Point-of-View: X
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"You...! What are you doing here!?" Exclaid one of the guards warily.
At last, I finally made it, to the Eden base in Greenland. After days of random searching, I finally found it. The entrance was hidden inside a cave, and a Dark Skill illusion technique had been used to make it look like there were bears hibernating inside, to keep away any intruders.
Obviously, a hidden base is going to be, as the na suggests, hidden, but still...why the heck did they have to make it so hard to find!?
If I hadn’t been here once before, there’s no way I’d have ever found my way here. But enough complaining...in the end, I did manage to find my way here, and naturally, this is how I’m greeted. Well, I didn’t exactly expect to get a warm welco, far from it...
"None of your concern, lackey...mind fetching soone important I can talk to? I don’t have ti for you, small fry," I responded cuttingly.
"Tch, don’t be so arrogant, you faux ta-Human! I won’t stand for any disrespect from the likes of you," He growled in reply.
"Ooh, I’m sooo scared, how terrifying. Don’t test my patience, lackey, or I’ll kill you," I warned him icily.
"Hah, that’s a bluff! I’m aware of the Condition placed on you, you insufferable wench, you can’t betray us or you’ll-...ahhh!" He began cockly, before letting out a scream of pain as I slashed at him with one of my hidden daggers, slicing through his left eye.
"Or I’ll what? Yeah, it’s true that I can’t betray Eden, but, then...I really wouldn’t call an act of trash disposal betrayal, would you?" I responded innocently, before smirking as I held up my blade, which was dripping with his blood.
He trembled as he t my gaze, clutching the left side of his face with a pained expression as blood poured out of his left eye, running down his hand and dripping onto the ground...
"D-damn you, you little-!" He wailed in anger and terror.
"I’ll ask you one more ti. Go fetch soone important, or your other eye is next," I stated coldly, causing him to flinch, before muttering sothing underneath his breath and taking out a phone.
He then called soone and inford them of the situation in a painstaking tone, saying that I was here and asking to et with them.
"Well?" I inquired with a raised eyebrow, as he put the phone back in his pocket.
"Tch...follow ," He responded with a grumble, looking a bit wobbly from the pain as he unlocked the entrance and pushed it open.
He shut the entrance and locked it as I followed him in, before leading the way inside, walking a bit unsteadily as he clutched onto his slashed eye, which was bleeding profusely.
"Hey, watch it, you’re leaking blood all over the floor, soone might slip on it," I remarked tauntingly.
I can’t help it, after the last few days, I’ve got a lot of pent-up frustration, and naturally, I need to take it out on soone. I an, it isn’t healthy to bottle it in, after all.
"Don’t push your luck, you bitch," He snapped in response.
"Heh, you don’t say...," I scoffed, before adding in low, nacing tone, "I’m the one who should be saying that to you...do you really want to provoke , hm? You think that’s a good idea?"
He muttered quietly to himself but didn’t say anything, as he continued to lead the way. We passed by a few others on the way, most of them staring as we walked by.
Well, can’t really bla them, with this guy dripping a trail of blood. Plus I’m all covered in dirt and my clothes are a bit ripped, from wandering the forest looking for this place for the last few days.
After what felt like ages, he finally stopped outside a tal door, tapping on it and stepping back nervously. Nothing happened for a few seconds, when suddenly, the door slid open with a chanical hiss.
"Co in, X. You, get back to your guard post," Ca a woman’s voice from inside, one that was kinda familiar.
"Y-yes, ma’am, but I need to get treatnt on my eye first and-," Began the guard, before she cut him off by shutting the door with a press of a button as I entered.
"Oh, uh...it’s you," I recognized her, taking a step back.
Great, just great...it’s this piece of work...
"Are you sure you want to take that attitude with , X?" She responded with a sweet, terrifying smile.
"I’m not taking an attitude, per say, you just freak out," I replied warily.
"Blunt as ever, I see. Well, I suppose I don’t dislike that. Now, then...," She trailed off, the phony smile disappearing as a dark, intimidating look appeared in her eyes, her expression deadly serious, "Why are you here? Explain...now."
