As they walked, Nero asked, "Is there a barrier that prevents strong monsters from appearing here?"
"Oh, that's exactly it!" Choko asked surprise: "How did you know? Did you remember anything?"
Nero shook her head in denial: "No, but I imagined, since there was a barrier that could prevent them from entering, there must also be one that restricts them."
"Makes sense." Choko agreed, but she couldn't help but be surprised.
Breno asked cautiously, "Nero, is everything okay?"
Nero raised her eyebrows in confusion: "Hello?"
"I mean... about killing someone yesterday..." Breno added.
"Oh." Nero was silent for a while; she didn't know how to feel about it herself. But I wasn't as shaken up as she was yesterday: "I'm better."
Hearing this, Breno and his group sighed with relief.
"Hrm, does that always happen?" Nero asked.
"If you mean, about stealing?"
"Yeah, do you have a lot of them trying to steal?" Nero asked.
Jair answered: "Not much, but it always happens. It's inevitable, I think. That's why it's always good to hunt in groups."
"Yeah, not just thieves to be careful of," Breno said seriously.
Jana added: "Exactly, there are also people who kill for pleasure, or even kidnap to sell, even rare cases, may even be taken to do experiments."
That was all the information they could easily get in town. Since there were many cases of disappearances and some were important people, which caused many investigations.
But they didn't realize that the moment Jana said that... Nero had stopped walking.
But then a loud scream resounded.
"Nero?" Choko looked back and realized that Nero was on her knees on the ground and with her hands on her head screaming loudly, "Nero!"
Choko and they approached each other worried about what had happened.
After screaming for almost two whole minutes... Nero fainted.
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(Former body owner POV: Nera)
"Who are you?"
"Mommy, Daddy, big sister!"
"Why are you doing this to me?"
"You're just another one of our experiments."
"Where am I?"
"Why did my sister do this to me?"
"Hi, I'm Yui."
"Nera will brush her teeth."
"I'm coming, Mom!"
"It's your fault the big sister doesn't pay any more attention to me!"
"Get those needles off me!"
"I was not born to be made of experiments..."
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Nera 5 years old.
"Big sister, are you going hunting now?" Nera asked.
"Yeah." The elder sister of Nera whose name is Elsa answered.
"Let me go with you?" She asked.
"No, you're still too young," Elsa answered.
"Daughter, the food is ready, wash your hands and come and eat."
"I'm coming, Mom!" Nera screamed back.
"Wait, Nera."
"Hrm?" Nera looking away, she saw her middle sister Eliane.
"I know how you can go hunting with us." She whispered.
"How?" Nera asked with a sparkle in her eyes.
"Easy, just hide inside the boat before we leave!" She answered low.
"Ohh, I will!" Nera replied cheerfully, happy with the idea of going with her sister.
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Inside a big hunting boat on the high seas.
"Nera, you can leave, it's your sister Eliane."
"Are we at sea yet?" Nera came out from behind a door.
"Yeah." Eliana answered and as if she had remembered something she said, "Oh, you must be thirsty, here I brought for you.
"Thank you, sister!" Nera said and took a 300ML bottle from her sister.
Drinking after a few seconds, Nera said, "Sister, I'm feeling weak and I'm a little dizzy."
Eliane didn't talk, she just made signs with her hands. She had an evil smile on her face.
"It's your fault that things have come to this!" Eliana said angrily.
"(Big) Sister, what's going on?" She said, "I don't understand."
Eliane laughed diabolically: "Because of you, our older sister doesn't pay attention to me anymore, you need to go away!"
When she was done talking, some people in black showed up.
"She's yours now, you can take her," Eliana told them.
"Right." The man in the leadership nodded and said, "Here are five thousand essential coins as agreed."
"Sister..." Nera was losing her voice and her eyes were heavy.
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Nera later woke up in a strange place surrounded by strange people.
She was dragged into something very much like a cage with bars.
"You're going to stay in this cage from now on." Said a tall man with horns on his head.
"Where's my mother? Let me go!" Nera screamed, but she was ignored, no matter how much she screamed.
The man before he left said to her, "Behave and do everything you're told, and you can live in a room."
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1 year later.
After going through some experiments and staying for a year in this place... Nera was assigned to stay in a room and become a roommate of a girl almost her age.
Entering the room, she was greeted by a girl with long pink hair and white wings on her back.
"Hi, I'm Yui."
"Hi, I'm Nera."
Nera came to know and talk to Yui every day. Besides the experiments, they were only trapped inside this room, I just try each other to talk.
"Yui, aren't you sad that you ended up here?" Nera asked.
"I was never loved by my parents, I always had to order food on the street, until they sold me to these people," Yui answered.
"My sister... my sister sold me to them." She said sadly when she remembered.
Two years later.
"Yui, the doctor is calling you."
Eight-year-old Yui looked at Nera. It was like she knew what was about to happen to her. Her eyes wavered a little, but soon she smiled and said to her best and only friend, "I'm going, Nera."
Nera had a sad expression, she "knew" what was waiting for her friend. She'd been in that place for three years. She's been through a lot of experiments.
"Yes, I'll be waiting for you here," Nera said it and tried to smile, but it was almost impossible for her to smile at that time.
Yui held Nera's two hands when he said, "You once asked me if I was sad to come here, remember?"
"Yeah." She agreed by remembering that subject.
"Hrm, actually, I'm glad it happened." She smiled gently: "I was able to get to know you as a result of this, and even though I had to go through all of this, I felt and discovered what it was like to be happy, standing beside you.".
"I'm happy to meet you too, Yui." Nera said, but finding it strange, she asked: "But why are you saying this now?"
"No big deal." She said with a smile, "I just wanted you to know that."
She went to hug Nera, but the man lost his patience and entered the room, dragging Yui out of the room.
Nera didn't know why, but she felt a tightness in her chest. It was different from the other times, she felt it wasn't right. She started screaming wanting them to bring her friend back, but they didn't hear her appeal.
Day after day, Nera went to sleep waiting for her friend. Minute to minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day.
Every day she screamed asking them to bring her friend back. But it was never said or seen her friend come back. After a week, she didn't want to think about it, but... she thought that her friend Yui couldn't resist the experiments and died.
"No, no, Yui is a strong girl, she wouldn't die!" She screamed loudly to convince herself.
But even a month later. Your friend never came back.
"You bastards! You killed my friend!" Nero was screaming loudly.
In the end, they never said anything about what happened to Yui and by "bad behavior", she was taken back to the cage.