Chapter 236: When life’s unfair, screw it!

Once upon a time, a girl was rescued by the border patrol group. 

She was taken to a military base and there were other kids there with her.

Everyone wore the same thing and ate the same food. –they were from all over the country and had many differences. Differences in looks, color, culture, and even age. Most were from ten to sixteen but one thing was common among them: none of the children had any powers. 

Rumor had it, that the girl was rap*d and she killed all her rapists. The rumor was so prominent that even some kids heard it. The kids didn't know what rap* or rapists meant though. 

Though most kids were almost her age, almost all of them never even got close to her. 

One girl did try to get close but the girl- Leilis just ignored her too along with the rest.

The girl didn't care. Survival mattered more to her. And here she could get food, and even exercise like she wanted to. Her goal?

Get stronger and make sure something like that never happened again, to anyone, ever. 

She didn't have anything other than herself. No family, no friends, no nothing. So she wanted to change this world- so this- her fate- never befell to anyone ever again. That was her goal. 

The guards and men in white coats were nice to the children and the children liked them too. Obviously, the girl didn't. She maintained her distance and so did the few men that ever got close to her. Whenever they crossed a certain line the girl would fearlessly make them bleed. It didn't matter if she used a pen, or maybe even a knife, no one could get close to her. 

And since this was a government-funded base, the military or the guys in white coats, never tried to actively hurt her- but that was just a mask.

Eventually, another rumor about the girl circulated. A rumor that perhaps the girl was a devil in the form of a human. 

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Some months passed and things were relatively peaceful but- the girl noticed something amiss. Was it her, or were some of the other children disappearing?

It started by one, then two, then ten. There were at least a few hundred children in this place, so a few missing here and there, wasn't that noticeable. 

But as another month passed and more than half vanished, rumors spread like wildfire. 

Two rumors, in particular, spread the most. One, the children were taken to a new home, where they met new parents. And the other- they were being transferred to another facility. 

The girl didn't believe either one. She had a more prominent theory. Why were the children being treated so nicely? The kids had nothing. And the state wasn't powerful enough to make sure every orphan ever got to live freely. And most of the children that vanished were girls. The boys in particular were treated harshly and they were often trained and sometimes left to be dead. So apparently they were training boys to become soldiers?

Then what of the girls?

The girl didn't want to believe it but if her guess was right, things were about to get ugly. Or to be more precise, they already had.

She was fifteen this year, she understood things all too well.

So, one night, as she was in her room, she carefully placed a photo in front of the camera and slowly got out of the room. She'd been trying this and perfecting it over the last few months. She thought it was the picture that helped her get out of the room like this but- the people that were doing the monitoring just weren't at their office around this time.

After all, even the government couldn't morally justify their acts of monitoring young girls past eight. 

There were patrols everywhere. This was a military base, so even at midnight, the security was high. 

But the girl already knew where the cameras were and how the guards moved. 

So she carefully, located two guys in white coats and followed them. 

One of them laughed. "Today's batch wasn't fun either. They broke too easily."

"The last one was fun though." The other man chuckled. 

"That's because you got to put it in. Mine's too big you know." Both laughed. 

The girl vaguely understood what they meant. She grimaced with hate.

She kept up the following but the men just went into their quarters. 

She was late. 

'Damn!' She cursed but went back into her room.

The next day, the number of girls was even lower. Only the boys were here and maybe a dozen or so of girls. 

"Leilis. Would you like to come with us? Mr. Anderson says they'll introduce us to a new family today. He said I can bring one of my friends but all of them-" Seine paused. "Would you like to come?"

Seine was the only one Leilis had ever spoken to. Mostly to tell her to get away from her.

The girl thought for a second. This would be a grand chance, but at the same time, it'd be too risky. But- She could use this chance. "Sorry, I still have some things to do. I'd love to visit your new home once in a while though." She put up a fake smile. 

"Okay…"

Later that day, the girl got out of her quarters again and tried to sneak around. She did see Seine and two other girls go out with three guys in coats. The girl had a very bad feeling about this but- she followed them. 

She made sure, she wasn't seen and roughly ten minutes later, they arrived in a rather fancy-looking room. But to enter one needed a card. All six of them entered but only Leilis was out, she didn't have a card. 

And it was already past eight, so technically it was past bedtime and if she wandered the halls, she'd arouse suspicion.

But she couldn't turn back now. Even if she did, she'd be caught and she knew that. 

So, she looked around, found a guy in a coat, and just ran to him and hugged him.

"Huh-WOW! Isn't it a bit too late for your bedtime miss? And wait, since when were you so clingy?" The guy was a bit drunk. 

"I got lonely." She tried to pretend and kept hugging the guy. Fortunately, today was a holiday and most of the soldiers were either getting drunk or sleeping. 

The guy chuckled and before he could say anything, the girl walked away. 

Some people did saw her, but before they could come her way, she ran. 

This place was full of naughty children so the guards didn't bother going after her: They didn't know.

Making her way back to the door, she used the card she just stole and the door opened. 

She went in and saw hell.