[Lobotomy Corporation] I'm an Abnormality...

Blep.. EP.25

"Hello, little one."

A familiar voice, though it had been a long time since I last heard it.

- Screeeech...

Then, the sound of a large greatsword being dragged.

All possibilities pointed to one, but I slowly turned my head, hoping it wasn't who I thought it was...

- Grab.

"When an adult greets you, you should say 'hello'."

...I was about to turn, but someone behind me grabbed the back of my head with a rough hand.

Then, my body slowly lifted into the air.

I wondered if my clothes would stretch like my cheeks at this rate.

I didn't have any other clothes to wear.

Anyway, when I lifted my head while being held in hand, I saw a bald man holding a large red greatsword in one hand.

Uh... um...

"Hey? Aren't you going to greet me?"

- Shake, shake.

The bald man held me and shook me back and forth.

As if being suspended in the air wasn't enough, he kept shaking me, so my fragile body swayed with his movements...

"Ugh... ah..."

My vision spun and I felt dizzy, like riding a rollercoaster.

...I used to be unfazed by things like this.

It's hitting me that I've become a short little kid.

"Hmm..."

Still, the bald man noticed my dizziness and stopped right away.

"Ugh..."
"It's been a while, little one. I've missed you a lot."

Suddenly, the bald man put on a kind expression.

I didn't know this guy could make faces other than scary ones.

...Huh? I thought he'd be really mad that I escaped without permission, but maybe I can get away with it if I play my cards right?

"Hehe, I missed you too... Huh?"
"Hehe, my ass. I told you to stay quietly in the containment room."

- Slap.

The bald man, sporting a sinister smile, grabbed one of my cheeks.

"You little rat, do you know how exhausted I am from dealing with the abnormalities you let loose? How did you even do it?"
"Th-that's... I didn't mean to..."
"Quiet. Want to be shaken again?"
"..."

The bald man began to stretch my cheek.

"When I came to my senses, five dangerous abnormalities had escaped. I thought someone had pressed 'Do Not Touch'."
"Do not twouch? What's that?"
"Ah, it's something. Literally, if you touch it, the company gets destroyed. A newbie touched it last time without knowing and wiped out an entire department."
"Wow..."
"So, get rid of that interested look in your eyes, little one."

The bald man stretched my cheek even further, as if to punish me.

"Ahhh... Ouch! It hurts!"
"Hmm... It's soft and stretchy, like a rice cake."

The bald man was shocked by the length my cheek had stretched and said something, but I couldn't hear him over the pain.

"Let go! Let me go!"

...

...

"I'm sorry. It was just too squishy."
"Whatever."

I held my reddened cheek with one hand and glared at the bald man.

I told him it hurt, but he kept stretching. So mean.

"Sigh, when you go back in this time, please stay there. I'm busy managing the others, do you have to do this?"
"Then put something fun in the containment room so I don't get bored."
"If that's all it takes... I'll request it. So don't come out. What are you trying to do, getting into trouble among dangerous abnormalities?"

...Huh? Come to think of it, I was in danger too.

I wandered around fearlessly among all those monsters. I'm impressed by my own courage.

"I don't know why you're making such a proud face, but you're an abnormality too, so..."

[Employee Noah, please put the 'Little Girl' abnormality back in containment quickly.]

A voice interrupted the bald man.

Oh, we've arrived at my containment room.

Is this the bald taxi? Pretty efficient.

By the way, this guy's name is Noah? It doesn't suit him at all.

"...The manager must be really angry if he's speaking directly like this."

So the voice belongs to someone called the 'manager.'

Hmm, sounds like a high-ranking person. The big boss of this company?

But what's he gonna do if he's angry? It's not like he can do anything to me.

I stuck my tongue out at the camera installed on the ceiling.

- Blep.

[...'Little Girl', you'd better get inside quickly before I make your next Instinct work only tasteless rye bread.]

...Correction. Food is a serious matter.

I opened the door to the containment room and slipped inside.

...

...

And inside the management room.

"That... that insolent abnormality..."

After wreaking havoc all day by escaping,

the only thing she gave to him, who had to clean up the mess, was a blep.

The manager shuddered at the sheer audacity, like seeing a bratty cousin on a holiday.

"Fine, if that's how you want to play, I have ways."

Malkuth's Core Suppression had just finished.

The manager, no longer afraid, picked up the microphone and said in a small but firm voice.

"Employee Louis, perform Suppression work on the 'Little Girl'."