"My research?!" I asked her after finally settling out our little misunderstanding. Just to make it clear, I have no hand or whatsoever in all this, OK... Honestly, kids these days. I can't believe they can be as horny as fuck in broad daylight.

"Yes, that's true but-" She squinted toward me, "I don't mean to impose but didn't you reject me without any confession?"

Now that she mentioned it, I kinda did, didn't I? I mean when I thought she might really be looking at me lewdly, I was just scared. I don't know but it was scary. What did you say? ...Eh! She wasn't looking at me that way? Fine, I agree. It was the hallucination of my own wild imagination... Ah! I mean I had no such vision inside my mind. I am pure as a white angel, can easily ride above Unicorn. Can't believe me, then bring me a Unicorn, I shall prove it... Fufu, what is it? Can't bring me a unicorn... Ah, you poor thing...

Well, ignoring all that and Ms. Anabel's last comment with "I said no such thing," Yeah, bluntly lying in her face, I moved our conversation to a real path. Ignoring things that aren't important is better than getting mushed over it, right? As a human, you should know when to make the right choice.

"Ms. Wicke informed me about your research." Ah, now I get it. My research hasn't been published in the public. So, even if she is with the police, I was shocked how she would come to know about my research. Though I wonder why Wicke told them but well, since it's her, I trust her. Then again, I don't think my research has that much interesting topic. If she wanted to know about the Aether was released by some parties, then there are many who figured that out. Those even notified the public. Come to think about it, there is also a religion that seems to think about Aether being the divine punishment from god.

Other than that, I don't think my research has any interesting point to pull her interest. So when I questioned her all this, she shook her head. "I don't know much about it but I do think that your theory about it being man-made energy, aether's involvement with evolution, and also, all the studies of the wormhole are particularly interesting." Odd. Did she make a mistake? I never mentioned anything about the energy being man-made. Did she mean by it being released by someone else? Honestly, I don't know why she knew about it or if so, why Wicke told them about it? It is true that when I thought about this topic, there was no such news broadcasted but even I am not sure if it is true or not. It shouldn't have been too interesting...

But that question didn't stay in my mind for long. It went poof as soon as it showed up. What really caught my attention was what she mentioned afterward. Wormhole, a singular topic. My body jerked up. I don't know if it was because of anger or loath but I lost my mind to think. I know I don't usually agree with my mistake but I will say this once, it was my fault that my family fell apart. Ok, not totally, but still somewhat my fault. Though my parents were already interested in all these Aether energies and extraterrestrial beings and things like a wormhole, especially my dad, it was me who made this possible. I created the device that could actually replicate the wormhole that ultra beasts use to invade our planet.

Though it was only possible because of this 'Aether', I made it possible that humans can travel far away planets. Although saying the planet is wrong, as it didn't have fix destination. You may be shoved into the sun or inside the rock. Leaving that aside, the only people that know about it are Wicke, that person I worked with, and my family. I doubt Wicke and that person would tell her especially about this topic and my family members are out of the question. So why does she know about my discoveries over Wormhole? I glared at her while asking this question. This really isn't my fond memory and I honestly want to know why she knows about it. Does that mean there are third parties involved who know about our project over a wormhole?

She tilted her head. Like she was confused about my anger or about this whole ordeal. "I just saw one of the files lying over there." That was her answer and she even pointed to the table where the file was. Her answer was so stupid that I was literally thrown away. All the questions brewing inside my mind and anger vanished away. "What the hell?" type questionable face I am probably making right now. I mean it was so stupid, there is no way you could find such important and secured research data just lying around.

So, in a haste, I made my way toward the table she pointed to. Looking at the file she called out... There it was. Neatly printed too.

...Why?

Who was it?

It shouldn't be. It was the one file I know my mom and Wicke would protect at any cost. It was amazing but also dangerous. So, it shouldn't be out like this. And you are telling me that it was just lying around. Just like that. What is it? Some kind of food recipe. From what Ms. Anabel told me, Wicke told her about my prediction over the aether disaster wasn't natural. The other thing was my theory about how Aether's work on pokemon's evolution. The first one wasn't interesting from my POV and since many institutes came to the same conclusion, it honestly wasn't enough to put my presence in front of police.

