Part 99: Epsiode 91: Nageki

I never thought much of it at the time, but apparently everybirdie there was a war orphan.
But, I did not resent the humans who had started the war. I did not care.
I thought that living with other chicks and no parents was as natural as could be.


They had guns, and kept shouting.
“Free humanity, free humanity.”
I think that’s what they said.
They barricaded themselves in our house, and killed us one at a time. I was helpless. I could only hide in the corner and weep as my family was killed before my eyes.
I don’t know how much time had gone by since they came. When I looked around the silent room, they were all collapsed on the floor.
Birds had come to save us. They had come and killed the evil humans. That is what I thought. But…







But I was weak, and couldn’t go to school or get a job. I was nothing but a burden.
And then I received the invitation.
“We wish to welcome you with special treatment. How would you like to study at the world’s foremost avian school?
We will provide anything you need. Anything at all.
There is a hospital on the school grounds. We will provide a room for you to live there. You shall receive all the care you require.”
I was living with my brother. I did not want to leave him.
But if I continued to live with him, I would only hold him down…
He was happy to hear that I would have a chance to improve my physical condition. And so I enrolled in St. Pigeonation’s…


The nurses and the faculty were all very kind to me.
And then, early in my first summer vacation, the doctor made a proposal to me.
“This vacation is the perfect opportunity. Would you like to undergo intensive treatment? You will have to stay inside for some time, but by the end of the summer you should be as healthy as any other bird in the school.”


First, a routine of daily examinations and numerous medications.


A human would be brought to me.
They would struggle, and gasp. And then, with a last, painful sigh, they would stop moving.
I knew why I was brought here. Living in my body was a virus deadly to humans in a matter of minutes.
The music stops.

My parents, whose faces I never knew, were killed by humans.
Everyone else in the orphanage was killed by humans.
And in return… I killed another human with each experiment.
Simply by standing in the same room as me… by breathing the same air as me… they would collapse.
I couldn’t stand it. I had no reason not to hate them, but… watching them die in front of me shaved away at my heart, little by little.
And so I decided to end it all.
I had only one wish. I wanted…