Knock knock.
Lieutenant Rock: "Enter."
The automatic tallic door slides open; from behind it, instructor Lizaac entered the office.
Lizaac: "Lieutenant Rock I hope you have been well"
Lieutenant Rock: "I have been well, but hearing you asking about my well-being is kind of creepy. What is it instructor Lizaac?"
Lizaac: "Let forward it to your terminal first."
Instructor Lizaac operated his terminal as he send sothing to Lieutenant Rock.
Lieutenant Rock: "Is this true, or am I hallucinating? Are you serious?
Lizaac: "I have been thinking about this for a while now; you know that my area of operation is up north, so moving the post will make my life much easier."
Lieutenant Rock: "It feels like a sudden decision. Is there any particular reason other than that?"
Lizaac: "every two weeks I have to co from far north till here, I could use the ti for so R and R"
Lieutenant Rock exchanged a deep look with Lizaac as if he was trying to guess if there was sothing behind the sudden request.
Lieutenant Rock: "okay then, Your transfer order is hereby approved, I will put in a request in the network for your replacent, Your classes don't happen very often so there should be no problem. It was a pleasure working with you."
As if a weight has been lifted off his chest, Lizaac smiled slightly.
Lizaac: "The pleasure was mine, lieutenant."
Instructor Lizaac turned around to exit the office, but the mont he reached the door, Lieutenant Rock suddenly asked.
Lieutenant Rock: "One last thing: How is the new addition to the seeds? Can you tell what you think about him?"
Lizaac's hand, which was on the door fra, suddenly shook.
A mont of silence prevailed inside the office.
Lizaac: "He… He just had his first ntal challenge…."
Lieutenant Rock: "So how did he do? Did he exhibit fear, shock, or remorse? How do you evaluate him?"
Lizaac: "His results were surprising; there was no fear. He only exhibited a desolate feeling that was engulfed with absolute rage…
Lieutenant, if I may say, candidate number 33 is abnormal; be careful of him!!!"
The expression on Lieutenant Rock darkened as he felt that there was sothing strange with instructor Lizaac, especially his evaluation of number 33.
Lieutenant Rock: "Can you elaborate?"
Lizaac: "I said my piece; this is all I can get from one lesson. Maybe the next instructor will have better luck evaluating him. Have a good day, lieutenant."
Lieutenant Rock watched the back of Lizaac as he retreated from his office.
Instructor Lizaac exhaled as he stood in the corridor, thinking to himself, "If I stay here, then I will have to kill him; otherwise, I feel that he will."
Inside his eyes the mory of the terrifying presence played again and again and again.
...
Nova: "Master, are you all right?"
Lying down on his bed, Alan stayed in the silence and darkness of his room.
The first one to notice the abnormality was Nova, as she felt a kind of pain through her connection with him that she never knew existed.
Alan: "I am fine, Nova; I just had a nightmare, that's all."
Nova: "....."
As if she wanted to say sothing but couldn't find the words.
The only thing that you could do for her master was to coil around his neck and keep him company.
...…..
No80: "No33, You're up early. Wait for ."
Early in the morning the next day, number 80 saw Alan walking through the corridors, so he greeted him first.
But the mont Alan turned around, number 80, who felt a gloomy atmosphere around his junior, asked.
No. 80: "The first ti is always the hardest. I know that you have been hit hard, but words can't ease your pain. I did not see you after, and you were not at the recovery session. What happened to you yesterday?"
After a few silent monts, Alan responded.
Alan: "It was.... Sothing, I felt the need to be alone so I went back to my room"
No. 80: "So you didn't have the recovery session. That won't do. After we go through AIT, we are put under a recovery session. The base has many treasures that can heal ntal damage, so you'd better head back to the infirmary after today's class."
No. 33: "Thank you for your concern, senior. I will, but could you please tell what AIT is?"
No. 80: "Walk with , AIT anti-interrogation training. Every two weeks we have one class for the whole duration that we spend in our training.
We are subjected to two variants and forms of torture: one is ntal, and the other is physical.
As if you are taking poison, you start by microdosing. Then you start to take a little more after your body adapts to it.
