Tale of Discovery

Chapter 146: Glimpse of the Past ; Reawakening

Huh? Where am I?

Opening my eyes, I'm met with the sight of thousands of coffin-like containers with glass tops.

Inside each one of the coffins, there is a body of a human in pure white clothes.

All the bodies are different from one another in various ways apart from the clothes they're wearing.

Attending to the bodies are angels?

Seriously, where the hell am I?

"Master?" a voice calls out to me from the side.

It seems like I once again don't have control over 'my' body as my head turns on its own to face the source of the voice.

There, I see a pink-haired girl wearing white attire that seems to be of foreign origin. Behind the girl, there is a pair of pink wings that are retracted.

What attracts my attention the most are the two white metallic objects that are at where her ears normally would've been. Is she an android or something?

"Is there an issue, Alpha?"

Hearing 'my' voice that sounds so much rougher than how it is in the 'present', I can imagine what personality one should have to speak in the way 'I' just did.

The girl, Alpha, I presume, has had a blank expression on her face the moment she called out to 'me'.

She still does even while replying to my inquiry,

"No. Master seems different."

What? No way It can't be that she's able to sense me, right?

"Different?" 'I' reply in a not-so-friendly tone.

"I was wrong," she just responds before shifting her attention back to the containers below us.

From what I can see, the two of us are standing on a makeshift platform, looking down on the thousands of containers containing bodies.

All of a sudden, an alarm blares as all the angels present in the vicinity begin to panic.

"Calm down!" 'I' yell menacingly, which results in complete stillness in the place we're in.

From the looks of it, none of the angels dare to defy my orders, be it out of fear or respect.

Judging from what I've seen so far, the truth seems to point toward the former.

How inefficient... One shouldn't speak control over anything by making use of fear, as it's impractical and will lead to numerous issues.

Anyway, the reason the alarm blared just now is most likely because of one of the containers has opened.

From within it, a teenaged girl with brown hair steps out and looks around with intrigue.

Close to the girl, several angels are unsure of what actions to take.

Just as the girl is about to take a step, 'I' appear right in front of her.

What the heck just happened? Usually, I can feel the movements and abilities that are made use of in such 'visions', however, that didn't happen this time.

For some reason, the notion in and of itself is making me feel uneasy. The fact that I'm currently not in a body to 'feel' unease makes it even worse.

So, this is what's meant by 'soul-shaking', huh?

Shifting my focus back to what's going on, I find the girl that exited from the container staring at me stoutly.

"This sure is a pleasant occurrence," I say to the girl in an amused tone.

The girl's eyes narrow down in response as she mutters impassively,

"It's you, isn't it?"

My reaction to her words is nothing more than crossing my arms while peering into her brown eyes.

"You're the one who took him away," the girl continues, giving off a slightly strong aura compared to 'ordinary' beings.

Not caring about her words even if a little, I raise my arm and voice,

"Alpha."

The next moment, a gust of wind blows the girl's hair as a pink-haired appears beside me.

"Grab her," I command.

Without a shred of hesitation, Alpha reaches her arm out to hold the girl, however, before that could happen, the girl swiftly moves to the side.

While slowly backing away from us, she looks me in the eyes and says in a firm, yet shaky tone,

"Just you wait. We will bring you down! I will never forgive you! No one will!"

I laugh at her words and say mockingly,

"Bring me down, you say? With what? You insects are capable of nothing."

Before the girl can respond, I say,

"Alpha, terminate her."

The moment the words leave my mouth, Alpha abruptly disappears from where she was before reappearing behind the girl.

The girl isn't able to make sense of what's happening as a long and sharp metallic weapon pierces her.

Blood spreads all over the white dress she has on as her eyes seem to lose their colors.

After a few seconds, Alpha pulls out the sharp weapon, letting the body limply fall onto the ground.

"That marks another failure" I mutter to myself while pressing my finger against my chin.

"These insects are so unworthy of the attention they're being given. So many have passed the initial stage, yet they all end up like this"

Letting out a sigh, I say in an exasperated manner,

"If only they kept their emotions in check, there would so many possibilities."

"Master," Alpha calls out to me in a desolate-sounding voice once she has walked to my side.

"Head to the Transit Station."

Nodding her head once as confirmation, Alpha leaves flaps her wings and exits the place we're in from a circular metallic door.

"Beta!" I voice a little loudly.

The next second, a blue figure appears beside me, brimming with excitement.

"Master? Did you call for me? What do I do?"

Looking over, I find a petite girl with blue hair that's tied into twin-tails. Similar to Alpha, she has two white metallic devices at where her ears normally would've been.

Ignoring her overexcited state, I calmly state,

"Clean this mess."

Beta gets a little dispirited as she looks over at the corpse of the girl before her expression changing to that of disgust as she says,

"Another failed subject. These disgusting creatures, can they not learn?"

Raising my hand, I flick her forehead and say in a commanding manner,

"Less blabbering and more working."

"Yes!" she replies a little nervously as she walks over to where the body is.

I don't stay to watch her go through with the 'cleaning' process as I abruptly change location from where I was to somewhere deserted - a circular 'island' that seems to be floating.

