Inside of a large empty white room.
—Crash!
A loud crashing sound reverberated across the room. The source of the sound was a large metallic humanoid robot.
Opposite to the robot was a youth. The youth was fairly muscular and had thin short black hair that spiked upwards. Hair aside, the most striking feature of the youth were the terrifying scars that covered half of his face. Tracing from the top of his head to the bottom of his head, the youth looked absolutely terrifying.
This, coupled with his indifferent eyes, would've made anyone look at him in fear. He looked terrifying.
Coldly looking at the robot, the youth took a step back.
WHIIII—! WHIIII—!
Instantly two robotic arms appeared in the position he was previously standing. Once the two arms appeared, lifting his foot slightly, 876 twisted his torso 45 degrees and kicked one of the robots right in the head.
—Bam!
A dully metallic sound rang out.
—Thud.
Following this, one of the robots fell to the ground. Without wasting a single second, 876 thrust his sword downwards.
—Beep!
Once the sword made contact with the robot, a beeping sound came out of the robot. Ignoring it, 876 jumped on the robot and tensed his legs.
WHIIII—!
Upon making contact with the robot on the ground, 876 released the tension between his legs and jumped backward. The moment he jumped, a terrifying fist flew towards the area he was standing, barely missing him by an inch.
—Thud!
Softly landing on the arm of the robot, channeling his mana, and using his right leg, 876 kicked the last robot in the head.
Bam—!
Another dull sound rang out as a shockwave swept the area.
—Thud!
Falling alongside the robot, 876 softly landed on the ground. He was completely unharmed.
—Beep!
Repeating the same thing he did with the other robot, stabbing downwards, a beeping sound rang out. Having eliminated the last robot, sheathing his sword back, 876 calmly looked upwards. Towards a tinted glass window by the side of the room.
—Beep!
[Alright, good job 876, your test ends now. You're dismissed for now]
Joseph's voice rang out from the speakers around the room.
"..."
Without saying anything and nodding his head, 876 made his way towards the entrance of the room. Arriving before a thick metal door, 876's footsteps halted.
—Kshiii!
Slowly the doors opened and 876 left the room.
***
Inside of a different room.
series of recordings regarding 876, Joseph
has grown much more than I
subjects, 091, and
would disregard anything
three, 876 was by far the most successful subject. Not only was he capable of remaining under the emotionless state for the longest out of the
091 and 654, 876 was by far a more
"It's a pity though..."
scars covering a better part of his face, he looked absolutely hideous. Fortunately, looks didn't matter, so
—Triiing! —Triiing!
his phone. Looking
He muttered underneath his
he disliked the
"What do you want?"
He answered.
are
the crap, get to
also didn't like him,
well then...I would like to tell you that the three
"...now?"
—Yes. By tomorrow.
"..."
remained silent
to come, now that it was quite close, he
act as I intended
phone in his hand. This was a bad habit of his that showed up whenever his emotions
—Did you hear me?
"Ah, yes...I heard you."
of his thoughts was Xavier's calm
behalf of the higher-ups to
the
—...Is there a problem?
we'd have to go
since you're always stuck inside of
"Heard what?"
sort of
whole himself up in the lab most of the time, Joseph was unaware of what was happening in the outside world...or more like he usually didn't care. Therefore it wasn't strange for him to not
at war. The
"War!? What happened?"
dropped as he screamed
"Just what ar—"
—Know your place.
he could finish speaking, Xavier's grave voice cut him off. Realizing
I was just
It was impudent of him to ask for such
watch your tongue....all I can tell you is that it has something to do
"The union?"
from the original purpose of this conversation. I'll be
"...understood."
nodded
I'll see you
Tak—!
hung up
"huuu."
away, Joseph took a deep breath. Turning around and looking at the three profiles on his table, he
three
***
bracelets that suppressed my rank,
accompanied by the same guard as before, I was brought back to
did in the
Clank—!
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