Saki: Why would you want to know more about the Genetic Constrain? Before it didn't even sound like you believed in it.

Shin: I didn't, but the thing is... I, I think that during that battle on Day 2 I might have unlocked it.

Saki looked at me with surprise on her face. I didn't know if she believed me or not, that I tapped into the sealed potential of man and have taken one step towards the next evolution of man, but I still told her how I believed to have come to experience it.

I told Saki that when I was about to be defeated by a Btooom Soldier and saw the signs of a Blazing Gas BIM that might have killed Hikari, and imaging that scene, I went into what I called an Unlocked Mode.

Moving in ways I never dreamed of, able to come up with battle tactics left and right and for the most part relying on instinct to fight, I defeated enemy after enemy all the way till even the Btooom Commander was defeated once and for all.

I didn't leave a single detail out as I told Saki what happened. Saki then needed a minute to process all that I have told her.

Saki: That... Indeed match what I was once told and discovered by myself through years of research. Amazing... It really exist!

Shin: I thought you said you believed in it?

Saki: I do and I have even seen someone who has entered that Unlocked Mode when I was a child. The memory was so vague that sometimes I believed that it didn't happen... Do you mimd if I tell you a story.

Shin: What story?

Saki: The story of how I first come to learn of the Genetic Constraint, not in this world but the real world. It is the reason that I became a scientist and arrived to this point, here in this dimension that to my surprise, is a world that encourages Players to release the Genetic Constraint.

Saki than began the story of her life.

It began in her youth not unlike Shin's own, her back story was anything, but ordinary.

When Saki was ten years old her father and mother took a trip together to the beach. Saki even back then was considered a genius and had perfect grades in school, so this trip was sort of a reward for her. Her parents were normally very busy and worked a lot, so this simple trip to the beach to the beach meant a lot to Saki.

Too bad it would be her last. Saki and her family would get caught up in an incident that would later be known as the Misty Beach Massacre.

Officially, it began in the afternoon at the beach when it was must packed.

Baffling all weather reports, a large and dense fog covered the beach within the span of a few minutes. Those not caught in it were confused and tried to enter the fog, but for some strange reason the fog would repell all outsidera.

The fog wouldn't let anyone enter or leave and cut off all forms of communication, including sound. The police were called in, but by then it was too late. The Fog quickly dispersed moment after they arrived and what the police found terrified them.

Bodies.

Countless dead, bloodied bodies of the many tourist enjoying the beach far as the eye could see. Some to this day it was some mass chemical bombing, but not only didn't it explain the fog, the conditions of the bodies didn't match up. The tourist were torn apart as if they were attacked by wild animals or monster, and there was something else that happen thst disproved this theory.

Only the bodies of adult tourist were spread out over the entirety of the beach, but there were no kids. Children, kids and teenagers, they were no where to be seen. Not only was it a mass murder, but it turned into a mass kidnapping as well.

This is where Saki version of the events begins.

According to her no one died because of the fog that enveloped the area. It just stopped her, her family or anyone else from escaping or communicate outside the fog even with a phone. A few minutes after all the tourist began to panic in mass, those two showed up.

Two men in heavy clothing by the way of the ocean from a large boat at sea came and walked onto the beach. One man was skinny and unremarkable except that he looked to be a westerner and not Japanese, yet the other drew the attention of Saki and others since a constant stream of foh was pouring out of his sleeves.

? ( Fog Man ): The barrier has been set up. If we hurry those guys won't notice till it is too late.

? ( Skinny Man? ): Ok, but hasn't the organization been to ambitious as of late. If the other two forces joined hands then...

? ( Fog Man ): We aren't paid to question orders. Besides, we both know that we do not have the FREEDOM to disobey the organization after making the deal, so hurry up before anyone annoying shows up. Just make sure you keep enough reasoning to not kill the test subjects or we will be killed bynthe higher ups.

? ( Skinny Man? ): Fine... Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!

The Skinny Man's body slowly began to expand greatly as he yelled to the heavens. Arms, lags, torso and head, everything began to expand. His skin tone became red and his bullging veins were visible from a distance ( I won't even say which Batman Villain this was like ).

