"Everyone in this place is unhappy. And since they're unhappy, they're probably looking for someone worse off than they are."
– Lucy
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Am I a human or am I a machine?
Neither.
My face, my voice, my body, I had no idea if any of it was really mine or just a creation. A part of me was human, my brain and my heart, but I didn't know about anything else. There was no way to go back either, so I had to stay stuck in the middle. Forever torn and lost between being a human and a machine.
'' What are you, Pino? ''
My eyes were wide and emotionless while the electroshock made my body twitch and tremble. The bright lights of the lab were almost blinding and I was surrounded by faces covered with surgical masks. The ice cold operating table under me, was covered with the blood that seeped between the wires that were under my skin, but I didn't feel any pain. I recognised the sensation as such, but that was all.
'' Today I am Pino, tomorrow... Who knows? I am whatever doctor orders me to be. ''
Why not use the power if you had it?
That was the philosophy of a lot of students at Aoyama academy.
Why not use it to get rid of anyone that was in your way and climb on top?
You could not share the first place with anyone else after all.
At Aoyama... anything goes.
Lately things were getting a bit extreme. A friend of Boyeong, the boy that got killed was completely excluded from his class and somehow I was getting blamed for what happened too. I didn't know who did it, but when I got to school in the morning, I saw that someone wrote the word 'murderer' over my locker. Students were whispering and pointing in my direction, while I was staring at the writing with no emotion and thinking about the three boys that wanted to beat me up because Boyeong ordered them to do that. One of them even came to see me right after that guy got killed and accused me of being involved with his murder.
I didn't think that he would go this far...
I thought he was just scared, but it was true that fear could easily push humans over the edge.
I underestimated him. In his head he already decided that Boyeong's death was somehow my fault. This was just his way of coping with the horror of the situation.
