(Thank you very much to 'Yume no Shouyou,' 'Lei Xiang,' and 'Xin Yu Er' for the rewards!)
"It's about time you told me what this is really about, Yase Motoki..."
With an expressionless face, Natsuki spoke in a slightly displeased tone. "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have had to suffer humiliation in front of that stupid dog..."
Hearing Natsuki's words, Wu Yan's mouth twitched imperceptibly before returning to normal, though inwardly he could not stop himself from complaining.
Wasn't Natsuki the one who had been humiliating people all along?...
"Sorry, sorry. I didn't really have much choice either..." The short-haired boy Natsuki had called Yase Motoki spoke without the slightest hint of apology. Then he turned his gaze toward the light ahead and jerked his chin in that direction. Wu Yan and Natsuki turned around together and looked over...
At that moment, Wu Yan, Natsuki, and Yase Motoki were standing in a dark passageway. Ahead of them was a sizable glass window, with light shining out from beyond it.
Beyond the window was a room, one not much different from a hospital operating room...
The room was surrounded by expensive-looking, sophisticated machinery. Some appeared to be for medical use, some for research, perhaps both. Tiny lights flickered across them, accompanied by faint operating sounds that proved they were working. In the middle of the machinery was a bed—a hospital bed—with a young girl lying on it...
She looked to be in her teens, clearly very young at a glance. Yet she was currently unconscious and badly injured. Not only was her entire body wrapped in bandages, but one side of her abdomen was stained a large patch of red. It was obvious that it had been dyed by blood.
Seeing this scene, many people would probably assume that