Throughout the entire month, Aleph rofessional. It was their first time seeing him act like this.
“If you’re asking me why, Doobius is an important asset to humanity. Things like physical aal health should be handled well.”
“You’re thinking a lot of things.”
Mobius ented with slight fluctuations in her eyes.
“I do. I know this be seen as overstepping my boundaries, but this matter must be addressed well.”
A while ter, Mobius reahe thoughts in her head.
“I thought you were the pyful one. I didn’t expect to see this kind of seriousness in you.”
“Humans aren’t that superficial. Doobius should know about it.”
“...”
These words resonated with her. She was caught off guard that she couldn’t respond as usual to him.
“Let’s start w.”
Mobius stood up from her desk. She headed towards the room that stored the preserved spe. Aleph didn’t say anything further and followed her steps.
Soon, they arrived inside a rge room. Several honkai beasts y silent in the gss chambers filled with blue liquids.
“We are w with a chariot-css beast.”
“Which live sample will be used?”
“Cebidae.”
Mobius passed on a thesis worth more than fifteen pages to Aleph. It recorded everything regarding the experiment.
Aleph took less than five mio finish reading. Mobius was already aware of his insane reading speed—more so about his academic capabilities far surpassing most of the schors she met.
There were a lot of things she discovered during their month of cooperation.
“The challenge is whether its body could withstand the flict.”
“Exactly.”
A hint of praise could be felt on Mobius’ reply.
“With your blood as a ter, the rest will be the sample’s burden.”
Their cooperation stemmed from Aleph’s specialty. Mobius wasn’t wrong with that. Wheested Aleph’s blood, it was able to fend off the honkai beast genes, in turn making the gene fusion process more stable.
Such a dilemma that sted for nearly ten years was solved with Aleph’s arrival. That was the main reason why Mobius ged her attitude towards him—from a special b rat to a coworker.
“I’m afraid it will be up to luck… again.”
Aleph’s words served to strike Mobius.
“Sometimes, you are too sharp for your own good. Don’t you think so?”
“Maybe.” He replied with a shrug. “Just don’t do it again.”
What he talked about was the reckless thing Mobius did more than three years ago. She didn’t hesitate to test the gene of a chariot-css beast on herself.
Perhaps it was due to her mentality of stagnating after numerous years.
In the end, she survived. It granted her a strong physique that wouldn’t fall despite her uhy habits over the years.
That was also the reason behind the danger Aleph felt from her.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t stable nor reproducible. Several live humaers died to firm that fact.
More thay minutes had passed when the experiment began.
Mobius served as the head while Aleph assisted her on the side. The first thing to do was to extract the gene sample which was dohrough the small meical arms ihe chamber.
O was extracted, the surgery erformed on the Cebidae monkey species. It was a deep surgery that involved rewriting the geic code of the anism. The honkai gene ut forth to induce a trolled mutation from the living body.
It rocess with extremely minimal success. The means to stably duct such surgeries are still not present.
Everything relied on luck to succeed, that is, until Aleph arrived.
His blood was highly resistant to honkai itself. It was something only dohrough the process of adaptation. It pushed his body to have an unpreted level of honkai resistance.
“Cut. Ahesia.”
“Received. pleted.”
“Ongoing.”
“Use the blood.”
The two specialists cooperated smoothly. Their eyes are set on the microscope that doubled as a GUI ected to other surgical devices.
An hour ter, they looked at the Cebidae ihe gss box. They threw away the bloodied gloves onto the bin.
“If this works, our dire is correct.” She said.
At this moment, Mobius put away her pyfulness. When it es to this research project, she is extremely serious.
A few mier, the sleeping Cebidae woke up. Its eyes agilely moved around the gss box. It didn’t take long before it started jumping around it.
“It worked?”
“Wait.” Aleph interrupted her excitement. “There’s something wrong.”
Just as Aleph felt its danger aura increase slowly, the Cebidae’s right arm twitched. What followed was its left arm, torso, legs, and then the head. It seemed like a seizure.
Several seds ter, the Cebidae stood up once more. This time, its eyes have a mix of white and purple. Unintelligent growls came from it as it started banging against the gss box.
Then—
Sptter-!
Its entire body exploded into pieces.
“Normalcy for 10.55 seds. Mutation occurred right after. It sted for 7.85 seds. Finally, it imploded after 2.41 seds.”
Knowing this could occur, Aleph took out his small notebook along with a timer. Everything here was recorded, yet doing this could save Mobius from some work.
“I think we should start over from seraph-css beasts.” Aleph suggested. “Although our success rate was not high, it’s the most stable one so far.”
Mobius, who was back from her usual expression, suddenly turned her eyes on him.
Seeing this, Aleph felt a chill on his back.
“If reason didn’t prevail, I would have pced you on top of a disse table already.”
“Are you sure you do that?” Aleph replied with fidence.
“Fair enough.”
Despite another failure, their banters are still as usual.
*****
Three days ter, Aleph left the fifth institute.
“I mentio long ago. I’m gd Mister Aleph poi out as well.”
Klein brought the ordered food to Mobius’ desk. Her tone was ft when she reprimanded Mobius.
“Don’t say anything further. I thought he was as ing as a snake. In the end, it was you two that are more alike than anything else.”
“It’s good.” Klein replied.
Mobius’ first impression was the same as Sakura’s. They expected Aleph to be the same as the two-faced people who hid daggers behind their backs. Only, they were surprised that Aleph was much more simpler than they imagined.
“Whatever. His presence is useful enough.”
“If you say so.”
For some time already, Klein saw the slight ges brought by one person’s presence.