The now formerly Skinny Man then began his rampage. Ignoring the children to young adults, the monster began to kill every living thing in sight with his bare hands that can rip human beings apart. So unable to escape all the adults and elderly were killed. This included Saki's parents who died right before her eyes.

Then once all the adults were killed Saki saw something odd once more. The color of the Fog changed colors and within one minute Saki had lost full control of her body. Saki couldn't move around much, yet she was able to see that the other children were in the same shape as her.

Saki then heard the Skinny Man, whose body had deflated bqck to normal, was breathing heavily, and was talking to the Fog Man.

? ( Skinny Man? ): Hahahaha... To bad you were unable to do that from the start. Even now I still feel bad after doping. Could have saved me a lot of trouble.

? ( Fog Man ): You know as well as I that the hypnosis fog is only really effective against humans who are still young and has little effect on adults.

? ( Skinny Man? ): It is still such a hentai like power as always. Whatever, I am beat. Just tell the kids to move their asses to the boat. I'll call over the captain to come closer.

From there Saki had a huge gap in her memory. Last thing see recalled was stepping into the cargo hold of the boat with the other children and nothing more after.

The next time she would be aware of her surroundings would be three months later and when she woke up from her memory blank she had felt different... Or a better way to say ot was that she felt less.

Saki used to be a very bright and happy girl, but that girl had died with her parents. The cause wasn't just the incident itself, but something they did to Saki while she was captured. It was only much later that she understood it wasn't that she was emotionless, but it just took a lot more effort and stimulation to feel happy and other such positive feelings, yet at the time Saki felt like she had become a robot.

Along with being given strange medicines and a few of surgeries, what they, the people in white lab coats who had kidnapped Saki and the other children who looked after them, they had them undergo simple and other times strange test.

There were even combat lessons mixed into the many lessons that her kidnappers had the children take, all of which Saki was told she excelled at by her teacher/captors. As far as Saki could tell her captors for whatever reason were preparing them, her and the other kidnapped children for something that until recently she couldn't figure out. Her best geuss was that they were trying to build up an army of superior child soldiers, but soon it didn't matter what they were being prepared for... As everything came toman abrupt end.

A whole year went by and it was around this time Saki was beginning to accept this strange new life of hers, and that was whwn her life was changed again. One day an lone intruder broke into the institute that saki and the children were kept and raised.

Chaos soon consumed that place and that was when Saki knew that this was her chance. Although Saki had lost a lot, shd no attention of spending the rest of her life here or wait till the day she finds out what the people here were preparing her for, and it was the right choice. Her captors realized that the man came here to either rescue the children and not wanting to give them up/leak any information, they killed all the children. Saki who escaped alone learned of this later.

As Saki was making her escape she saw the conflict between the lone man and her captors... And she was stunned. The intruder, a single man with a katana killed many people who were all armed with the latest weapons with ease.

Also, there were individuals with special powers like the ones who kidnapped Saki fighting the intruder, but they were being pushed back. The way the man fought as he dodged every attack and kill his enemies with a single swing of his sword that had no wasted movement mesmerized her. The enemy were very afraid of the man and she heard on of them shout in a panic.

?: Damm, is he... That guy is in Unlocked Mode! What the hell is someone who has unlocked the Genetic Constraint is here? This isn't even a priority base for the organization.

?: Stop talking and fire! Unlocked Mode or not, he is still part human. We just have to- Ghaaaaaaa!

It was the first time Saki heard the word Genetic Constraint or Unlocked Mode.

The intruder soon killed everyone and then after discovering Saki, he took her away. A few days later the police found one of the kidnapped children from the 'Mist Beech Massacre'.

Then, just like when she was originally kidnapped her memory became foggy afterwards.

Saki later suspected that the man asked her questions about who she was, when was she kidnapped, who did she think those people were and what they made her do, and afterwards tried to use some sort of technique that makes on forget memories, but Saki had always had a very good memory and what ever her captors did to her improved her mental capacity, so she eventually remembered everything later.

The Saki remembered what happened afterwards as well, like asking for the man's identity and questions about her kidnappers and the Genetic Constraint. The man with the sword was secretive, yet believing that Saki would soon forget everything and that she at least deserved to hear the answers, the man told her a few things. Half of it was muddled thansk to the memory loss, but Saki definitely remembered the explanation on the Genetic Constraint.

