Esc!ape - 6

I was a little flustered. Breaking out of the containment room was all well and good, but I hadn't thought about what came next. As I walked a bit and marveled at the incredible sight of the Welfare Team, how could I have known someone would talk to me? Well, I am an abnormality...

 

 

 

The employee who spoke to me was an office worker. Yup, there's definitely a big difference between them and management... I thought as I looked at his clothes. And I pondered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'If there are no witnesses, is it assassination?'

 

 

 

 

 

 

Should I knock him out with the back of my hand... no, the back of my fist. Of course, the manager is probably watching, so it's not assassination...

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I was lost in these thoughts, he unexpectedly said,

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Are you the manager assigned to the Welfare Team?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

What...?

 

M-Manager? Definitely not? Absolutely not? I'm an abnormality? I don't even have a Welfare Team manager armband?

 

I was momentarily taken aback by the unexpected words but answered,

 

 

 

"Y-Yeah!! That's right! I'm the newly assigned manager, Mi... I mean, Faust...!"

 

 

 

I did it...! I said it-!! I said I'm a manager. But usually, if you hesitate like this, they don't sus...

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I see..."

 

 

 

I started to seriously wonder if this person was messing with me. But seeing the convinced look on his face, I dismissed the thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

....He's just not a suspicious person.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Isn't it strangely noisy around here?"

 

"Ah, that's because... an abnormality escaped, you know..."

 

 

 

Is this guy really an office worker? Why is he so calm? The office workers I saw in the game were always screaming or getting hit with suppression bullets, so this felt really weird. Right, these people are real... they were real people.

 

 

 

 

"I think it's the new abnormality that just came in."

 

 

 

 

....

 

 

 

 

 

That's probably me...

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's definitely me...

 

 

 

"R-Really? Shouldn't we evacuate?"

 

"Nah... the managers will probably take care of it."

 

 

 

The office worker said that and stared at me silently. I pointed at myself with my hand.

 

 

 

 

"....."

 

 

 

"....."

 

 

 

 

 

 

While we were doing this nonsense, I heard the distant murmur of people... no, several people running towards us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Are they finally coming to suppress it..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're always so late, he continued.

 

 

 

....

 

 

 

 

 

.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Seriously?"

 

 

"Huh?"

 

 

 

Coming to suppress the new abnormality = coming to suppress me.

 

 

 

"Is something wrong...?"

 

 

 

"Hey, um... office worker...dude."

 

"Yes."

 

"Haha... It was short, but playing staff with you was fun, I guess."

 

 

 

"Huh?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

With those words, I quickly ran in the opposite direction of the approaching footsteps. Then I hurriedly took the elevator down and ran to Central Command. I'm sorry to the office worker, but I'm in a big hurry.

 

 

 

"Ahaha-☆"

 

 

 

Not even a full day since I became an abnormality, since I became Mika, and I'm already screwed... I thought as I ran. Maybe I should have just stayed quietly in the containment room... I added a tinge of regret.

 

 

 

 

As I was running for a bit,

 

 

 

Swish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something grazed my cheek... well, actually it was my bread bag, but anyway, I looked at the weapon that grazed my bread bag and loudly embedded itself in the wall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was full of red... with eyes... there's no need to even describe it, it's Mimicry... My jaw dropped. It's totally gross in real life. As I was freaking out, the person who seemed to be Mimicry's owner started to speak.

 

 

 

 

 

"Command Team Leader Joshua, abnormality O-01-25 detected in Central Command. Requesting backup."

 

"Joshua...?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've heard the name Joshua a lot. Well, it's a name that comes to mind when you think of Lobotomy Corporation employees! And usually, an employee with that name...

 

 

 

"We will suppress it perfectly, Manager."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Maybe I shouldn't stop..."

 

 

 

 

 

I can't stop. I started running again, backing away.

 

 

 

 

 

Is this what being an abnormality is like?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At first, it was just the employee named Joshua behind me, but more kept appearing. No, the employees are terrifying. Plus, they're all carrying menacing weapons. I'm just a fragile, smiling... girl... yeah, I'm a pretty girl now.

 

 

 

 

 

If I keep running like this, I'll get suppressed. They're many, and I'm one... if there's a way,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Wait-! You guys! Can you prove the truth of someone who has reached paradise?!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I stopped running and spoke to them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"What's that all about..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua, who was at the front, spoke when I suddenly stopped and talked. I took a deep breath and shouted at them,

 

 

"If you believe a swimsuit is underwear, then it's underwear. So if you believe I, an abnormality, am a manager, then I'm a manager!☆"

 

 

I pointed at myself as I spoke. Of course, it was nonsense. There's no way we could have a proper conversation here. Seeing some of the employees taken aback, I just turned and ran.

 

 

Thank you, Hanako-!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought as I ran. My containment room is in the Welfare Team, this is Central Command... if I mess up even a little, I could get beaten from both sides...

 

 

 

"In that case-! I'll just go anywhere-!"

 

 

 

 

Since it's Mika's body, I think I can take a few hits... but I can't accept it. The thought of those weapons touching my body is just too much. I shook my head, horrified at the mere thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I stopped running and opened the containment room door right in front of me...

 

 

 

"No time for that, I'll just break it-!!!"

 

 

 

Covering science and technology with Mika's strong physical abilities. What a perfect plan... With that, I broke the containment room door and went inside. Who knows what's in there.