Kibe was standing at the foot his Mrs.Mihara's bed, looking at everything in her room. His mind was thinking of all the times that she told she cared and loved him. All of it was merely a facade.
Yet he didn't feel anything, just that it was another prediction. Another anticipated event within the many he always figured may or may not occur. Thats when Kibe would hear the doorbell ring. He walked downstairs and to the door. He looked through the peephole and saw that is was Mizuki. He was dressed casually and had a small satchel with him. Kibe opened the door.
"My last principle didn't do home visits." Kibe said
"Heh, your last principle didn't have the luxury of knowing of what you are. May I?" He asked, Kibe stepped to the side and let Mizuki in. Mizuki walked inside. Taking his shoes off at the entrance as he walked into the living room. Mizuki followed Kibe as they walked to the living room.
"So, your done with ignoring me I see." Kibe said
"I only did so, as to not draw attention to our connection. I'd hate to see Bato use anything aginst you that you wouldn't want used." Mizuki said as he sat down with Kibe walking to the kitchen to make himself some tea. "Let him use whatever he thinks will help. It won't." Kibe said. Mizuki nodded as he leaned back.
"So, what is this visit about? I doubt it has anything to do with my grades." Kibe said as he walked over.
"You'd be correct. I actually came to give you this." Mizuki said he stood up and reached in his bag pulling out a folder. Kibe looked at it and took it.
"That right there is your file. At least a few bits of it i could gather. I also wanted to talk to you about the test we did back then." Mizuki said as he closed his bag. Kibe's were now hyper focused on the file in his hands. It contained a few bits of the truths in his story, his early life, but something wasn't right.
Kibe eyes went to Mizuki. Both of them looking at one another, Kibe then tossed the folder onto the table.
"Trying to butter me up? You all must be getting desperate to have me back." Kibe said, Mizuki looked to the file. "You aren't going to-"
"I don't need to see whats in the file. My memory of those days has been coming back to me, and I know that you only brought that here. In attempts to see if my past was something I desired to know about. Well it isn't.
I have no reason to indulge a fabricated past, but only to carve a truthful future." Kibe said
"You do understand, that I'm doing this for the betterment of not just you, but the world.
Bato is a genius yes. He's very much within our top 10 candidates to take the pale palace and run the WOI. However, unlike you, hes not in our top 3. You are. You are valuable. I'd like to see you reach your full potential. Not be drowned in this...life of secrecy and indecency." Mizuki said as he looked around.
"It was my life." Kibe said
"No it wasn't, you believe that because of what you've been given. You're still too attached. You see the Machine can only work if all attachments are lost. So long as you cling to this version of what your life can be. You will never be complete. Always half finished." Mizuki said. Kibe put his hands behind his back.
"The only thing half finished, was your work on corrupting my memory. Now then, if you excuse me. I have some other business to attend to." Kibe said, Mizuki had a look of frustration. Thats when Kibe began to feel a draft behind, him. The front door. He just remembered that Mizuki followed him in here.
"He unlocked the door." Kibe thought as he turned around quickly turned around only to be sucker punched in the face. Blood would spew from Kibe's mouth, it would be the first time someone made him bleed aginst his own wishes, Kibe then felt himself get pinned to the ground. Face down.
"You have no idea how long I've waited to do that." Said Katsurada. "Junna" Kibe muttered.
"In the flesh, well partially." She said. Kibe could feel the coldness coming from her prosthetic hand, but from the way it was aginst his other arm. It felt like maybe it wasn't just her hand. It was her whole arm.
"Kibe, Corgin or whatever name you identify with now. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY AND TIME WE PUT INTO YOU!?
We are here to embark on a journey that is greater than what Napoleon did for his country. We'll be making history, Dr.Abel has made that possible. He's made all this possible. Now you can either be a part of this willingly or we can just take you in by force.
Either way. I won't have Bato killed or have him kill you. I'm not losing any students over this." Mizuki said. Kibe grunted as he wiped his nose of blood. He tilted his head a hit. He wasn't expecting for Junna to hit as hard as she did. But damn if she wasn't tough.
"Hmmm, you know what I think?" Kibe asked, Mizuki leaned back. He looked over Katsurada and saw Kiko and Piko walk inside. Piko had a briefcase in her hand with Kiko walking beside her. He then looked back at Kibe.
"Please." He said
"You're all a bunch of sociopaths. Sick people, suckered into a cult ran by a man who ultimately doesn't care about you, but the work he does. Now my guess?
He gave you all something. When you were all lost, lost control over your lives. He gave you it back. Made you feel powerful, now you use that control on others." Kibe said
"You hoping to talk me into coming forward or something?" Mizuki asked as Kiko and Piko walked and stood next to him. Kibe's eyes fell to Kiko. She stared at him and he her.
