We don’t know how long we have been here.
The Whites forbid us from going outside the White Building because of our injury, and we are given water and food that so tasty that I feel like I just want to live here, clothing that is very soft and elastic, and very refreshing to wear.
Regarding the clothes, pink colored automata, entered the room the day after we arrive here holding plenty of dress for us, but we refused it especially me since a dress is not something we can easily wear in battles.
It didn’t last long after another set of Mr. Pink entered with a lot of variety of clothing; they just left the clothes on the table and telling us to choose freely.
All of the clothes is made of unknown fabric to us, but we didn’t think about it too much, since these are probably made by an ancient civilization, and their technology is far superior from us.
Right now, I’m wearing an ankle length boots, and color gray pants, for my upper body. A red tube like clothes and to cover my exposed shoulder I wore a jacket, and for my hair, it is neatly tied in one side of the head. For protection, my arm guard, and leg guards is available, because my breastplate was mistaken as a scrap by the Mr. Gray and threw it along the rest of debris from the battle with the dragon.
For Rika, she chooses a very short pants as per which according to Melisha is called hot pants, knee length socks, and dark colored sandals., for the upper body, it’s a sleeveless clothing which is called camisole that shows her bounty full breast and shoulder. She also added a top layered long coat that reaches her knee, and she left unbuttoned. For the protection, she doesn’t have any because, during their treatment, they are strip nude by the Whites and all of their clothes and equipment is thrown away.
Lastly Melisha, She is wearing a blue one piece short dress with lots of frills, and it exposes her back which covered by a shoal, and boots that reaching halfway to her knees. She didn’t tie her green shoulder length hair and let it flow in the wind, for her protection she doesn't have any since she didn’t like wearing it because she keeps on saying it doesn't suit her taste.
“then what should we do now?” Rika asked me sitting on the bed and drinking tea.
“Honestly I don’t know, we’ve spent considerable amount time here, and I know our parents must be worried a lot, and the Whites still don’t show any sign that they will let us go.”
“I guess so, then why don’t we sneak out?”
I answered Rika’s question, and Melisha gave her opinion.
“That’s a good idea! But how can we do it? This room doesn’t have any windows, and there is two Mr. Gray outside.”
Rika is right; even we manage to elude the two Mr. Gray outside, once they alerted the others. They will quickly catch up with us.
We manage to live against the dragon, but they might kill us sooner or later.
*SIGH!*
The three of us let out a big sigh while shrugging our shoulder, and then I remembered something and asked Melisha.
“neh Melisha, you studied the ancient civilization’s language with your parents, right?”
“Yeah, a little bit since both of my other is an explorer and also a researcher. It started when they unearthed several well preserve books regarding language in ruins near the Relya Sea Shore. My parents told me that ruin is like teaching institution.
I see, if she can know how to speak the ancient language, we might able to get back to the surface, but the problem is that they haven’t talked to us since we arrive here, they just keep gesturing which is sometimes hard to tell the meaning.
“Even though they haven’t a single word to us, but I can still feel someone is watching but I don’t where is it coming.”
“You can feel it too Rika!?”
“Same here Christine, first I thought it is some kind of magic, but I don’t feel any movement in magic waves around us.”
I see they both feel the weird gazes, and my idea is shot down by Melisha remark because it thought someone is using magic, but I’m not good at [Magic Perception] and I cannot use [Magic].
“There is still many mysteries regarding the ancients, and one of it is their technology. My blood is boiling from excitement because I’m fascinated by their technology, and I want to know everything about it!”
Melisha is frolicked with just the use of her thoughts and passion about technology.
Indeed, the ancient technology is very amazing, because of the compound structure it has, many research institutes doesn't have the guts to dismantle unearthed items with the fear of unable fix it. Thus the items are being displayed in public. Well, my father is one of that collector of technology, and he’s the one informed me about the scene in those places.
“Well, there is nothing we can do about, let’s just wait and see. I’m starting to get sleepy again; I think I’ll go to sleep for a while.”
