Agnes (Last Ⅰ)

Agnes has no emotions.

She knows nothing about joys, sorrows, and of course, the other sensations and emotions that people enjoy.

She doesn't know if she cared about something or hated it. To her, other people, and even she, herself, are just dolls. Objects that are just there.

She doesn't think that was the case since her birth.

However, when she was really, really young, her parents were burned alive in front of her and was thrown into a "facility" for more than 10 years. The girl was only six years old when she first found herself there, and by the time of her 16th birthday, she no longer had any emotions, becoming a skilled agent for the organization.

Agnes, with no family name.

She had already lost the memories of being with her parents when she was young.

The organization's doctor said that the memory loss was due to psychogenicity, but then again, Agnes felt nothing about it.

She forgot her real name. When she was trained at the "facility", she was always called by number.

Agnes is just a name given by the organisation for the sake of convenience.

Only three people survived the organization's "education" and were only given names in the order of ABC.

Agnes.

Bianca.

Chelsea.

Bianca and Chelsea, who had the same "education" and had been in the same "facility" since childhood, could be called her families.

But Agnes has no feelings or thoughts about them.

Bianca and Chelsea had tried to comfort her, who lost her memory and became a doll, out of pity.

They too have no memories. Though, they do have emotions.

The organization named them on its own, but they have real names.

"My name means Love."

"My name means Connect"

Connect with love.

It's ridiculous, like a hippie from an already past era.

Agnes does not understand love. Neither does she know the feeling of being connected.

They did good to Agnes, but she had no particularly strong or drop emotions to them.

Why am I alive? She sometimes thinks of it, but came up with nothing. After all, the organization has ordered her to be useful, and live, and work.

If the organization told her that she is no longer needed, she will die. But even so, there is neither emotion nor sentiment towards them.

Agnes is an excellent "doll" for the organization.

She will keep doing her job even today, following the instructions of the organization.

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"Abduct a Japanese boy…?"

「Yes, Agnes. The mission this time is abduction.」

In a one room apartment.

Agnes talked on the phone as she glanced down at the man who had fallen under the watch of her eyes with a large amount of blood spilling. He looks really desperate.

Usual work. Usual assassination.

She does not know much about the man who she has fallen and is about to die. The organization ordered that Agnes killed him, and she just did so.

She replaces one of the prostitutes called by the man, intrudes inside, then approaches the careless man from behind and slides a knife into his throat. It's a repetition of an action she had never failed.

Agnes reported on the phone that the mission was accomplished, and to ask for a sweeper to clean up the corpse, where she is assigned a new mission.

Orders from the organization are always abrupt.

「I'm leaving for Japan now. You should have learned Japanese…? Anyway, abduct the boy there, and you can also interrogate him if you can restrain him.」

"Interrogation?"

「Yes, we want to know of the 'location of the meteorite' from the boy.」

"Meteorite…?"

Agnes frowns. Japan, a boy, and a meteorite. There seems to be no connection between them.

Questioned by Agnes, the man began to tell a story that starts with a meteorite that crashed in Japan in April this year.

A meteorite about 30cm in diameter.

It seems to have fallen in a certain city in Japan. The volleyball-sized meteorite, which would normally do enormous damage to the city and the ground, apparently only made a hump on the head of a boy.

It's hard to believe, but it seems to be true.

It seems the meteorite was taken to a laboratory in a Japanese university, where it was analyzed…

「The meteorite was composed of substances that did not exist on Earth. Japan keeps the analysis results a secret, but it seems to discharge a certain kind of wave that causes a certain type of phenomenon.」

"Discharge …?"

「It's in a huge amount as well."

The unique properties of the meteorite were discovered during the analysis.

When the waves are discharged, they produce electricity. The meteorite produces energy, as violating the law of conservation of energy, by creating energy from nothing.　

In huge amounts too.

According to the analysis, the amount of discharge seems to be proportional to the mass of the meteorite, but it is in fact possible for a piece of the meteorite, as small as the tip of the little finger to permanently produce enough electricity to cover the consumption of a city like, for example, New York. It definitely is possible.

「It's like a fantasy item. We won't need power plants anymore. Everyone will want it. The smell of money is in the air.」

A substance that can produce clean energy without using gas, coal, oil, or nuclear power.

It is a fantasy item.

After thinking thus far, a certain thought makes its way to Agnes' mind.

Indeed, it is certainly a fantasy item, and the meteorite will have enormous value. But there are certain groups of people who would be troubled by that.

