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The cicadas noisily buzzed as a silent, gloomy girl treaded down the grey concrete of Chiba, Japan. She glanced at the strange black gaps in the sidewalk and walls through her soda-cap glasses. She gingerly stretched her toe towards the gap until the shrill of her phone reminded her of her living hell, home. She meekly entered the passcode to her dated iPhone 4 to her screen, which had read, 5:34 PM, July 19th, 2014. A text message Kanzen-nee. She drearily tapped on the notification, and read the message. Hey Miki! What did you put in your chocolate chip muffins to give it that crispy taste! My friends are waiting! Hurry and text me back! Or else they'll know it's not my baking! o(>__<)o Miki sighed and muttered to herself, "Why can't you let me have any praise..?" She quickly texted back, I just added a bit more water than the recipe called for to keep it moist. Miki ambled on and while consumed deep in thought, she accidentally stepped into a gap, giving herself a brief fright, and then recomposed herself, lifting her leg out of the gap, only to see her foot gone. She began to scream in horror, and the high-pitched noise came back. Before she knew it, everything behind began disappearing away. Miki jumped up, adrenaline rushing through her blood at full speed, and dashed around the corner. That street was starting to disappear too. No..! No! This must be a nightmare! This can't be real..! She halted and finally thought to herself, This isn't real. Soon enough, everything around her vanished, only leaving the chunk of asphalt and her body, minus her foot. Miki looked down and shrieked in terror once again. "No..! This is way too real to be fake! NO!" She desperately clawed the nothingness that was above her, in hope that she could find a way out. She bitterly gave and and watched as her own hand began to perish before her own eyes. "Haha, this world is so f*cked up." And those were her last words of Kaigai Miki.

Something cold made goosebumps rise to the young teenage girl's pale porcelain skin. Her bright blue-grey eyes fluttered open to a... distorted room? She reached out, her extremely long hair that piled up on the floor rustled, sending air to the surface. Wait what?! The confused and startled girl jumped towards what looks like a door, only to smash head-first into cold glass. At first, she was taken aback, and pounded on the glass, but then she felt something else. Something slithered against.. that area. She shrieked, letting out bubbles from her mouth, letting them rise to the surface, and looked down. A-A-Am I naked?! A-And..! I have a perfect body! And I have blonde hair! No scars, no fat, I actually have boobs, and my legs are f*cking long! She thought to herself, peppy and jittery. Then the fact that she was naked finally smacked her in the head and she grabbed her freakishly long hair and wrapped it around herself, but let it billow out at the bottom so she could move. After tying a large bow to hold her hair together, she floated over to the glass wall of the tube and peered at the red letters. 5:45 AM, Friday, January 6th, 2073. 2073?! What the hell?! She looked down and gazed at the soft blue light that enveloped her in the mysterious water. She looked around in the room and noticed other blue tubes, with other people in there too! She was at first, taken aback, and then noticed that there were two other girls and three other boys, who all were also awakening in terror. Her face lit up as she began pounding and shouting out towards the others. Why do I act and feel so different? The thought briefly appeared in her mind and was shoved to the back of her head.

The girl pounded until her fists hurt, and slumped back to the bottom, sitting down. She looked up and noticed that there was a surface. A way out! She excitedly swam to the top with an abundance of effort, for some reason, this water didn't seem to have any buoyancy, and clasped onto the edge, only to be met with a terrifying wave of electricity. She briefly jerked back, and then grabbed it again, resisting the pain greatly. She lifted herself up, her hair unraveling in the process, and opened the sliding lid halfway, so she can rest on it. As she sat on the lid, the first thing that had hit her nose was the strong smell of antiseptic. She nearly gagged and covered her nose. Her bare butt felt something on the lid, and she slid over a bit to see what it was. She focused on the engraving that read: SHIKENKAN F01 - RYORI MIKI. The girl pointed at herself and took a minute to absorb what she had just read. "My name... Is Ryori Miki...?" It had appeared that her past life was just foggy memories that swam somewhere in the unknown parts of her head, wandering endlessly and waiting to be found. "Ryori... Miki....." She silently said to herself. Ryori Miki looked at the bewildered people of her kind and glanced at the chrome plaque on the wall.

NINGEN NO KAMI
HUMAN-GODS
Ningen no Kami is the name of the new species of humans that are sleeping dormant in these tubes right now. They have been in these tubes since they were embryos and will awaken once they have reached the age of eighteen. These tubes are called Shikenkan and are basically their mothers' wombs. Ningen no Kami are the "perfect humans" that excel in everything,and specialize in up to five things. They have been genetically altered to look flawless and beautiful in every aspect, and will be used as our organization's successors in order to plot the next revolution, making Japan the world's ruler. Like in Las Vegas, What happens in here, stays in here.

Miki sat there, stiff, unwilling to move from the shocking truth. "I'm... not... human... Wow, that's really hard to believe, but I guess that's the truth.. Right?" She blankly re-wrapped herself loosely and hopped off of the top of her "mother." She pressed her fingertips against the cold glass and silently muttered, "Goodbye 'mother'." She could still feel her body warmth in through the glass and impulsively climbed back to the lid, this time, she slid it shut and trailed her long delicate fingers across the engraving. "I wonder where are my real parents..?"