( More than a decade prior to the current timeline ) : ( MC POV ) :
I took my first breath, i became alive more likely awakened from slumber, weird what does slumber mean, what does weird mean, am i alive, what is alive .
Is what i'm doing by inhaling and exhaling air in and out of my lungs is considered breathing, is that an ability that indicates that i'm alive, for a newborn baby i don't cry as much as the other kids around me, how weird, a moment later all the sounds around me quietened down and the bustling scene somehow suddenly subsided .
I have a light orbs in swirling in my mind, is that what inside my mind looked like, how weird, does all the kids around me have that too, they didn't, i'm the only one, but are they my siblings i can sense that we share the same origin, i checked them from head to toe together with everything around me .
The orbs in my mind suddenly got sucked in something that was swirling, then i opened my actual eyes for the first time, i did all the checking previously with the other kids and the diagram of the facility I'm currently in while my eyes was still closed, i felt a bit cold feeling and something akin to tickling, i'm already able to perceive a lot of the information around me, the data of my surroundings kept changing for a bit in front of my eyes, or maybe senses, i don't know .
A few seconds later my absurd vision got cleared up and i saw the scene i was in more clearly now, i was in an infant capsule, put in one of the 40 current infant capsules laid beside me and in front of me, the whole facility diagram was quite clear in my eyes, but it had a lot of information that i didn't care much about, i'm conscious, no i'm even more than that, i'm aware of the inner thoughts of those other siblings of mine, even the adults in this weird place words are not hidden from me, i'm harnessing more and more information from listening to their thoughts, the walls is doing nothing to hinder my eyes or senses .
Am i prying on their words too much, violating their privacy somehow, my vocabulary of words was being enriched and becoming more fluent and complete by the second, the organ called brain as i get to know was working on his own to acquire those types of new information and process it instinctively .
But one thing kept on bothering me, the cold sensation easily subsided due to the capsule warming mechanism kicking in, the ticklish feeling i kept feeling was what really left me a bit more or less unsettling .
I didn't know at first what it was but sweeping the thoughts of the people dressed in lab coats, i was able to grasp that what i was being ticklish about was actually my body brushing against Psions, magic energy that appears in a certain kind of other adults called Magician, the psions help the magicians to invoke phenomena, in simple terms Magic, the ability to change information and invoke phenomena and even control it, i'm sensing the psions currently at work in the different systems of this facility .
I can see different colors in front of me with my eyes, a magnificent scene that i can't help but marvel on, my other siblings don't have any Psions revolving around them for some reason, so i guess they don't feel the same ticklish feeling i have, wait what is going on here .
The psions which should have been revolving around me began to seep into the bodies of my siblings, once they entered their bodies, the crying voices once again began to echo in this section of the research institution, at least that's what i believed this place was, i felt a bit of gratitude towards the psions who helped my siblings to be able to use magic, but the amount revolving around me didn't increase one bit, i felt it even increased a bit more .
Suddenly i felt something wrong with my new founded senses, the crying voices of my siblings, suddenly stopped, i saw that they once again fall asleep, i was getting sleepy for some unknown reason, but the last thing that i heard before losing consciousness was an order to be executed, all the 40 samples vitals are good, the pre installed memory have been released, the cloning operation was a success, the initial data indicate that the 40 samples are born magicians, asking for confirmation on initiating the next program.
For some reason i felt a bit of dread wash over me as i heard certain words like, cloning, pre installed memory was that the orbs of light from before, " the next program" those were the last words i heard before i fall into slumber, even though i should have been asleep my mind was for some reason still active and operating fine, no it was even more efficient than before, i was still able to perceive the world around me as if my eyes were open like before .
I saw that me together with the rest of my siblings were being led to a new room, one that was filled with quite big amount of machines, weirdly enough even though i as a premature baby should not have known anything about those machines and devices, the moment i was led to the room, i was able to grasp the basic ideas about what each device and machine do, even the components that they were made of, all those sets of information were imprinted in my immature brain without any feel of discomfort at all, is that the result of the pre installed memories and information, some of the information i got was somewhat vague for me to comprehend, but most of those machines and devices have one purpose, that to augment the magicians to a certain degree .
I was still a bit unsettled about what were they exactly planning to do, but without wasting any time the capsule that i was in suddenly got attached to some of those devices and i saw the other capsules did the same as well, then my first experience of pain came too suddenly, even though my body should have already been asleep and don't feel much, my brain was able to sense a stronger dose of pain through its nerve receptors still in effect .
