[hr][h1][i][color=598527]No.49 Nagisa[/color][/i].[/h1]
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Nagisa was stunned, unable to comprehend the disappointing response from the person her Core has brought her to. [i]Why? Why is he rejecting me?[/i] She had half the mind to force him down again with her gun, but in that moment of hesitation she didn't stop the boy from walking past her. She fiddled with the strap of the rifle.

In the end, she chose to follow behind the back of her potential Ashikabi. [i]At least make sure the back is covered[/i], she thought. And there was one more thing she needed to get it out of the way.

"I am [b]No.49, Nagisa[/b]. How do I address you, my Ashikabi?"

[hr][hr][h1][i][color=00a99d]Yuki Kaguya[/color].[/i][/h1]
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[i][b]RESEARCH FACILITY, HOKKAIDO BRANCH
07:36 PM[/b]

Dinnertime was Yuki's least favorite moment of the day in the center. Most of the staff - scientists and desk officers alike - had the bad habit of skipping lunch as they were too engrossed with their work, until their growling stomach was at its limit and pushed them out of their cubicle or lab for food in the evening. She would ask the canteen lady, whom she was on good terms with, to pack her share for takeaway beforehand so that she could bring it back to her room to enjoy, away from the hustle of hungry workers.

However, on that day she was forced to break her usual routine. One of the nurses on duty for medical checks on the test subjects had fallen sick, and her superior made her to replace the nurse to do the rounds. She scowled - intern or not, it was supposed to be her long-awaited off day. Why her?

The lower section of the building - sarcastically nicknamed 'The Hell Ward' by the people here - was normally off-limits to members of lower ranks like her unless given special permission by authorized personnel, or else one would eat a bullet right through the brain from the stern guards, no second questions asked. Even with the approval letter from her boss, she was still nervous. The metal gates slid open with a hair-rising screech and the guard waved her in, his face as impassive as ever.

After the gate shut with a heavy thump behind her, she shivered, feeling the temperature of the dim, long corridor had dropped sharply. Forcing the hollow echoes of her footsteps bouncing off the cold, concrete walls behind her mind, she pursed her lips, tightening her grip on the tablet in her arm.

It's time to begin the rounds.[/i]

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[i]By the time she wrestled through the tenth 'patient', Yuki was completely exhausted from the checkup. Her hands were still trembling furiously from the horrifying shock at the state of those test subjects: some of them were beyond human recognition, the mutated cells of their body was a revolting sight for the poor trainee; some had lost their mind, and she couldn't even go close to them without getting attacked and her hair torn out of her head.[/i]

What kind of experiment are they performing here? What's going on?

[i]Her fingers paused on the knob of the eleventh door. She glanced down at the tablet:[/i] Houkatori. [i]Taking in a deep breath to calm her nerves, she opened it to meet her next 'nightmare'...

Or not.

For one, she looked completely normal - well, more than normal. She was breathtakingly beautiful. Jet-black hair as long as Yuki's own graying locks with a few red highlights accenting the silky flow of the strands, mesmerizing blood-colored eyes that easily sucked in her own dark ones. It took the intern a full minute to realize that she's gaping stupidly at the pretty lady in the room. She recollected herself and coughed softly. "Um... I'm Yuki Kaguya. Routine checkup."

That, was their very first meeting. A fated encounter that had aroused the buried kind heart of the young fresh graduate. A window within the prison of scientific insanity. For the first time in her life, Yuki actually felt the strong urge to protect this girl. A strange attraction she could not understand.[/i]

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[i]It soon became a routine for Yuki to go to the underground ward - it was a piece of cake for her to forge copies of visiting documents. While they barely had any conversation whenever she went to see Houkatori, but she was content with being able to be with her, to have peaceful meals with her. She was content with just her presence.

...However, was she truly content with that?

After almost two months of secret visit, her curiosity finally got the better of her. "I've been wondering... What kind of research are they doing here? What have they been doing to you guys?"

The answer she received became the prologue that marked the beginning to a terrible war beyond her wildest imagination.[/i]

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A sudden jerk threw Yuki out of her seat - and out of her dream down the memory lane. She yawned and looked around, then she peered out of the door window, squinting at the nightscape beyond. "Seems like we'll be arriving soon."