At a Certain Underground Dungeon

In a certain spacious room, at a certain underground dungeon, a certain unconscious teenage cyborg girl is chained to an uncomfortable-looking steel chair.

She is not alone.

There is a mysterious group gathered around her in the room, observing her curiously.

"Hey, Mercy!

What's going on here?

Why is she so banged up?" a scruffy-looking man asks.

"I apologise, Mr President.

Unfortunately, given the circumstances, there was no other way.

It was either her or us" an elegant-looking woman, in high-class maid clothes, replies.

"Tch!" the President clicks his tongue.

"ROAARRRRRRR!!!

HAHAHAHA!!!

MASTER!!!

YOU SHOULD'VE SENT ME INSTEAD!!!

I COULD'VE DONE THE JOB MUCH BETTER!!!!

HAHAHA!!!" a big dragon speaks loudly while spitting fire.

"No way in hell!

Magnamus, you stand out too much!

On top of that, YOU ARE SO FRIGGING LOUD!

So, stop spitting fire!

It's too hot in here!" the President says grumpily.

"HAHAHAHA!!!

THAT IS INDEED TRUE!!!" Magnamus speaks anyways.

"Hey! Hey! Alan! Alan!

Who is that girl?

Is she a cyborg?

Why is her face broken?

Why did we capture her?

She looks the same age as me!

Can I be friends with her?" another teenage girl in school uniform, sitting on a floating giant battle axe, asks in an annoying tone.

"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO!

BE HER MUM FOR ALL I CARE!

STOP ASKING SO MANY QUESTIONS!" President Alan finally snaps and yells.

He is obviously a very irritable man.

"HAHAHAHAHA!

ALAN SNAPPED!!

THAT IS SO FUNNY!!" the axe girl laughs at Alan.

"Tch!" Alan continues to stay grumpy.

"Ms Seraphina, please don't laugh too much" Mercy gently tells the axe girl.

"What happened to Law and Bizen?" Alan asks Mercy.

"They have both returned to their chamber after coming back from the mission"

"Tch!

Every single one of them just doing as they please!" Alan scratches his head in irritation.

"Whatever! Wake her up!"

"Yes, sir. Everyone, please cover your ears"

Everyone in the room quickly covers their ears.

*SUPER LOUD CLAP!* Mercy claps her hand strongly.

So strongly that the air vibrates.

"Gasp!" the cyborg girl wakes up.

Of course, she would.

Mercy's clap was unusually powerful.

She looks around frantically.

[Where is this?

Where am I?

Who are these people?!

I can't see from my right eye!

Ah, that's right!

I recall fighting a giant, and a kimono lady.

The giant's hammer destroyed the right-side of my face and almost every part of my arm.

But I can still feel my fingers.

And the kimono lady stabbed me in the core and in my throat.

It looks like the nano-machines in my core has repaired itself.

But my vocal cord will still take some time before the self-repair mechanism is complete]

The cyborg girl calmly assess the situation and her own injuries.

"Gasp!" the cyborg girl notices Magnamus and Seraphina.

[IS THAT A DRAGON?!

AND THAT GIRL IS FLOATING!!

AM I DREAMING?!]

*!*

Something else catches Nava's attention.

*WARNING*

*SS-Class Threat x3*

A notification displays within Nava's vision.

[Who exactly are these people?!

This is the first time I have seen so many SS-Class threats gathered in one place]

*STARES*

Alan stares at the cyborg girl intensely from up-close with his dead-fish eyes.

So close that the girl is bending as far back as she can.

*!*

[This person looks like the person-in-charge.

His threat level is . . .

Hmm?!]

Nava is very quick to grasp the situation.

With only one look, she could tell that Alan is the person in control of the other SS-class threats.

"Ca4 1 #buzz# h3lp #buzz# y04?"

[Can I help you?]

*sound of electric sparks*

Nava speaks with difficulty in a buzzy voice because her vocal cord has been badly damaged.

"Dr Nava Einstein" Alan reads a file.

Magnamus and Seraphina make noise in the background.

They are laughing loudly.

Alan's face twitches.

"A genius physicist, mathematician and physician who helped the Empire with building countless advanced technologies that surpass the rest of the world by decades" Alan continues.

Magnamus and Seraphina is playing catch in the background.

They are still making noise.

Alan's angry vein is floating.

"The Empire betrayed you, stole your technologies, killed everyone you knew, and imprisoned you"

Alan continues.

[He knows my name and my past!

How?!

I should've gotten read off all of the Empire' records on me.

Who exactly are these people?!]

"No need to be so surprised.

You are good at hiding.

You even destroyed all the files with your record. Officially, you don't even exist.

