Bill of rescue for people infected by A virus - to simply put it says "Those who infected by A virus are dangerous but they still have human rights so they should be isolated on an artificial island", at the time the UN adopted this, as if to put a cap on smelly thing, bill, my ability as infected by A-virus was already manifested.
The average age of materialization of the abilities is 14 years old. And yet, as a precocious child, my infection progressed to the Extar ability - manifestation of Arm, at the age of 9.
There were no human rights for the infected before the UN bill got adopted. I hid the ability and lived while holding my breath. From the time I was born I didn't have any relatives so there weren't anyone who would protect me in this whole world.
And so, one day, men in black, saying they're members of intelligence agency of my dead father's homeland, Nathless, appeared before me and told me this:
- You're infected, the special ability in your body is enough to threaten modern society. Normal people are afraid of your power, one might assume they'd want to exclude you even by force. However, if you'll answer our demands, if this power will help the development of your father's country, we'll protect you and promise you a normal life.
I instantly understood the meaning of it, as I was a precocious child.
-> You're saying, I should become a government dog?
Men in black with, if you could say, a surprised look said to me:
- The way you're now, you're even lower than a dog.
I> don't know how they found out but intelligence agency knew about my ability. My Extar ability is to turn into an Arm that forcefully cancels the transformation. They wanted to use me to invalidate other ability users for exposing, if that ability is useful that exposed person takes in to the agency; they wanted to strengthen the agency.
I didn't have a "no" in this, as I was told to, I became an agent, teamed up with Liberator (I don't remember her name) and exposed a lot of ability wielders.
By sacrificing girls with the same circumstances as me, I got a surveillanced "freedom".
5 years later.
The agency set out an exposing strategy of a certain criminal group. Seems like there was an ability user in that group because criminals vanished from a crime scene like a wind. I was ordered to participate in that strategy. I didn’t have a reason to decline. Strictly speaking, it was tiresome to even think about a reason to decline.
Capturing exposed using my ability.
Repeating this day by day.
I don’t even care now.
I degraded to a dog in its true meaning. A tamed dog.
A few days later, the exposing strategy began.
I was surprised by that scene.
The weapon that gets manifested from my Extar ability, the forceful cancellation of the transformation, Disarmament Buster, didn’t hit the target.
The exposed user rode a black bike (probably a weapon) and was escaping while dodging all of my attacks. She isn’t avoiding my attacks just by driving skills. That bike has a “will” and is avoiding them. She’s a top class ability user, huh.
Everything was a gloom for me, this is the first time I failed the mission – but that’s what put my heart on fire.
And I realized.
I was depressed because everything went smoothly. The ability to forcefully cancel the transformation is, in a way, invincible so I lost the word “surprise” from my dictionary.
There is no game more boring than a game where you’ll always win. People who are satisfied by that are just sadists getting pleasure from tormenting others.
I was enjoying the “surprise” that born inside me.
For the first time since I became an agent I felt “freedom”.
The world is more interesting if it doesn’t go the way you want it.
But I don’t like things that don’t allow me to go the way I want.
This ambivalence is ruling me.
I cancelled my transformation by myself, my partner, Liberator, was calling for me to stop but I ignored her, jump in to the car and started to chase after targets.
Even though there is no way I could catch up to them.
Moreover, I didn’t even have a weapon.
This is a “surprise” as well.
Right, I felt exaltation to the point I couldn’t control myself.
I dashed at the speed of more than 180 MPH and thought to myself.
I wouldn’t meet with targets even doing all this.
And still, not even dropping the strength with which I step into gas pedal, I smiled bitterly to myself.
It’s a real “surprise”.
And so, I meet with even more “surprise“.
I saw lights at the other side of the highway.
That was the headlights of the bike that should have already fled away.
I stepped on the brakes.
The rock tire left stains on the asphalt and oozed the burn smell.
I got out of the car and looked at the bike. The person who rode the bike is nowhere to be seen. Did she escape or just hide somewhere and watching…
Suddenly the bike cancelled her transformation and showed herself.
It was a woman who wore black dress. She had long purplish-red hair, her eyes seemed somewhere sad and left an impression on me. But more than that, I was captivated by her figure. Chest stands out as if it has its own will and to contrast it tight waist… She had proportions unparalleled in the world. Furthermore, she was around the same age as me.
I asked her:
-Where is your partner?
The woman said, slightly smiling:
-Who knows.
-Why were you waiting?
-Why were you following me alone?
-Surprised?
-Yes, surprised.
-Actually, I, myself, think the same.
It’s a bit late, but I just realized that I was smiling. I’m enjoying it. The meeting with that woman. The meaningless conversation.
Surely, she is as well.
That’s why I was following and she was waiting.
