## Chapter 135 – The Forgotten Past (1)
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Ten years is a considerable amount of time, enough for the landscape to change.
For some, it’s a time to reminisce about their childhood,
and for others, it’s a time to recall the memories of their heyday.
However, in this girl’s memory, there are no stories of her childhood,
nor are there any happy and fond memories to look back on.
The incident that happened to her ten years ago took everything away.
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Growing up in an ordinary family that could be found anywhere in South Korea,
Han Sena was a girl who lived happily without lacking anything.
Although young and naive, the two men and women, full of youthful vigor, loved each other,
and Sena was the daughter born between the young mom and dad.
While her peers were attending universities or studying abroad, experiencing various things,
Sena’s parents gave up a lot with love and responsibility to raise Sena.
Thanks to that, Sena soon took her first steps and spoke well, moving her young mom and dad,
and her pretty appearance and cheerful personality brought smiles to those around her.
“What do you want to be when you grow up, Sena?”
“Hmm… I want people to smile when they see me!”
A small girl’s wish for people to smile when they see her.
Sena had the wish that suited her best.
But that wish never came true.
“Villain group attacking F City downtown brutally murdered citizens…”
“More than 300 deaths and over 600 injuries reported in the incident today…”
At the time, a large-scale villain terrorist attack occurred in F City, where Sena’s family lived.
On the first day of the incident alone, more than 300 people died and nearly 600 were injured,
and the total number of casualties from the terror that lasted nearly a month before it was suppressed reached about 20,000.
Hundreds of heroes were deployed to suppress the terror,
and more than ten heroes died, causing considerable damage to the Union.
And Sena’s family could not avoid the impact of the terror.
“Sena’s mom… take Sena and run away to another place.”
“What… what are you talking about? What are you going to do!”
“Young men will gather together… to protect the town until the heroes arrive.
It has been decided that all women, children, and the elderly will evacuate.”
Because it was a sudden terrorist attack, the Hero Union’s response was not smooth,
and some towns had to be protected by a small number of police and soldiers.
The town where Sena’s family lived was also in a situation where heroes had not arrived for several days.
The young and strong men gathered their strength to evacuate people to other cities,
and they planned to organize their own civilian army to help the police and military protect the town and drive out the villain organization members.
But there was no way that a civilian army without a single ability user could stand up to the villain organization.
“It doesn’t matter if they are heroes or citizens. Kill them all.”
“Yes!”
One commander with powerful abilities controlled dozens of armed personnel,
and the villain group ‘Enemy’ had dozens of squads organized in the same way.
They did not stop massacring citizens in inhumane ways,
and Sena’s father, who had joined the civilian army, died helplessly from their bullets.
And the gun was pointed at the citizens who were boarding the vehicle to evacuate.
“Hurry! You must get on quickly! They are coming!”
“Wait a minute…! My husband hasn’t come yet.
Just a little… could you please wait just a little longer?”
Sena’s mother was waiting for her husband who could not return.
While hesitating whether her husband would return, she could not board the evacuation vehicle,
and the villain squad did not miss the opportunity and came to attack the evacuation vehicle.
“Mom?!! Mom!!! You have to get on quickly!! Mom!!!!”
Sena desperately called out to her mother, who had not yet boarded the vehicle,
but her mother could not turn around and was pierced by several bullets on the spot.
“Mom!!!! No!!!! Don’t abandon me!!!!”
Sena did not understand her mother and father.
Her father left the house, abandoning her and her mother,
and her mother, who had protected her, abandoned her like her father.
Not understanding that a terror and war had broken out,
and not knowing that parents sacrifice themselves to protect their children, that’s how it seemed to young Sena.
Sena and other citizens were able to evacuate to other cities,
but Sena was eventually left alone, having lost both parents.
Due to the aftermath of the terrorist incident, many people were killed or injured,
and there was no one to take care of young Sena.
“Our friend… your name was Sena, right?”
“…Yes.”
The Sena who always made people laugh with a bright smile was gone.
There was only one child in the orphanage staring blankly into the distance with dead eyes.
The orphanage was too rough and violent for a young girl who had grown up like a delicate flower in a greenhouse to handle alone.
The orphanage teachers gave the children garbage-like food that even dogs wouldn’t eat,
and it was common for the starving children to fight over even one more spoonful.
In such an environment, Sena became thorny and sharp to survive,
and what was manifested in the process of becoming so sharp was the ability ‘Poisonic Plant’.
“Ugh… Ughaaaaak!! It’s a monster!!”
Sena, who became the only ability user in the orphanage, gained absolute power in the orphanage society,
and this was no different for the orphanage teachers who had harassed and abused her.
“Plea… Please save us. We can’t even get a wink of sleep because of those monstrous guys!”
The orphanage director, who considered Sena’s ability dangerous, contacted the Hero Union,
begging them to take Sena, who was just about to enter high school.
“To think you had such a great talent… this will be a great gift to us.
Thank you so much.”
At the time, the Hero Union was looking for test subjects in various ways for experiments on abilities.
An orphan girl who had just developed her ability and had no connections,
from the Union’s point of view, they had found the perfect test subject.
“What are you talking about? Suddenly moving me from the orphanage to another place.”
“You have good sponsors who will take care of you. You will live there from now on.
The facilities are much better than this orphanage… and they will actively help you.”
“I don’t need that… I just want to stay here.”
Sena had no intention of leaving the orphanage.
The memories of her harmonious family in her childhood had long disappeared due to resentment towards her parents and the shock of the terror.
Having completely forgotten what it was like to be harmonious and happy, she had become accustomed to life in the orphanage,
and Sena’s position and power as the only ability user were very solid.
“Let… go…!!! I’m going to stay here…!!!!”
“You’re a persistent one. You have a very annoying ability.”
“Please take her carefully. If there are any other good resources, I will contact you.”
But the Union had already made a deal with the orphanage director to receive Sena as a test subject,
and she was forcibly dragged to the Union’s secret laboratory.
“What… what are you going to do to me? Who are you people!”
“That’s none of your business. Anyway, you’ll soon lose your memory and become a docile lamb.”
A rough personality and tone, no different from a wild beast.
The trauma of being abandoned by everyone close to her.
In order to eliminate all factors that would interfere with the experiment, the research institute under the Union,
performed a procedure to take away everything she had.
The vague memories of her childhood that she remembered,
the memories of the orphanage where she had lived fiercely until a few days ago,
and even the memory that she was a girl named Han Sena.
All the things she had built up for over 17 years disappeared,
and the time it took to become a completely pure test subject was 1 year and 6 months.
Thus, Sena completely forgot her name,
and began to be called by the test subject identification number ‘H4301’ in the secret laboratory.
About dozens of people became test subjects in the laboratory around the same time as H4301.
All the dozens of test subjects were children who had grown up alone without parents or connections,
and they were all ability users who had abilities.
“Inject everything. It doesn’t matter if they die. We can just bring in more test subjects.”
The experiments conducted in the laboratory were very dangerous and ruthless,
but if successful, it was an opportunity to create a very powerful ability user hero.
In the early stages of the experiment, good results began to appear, such as greatly enhanced physical functions and explosive improvement in ability output.
But there is always a downside to dangerous and ruthless experiments.
Only a week after the first experiment, half of the test subjects died,
and the experiment was virtually a failure, with the surviving test subjects also suffering significant deterioration in their physical condition.
And two of the surviving test subjects were sent to another affiliated secret laboratory,
and the two girls met fatefully in that laboratory.
