## MAY 2, 100 A.W.E.
### In the Company's Research Facility:
**S:** "Why the hell have we not made any progress? Aren't you supposed to be the smartest man alive? What the hell have you been doing?"
**LIGHT:** "Don't yell at me. You're the biologist and the one integrating the nanites. If you want to blame someone, blame Red. He is the one who builds and constructs these nanites."
**BLUE:** "Why are all of you arguing? We have been at this for less than a month."
**S:** "Just to remind you, each day feels like 24,000 hours, yet we still have no progress."
**A:** "I am stuck with idiots. Bickering won't help you morons."
**LIGHT:** "We have conducted 100 quadrillion simulations. We need time. But we don't have time. White is going to die in less than six months."
At that moment, White walked into the room.
**WHITE:** "Why is everyone yelling?"
**S:** "Nothing."
S stepped out to the balcony, and White approached him.
**WHITE:** "I told you not to bother. I am going to die. Frankly, I’ve realized I have no reason to live. I have no family, no one I love. I only have one friend, so just don’t bother. I know you have one wish to save people. The project will save everyone."
**S:** "You're wrong. I save people to atone for what I have killed. My wish is just to save one person. Just one person by myself."
**WHITE:** "Your wish will come true, my friend."
**S:** "What makes you so sure?"
**WHITE:** "Just a feeling. Your birthday is coming up. How should we celebrate?"
**S:** "I don’t care. It’s not like anyone is going to remember us. We will only be remembered as monsters."
**WHITE:** "You’re right, but maybe you’re wrong."
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## MAY 3, 100 A.W.E.
### In a Facility in China:
A woman who had killed everyone in the facility was fighting Red.
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A distress signal was sent.
**Q:** "Something has attacked our facility."
**WHITE:** "Who is going to handle this?"
**S:** "Isn't that Red's area?"
**LIGHT:** "Apparently, the attacker put up a good fight. Red has detained her. She is in interrogation, but it won't be useful. She is apparently from a gang that Red wiped out. She is a living weapon as old as the war. Without a hand to wield the weapon, it has lost its purpose."
**A:** "Red is apparently busy. Well, he has a busy job ruling the underworld, at least when he is not partying, drinking, and sleeping with women. He wants us to handle it."
**WHITE:** "So who is going to go?"
**S:** "I’ll go."
**LIGHT:** "Leave the body for me. I'll conduct some experiments. She doesn’t have much time left anyway; apparently, she is going to die in a couple of years."
**S:** "You’re really soulless."
### In the Interrogation Facility:
S walked into the interrogation room where the woman was being held. She had chains on her hands and legs, completely soaked in blood.
**S:** "You do know why I was sent here, right? Red wants you dead, Light wants to dissect your body, and White couldn't care less."
At that moment, S looked into the woman’s eyes, which were completely void of any emotion and will. In that instant, S felt a desire he had never experienced before: the desire to save her.
**S:** "So if you are not following, you are basically dead. Nothing can possibly save you. But I am going to offer you a deal. Work for me. I will give you infinite days off, and the company pays for literally everything. Although you will give up your salary to pay us, everything you do is free. How about it? I’ll save you. You don’t have a name, so I’ll give you one. How about I call you Eleanor?"
The woman looked at S.
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### In the Company's Headquarters, Top Floor:
**RED:** "Are you insane?"
**A:** "I completely agree. Have you lost your mind?"
**LIGHT:** "What the hell are you talking about?"
**S:** "I’ll pay for the damages. Think about it: would you rather have something like that die than have it work for you?"
**WHITE:** "Even if you are right, she only has a couple of years left. No one can save her."
**S:** "I will save her. That is my wish."
**WHITE:** "If that’s your wish, then okay, I’m with S. Red, are you really going to go against your best friend?"
**RED:** "Why you? Fine, I agree."
**LIGHT:** "I also agree with this. He does have a point. It is better to have a weapon than not have one."
**BLUE:** "I guess it doesn’t matter what I say."
**A:** "Yeah, it’s decided then. But who is going to keep an eye on this weapon?"
**WHITE:** "I guess I can..."
**S:** "I will."
**WHITE:** "Okay then."
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## MAY 3, 100 A.W.E.
### In Black's Tower:
**S:** "Listen, this is a highly important and one of the hardest jobs we have now. That is why I am assigning you to it. The job is simple: go kill everyone. It’s the only job you can do."
**ELEANOR:** "Yes, sir."
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### At Night:
There was a call on Black's phone. It was from Sen.
**S:** "Why the hell are you calling me so late at night?"
**SEN:** "Sir, Eleanor is not in her house."
**S:** "What? Where the hell is she?"
**SEN:** "I don’t know, sir."
**S:** "Don’t tell me..."
Black went to a building and saw Eleanor standing on top of a pile of bodies in the rain.
**S:** "You moron! I only told you to kill them! I didn’t say to stay out here! Why are you outside in the rain?"
**ELEANOR:** "I wasn’t told to do anything else."
**S:** "You idiot!"
S took her home, made food for her, and dried her off.
**S:** "You really are like a child. But I guess you are my problem now."
**ELEANOR:** "I am sorry."
A smile appeared on Eleanor's face. For the first time ever, she was feeling something.