Seriously what was with Viral? He was supposed to be all healed and better by now so no way was some stupid little drug going to screw that up. "Come on Viral, you're better than this! Just fight back and kick that guy's ass!" Takeshi continued as he approached, intending to smack his friend upside the head to knock sense into him. As he raised a hand to smack the Beastman his face was suddenly throbbing painfully and he found himself on the back, wincing as his hands shot up and covered his nose while he rolled back and forth on the floor. "Ow, you hit me you ass!" he whined as he sat up, one hand still covering his nose as he blinked back tears, "Come on, you're seriously going to take orders from this dork? Let's kick his butt already!"

While Takeshi went to, er, "confront" Viral, Yumi noticed that Shu was having a hard time of things. Before he even uttered a word it was obvious he was panicking over what was happening, and judging by what he was doing she could only guess he was having flashbacks of his time with their father. Hurrying to his side she got to a knee at his side, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and pulling him in for a hug. "You're okay Shu, no one is going to hurt you here," she whispered softly, giving his back a rub. Hearing an audible smack her head bolted up to see Takeshi being laid out on the floor, rolling his eyes as he dramatically rolled about and began shouting about being struck. Nonsense aside however Viral had hit their friend and worrying was the fact he may be under that madman's control. Keeping Shu in her arms Yumi frowned, trying to get Viral's attention by clearing her throat. "Viral...? Please tell me you're okay, say something."

"When will you idiots understand, he's [i]mine[/i] now! He won't take any orders from you children anymore!" Hehe, how satisfying! After suffering the humiliation of the collars failing he could now redeem himself with this, and then no one would be able to deny his service to the King! Smirking as Takeshi tried to shout again he shook his head, folding his hands behind his back as he walked towards Viral. "Please, as if the Beastmen have any sense of loyalty or morals. They're simple machines made by scientists as tools and nothing more. He became disillusioned into thinking he was his own person, you idiots are treating him like he's more than he is. Like any of these projects are anything but tools," the scientist scoffed, placing a hand on Viral's shoulder and breaking into a grin, "I'll show you how empty those ideals and friendships of yours are as he tears you limb by limb. Viral? Kill them."