O-01-55

"Get off me, kid! I'm not your parent!"

"B-But-"

"No buts! You just have to produce that stupid Enkephalin juice and be done with this load of [excrement]!"

"You're not nice…"

"Why should I- ooh- I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm fall- oof!"

After cleaning the dust from my Fragments from Somewhere suit, I glared at the kid whose skin and hair resembled the stars of the galaxy. He couldn't do anything but sob all day!

"You messing with me, huh? You wanna go, brah?"

"Please, I just want to get along with you!"

"In your dreams, [insult]! Guh! Stop with the whining, you [insult]!"

"Where is Leod? I want to see Leod!"

"Yeah, yeah. I'll bring them to you. I'm never –ever– babysitting you again, kid. I hope you break your toes with that trash of you gift everyone!"

The Child of the Galaxy tried to give me a pebble, but that thing disgusted me, so I kicked it away and left. Yellow neutral face. Hah! That kid was useless! He even failed to produce good results!

Works well with any type of work.

His pebble will heal you.

If you accept the pebble, do not work on any other abnormality for the duration of the day. Yandere boy will haunt your mind. –Inspector

"Haunt my mind? [profanity] that! I'm out of here! Leod! Leod! [Insult]! It's your turn, you scrub! Go suck your boyfriend's [genital] or something, haha!"

"Do you really have to be so rude each time you spout something, Gregory?"

"[profanity] you! I'm here to make it big, not to make friends! Now, move your ass before I kick it!"

"Jeez, okay, fine! You could at least be a little gentler about it…"

I promised and I delivered a kick to their sorry ass. There was nothing a weakling like them could do to confront me anyway.

Repressing Fragment of the Universe was easy enough. I just had to tell it to keep its distance and it was satisfied just by watching me and learning from me. The kid of the galaxy, however, was a pain in the ass. He demanded so much attention it easily got to my nerves.

The other employee tried to make that waste of space of our boss move from its spot in the Main Room, to no avail. They were an idiot for expecting something from that drugged scrap of junk. Somehow, watching them try made me feel like messing with them.

A malicious smirk grew on my lips.

Someone grabbed my arm. I had seen that jerk somewhere before, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

"I got word from the Training Team that you are not getting along with your team."

"You think, [insult]? Release me or I'll gut you!"

They swept my legs and trapped me against the floor. I couldn't break free from the [profanity] bastard!

"I have subdued employees who moved so wildly they dislocated their joints. A crook like you is nothing… even if your vigor is your only virtue."

"[a bunch of vulgarities]! Aaaaaargh!"

That sicko twisted my wrists so painfully he forced me to scream in agony.

"Look, I don't mind your attitude. You are free to be the biggest piece of garbage in the universe. However, there are rules prohibiting the bullying of coworkers."

"Oh, so now this place actually cares about its employees, is that [guess what] it?"

"No. To produce energy effectively, they need healthy employees. Bullied employees are not healthy, so rules were placed to prevent that."

"[profanity] release me, you monster! How do you even have that much strength?! And why do I know your voice?!"

Finally! Now that I was free to get up, I was also free to cave their face in! I would punch them so hard my fist would go through! I directed my blood-shot eyes towards them.

"Hey there, Gregory. Fancy meeting you like this. The City sure is a small place."

"Too small for bastards like you, [old insulting nickname]! Kiss my fist!"

I kissed theirs because I threw myself at them carelessly. That [nickname] didn't even care to put effort!

"Calm down."

I didn't, so they restrained me once again. The humiliation was too much to bear, so I shook violently. Before I could dislocate any joint, they dragged me outside the Main Room and threw me into an elevator. Calmly, they asked the clerks to leave us alone.

"[profanity]… why are so strong now? You used to be nothing but a [derogative] weakling."

They shrugged. "I became a witness to a tragic day. Now I work here, so like it or not that makes us coworkers, Gregory."

"What trick did you use to get in the Wing? There's no way a Wing would hire you!"

"But they did. The mortality rate here is so high they hardly turn away any applications. I mean, they even scouted a bad-spoken Syndicate crook like you, didn't they?"

"If you tell anyone about-"

"I won't. I gain nothing from revealing the things you did. Not that anyone would care. You're not that important. Neither of us is."

Silence filled the elevator, so they started humming and snapping their fingers erratically. I hardly recognized that bastard.

My Syndicate was a subsidiary belonging to one of the [vulgar emphasis] Fingers! We beat the [excrement] out any weakling from the Backstreets to steal their pocket money on a daily basis. That [nickname] was one of my preys. I stained my fist with their blood so many times my hands were always dirty.

To meet them again… inside Lobotomy Corporation of all places…

"Fine. I'll play along with your [excrement] rules, but I don't want to see your ugly mug anywhere near my department! It's my turf now!"

"That attitude will get you killed eventually. I met a person from Information who bullied an abno during Repression Work. I had to pick their minced corpse from the containment unit with my bare hands."

There was no emotion in their eyes. A chill ran down my spine.

"What are you-"

"Besides, I'll go wherever I'm ordered to go. The manager loves me or hates me –one or the other– so they usually send me to inspect every new abnormality that makes its way to the facility. Thus my new nickname."

"YOU are the Inspector?!"

"Kinda."

"What a joke! You're just a [hostile barrage of insults]!"

Their smile made me mad, so I tried punching them. They took it like a mad champ. The thud against the metallic wall of the elevator echoed through the chasm around it. Their eyes found me, but it was their smile that made me flinch.

"I wonder how many days it will take this place to break you. I think I will be around to witness that, so, until then, produce as much energy as you possibly can." They removed my fist from their face and stood up. "And don't bully others. I'll deal with you as many times as I have to. You would hate it and so would I, so save the both of us the effort."

[profanity], [profanity], [profanity]… Why did that [nickname] had to be here? And why was I assigned to the Safety Team instead of Control? I am no [vulgarity] nurse!

Fuming my horrible mood on my way back, I kicked a pebble. Later, I learnt Leod was tasked to cover my shifts, which eventually lead them to shooting a hole in their head. I could hear that kid's cries from there, so their Qliphoth Counter had to reach zero or something.

My patience was running thin.

"You bastard! Why did you leave your post?! Leod died because of you! They were my best friend!"

When that retard threw themselves at me with a weapon, I grinned like a savage. I made sure to endure their pathetic hits for a while before grabbing them by the neck.

"It was their own [emphasis] fault. They didn't check the Inspector's notes, did they? Besides, this right now is self-defense, isn't it?"

"Eh?"

[Fuck this guy and fuck this. Yesod doesn't pay me enough to censor all this shit. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck! If I have to deal one more time with this fucktard's moronic swears, I'll freaking go to the Safety Team and shoot a bullet through the empty skull myself! Fuck them, fuck this and fuck everything. Fuck!]

[They could swear less, I'll give you that. I'll suggest Yesod to create a rule that limits the amount of swearwords allowed inside the facility. That would make our work much easier.]

[Why do we even have to censor all of that?]

[Hell if I know.]

[Lin, Martin, please refrain from chatting inside the reports' sides.] – Yesod

[Understood, sir Yesod.]

[Od… Od… Odyssey]

[Seismic]

[Microphone]

[Necromancy!]

[Cycle]

[Cleopatra]

[Transmutation]

[Please] – Yesod

[Also, boss. What do we do with that edgy-lord piece of garbage? They didn't kill their coworker in the end, but they won't be leaving the infirmary for a while.]

[Like the Inspector pointed out, Lin, their attitude will get them killed sooner or later. After that, they will be replaced.] – Yesod

[Got it!]