While the latter one sure was interesting, I doubt she would look for me to ask why pokemon evolves. So, that means she wanted to know me because she found out about my wormhole project. And to throw mud in my face, she found the data that was secured literally lying on one of the tables. Due to misconduct of the wormhole project, it was disbanded. I don't even want to see the face of this project. Just why kind of fucked up sick joke is this? There is no way a company would just throw the data they are securing so badly. Especially my mom was out of the question, she loved it but she wasn't stupid enough to do this...

From her further explanation, it looked like Wicke told her about the wormhole after she found the files in the table. I'm sure Wicke must also be thinking about who the hell would put such file lying around but I still wanted to make sure if Wicke has any idea who it was but before I could get out of the room, Ms. Anabel grabbed by my skirt. Honestly, don't try to peek up my skirt the moment you got the chance. Giving a long exhalation, I let go of my anger, calling it anger which I think is just my desperation over my mistake. Well, even if I ask Wicke, I doubt she would have an answer. Also, I don't know who would even do such a thing and no point bothering with things once it is done. Let's just leave that to my future self.

I turned back to Ms. Anabel putting the file back on the table, "So, what is it that you need?"

"Have you ever went inside this thing called Wormhole?" She asked me while her eyes twinkle. Ah! so that's why she looked so happy when she saw me. But to her question, I just answered, "No." The second ago's twinkling eyes were nowhere to found. Wow! Her mood changes like unstable weather. Maybe she should get herself a Psyduck. "But I know few who went throw it," I added to which her downcasted eyes shined again. Alright girl, get yourself a psyduck.

Also, why is she happy that other people went inside the wormhole? I don't know if she is sicced or what... I don't want to feel disturbed so I would just ignore her expression. "So, why do you want to know about Wormhole? Please keep it short. I don't want to discuss this topic, to be honest." To my bluntness, she made a small nod.

"I think I was sucked inside the wormhole, maybe went or pulled. I don't know the right choice of word but I somehow went inside the wormhole." She fluctuated as she completed her sentence. I think the whole order was somehow odd. Like how she mentioned the words 'think' and 'somehow'. So, when I asked her the same question, she replied that she had no prior memory before she was found unconscious on Poni Island. Amnesia, huh. Well, from what she further explained she still remembered her name, her hometown and that she was a trainer. And also that she had someone she loved, though she can't remember his name.

"That's why, please tell me more about Wormhole." So, that's why she was trying to find me when she saw those files. But at the same time, I couldn't help but feel uneasy. I don't know the person but whoever that was, they know about the situation Ms. Anabel was in and deliberately trying to pull the card here. But why would they do something like this that was so predictable or had a different vision inside their minds? So, what kind of answer should I provide to her? In fact, I don't know much about what kind of things happens inside the wormhole. What a dilemma.

"Wait, before that, why do you think you went inside the wormhole?" This was one question I had in mind. After all, "Why didn't you thought you had other accidents?" After all, she was washed up at Poni Island's beach. I don't think she was talking about an artificially one but people can still enter through a natural wormhole. Although that might be the case, wormholes are unstable bridges. Also, there has never been news of people returning back after going through the wormhole. And that could be said the same about me.

Ms. Anabel looked uneasy as she fidgetted around but still ended up answering. You can't hide your problem from doctors, you know. Well, in this case, a researcher. "I think that because mutants are naturally drawn toward me. Since you are a researcher yourself, you could tell why they act like that, right?" If mutants are acting like that, then that could only be one thing, Aether. While Aether can be found anywhere, except inside the veil, those mutants would still move toward where a large amount of aetheric energies are concentrated. So, if they are drawn toward her, does that mean her body act as a crystallite to concentrate a huge amount of energy in one place? Eh!? Wait a minute, something doesn't make sense here.

-Aetheric energy wasn't supposed to affect the human body.