The Jellyfish Seal lay nearby, untouched, as she seemed uninterested in giving it more than a cursory glance.

The room fell into a hush, and Philip couldn't quite get a read on what was going through her head. He'd never been able to fully

understand her.

The woman picked up the mug of tea from the table and took a sip, a small smile playing at the corners of her lips.

"What about that girl you mentioned before? You know, Cynthia's daughter?"

"She's still alive."

The woman raised an eyebrow. If Philip had taken action, that girl shouldn't be alive, she thought.

"It seems you gave her a chance to live."

"Just killing her would've been too boring."

He wanted to turn her into livestock for experimentation, like the subjects in the observation room.

His initial intention to bring Maja back to the BK was just that.

Let her taste the sweet life of being a leader, gain her trust, and then bring her to the research facility.

Then she'd be like a lab rat, completely at their mercy.

But he had been careless. To his surprise, when presented with the position of leader, Maja hadn't been tempted. Instead, she was

fixated on how to stay side by side with lan.

Ridiculous.

When he found out she was on Forbidden Island, he stopped holding back. But Dylan and Abner's support ctoo quickly, and

with Quentin causing chaos, he failed to get his way and had to retreat, consequently blowing his cover.

The woman, still eyeing her mug, gestured dismissively, "I'm tired. You all can leave now."

Philip and Phil stood up and made their way to the door, but her voice stopped them.

for a chair position.

forward."

were twenty chairs in the research facility, each

and had access to the core members, but there

advancement. Now, he finally

the pills developed by the research

quotas.

With all those lethal pills at his disposal, it would be easy to

untimely and disgraceful demise.

spirits, "Understood, I'll draft the documents right away." Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴᴇt

as the door closed, Philip

secured through the women - their designated place whenever they returned to

room, carefully unpacked leaves he had collected from

admired the variety of leaves he had

he would preserve it and add it to his

spent most

and seen the sky for the first t-

move.

he only saw

raw meat, and like an uncivilized beast, he would hold the flesh in his hands and tear

the facility, but he was one

still didn't even know what

at the wall filled with his

door opened and Philip stepped in, his eyebrow arching slightly at the sight of the

back more

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

had, why not collect something more valuable? Why leaves? Philip never stayed at the facility

how precious these leaves could be to someone who had never

"I really like them."

was articulate and clear, but

to be Phil, only reverting to

was the only way he could interact with

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