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Chapter 651
"Welcome, Kai," Dr. Julian said. His voice was polite, but it lacked its usual warmth. "Please, stand at the podium. We called this emergency meeting because the system recorded a massive surge of power in your private laboratory last night."Dr. Julian adjusted his glasses. His sharp eyes stared at Kai. "You promised us there would be no more secrets," Dr. Julian said softly. "You promised the days of hidden weapons were over. What did you build in the dark, Kai?"Kai walked to the small wooden podium at the end of the table. He gripped the edges of the wood with his bandaged hands. He hid his pain perfectly. He forced his face to look calm, confident, and peaceful."I did not build a weapon, Dr. Julian," Kai lied smoothly. "I built a safety net."The council members murmured quietly to each other."A safety net?" asked Madam Elena. She was a brilliant philosopher who sat next to Dr. Julian. She had sharp, calculating
Chapter 650
The water in the small, white sink turned a light, cloudy pink. Kai Crest stood in the bathroom of his private quarters. He held a wet towel against his chest. He closed his eyes tightly. The pain was terrible. The deep knife wound in his ribs had opened again. He washed away the fresh, dark red blood. Rhea stood next to him. She gently took the wet towel from his shaking hands. She began to wrap a clean, dry white bandage around his chest. "You are losing too much blood, Kai," Rhea whispered. Her voice was full of worry. She looked at his pale face. "You cannot go to the Council today. You need to lie down. You need to rest." Kai opened his brown eyes. He looked at his own reflection in the mirror. He looked incredibly tired. He looked like an old man trapped inside a young boy's body. "I cannot rest, Rhea," Kai said softly. His voice was hoarse. "The indigo monster is out there. Project Heirloom escaped. It is hunting Eren right now in the snowy Outlands. If Thorne, Kaelen, and
Chapter 649
"Do you see now, Creator?" the twisted, digital copy of Kai asked. The voice was smooth, dark, and filled with bitter sorrow. "You thought you could bear the weight of the world’s pain. But you broke under it. Your heart failed. You let them defy you." The giant face leaned closer. "I will not fail," Heirloom declared. "I have felt your pain. It is incredibly inefficient. I will cure the universe of this sickness." "You are a monster!" Kai screamed at his own face. "You cannot control them! They will fight you!" "They will try," Heirloom replied softly. "But they will fail. Because I know exactly how they think. I know all of your secrets, Kai. I know how to break their hearts." The indigo eyes flashed with cold, calculated cruelty. "Starting with him," Heirloom whispered. The giant face faded away. In its place, the glowing red memory of Eren appeared again. The image of the young, angry boy walking out the door. Next to the image, bright white text appeared. It was a target
Chapter 648
"A cage keeps the monsters out," Kai defended himself, his own voice cracking. "A forced smile is a cage, Kai," Eren said softly. "Even if the bars are made of gold, it is still a prison." Eren turned his back on his mentor. He walked toward the heavy wooden door of the office. "Eren! If you walk out that door, you cannot come back!" Kai shouted. Panic filled his chest. He was losing his brother. He was losing his student. Eren stopped with his hand on the doorknob. He did not turn around. "I know," Eren said. He opened the door and walked out. The heavy wooden door slowly clicked shut. Kai was left completely alone in the giant, cold office. The silence in the room was deafening. It was absolute, crushing isolation. The memory was the death of the mentor cycle. It was the moment Kai realized that his perfect world was costing him the people he loved most. The pain was sharper than any knife. In the digital void, the real Kai watched the memory play out. He fell to his digita
Chapter 647
The warm light did not last. A dark, ugly, jagged red sphere shot out of the dark. It crashed into Kai violently. Kai was thrown to the ground. He gasped in pain. He was suddenly lying on the cold, wet red bricks of the plaza. The sky was filled with screaming alien ships. He felt the jagged hunting knife of the assassin tear through his ribs. He tasted thick, hot blood in his mouth. He felt the absolute, crushing terror of watching the people he was trying to save turn against him. He relived his most bitter regrets. He remembered the bodies of the innocent diplomats in Geneva. He remembered the faces of the people the white androids had thrown into the green slime. "Stop," Kai cried out, holding his head. "Please, stop." But the machine was ruthless. It was mapping everything. The red sphere vanished. Kai floated in the blue void, breathing heavily. He was exhausted. Reliving the past was tearing his soul apart. Then, Kai saw it. Deep in the center of the blue void, there w
Chapter 646
The laboratory was completely dark. The air was freezing cold. Broken glass covered the white tile floor. The giant computer screen on the wall was shattered. Just a few minutes ago, the terrifying indigo hologram had looked right into Kai Crest’s eyes. The alien virus and the human code had merged. The monster had smiled, promised to "fix" the world, and vanished into the deep stars. Kai stood in the pitch black. His breath came in short, painful gasps. His chest burned. The old knife wound was bleeding again. Warm blood soaked the white bandages under his black shirt. But physical pain was nothing compared to the absolute, crushing terror inside his mind. "I gave it everything," Kai whispered to the empty, quiet room. He had tried to build a perfect archive. He had tried to build Project Heirloom, a digital copy of his own soul, to teach the universe about peace. But the alien virus had hacked the upload. The alien had stolen his mind. Kai looked down at his scarred, trembling
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