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[color=9c1c2b]"Journal Entry 5735,"[/color] Saori Akasura mused to herself as she jotted down some notes from the experiments she was conducting, [color=9c1c2b]"Still having issues isolating the gene responsible for aging the test subject. Will no doubt require further testing. May even require a new approach entirely. Perhaps Whina can make a device that will make this process easier..."[/color]

With that, she put the notebook she was writing in and the pen she was using in an inside pocket in her lab coat, and took off the blue gloves that she usually wore before conducting her experiments. Saori [i]wanted[/i] to keep going with the experiment in isolating the right gene, believing herself to be so close to successfully doing so. But if the text message she received which told her to meet with everyone else was to be taken at face value, apparently it was urgent. So she left her little lab, without bothering to change her clothes.

Unlike everyone else, who would've likely had to descend a flight of stairs to get to their usual meeting place, Saori instead had to ascend a completely different flight of stairs. It was rather convenient having an underground laboratory so close to the usual place of business. However, with convenience came laziness on Saori's part. She arrived with a huge blood stain on the black sleeveless top she typically wore underneath her lab coat, with more blood evidently having splattered onto the lab coat itself as well as her trousers. It looked as though everyone was here; even the giant meathead that was Dunkas Marcos had arrived. Saori merely lent her ears for the most part, not really wanting to partake in any discussion. It was something that Artemis said, however, that got Saori talking.

[color=94ceab]"Are we prepared to discuss [i]Null[/i] Time?"[/color]

[color=9c1c2b]"Zero Time,"[/color] she corrected him nonchalantly, [color=9c1c2b]"And quite frankly, I don't see the point in all this "Soul Essence" business. We have the answers right there in science. If it were up to me, I'd never set [i]foot[/i] in that accursed Zero Ti-...!"[/color]

She paused mid-rant for the slightest few seconds, and then an epiphany hit her.

[color=9c1c2b]"Actually, I take that back. Those monsters that show up could prove useful to my research..."[/color]