"No, you're beyond redeeming. Besides I don't believe in it.
No, you al deserve to be buried underneath the pale palace while it burns. Books and all." Kibe said, Mizuki looked to Junna and nodded. She then picked up Kibe's head and punched it to the ground. Kibe grunted loudly. Hid nose leaking blood aginst the floor. Kibe struggled to fight aginst Junna's strength but she was surprisingly strong. Mizuki got out his phone and began to dial a number.
"You say, were sociopaths. That we're beyond redemption. We're cold right? Monsters.
Well, do monster bring people back from the dead?" Mizuki asked. Kibe looked up at him.
"What if I told you that we could that?" Mizuki said. Kibe spit out some blood towards Mizuki's shoe. "I'd say you're not sociopathic afterall, just downright insane." Kibe said. Mizuki chuckled as he called a number. He then crouched to Kibe.
"Dr.Abel has given us everything. Once we prove that the machine can and will work under our control. Then we can release our knowledge to the world. With their full backing of us, we can be greater than NATO, the FBI or any organization.
Dr.Abel will be the first world leader. A single mind behind all humanity.
I have someone here, who can vouch for that too." Mizuki said as he then put the phone to Kibe's ear. Kibe listened.
"Hello Kibe." Said the most uncanny and most shocking voice Kibe had ever heard. It was the voice of someone he had watched die before any of this began.
The voice that not only confirmed that the pale palace was far greater than he had ever anticipated, but now was more technologically more advanced than the rest of the world.
It was the voice Gina Akia. Kibe's whole body got a chill, his face frozen. Unsure what expression to make.
"...This is a trick." Kibe said
"What? Not voice replication?" Akia said
"No voice replication has a certain tone to it. Humans have a knack for telling when something is off when it comes to another thing, replicating a human being.
In this case...you sound...human enough." Kibe said
"Kibe, Dr.Abel has given the gift of a new way of life to those who didn't have one, and gave parents who were destined to have failures as children to successful ones. Dr.Abel seeks to make a utopia of the best of mankind, and that starts with us.
But I can be spearheaded with you Nori, of you'd be willing to-"
"No." Kibe said. Everyone looked at each other.
"I told you this was stupid, HES AGINST US! Let's just take his brain and be done with it." Piko said
"And how do you intend to do that? If you don't remember, I'm the one who founded the method and made what ever scientist and doctor has fantasized about into a reality." Kiko said
"You?" Kibe asked
"Yes. The perfect brain transplant. How do you think we saved Gima? Or I did." Kiko said as she looked to Piko who opened the briefcase. Junna then lifted Kibe up, holding his hands tight behind his back and keeping him on his knees. Kiko then reached into the briefcase and pulled out this megaphone like device. It had a large opening at the end which looked like thats where the voice woukd come from, but it was engineered different than that.
Kibe's eyes looked at the device. Then to Kiko. She looked to him.
"I told you, that I couldn't betray them. You knew this was coming." Kiko said
"...Just remember what I said." Kibe said.
"The machine must be kept alive. It's our greatest achievement." Mizuki said.
"Thats for Bato to decide. Now leave us teach." Piko said. Mizuki looked at Kibe before he walked away. All three of them watched him leave before Piko smirked at him, Kiko staring back at him. Kibe looked at the rest of them.
"You, someone who was kicked out of the school. Can't know the first thing. Could never know the first thing about what makes the pale palace so great. What you've said and done, has been a great insult. I bet if you figured out that your dear little mommy cared about what we're doing just as much as we are, you wouldn't be so eager to destroy it all." Piko said with a smirk. Kibe's face was facing the ground. The breeze from the open door making his and everyone's hair flow gently.
"Well, it doesn't matter now. Dr.Abel may have been right about you...when you were younger.
But now, I'm a little disappointed. It seems all that talk and the rumors were nothing more than hot air." Piko said as she took a step back. Kiko then turned on the device. Kibe slowly looked up at Kiko as she pointed the device at Kibe's face.
"I'm sorry that you couldn't see the way to the utopia that we all can see. Maybe the next one will." Kiko said
"..." Kibe just kept staring. Thats when the device would fire, it sent out a small yet noticeable frequency. Immediately Kibe's brain felt like it was on fire, suddenly Kibe would fall over. Collapsing onto his face. All of them stared down at him as he laid on the ground unconscious.
"I can't believe it. Just what do they see in him?" Piko said
"Ask them yourself." Kiko said as she walked away with the device still in her hand. Junna stood up still chewing on her gum. Piko walked next to her.
"Tch, what's up her ass?" Piko asked
"...Do you ever shut up?" Junna said. Piko scoffed as she walked away. Junna just kept staring at Kibe.