Den of Monsters

Y2 Vol7: Schattenreich

(Klaudia Weismann's POV)

The worst thing man can do onto man is kill his dream.

Me and Adi didn't really have the most rough of childhoods nor lives for the most part, i was his right hand and he was the greatest mind in our country without a doubt.

He much like many who are presented to be capable in public was highly beloved, call it enslavement born from weakness or a simple instinct to serve, many of our co workers and even higher up liked Adi due to his capability and Adi understood that very much.

He was charismatic and hopeful even after we went through a big part of the 731 he stayed all the same and he did so as well to me, Adi was a man who loved people and wanted nothing more than to see them filled with happiness.

He found no reason to human improvement like the sergent or those in Kinderheim 511 later on, he believed that man was already the greatest!.

'What reason does man have to want more when he already has hope?' he used to often say that, he believed that there was no need to destroy and rebuild something great, just grant it a goal and desire and it will fight till the end of times to achieve it.

The journey from past to present is the core of the ubermensch, i used to believe such things to be a bit too optimistic and that's surprising since i was the aloof and dumb one of us two...

That is until i read the case of the Ayanokoji twins, Ayanokoji Hina and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka.

I met the older brother; Kiyotaka, when i was invited to one of the whiteroom's sponsor meeting, i believe the man who invited me and offered me a place was...the head of the Kouenji family.

Frankly i did not understand his motives, how did he even know of me at the time or even of Adi who was erased from history?, the name Weismann had lost all it's meaning and disappeared into the decades of modern society but...he was an intruiging man. He had a sophisticated aura to him and an oddly snarky sense of humor, he didn't care who stood before him as he simply stated what he wanted to say and no threats worked against him. Perhaps it is a shared trait in the family?...

In any case...thanks to his invitation i got to meet Kiyotaka, though i doubt he remembers me since the researchers from the whiteroom didn't even let people approach the boy, he was to them what a rare diamond is and the meeting was more or less an auction for who can sponsor the highest and gain the most graduates into his work.

Borderline human trafficking but...that didn't matter to me, i simply observed and chatted with those who were in the meeting, for example Ayaka...my self proclaimed student and the woman of whom i would attempt to pass on the torch that Adi left with me.

She much like me believed that what the whiteroom did was flawed, a perfect human not possessing of humanity wouldn't work, i agreed alot with her and even began talking with her through videocalls.

Through our small chats i...felt reassured, each time she would speak to me of the little girl whose curiousity and love for the world far outgrew what teachings the whiteroom placed i would smile as i feel that Adi's death wasn't in vain...we didn't lose this battle yet and that's good...

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"Hnghh!...i am beat" i grumbled to myself as i streched my body and slowly pulled myself up to go to the bathroom.

I took off my pyjama and let the shower water drench me, it's getting quite cold lately...must be winter again.

I finished showering and wore my usual in doors fit which is quite the strech from my old style of clothing thanks to me wanting to keep up with the young folk in fashion. I wore a sports short and a sleeveless shirt and began drying my hair.