Chapter 769 – Trauma (4)

─Researcher! It is dangerous to add more reagents to U-45. U-45 had the highest DNA assimilation rate compared to other test subjects. It’s an important research piece!

─U-45 is the only one that displays the power of this ‘special species’. That’s why we have to make them more obedient.

─Are you serious? In addition to 8ml of acid mixed with Menedel, 5ml of Danitol was injected. Other children find even 2ml difficult… More here?

─Isn’t it already too late to turn back?

─… You may have lost your sense organs. If I put in just a little more, it would die.

─Go ahead.

Excessive administration of psychotropic drugs.

It interferes with and destroys human memory organs by touching the brain nerves, including the hippocampus.

The researchers’ goal is to add hallucination magic and control emotions to make them obedient subjects.

As long as it was easy to deal with a human who expressed a special type of factor, the inability to speak was a minor problem.

-Kiririk, kkirik.

Bang. The door closed and ebony fell on the clean bed.

Special room for two people.

It was the best environment a test subject could have, and a place where only those with a high level of suitability could enter.

Coming here while being kidnapped means that you have really bad luck.

If you showed even the slightest negative reaction to the drug, you would fall into the lower class where you had to be careful to receive small amounts of food that could come at any time.

The girl who was wandering in front of the ebony clicked her tongue in frustration.

“Ah tsk. “I knew it would be like this.”

The dead-eyed ebony didn’t even twitch a finger.

The girl sat on her bed, twisting her bleached hair, muttering one after another.

“I said it was pointless. “I told you.”

A guy who can’t hear even if I talk to him. He can’t even open his mouth and seems to have no emotions.

Normally, it would be confirmed through repeated consultations whether the memory was properly erased, but seeing that it was transferred right away without any other treatment, I guess it was just a video even if I didn’t watch it.

This isn’t about erasing memories… In effect, it erases one’s personality.

This is my first time seeing a child so addicted to drugs. She will die soon.

U-29 sighed as she looked at her roommate, who would soon be changing again.

-Tick.

A day passes.

Three days, four days. Around the time eight days passed.

U-29, who entered the room after finishing his usual adaptation training, was able to witness an amazing sight.

“…”

A girl who would have thought it natural that her brain would melt and die.

Because she was sitting on her bed and staring at the door with dead eyes.

“What, when did you wake up?”

“… ?”

She lost her speech function and was unable to speak.

U-29, who entered the room, crossed his legs and stared intently at U-45’s sinister face.

“Hey. Look! Yes~?”

“…”

“It’s alive. Hmm. Can you understand what I mean? If you can hear it, shake your head.”

U-45’s head bobbed faintly.

-Nod.

Since I can answer, it looks like my body is fine, but my memory has been formatted.

It was correct to believe that it was given new life through the unique regenerative power of wood people.

“Huh, really. You are also toxic.”

I have met many test subjects so far, but this is the first time I have seen one whose life is so tough.

Is that person called oppa so precious?

The girl who was silently looking at U-45 eventually got up from her seat as if she had decided to do something.

“Hey. Wake up. “I’ll teach you how to survive here.”

A child survives for years in a place where her life is worth less than that of an ant.

The girl, cheerful in spite of her illness, and full of her peculiar self-confidence, said her own name:

“I am Yeonhwa. Please take care of me.”

“… ?”

“Ah. Are you asking me to please you? “Hold out your hand.”

I squeeze and shake her slowly stretched out her hand.

Even U-45, who did not understand her at first, was imbued with her cheerful mood and gradually began to give her his heart.

It only takes two weeks to become the team that sticks around the longest in the lab.

Emotions gradually began to bloom on the girl’s face her, which had been like a stone and not even smiling.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Ebony. Ebony.

A precious name that awakens your mind.

She had been working at the research institute for a little over a year.

“How about your name Ebony?”

Yeon-hwa, who suddenly put her face in her, asked the ebony with sparkling eyes.

“… Why?”

