For a moment I thought I was going to faint again, as their words blurred more and more. I felt like being submerged underwater. I thought I made the decision to come here. Was I tricked from the beginning? When suddenly, my head cleared up again to catch what she is saying.
"You have to understand, I was there to make sure they cannot do anything. I wasn't trying to do anything to you." She tried to explain, her voice now completely human, the blankness non-existent. I was horrified, so people are interested in me as early as in the US, years ago. That thought haunts me.
"Now that I turned into a level five Esper, does that mean people are gonna do the same experiments on me?" I wouldn't even imagine, thousands of my clones popping up in the city.
"Don't worry about that yet, right now they only know a rare case of ability change happened. They still weren't able to identify you."
"How much do you know about this experiment?" I asked.
"The Board of Directors, some members are corrupt. A certain member of the group authorized it. I'm trying to narrow down the possibilities."
"How did you know where to find me?"
"The scientist who met you, Yoshikawa Kikyou. I sort of know her, she is a researcher for this experiment. The member overseeing the experiment had ties in the US. He know scientists trying to study you. He ordered her to bring you here. You have to understand, she is on our side. After receiving the order, she had known about you being tracked down. She went with the order because she think it's actually better for you if you came here. Then she made it seem like she and you lost contact so no one can track you down. No one affiliated with this whole thing was ever successful in reaching you until right now."
"So you are saying she manipulated me into coming? Why did you suddenly tell me all this?" I demanded.
"She knew it's better if you came. I didn't want to trick you to come. I didn't think here is good for you until now. She tried her best not to lie, her words are not necessarily lies."
"She did tell me about the experiment happening right now. Do you trust me and Shinobu?" Misaka asked. I looked at Shinobu, and back to Misaka. I finally nodded.
"If I can trust you, who do you think might be interested in studying people like me or Misaka?"
"There is one, who I don't even know if he is still alive. But Kihara Gensei, that's his name. The pill you took, Esper Essence. He invented the concept of it. It's basically collected by overloading the brains of young Esper children, who all fell into a coma."
"I… dealt with his granddaughter, us, a doctor, and a researcher managed to get the children out of their coma state." Misaka revealed."
"What doctor, what researcher?" I suddenly wanted to know everything.
"The researcher is the one involved in the Level Upper incident remember? All she wanted to do is to save the fainted kids, apparently she used to be their teacher, or headmaster. You don't know the doctor, but he is an old man, funny looking face." Shinobu suddenly spoke up:
"We need to reinstall all data quick. Make sure it looks like nothing's been altered. I am working on the security system, my scientist ID card should prevent triggering." She picked up the dropped pistol, and checked the magazine.
"Hopefully this will never be needed." She muttered.
"Are we leaving?" Asked Misaka.
"Soon."
She opened a long metal cabinet, revealing five f2000 assault rifles and bulletproof vests. Boxes of magazine lay on the bottom portion in the cabinet, along with first aid kids, even, ability body crystal.
"You are making me nervous, we are not Special Ops! Why the hell would you need them? Where did you learn how to use guns? And how did you get them anyways?" I rapid fired questions at her.
"I hope I won't have to use them. The scientists working here keep them stored just in case. The guns were supposed to be issued to the clones, but those guys ordered a few more."
"From where? Black market?"
"Kind of. Like I said, they have ties. And if you are wondering, yes, the clones do use firearms against Accelerator. As to where I learnt using guns, I just know lots of things. Purchasing firearms is on the complete data file of the project, they actually should be getting a shipment today morning." She rapid fired answers back to me.
"Just remain calm, I thought you get used to things, don't you?" She added.
"Which school do you go to?" I asked.
"I used to attend Nagentenjouki."
"Same school as me."
"Well I got expelled. Apparently my participation in the research had been, unexpected for them. Reluctantly they let me go because they don't want anything to do with it."
"So you are telling me in some perspectives this is illegal." I tried to make sure.
"If that's how you want to believe. If the highest authorities don't say it's illegal, then what can you do about it?"
"Well then, that means we can also do whatever it takes to stop them right?" I said back.
"Even if it means going against a Board of Directors member? The whole city?" She then asked in a slightly curious tone:
"So what are you going to do next?"
"Well to hell with the Board of Directors. We just destroyed one of their facilities built with their money. We are not stopping to care. What do you think, we are here for?" She was clearly amused.
