11 Chapter: 10 Cold Reality

[Empire]

[Unknown research facility]

"Hello little friend"

As the boy's eyes trembled, Dr. Stylish approached the antiseptic tank and addressed the child, who now resembled a creature from hell. The child was floating inside the tank.

The boy tried to feel his limbs, which were submerged in water with his whole body, but he couldn't move because there were various straps of unknown substances around his body which made the boy unable to move even an inch.

The boy was also showing signs of surprise that how can he breathe under the green water?

"%@%$@$"

The boy tried to say something to the man in front of him, but only water bubbles came out of his mouth.

But was again surprised to see that he didn't have any problems with the surrounding water that was not filling his lungs and water was not hurting his eyes.

Dr.stylish pressed some buttons and water around the child began to drain and the child became to be able to stand through his legs.

"My apologies, even as 'THE GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL' Dr. Stylish, I was just too worn out from work to realize water would hinder your voice."

Dr. Stylish said, his voice devoid of his previous cold and hard tone. It genuinely felt like an amiable person was trying to talk to a little kid to comfort the child.

"Who are you ?

….. Where am I?

Why can't I move my body?

Where are my parents?"

The little child who now looked like a hell spawn asked in nervous and scared but a melodious voice, which was so pleasant to hear that seemed that it was dipped in the finest honey.

'...'

The doctor looked speechless at how can a creature who looked like he came from hell could possess such a sweet and heartwarming tune that can enchant anyone.

'Did the mutation also affect this specimen's voice?

And also it seems the child has forgotten about the experimentation chamber and blood infusion process because of immediately falling unconscious during the final phase of process.' Dr. Stylish thought to himself.

Even the child looked stupefied for a moment after hearing his own voice and he tried to utter other various other words which still sounded like they were coming out of a very attractive being. But when the person who will see this child's face will have nightmares.

"What happened to my voice?

Why does it sound so different?

Help me,I don't know what is happening to me?"

the child asked the man, his voice still pleasant to hear.

"Hmm, nothing is wrong, kid. You had a dangerous disease from which you would have died if I had not treated you.

You should instead be grateful to me for curing your disease and giving you such a beautiful voice, just like me.

And earlier I was just surprised to see the results of your treatment and I am surprised to see that you became more 'stylish and cool' like me.

Do not worry, child, you just have to answer a few of my questions and after a few years, you will recover completely."

Dr. Stylish said to the child sweetly as he came out from his dazed state and took out cardboard and paper files and wrote something in it. His gaze lingering on the papers while he was writing fast.

But in that moment the Doctor did not see the child's gaze in front, which became cold for a moment and his demonic face twisted in deep rage.

Dr. Stylish didn't know that Leo was just imitating like a naïve child and was in search of a moment to gather more information about his current situation.

Leo had woken up for hours, but he didn't move his body even for a second. Leo kept his breathing calm and steady and calmly tried to comprehend his current predicament.

He knew nothing good would come out of his outrage and his situation could get even worse. If he has to get out of this slaughter house he has to play the fool.

To collect information about Liya and Ron, I need to maintain composure around this individual who potentially inflicted pain upon me.

'I have to act like an innocent child in order to get this bit*ch's guard down to get some useful information.'

Leo thought while recalling his previous memory of the man in a lab suit.

'It's clear that this man is not telling the truth about my condition. Before, I didn't experience any issues with my body,

and even if there were any, the behavior of this bastard or the person in the lab coat was too passive during my previous suffering where was I thrashingaroundand asking for help.

I definitely saw that bastard in the lab suit who was just watching me thrash around the chamber calmly and didn't even try to help me in any way, which means... I am just a lab rat to them'

Leo surmised and thought that how many children have already been sacrificed before him?

The torment he just suffered would have driven any child mad and should have broken their minds….. If only the children had survived in the nightmarish process.

And Leo's thought about whether this doctor was genuinely trying to help him?

'Bullshit!! If anything I have learned from my previous experiences in this wretched Empire is that no one would give a damn about a child who is a peasant,

the peasants in this Empire are just bugs in front of high-ranking individuals of Empire and imperial army which they can squash and use at any moment'

Leo thought while trying to keep his boiling anger in control.

His mind was filled with memories of his torture and the brutal assault to the slum citizens by the imperial army, causing his once subsided pain to become more intense.

' This fu@ker is just playing a facade of an amiable person in front of me because he thinks I am just an ordinary peasant child who is naïve and is gathering his research data, by lying that he will help me to cure my disease, he will easily get his research data.'

Leo thought while also trying a way to get more information out of Dr. Stylish

After answering some of Dr.stylish questions, and after seeing the look of satisfaction on Dr.stylish' face, Leo again tried to pry some answers out of Dr.stylish in a scared way.

"Where are my mother and father?

I want to go home?

I want to see them!!"

Leo said. His voice sounded worried and confused.

'I guess I can at least state this specimen's curiosity since he provided me with so much useful data and will just die in a comatose state after a few years, when I will just extract him for all his blood's worth.'

Dr.stylish thought after he asked all the necessary questions from this subject.

"The people in the slums have all been killed by the imperial army and their heads have been hanged on the square as a warning against the populace."

The doctor abandoned his friendly demeanor and delivered the facts without any sympathy towards the young child.

'......'

Leo just stayed silent at that moment, the colour in his now aquamarine eyes dimmed and became unfocused.

The little hope that he was clinging to was destroyed thoroughly by Dr.stylish's claims.

'Hmm, it seems like the kid broke after hearing his parents' death. Not that I care about it.'

With a press of buttons, Dr. Stylish filled the tank with sedatives, causing Leo's consciousness to sink while he remained in a state of brokenness, unable to perceive anything.

Leo's only final thought during losing his consciousness was to destroy the Empire that took his only family in both of his lives.

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