Satoya and Yurina were walking side by side, throughout more hallways. Some halls had decomposed bodies of what he assumed to be civilians, others were run down likely from simply the lab being extremely old. Some hallways had destroyed walls covered in vines of plants forming a cobweb of sorts. They eventually find a research facility with shattered vials of corrosive liquid. Some vials radiated a disgusting, vomiting stench. Satoya then found a slip of paper, a drawing, a drawing drawn by someone he can tell to be a child.
A stick figure of a girl who had a weird orange dark red mixed hair, likely an attempt to recreate auburn hair, which he assumed due to a scribbled name being labelled above the girl, "Yurina." There was also another figure of a smaller girl, in a grey patient gown, this was obviously Suya, more obvious thanks to the name being scribbled on it.
One peculiar detail of this drawing was, on the far right, was a scratched out, scribbled over in black crayons, and a dark red, which felt too smooth to be crayon.. Was it blood? But all of that was scribbled over a figure. Then a barely tangible label above, "Mr. Roland."
Satoya felt his heart beat racing, although not too rapidly, but this made him face Yurina.
"Who was Suya really?"
Yurina was sorting out folders, while occasionally looking out of the room to scan the hallways for Roland's presence. And she paused as she walked back in, holding a folder.
"I guess you are asking now, of all times." She replied solemnly.
Satoya started to reason with her, "you never explained who Suya was, even in full detail, so I'd like to know. I know she was important to you, but what was you, her, and Roland's relationship?"
Yurina let out a, no other way to phrase, pathetic sigh.
"Suya was a child, born from an experiment. An experiment where Roland attempted to recreate an old experiment he once told me about prior. That experiment being, could a Wrehtched and human cross breed?"
She looked away, before going back to look at him, "I was only a witness, but the Wrehtched had the form of a woman, of course, her face was blurred like any other, and a man, the man was.. My boyfriend of what would've been, 9 years."
Satoya nearly vomited, but he had to ask more, "how did he perform it..?"
"He simply siphoned all the genes from my boyfriend, and the genes of the Wrehtched, and incubated it. And, to his surprise, it worked. My boyfriend was already dead by that time, he and I were the only survivors of the 'death game' 6 years back."
"The child born from that incubation was Suya, although she never gained any ability of the Wrehtched, she was merely a normal human child, except she aged rapidly. She died a year after her birth, however she had the characteristics of a 6 year old by then."
Satoya glanced at her, and he felt an agonizing feeling around her. It wasn't the empathy making him feel that agonizing sensation, but as if the air around her was in such an insufferable state of pain.
"Satoya."
He felt a goosebump at the sudden name call.
"Suya.. She was my everything, she was the only source of fucking happiness I had in this, god forsaken place."
Satoya looked back at the drawing. Then faced back at her, his face becoming worrisome, but also wincing from the agonizing feeling he had around her.
"Ever since, me and my boyfriend were kidnapped here, everything was hell. I had to end the lives of 4 people. Then later had to kill my boyfriend, but no, he wasn't dead, Roland made sure to save his life… JUST TO MAKE ME, THE ONE WHO USED A CONTAMINATED RUSTY NEEDLE TO SIPHON OUT ALL OF HIS GENES JUST FOR HIM TO CREATE SUYA."
She took a shaky breath, she then acted as if she was going to take something out of her pocket but halted herself near forcefully, likely to stop an impulse.
"But instead of ending that child's life, a life that had the unfortunate fate of being a hybrid between a creature that never should've existed at all, and someone I loved with all the love I could've ever had.. I spared her. I couldn't help but cry after seeing that child being torn from the incubator."
"I never brought myself to end it, I remember my boyfriend telling me, during a late night date in 4th Capital's Ainscough, that whenever we get a child, we vow to make that child lucky to be born.. Yet that never happened, despite Suya not being our biological child, she was indirectly his child. So I couldn't bring myself to do anything but take care of her."
Even as she confessed all of this, Satoya didn't see a single shed of tears. This did nothing but indicate to Satoya that.. She had suffered beyond any clarity. Whatever goal she has, it is most likely something that she will eternally be determined to achieve.
She then, quietly said finally, clearing her throat.
"Suya's relation with Roland, was of nothing but an empty friendship. I myself do not understand him, neither do you, neither the first assistant, the assistant he chose 7 years ago, Julian, ever understood him."
Satoya saw her clench her hand into a fist.
"That is why I made this plan. To be honest, this is my 14th attempt. Except for all the last attempts, I was alone. But, I believe this attempt will be the one, because you, a Truth Seeker, are here with us."