Snippet #1902418

Mai walked into the house quietly after one of the maids had opened the door. She gave her a quick nod that sent her scurrying off, running to get her a smoothie or whatever it was the new chef had prepared as a snack this time. Honestly, she didn't care what he had made. It wasn't like she was going to eat it anyways - how could she eat when her dad had been missing for this long? Sure, it was normal for him to be gone for a long time, but this time...he'd been gone for, what, 3 days in a row? That just had to mean something!

Mai quietly walked over to her father's lab. She'd gotten instructed early on, just upon her arrival, when she was only a child, that she was never to enter that room. But what could be there? Surely it wasn't something dangerous - Mai wasn't a kid anymore, she wouldn't try to blow up his lab or anything!

She quietly gave the door a slight push, and it slid open. Weird. It always used to be locked... she tiptoed in quietly, closing the door behind her so the maids wouldn't find her in there. Her eyes quickly surveyed the room - there was nothing special about it. Just a bunch of papers with complicated formulas written on them, a few bottles scattered around, an empty cup with some cool coffee in the corner that the maid had forgotten to take care of... nothing special. She was about to leave when her hand accidentically touched something. Suddendly, a hologram popped up. "Project Ningen no Kimi - Top Secret" it read in big letters.

Ningen no Kimi? She knew for sure that Ningen meant human in japanese, but she still wasn't sure about the kimi part. Had her father been experimenting on humans? She quickly surveyed the room once again for documents marked with this title... she stumbled over one that told her passwords for a variety of experiments, one of them being this. Quickly she typed in Cho Jintekina, unsure what this meant, and the text dissapeared. Instead it was replaced by throughout reports about...six teenagers?

Mai looked closer, reading the text the documents said. Her father...had he been experimenting on these teens? Giving them different... talents, creating fake lives for them...just what was he doing?

Well, they weren't going to be released before they turned 18, which meant he would experiment with them for two more years...did he hate her that much? Was she really just a part of a puzzle, being of no other importance to him than as someone that could be used to study human behavior?

Mai couldn't take it. She ran out of the room, rushing past a confused maid and locking the door to her room, curling up on her bed. These unnatural humans...she would never forgive them for stealing her father away from her, for making him just use her as a part of his plan. No, if she couldn't beat her father, surely she could beat these inhuman creatures?