✦1314✦Nanbaka✦Reverse-harem✦

✦12✦ Ice

First it was Musashi, then Jyugo, and now Michiyo. A total of three inmates held powers that was beyond human comprehension; fire that could burn everything with intense heat; blades that could cut everything, and ice that left behind an eternal winter. 

If she did not lose her voice, she would have been screaming in pain; ice formed along the cut that Jyugo made on her back, stopping the bleeding. Michiyo never wanted to reveal this power of hers, she tried to live as a normal human as much as she could the moment she escaped the darkness of her past. She wanted to hide this power from everyone so no one would see her as a monster. She was a monster who could manipulate ice...she was a human who couldn't be a human. 

"Michi!" Uno tried to battle against the blizzard, trying to reach out to her. No matter how harsh the icy storm was, he still pushed himself to reach her. "I'll save you, Michi! I'll save you no matter what!" 

Michiyo wanted to cry just seeing how his eyes reflected no hatred. 

Uno knew what she was thinking even if words never left the lips. "No matter what you become, you will always be the Michi whom Cell 13 adore!" 

'Uno...!' Michiyo's tears flowed and the droplets dropped onto the ground as crystals made out of ice. 

"Let's go back, Michi..." 

Her hand reached out to him and she took one step forward. She regret that instantly because iced spikes protruded from the ground and nearly stabbed Uno if he did not dodge out of the way on time.

'I can usually control it! Why now?! Why now of all time?!' She blocked her own ears because she didn't want to hear the voices from the past that she tried to forget.

"You don't need to be a human."

'No...'

"You're just a weapon. You're born to do as we say."

'Stop!'

"I gave birth to another daughter, she makes a much better weapon than you. We don't need you anymore, so do us all a huge favor and die, will you?"

Michiyo cried out loudly, her voice coming back as she let everyone hear the anguish from the bottom of her heart. The blizzard became much stronger, ice froze the ground, the sky became dark and gloomy, and the rain came down to drench the earth. 

"It's as if the sky is crying with her..." Yamato said, putting down the just awakened Rock and Nico at the side. As they all stood aside and watched the icy spikes protrude from the ground. 

"Michiyo-nee..." Nico felt as if he was watching an anime scene where it will lead to a bad end. He didn't want that.

"Yamato, will Hajime beat her up too?!" Rock asked him. 

"Likely." 

"What?!" Uno and Rock tried to get back down onto the battlefield again but Yamato grabbed them by their heads.

"Don't! If you get in the way, of the guards doing their duty-" 

"We have to save Michi!" Uno shouted, "I can't let Hajime beat her into a pulp too! She will die!"