294 – Orphan of Heaven
Juliet always thought.
Who are her own parents?
What kind of people were they? Why did she leave herself at her orphanage and disappear? What is the reason why she doesn’t show her face once?
She was curious, but there was no way to find out her answer.
In this era, orphans like herself who had never even seen the faces of their parents were common.
It’s not really anything special. It was such a natural phenomenon that she had no reason to question it.
That’s why Juliet didn’t blame her parents that much.
The orphanage was poor but full of affection. Her director was also a caring person who did his best to fulfill the role of her parent.
She was just curious.
I want to at least see the face, and at least know the name.
Then one day, someone approached Juliet as she was hanging laundry in her backyard.
She was a strange man she had never seen before. He handed the embarrassed girl his business card and introduced himself to her.
“Vice president of the Magic Engineering Society. He is called the Operator.”
“···Magic Engineering Society?”
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Juliet frowned at the unfamiliar name of the organization, hearing it for the first time in her life, and looked around at her business card.
She wasn’t sure, but just by looking at the other person’s appearance and the quality of her business card, she was convinced that she was not a match for her at all. She would have absolutely no reason to come to a place like this.
After being dazed for a moment, she finally came to her senses and firmly shook her head.
“I’m sorry, but I have no intention of being adopted by anyone.”
It’s a bitter story, but the better the orphans are, the more likely they are to be adopted.
In that sense, Juliet was the most popular child in this old and remote orphanage.
Numerous adoption offers poured in, but she flatly rejected them all.
There were many reasons. She wanted to repay the kindness of her director who raised her, but at the same time, she was not confident that she would live under the care of someone she did not know at all and live with her as a family member.
Even though it was her biological father whose face and name she did not know, Juliet still remained in this orphanage and waited for her parents to return.
I am already 15 years old now. Although she was too late to be adopted, she still received offers from time to time.
I thought it would be the same this time too, and she refused coldly as always.
“It’s not adoption, it’s scouting.”
“···Yes?”
“Would you like to work at our Magic Engineering Society? “You have the talent we are looking for.”
The answer that came back was completely unexpected and unexpected.
“But…”
“There is no need to leave the orphanage as it is a commute. “I heard that you have to leave the orphanage and become independent when you turn 18, but it would be convenient to think that you have some experience in social activities before that.”
She said it wasn’t a bad offer for her.
No, she was even more hesitant because it was filled with information that was suspiciously advantageous to present to her orphan.
The worries did not last long. Because she had no reason not to accept whatever it was.
If you earn money from now on, you will not only be able to become independent in the future, but you will also be able to support the orphanage consistently.
Juliet accepted the man’s offer, but she had no idea what kind of talent he was talking about. It wasn’t until the next day that she followed him into an underground laboratory in London that she realized.
“What the hell is this…”
“It is a place to develop and research artificial life forms, or more precisely, homunculi. To put it simply, it is the creation of life through human power.”
“Is that really possible?”
Of course it is possible. Because she, and no one else, was the culmination of that technology.
However, Juliet is a special masterpiece created using the divinity of the Goddess of Lies. In other words, he was like an alter ego of God. No ordinary homunculus has yet been able to imitate the human form as perfectly as she.
“You have the ability to bend reality and create illusions. “It has what I call distortion.”
“···Are you saying I can use magic?”
“It’s not like magic. “It would be more accurate to call it a miracle.”
Juliet, who had no idea she had such abilities, spread out her hands and looked at her body in a new way.
“Homunculus is an artificial life form that has not been blessed by God, so it cannot perceive reality clearly. In other words, you see the world in a distorted way. “If you twist it with your power of distortion, you might be able to correct it.”
I understood what it meant. In fact, she had a difficult way of speaking, so I wasn’t sure exactly, but I roughly understood that she needed her skills.
But there was something else I was curious about.
“Why are you making something like this? “What does the Magic Engineering Society do?”
At those words, the operator paused for a moment and answered, looking beyond the glass tube with somewhat complicated eyes.
