Elfen Lied Season 2 ( Complete )

Chapter 2: The Escape

Director Kakuzawa was in a good mood. Things had been progressing nicely ever since Lucy was brought back. And what was even better was that she had stopped fighting, stopped resisting the tests. He wasn't sure exactly what happened to her while she was out, but he was glad it did. She seemed almost dead on the inside, which made it much easier to gain her cooperation.

Even more curious was the development of this new personality. Nyu it was called, if he remembered correctly. Quite different from the cold emotionless Lucy. His doctors had determine that Nyu was most likely all the innocence and within Lucy from her childhood that she had to keep locked away in order to survive.

'Perhaps it will be easier to break her to my cause if I can get the Nyu part of her to dominate her mind.'

He was brought out of her thoughts when his assistant/prisoner, Arakawa entered the room. He frowned at being interrupted. As amusing as he found her at times, and as useful as she was, she could be a bit of a nuisance. But he kept her around because she had her uses. She was rather knowledgeable about Diclonius since she had worked with his son, until Lucy killed him for trying to rape her. But the woman had a bad habit of digging up information that he didn't want her getting into. Why couldn't she just do as she was told?

He also had a feeling that she was lying about not remembering the boy who was with her when his son was found dead. But being traumatized was a convincing excuse, and so he believed her… for now.

"What is it this time?" he demanded.

She winced at his harsh tone. She was still afraid of him. Good, she should be afraid. He had shown her that he wasn't a man to be messed with after he shot her. He still remembered the fear in her voice when she asked if she was going to die a virgin bleeding to death on the floor.

'A virgin, eh? I may need to take care of that?"

"Um, Director," she said nervously, "I just thought you might want to see this." She handed him some papers. "There's are printouts of the readings on Lucy's brainwaves. They've been changing recently. It seems she they're becoming more… how should I say, mentally aggressive. More primitive. They've been appearing more and more."

Kakuzawa raised an eyebrow. "And what does that mean?"

Arakawa sighed. "Her instincts seem to be taking over her intelligence."

Kakuzawa growled impatiently. "Explain it to me in the simplest of terms."

He watched as his prisoner tried to break it down. "Ok, take a dog for example. On it's own, in the wild, it will act upon instinct; it's behavior not too unlike a wolf's. But we train them, educate them, so they learn how to act beyond what instinct tells them. But if you abandon even the best-trained dog, it will revert back to its primitive nature. That's what's happening to Lucy. She's reverting."

Kakuzawa sat back, thinking about this for a bit. Slowly a smile crept up his face. "Then this may work out for the best. We could learn a lot from the queen of the Diclonius in her natural state."

But Arakawa didn't share his opinion. "With all due respect, sir, I think that allowing her to revert is a big mistake. If a Diclonius' instinct tells it to kill all humans and increase its species' number, that could be dangerous for us."

The director waved off her concern. "You don't have to worry about that. Even if she does revert, we can break her. She's unstable enough as it is. And besides, we know her limitations. She won't be able to escape."