"...The Tang Ze couple's assistant?" Tangze rolled his eyes, looking at Rena Mizunashi's sweat-covered face as he tilted his head slightly. "When was that? I don't remember seeing you at the lab."
Though he said that, Tangze leaned back slightly, no longer pressuring her with his stare.
If she had been someone his parents had vetted, perhaps he did not need to be so guarded...
"Because I was only briefly their personal assistant." Hearing a hint of slackening in his tone, Rena Mizunashi spoke quickly. "Or rather, their 'warden.' I became a host after receiving a codename and confirming that I would be active in Tokyo. I wasn't born in Tokyo, nor did I live here."
"Mm, that much can be seen from Eisuke Hondou's medical records." Tangze nodded. "So, because you had contact with the Tang Ze couple through that work, the organization gave you those drugs to ensure you would not leak confidential information?"
"It went deeper than that." Rena Mizunashi's voice involuntarily lowered. "There was a period when their experiments needed many people..."
Even in such a tense confrontation, Rena Mizunashi could not help blinking, as though trying to brush something away from before her eyes.
"Although the subjects generally would not know the true nature of the experiments, they were still illegal human experiments, and they required contact with a great many outsiders. They... did not trust the Tang Ze couple to do that work..."
"So you handled it for them?" Tangze lowered his eyes, his voice becoming gentler. "Ah, no wonder you recognized me."
Rena Mizunashi lowered her head and did not deny it.
Screening potential subjects, bringing them into entirely unknown human experimentation projects, controlling them through the organization...
That was practically pushing healthy, innocent people into an abyss. It was an incomparably cruel