CSMR: Data Unknown

III

Going back to Checkpoint...

Your goal: Overthrow the Elders

"Wake up, Irya..." 

Dahan-dahan kong iminulat ang mga mata ko. Agad akong bumangon at nakita ang pamilyar na kuwarto kung saan ako nanggaling dati. Paano ako napunta dito? Anong nangyari? Gustuhin ko man na makakuha ng sagot ay wala akong makukuhanan nito. 

"Get ready for what's coming, Irya. Don't answer any of their questions." Anang boses.

"9-13, ready yourself," Bungad ng Malthusian na hanggang balikat ang haba ng buhok. Hindi ko pa rin alam kung ano ang mga pangalan o code nila, they never bothered to say those kinds of things to me. 

"How did I become a 9-13? How did you come up with these kinds of codes?" Tanong ko, hindi pa rin gumagalaw kahit na binibigay na niya sa akin ang damit na kailangan kong suotin. It was one of the questions I was eager to ask.

"It was not my idea so don't ask me. Get ready and follow 4-05 after," 'Yun lang at umalis na siya. Pinaningkitan ko ng mata ang Malthusian na tinawag niya 4-05 at agad naman siyang lumabas ng kuwarto kahit wala pa akong sinasabi.

Napabuntong-hininga ako at sinuot na lang ang itim na roba na inabot niya sa akin. Kinuha ko ang salamin na binigay sa akin nung isang Malthusian nung kailan lang at inayos ang buhok ko. Nasagi ng daliri ko ang pin na kaparehas ng kay lord Aerom.

The design was unusual yet familiar. It had this tentacle-like design that was clasping on something. Looking at the pin took my time as I was studying every detail of it. It was white-gold, the same as lord Aerom's. Bakit kaparehas dito ang kay lord Aerom? Bakit 'yung mga iba hindi ganito at iba rin ang kulay ng kanila? What did I do to have a pin the same as this?

Binaba ko na ang salamin nang pumasok si 4-05 at nakatingin lang siya sa akin pero may gustong sabihin ang mga mata niya na hindi niya masabi pero naintindihan ko agad 'yun. She wants me to come out already. Gaya nung sabi ng Malthusian kanina ay sinundan ko lang si 4-05.

She was like the Malthusians from that day. She had her hair in a bun and unlike me, she didn't have a pin by her ear or on her bun like the other Malthusians. She's not wearing the same robe as me but the same clothes as those Malthusians. By far I noticed that Malthusians have wavy hair and are up on a bun, or if not, a half-bun. I have my hair on a half bun but why isn't mine wavy?

How am I different from them?

4-05 finally stopped and gestured the wall, wala siyang sinabi pero alam ko na gusto niya akong pumasok d'on. Bago ako pumasok ay tumingin ako sa kanya at pinag-aralan ang mukha niya.

"Do you know that you're pretty?" I noticed her face reddened despite her keeping a straight face.

"T-Thank you, lordess," was what she said in a whisper before walking away.

"What did she just call me?" That thought kept bugging me until I saw someone in the room beyond the wall.

"Be alert, Irya. That man's dangerous."

It was a Malthusian and he was destroying something and took something from that and put it on a box-like object. Ilang beses niyang ginawa 'yun. Aayusin niya saka niya sisirain at may kukunin na partes mula sa sinira niya saka niya ilalagay sa isa pang kahon. Habang patagal nang patagal ay palaki nang palaki ang kahon. Mas matagal niyang inayos ang pinakahuling kahon at mukhang mas concentrated na siya doon kasa sa mga nauna.