Dark emerald buried in a sea of needles

" Diiii….diiii...diii... ". A boy was sitting on the bed. He had his eyelids closed, long dark blue hair covering his face. He was wearing a white uniform, and a few bloody stains could be seen on it. Several silver strands were coming out from his sleeves, they were all connected to a huge floating machine. Inside those silver wires, various colors could be seen, but the most eye-catching was the red one. A faint sound accompagne by footsteps interrupted the silence. A woman wearing a silver mask took a chair near her, and sat down near the bed. The control screen floated towards her. She took the screen, tilting slightly her head, purple hair slipped forward. Her blue eyes focused on the data shown. After a while she nodded, then her attention shifted to the human near her. " subject A-004, we made a health check, so I'm sure that you're capable of speaking, so answer a few questions ". To tell the truth, she was a bit annoyed, since she had to personally run this test. It was like trying to coax a grumpy child to spit out the candy. He never talked, the only noise he made were the howls during the experiments. No other sounds were heard from him.

She patiently waited, but not obtaining any reaction from him, a plan quickly took place in her mind. Fixing her voice, to an appealing tone, she started. " Since you've become a part of the project, you have gained a few things. And recently the permission to talk ". She observed him, but the only change was his lips curved in a mocking smirk. But she wasn't frustrated at all, instead she kept going on. " I know that you must have heard the escape of the subject A-003, right ? Her escape was quite unexpected, but the most interesting part was her new power gained ".

A piercing gaze was staring at her coldly. She chuckled, " do you want to hear more ? ". She finally relaxed, she managed to catch his attention, at least. The person who was lying, nodded slowly. Dr.0 was about to reply, but was stopped by a raspy voice. " I indeed want to know more. But not from your mouth ". The scientist only felt an intense pain irradiating from her neck, and her vision darkened.

A-004 tore off all the wires and jumped down. He quickly approached the body on the floor, and searched for a few items. From her pockets he fished out a small chip, then took off her wrist-screen. He grabbed her index finger, to transfer the authority on his identity. After the operation was done, he shut off the floating machine, and controlled the map. He prepared his escape route. While browsing the screen, his eyes were fixed on an image. It was showing a pale girl with gray eyes and dark hair.

A black car stopped in front of a huge structure, and the metal gate opened. The door lifted upward, a boy walked out, blonde hair shining under the sunlight. " Welcome back young master ", a row of servants bowed. The young master didn't even look at them, but he waved his hand. All of the people were standing straight again. A middle aged man smiled at him and took the school bag from him. " Young master, how was the first day of school ? ". " It was in.. boring ". The butler raised his brow, but didn't speak. Both of them walked towards the mansion.

Deven took off his coat and hung it, he was getting ready to walk to his own bedroom, but a hand patted on his head. " Little Dev, how was your school day ? ". A young man was the owner of the hand. " It was quite acceptable, brother ". " Oh ", his brother made the same face of the butler. " wanna talk about it later ? ", " I think It's alright ". The eldest master chuckled, while watching his little brother going up the stairs. He wondered what caught his attention. The butler made eye signals at him, he nodded.

Deven sat down in an armchair, while holding the hand in front of his eyes. A milky candy was seen. He recalled what happened this morning. The little girl was the first to catch his gaze. She looked like a warm little sun, with her golden eyes. But not after too long, he felt that her warmth was a bit too hot. Firstly she did two actions which startled him. Firstly, she accused him of being stiff as a robot. Secondly, the candy that was suddenly stuffed in his mouth. At first he really wanted to scold her, but in the end he couldn't bring himself to do so.

Behind the door, a small crack could be seen. Two sneaky figures were looking at the boy who was smiling foolishly, holding the white candy. " ah, I must know what's going on in his mind ". " Yeah, eldes master, you should share it with me too ". " of course ".