Chapter 4

After Noah got his breakfast, he walked over to Ayumi und Yu and directly began with a question.

"Good Morning, you two! Say, do you like surprises??"

"Good morning Isaac-oniisan!" Ayumi greeted cheerfully, "What surprise do you mean?"

"A pretty big one. You will see it later. But before that, I need you to do something."

"Sure, I will do every-"

Before Ayumi was even able to end her sentence, a fist bumped her head.

"Don't just simply say you will do anything…" Yu said.

"It's actually something pretty simple. If later on the alarm starts, try to help each other."

"What do you want to do?" Yu asked carefully.

"Whatever necessary so that I am not caged like a bird anymore. But don't worry about that, just try to help each other and it will be enough."

After breakfast, Isaac arrived in front of professor Tsutsumiuchi's laboratory.

"Good Morning Isaac. How do you feel today? Do you feel any discomfort?"

"No, not really. Everything's normal. But before we start the experiments, can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what do you want to know?"

"How do you feel about doing all of this?"

Tsutsumiuchi was surprised when Isaac asked something like that. After thinking for a bit, he answered, "That's really an unusual question. To say the truth, I pity you. I can't agree with the methods my colleagues use. But at the end of the day, I am just someone who is being ridiculed for the hypotheses he stands for."

"What would you do if you could help the kids?"

"I would naturally help them. They've gone through too much and should lead a normal life instead of being held here and experimented on. But why do you ask?"

"Because I thought that you seemed to be different. I want to give you a chance…"

Inside director Tachikawa's office, he was currently entertaining a middle-aged man in a suit. Two bodyguards stood right outside the door and were ready to come in anytime.

"Mr. Furushi, nice to see you again. How are you?"

"Let's reduce smalltalk. So how is the progress with the kids?"

"The kids are mostly cooperative so far and we didn't have any major occurrences.", Tachikawa said.

"And how's the progress with duplicating or strengthening the abilities. Is it possible to duplicate their powers?"

"We are still at the beginning of our research, but duplicating will be hard. The particles of comet Charlotte seem to only work on people in adolescence. When they get their abilities, the particles change something in them. Sometimes it's the body structure or a part in the brain. Even if we duplicate this, it would probably show no results, because we still don't know everything. It would be easier to brainwash them or to find someone with the ability to transfer them."

"Well, I expect you to show some results. If –" While Furushi was still speaking, the alarm siren suddenly rang

"What's going on?" Furushi asked Tachikawa.

"I don't know. One moment please, Sir. I will go out and look," Tachikawa said and went out.

When Tachikawa walked out, he walked to one of his guards and asked him directly, "What's happening?"

"Sir, it seems like the one we brought with us yesterday tries to rebel. We already sent a squad to deal with him, don't worry."

Just when they were finished speaking, the heard an explosion and the facility trembled.

"What's now?" Tachikawa asked disgruntled.

"What's going on in Block D? Answer immediately!"

"We are trying to stop him, but it doesn't work!!! We need hel-" Before he could finish, they heard some kind of tearing sound before the transmission ended.

"What should we do, Sir?" the guard asked Tachikawa. Tachikawa didn't really know what would be best to do, because he would have never thought, that someone can just erase a whole group of trained soldiers. At least not somebody who supposedly doesn't even have an offensive ability."

"Send everyone we have. We need to end this."

At the same time, Yu and Ayumi found each other. All the kids were scared because they didn't know what is going on.

"Attention! Attention! Everyone, immediately return to your cells."

The broadcast sounded and the kids started to walk to their rooms. Ayumi looked at Yu and asked, "Do you think Isaac-oniisan did this?"

"Probably. I don't think that it's a coincidence that he talked in the morning about a surprise and that now this happens."

"Should we go back?" Ayumi asked.

"Why would you do that if you don't have to?" a voice behind them suddenly said.

Before they were able to look back, two arms hugged them and a head popped up in the middle. When they turned their heads to look who is hugging them, surprise and happiness appeared on their faces.

"Shun-oniichan!"

"Nii-san!"

"Long time no see, you two! Surprised?", Shunsuke answered with a happy smile.

"Why aren't we able to shoot him down?", one of the guards asked while firing frantically. The bullets seemed to always change the trajectory when they are bout to hit him so that not even one bullet hit.

Isaac just slowly walked towards them and seemingly didn't even care about them shooting him. When he was nearly near them, he suddenly waved his hand.

"Wha-" The guard couldn't finish because he suddenly felt his throat tightening. Before he was able to think further, his vision blurred and he saw his own body. Why am I seeing myself? Where's my head?

When Isaac wanted to continue walking, large metal walls appeared.

Seems like they initiated the lockdown. But something like this can't really stop me…

Isaac started to condense some of his Qi into a long sharp sword and simply cut through the metal like butter. Behind the wall were guards waiting, who couldn't believe what they saw.

"M-Monster!"

"Everyone, shoot!"

In Tachikawa's office, he and Furushi were fearfully waiting for the news of Isaac being killed.

"Who is he? Why didn't you kill him if he has such a powerful ability?"

"We don't know what is going on too. His ability is nothing great to speak off and from what we know he normally wouldn't be able to do something like this."

"But he does. He is killing all our guards and you can't stop him at all!" Furushi yelled at Tachikawa, "And thanks to your lockdown I can't even escape! We are like caged animals!"

While they were talking, gunshots sounded outside their room before it got quiet again. Hearable steps slowly came nearer until somebody opened the door. What appeared was the person Tachikawa wanted the least to appear.

"Hello, Mr. Tachikawa. It's nice to see you again so soon," Isaac said, standing there with a grin.