Chapter 6: Neighbor Cousin!

” …Well, I got out of the containment cell. I don’t think I was seen, right?”

If it’s a company that manages Abnormalities, wouldn’t there be a subjugation team to prepare for escapes?

I hope I don’t get beaten up just because I came out. I don’t like pain.

• Aaah.

Just as I was turning my head this way and that with anxiety, the red light from the light bulb on the ceiling started to leak out, and a siren wailed.

I was discovered 3 seconds after I came out. Isn’t that too fast?

Maybe… Did they intentionally let me escape?

After all, it was a company that managed those dangerous Abnormalities, so it was suspicious that I could come out so easily.

After intentionally opening the door, if an Abnormality escapes, muscular men will come to subdue it and torment it until it dies.

If you escape, you’re screwed. Isn’t that what they’re trying to tell me? Those cunning guys.

Damn, I was played. Should I go back now?

Just as I was regretting escaping and about to return to the room,

[ Abnormality Meat Lantern, identification code O-04-84, has escaped containment. Management staff in the relevant department, please subdue it immediately. ]

…The ‘escaped Abnormality’ described in the announcement voice was a completely different Abnormality, not me.

What, I was just scared for nothing. Honestly, it was an impossible imagination.

After letting out a slight sigh of relief, I looked closely and saw that there was another containment cell next to my containment cell.

I wondered what kind of Abnormality was in the next room, and I moved to the door of the containment cell next door with tottering steps.

But why is this door so much taller than me? Is there a huge Abnormality locked up somewhere?

After tipping and struggling for a long time, I could see the inside of the containment cell.

…I didn’t get shorter because I turned into a girl. It absolutely can’t be.

Turning from a long-legged young man to a small little girl overnight, if a dog passing by heard this, it would burst out laughing.

Putting aside the unnecessary talk, the Abnormality residing in my neighbor’s containment cell was a bit… like a dog.

No, I’m not really cursing, I’m really saying that its appearance is like a dog.
A dog standing still on all fours and sticking out its tongue and panting.

If it weren’t for the strange flesh and eyeballs attached to it, it would be so cute.

Putting aside the neighbor’s Abnormality, I turned my head to look around the hallway, and something written next to the containment cell caught my eye.

[ Identification code O-06-20, identification name ‘Nothing’ ]

The dog-like Abnormality seems to be called ‘Nothing.’

I think the naming sense of the people in this company is a bit strange.

Wait, is that also written next to my room?

Just in case, I checked and it was also written next to my room.

[ Identification code O-01-39, temporary identification name ‘Little Girl’ ]

…I shouldn’t have looked.

It keeps reminding me of the experience of losing a companion in life.

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The feeling of coming out of the containment cell was just so-so.

Honestly, it’s just a hallway with white walls and meaningless wires, just like the containment cell, so what kind of impression can I get?

Besides that ‘Nothing’ I just saw, there’s really nothing.

One difference is that there’s a flower blooming in the center of the hallway…

Huh?

There’s only a light bulb, and it’s like a concrete floor, but there’s a flower blooming?

Admiring the mystery of nature, I approached, but it wasn’t the kind of flower I knew.

A pure white flower that emits a faint light.

The light is so ethereal that it gives the person watching it a warm feeling.

Is it because the ground has been shaking a little since earlier, like an earthquake? It feels even more mysterious.

“Pretty flowers are growing even in a place like this.”

As I moved to the very front of the flower, the ground, which had been shaking a moment ago, became still.

Was it because I was so nervous until just now? I feel healed just by looking at the flower.

Slowly, slowly, I caress the flower.

The flower looks fragile, enough to break with a little force, so my moving hands become cautious…

“There! Whoever you are, get away from the flower!”

Hmm.

A sudden shout from the side.

I almost lost my heart…

I stroked my startled heart and lowered my gaze again, and the flower that had been emitting an ethereal light until earlier was broken in my hand.

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Ah.