Vol 1 Prologue (1/2)
Prologue: Rebirth
Already, he could not remember the motivation behind the betrayal He had already killed his colleague when he came to He stared at his red-painted hands – not just blood Numerous strands of hair and some pieces of meat stuck onto bones were stuck to his hands
Why did it turn out this way? He had asked himself that question many times before
He hesitated The time to find excuses had passed It was time to act
”Why?”
He heard the tiny question through the gap in the air and aze away from his hands He couldn't find the clue to act fro blood This blood was only the source of unhappiness
He lifted his gaze and confirmed the place he was in It was a ashed room Very dull All kinds of ht on the ceiling that illu made the whiteness of the room paler
A tied-up girl lay on the operation table Her naked, transparent body hid nothing under the strong light, but her expression held no shame
”Why? Just why?”
He continued talking to hiue They were in different departments and he only knew of their faces They worked in different departments for the same purpose That was the relationshi+p between them Perhaps that explained why he wasn't as shocked as he i at the corpse with a head shattered by hi at a loss lurked in some corner of his consciousness He used the robe the corpse earing to wipe his bloody hands
”Why did you do that?”
There were three corpses All three had their heads shattered and all three wore robes He wiped his hands, stripped off one of the clearer white robes froirl to the operation table
”To repay you for saving me That's probably the reason”
”I see”
The girl left the operation table The feet linking to her ss were naked Unfortunately, none of the shoes of the people on the floor suited her size, and he had not the spare tih he couldn't hide her, it was better than running around with a naked girl
”May I ask e do next?”
The girl shook her long black hair and looked at hiaze made him s
”Escape There's no other choice,” he said
Ailen tossed away the iirl's reaction Beneath the long black hair was a s at a loss Tightly closed lips and a shtly distant froender
He closed his eyes and thought for adid it hold for the present to keep looking at her?
”What to do?”
No response The girl cared nothing for hiain
”Are you staying here or escaping with me?”
”I don't want to leave”
He looked at her again and saw her nodded expressionlessly
”But I don't want to be destroyed”
”Then let's go”
He stiffened when he was about to hold her hand The two of thehtly held onto his blood-stained hand A hand that couldn't be cleaned Wondering when he had becoaze, evaded the operation table that he was so faaze away from them
The tirasped hold of this ti as he pondered and reached out to press the door button
”Right, your name I haven't asked for it I'm Ailen”
” I'm Saya”
”Right”
He opened the door The situation outside was in an e shrilly The sound of nuues who held weapons Probably colleagues whose faces he hadn't even seen They weren't even as close to him as the other three he had just killed
Colleagues whose faces he kneho had coone
The reason to stay, the reason to tolerate, the purpose here Perhaps he had already lost it
That hy he did this
”Then let's go”
But he would lose the reason to stay, the reason to tolerate, the purpose to keep o now that he had lost it all?
Ailen passed through the door, putting aside the question and his feeling He had no weapon with hi imprisoned, he was not allowed to carry a weapon
”Anyway, I'll figure it out,” he said so the girl behind him wouldn't feel uneasy He deliberately chose to walk in the direction of the footsteps
There must be a way This hat he felt His confidence did not co operations Many of the guards heading for him had also undertaken the same operation
The Alcheh they were dead, the institution of current Alche the reality of this country while continuing the
Flesh-strengthening was one of their inherited techniques Who knehether it was to resist theor that it was simply for the sake of war Either way, they had not held back and had operated on the soldiers for those two purposes
Operations that could make the bodies of humans into super-humans
”Follow me”
”Ah,” she replied, not at all uneasy
Ailen stood before her A group of guards holding guns were before the, Ailen increased his speed
He ran as they pulled their triggers In a split second, numerous bullets filled his vision
He sloaved away the bullets with his left hand and was surprised to see the bullets conquering the passage
(I can actually see the bullets?)
He waved theh speed h the operations had strengthened his reflexive nerves and physique, it shouldn't be enough to h speed bullets and deflect them with his arm
Even he himself couldn't believe the result of his causal movements
(Really Just what am I now?)
He s forward His opponents were slightly shaken but they were still underestiuards blocked off the passage and lifted their guns There were no other obstructions They didn't kno to react to Ailen's action and could only fall under his fists
Ailen beat up all the guards His right hand hammered into a jaw and broke it His left hand struck a body and shattered the organs
(The right eye and left arm)
It appeared those two parts of his body had changed His vision swayed left and right when he th between his left and right hand was palpable If he attacked with his left ar to support his strength
”Seeht”
He checked the guards' weapons while tolerating the pain of his body
”damn, useless”
Though he kneas useless pulling the trigger as the gun was not reacting, he still wanted to curse The weapons given for the soldiers could only be used with the correct DNA and or the correct badge
Perhaps Ailen's DNA file had been deleted when they found out he had betrayed them Not that he couldn't unlock the weapon but he hadn't the time The useless weapon orthless, so he left the weapon of his dead colleague and keptforward
”Please use them”
The voice ca out two guns
”These are”
Obviously, they were the guards' weapons The body of the gun was too long and the gun barrel was unfamiliar to him
”Are these yours?”