“Rika….”
Rika’s carefree attitude strikes again after she finishes drinking 2 pots filled with tea and consumed a large amount food she just casually went to bed and sleep.
Only Melisha and I are awake, even if we want to sleep, we can’t because we don’t know what will happen to us here.
“Haist, it is really boring, there is nothing we can do here, and I really want to get healed because I don’t want to have scars on my body, but still I’m quite thankful for saving our lives.”
“Oh, you haven’t noticed it? look here.”
“What do you mean??”
Melisha tilted her head and focused her gaze to where my finger is pointed.
“It’s gone!?”
“Yeah, I was shocked at first, because the scar on my neck vanished as if it didn’t happen.”
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“Then you mean this wound!? It will not leave any scars!?”
“Yes.”
After hearing that battle scars will not appear in her body, her face becomes sloppy like she is melting.
While touching my neck, I remember that night.
It was a cold night, and my father is away from home.
He is doing his job as one of the few warriors in the village to patrol the forest area and kill the monster near the village.
I was only 5 years old that time; we weren’t nobles back then and living a simple life of frugality with farming.
Before night falls, the entire villager is already inside their houses because staying outside in night is committing suicide if you don’t know how to fight.
I was woken up by loud screams outside and my mother quickly gathers us. My 2 older brother, my older sister and me.
We were cuddling each other in the corner of the house, trembling with fear because the monsters attacked the village and warrior hadn't returned yet when they entered the forest.
Our mother is standing in front of us while holder her short sword, we know that she is strong because she’s an explorer like a father but against the number of monsters.
Mother is going to die.
The monster launches their attack, and mother just keeps brandishing her sword to protecting us and then an arrow flew that hit my mom arm which is holding the sword.
She fell to her knees while holding her arm where the arrow penetrated from her back, it was then when the monster was about to kill the mother, I took the heavy sword and swing it wildly.
I only manage to stop the attack them for a while, but it didn’t last long, the monster attacked me, because of the difference in our strength, when our sword clashed. The sword that I’m holding flew away and the monster swings its sword aiming for the head.
Out of fear when the sword flew, I become dizzy and fell down on my butt. The fall actually saves my life because the sword missed and it didn’t cut my head off, but it made a wound on my neck that can be fatal.
I thought I was going to die back then before I lost my consciousness. I saw father killing the monsters out of rage.
After few days I found out that, I’m lucky enough because one of the new guards can use [Lesser heal], and he quickly healed me, but he couldn’t remove the scar.
Every day since I woke up, I kept on begging mother to let me join the sword training, but she kept on refusing and telling me I’m still very young.
It took me a half a season before I manage to convince the mother to train me because I refuse to anything at home and keeps on sulking at the corner of our room. So I can also protect our family. My mother consulted father about it.
Before the start of the harvest season and my father approached me and gave me a wooden sword. IT made me euphoric because finally, they allowed me to join the training.
My training alongside with my brothers and sister started that next day.
“Christine! Your smile all by yourself, are you starting to get crazy!?”
“Huh!? ME? Going crazy?? No, no, no, I just remember something in my past.”
“I see, but please don’t just suddenly smile like after being silent for so long. It is very creepy, you know.”
Melisha got flustered after seeing I’m smiling all by myself. Indeed it is creepy when some smiled because of no reason.
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(Eden’s POV)
Should I go and greet them?
Maybe later, I’ll observe them for a little longer.
I’m currently using the camera installed inside the quarantine room the girls using right now.
I am an A.I named Eden to monitor and control the 51 facilities across the globe, but right now it seems the other places are disconnected to the main system.
8 days ago.
I suddenly woke up when someone forcefully trying to open door of the command center.
The backup system don’t have the ability to judge the threat around us, and the only function it has is to monitor and record every change within the facility or gather data the satellites acquiring every day, and to maintain the flow of energy within the facility.
