Askan didn’t want to destroy everything from the beginning.
When he left the laboratory with Helcyon a long time ago, the survivors of the human weapon experiments had to hide and live due to the clear order to kill them all. However, none of the laboratory children harbored any complaints.
They were children who had lived their entire lives confined.
Even in a small space where they could barely lie down, the ability to move freely was enough to be ecstatic.
“I make one promise. I’ll make sure you can get revenge on the person who made you like this.”
Helcyon’s words, rather, were hope for them.
“Let’s make a deal. Use your abilities for me. I will become the Emperor of the Kalua Empire. If you help me, I will grant you the nobility’s title and promise a high salary according to your merits.”
Askan didn’t believe all of Helcyon’s words, but anyway, he didn’t reject the laboratory children, so he considered it fortunate.
Helcyon, as promised, protected the laboratory children from the eyes of the Emperor, like the first promise. And he constantly brought them corresponding tasks.
They were all teenagers at the time, but since the purpose of saving them was known to be their special abilities, there was no resentment.
[General Polita, murdered] [Viscount Kamor, murdered] [Mrs. Eritha, murdered]…omission…
Askan never failed the missions given by Helcyon. For him, he had shed the blood of countless people.
Although he didn’t particularly consider it a repayment to Helcyon, he thought it might be necessary to earn his keep.
Then one day.
As usual, Askan wore a mask and completed his mission.
On the way back, Askan, Bill, and Experiment Room Child 968 were together.
“Cough, cough.”
Hearing 968’s coughing, he initially thought he might have caught a cold. However, he saw a lot of blood on his palms.
Askan instinctively felt that something was strange.
The laboratory children were different from ordinary people. They didn’t easily get hurt or sick, so vomiting blood was impossible.
With a lowered voice, Askan asked, “When did this start for you?”
Suddenly, he remembered a small child who had used the adjacent room when Askan was young.
That child, known as No. 1890, had secretly vomited blood in the middle of the night.
Most children undergoing experiments experienced such side effects. The child who vomited blood disappeared from the laboratory shortly afterward.
But why?
They no longer underwent experiments.
They were living in a place without horrific experiments, performing the missions given by Helcyon. Still, they couldn’t understand why side effects were occurring.
968 calmly wiped away the blood and said in a composed voice, “Don’t make a fuss about nothing. It’s nothing special.”
Even Bill, who rarely intervened in such matters, exploded in anger.
“Don’t talk nonsense. Isn’t it unusual for you to suddenly vomit blood when you’re no longer undergoing experiments?”
As 968 said, this wasn’t just a small matter to overlook.
However, what 968 said next was even more shocking.
“You guys have never vomited blood before… Not just me, but other kids who escaped from the lab have vomited blood too.”
Upon learning this fact for the first time, Askan was surprised. He believed there would be no more children dying from experiments.
Looking at 968 with a serious gaze, Askan said, “Let’s go to the doctor right now.”
“Don’t talk nonsense. If our bodies are examined, they’ll notice something is not normal. Do you all want to die together?”
“But ignoring it won’t solve the problem. You know that too.”
“…”
968 couldn’t say anything for a moment. He knew better than anyone the condition of his own body.
“…Even if this body won’t live long anyway, I’ll kill one more for Lord Helcyon. Well, why not.”
Askan involuntarily frowned.
The laboratory children trusted Helcyon, but Askan didn’t trust him as much when he saw him.
“968, do you trust someone who can betray us at any moment with that kind of talk? Helcyon can strike us from behind anytime, and you’re saying such things.”
In response to Askan’s words, 968, who had been calm until now, erupted in anger.
“Askan, you may think you’re the leader, but if you blabber such nonsense about Lord Helcyon, I won’t forgive you even if you’re you. He’s the one who opened the way for us to live. I will definitely revenge the person who made us like this. That’s the reason I’m alive.”
968 was not the only one with such thoughts.
The surviving laboratory children sincerely believed and followed Helcyon.
The words left by Helcyon, who had never experienced hope in their lives growing up in the lab, were like salvation to them.
It wasn’t something Askan could break. For them, Helcyon was the future, a ray of hope.
He knew it shouldn’t be like this, but there was nothing Askan could do. Taking them to the doctor without the agreement of the other kids carried too much risk.
The researchers who had supervised the experiments were all dead, and there were no adults who could be asked about the current situation.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
