“……I’m hearing this for the first time. Mutants? If such a thing exists, why hasn’t it become known to the public?”
“Exactly. I don’t know much about that either. Policies are for the higher-ups to decide, I guess. Maybe they thought if people found out, they would run away or hide because they’re going to be killed? Or maybe, mutants could gather together to form anti-government organizations.”
“But, why do you have to kill the mutants in the first place? If they have awakened their abilities late, shouldn’t the government take them in as talents and treat them well?”
“Ha, Jaejin, you’re really innocent. It’s kind of cute because you’re so unaware.”
“What…?”
“In this world, even the awakened who have not completed their formal education are disposed of, so there’s no way the state would let mutants live. An uncontrolled awakened is just a risk to human society. They are instantly culled. All of them.”
Seo Uiwoo’s voice, low and covered, was calm but cold and terrifyingly threatening, because he had known all along that there was no other way for Kwon Jaejin to escape in front of him.
Like a predator corralling its prey into a dead end, Seo Uiwoo leisurely suckled the inside of the open shirt of Kwon Jaejin. He left a new mark with his lips on the neck, which was healing thanks to the active healing factor erasing any bruise marks.
“What do you say? I’ll let you go out and get shot to death, or would you rather I hide you and you live as Seo Uiwoo’s exclusive guide in my embrace?”
While presenting cruel choices that one couldn’t choose from, Seo Uiwoo delightedly devoured the despondent Kwon Jaejin.
The second guiding forced into the still-healing hole was even more satisfying than the first. The inner flesh, so swollen and puffed that it was almost unbearably lovely, was now red.
***
Center.
Its formal name is the Central Crisis Management Special Strategy Headquarters (CCMSSH), but it’s commonly referred to as the Center, a government military organization.
Located in the southeastern special residential district, the facility is accessible only to a very small number of senior government officials and the awakened.
The grand building is divided into three sections. The first is the residential hall for trainees who have not completed their formal education, which includes accommodation facilities.
The second is the central hall for officially awakened individuals who have completed their formal education. It is also the largest part of the building. Here, awakened individuals regularly engage in combat training, strategy meetings, mission reporting, and medical treatment. Almost all awakened-related jobs are processed in the central hall, from material management, troop deployment, troop member selection, to accounting. Even the footage of awakened individuals that the public sees on broadcasts is provided by this place as well.
The last remaining third section is the Research and Development Hall. Here they produce healing factors and guiding substitute drugs used by the awakened, as well as manufacture custom weapons tailored to the characteristics of the awakened individuals.
Moreover, ongoing research related to gates and creatures is conducted here, with a wide and diverse gathering of information happening, such as creature dissections and studies of geological resources on the insides of gates.
Researchers sometimes hire civilians in exceptional cases, but specific details are not disclosed to awakened individuals like Seo Uiwoo, who are part of combat units. To access such top-secret information, one would have to apply to the research department rather than the combat department during their trainee years and become part of the Research and Development Department.
Central Hall. At the 4th floor reception room, Seo Uiwoo applied for additional supplies including a new battle uniform.
He entered the item details on the large tablet screen and pulled out his identification tag hanging from his neck. As he brought the tag close to an adjoining terminal, Seo Uiwoo’s Awakened Registration Code was automatically scanned and the application was complete.
CCMSSH KR S1 E
01-31040801S
O (RH+)
Beep.
No sooner had the supply application been accepted than a transceiver rang out.
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