{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "content": "The interior of the containment unit is submerged in utter darkness, with not a hint of its walls or ceilings visible to the naked eye." }, { "id": 1, "content": "Yet the child confidently strode through the tense, thick, swirling darkness that seemed to oppress the very air itself." }, { "id": 2, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "The pencil-pushers in fancy suits like to lecture us that Instinct Work will be most efficient against this one, but..." }, { "id": 3, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "... tossing them feed from a safe distance is not my style." }, { "id": 4, "content": "They pulsate like feebly beating hearts." }, { "id": 5, "content": "The white cocoons, each an approximate size of an adult human, hang low to the floor." }, { "id": 6, "content": "The child's gaze rises, following the strand that the cocoons descended from, as red eyes light up the ceiling like a midnight forest fire shredding through the dark." }, { "id": 7, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Hah. Even with this cursed instinct so deeply rooted in your origins... you managed to transcend this drab containment unit into a form of art." }, { "id": 8, "content": "Within the shadowy containment unit lies an even darker place, trapped amidst the tightly woven cocoons." }, { "id": 9, "content": "Entombed in the cell where only the sounds of one's own heartbeat, the skittering noise of tiny spiders, and the cold brushing of threads could be heard." }, { "id": 10, "content": "Such tragic horror the deceased employees suffered, this painting of hell, was enough to sate the child's artistic interest." }, { "id": 11, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Yes... I've never seen art like this so up close in my life." }, { "id": 12, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "... Or maybe the ones I did see were not worth remembering." }, { "id": 13, "content": "The swarm of baby spiders was already starting to climb up the child's leg..." }, { "id": 14, "content": "... and after crawling to and fro between the child's arms and neck for a while, as though searching for something, they began digging into her flesh with their sharp teeth." }, { "id": 15, "content": "However..." }, { "id": 16, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "……." }, { "id": 17, "content": "The child did not wince or blink even as the painful bites began slowly devouring her, and instead glared straight back at the ominous eyes observing her every move." }, { "id": 18, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "I'll admit. This little installation was worth a view." }, { "id": 19, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "But no more than that." }, { "id": 20, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "As raw as this piece is... your instinct is far from beautiful or pure." }, { "id": 21, "content": "With that, the child slowly raised her leg." }, { "id": 22, "content": "A provocation. That she was about to crush the baby spiders, the entity's children, under her feet." }, { "id": 23, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "One does not choose their birth parent. Yet, they are born with, and saddled with the responsibility to live within their bounds." }, { "id": 24, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Unless you're merely a pathetic, fallen shell of a thing, who can do nothing but grandstand... if you really consider these baby spiders your family..." }, { "id": 25, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "... shouldn't you be attacking me by now?" }, { "id": 26, "content": "Spider Bud and the child exchanged an unblinking glare." }, { "id": 27, "content": "After a standoff that felt like an eternity..." }, { "id": 28, "content": "And only after the Work was complete did she pull back her threatening feet. There wasn't an ounce of emotion in her eyes when she looked over the baby spiders." }, { "id": 29, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "They seem used to tearing through skin and burrowing into the raw flesh. You've let them feast on my men often, hm?" }, { "id": 30, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Is that how a mother educates her children?" }, { "id": 31, "content": "There was no reply from the Abnormality, just as she'd expected." }, { "id": 32, "content": "But the child seemed to have decided that it was an answer enough. Or, perhaps, the child decided that the fault of the parent was not of its children." }, { "id": 33, "content": "She carefully pulled the baby spiders, who were still busily chomping away at her flesh, off her body and placed them gently on the ground." }, { "id": 34, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "I suppose my question was a waste of breath." }, { "id": 35, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "... Hmph. Parents. Fools who can't stand even a moment not spent injecting their children with their own prejudices." }, { "id": 36, "content": "When the child left, silence once again rushed into the dark of the containment chamber like water flowing into a void." }, { "id": 37, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Tsk. You look so miserable that I won't be surprised if you were to drop dead at any moment." }, { "id": 38, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "……." }, { "id": 39, "content": "The corridor was full of employees from Teams other than the Safety Team that the child was a part of." }, { "id": 40, "content": "The child seemed to have noticed something after a quick sweep of the hallway; she grabbed her two E.G.O weapons." }, { "id": 41, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "The rookies are all huddled together... N.O.V., is it?" }, { "id": 42, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "This is no \"Night of Violet, by which I presume you are referring to a Midnight, that we must contend with; it is the Noon." }, { "id": 43, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "What I meant by N.O.V. was— Are you hard of hearing?" }, { "id": 44, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "Ah, if it indeed was the Noon of Violet you were referring to, then you would be correct. Your men are all gathered abreast one anoth— Captain?" }, { "id": 45, "content": "The other child's explanation was cut short by the sudden sensation of something heavy tapping against his head." }, { "id": 46, "content": "Well, of course. The child had raised her cross-shaped blunt weapon with a skull emblem on it..." }, { "id": 47, "content": "... and was lightly yet repeatedly smacking the coffin-carrying child's head." }, { "id": 48, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "... I am not... panicked. It is merely that I did not gain the benefits of last night's rest on account of the shortness of my slumber." }, { "id": 49, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "Thus... would you mind ceasing this continued drumming of my head with your Penitence?" }, { "id": 50, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Consider yourself lucky that it's not S.H. that's hitting your head, gloomface." }, { "id": 