Artificial 7: Genesis Requiem

Chapter 38: The Traitor

(Artwork is done by AI. It's 5 years old, Natalie with dyed hair.)

5 years ago, when the Half Breed Project was starting to kick off the ground.

Futaba Mine's POV:

80 generations worth of Mine Family heads.
I, Futaba Mine,
are the current head of the family. We come from a family of alchemists and warlocks who blend science with the root of all magic and advanced technology by 500 years.
We do not belong to the Church Organization and their Exorcist.
We, the Mine Family,
have created Chimera Tech Enterprises and have been working under the Exorcist as contracted workers for 27 plus years,
and Pope Rekture has always been my cash cow.

He recognized my genius and praised me for my inventions with each new installment and batches to combat the demonic threats,
and then Eraqus Woods pitched the Half Breed Project to the Pope,
screwing me out of money, and now that midget is paying that religious nut more money and funds than me to keep building these works of art that can kill any common Artificial Demon.
I was on the verge of a break through, too, if it wasn't for that Bible thumper!

That man's son and that Mexican lady brought me three Demon Lord Class Demons,
and my technology prevented them from using runes or any form of magic! That is far better results than creating a living,
breathing child soldier that you have to waste millions of billions of dollars to keep fed!
I've had to brown nose the Pope just to get even the tiniest sliver of details on that half breed child!
She's being raised with tender love and care?!
Sense when have the Exorcist lost their edge?
The Exorcist I knew would have forced both parties to make the baby and take the child!

The Demon Lord is a total pushover to the slightest bit of false information, and these people believe raising a future super soldier like it's a living person will provide better results?! No! Non! Nein! Nee!
Breaking that child's spirit and any sense of individuality will foster the perfect war machine!
Only by robbing them of their sense of self can one achieve a killing machine, and they ruined the prototype by spoiling the child.

I'm a parent, too,
but the difference between me and those wanna be Demon Lords is that I'm raising a child,
and they're supposed to be breeding with humans to make soldiers.
They are nothing short of farm animals and nothing more. So now,
with my source of income draining, Mister Gundham Genesis sent one of his agents to find me while I was on vacation.

She discussed payments in exchange,
I find the solution to Genesis's problem. I did blood work,
checked his genetic records and all personal data the archives had on him. He is a failed subject,
and the first
"super soldier" with air quotes.
I studied his blood and cells and realized his body was decaying like a wilting flower.

He told me about his cloning machines he stole from the Exorcist before they branded him a traitor and showed me the shell that is his original body.
At most,
each clone can survive up to a month at the least,
and 3 months at the most.
With his original body decaying,
he stole my soul transferring pod and plugged up the cloning machine to it so that he could successfully transfer his soul into a cloned body.

All so he can preserve his real body until he can successfully summon this Armageddon Demon or whatever he calls it.
So he recognized my genius and pays me double what that idiotic Pope pays me. Now that I have a new source of income coming in,
he gave me a flash drive when I recently went to Regalia Beach Resort and told me to wait until I get a transmission from him,
then plug it into the computer console.

So now half a year had passed,
and while my science has delayed the decaying process by 12 years,
I still haven't found a cure for his Cellular Acceleration.
Back in the present day,
I uploaded the flash drive,
and now the mech suits are being controlled by Genesis's virus.
In short,
before dawn,
London will be burned to the ground by the very creations I have created for the Exorcist!