Saki was free at last, but only physically. Her mind and what was left of her heart was always drawn back to that mysterious incident. Saki kept looking for signs that it was all real, that she wasn't imaging it all.

Saki became a scientist who studied OOPArts, items said to have once held power and technology beyond the current civilization, she even affiliated herself with the military and government to find clues on the Genetic Constraint, the next stage of human potential but most of all him, the man who saved her and those like him who could unlock their potential and fight with amazing abilities.

Unfortunately, in the real world Saki didn't come very close to her goal.

What Saki told us earlier on Day 2 was all that she has found out. That short speech amounted to her whole life's work and recently she had hit a dead end she knew not how to overcome it. And so, despite not believing that nothing is impossible, she was about to give up and was considering ending it all...

Saki: That was when I came here. This place... Is definitely connect to that event and my own research. I just know it is! And Shin, meting you here, finding that someone and recently here that had unlocked the Genetic Constrain... Had really renewed my beliefs and desire to live. Thank you.

Saki saidmthis with a rare smile thwt took Shin by surprise. Saki wasn't a beauty like Aqua or cute like Hikari, but strangely enough that made her stand out all the more ( Like Aki Tomoya said, even plain looking girls have their own charms ).

Shin: No problem. For whatever it is worth you are sort a comrade.

Saki: Sort of, huh? Well, that is good enough for a working relationship like this ( If this was a job I would quit or file a complaint to HR ). So what did you think of my story?

Shin: It was really out there. If not for me being in this sort of place, I would have said that you made it up and used/stole the idea to write an light novel based on it. I am only guessing here, but you think that there is some connection to what happened to you in the real world and God's Dimension where the two of us are in right now?

Saki: More so then think, I am certain. Since, since the moment I woke up here I have felt that I knew about this place somehow. That... This place, if you don't mind an unscientific conclusion, gives off the same aura as those men with power that I met in the real world.

Shin: Could they have escaped from here? When you choose 'Back to the Origin' you can return to the real world and with all your abilities and items.

Saki: I am unsure, but I do have one clue about-

- *SCAN*!

Both Saki amd I felt it. Someone had activated their radar to find the two of us.

Shin: Were you moving at all just now?

Saki: I was a little. Sorry.

Shin: It is fine. If they thought to use a scan they must have suspect that other people were nearby, but to be sure that wasn't some kind of code from Hikari and the others who went out, right.

Saki: No. Hikari, Kamap, Zero and Shuai are Supposed to activate their radar for four consecutive scans. That was juat one, so...

Shin: An enemy.

Even before Shin said this, Saki took out multiple switches from her pocket.

The were for the many, many Remote Control BIM that she and the others set. Once we find the enemy she can activate nearby BIM and blow up the enemy and even if she fails I can finish where she started. I had run out of BIM, but more then ever I was confident in my fighting ability and the oppressive feeling that the Btooom Soldiers and Btooom Commander held... Wasn't there.

The two of us were ready for a fight, but what we heard next changed our minds.

Misaki: Hey! Are there any friendlys inside!?

Misaki?

I immediately recognized Misaki's voice and activated my radar. There wasn't just him, but another person standing right next to him. Now, the fact that 7/8 members of our team has been found and with process of elimination, the most likely person who could be with Misaki who had survived all the way to Day 5 could only be... And hoping that it was I ran out ro meet the two of them. First there was Misaki, alive amd in the flesh, and standing next to him was-

Aqua: Yo. It has been a while.

Shin: Aqua!

Misaki: Hey, don't forget about me.

Shin: Ah, yes. It... It is good to see you too Misaki.

Misaki: What is with this difference in treatment?

Aqua: I am a beautiful women in the prime of her youth and you are a biker thug.

Misaki: Former, and I was never a thug! I just rode bikes.

Shin: Same difference.

Misaki: You...

I was happy.

The two who Saki and I had thought were possible enemies were in fact Aqua and Misaki. I was glad to see that they, especially Aqua, looked unharmed.

There was so much that I wanted to know like where were they, had did they survive, do they have enough chips and how did they find us, yet... All of these important questions were trumped by a much bigger and glaring issue at hand. Even Saki who so far has been silent has been looking at IT.

