60: R Project

"What's your name?" - A pretty brown-haired girl asked as she looked closely at the boy who seemed to be sitting alone in the park. She had a huge ribbon in her hair that tied up her ponytail.

"Houki!" - exclaimed a boy with short black hair as he ran after the girl - "Seriously, you don't have to run like that, much less bother other people!"

"I'm not bothering anyone!" - Houki exclaimed as she puffed out her cheeks.

"Do you even remember what your parents taught you? Before asking for someone's name, you have to give your name first" - replied the boy as he folded his arms.

"Oh..." - Houki looked at his friend with annoyance before looking at the boy who was a bit perplexed with the situation - "My name is Houki, Shinonono Houki, and this is Ichika Orimura! What's your name?"

"I..." - muttered the blond boy as he frowned - "My name is..."

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"There's that dream again..." - muttered a black-haired young man as he let out a sigh - "It's been six years, and we still don't know anything about him..."

His name was Ichika Orimura, a handsome young man with black hair and a slightly trained physique, which made him popular with the girls at his school, though unfortunately for them, Ichika had the emotional intelligence of a stone.

"Shit, I was supposed to be out half an hour ago!" - Ichika exclaimed as he saw the time on his alarm clock - "Chifuyu Nee is going to kill me!"

Without a second thought, he grabbed his clothes and started getting dressed at full speed, after all, today was the day he would meet his older sister again after so long away from Japan.

"Please don't let there be an accident" - Ichika muttered with a pale face as he ran towards the terminal that would take him towards the school he would be attending, the [IS Academy], the place where girls from different parts of the world went to train to become pilots of [IS], combat robots created by the scientist and genius, Shinonono Tabane, and yes, just as he had mentioned, only girls could use the [IS], at least until now.

"I still can't believe I'm the only boy who can pilot a [IS]!" - Ichika muttered as he let out a sigh as he remembered what had happened. By mere chance, he entered a gym with an [IS] ready to be piloted, and curiously he managed to get inside, so he could check what it was like inside, in the end he managed to turn it on and move it, thus happening the first miracle since the women's uprising thanks to his superiority in combat. In other words, Ichika was the hope of the men of the world.

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"Six years..." - murmured a beautiful girl of about 14. She had brown hair, long down to her round butt, and was looking at the outside of her room as she recalled her first encounter with that boy 9 years ago in the park.

Blonde hair, blue eyes, features that clearly showed that he wasn't completely Japanese, though it wasn't as if this mattered, after all, what she was constantly reminded of, was everything they had done together during that short year.

"Where are you?" muttered Houki regretfully as she felt her head start to ache - "Ugh..."

"Shinonono-san, we have to get ready for breakfast!" - exclaimed a girl as she came out of the bathroom with a towel covering her body - "Shinonono-san!!!?"

"I'm fine..." - Houki muttered with a small, weak smile as she nodded in the direction of her roommate - "Give me a second to get dressed."

The girl frowned slightly as it wasn't the first time the brown-haired girl seemed to suffer from this kind of outburst.

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"Project report" - said an elderly man as he looked at the scientists in front of him - "I want it to be as detailed as possible."

"The suit is perfectly functional, in fact, according to the simulations, it has a higher level than the current [IS]" - replied a scientist excitedly - "There is one problem though, this suit doesn't seem compatible with other test subjects, except for test subject R"

"I want you to keep testing, this suit is the only way we have to create a balance of power between men and women" - said the elderly man as he frowned - "Is there any indication of the reason for this?"

"Subject R seems to have some kind of strange energy within him, one that is impossible to replicate, my general" - replied the scientist with a frown - "We have tried using a cloning procedure to try to get more test subjects like him, but this has also been impossible, it's as if his genetic code is being blocked by something"

The general frowned when he heard this as he thought that maybe this boy was some kind of alien, although this hypothesis was easily dismissed because there was a birth record of the boy as well as that of his parents.

"Strength, speed, reaction time, endurance, all his basic abilities are far superior to what is humanly possible" - said the general with a huge smile as he checked the camera monitoring Subject R's room - "We were lucky to capture him during the raid against Shinonono Houki's lab... Is there anything else you need to tell me?"

"Yes, the fertilization project also turned out to be a failure" - replied the scientist with irritation - "It seems that this strange energy is responsible for preventing the reproductive factor subject R, making him possibly the only superhuman this world will ever know."

"This is bad" - muttered the general with a frown - "And how much control do we have over Subject R?"

"Zero" - replied the scientist fearfully - "Mind control is useless due to the strange energy inside Subject R, his body has also developed immunity to sleeping pills, sedatives and poisons due to overexposure to these."

"Internal bombs?" - asked the general with a frown.

"Impossible, Subject R is alert all the time, and when any personnel approaches, he immediately kills them" - replied the scientist with annoyance - "He has no family either, they were killed during the raid"

"In other words, we have a time bomb on our hands" - muttered the general, although his expression changed to one of terror when he heard the sound of the alarm - "Report!"

"Sir, Subject R escaped from his room and managed to get the suit!" - exclaimed another scientist with a face pale with fear - "He's currently annihilating the first squadron, no, he's done with them and is heading to sector 4!"

"I want you to tell me how this is possible!" - exclaimed the general as he punched the console - "No, that doesn't matter, we have to escape!"

"It's impossible, we've lost control of all the facilities in the building!" - shouted another scientist with eyes red with tears - "This is bad, the test subject is out of this place!"

"How did he get here so fast!" - exclaimed the general with a pale face.

"It's because I've been hiding my abilities, as well as using this suit to its minimum capacity" - replied the one responsible for the massacre, a young man in a tight-fitting suit that looked like black mechanized armor. He had a kind of mask that consisted of a metal plate covering his jaw, along with a kind of bandana that covered one of his eyes,the only visible part being the rest of his face and his golden hair.

"S-Subject R!" - exclaimed the general with a pale face.

The strange blond-haired, blue-eyed boy, looked with hostility at the general and all the men inside the central operating room - "Six years... SIX FUCKING YEARS LOCKED UP IN THIS PLACE, SUFFERING TORTURE AFTER TORTURE, BEING SUBJECTED TO MULTIPLE SESSIONS OF COMPULSORY LEARNING UNTIL I LOST CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I'VE WANTED THIS!"

"Subject R, we can discuss this!" - exclaimed the general, only to see his body slowly fall to the ground, though he quickly understood that it wasn't just his body that was falling, but his head as well.

"Let's dance!" - exclaimed the subject R with hatred as he killed all the scientists gathered in that room, which didn't take too long.

"Oh, you did an impressive job, Subject R, or would you prefer I call you by your original name?" - asked a feminine and slightly childish voice.

"As I thought, you're the only one who could open my cell and hack all the facilities in this place, Shinonono Tabane" - muttered the Subject R as he looked towards the entrance, only to see a smiling purple-haired woman came into view.

"What happened to the C-chan who called me Tabane Onee-chan?" - asked Tabane as she let out a sigh.

"He died the moment he was captured" - replied subject R, or rather, Cloud Strife.

"Boo boo ~! Being Edgy doesn't suit you, C-chan" - said Tabane while pouting her lips.

"I'm not trying being one either, it's just that people change with the experiences they live" - replied Cloud while frowning.