Chapter 328 – Volume 66 – Kirishima City (3)
“Ka, kali?”
“… What on earth is going on? Kirishimashi.”
“Calm down, Carly.”
“Why are they suddenly doing this? I dug in…?”
It felt like my mind was turning completely white.
Even though Rika suddenly disappeared, she didn’t think it was anything serious.
She thought that at best she was crying alone.
… But the reality was quite different from what I thought.
Why was Rika kidnapped by those guys at this timing?
Since when have you been targeting us?
Why Rika and not me in the first place?
“Carly!”
“Uh, huh?”
“Don’t panic and listen carefully. This anesthetic will not be effective unless it is a test subject from Kirishima City.”
“… What do you mean?”
Now she has found out that this anesthetic belongs to Kirishima City.
She said it was because she personally confirmed that breathing lightly had an effect on the mind.
I put my nose near that area and smelled it, just in case, but it didn’t make any difference.
“It’s true…”
“But, your sister was kidnapped with this anesthetic…”
Rika was adopted into our family when I was very young.
In other words, I don’t know what family Rika originally came from.
Because my parents never explained it to me.
And if you think about it based on Yuria’s explanation.
Rika was originally an experiment in Kirishima City.
After that, we heard that she was adopted into our home.
“Wait a minute, then why are you here now…?”
Until now, Rika has never been kidnapped.
There is no such possibility, and only after this much time has passed?
A group that hides its traces so well that it is even difficult to find?
Why at a time like this?
“Could it be that I am no longer protected by my family?”
In the past, no matter how adopted a child was, it would have been difficult to take him in because he was from our family.
But now I’m giving up everything.
Rika was kicked out of her family.
While Rika was at my house, the documents were already processed.
Those guys who noticed that kidnapped Rika?
… It was a reasonable guess, but it was still difficult to understand.
Rika is a very ordinary, nothing unusual child.
Of course, we can’t say she doesn’t have some outstanding qualities.
Because she doesn’t have any strange powers that would make her an experiment.
“Is there anything unusual about her head?”
“Head…?”
“Like me.”
After saying that, Yuria pointed to her own stupid hair.
Her hair moves freely as usual.
It revealed an intentional heart shape.
“Well, wasn’t that controlled by magic or something?”
“It’s not like that. I can just handle it naturally.”
“… Rika’s hair color is a bit unusual.”
“Even if it doesn’t look like much, it could be a trace. All of our test subjects had unusual spots on their hair.”
Rika’s hair shines in various colors.
Since it’s a world with magic, I just thought that was natural.
In some ways, you might think it’s unusual.
Because it is very unusual to be considered a natural color.
‘… I didn’t even think about it because it’s a hair color I’ve seen since I was young.’
That was the natural color of Rika’s hair.
It was very difficult to recognize it as something unusual.
But now it’s related to Rika’s birth, and that’s why she was kidnapped now?
“Ha…”
Her head was pounding.
There were times when I was taken aback by unexpected situations.
So many possibilities fluctuate in my head, and I don’t know which one is the clear truth.
It feels like I’m suffocating.
“Anyway, on the outside we don’t seem to have much power, but we are fundamentally different from ordinary humans.”
Of course, they say they don’t know how it is different.
In the first place, such information was completely restricted.
Because they were just experimented on and used like livestock.
“Can you tell me again the story you told me back then?”
“Okay.”
I haven’t forgotten it.
Still, this wasn’t just Yuria’s experience.
My younger brother probably has the same past, so I wanted to know about it again.
And unlike the previous policy of slowly approaching information.
In a situation where Rika was kidnapped, she had to decide that it was urgent.
So from now on, you have to use any hints to find them.
“I was called test subject number 22 of the fifth moon at the time.”
Her entire body was restrained, and her hair was connected to several machines.
It is said that they experimented with various things through her hair.
It is said that high-level bombs were installed in all laboratories, and that they threatened to explode them as soon as it was determined that they could not be controlled.
“Moon? Number 22…?”
“Probably the project name was Moon. It was probably the fifth time the project was tested.”
When testing once, multiple objects were tested at once.
I guess the classification number was 22.
At that time, the number was written on the body, but…
“After learning the magic, I erased it myself. Was it here on my chest?”
[Illustration]
Yuria seems to be recalling her past self.
