Kenopsia - Chapter 24: Chapter 24

"How do you hold this?" I spun the rifle until it was took from my hands and put back in it normally.
"Like.... This...." He sounds exasperated but don't blame me.
"Alright."
"And you aim like this." He showed me how he was doing it, both of us on the top of the building I was at a bit earlier.
"Okay, now what?"
"I taught you how to aim so now shoot a target."
I looked through the scope it had on it and looked through it.
"That street lamp there, the one near the red car."
"Well, try, practice makes perfect."
"Okay."
"Aim a bit higher as there is bullet drop, it is not just a video game thing."
"Alright alright...." I aimed at it and pulled the trigger.
Bang. "FUCK!" I grabbed my face as I stumbled back, holding the rifle with the hand that pulled the trigger. "Don't laugh!!" I yelled at my father.
"You idiot." He slapped his hand on my shoulder and shook it as he laughed. "A gun has a kickback, a recoil, you don't stick your eye flat against the scope, you will have a bruise probably."
"Well you could have told me that before!"
"Common knowledge, everyone in their life saw a movie."
"Nowadays they show little to no kickback on anything."
"Well not my fault."
"Did I at least hit it?"
"Far from it! The bullet is in the side of the building over there."
"That IS far...." I sighed. "I'll leave the shooting to you now, handguns are much easier to aim up with the 'if you can point at something precisely with a finger, you have a better chance of hitting it' trick."
"Never heard of it."
"Well I did but careful." I looked at the town near that was more and more enticing. "We have a finite amount of ammo so only for when truly needed, we need to rely on bashing skulls in for the rest."
"Right."
"Anyhow do we risk it?" I pointed at the town, if we leave now we might still make it"I told Victoria we might be out for a long time already."
"I mean why not? Resources are finite so we better find things, you have a small garden but that won't do constantly.
"Do not think of eating Jessy and James."
"Your fish pals?"
"My fish pals."
"You are really a sad case at times you know?"
"Try to guess who I inherited that from."
I got bonked on the head.
I rubbed it before aiming up again to try another shot, scope not as close as last time.
"You are a mule.... But it is how you are that kept you alive so I can't really complain."
"You think a little end of the world would kill me?" I grinned. "Please you underestimate me."
"I don't think so. I never thought you'd be able to take a life."
"Never did I." Talking made it a trouble to aim up. "But what can I say I wanted to survive even if humanity doesn't deserve to."
"That's some new world thinking, quite grim thoughts to use to survive."
"Oh no these are new, I don't wish to die but humanity deserves to perish, fucking rapists..."
"It was that Adam dude that made you think like this?"
"Mhmmmm."
"A shame you killed him." I looked at him staring at his crowbar. "I'd have loved to 'have a talk' with him..."
"You talk with your crowbar." I huffed.
"I know right? Such a deep distinction we'd have had, really brain spinning ones."
"Well tough luck I added a few new assholes to his corpse to show what he truly was and a new lead metal dentition.... No husk could rise from it."
"I guess it is better this way." At least you retained some of your humanity, you'd lose a lot for this wish...
"Hey?" I still didn't look back down the scope. "How many humans did you kill? Since the start of this Great Silence I mean."
"I didn't."
"Thought so, only my hands are dirty with the blood of humans." I looked down the sight.
"This is a world of the selfish Andie, put your survival before theirs if you have no choice."
"You'd want me to kill you then? If I needed to survive?" I asked sarcastically.
"Yes."
I refused to look at him, he might see my surprise, so I bit my tongue and stared at the lamp post I failed to shoot before.
Bang.
"Fuuuuuck!!"
"Still too close to your face!"