Dream
Kleist woke on an operating table.
This powerfully built female Gladiator found it difficult even to lift her eyelids. Focusing and shifting her gaze nearly exhausted all her strength.
She found herself in a room whose walls were made of strange bricks.
A doctor dressed in white was cutting something apart, holding a long spear marked: Mori Family Prosthetic.
Kleist turned her head.
The pink bricks on the walls looked deeply unsettling.
"Hey, ma'am."
A voice entered Kleist's ears.
The female Gladiator turned toward the sound and saw a brick with eyes and a mouth speaking to her from the wall.
Then every brick opened its eyes and mouth.
"Save us..."
"Kill us!"
"You have to come back someday! You have to come back and free us!"
"..."
The doctor's words interrupted the bricks' pleas and screams.
"What? Someone from the Julius family wants us to send this person out immediately?"
The communicator hanging by the doctor's ear flashed.
"The modifications have only just begun!"
"Fine... fine... since the Julius family has guaranteed full payment, we'll finish the modifications. It's not like we'll lose anything anyway."
Kleist jolted awake from her dream, her face pressed directly against cold rock.
She turned her head in panic and discovered that she was floating inside the cave where the Gladiators lived.
When she looked at her right leg again, she found that it had been transformed into a long spear.
The long spear emitted energy, negating gravity.
"Get down!" Oeno shouted up at Kleist from the ground.
The Gladiators were all panicking. Kleist suddenly floating into the air had clearly caught everyone off guard.
Just as Qin Xa raised his hand to pull Kleist down with psychic power, Angron took two running steps, kicked off the wall, yanked Kleist down