“Well, I don’t know. Even I can’t look into the president’s head. Maybe this is all just a funny play. “It could all be just a set prepared for his purpose.”
“···I’m not sure what it means.”
“Well, you don’t need to try to understand. The homunculus itself can cause groundbreaking developments in medical science, including artificial organs and human experiments. “As technology develops further, it is not impossible to become immortal by transferring memory to a healthy body.”
Of course, in order to reach the areas he mentioned, numerous difficulties, including ethical issues, must be overcome. But even putting that aside, even the transcendent Operator did not deny that this research was a great step toward advancing humanity.
Juliet nodded her head hesitantly while listening to the lengthy explanation.
She couldn’t understand half of what she said, but all that mattered to her was that she was going to be working here and making money.
“What should I do from now on?”
“First of all, we need to strengthen our distortion capabilities. “At this point, you have just realized that you even have that ability.”
Strengthening distortion ability training.
The first step was so trivial that it made me laugh out loud.
Find the difference in the picture. Isn’t this a childish game that you throw away when you’re 5 years old because you’re bored?
However, the level that gradually became more difficult the more questions were answered correctly eventually turned into a level of extreme complexity where one could feel the level of complexity and exhaustion that made one’s eyeballs fall out, and one could feel the viciousness of the test taker.
On the way home from work on the first day, my shoulders slumped, I trudged along and rubbed my bloodshot, bloodshot eyes. Originally, I thought it was amazing that all people worked hard and made money like this, and I was amazed.
Such naive appreciation lasted for a day or two, and gradually, as time passed, Juliet became accustomed to coming in and out of her lab, and by the time Juliet had become quite adept at using her distortion abilities.
‘Maybe I’m finally becoming a veteran researcher?’
Although she hasn’t done anything to help with her research yet, she is on her way to work as always towards the research institute, bathed in the refreshing sunlight with such simple thoughts.
Juliet found a pure white girl standing peacefully alone inside her laboratory and tilted her head.
I had an intuition that it was not a normal situation for a girl who looked much younger than me to be in such a secret space.
But the girl was so small and delicate that it was impossible to be wary of her.
The pure white girl noticed Juliet’s presence and turned her head to meet her gaze.
At that moment, Juliet was unable to resist the overwhelming force pressing down on her body and her body became rigid. She immediately wanted to turn around and run away, but she couldn’t move, as if time had stopped in her body.
The girl slowly began to approach.
The moment she felt afraid of that fact and trembled with the fear of her death.
The operator appeared and blocked the gap between the two. Only then did Juliet’s legs lose their strength and she sat down.
“So, Director… “Who is that kid?”
“I never thought it would come all the way here. No, I didn’t expect her to regain her strength so quickly. Unfortunately, it is dangerous if you lose your senses and wander around the world as you please. In the end, we will have no choice but to imprison him in the mirror world as he said.”
Although he couldn’t understand what he meant, he could guess that the words were directed at the girl, not at him. Eventually, the operator turned her head and spoke to Juliet.
“Run away from here immediately. And the lab here will be closed as of today, so don’t come to work starting tomorrow.”
“Yes? Well, what is that…”
“No wonder it is difficult to understand. However, since you have awakened the power of distortion, it is safe to say that this laboratory has reached the end of its existence. So don’t worry.”
The more I listened to the story, the more confused I became, rather than being convinced.
I believed that today would be the same as usual, but my daily life was shattered overnight.
“And go find the imitator. “When you get there, you will realize everything.”
“···Director.”
“It was a pleasure being together, even if it was only for a short time. Please forgive your father. Miss.”
Bam!!
With those words, the door closed roughly, blocking the space between Juliet and the operator.
And then a deep water horse suddenly came rushing in and I quickly lost my mind.
When she opened her eyes again, she had collapsed in the backyard of her orphanage.
As soon as she came to her senses, she hurried to the underground laboratory, but found only an empty old underground warehouse in its place.
As if all her memories had been a fleeting dream.
Juliet, feeling her deep emptiness, soon heard the operator’s last words. She recalled what she had said about going to the imitators.
She slowly left the cellar.