Gakuen Alice 22

Hotaru’s memory of her and her parents running away from school personnel. Hotaru shoots at Mikan for being late. They go around the festival, but somehow Hotaru doesn’t seem happy. Hungry, they decide to go eat something, but on the way an attraction crashes. The high school vice representative comes over and cures all injured with his alice. He then transfers a small part of the pain of the injured to one of the students taking care of the attraction. Mikan is surprised to see this, because after he had helped her out on the first day of the festival she had thought he was a really nice person. The Vice-representative and Hotaru, face to face stare at each other. Student, Hey you elementary, get out of the way. HOtaru: Pleased to meet you. Vice: Pleased to meet you.
Everyone is surprised to this. The vice, Imai-senpai: “ She is my sister, I think.” Mikan ect are eavesdropping. Hotaru’s brother says he was very proud to hear she was an alice and entered school, but Hotaru asks, Why have you never written to our parents, why have you never accepted to visit them?. Hotaru’s brother coldly answered that he was grateful for them to have given him birth as an alice but felt no more towards “those people”. Hotaru sees her brother as cold, heartless machine. Hotaru then wonders, if someone enters this school at 5 years old, would they all turn that way. She says she can see many resemblance between her and her brother and that if she had been in his position, she would have probably ended up same. She explains when her parents found out she was an alice her mother cried for days, regretting to have given away their son, her parents didn’t want to do the same to Hotaru, so they ran away and tried to teach, show as many things as possible, give as much love as possible to Hotaru before they would get caught. She said she thought that they couldn’t run away anymore,　she didn’t want to see her parents in so much pain. Hotaru explaines that she wanted to prove, she wanted to see what exactly is the cause giving her parents so much grief. And to show that she would not change and loose sight of important people and things. Hotaru thinks to herself that thanks to Mikan she has been able to like herself, and be herself. They get back to visiting the festival. Mikan says she wants to go to the Peter Pan flying but Hotaru says she wants to eat.
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