Han Seori entered with an odd expression on her face and took sowhere.
It was always the sa, so I wondered about her strange look but obediently followed her.
In the past, I was transported in a glass container, but these days, I hold her hand and move.
The funny thing is, when I was in the glass container, there were often people who looked at with anxious eyes, but now that I’m holding her hand and walking…
There are more people who pet in passing or give snacks.
Well, it’s not like that never happened when I was in the glass container, but it was a bit more passive.
Feeling the irony, I put the snack given by soone whose na I don’t know into my mouth (which seems to exist only nominally) and let it lt. In the anti…
A different space than usual greeted .
I’m not sure how to describe it, but… it seed to be so kind of gym.
I’m not exactly sure, but that’s the feeling I got.
What are they going to make do this ti?
As I entered the place with Han Seori, Kim Chon-soo… no, I think I heard his na… ah yes, it was Kim Cheonsu.
Kim Cheonsu approached , carrying a fairly large box.
Gently setting down the box, Kim Cheonsu opened it when Han Seori nodded.
Not having good mories with boxes, I flinched as the box opened, and Kim Cheonsu chuckled as he rummaged through the box.
The fool seed to find my startled reaction amusing, still wearing a grinning face.
Since I wasn’t human, my cheeks didn’t redden, and my face didn’t heat up, but sohow, the jelly around my face seed to boil and bubble.
No, if you were trapped in a box a few tis, you’d react the sa way, wouldn’t you?
I guess this is what they call being once bitten, twice shy.
I felt like punching him a few tis, but I restrained myself.
Should I just hit him once?
While I was debating whether to teach the cheeky fool a lesson, he took sothing out of the box, approached , and said as he put sothing on .
“You’re not supposed to eat this.”
The guy put so kind of bracelet on my wobbling arm. Wondering what it was, I turned my hand downward, and whoosh! The bracelet fell to the floor with a clunk.
As the fool fussed and picked it up, Han Seori asked in a puzzled voice,
“Huh? You put it on properly, right?”
“Uh… I don’t think it’ll work on the arm.”
Scratching his head at her question, the guy looked up and down, then fixed his gaze on my face… more precisely, the area around my neck.
Hmm… this punk couldn’t possibly have that kind of… preference, could he?
As I eyed him suspiciously…
The guy said sothing I didn’t expect.
“Well, it might look a bit weird, but how about putting it around the neck?”
“Hmm…”
At his suggestion, Han Seori seed to ponder as if in a dilemma.
Wait a minute.
You’re going to put that around my neck?
What is that thing?
Feeling flustered, I looked at the thing in the guy’s hand that was supposed to be a bracelet.
It looked like sothing you’d put on an animal.
Oh no, this won’t do.
I sent a desperate look to Han Seori, and as if she understood, she smiled faintly and nodded to Kim Cheonsu.
Did you really understand what I ant?
The fool fiddled with the bracelet to lengthen it a bit, then started to fasten it around my neck with a click-click.
Feeling like this wasn’t quite right, I tried to gently push his hand away, but…
“Hey, even if it tickles, bear with it for a bit. It’s all for your own good.”
Even rchants in less savory trades say that kind of thing when putting restraints on their captives.
I felt like a traveler being force-fed an unpalatable al.
With a click…
Sothing was fastened around my neck.
To be honest, it wasn’t uncomfortable. But it felt like sothing inside was withering away, so to speak.
It felt like I had beco sothing less than human.
Okay… yeah.
Let’s think of it as a choker.
I was never really into that edgy fashion trend, so I had no mory of ever wearing that kind of accessory in my life, but… if I tried to think of it that way, I felt a bit better.
Looking at my reflection in the mirror, I thought it might not look too bad on .
Anyway…
They told not to lt it, so for now, I did as they said.
When a long ti passed, and the thing around my neck didn’t enter my body, they took out sothing else with a satisfied look on their faces.
This ti… it was a bag that felt squishy.
The fool put the bag on with a sowhat pleased look.
When was the last ti I wore sothing like a backpack…?
Perhaps because I had that ominous thing called a choker around my neck, I felt little resistance to wearing sothing… no, this isn’t a backpack. Anyway.
If that was their intention, I’d have to say it was brilliant.
Is this that thing called negotiation skills or sothing…?
After I was fully equipped, they put things that felt heavy in the bag this ti.
Rather than my body tilting backward, the problem was the things digging into my jelly, so Han Seori and the fool repeated putting things in and taking them out to find the optimal weight.
What happened after they found the optimal weight, you ask?