The story of the man continues, confirming Agnes's thoughts.

「It is being kept a secret, but it's not something that can remain hidden forever. The information leaked, and the first one that moved were the major old producers, urging the CIA to do something. An agent was sent to Japan to investigate the meteorite being protected at the laboratory and, if possible, snatch the fragments away.」

But he failed, he continued.

「A meteorite fragment was stolen from the research facility around the time the agent landed in Japan. But right under our nose, the agent who followed that disappeared.」

He just disappeared?

「Other countries soon noticed information about the abilities of the meteorite. Some intelligence bureau had already moved… but any further contacts with them are impossible. All the agents who went to investigate are missing.」

Did the Japanese kill them?

「They can't do that in Japan. Well, about a month ago, our organization finally came upon a certain information. Huge money can be expected from it, Boss was motivated too. So he sent many agents to Japan, and many of them disappeared, but a boy emerged from all this.」

Etozawa Koutaro.

Says the man on the phone.

Eto Zawa Kou Tarou.

(TN: This one can be translated as- Let's do it like this)

Weird name, what kanji is it written with?

Whatever, it is said that this boy, just a Japanese teenager, has information on the 'location of the meteorite', or even has the meteorite itself.

Just a high school student? It isn't a fake?

「…You know of the organization's ESP research team. They reported that Etozawa Koutaro may have the ESP ability of mind control.」

ESP research team. It's a useless team from the organization that hasn't done anything. If not for the Boss' occult related hobbies, the research team would have been disbanded long ago.

「I too was suspicious he might be a fake, but one day, an unknown agent suddenly contacted me. He wants to meet my boss by any means, without any further explanation. He just told me he wanted to meet the Boss.」

No one agent can meet the Boss. Why did he even bother trying?

…Was he mind-controlled?

「He is a guy who disappeared after trying to investigate Etozawa Koutaro. He may have his mind tempered with when he got in contact with him. The use of mind control was suddenly found out. The ESP researcher, Mad, is excited. He wanted to study this Etozawa Koutaro.」

Then it's my turn.

「Abduct Etozawa Koutaro, who stole the meteorite, and interrogate him. After the interrogation, I'll make him a souvenir for Mad.」

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Oddly enough, Etozawa Koutaro seems to be the person who was directly hit by the meteorite that fell into Japan.

A man of good luck, he is alive even after a meteorite hit his head. He's hard-headed?

The man on the phone said that the he might have awakened his ESP ability after getting hit by the meteorite, and that may surprisingly be true.

There is no material like it on earth. A mysterious substance that produces energy beyond physics. It's no wonder such a thing happens.

Perhaps Etozawa Koutaro stole the meteorite to monopolize its power.

Agnes got down at Narita Airport while thinking about such things.

It is her first time in Japan, but it is fine. She can use Japanese.

While walking in the lobby of the airport, the Japanese folks' eyes follows the figure of Agnes passing by.

…She's aware that her figure stands out.

After her parents were killed, her hair had turned white, and the new one growing after that remands white.

It may not be very good for stealth operations, but this time, it's just an abduction. She don't even need to dye her hair. She only have to hide her face with a mask when executing her mission.

After entering a hotel near the airport and changing clothes, Agnes get on a motorcycle that had been prepared for her in the underground parking lot in advance, and moves straight to the city where the target lives.

Agents who have arrived first must be spying on Etozawa Koutaro. The agents were also someone Agnes knew.

Bianca and Chelsea.

Direct contact should be avoided for fear of getting mind controlled. Execution may be some as per Agnes discretion.

-fu~asa-… She stuffs her silver hair into the helmet, get on the motorcycle and starts the engine.

It look like a scene from a movie.

Dressed in a rider suit, her hair close to silver and her eyes are golden in colour.

Well-shaped face, cool eyes, low height (for foreigners).

From an objective point of view, Agnes have an inhuman-like beauty, like a fairy in a story. But the person herself does not understand what beauty is.

Many people looked back at Agnes at the airport, and rather than pointing out her unusual hair colour, they would be more focused on her beauty.

A short girl with silver hair is walking around.

So moe.

Such an Agnes operates a motorcycle skillfully like it's her limb and drives towards her destination at a high speed.

When she contacted the hotel, an agent who had arrived earlier said she would have a chance tonight. If she leave now, she will be there by evening.

Agnes have on a black rider suit.

This me, is moving towards the city where Etozawa Koutaro lives.

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