Chapter 55 (2/2)
“Eh?”
To my words, they were surprised that even Yuri-san had his eyes wide openI can understand that this talk is on a level where the head of these two people will physically fly if it goes out to the publicIn this case, I can just ask the them a favor
I do not knohy DrSandra created the cult group ‘New World’ but if it will put Alice in danger, then I will make sure to stop her plansFor that, I need information… I would like Noah to have eyes and ears here in Russia and that would be the forinally asked them to release
“As a condition for all of this to be confidential, I would you to hand over Anton-san’s forAs proive you huge profit and will also provide you ‘Diplomatic Contact’ to Noah so that you can contact us at anytime”
“It is an exceptional offer, is it really okay?”
“I do notof excuse that I will tell to other countries for supporting yoursIt will take a few days before I can hand an official letter about it but it ht since you will need time to discuss this with your superiors”
“I understand, then ill iht now as our proof of trustI will also release the otheras soon as possible”
Yoshi+, afterwards I just need to contact Claire-san to pick us all up and have mom prepare the necessary docuhten the security on Alice and shi+ngo?
Aa~ that’s right, I need to speak with Anton-san’s forh time to watch the anime tomorrow? I think I should contact Kon and ask her to record the showWhile considering such things inside my head, I decided to operate the terminal in my arm and contact Claire-san──
—-Arakawa Kouki Point of View —-
I was thinking about the whole situation for two hours after talking with , I realized that I cannot do anything unless I see how the opponents reactI decided to act like an adult and just watch a video about the Russian Desh I a that it is great to kill tie soon
“Anton-san, I’ back?”
“Hm, I wonder? I think they will at least let us know if they cannot come back”
Looks like Anton-san is not confident about it as wellI am sleepy but I don’t want Lieutenant Colonel to find o to thea lemon juice and carbonated water like a cocktail while worrying on what to doA knock on the door was heard in the room and Anton-san placed one of his hand in his pocket while the door carefully open
“Arakawsan, sorry to kept you waiting”
It was Lieutenant Colonel and Yuri-san who came inside the roomHowever, they look kind of different compared to how they were earlierThe military uniform of the Lieutenant Colonel is wrinkled and Yuri-san had a loose tie and tired faceWas my proposal caused them so much trouble? However you think about it, it should be advantageous to the Russia but… could it be they realize that the related goods areat the Lieutenant Colonel while in cold sweat, he asked in a horse voice after clearing his throat
“I will ask you directlyArakawsan, ‘how far’ do you know beforethis proposal?”
Aa~ This is badPerhaps someone who is a political adviser, a superior or financial adviser realized that there arechannel
damn… My mom did not even noticed so I did not expect other people to know about itLooks like there is someone in this world, who souess it will be better to split the profit than force ht fro, but most of them are just speculationSince it was mostly speculation, I would like to prepare for the future through this discussion”
“Thank goodnessSo, letand then you can decide on what to do after thatMy real identity belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and not the Intelligence ServiceYuri Pan Affairs but the Chief of Intelligence Service”
Ministry of Internal Affairs? Why is Ministry of Internal Affairs in here?I just want to allocate rights for selling goodsA Lieutenant Colonel who is responsible indomestic security shouldn’t be hereAnton-san’s face is surprised as I am, which means that no department is established in the Ministry of Internal Affair without e on the situation
“Well then, let ”
A paper document was passed to es until I reach a page with a ‘Genetic Improvement Project’ written in RussianWhat is this? I don’t know if they misunderstood me but I have no idea about this project
Rather than that, what happen to the talk about hts? I stand up and tried to tell the Lieutenant “I do not knohat this is” but I stop when the ter voice communication
“Yes…”
“Ko-chan, stay cal to those two and cancel youryou don’t need to know”
I see── I do not understand what is going on with Russia but I a about when Alice was kidnapped before or the ‘Alice Project’ that Macho talk with mom in secret after that
All of them… all the adults aroundabout it up until nowHowever, the importance of this project is worrisome and if it is about Alice herself, then I want to knowabout Alice Project?”
“No, I aAnyway, just do as I say!”
