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.

a recommendation coming up for a chair position. Philip, prepare sdocumentation. I'm

forward."

in the research facility, each responsible for liaising with the

access to the core members, but there

advancement. Now, he finally had

a chair meant he could freely use the pills developed by the research facility, no longer

quotas.

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

untimely and disgraceful demise.

documents right away." Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴᴇt website on

as the door closed, Philip

secured through the women - their designated place whenever

unpacked leaves he had collected from

he had turned into specimens over the years. Every

leaf, he would preserve it and add it

was a habit he started ten years ago. Having spent most of his life trailing behind Philip, he rarely

met Philip and seen the sky for the first t- a completely foreign concept to him.

move.

at the facility, he only saw glass panes and doctors in

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

one of the lucky ones who had been exposed to

even

as he looked at the wall filled with his collection of

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

brought back more

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

something more valuable? Why leaves? Philip never stayed at the

these leaves could be to someone

"I really like them."

Phil imitated Philip, he was articulate and clear, but when he was himself, his reactions

reverting to his true self within the walls of the

as if that was the only way he could interact

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