Well… there was another ordeal to find the optimal weight.
You see if I moved, it would dig into my jelly.
Several days later…
Han Seori watched 7496-KR, the sli girl, writhing restlessly within the confines of the glass container.
The sli girl’s restlessness seed to stem from the cramped glass container, and Han Seori didn’t look too happy about it.
She wanted to just bring the sli girl along like she did at the research center, but there was a person with a balding head who strongly opposed it, saying it was absolutely not allowed.
Not wanting to cause more concern for him, who was already busy, Han Seori had no choice but to put the sli girl in a safe glass container and bring her, as he said.
However…
Considering where they were going now, she wondered if there was really a need for that.
‘Seems like an unnecessary waste.’
But what can you do?
Han Seori was willing to let it slide for the sake of preserving Yoo Kangjik’s lush… no, what little hair he had left.
But the real problem was…
‘I’m the one who suggested doing this, but…’
Will it be okay?
Han Seori sighed with a belated worry. Then, the sli girl, who had been writhing restlessly within the glass container, looked at her.
As the sli girl looked at her, Han Seori also looked at the sli girl.
A slightly indifferent-looking face.
But she definitely reacted to her sigh… so she must be worrying about her.
Does she know what she has to do from now on?
Han Seori, who had been looking at her with a concerned gaze, shook her head and thought,
‘Even though she looks like this…’
She’s an Anomaly.
It had been quite so ti since the incident they called a kidnapping had ended.
Han Seori, who had left the other procedures to the man with thinning hair, had been conducting various tests in the anti to see what she could do with the sli girl.
In what environnt can she adapt?
Can she wear equipnt? And so on.
The most important thing among them was whether she could understand speech.
It might be difficult to exchange detailed information, but she should at least be able to understand simple objectives in order to be properly ‘used.’
In that regard, the sli girl was very interesting.
Perhaps thanks to the diligent training of giving her snacks, she seed to be able to give various instructions to so extent, even if she did not communicate.
It felt a bit strange to treat the little girl like a puppy, but it was necessary, so it couldn’t be helped.
It was also kind of cute how she wriggled around as if trying to say sothing.
Co to think of it, from the ti she asked her to find a doll, it was already a sign that communication was possible.
‘Should I… try teaching her to write?’
Sohow, it seed possible, but… for now, if she could return from the urgent matter at hand, it would be sothing to consider.
The mont Han Seori twirled her hair…
*BLAM BLAM BLAM!*
*KA-BOOM!*
The sound of gunshots and sothing exploding in the distance was heard.
It seed they had almost arrived at their destination.
As the vehicle carrying Han Seori and the sli girl stopped, the gunshots that had been heard also stopped, as if it was almost over.
Han Seori opened the door, got out with the items she had brought, and pulled out the glass container loaded on the cart.
A few people silently followed behind her.
Soon, she saw…
Monsters that had beco honeycombs from being shot.
Sohow, they looked like monsters that appeared in a cartoon she had seen as a child.
They had beco lumps of at, so it was impossible to distinguish their forms, but she seed to have had that thought when she saw the data she had read.
Anyway…
As she approached, a man who seed to be in charge of the surrounding area ca over.
The two people exchanged slightly awkward greetings, and their gazes were drawn to the sli girl who was blankly looking outside from inside the glass container.
The heavily ard man said with a slightly unpleasant face,
“Are we really putting this thing in there?”
“Yes. It’s hard to manage it regularly… and we might find a clue to sealing it off, you know?”
“I heard about it, but…”
The man sighed lightly as he looked at the wriggling girl, but he didn’t really voice any opposition.
Even if she looked like that, she was an Anomaly, so she shouldn’t be viewed by human standards.
Han Seori also seed to have read the man’s thoughts as her face turned bitter.
“More importantly, is it really possible?”
“Well, I don’t expect to succeed on the first try either. She seems to like wandering around… so I’m thinking of making an internal map.”
“I see. Anyway, we’ve cleaned up the emission this ti, so it should be safe for the ti being.”
“Thank you.”
After the man returned to his post…
Han Seori took the sli girl out of the glass container and, like last ti, attached equipnt around her neck.
She also put a bag containing high-calorie food on her back in case the task took a long ti.
The sli girl was still looking around with a blank face…
Han Seori patted the sli girl’s head with a slightly worried look on her face.
Whether she knew or not of her concern…
The sli girl was blankly staring at the monsters that had beco lumps of at.
Unlike its owner, the sli girl’s ahoge twitched actively.
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