The only living creature where I am is Alpha, who's standing beside a tall white pillar that's inscribed from bottom to top in letters that I do not know of.

Leaving that aside, this place sure is strange.

The ground itself is covered in a white material that seems to be 'unrealistic'.

From what I've seen so far, there are a few trees spread out over the whole place, as well as a network of water channels that are guided toward the ledge of the floating island.

I proceed to look over at the pillar that's at the center of this place for a few seconds before floating into the air and pressing my palm against it.

"Zeus. Transit - 046," I say as I send a pulse of energy into the pillar.

Immediately after this, a bright light covers my vision before it goes away after a few seconds.

However, the place we're in now has changed.

Like before, there is a pillar in the center of where we are, however, instead of a floating island, we're in a room.

There are bright white tiles all over the floor and walls, with the ceiling being the only thing that's different in the room, as it's yellow.

"Let's go," I say to Alpha who has been standing still the whole time.

"Mn," she responds before following me out of the room through an automatically opening metallic door.

Upon exiting the room, I am met with an extremely fascinating sight.

From the looks of it, we're currently on the higher floors of a tall building.

In front of me, there is an almost invisible glass pane.

This isn't that has fascinated me, but it's the sight of everything outside the building.

Out there, I can see numerous fascinating buildings along with several other things that are simply stunning.

'I' don't look outside the window for a long time as I turn around to walk somewhere, however, everything that I saw during this short time-period is stuck in my 'mind'.

It was simply amazing. There were futuristic-looking buildings and dozens of automata that were all over the place.

That's not all, as there were quite a lot of cars on the street that lacked a driver.

All in all, this place is definitely an interesting place.

"Victor!" a voice calls out to 'me', forcing me to halt my thoughts and focus on the 'vision'.

Looking over, I find Krul walking over to where I am at alongside someone whose face I've not seen in a long time - Infi.

Once they've reached me, Krul beams me smile while Infi looks me in the eyes and says,

"It's been a while since you've visited this Platform, brother."

What? Infi truly is my sister?

"You know that I'm busy, Infi," I respond coolly.

"Indeed. We all have one purpose, after all."

I seem to nod my head approvingly before asking,

"How are the tests going?"

"Reporting," Krul says, "The humans have shown a tendency to be easily guided by their emotions. So far, there has been no individual to meet our criteria."

"Over here, as well, huh?" I mutter.

This seems to attract the attention of the two girls as they both look at me curiously.

"It's nothing much," I explain, "It's just that a short while ago, a subject managed to escape in Project Heaven."

"Project Heaven?!" Krul exclaims.

"Indeed. However, the subject failed to showcase anything worth being mentioned."

"I see," Krul says in a deflated manner, "Such a waste."

Nodding my head, I state,

"Let's not waste any more time here."

Agreeing with me, the girls nod their heads and follow me as we make our way to an elevator.

Fascinating I'm able to see the world even more clearly, now that we're in this elevator.

This Platform is simply aesthetic.

Such thoughts don't last long, as my vision is suddenly blinded by a bright light as every window in the vicinity shatters.

Despite what just happened, every single one of us who is in the destabilized elevator is calm and collected, as if what just happened is a normal occurrence.

Outside the building, dozens of metallic discs are flying from one location to another, until one of them finally gets to where the elevator is at.

I motionlessly stay still as the device begins to glow a little before releasing a blinding light.

The next thing I know, I am no longer in the elevator with the girls.

I am elsewhere.

Somewhere extremely familiar.

All around me are amputated corpses with various degrees of shock and pain expressed on their faces.

I'm still unable to control my body as 'I' move my head to look around the place before looking down at myself.

My whole body is covered in blood, indicating that whatever happened here is either done by me, or I am a part of it.

I don't stay like this for long, as after a few seconds, I begin walking through the corpses all around me.

This goes on for a short while until I hear a light sobbing noise quite a distance away.

I make my way over to the source of the voice only to find a middle-aged woman hugging the corpse of a teenager as tears roll down from her cheeks.

It takes her a little while, but the woman eventually notices my presence.

She raises her head and looks at me with reddened eyes before opening her mouth and saying in a shaky voice,

"Kill me."

I don't respond to her words and just continue to stare at her messy figure as she continues,

"Kill me like you did my son!"

Her attempt in exclaiming ends in a terrible cough as blood spurts out of her mouth.

"Do it!" she yells, ignoring her pain.

I remain still for a few seconds before raising my right arm and pointing my right finger at her face.

The next moment, a streak of energy escapes from the tip of my finger and goes into the woman's neck.

As a result of this, the woman's eyes widen as she uses her hand to hold her neck before it abruptly 'explodes'.

This results in my vision to be blocked as a warm sensation covers my face.

"Victor!" I hear a low voice calling out to me.

"Victor!"

Ah, what's this feeling? Comfort? Softness?

As my senses stabilize, I begin feeling a soft sensation on my lips.

Huh? I'm lying down with my eyes closed?

Having realized my current state, I abruptly opened my eyes only for them to be met with another pair of eyes.

Acting as if nothing has happened, the owner of the eyes slowly gets off of me and then the bed, planning to walk out of the room.

Before that could happen, I say in a slightly threatening tone,

"Where do you think you're going, Ddraig?"