Find the children from the orphanage.
Take them with you and truly escape that terrifying laboratory.
Even if it means doing so as a great monster.
Lu Xin was certain that the most important message Mom had left for him conveyed precisely this meaning.
This left him feeling somewhat conflicted.
He had always wanted to find the children from the orphanage. That had never changed.
Whether it was out of guilt, longing, obsession, or some other reason, he had to find them.
It was precisely because he had always held this thought that he had asked Number Eight to search for the others.
But he only wanted to find them for the sake of bringing them back.
Yet in the information Mom had left behind, it seemed that these children held other secrets as well. Could the terrifying fanaticism surrounding the Old Director—something even Mom could not see through, though she had sensed it—be connected to the children who remained from the orphanage?
After a long while, Lu Xin finally rubbed his face gently.
His gaze swept unobtrusively over Sister beside him, Little Nineteen, and even Number Fourteen, whose mouth was covered in grease.
A faint sense of comfort welled up inside him.
After a moment, he asked Number Fourteen, "The Old Director..."
He paused when he reached this point.
Some wariness, fear, and resentment made him reluctant to use the title Old Director.
But whenever the words reached his lips, that title was always the one that emerged.
After a slight pause, he simply shook his head and asked frankly, "Did the Old Director do anything to you?"
Since Mom had told him to find the children from the orphanage, and had even helped him find one of them,
there had to be some secret hidden within