51, "content": "One could mistake this for a mere workplace banter between two coworkers on an average day, but..." }, { "id": 52, "content": "... the rookie employees were all shuddering with fearful anticipation. Clearly, something terrible was afoot." }, { "id": 53, "content": "And not even a minute later... an eardrum-shattering alarm blared all across the building." }, { "id": 54, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "We've a D.O.V. in our hands, but *this* is the level of trumpets we're getting?" }, { "id": 55, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "I would like to repeat myself that this is not an Ordeal of Midnight, Captain. I ask that you refer to it as the \"Noon\" of—" }, { "id": 56, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "T.N.W.I.M." }, { "id": 57, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "At any case, I am suspicious. It's almost like the manager already knows what's coming..." }, { "id": 58, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Got any guesses?" }, { "id": 59, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "Mm. I have none in particular. It may be as simple as mere competency, for I have heard that the manager was as foresighted from the day he started. Metaphorically speaking, of course." }, { "id": 60, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Tsk, how unhelpful." }, { "id": 61, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Where did all the pencil-pushers go?" }, { "id": 62, "content": "The child looked around, realizing that there weren't any clerks around." }, { "id": 63, "content": "Indeed, there were none." }, { "id": 64, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "All were immediately executed on sight. Certain Abnormalities are motivated to breach containment upon a certain amount of deaths, after all..." }, { "id": 65, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Hah... what an uninteresting way to do art." }, { "id": 66, "model": "네짜흐", "title": "Safety Team Sephirah", "content": "Uhh... everybody in the Safety Team... Training Team needs reinforcement, so head over there, please..." }, { "id": 67, "model": "네짜흐", "title": "Safety Team Sephirah", "content": "Try to stay focused, okay...? Well... everything goes downhill soon anyway, so it's not like it'll matter in the grand scheme of things, but..." }, { "id": 68, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "That green tin can with brain pickled in Enkephalin's prattling again." }, { "id": 69, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "We're missing two men... Hm, are they getting high on Enkephalin like that G.T.C.?" }, { "id": 70, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "How did you know...? Tiffany, a colleague of ours who recently moved here from the Training Team is currently in an unresponsive state due to over-medication." }, { "id": 71, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "... N.F.W." }, { "id": 72, "content": "The child drops the cigarette, her mouth briefly opening from exasperation. She stared at the group of Safety Team Agents..." }, { "id": 73, "content": "... before turning away and lighting a new one." }, { "id": 74, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "What about the other Agent? The... bald one?" }, { "id": 75, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "It is most likely that they are handling the stele that has fallen within the Safety Team's premises." }, { "id": 76, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "You'd be better off with them. Ignore what the G.T.C. said, he's hopped up top to bottom on E." }, { "id": 77, "model": "이상", "title": "Safety Team Agent", "content": "Patently... that is the manager's wish as well." }, { "id": 78, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "I'll be the reinforcement for the Training team." }, { "id": 79, "content": "After confirming the exhausted child's affirmative nod, she began rushing through the hallway at a breakneck speed." }, { "id": 80, "content": "As soon as she reached the Training Team area, however, she spoke as if she was answering someone." }, { "id": 81, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Enough crying and fussing." }, { "id": 82, "content": "It wasn't like there were other employees following her." }, { "id": 83, "content": "She wasn't talking to the two members of the Training Team, who were already fighting off the entities, either." }, { "id": 84, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "There's a big plate of meal waiting just for you. Can't you see?" }, { "id": 85, "content": "At those words, spoken with a grin, the terrible Red Eyes all opened wide and began tremoring like a roar." }, { "id": 86, "model": "돈키호테", "title": "Training Team Agent", "content": "Hooh! These footsteps are... Lady Outis! Forsooth, 'tis reinforcements from the Safety Team!" }, { "id": 87, "model": "오티스", "title": "Training Team Captain", "content": "It's 'Captain Outis', not 'Lady'!" }, { "id": 88, "model": "오티스", "title": "Training Team Captain", "content": "Ahm. You couldn't have come at a better time—I just fired my sixth shot. Is anyone else coming with you, Captain of the Safety Team?" }, { "id": 89, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "……." }, { "id": 90, "model": "오티스", "title": "Training Team Captain", "content": "Listen, I'm talking to—" }, { "id": 91, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "The will to spill blood for goodness? We don't need to hold ourselves back with such fancy restrictions just to see some blood, S.F." }, { "id": 92, "model": "오티스", "title": "Training Team Captain", "content": "... Busy chatting with her E.G.O, huh." }, { "id": 93, "model": "오티스", "title": "Training Team Captain", "content": "Like her, some employees seem to... resonate with certain E.G.Os." }, { "id": 94, "model": "돈키호테", "title": "Training Team Agent", "content": "T-then! Perchance we shall be availed the opportunity to see Lady Ryōshū's fabled E.G.O dual-wielding?!" }, { "id": 95, "model": "오티스", "title": "Training Team Captain", "content": "There's no time to sit here and gawk. Prepare yourself. Moments before we take down the threat, the Qliphoth counters will tick down with a flash of li—" }, { "id": 96, "content": "A bright violet light imbued the stele, just as the Training Team Captain said, but..." }, { "id": 97, "content": "... before it even had the time to explode, the child leaped into the air, both of her E.G.Os raised high above her head." }, { "id": 98, "content": "Movements of her muscles, not steeped in training, but in instinct." }, { "id": 99, "content": "An E.G.O-wielding technique not bound by form." }, { "id": 100, "content": "While she certainly pales in comparison... her style reminds me of a certain someone." }, { "id": 101, "content": "Yes. The one who shielded me then... she who spoke of the pain of the Backstreets..." }, { "id": 102, "model": "료슈", "title": "Safety Team Captain", "content": "Now burst." }, { "id": 103, "content": "The child perfectly wields both E.G.O weapons and effortlessly shatters the violet, colossal stele to pieces." }, { "id": 104, "content": "Perhaps she is quite like her, at least in this regard." } ] }