Mutagen Chapter 183 Anticipation, The People Waiting For His Return

Day 18 – 12:02 PM – Northwest Tower Rooftop, Silver Dragon Hotel Manila, Central Business Park, Bay City

Two won were currently entangled on a fight on the wider area of the rooftop. No, rather than a fight, despite how intense their movents, there was no killing or ill intent behind their attacks. In a closer look, it was nothing but a friendly spar.

Both won wore fitting clothes and tight pants and their hair both tied up in a ponytail. The older woman who should past her thirties had a good looking face and attractively mature aura while the younger woman was only eighteen at most with a beautiful face and pale white skin.

Obviously, these two won were Odelina and i. Training in this rooftop had been their routine in the morning till noon since three days after they arrived here in Bay City.

It had been twelve days already since Mark separated from them due the extre circumstances that night. At that ti, i felt afraid of the thought that sothing bad happened to Mark and that was why Fein flew back alone with his things and that letter. If not for the certain feeling she had, a connection she felt towards him, she would have been devastated.

Another thing that made her worry was that after Iola collapsed that night, she did not wake up. A military doctor here in Bay City examined the little girl and found that there was nothing wrong in her body and the problem might have been in her psychological state. It made i even more worried. Since Mark was not here, she took responsibility of taking care of Abbygale and Iola. If Iola did not wake up, she did not know what she would do.

Fortunately, the worst did not happen and Iola woke up three days after. There was a very noticeable change on her however. Iola's dark brown eyes before turned into different colors. Her left eye turned dark red while her right eye turned deep violet. It was a really strange case of heterochromia especially since those kinds of eye colors did not exist before. Now, even though different eyes and colors could exist on people, it was only available to Mutators.

Iola was not one which made it very strange.

Furthermore, when she woke up and saw i's sad face, what the little girl said was not confusion nor to ask for sothing she wanted. She touched i's cheeks and weakly said.

"Papa… is alive…"

Iola then let out a bright smile as if assuring i.

No one knows why the girl said that or how she was sure about what she had said but the more important thing was i knew that she was not the only one who could feel Mark's existence even from far away. Furthermore, with how Iola reacted to the crystals that night and sent the crystals away towards Mark, it gave her account more credibility due to its mysteriousness.

i changed her mind and set it to training herself and the ability Mark gave her. She wanted that by the ti Mark returned, she could fight by his side. Whether it was being able to use the sniper rifle, physical fitness or close combat, she took it with all her heart and effort. And of course, her trainer was the all-around servant, Odelina.

To the side watching the two in their current spar were the four children that were sitting around a circular table and were forced to study. To others, it might not be necessary anymore to study but Odelina did not want these children to shirk their studies. Other specific subjects such as advanced math could be neglected but not general knowledge that would be of use in the long run. Furthermore, it was really easy to procure the books due to the fact that most people find these things as nothing but junk after the outbreak.

Siegfried and Odette were diligently studying the sixth grade books they had while Iola was practicing to read. On the other hand, the five year old Abbygale who could not read yet was only coloring a coloring book this ti.

CREAK…

The door to the rooftop opened. It was Anna who was carrying two towels and bottles of water.

"Lunch is ready!"

Anna called out to the two won and four children. She then handed the towels to bottles of water to the two won who had just stopped from their spar. Anna's countenance now had already improved as she gradually recovered from the loss of her family. Even though she still felt sad every ti it ca into her mind, in the least, she would not cry anymore.

"It's lunch ti already?"

Odelina asked as he looked at the sky. It seed that she was too focused on training i that she did not realized that it was already noon.

After calling the children, the group of won went back to their designated dwelling. Their room was the largest room on the ninth floor in the sa tower. It was a room at the northwest corner of the floor which gave them a good view of the places to the northwest and west side of Bay City.

Their current life was not bad as the military upheld their deal when they asked Mark for cooperation. More than cooperation, a lot of bad things might have happened if not for him and as such, both Major Lopez and Captain Dela Rosa appealed for an additional reward. Along with Keene who was a Mutator supporting the request, it was approved and the entire half of the ninth floor of the northwest tower and its facilities had been given to them.

The additional reward might have sounded excessive to others but the entire half of the ninth floor only consisted of seven large hotel suites and two facility rooms. Considering the number of people in their group, they still had to share the rooms with a few mbers that what the room should accommodate.

