To love a sword

Chapter 42: Mistake

Beta read by Shigiya, Paragon of Awesomeness and FabledLife

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-Sainan-

"He definitely is a unique case."

These were the first lines that crossed Nemesis' mind upon her first actual meeting with her estranged... 'brother'. A bio-engineered weapon that should have ended up just like her, living as a human of all things. But no, he was more than just that; the man ended up proving himself to be beyond what her initial expectations of him had been. The first time she arrived on Earth and first found the other members of the Yuuki family, including Rito and Mikan, she'd kind of expected him to be similar to the brown-haired boy.

The only difference she'd been able to discern had to do with their physical builds, but how wrong she turned out to be!

There was nothing similar about them, and he had an acute mastery over his ability already, showing no significant hesitation in using them.

He was everything she'd hoped for... if only he were willing to join her.

Nemesis did not know which project he was from specifically; at one point, Solgam had been working on hundreds of different entities at once, according to certain records she'd been able to dig up, Darkness and Mea being the few that succeeded, while it was initially also considered a failure. A success rate in the decimals, no wonder they were so desperate to find Lunatique and Mikado. Regardless, all other records had long since been reduced to ashes, and what little she could gather from the ruins did little to mention anything about another project where the entity could create dozens, if not hundreds, of swords using dark matter or another form of energy.

He did not seem to possess shapeshifting abilities, but she was not certain if it was only due to his not having explored his overall abilities or if he was a failure who miraculously survived.

Even though she could not find anything, the more the woman looked at him, the more certain she became that there was an extremely high likelihood that he was one of Solgam's creations. Such powers just could not be explained otherwise; his abilities were completely unique to him, rather than being a magic spell as he claimed to others. And she remained suspicious of the mastery he possessed over his powers despite never being put into an environment that necessitated reaching such a level... Just how she'd already mastered her own powers from the get-go.

'Those weapons are also not made of actual metal; they are all energy constructs like mine.'

The more she thought about it, the more certain she became that perhaps there was a fourth weapon, one many had missed. Perhaps the fourth had emerged from his tank as a baby rather than being grown to at least physical adolescence before being allowed to taste air for the first time.

As for the timing... that also remained an ambiguous matter she still remained uncertain about. Why abandon such a creation as a baby on this backwater planet? Was there another scientist like Tearju who took pity on the boy and fostered him away in secret?

"All in all, these are just mere speculations and guesswork," Nemesis said as her feet swung back and forth while she sat on top of a tree branch and sipped some juice, waiting for her redhead companion to give her the signal to bring her back. All of these speculations would eventually be put to rest after Mea got all the necessary information.

"I can create hypotheses all I want, but without concrete evidence to back them up, I can't treat them as anything more. Hopefully, Mea can get the answers I seek."