Shin: ...Aqua

Aqua: Yes ( Playing at not knowing what this was about ).

Shin: What is that?

Aqua: It's a house warming gift.

Shin: ...Huh?

What was curious as to the sight before his eyes.

What he wanted to know why was a house warming gift, were three NPCs that were dragged by a rope who were gaged and blind folded.

Shin: What is that?

Aqua: It's a house warming gift.

Shin: ...Huh?

Misaki: Just explain it properly, Aqua. Just saying, 'house warming gift' won't cut it.

Aqua: I'm sure they can understand my attentions.

Saki: No. Even with my IQ of 220 I can't grasp the full meaning.

Aqua: Fine! I'll start from the very beginning, but explain to me what you have been up to first. Like how did your hair became white?

Shin: Fine ( My girlfriend to be is so bossy ). Long as I can know why you brought three NP- ( Avoided a potential spoiler ), I mean enemy players are here.

It was then after Saki and I explained what we have been through, Aqua and Misaki then began to explain their adventure on the tropical island where the real world Btooom game takes place.

DAY 1 - Aqua and Misaki landed on the other side of the island away from where Hikari, Saki, Kampa, Zero, Shuai and I landed. It was in the area Ryuta ended up after the failed helicopter escape.

Aqua was able to acquire all eight chips by the end of Day 1. Like I originally imagined, Aqua was able to use her enhanced senses to find and hunt down NPCs without even needing to rely on the radar. Aqua's two genetic mutations, the Wolverine and Werewolf genetic mutations allowed her the ability to track her prey in a variety of ways.

That was how Aqua found the NPCS, and not giving the enemy anytime to prepare themselves she was able to swiftly take them out. That's my Aqua. Not disappointing at all, yet on the other hand Misaki was only able to gain one chip and barley survived the Midnight Execution.

DAY 2 - On Day 2, Aqua and Misaki finally met up. Aqua saw that Misaki didn't have a lot of chips, so they teamed up to get more chips. Lucky for them, because on Day 2 they were on the other side of the island they didn't encounter the enemy Btooom Soldiers and Btooom Commander like we did and could hunt down NPCs in peace.

DAY 3 - By the end of Day three Aqua had helped Misaki acquire his remaining chips and they still had not encountered the enemy. Unfortunately for me, I was lied up in bed recovering from a Timer BIM going off right under my feet.

DAY 4 - On Day 4, Aqua and Misaki who both gained 8 chips each and decided to hunt down the Btooom Soldiers and Btooom Commanders at last. Still, I was unconscious.

Day 5 - By Day 5 today, Aqua had defeated a total of ten Btooom Soldiers and three Btooom Commanders ( That is my Aqua, but I am so jealous. That is 2500 Points, 10 D and 3 C rank rewards! ), and Misaki actually defeated two Btooom Soldiers with her help.

The two then choose this time to look for the others of our group since they had cleared up a lot of the enemies and with Aqua's amazing tracking ability it didn't take much time for the two of them to find us, while also capturing the NPCs that they crossed by. They brought them, instead of killing them for the points themselves, so that if any of us were lacking chips we could fill our quota.

I was amazed that Aqua really could defeat so many of the enemy singlehandedly.

I did something similar and it almost killed me in the end with a fiery explosion, which downed me for two days and three nights, and here she is with hardly a scratch on her.

I was glad that she wasn't hurt at all, but Aqua admits that while physically she is okay, she is tired spiritually. She had used up almost all of her Nen/Aura fighting the last two days with tough opponents like the Btooom Soldiers and the Btooom Commanders.

Saki: Shin said something similar about Ki. Is it really that hard to recover? Also, is this Aura different from Ki? They are both life energy yes?

Aqua: It's the same, but it is also different as they belong to two different worlds of fiction, but forget about that for now. Now to the main part, Shin how many Chips do you and Hikari have?

Shin: I have six as of right now and Hikari should have collected all eight by now.

Aqua: That is good to hear. Shin, kill two of these NP-, no I mean two of these guys ( Avoided a potential spoiler ) to get the last of your Chip requirement.

