Summary 10:[1]
"Well, that could be, because of some special glasses like you mentioned, but when it comes to others, I am not sure" Sylvia answered
"For others there are some slight exceptions, you see in a moment of extreme stress, panic and distress, normal human beings are perfectly capable to see them for a certain amount of time, but you were so calm and I don't believe that those glasses are the reason why you can see them, cause I see in you as much cursed energy as I see in us"
Sylvia smirked at the sound of that sentence "Alright and how is it that none of you three said anything before?"
"The energy was only released after the transformation of one of your colleagues into a curse"
Feeling cornered, the woman of steel decided to confess a little piece of her past that only the director of the agency knew "To be completely honest with you, it is not my first time seeing a human being turn into those kinds of monsters. I want you to take me in a place where we can freely speak"
"I'll create a small veil that won't allow anyone to listen to our conversation, they won't even be able to see us", Megumi said
"Works for me" she replied as she raised her hand toward the glass to signal her colleagues not to enter the room no matter what.
As the veil was starting to engulf them, the woman of steel discretely took a small breath before being completely engulfed by a dark mass that turned invisible
"Alright you could tell us everything now" Kugisaki said
"Well like I told you it is not my first time seeing those kinds of transformations. Years ago, as our country Westalis was in a war with Ostania the country where you we actually are .Each sides decided to focus on strengthening their soldiers and armies using science, from there many laboratories were created, which resulted in the creation of the finest weaponries, but unfortunately the strongest weapon of all could never replace the soldier himself. That's why scientist started to find ways to improve soldier's physical and intellectual abilities, we don't know exactly which country started it first, but it was almost everywhere, the government of each sides decided to offer a huge financial compensation for whoever contributed to the experience."
"So, Scientists back then were able to make a fortune"
"The contribution didn't have to be just financial or in forms of services, but it could also be human", she said as she slightly closed her eyes
"At that times there were a lot of claims of missing people, but because we were in the middle of a war, those claims were not taken seriously, "Your child must have been unlucky and got attacked by the enemy" the army would say, fortunately that year, what we now call the Westalia Intelligence Service agency was just created to contribute to the end of the war, I was one of the first recruits, I was just a rookie at that time, the title of woman of steel wasn't given to me yet, until that one mission that me and the director took in. The warrant mission, that we now call the cursed mission, because of how affected everyone came back from it."
"How is it that the agency decided to take on that mission?" Yuji "I thought that the authorities didn't take it seriously"
"Well one day multiple women came into the agency without their families knowing of course"
"Why not?"
"Cause those women came from very respected and one's wealthy families, if anyone knew that they came to us, the reputation of their families would have been tarnished, people would know that something was going on inside the noble's household"
"Don't tell me..." Yuji and Nobara asked with anxious eyes on their faces
"Unfortunately, yes, the heads of the families decided to run blood tests to each member of the family making them think that it was to make sure that none of them were poisoned by some kind of virus that was floating in the air because of the grenades and explosives that were used during the war. And of course..." she sighted
"Many of them were taken, I don't know what the criteria for being chosen as a subject was, but I know that they took a lot of children, mostly because of how young their brains were"
"And in addition to finding that special something inside their blood..." Megumi added as the two were still in shock thinking of the barbary of such experiments. But Megumi didn't seem that shocked, after all he knew what it was to be used as a child for the greater good of the rest, but he also knew what it was to be saved from this fate, by someone unlike him for most of his life was truly been treated like a tool.
"After locating one of their laboratories, we decided to infiltrate it as security guards for some of us and scientists for others. Unfortunately, someone betrayed us and signaled our presence in the middle of retrieving the kids, there was still that one child that we needed to find, that one little girl, unfortunately she was in the middle of an experiment, they gave her a shot, on her arm and suddenly she started having the same tattoos as you do" she said starring at Yuji who taught of the voice he heard in the forest.
"The scientists there seemed satisfied by the result, as I was coming in with my colleague, the infant suddenly started to have pieces of her body deformed" she described with a stoic voice and eyes of steel like she got past the trauma, even though her cursed energy was saying the opposite, it kept getting darker and darker at the eyes of the sorcerers "In a split of a second she turned into what you call a curse, I tried to rush toward her, but she exploded into flames right in front of me." she ended...
[1] Tensions rise as Sylvia interrogates Yuji’s group about their origins, revealing they come from another world where they fought alongside Gojo, now dead, against an army of curses. The discussion unveils Yuji’s past as a curse host, Megumi’s sacrifice, and Sylvia’s own mysterious link to cursed energy.