“No wayAlso as I said before, I will take responsibility on this case until the endMom should just keep quiet”
I unconsciously use “I(ore)” inelse but I cut off the communicationAt the same time, the ice on my lemon soda melt andsilent like this so after clearing e the Lieutenant Colonel to continue(TN: The ‘I’ here is ‘ore’ instead of ‘boku’ that Kouki usually useHe is serious when using ‘ore’, this was also explained by shi+ngo in Chapter 18)
“Nnn~ I’m sorryThen please, continue”
“Are you sure? That, Arakawsan… Miki-san was trying to say so to do with this, I a full responsibility in this case”
I am not an idiot ill forever be hidden in the shadow of my mother’s skirtI will make sure to finish what I startedI will help Anton-san’s boss and the Chernobog et information about Alice Project, make sale channels in Russia and return home
For that to happen, I need to act likewith the military mode version of Claire-san!! It is a contest to see who is better at negotiatingWith that in s and made a smile similar to Claire-san… a smile which Macho referred to as the ‘Witch Smile’──
—- Yakov Tarkovsky Point of View —-
The ateHe is not showing a se anyatorI’ choked due to an unspeakable fearIt‘Alice Project’ to Arakawsan
“I understand, if you say its good then I will continueThe beginning of Genetic Improvement Project is when a specific type of nanomachine was successfully developed in 2051After that, an experi gene… in a huenome or chromosomeI think you know this already since Arakawsan is a faoal of this experiment is Human Mutation── an ‘Artificial Evolution’However, the project was frozen due to ‘Ethical Reason’ before it even becalass silently while listening to e to a researcher like him but the problem is from here on wards…
“In year 2055, United Nation officially banned any experiments of this kind to the whole worldHowever, here in this country we continue to conduct this research in secretOur final goal is to build soldiers with enhanced physical body but difficulties arises and the project itself was stoppedAt such tiot an infor a similar researchWhen we confirm that those information were true, we immediately contacted the Canadian Government to offer a joint research”
“I see, and that is how the ‘Genetic Ian…”
“As you uessed, we provided Canadian Government a place, researchers, equipment and full financial assistance for the researchI will give you a separate full detailed document about this, so please take a look at thisAs explained earlier, our goal was to oalWe want to re che soldiers but the Canadian Governinning’── and that is ‘Project Alice'”
Mutation of a hunificantWith that being said, the fundamental idea of ‘Project Alice’ is to create enetic structure right froinally I would like to explain it briefly to Arakawsan but since it involves Alice Alford, I need to absolutely watch my words
If I call his lover as a ‘Special Individual’, I’m sure I will not be able to see the dawn of tomorrow
“As for the Enhanced Soldier Project of our country, we have exclude it from the documents because it is part of our Nation’s secret but we have judge that giving information about Alice Project is of no problemSince it was…… you know…… Alice-san is with you”
“Hm, that means Alice is a successful special individual of the ‘Evolution Sisters’ according to this docu Special IndividualI was trying to be careful you know!!Please take back h I try to avoid a crisis to my motherland, it is still to irlfriend to Arakawa Kouki, who is known to be dangerous in global scale…
I gave permission to Arakawa Kouki to read the docuarette and spit out smokes but then he lift his head and make me instinctively think, what is it?
“Sisters… Since it is about sisters, does that mean that there are other exa an older or younger sister”
“The reason it is called Sisters is because wo the experimentsMale Type does not existThere are also no other success other than Alice-sanIt’s just, I don’t really kno to explain──”
“What is it?”
Wondering what I meant, he look at the secretary andmyself as calm as possibleWill he believe if I talk about “Soul” or “Reincarnation”? Although it is that kind of laughable story, there is a possibility of hi with hi seriously
However, if Arakawa Kouki really have the devil’s brainI think he will be able to understand the hypothesis that the researchers are talking aboutShould I amble?
“The only successful one was Alice-san, other experiical reactions”
“That means, Alice was successful only by chance?”
“No, that’s not what I meantThis is the hypothesis created by the researchers who participated in the project but it probably contains occult belief…… Does Arakawsan believe about the existence of ‘Soul’?”
“Haa, did you say soul…”
Ma~ That reaction is naturalWhen I first heard about this hypothesis, I thought that there is soirl was already crazy at that pointOtherwise, she would have never roup which is now called ‘New World’ with unknown goalsWhile thinking about such a thing, Arakawsan answered while having a troubled expression
“I believe in a way”
“Is that so? Well then letto the hypothesis established by a researcherA soul can only enter a vessel if it is according to what it wasFor example, the soul of a human can enter a vessel with a size of a ‘human’If it is an insect, then it can only enter a vessel with the size of an insectIf its a dog, then to a dogIt is said that there is a possibility that everything is already predeterminedHowever, if there is a vessel shaped like a human but with more power and mentality than that of a man─ what kind of soul will it contain?”
