Hello everyone this is author-san, good chapter.
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"So in the end, even a monster like you can be killed huh?" Major Nick looked at the man in front of him with white hair bloody from head to toe and riddled with bullet holes, "You gave us a lot of trouble you know.
Nick said looking around, it was like a massacre scene, the entire forest was stained with blood and fire and at least two hundred bodies were strewn about the place, all killed by the one man in front of him who was caught in an ambush.
"Project Super Soldier, call sign 03, code name Nightmare! You have quite a reputation you know, and not without reason from what I've seen today." Nick kept talking quoting the information from 03 who just stared at him in response.
"My wounds are not healing, my mechanical enhancements are also off, who betrayed us?" 03 analyzed the possible information and tried to come up with countless results about who could be a traitor, however after a minute he finally understood and his pupils dilated.
"Why did the government decide to eliminate me?" 03 asked in a hoarse voice getting Nick's attention as he spoke for the first time since it all started, "Hoho the quiet gentleman finally spoke." Nick said kneeling down and putting the barrel of his pistol to 03's head who was still emotionless.
" Why are you a threat sir .... soldier." Nick paused as he thought about the best way to address the infinitely miserable being in front of him, " I have dedicated everything to my country, my blood, my sweat, my humanity!" 03 spoke almost as if he wanted to scream but he didn't have the strength for it, his life was draining fast and he would die soon.
"I was the most loyal of all, I accomplished every mission with excellence, I killed every enemy whether man, woman or child without hesitation! Are you saying that I plunged into this sea of blood only to be discarded in the end for being dangerous? "03 continued speaking and Nick raised his gun for a moment as he looked at him.
" Yes." His cold short answer was like a knife cutting through the last vestiges of vitality my body had and my vision began to dim before finally going out, Nick paused for a moment seeing that 03 had died and placed his hand on his forehead.
Although he was not the religious type he felt he should say at least a prayer to the man in front of him who had given everything for his country only to be discarded in the end, " God if you hear my prayers, allow this man to have a happy life in his next incarnation." The prayer was short, there was no hatred or pity only weariness.
" I hate this job." Nick said as he took out a canteen of vodka and took a sip, at this point he noticed a red dot on his chest and gave a weak smile," Really, I hate this job." Nick said and laughed as he looked at a soldier who came out of the forest and aimed at his chest.
Bang!
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"Where am I? "03 he asked himself as he felt the last vestige of vitality leave his body, he felt like he was in an endless, cold, dark, empty limbo. But something illuminated this darkness attracting his attention.
FLASH!
There was a flash and a large screen made of light appeared in front of him and in it a newborn baby emerged from a tank filled with a transparent space liquid, several scientists surrounded him and carefully placed him in a containment box along with other babies of the same type.
"Is this me?" 03 asked himself and the picture changed to 3 years later, there he was now grown up lying on an operating table while receiving his first brain enhancing electronic transplant.
The scene advanced a bit further and showed him doing intensive training together with other children just like him, as if they were clones of each other, the training ranged from fighting, survival, hunting and even near death situations.
The children had to go through this every day, day after day, if they were injured their bodies would heal at an abnormal rate, if their bones broke the teachers would simply put them back together again.
If any child died they were simply discarded, this hell continued for another 5 years before the children finally received their first assignment, " Kill each other, until only 10 are left." With those words the scientists gave us each a knife and placed us in a large arena.
It was on this day that 03 took his first life and 8 others being the third one who slaughtered his brothers the most he was given an answering number that would be his name from then on, the scene progressed again and again and again.
Every moment of 03's life until his death was shown, every life he had taken, every human being he had mercilessly killed, yet despite all this he could feel no regret for anything, for he was programmed not to.
Crazy, isn't it? To feel horrified at what you have done but not be able to repent and do it again and again, this is what 03 felt every moment of his life until his death, " I believe only hell awaits me now." 03 thought and looked at the void around him that was now filled with rivers of blood and bodies.
And over it all was he with every inch of his soul covered in dark red, " Maybe it's for the best, that I pay for all I have done." 03 thought and let himself sink into that sea of blood.
Soon he was completely submerged ready to accept his fate, but at this instant he felt something pulling him back and waking him from his sleep, " Please live my son!" A female voice entered my consciousness and I came out of the sea if blood but now small and seeing the whole world blurred.
Unexpectedly I couldn't stand my primal instincts and cried out loud and felt a clean pure air fill my small lungs, " What is happening?" I asked myself but I couldn't understand anything.
Everything was blurry in my vision, my hearing wasn't picking up sounds very well and I was covered in blood and something gooey, for the first time in a decade I felt weak, a feeling I had long since erased.