“Your hair is really black. It’s my first time seeing such shiny black hair.”

“Well, that’s not it.”

Yeonhwa looks full of smiles despite Ebondan’s words.

When I asked why they suddenly gave me a name, I was told that giving names to precious people was a tradition unique to test subjects who had lost their memories.

“I also received a name from someone else. I can’t see it now, but… “I got it from an older sister I was with before.”

“… Yeonhwa.”

“Yes, Yeonhwa. “I thought it would be great if I could be the person who gives names to other people.”

“Sir, it doesn’t matter.”

“Really? Thank god. I was wondering what if there was resistance, that’s what we originally were… “There’s a name I forgot.”

I forgot the name.

It was a good name for Ebony, who was abandoned and lived in an orphanage, and was given an appropriate name as seen on the community site.

“… Ebony.”

Ebony, who whispered his name her, looked at the doll he was holding in his hand her.

A wooden doll with black hair. Although it is an old house play, there is no other toy like this for children.

As I was looking at the only doll in my hand, a male doll suddenly appeared and hugged the ebony doll tightly.

“Because we named it, we are family, right?”

“…”

“Ah. Is this really like that? Because you have an older brother.”

Brother.

A blood relation that he could not recall now flashed in Ebony’s eyes.

“I, brother… “I miss you.”

“Yes, I heard it until my ears bled. “I guess family is that important.”

It is no exaggeration to say that it is my everything.

Because it was the only memory left for the ebony who lost her memory.

However, there were also valuable relationships I gained by coming here.

Ebony turned his head and looked at Yeonhwa with a faint smile.

“You too… It’s precious.”

A friend who helped a girl who stuttered and was timid and couldn’t have a conversation until a few months ago.

It is Yeonhwa whose presence has now become as big as her brother within her.

Yeonhwa’s face was dumbfounded by the courageous confession of the shy Ebondan.

“Hehe.”

“… Why are you smiling?”

“No. Just. I didn’t forget any family. I lost my memory, but unlike you, I have no place to return to.”

There is someone who has always been alone since childhood.

The relationships I have built here are all shallow, and I feel uncomfortable because they break off quickly.

Because the drugs and experiments are repeated, people die before they can settle in their hearts.

“I’m glad I have you.”

“… Me too.”

The timid ebony muttered, covering her face with the doll.

The little boy’s red-hot hands.

The shy and itchy feeling wasn’t so bad, and before I knew it, Ebony’s face was full of smiles.

A precious friend who can even share a side of beans. Ebondan gathered courage and confessed to Yeonhwa.

“Well, then… Yeonhwa.”

“Huh?”

“Later… Cursor. We… Cheong got stronger. If you leave here…Would you like to go find your brother together?”

Yeonhwa’s eyes widened and she tilted her head.

“Me too?”

“… Ah. Ah!! Ah!! I’m sorry. “Did I say something really strange?”

Yeonhwa spoke in a slightly stern tone, but when Ebony received a cute response, Yeonhwa chuckled.

Hehewhy are you like that? Come with me. They say my friend has a family. “I must find it.”

Okay. When I become an adult.

Let’s become strong and escape from here.

“Ebony, since you are the strongest, you have to protect me if I become dangerous?”

“… Yes!”

Ebony and lotus.

Despite their status as test subjects, these women, who are the ideal perfect woodworkers that Flower pursues, spent several long years being treated better than ordinary people.

The harsh experiment pushed the two people’s mental and physical strength to their limits. Is it because I have a friend who comforts me? Even though many test subjects died or disappeared, only two people were able to survive to the end.

Even in a gutter-like environment, there were plenty of opportunities to build precious memories.

Designate the day you enter the lab as your birthday and share a half cheesecake that costs less than 500 won.

Occasionally, they would receive rations of cheap snacks or snacks that were left in stock due to controversy among consumers and fight over who would eat more.

No matter how much they had a falling out, they would apologize for their mistakes within a day or two without being the first to do so, strengthening their friendship.

