Chapter 4: Escape?

Something feels very empty.
Although I don’t have to check it directly, I know what the emptiness is.

“Hoo… Let’s stay calm, especially now.”

Surprisingly, right after I said this self-hypnosis, my complicated thoughts calmed down at once.

Is it because something incomprehensible has happened in a row? I didn’t want to become insensitive to this.

Once I regained my sanity, the hair that kept covering my view bothered me.

I wonder what happened while I was asleep that made my hair so long. Even the color has changed to white.

“Ah- ah-“

And my voice.

Looking at it now, it’s a considerable high pitch, unlike my usual voice.

I pinched my cheeks, wondering if it was a dream, but…

“Ouch!”

Instead, I realized how soft my cheeks could be.

“Is there a mirror somewhere?”

I confirmed a moment ago that the room was empty, but if there was one, I would have been able to confirm my current appearance well.

As soon as I thought of it, I saw a small mirror lying in the corner of the room.

As if it had been there from the beginning.

…

Looking into the mirror, I see a face that is unfamiliar but also familiar.

Wait, familiar? I’ve never seen a girl like this before?

…What is it?

I was momentarily embarrassed by the inexplicable sense of déjà vu, but I ignored it, thinking that I might be too sensitive, and checked the mirror more closely.

A white-haired girl staring blankly at me from inside the mirror.

When I pull on my soft cheeks, the girl in the mirror’s cheeks also stretch out.

But how far does it stretch? It’s not even a cheese.

After checking everything with the mirror like that,

It’s completely different from my face that I saw in the mirror just yesterday morning, but I think it’s me.

…Damn it.

My mind is getting confused again.

I think I need some time to organize the situation I’m in right now.

Umm… First of all, I seem to have entered the game Lobotomy Corporation, which my friend was playing.

It sounds like a crazy thing to say, but if it’s not this assumption, I’ve either been captured by a crazy scientist who enjoys extreme concept play or this situation is a terrible dream…

No matter how much they talk about future science these days, they can’t change a person’s appearance like this.

I decided to set aside the complicated thoughts and just think comfortably.

The tape told me very well that it wasn’t a dream.

But if there’s one problem, I don’t know much about this game.

In the first place, all I did was watch my friend play it, so what would I know…

Hmm, there’s no answer.

There’s not enough information in the first place.

Besides, there’s nothing in this room… the containment cell… that can help, should I go outside once?

I put the mirror down in the corner and got up, moving towards the only entrance in this room, the door.

“Umm… I can’t see anything.”

Unlike my expectations, the upper part of the door, which seems to be made of glass, didn’t show anything, as if a magic mirror used in a police station was attached.

Maybe it’s a structure that can only be seen from the outside.

This way, there’s really no information I can get inside this containment cell.

I feel like I can find out something at least if I go outside…

“I wish I could go out.”

…

Lobotomy is a company that specializes in managing Abnormalities.

To isolate those dangerous Abnormalities, there must be high-level security facilities and a systematic system.

It means that it shouldn’t be pierced with a free pass like a tollgate that’s everywhere.

Huh? What are you talking about all of a sudden?

Because I’m outside the containment cell right now.

I just unconsciously put my hand on the door, and the door opened on its own.

No, you’re managing dangerous Abnormalities? Should it be okay to break through so easily?