In front of the doors, 3 armed girls are wearing weird clothes. I searched my database to find out what kind of clothing they are wearing.
It only took me a second to search it. They are wearing clothes similar to clothes in the dark ages.
“Two of them are regular human being, but the other is one is different.”
In this black space with green line is my home. I maybe an Artificial Intelligent but I contain consciousness and emotion like normal being because I’m also a human.
The different one is the girl that has green hair because her facial feature indicates she is human, but her ears quite long and pointy and she create a fireball out of thin air.
I search my database again if I have any record regarding such action.
The data shows that kind of action should only exist in book or movies but one of the data I have to happen during the experimentation of CSM machine, an incident occurred in the Subject # 0078.
“It seems that some kind of power awakens in #78 but how does the green haired girl able to the same action.”
I better observe them more gather data as much as I can.
Using scan, I managed to get their full appearance and stored it in my database.
There is one more problem, their language is very different and doesn’t match any installed language in the system.
I launched the language tool called [Cypher]. It will automatically record the spoken words and tried to decipher it by translating every letter to the install language, mixing and matching to create the reasonable and plausible meaning of the phrase.
The girls are trying to open the door, to ascertain their intention, I opened the door for them for one reason, to know if they’re thief or not.
They continued walking until they reach the control room and I also opened it for them.
When they entered the room, their eyes shone and started touching the panels, but there is no sign of them being a thief,
The Threat Meter also shows these girls are code green mean they are no threat to us, but I don’t trust them.
I activated the Code Red to enable the hibernating cyber units inside the control room When the girls saw the cyber unit. Their face made an ambiguous expression and ran away as fast as they can.
Since the hangar cameras are not working, I command the cyber units to follow them.
What I saw something that is not recorded in my database. A big wolf and using the scanning function of the cyber unit. The wolf’s fur is made of unidentified crystal.
I replaced the “Chase” command to standby mode and see their fighting capabilities.
Their fighting abilities match the record of using of blades or bow’s and arrow, but the green hair girls are using her ability to create supernatural phenomena to kill the wolves.
The battles lasted for an hour when the seismograph started detecting a 3.6 magnitude earthquake, but the weird part of it is that the epicenter is moving toward the girls.
A giant lizard appeared in the large hole in the hangar area.
“ A dragon, a monster shouldn’t exist in reality is now standing in front of the girls, and if the depiction of the dragons in the myths and legends is true, they will die at this rate, but I won’t let that happen because they are my precious subjects.”
I Input the command Protect the Humans, Eliminate the dragon and retrieve the corpse for future reference.
“how did the miracle metal got destroyed. I’ll be sending a unit to investigate this matter.”
Three cyber units covered the 2 girls that are running away before fire breath engulf them, and the rest is assaulting the dragon with RPG’s and another type of weapon. We can use the laser gun to quickly kill the dragon, but it is not safe to use that kind of arms here.
While the battle between the Cyber Unit and Dragon, I deployed the Cyber Nurses to treat the girl's injury, and Cyber Worker to retrieve the corpse.
The fight with the dragon took 30 minutes before they manage to take it down but It resulted to 10 Cyber Soldier got destroyed and the damage in hangar area is quite massive.
“Well I don’t mind, I could just send them to the factory and get fixed.
I used one the of the cyber nurse to talk to the girls personally
“The battle is done, They are safe, we are going to bring the three of us to the hospital.”
The black haired girls said while looking upward
“leui shiwt safl bmyosq algmy suyhe ansmer lbohk”
I couldn’t understand it, but I didn’t mind it because I have tons of time to study their language structure.
Today while watching the girls having another lively conversation
The [Cypher] tool failed to translate their language because there are tons of words recorded, but there is still no reasonable meaning generated.
“I’ll just give on the [Cypher] tool because it doesn’t work properly.”
But during those days of cyphering, certain words match my preset such as hot pants, bra, panties, jeans, and camisole.
The green haired girl said those words like she knows our language
I made the decision. Meet them directly on the 10th day of their stay.