Chapter 2

“It succeeded…! The ‘absorption’ was finally a success!”

This was the very same voice I heard right before I fell unconscious after getting injected with something strange.

I pried my still heavy eyelids apart and blinked my unfocused eyes a few times.

My vision was completely white.

At first, I thought I was trapped inside a white room. But soon, I realized that that wasn’t the case. I stared at the entanglement of lines laid out diagonally before my eyes. They were very thin threads.

Dozens, hundreds…no, it was more than that. A countless number of densely woven threads were wrapped around my body like a cocoon.

“This is surprising. I didn’t think it could bear it…”

“Looks like we should have experimented with young organisms sooner…”

“As expected of our Doctor!”

Their research had continued to persist. When I thought about it, I remembered that while I was dreaming, I sometimes felt a writhing pain all over my body. I had lasted longer than they thought, unlike other test subjects that had quickly died once they were injected with the fragment, so they began to bring in young children to experiment on. Even after I woke up, the researchers excitedly focused more on experimenting with children.

However, the final result was that I was the only test subject that had absorbed the fragment’s power and was able to open their eyes, unscathed. The people at the research institute racked their brains, trying to figure out that had gone wrong. And so, they took me and began to carry out all sorts of tests on me.

Another 3 years passed since then. That was how long I was trapped there, undergoing all kinds of experiments.

In that interval, the researchers’ capability came through, and the children who had succeeded in the experiment became four, including me.

The power I absorbed from the fragment had nothing to do with attacking or killing, so even after I obtained power that I didn’t have before, I could not escape from the research institute on my own.

Meanwhile, the doctor’s greed gradually grew, and I had to absorb more grinded fragments time and time again in repeated experiments. Same went for the other children. Still, it was rewarding and the strength in my body grew stronger and stronger, and I was able to use the abilities I gained in finer detail.

Of course, there was also a child that was unable to endure and died.

While I became good at being able to use the fragment’s power to destroy things unlike at first, the researchers also grew secretly vigilant against me and began talking about moving me somewhere to isolate me.

The doctor’s eyes bulged as if he recognized the man.

Seeing that, a smile with a hint of dissatisfaction appeared on the man’s face. The voice that came out of his mouth right after was as sweet as honey, but the contents were vicious.

“I believe I’ve told you not to get that X-like look on your face. It makes me want to bash your face in, but you really don’t listen.”

Everyone around was shaken by this situation but the man was the only one relaxed.

For some reason, the doctor looked horrified and began speaking gibberish.

“Has this change in generations already started? No but still, why are you here…How… Don’t tell me you…?”

The man narrowed his eyes as if the doctor’s response was unbecoming and his mouth distorted in a sneer.

“Looks like you didn’t know what was going on outside while you buried yourself like a maggot in shit?”

There was obvious ridicule on his lips.

“Then again, I don’t think you knew I’d deal with those pests.”

Even the clear arrogance on his beautiful face suited him awfully well.

“Besides that…”

Those beady eyes left the doctor and took a glance around in the next moment.

Only

“What is this now? Did you maggots hatch eggs in the meantime?”

His sharp gaze swept over the test subjects in the room and he soon asked with cold touch on his lips.

“Why the stack of so many brats? It’s nauseating.”

I didn’t notice it before, but the man seemed in a very ferocious mood.

Finally, he stated.

“From today day henceforth, this lab is closed.”

Translator’s Corner:

*I’ve been asked about the update schedule for this novel and currently? I don’t have any. You can expect at least one per week but I don’t want to promise anything. Although, I would love to get to chapter 20 before this month is over, I can only get one chapter free per day(Kakao page rules). The novel I was translating is slowly coming to an end so I’m starting on this one. Once [Lucia] is over, I can promise a consistent schedule.

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