She pressed her left breast with her finger and closed her eyes.
And she continued her story slowly.
“It was a terrible time. Looking at the lights of strange devices in a pure white room, I felt like I was going to lose my mind at any moment.”
No matter how much I look for my mom.
She says her mother, who gave her here, didn’t come looking for her.
And as her experiments became more intense, she said, individuals with the same number died.
“Well, I didn’t tell you anything. I expected it to be a sign of a body being removed or an increase in the intensity of the experiment on my part.”
“It must have been difficult.”
“I just remember one thing. If you want to handle the ‘sun’ properly, you need the power of the ‘moon’.”
So to deal with the sun, she experimented with infusing the power of the moon.
It was she who was subjected to her experiment.
In other words, is there already a successful test subject in another direction?
“They said I had to open the key… Anyway, while I was conducting the experiment.”
Eventually, the experiment entered its final stages.
Although she survived until the end of the experiment.
She says she couldn’t actually use it as a key.
“It seems like he was awakened in the opposite direction.”
I needed a moon-shaped key.
What was actually created was a moon-shaped lock.
She couldn’t open the sun-shaped lock.
“So I scrapped it. I heard that number 3 was successful.”
Originally, I would have killed Yuria and sent her out.
She was the only one who had any chance of survival.
It is said that one of the managers let her go on purpose.
“… She was a pretty expressionless person, but she probably had good intentions.”
She said that she seemed like a person of high status in Kirishima City.
However, even so, the organization as a whole
It must have been something that should never have been done.
Because the test subject was taken out arbitrarily.
“He faked my death and secretly dumped me in a dumpster. He helped me through the situation, so I could escape. He was like a benefactor.”
“…”
“Isn’t it ironic? My life was ruined, and I lived in pain because of the researchers at that facility. But I actually survived thanks to the warmth of one of them.”
Because my mind was complicated in many ways.
It is said that even though she was saved, she could not bear to say thank you.
“I think we can do it if we meet now. I’m living a satisfying life.”
Coming out of Kirishima City, seeing her mother already broken.
She was rather hurt and lost all her will.
As she became interested in painting, she entered the academy.
A story that takes my breath away even when I hear it again.
“After that, I met you, and I was able to have this much fun.”
“Yuria…”
“…”
“Oh, that’s strange. Why does my senior have such a dark face?”
Rosaria slowly hugged Yuria without saying a word.
Even Yuria, who was smiling and pretending to be okay, was strangely embarrassed by the warmth.
She was shaking her body with a shocked expression, but eventually she couldn’t hold back and shed tears.
“It’s okay. Yeah…”
I cooled my head for a moment while looking at those two.
I slowly began to organize what Yuria had told me.
There might be something we can find out.
“Wait a minute, Yuria. You’re unusual. Basically, the rule is to dispose of failed test subjects, right?”
“Right…?”
However, Rika came out normally and was adopted into our house.
This is because she survived the experiments and became the final product.
Even if she doesn’t, she at least survived the long experiment, and it is said that she escaped after that.
It looks like it was almost completely sealed until then.
To be honest, the possibility of a child separated during the experiment being adopted into our family seemed very low.
Of course, it could have really happened that way because there was a problem in Kirishima City.
Considering that there was a successful experiment, and that the next experiment was in progress to utilize it.
It wasn’t such an unstable situation at all.
“As for Rika, there is a high possibility that she was at least a successful experiment…”
That may correspond to the ‘sun-shaped lock’ they were successful at.
Although it was completed at the same time, I don’t know if it was saved and exported because it wasn’t what was wanted.
… Looking at what I’ve taken now, the prediction that it would be the success I wanted to be felt much more appropriate.
“For some reason, they intended for you to be adopted into our home?”
“That seems very likely.”
“And now, if you took me to use you…?”
My first thought was that it was dangerous.
People who conduct terrible biological experiments without regard for human well-being.
In order to achieve what they want, they try to realize their plan by bringing in ‘successful works’.
Since they are like that, Rika’s will and safety will not be taken into consideration during the entire process.
Rika was suddenly kidnapped by strangers.
Trembling with her fear, she will have to bear all that malice.
“It’s Leah.”
“Huh…?”
“They also use computers, right?”
“Carly, you can’t believe it…!”
I know that this is definitely a crime and a taboo.
… Still, if it’s to save Rika.
