was the red dye on the dirt.

He stood up, and looked in the distance, "MOM! I KNEW YOU WOULD BE ALRIGHT!" He ran, and the immediate decision I had was to follow him.

He stopped before the backyard.

"Haha! Come here mom, you made me worried!" He hugged a crucified woman, huge nails pinned her to the piece of wood.

She was naked, the dried-up tears on her face could still be noticed, and her bottom area was… ravished.

She was aunt.

"Give me a hug!" He said as he tightened his hug, but the warmth he was waiting for didn't come, he only felt the coldness.

"MOM! WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME!?" He exploded, tears, snot, saliva, all of them came out of his face, they dripped down from Aunt's dead body.

"Did you find Aunt-" Emma fell into her butt, "Au-un-nt?" Her face darkened, and she covered her mouth, but vomit still managed to escape from gaps between her fingers.

Ruto couldn't pronounce a word, he was terrified.

All of what my ears heard were cries and screams, and all of what my eyes could see was a result of my doing.

I patted Urgan's shoulder, "DON'T TOUCH ME YOU FUCKER! MY MOM IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!" He shouted, his emotions were still piled up, anger, sadness, grieve, and he found who to let them out at.

"IF YOU DIDN'T EXIST, MY MOM WOULDN'T HAVE DIED!" He punched me straight to the noise, making me fall on the debris, he sat on my stomach and started punching me in the face.

"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He vented his rage and sadness on me, he cursed me and beat me, but I didn't complain.

"Urgan stop! It wasn't Silius's fault!" Cried, Emma.

"Urgan-"

"Emma, let him be. He has the right." I finally spoke.

Urgan continued his beating for minutes until his already damaged hand were completely unusable.

His knuckles dripped blood, but this time, it wasn't his. It was mine.

He sat on the ground and cried.

I stood up, you couldn't see my face because of all the blood.

I walked to a sign painted on the ground, ahead of my aunt's corpse.

'Don't mess with The Snakes.'