Let’s look at the stars and dream together. You can even draw a picture of the envy of life outside.

Ebony, a little girl who could not speak her language, in time became a playful tomboy lady.

However.

-Boom!

When the bursting gate completely destroyed the laboratory, and the monsters I had never seen before and the flower soldiers with weapons threatened the two people.

The two forced their escape with one mind and lost their precious relationship.

“Leave it behind. Quickly.”

“…”

A blade pierced through a bony arm.

There was no place in the body where blood did not flow as bullets were lodged in the body.

A friend lying on the verge of death before my red-hot eyes.

Likewise, Ebony, who had one of his legs broken, was holding on to Yeonhwa’s arm on the remains of the building.

“Only one person needs to be caught. I just need to take my time. Are you okay. They can’t kill us. “Don’t worry too much.”

“… “I don’t like it.”

“Ebony, please.”

Researchers do not kill lotus flowers, which are important research objects?

What do you hope for when all the results have already been destroyed?

Yeonhwa’s persuasion did not make Ebondan understand at all. Yeonhwa closed her eyes tightly and made a decision.

-Wow!

The bloody hand hit her ebony cheek hard.

“Wake. You need to get out If we stay here and get caught, it will end the way they wanted.”

“… “I’d rather be together.”

“Stop it!!”

I have an older brother.

Unlike herself, who had no one outside of her, Ebony had a connection with someone important to her.

Convinced that if anyone had to take the time, it was only him, Yeonhwa used her magic power to push Ebondan away.

-Pow!

Bright yellow magical power bursts out.

Yeonhwa’s magic her, which contained the will of guardians, dropped the ebony. The remains of the building that supported the two people collapsed, ultimately tearing them apart.

“!”

The magic power that Ebony’s body gradually covered turned black like the color of his hair.

I have to chase after it.

He forced himself to take a step forward, but his broken right leg refused to obey him.

Eventually, a scream breaks out.

Her despair at that moment was so devastating that even she, who had a stable life, could not forget who she was now.

* * * * * * * * * *

The first day I met Ebonyi was a very long time after her research center collapsed.

As I traverse the vast continent, my body and mind fall apart.

Exposed to all kinds of crimes. I can’t even eat. Ebony, who was pessimistic about life, eventually accepted death after her core was cut off.

Ebony, just before being sold as a slave, was a lamb who had given up on seeing the light of the world.

She is wary of everything she sees, and attacks everyone she meets.

I have learned that in order to survive, I must attack first.

‘It’s amazing.’

Even such a calm and true child can change like that.

They say the environment makes the person.

Ebondan, who overcame such a life and grew up to be good, was indeed a treasure.

“Are you okay?”

“… Yes. Master. “I think it’s more comfortable than frustrating.”

Ebony had an open face as he revealed his her past her.

“Master told me to accept my sins and live with it. The day I escaped from the lab, I did something so terrible that I can’t even describe it. I’m more…Than Master thought. He was a very bad kid.”

“I guess so.”

Even a single grain of rice full of bugs was enough to kill you.

China at that time was harsher than the wild.

“But you know what. Me too. I changed after meeting a good person like Master. Therefore. “Other people will be the same.”

Are you talking about priests?

Ebony carefully lowered his eyelids. The clothes of the guy warming up at the campfire were covered in blood stains.

The gentle ebony hand stroked my knees. Put your other hand on top of my hand. There was a smile on my face.

“Master. “My master.”

When I first brought an ebony to the slave market and wrestled with it.

At that time, I had no idea that I would have such a lovely relationship with Ebony.

When I stretched out my long arms and hugged Ebony, Ebony leaned next to me and rubbed my shoulders with her eyes closed.

A warm evening.

Overhead, the full moon was shining brightly in the sky.

– Rustling.

“Hicchu.”

The sound of insects in the grass that is pleasant to hear.

On the other side, it rang out along with the coughing sound of Banya, who was sick and covered in leaves, whimpering alone.