“I see… In other words, the ‘Evolution Sisters’ are too big as a vessel for a human soul to enterHowever, Alice exists… if that theory is correct, that ”
“Th-that ould be the case!!”
“I do not mind, perhaps the person herself does not mind as wellRather than that, did that researcher say anything about ‘Reincarnation’── For example, there is a possibility that the soul came from a vessel of a different space and time, or from past to the future, or from another world which is on different di me? Did he understand the full detail of this hypothesis with just that little information? On the contrary, he hi of si it on whimArakawsan fold his arms and was silent for a whileI drink a water to wet my dried throatArakawsan leaked words out of histo himself
“I cannot prove it but I think that this hypothesis is correctThere is no doubt that this researcher is at the saenius’ as my motherTo be able to conclude those with so little inforirl said was true? What have I done…”
“So she was a wo?”
Arakawsan noticed e behavior and asked ht now? If he say her hypothesis is correct then that roup called ‘New World’ was bornWhy at that time…I did not believe in her? Why did I treat Sandra crazy just like everyone elseIf only I believe in her, just like how a lover should, then she s──
—- Arakawa Kouki Point of View —-
I saw Lieutenant Colonel suddenly having a pale faceWhat on earth happened? Did I say so, I would like to knohere the researcher who unraveled the mystery of ‘Reincarnation’ isIt is not like I want to return to the previous world where I died, I just want to recover soely only limited to myselfAlso about the soul in Alice, could it be a soul of a powerful creature froh level spirits─── No, that can’t beAnyway, I aht noho looks like about to collapse in front of ht? I a to worry”
“A sorry about that, I a about the researcher?”
“Yes, I would like to talk to her if possible”
“That is iShe is the one responsible in raiding japan for Alice-san and ArakawsanNot only that, she is also responsible for the terrorist attacks in different parts of the worldShe is the leader of the cult group known as ‘New World'”
The words of the Lieutenant Colonel who looks like drowning in shame say those words as if he understood that those errors cannot be rearrangedI see, there is a matter about ‘Nuclear Weapons’ written in a document when I sneak on macho’s room to play a prank on hiuring out who is funding the cult group and who is supplying them VSTOL Aircrafts and weaponsAlso, the reason why Chernobog ht up in a political conspiracy similar to those movies and novels into us so we can solve all of those question by asking here and using that, ill be able to secure Alice’s safety
“Lieutenant Colonel, did youprohibited by treaty?”
“……Yes”
“The funds used by New World is actually fro to kill Chernobog ot infor out?”
“……Yes”
“Did DrSandra leave the research because everyone do not trust her theory and thinking that it was absurd?”
“…Yes”
“Can you cooperate withas it will not conflict with your nation’s interests?”
“We will cooperate!! That’s why, please forgive us… please”
“In that case, let’s make all of this talk confidential”
“Eh?”
To my words, they were surprised that even Yuri-san had his eyes wide openI can understand that this talk is on a level where the head of these two people will physically fly if it goes out to the publicIn this case, I can just ask the theroup ‘New World’ but if it will put Alice in danger, then I will make sure to stop her plansFor that, I need information… I would like Noah to have eyes and ears here in Russia and that would be the forinally asked them to release
“As a condition for all of this to be confidential, I would you to hand over Anton-san’s forAs proive you huge profit and will also provide you ‘Diplomatic Contact’ to Noah so that you can contact us at anytime”
“It is an exceptional offer, is it really okay?”
“I do notof excuse that I will tell to other countries for supporting yoursIt will take a few days before I can hand an official letter about it but it ht since you will need time to discuss this with your superiors”
“I understand, then ill iht now as our proof of trustI will also release the otheras soon as possible”
Yoshi+, afterwards I just need to contact Claire-san to pick us all up and have mom prepare the necessary docuhten the security on Alice and shi+ngo?
Aa~ that’s right, I need to speak with Anton-san’s forh time to watch the anime tomorrow? I think I should contact Kon and ask her to record the showWhile considering such things inside my head, I decided to operate the terminal in my arm and contact Claire-san──