But too bad for you, the Empire kept your information as a top secret within the Royal Vault, and we know how to access that vault"

"Y04 a7e n0t #buzz# f7om th3 3mp17e #buzz# wH4t d0 Y04 W4nT?"

[You are not from the Empire! What do you want?!]

"When the Empire imprisoned you, you were conducting experiments to create super soldiers.

You even experimented on yourself and turned yourself into a cyborg.

But I don't care about all that" Alan is replying to Nava's question.

Magnamus and Seraphina are now playing tag.

They are flying around the spacious room.

Magnamus creates a gust of wind everytime he flaps his wings

*ANGRY VEIN POPPED*

"SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS EVEN HERE FOR?!"

Unsurprisingly, Alan snaps again.

Alan picks Magnamus and Seraphina up, and throws them out of the room.

"For f*cks sake! What were those guys here for!?"

Alan returns to his interrogation of Nava.

"Dr Einstein, I want to know what happened to subject 002"

Alan gets super close to Nava again.

[Subject 002?!]

"1 8m #buzz# 8orr9 #buzz# 1 d0nt #buzz# 73m3m8e7 #buzz# w40 th47 1s #buzz# 1s 7ha7 #buzz# 8om30n3 #buzz# y04 kn0w?"

[I am sorry.

I don't remember who that is.

Is that someone you know?]

*CHOKE*

Alan chokes Nava.

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the room becomes heavy, profoundly and literally.

"DON'T F*CK WITH ME!!!

YOU DON'T REMEMBER?!

YOU F*CKING EXPERIMENTED ON HER!!!" Alan shouts angrily.

*Strong Gale*

*Tremor*

Alan emits a mysterious force as he shouts.

His eyes are filled with killing-intent.

Nava stays silent as Alan chokes her.

She is not affected by Alan's threat or anger.

"You have a lot of guts.

Even in this situation, there's not a tinge of fear in you"

"Subject #buzz# 002 #buzz#

Is #buzz# that a#buzz# family?"

[Subject 002. Is that a family?]

". . . " Alan did not reply.

"I have no intention of making any excuses.

My hands are as dirty as the Empire's.

No, worse . . ."

Nava's vocal cord finally recovers.

"Project-D

Men, women, children, elderly, innocent and evil.

My experiment has changed all of their lives.

I can still hear their endless screams from the excruciating pain that I made them experience.

Some were drowned in acid, some were burned, some were crushed, some were infected with deadly viruses, some were exposed to heavy radiation

There were 3678 subjects.

Only 423 survived.

Of that, 324 are crippled"

*SQUEEZE*

Alan tightens his choke on Nava.

*Sound of Sparks*

He chokes so strongly that you can hear the steel in Nava's neck bending, and the mechanics in her throat breaking.

Just when Nava's vocal cord completed its self-repair.

Nava remains unperturbed.

She feels no pain nor fear.

"You have some f*cking nerves saying that to me so blatantly!

I should kill you right now as an offering to those people who were tortured to death by you!

May their souls rest in peace upon your death!"

"If my death would really soothe their poor souls, even a little, I would gladly die.

I would not have it any other way.

Not only theirs, yours too.

If only killing me makes your heart feels better . . .

But, I know that's not possible.

You are not capable of killing me.

Unlike me, you are too kind.

So kind that even a machine like me knows that you were never angry.

Not when you threatened to kill me.

Not even when we were talking about subject 002.

You are just someone who has been hurt"

A notification displays within Nava's vision as she looks at Alan gently and tearfully.

*Not a threat*

" . . . Hmph!" Alan lets go of Nava.

Looks like Nava is correct.

There is a deep deep hole within Alan's heart.

A hole that can never be filled even with an advanced core like Nava's.

"Mercy, I leave the rest to you" Alan turns around and walks away from Nava towards the exit.

"Wait!" Nava stops Alan as he is exiting.

Alan stops but he never turns around.

"This may be presumptuous of me, but I want to help you!

Please let me help you find your important person!

I am not trying to bury my guilt, and I will never forgive myself for what I have done.

I just want to help you!"

Nava becomes unusually emotional.

*SLAM*

Alan exits the room and shuts the door behind him.

"Sigh. It's not good, huh?" Nava looks down in disappointment.

"Hey!" Mercy calls out to Nava.

"Yes?"

"Lose yourself from those chains and follow me"

"Follow you?

Where are we going?" Nava easily breaks out of the chains that were tying her to the chair.

"I will give you your first assignment, as an Administrator of the Garden of Eden"

"Eh?" Nava did not understand a single word that Mercy said.

What is the Garden of Eden?

And since when did Nava become an 'Administrator'?