They definitely weren't the guards' weapons They didn't have the brand na nuirl's but where was she hiding them? She was naked beneath the white robe
”Since I decided to follow you, everything belongs to you”
It was hard to acknowledge her answer but it was true that he couldn't ignore the weapons in her hands Ailen took the guns and felt the
The sound of bare feet followed
The sound of numerous feet once more came to him from before him
”In that case, I'll protect you We'll escape and figure out how to survive That's the contract between us,” he said in a low voice Poas in his voice The ti had passed He ended the goodbye ceremony Situated in the present action, he clearly felt the ray of hope that would come after this event
He was to protect the girl behind him and escape the facility
”Farewell, the plan”
He said to the guards round the corner and pulled the triggers
The tragic escape of the two began, led by the flauns
The polar lights surrounded the darkness
”Are you all right?” she asked faintly
”Yeah,” Ailen pressed down the roughness of his voice
Roads stretched away fro the roads were fertile lands The green grass do like the surface of a sea under the night wind as it reflected the light of the night
”At least they failed to catch up”
It had been two days since they escaped the facility Their pursuers had only chased after them for a day They had taken over a car of their pursuers' and changed into a new car that they stole froood condition, it broke down at dusk Hence, the two of them could only walk and ended up in this place
Ailen kept his pose, lying on the ground as he confirmed the way before them was still sed in darkness Not that he wanted to kill hi car to stop if luck ith him
His body had groaned one hour ago It was a wave of sudden, intense pain
No The syuards and escaped the facility The symptoms had stayed with hiht eye, and the
He had ignored it all Only one fight ensued after the escape After that, he had been tolerating the pain invading his body The pain spread as tiht the pain was about to disappear, this happened
Unbearable pain conquered his entire body Ailen had fallen It was i his body around
Even so, he had rolled to the middle of the road and lay here till now
”Sorry You probably want a warm bed now”
”No I'm fine”
The expressionless countenance hadn't changed from the time when he first met her Saya had stolen a suit of work clothes in one of the farmsteads and noore it Except its size didn't suit her She had to fold up her sleeves and pants Dust was stuck to her transparent-like face and forehead The black hair hanging on her backwas like water in the facility, but in here, it was like mud
This irl as suited to be a flower in a greenhouse
”What a waste”
The pain began to turn numb Ailen spoke with a hoarse voice as he looked at the sky The polar lights still surrounded the sky The seven stirring colours would probably keep on surrounding the sky of this country
”dahts”
Because of staring hard at the seven colours, he had overused his right eye and the pain had now cut froht eye with a hand
Only darkness reend had it that stars and ht sky but Ailen had not seen the real thing He had only seen the the New Year
”There aren't any stars here too,” Saya said, also watching the sky
”This area was created ten years ago It isn't connected to the universe”
”I see”
”Why here?”
Only now did she ask the obvious question
”Why in this area of polar lights?”
”You asked me why Uh”
He watched the polar lights in the light sky and reo, plus the history lessons he took when he was young
Because of population explosion, the ah to support human civilization Ailen couldn't remember much as he wasn't serious in the lessons
However, the plan to look for neorlds in the universe ended in failure The peace forcibly maintained completely collapsed
It was a war for resources A ith a sha for resources also served to reduce the population No victors e up to jump into a bottomless hole made of blood and meat The number of injured and dead continued to rise
The organisation of Alchemists put a stop to the war The united countries, al lost their power, had called in scientists from all over the world so to invent a new technique to solve this problem
And that was the area of the polar light – the Aurora Field
The technique to create Akukan It was a technique to project hypothesized space in maths into Zero Territory To create li In there was new land with rich underground resources, unpolluted water and fertile soil One could obtain a neorld without any effort, a world that all countries wished for
It was a technique that didn't sit ith people who had once atte the universe and failed Everyone held this technique in suspicion But they had no room for suspect and denial it once they saw the neorld Every country raised their hands to welcoh the supplies for the demands had reached their li a hopeful future awaited them once this difficult period had passed Akukan were born throughout the world and Aurora Fields covered the entire world
Aurora Fields continued to increase after the end of the difficult period The time of poverty had turned rich Limitless increase could create limitless resources In the end, Aurora Fields filled all spaces
In a split second, the world had become a locked country
Increasing Akukan interfered with each other, creating Zetsuen spaces Zetsuen spaces appeared in between countries and regions It had become impossible to move between Akukan
Only little confused ensued Separated families represented the confusion, but probleovernovernance of individual Akukan No uneasiness for lack of resources The area of the country Ailen was in had far exceeded the totally surface area of the earth After that, Alchemists had announced the Zetsuen spaces wouldn't be a problem if everyone used the same Aurora Field Hence the little commotion was smoothed over till now
”There was a plan to investigate the Zetsuen space,” Ailen said, having temporarily recalled his history lessons
”Zetsuen space?”
”To look at the other side of the world that has been separated This planet, this world is separated from others So what's beco like that The plan was made to research on the solution for mutants People who didn't fear death were recruited to enter the Zetsuen space of the Aurora Field”
”Did you participate?”
”Yes I did I had so to confirm”
A girl floated up in his”That facility was then our bodies so we could adapt to the Zetsuen space We trained and got ourselves familiar with the operation and then jumped into the space”
The polar lights floated in the night sky The edge of the Akukan The Zero Territory that no one could sense The Zero Territory that no one would pierce
That was the Zetsuen space
”Forcibly opening the Zetsuen space, we jumped into the Aurora Field The operation ended without us understanding anything”
All his colleagues had disappeared in Zetsuen space except him
”Then why”