Well, being told to execute two tied up, blind folded people/NPCs wasn't something that a high school student could hear and not think, Wow, and the said NPCs weren't taking it calmly either.

As if they were saving up their energy this whole time they tried to escape, but Aqua too quickly knocked them out in response and broke their arms and legs. It was heartless, but it wasn't like I cared to let them go either. My life or yours, I'll take mine any day of the week.

Aqua: Go ahead and kill two Shin. We'll save the third incase Hikari comes back and needs the last.

Shin: ...Sure.

- *BANG*!

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 2, NPC CHIP - 10 POINTS ACQUIRED.

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 2, NPC CHIP - 10 POINTS ACQUIRED.

I killed the two of the NPC that Aqua and Misaki brought by putting bullets into their skulls and that was it. With this I was finally able to wrap up the second objective of the Main Quest.

GOD'S MISSION

BTOOOM, 15 MAN MISSION.

NON STORY PLOT.

MAIN QUEST:

Objective 1 - Deafeat Ryota Sakamoto by the end of Day 7.

Objective 2. Complete!

Base Survival Reward: 1000 Points.

Combat Mission Reward: 1000 Points and D rank reward.

SIDE QUEST: Bonus Points.

1. Orientation - The first player to explain to the New Players the inner workings of Missions, Exchanges and how to return home. 100 Points

2. NPC Chip - 10 Points

3. Btooom Solider Chip - 100 Points D rank reward.

4. Btooom Commander Chip - 500 Points C rank reward.

5. Ryota Sakamoto's Chip - 6000 points and B rank reward. Can be shared by more then one person, but in that situation contribution will become a factor and points/rewards split.

PENALTIES: Negative Points/Death.

1. New Players - Negative 1000 for a Player killing a Newbie Player. A New Player is a New Player till they go on their second Mission.

2. Spoiler - Negative 10 points per Sentence.

3. D-ZERO - Any player with 0 or negative points at the end of a mission after all calculations are finished, will be killed, no exception.

4. Midnight Execution - At midnight at the end of every day Players with less then 2 Chips will killed. This number will increase by 1 for every following day till Day 7. If by the end of Day 7 and the Main Quest is not complete, all Players will be killed for failing the mission.

5. Chip Depletion - Starting Day 2 and ending Day 6, a unit of 5 Btooom Soliders and 1 Btooom Commander will appear on the island to kill both Players and NPCs. When an NPC is killed by someone other then a Player or NPC, that person chip is destroyed and can't be recovered.

ADDITIONAL INFO: Mission Information.

1. A defeated/killed party's chip will be absorbed into a Player's Chip. The Chip from Players Chip can't be transferred/taken under any circumstances, including in death.

2. With the only exception being Ryota Sakamoto, a defeated party's chip will go to the person who delivered the killing blow.

3. The number/types of chips collected will increase the effectiveness of a Player's Chip Radar.

4. A Player can't use the BIMs of another party, but can use them if they are dead and personally killed the the other party. Also another's BIM can be used if activated and disarmed. Also, a Player can't take the BIM/tools of a Btooom Soldier/Commander even if a Player kills them.

TOTAL SCORE: Pending.

I now had all eight IC Chips ( There were no BIM because the three NPCs ran out ).

With this I can just focus on defeating the enemy and prepare for the arrival of Ryuta Sakamoto on Day 7. And Aqua was here as well. Even if she wasn't in her best condition, together there isn't any foe we can't defeat.

Saki: Aqua, I have a favor to ask if it isn't too much trouble.

Aqua: Like what?

Saki: It is likely that Hikari and the others have already collected eight chips each, but would it be alright if I gain custody of the last NPC.

Aqua: ...Long as Hikari has all eight chips then it is fine and long as it isn't for yourself.

Saki: Of course. My asking you is a decision for the group.

After that, Saki then asked Aqua if they can speak in private and Aqua agreed, and together they went somewhere for a secret talk.

Afterwards when they came back, I asked Aqua what was it that they talked about. Aqua only said it wasn't her concern if Saki has her own methods to deal with the mission, long as it has nothing to do with her and the other veterans, and didn't explain more.

Shin was confused as to what Aqu meant, but it was around that time when Hikari and the others finally returned. Since the time on the plane together, it was the first time all eight of them were together again.