Specimen T-04

Part 35~Lost Kid

Nagisa sighed as he woke up. He glared at his wrist, where the back ink still hurt. 'T-04' the mark of a specimen.

"Get up. Time for training." The guard hit his hand against the door, causing a loud metal clang. Nagisa didn't respond. He hadn't been given permission to talk, so he followed behind the guard to the training room.

It was a normal day. Get up. Train. Eat. Train a bit more, and then head to experiment.

As he lay on the table, waiting for the prick to stab into his head, he heard a voice. It was small and faded but was definitely a voice. "Hello?" The voice was high, a young female, definitely not the doctor or the guards.

The voice tried again, growing louder and clearer. "Hello? I can hear you! I knew there was someone else."

Nagisa didn't understand. Was he going crazy? Was this a side-effect?

"I'm not imaginary," the voice answered. "I'm Asaji. You're Nagisa. It's a pleasure to meet you. I have the feeling we're going to be best of friends."

The needle pierced his skin, and he blacked out, the voice fading with his consciousness.

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By the time Nagisa woke, he was back in his room. He couldn't hear the voice. He was alone again but wasn't insane.

He only heard the voice when he was being experimented on. Asaji Kida. She called herself M-02. One of the three people in her experiment. She claimed that was why she couldn't talk to him when he was in his room. He was out of range as the M specimen had yet to be released for training.

"Hey Nagisa," the voice greeted as Nagisa lay on the chair.

"Hey," he responded through his thoughts.

"You're getting better," the girl cheered as Nagisa didn't answer. "I'm getting released soon! They say I've shown progress. I can't wait to talk to you all day."

"Being released isn't a good thing."

Asaji couldn't question Nagisa as the experiment started, and he soon lost consciousness.

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"Nagisa! Nagisa, wake up."

Nagisa groaned as he heard the voice. He was in his room, but she was still there.

"Told you I was getting released." Asaji sounded proud of herself as Nagisa rolled over.

"It's too late."

"So many people can't sleep."

"Well, I could."

Nagisa could almost feel her smile as she began to sing. It was a strange song, an English song about an English book, but it was beautiful. Nagisa was glad she had woken him up to hear that melody.

~~~

"Nagisa?"

Nagisa didn't show any signs of the voice in his head as he trained, the guard still watching him. "What? I'm busy."

"I found someone."

"I thought you found everyone."

"Someone else. He was so scared when I talked to him. I think he's been here since the start. They've given up on training him, so he just sits in the back, occasionally getting fed."

Nagisa frowned at that. "Why would they do that?"

"He can't control his experiment. It comes and goes with little command. They say he's dangerous."

"I'm guessing you don't think so."

"I think he deserves to feel okay too." Asaji disappeared. Nagisa could feel her leaving his head. She didn't say anything the rest of the session, but randomly, she would appear again as if she wanted to say something but decided against it.