The sa principle is applied with AIT; in the case of an agent being captured and he could not end his life before falling into the hands of the enemy, this training is one of two walls that prevents you from spilling state secrets and leaking the organization's important information."
Alan: "I can agree with the principal, but everyone will have a breaking point. If there was no rescue and the enemy went on and on torturing the captured agent, in the end they would speak."
No. 80: "That's where the second wall cos in: when the will of the individual is broken, an implanted technique by the higher-ups will activate, terminating the life of the said agent."
Alan: "That... It is as if we were expendables."
No80: "Not as if, in front of the organization we are, it is as if we are soldiers in a war, and every bloody war demands a sacrifice."
Alan: "Is it worth it?"
No. 80: "That's for you to decide, number 33, but we do a lot of good and save many lives. Many would die just to join this organization, so in a cynical way, we are lucky."
Alan: "Huh, Lucky, I guess we are."
...…
Inside the training room The other six seeds gathered as they waited for the instructor.
No. 23: "You are here, number 33. You really screwed us over yesterday. Did you have to pick up the ntal part?"
Alan felt a great resentnt coming from number 23; he could clearly feel his aura unstable.
No. 18: "It's not his fault; I think he did not know anything about yesterday's class. It's your fault, number 80; you live the closest to him, yet you did not teach him."
No80: "And how the hell did I know that we would have the AIT class yesterday? I was ambushed when I saw instructor Lizaac, and I did not have the ti to explain anything to him."
No. 9: "Stop whining, It does not matter. If we can't handle a simple ntal torture how will we able to fare behind the enemy lines or against heretic organizations. If you can't keep up just quit that's for the better"
No. 17: "That's rich coming from Miss Perfect Number 9. Not every one of us is a robot like you."
The atmosphere inside the training room was slightly tense.
Alan: "I guess you all felt it was hard, but number 9 is right. If one can't face his demons, how can he claim to go out and hunt others?"
A weird silence took place in the training room as no one spoke a word after.
Suddenly the door to the training room opened, and from behind it a short-cute looking female entered.
"Oh good, kitties, all of you are here."
Everyone imdiately lined up as they greeted the incoming woman in one voice together.
Everyone: "Greeting instructor Lilac."
Everyone: "Greetings to you all. Why do you all look pale? I don't feel that youthful energy coming from you."
No. 17: "AIT yesterday"
Instructor Lilac: "Aha, you have been hit hard by that sadist. Oh, we have a new mber."
Alan: "Number 33 greet instructor lilac"
Instructor Lilac: "My, my, we have a genius 16-year-old now in our batch. I have high expectations for you. I hope that you will deliver."
Alan: "I will try my best, instructor."
Instructor lilac: "Good why don't I begin today with you, by the way what is your favorite weapon?"
Alan: "I don't know if it's my favorite, but I only trained to use daggers."
Instructor lilac: "Do not worry, I am the instructor responsible for close quarter combat and weapon training, I will teach you everything you need but for now let's see how good you are with the daggers, How about a mock battle with ?
I will use daggers also. Are you up to it?
Alan: "With pleasure."
Instructor Lilac: "Then go get your weapons from the locker next door."
No. 80: "May I go with him, instructor? He is new here."
Instruction lilac: "You may."
The mont number 80 exited the room with Alan He imdiately warned him.
Number 80: "Don't let the small and cute exterior deceive you, she is one of the most terrifying instructors that we had"
Alan was surprised by how serious number 80 was.
Alan: "I know, I guess she must be formidable for you to talk so seriously."
Number80: "Yes she is, you will feel it in a few monts"
Alan: "by the way why I am the only one who is going to the weapon locker"
Number 80: "Because every one of us already went there and got all kinds of weapons, we have a rest day every two weeks so you could go and do your own thing; most of us train as there's nothing we can do for entertainnt inside the base, and everyone is on edge wanting to grow stronger."
Alan: "I see."
No80: "Again, I'm reminding you to be careful and do not pull the stunt that you pulled when fighting ; go 100% from the start.
Otherwise, if you piss her off, you would wish she'd kill you."
Looking at number 80, who looked very tense, Alan could not believe that the gentle-looking instructor could be such a hardliner.
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