When they arrived at the facility room that was turned into a kitchen and dining room, there were only a few people. Mark's classmates, Suzanne, Sai, and Carren along with their children, the wives and children of Mark's friends, Mara, Dorothy and Janette along with Monique, Jester and the docile infected girl, Ellie.

Not everyone was here because they started to have their own work and duties in the settlent. lissa, Elsa, Charm and Ceilo started to work as helpers at the dical facility while Carlo and Sundra along with Grace and on the food managent and relief distribution. Rollan, Nikky, Daniel, Maverick and Delia tead up with Arvie, Jason and his team doing supply runs and helping the soldiers in clearing operations. On the other hand, Harvey and the n that ca with them started to work on the construction of new buildings and maintaining and enhancing the wall around the settlent.

Everyone was working within their capabilities. i and Odelina and even Abbygale were not an exception to this. The next day after the night they arrived here, the wave of infected finally caught up and it beca a huge battle for the soldiers. Despite the moats and the high walls, they still lost a lot of soldiers and people due to the insects that were either flying or climbing on vertical surfaces.

The wave were not annihilated but sohow dispersed for so unknown reason after more than half of the infected were killed. Due to that, there would be attacks happening at the eastern wall from ti to ti. The most dangerous ones were when flying insects were attacking. It was the ti where i, Odelina and Abbygale would start to help.

Even though the experienced soldiers wanted did not want to admit, they could not deny that i was a great help at those tis. With the help of her ability, she could accurately shoot even fast moving targets. Even though her shoots still misses from ti to ti, her margin of error were very low compared to the normal soldiers.

The soldiers that witnessed her abilities even started to call her as the "Fairy Sniper" due to her beauty. Many n wanted to approach her and introduce themselves specially those who knew her connection to Xiao Industries but they were stopped by the "Bone Armored Demon" and "Violent Cat Girl" that spared no rcy to those who tried to.

Rosamie, Emika and Mikio along with Professor Chervil were staying at a secure facility on the northwest of Bay City. It was the ECom buildings converted to beco research laboratories and dwellings for the scientist and their families. From ti to ti, Emika and Mikio accompanied by their guards would co to visit and play.

When they arrived, the reunion between Charmaine, Cielo and their eldest sister, Elsa was quite dramatic. After all, the possibility of them not seeing each other alive was not low at all. Sai on the other hand felt sad at that reunion, she rembered that her two younger sisters and younger brother was still missing.

There were many good things but there were also bad things.

Angeline was still in a coma and Mark who ntioned that he might have a way to wake her up was still not in Bay City. Her current condition was a really stressing thing for both her best friend, Paula and her father, General Miguel.

i was also invited and visited by her both her father and brother. It was obvious what they wanted. They wanted for i to return to their family. i declined without hesitation and even started to bar them from trying to contact her. To i who knew how the minds of her family worked, she knew that they were working too hard right now to make her return to the extent of promising her to beco one of the executives of their company was because of the existence of Mutators and Evolvers around her. If not for the powerful mbers of their group, i was sure that her family would just force her to return and marry her to soone else with power here in Bay City.

Even though she tried to stop her family, she was sure that they would not give up.

There were also those invitations that ca from the senators and groups that started to form in Bay City, of course they did not have any notion to accept. i was only waiting for Mark to return and together with the two little girls along with Odelina and her children, they would leave this place.

TOK! TOK!

Soone knocked on the door while they were eating.

Anna hurriedly opened the door. There, a woman stood which could not be any familiar to them, Paula. i had a good relationship with her and Angeline and that was the reason Paula would co to see her every now and then when she was free. Now however, Paula was not alone, there was a middle-aged man wearing a lab gown along with a beautiful woman with bluish eyes with her.

Seeing the man, Odelina sighed. It was not the first ti this scientist had co to see them. Professor Isaach Co, he was the main scientist researching Mutagen. For sure, he was here to convince them to allow him to study Janette and Ellie again. Of course, they would decline if that was the case. Janette was Mara's sister and Ellie was Monique's daughter. Even though studying them might lead to the breakthrough on Mutagen research, it was impossible for them to agree. Not to ntion that if the infected were treated as things, Janette was owned by Mark due to various solid reasons. There was no way for them to agree without his consent.

Due to encounters like this, i was starting to get tired of living here. She looked outside the window and to the blue sky.

'Gege, return soon and get us out of here.'

She wished with moist eyes. i was always waiting for his return.