The Tragedy

Kiyomi usually awakes early, freshens up and wakes up her sister, “Kirika, wake up. Come on, get up”.

“Good morning, Kiyomi. Give me 15 minutes, I’ll be ready,” said Kirika.

“Good morning. I’ll be waiting downstairs,” said Kiyomi. She went down to the dining hall, “Good morning Dad, Mom.”

“Good morning Kiyomi,” said Kiyoshi and Kohaku together.

“What's for breakfast? Anything special,” asked Kiyomi.

“Nothing special. As usual, sandwiches,” said Ayuko.

“Good morning Ayuko,” said Kiyomi.

“Good morning Kiyomi, where’s Kirika?” asked Ayuko.

“I’m here, good morning everyone,” said Kirika. It was Kirika’s favourite catchphrase. Living in year 2042, she still likes an old manga.

“Good morning Kirika,” said Ayuko.

“Good morning Kirika,” said Kiyoshi and Kohaku.

“We’re leaving now for office, take care you both,” said Kohaku.

“Have fun and be safe, dad loves you both,” says Kiyoshi and kisses them on their foreheads and leaves.

“We’ll be back a little late today, take care,” said Ayuko and leaves. The car exits the HK Mansion.

“So, what are your plans for today, Kirika?” asked Kiyomi.

“Nothing, just a normal day at University,” said Kirika.

“Ok, I’m going to the Tech Fair to give a speech and then attend a meeting at Kawasaki (Kanagawa Prefecture), I’ll drop you at the University,” said Kiyomi. Usually, the driver takes Kirika to the University in the car and returns to the HK Mansion right away.

“Alright, I’ll bring my bag,” said Kirika.

Kiyomi drives the car. They leave the mansion. In around 20 minutes, they reach University of Tokyo, Kashiwa campus (Chiba Prefecture).

“There you go. Be safe,” said Kiyomi.

“Yup, thanks for the ride, Kiyomi,” said Kirika.

"I will pick you up later at 4 PM, is that ok?" asked Kiyomi with a smile. Kiyomi always picks Kirika up from the University, no matter what.

“Yup,” said Kirika.

They wave bye to each other and Kiyomi drives the car. When Kiyomi is about a hundred metres away from Kirika, Kiyomi noticed a few men through the rearview mirror. About 8 men dressed

in black, who didn’t seem like university students, walking towards Kirika. Kiyomi grew suspicious about it and parked the car. She began walking towards Kirika. The men surrounded Kirika, they might be trying to kidnap her, considering they don’t seem armed. Kiyomi shouted as she started running towards Kirika, “Kirika, beat them up.” Kirika began bashing them up. Kiyomi joins Kirika in bashing them. They both handled 4 men each. Kiyomi, who has a tendency of torturing people into speaking the truth, gave a fierce glare to the one who was injured the most. He spouted the truth as to who was the mastermind. Kiyomi warned them and let them off.

“Kirika, if anyone tries to harm you, bash them up. I know, I was the one who told you not to beat anyone. But nothing’s more important to me than you. When anyone tries to harm you, remember, you’re free to beat them up. Do you get it?” asked Kiyomi.

“Yes,” said Kirika with an evil smile. She likes bashing up people, but Kiyomi had restricted her from doing so, so she had to wait for Kiyomi to give the order. Kirika listens to Kiyomi strictly in all matters on her own volition. Such was the sisters’ bonding.

Kiyomi’s parents were well aware of how evil the society is, so they had always taught Kiyomi and Kirika about the politics in business, how cruel humans can be, how to be smart and how to protect themselves. Both Kiyomi and Kirika were geniuses, whereas outsiders knew the sisters as just another ordinary pair of sisters belonging to a multimillionaire family. Kiyomi and Kirika were taught self-defence since young. They excelled in different kinds of martial arts, like Karate, Kickboxing, Fencing, Shaolin Kung Fu and Kendo.

Kiyomi sees off Kirika into the University campus. Then, she drove towards Tech Fair, where she is supposed to give a speech. Kiyomi got occupied with her speech and the meeting in Kawasaki. As soon as she got free, she left the place to pick up Kirika from the university. She arrived in time to pick her up. No matter how busy Kiyomi was, she’d always pick Kirika up from the university.

“Kiyomi, let’s go,” said Kirika. She was waiting for Kiyomi to come.

“Hmm, how was your day?” asked Kiyomi.

“Just the same debate we had for the last 3 days straight, and guess what?” asked Kirika.

“You won the debate and scored top among your PhD mates,” said Kiyomi like it was only to be expected from Kirika.“Hmm, not fair, you killed the excitement. Anyway, how was your day?” asked Kirika.

“Someone who was impressed with my speech wanted me to give a guest lecture to the undergraduates of his college tomorrow. The meeting went well, hopefully, will launch the product by next year as a national treasure. Research had been completed, but still, it hasn’t been tested yet,” said Kiyomi. Kiyomi was working as an employee in her father’s company. She was heading the project of developing a Time Travelling Device. Upon success of the project, Kiyoshi was going to announce Kiyomi as the next heir to the HK Groups.“You can do it Kiyomi, I'm sure that you’ll figure out a way to make the product a success,” said Kirika.

When they reached home, they decided to spar, since it’s been a long time since they sparred. Both were sparring in kendo until their parents reached home. They spent some family time, before each went to sleep.

This is how any normal day goes by for this family.

The next day, it was supposed to be like any other normal day. Kiyomi went to the college, to which she was invited to give a guest lecture to the undergraduates. Kiyoshi and Kohaku left for office as usual. The driver dropped Kirika at the University.

Sometime in the afternoon, Kiyoshi and Kohaku left the office building as they had a meeting at a

restaurant nearby. A few assassins, with their M16 rifles, fired at both of them, killing them on the spot. Kiyomi had previously implanted a biometric chip GPS into the hands of her parents and Kirika. This biometric chip GPS works when it is in contact with body heat and tracks the location of the person. Kiyomi had designed it in such a way that she’d receive a distress notification when there is an erratic pulse fluctuation.

Kiyomi received two distress notifications at the same time. In the next few minutes, she witnessed both the GPS signals going blank. She was in a state of panic. She immediately excused herself from the college and tried to leave the place, when a few assassins, wielding guns and knives, were waiting for her. She was in a fit of rage, she had almost lost her rationality. She began killing the assassins one by one. She was being as fast as possible, so that she could go and secure Kirika’s safety. She had killed about 10 assassins in a few short minutes, and drove the car at full speed towards Kirika’s location. She got another distress notification, it was Kirika’s. She was just a few hundred meters away from Kirika. When she saw Kirika fighting more than 10 assassins all alone and bleeding, Kiyomi started firing at them with the guns she had previously taken from the assassins earlier. Kirika falls on the ground, bleeding…

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