"Uh, right, so what happened was...," I began to explain imdiately.
She’s one of Eden’s Category 0s, from one of the Japanese ta-Human clans affiliated with Eden, her na is Arisu Kimura, she’s currently the youngest Category 0 at just twenty years old...not just in age, but also in terms of experience. She’d only been promoted to Category 0 recently, and I’m pretty sure that Harmony doesn’t even know she exists yet.
She had long, straight black hair that went down to her back, terrifyingly cold, piercing black eyes, her upper eyelids were painted red and she had a pale complexion. She was of average height and build, but that didn’t do anything to diminish the intimidating air around her.
She wore a black Japanese sailor school uniform top with a red bow, combined with a pair of black jeans. It’s a little questionable that a twenty year old is wearing a high school uniform top, but I sure as hell am not going to ask her about it.
Earlier, I ntioned ta-Human clans, and to elaborate on that, I’m referring to all the current existing ta-Human bloodlines. There are a little over two hundred such bloodlines, scattered throughout the world in various different countries.
None of them are independent, all two hundred plus clans are affiliated with either Eden or Harmony. Any that try to cut ties with the one they’re affiliated with or jump ship to the other one are to be eliminated.
From what I know, there have been so Roo-Juliet type incidents between couples from either side, and whenever those instances are found out, both involved parties are eliminated. Both Harmony and Eden don’t tolerate that.
In the past, ta-Humans were only allowed to hook up with those of the sa bloodline, or in other words, in-breeding. But in the last hundred years or so, to keep up with the tis, they’ve been allowed to mix between different clans, so long as they’re both affiliated with the sa side.
There are no known cases of ta-Humans hooking up with regular humans, though I bet it’s definitely happened. I an, whenever I got laid during my past missions, I’m definitely sure those male hookers weren’t ta-Humans. Though to be fair, I’m not a natural ta-Human.
Anyway, I bet that hook-ups with regular humans aren’t all that rare, but in all likelihood, they take extra care not to get them pregnant...it’d probably be a disaster if a normal person bore the child of a ta-Human, assuming that the child is likely to awaken their ta gene.
It’s definitely a possibility...I an, just because ta-Humans keep their powers hidden doesn’t an that they’re completely isolated from regular society. In fact, it’s the opposite...the majority of ta-Humans live in normal houses, go to school, college or work normal jobs, they just hide the ta aspect of themselves.
After all, they’ve still gotta earn money to survive, and ta-Humans in the lower Categories probably don’t get much financial support from whichever side they’re affiliated with, either Eden or Harmony.
Honestly, I’m surprised that so random hormonal ta teen hasn’t like, had a ltdown in school and revealed their powers or sothing like that...I didn’t exactly have a normal ti during my teenage years, but I still know that people tend to be the most dramatic and emotional when they’re in their teens.
Well, whatever, I may find this all interesting, but at the end of the day, I don’t really care about how ta-Humans spend their lives. Okay, so that was so random facts about the global structure of ta-Human society, and in the present, I’ve just finished explaining to Arisu what had happened to since my mission to apprehend that Outlier...
"Normally, I wouldn’t tolerate soone reporting such a failure to , but...I have to admit, finding your way here after being stranded in the middle of the ocean is...impressive. And the fact that you’re still alive ans that you haven’t done anything to willingly betray us in any way. Alright, then, I’ll contact your idiot keeper and let him know that you’re here," She decided, after a really stressful few seconds of silence.
Guess she’s talking about Trevor...not a lot of respect, despite him being her senior, both in age and as a Category 0.
"Oh, uh, thanks, I appreciate it," I replied gratefully...yeah, I know that I’m being unusually docile, but I don’t care, she’s way too scary to let my pride get the better of ...if I piss her off, she won’t hesitate to kill , and even with my nullification, I don’t think I can beat her.
Well, it’s a moot point, since even if I could beat her, trying to do so in earnest would probably count as a betrayal and that’ll be it for .
"Hm? Why are you still here? Go wait in the cafeteria or sothing. We’re done talking, so get out," She remarked icily.
"Right, uh...yes, ma’am!"
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