The pain forced my whole mind and brain to came to a halt cutting all my senses to the world around me, i will survive, that's what i kept telling myself through those seconds of struggle, i tried to echo a cry of help, but my body wasn't listening to my brain, i was forced to hibernate or else i felt that my brain was going to break, my last thoughts before completely shutting down was that no matter what was going to happen, i will survive, a wish i probably made instinctively, sensing the crisis i was in .
I was suddenly awaken by the buzzing sound of electric devices, i opened my eyes what came to my view was a white room with a huge diagonal mirror covering the whole wall to the right of me, my brain activity once again reignited and it directly skyrocketed, i stood on foor at the baby bed i was in and saw the cameras and i also noted that there were people looking at me through the mirror, i was able to tell that they weren't aware of me doing what they were doing, checking them and analyzing them, my eyes in the mirror was purple, i had a baby hair of the same color as the room White, but something was a miss, my mind felt something wrong with my body .
I was wrong, it kept sending me signals that the guys in front of me had did something wrong to me, my expression in the mirror was one of indifference, i had a deadpan serious expression unbefitting of a child not even a year old, but i don't know of any expressions to make, i tried to imitate one of the expressions i have data about, but i wasn't able to do it no matter how hard i tried, i wasn't able to smile .
My eyes in the mirror looked somewhat weird, my eyes were purple still, but my pupil had a strange black cube like pattern in them, my other siblings had nothing like it, i might have completely ignore its existence, if not for the fact that it filled my entire pupil making it look like i have a black gemstone imbued into it, but what exactly do that weird shaped eye do, i have no idea, but do i even want to know, i don't know .
I'm able to bypass the walls of the room i was in as before and i used this to look at the state of the other siblings clones like me, i did this simultaneously as i listened carefully to the conversation that the group of guys watching me form behind the mirror were having .
I saw that my sibling eyes was purple the same exact thing as me, but their baby hair was black instead of the white strands of hair that i currently have, their facial features were a bit different than mine, but difference wasn't that big, they were also unlike me who had a room for myself, they were all cramped up in one spacious room, from the looks of it, i was the last one to finally woke up, as i felt that through our psychic link, they were all put in cradles, but unlike me, their stare continued to be directed at the ceiling above them, with no intention of making any particular movement or even releasing some cries as a normal baby should, but i was in no place to talk, since i woke up, i didn't release a sound not to mention a cry, but their silence was something completely different, they were acting like robots, were they born that way, no i remember that their cries previously was so loud, that the researchers here were forced to put them to sleep, but then what could possibly be the cause, were my siblings defective from the start, maybe they were the ones that are normal and i'm here the defective one .
Me and my siblings after all were nothing but mere clones, from the information i gathered and successfully processed and stored, in addition to the state my siblings were in, i was stumbled by an existential questions that kept nagging me, ARE WE ALIVE, the problem wasn't not about being unable to answer, no in fact it was the opposite, it's precisely because i knew the answer that i was conflicted .
From the information i gathered, the simple answer would be no, we clones aren't alive, yes we breath, yes we need to eat, drink, sleep like any living person, but we aren't conscious enough nor we are sentient enough to make our own minds, at least that was how things were normally, but if that was the case with my siblings, then at what category was i in .
I'm both conscious and sentient, but i'm also currently resemble a blank paper like the rest of my siblings, waiting to be filled with experience, but even without someone interfering to fill me in, i'm more than capable of doing such thing on my own, so am i alive then, if i am, then how can i become a genuine person, in this world there is one important thing that define people, that is origins, do i have origin, can my identity as a clone be my origin, can it be accepted by people, even though i can't comprehend what all of that mean, i can't help but wonder what the future holds for me, an Irregular.
Seeing that their was no point in surveiling my siblings any longer nor will dwelling on those bold questions of mine be any better , i focused all of my attention to the conversation that those guys behind the mirror were having, the ticklish sensation that i kept feeling previously had completely disappeared, but the colorful psions was still apperant in my eyes, but for some reason they were somehow scarcer than before, i paid that no mind, just as i did the same with the still going intuition i had, about something being wrong with my body and listened taively to what was going on, while gazing at the mirror .
There was a bunch of surveillance and checking devices noting and recording every move i do, the researchers was looking at the date in the reports that were being given out, with an expression of delight or at least that what my mind was telling me, i felt nothing seem to be particularly different about the expression they were making, not even one bit, some of the female researcher for some reason kept stealing glances at me through the monitors and the big screen in front of them with what my mind described as bashful expressions, but one feeling was common between all of those guys, they had some shocked feeling that were clearly written all over their faces, among all of those busy working researchers, there was a man who stood in the center of all that bustling scene with a serious and unwavering expression on his face as he stared at me with with expectant eyes .
The man in discuss appeared to be a man with black hair and a black mustache, he was wearing glasses and was dressed in a white lab coat over a dark shirt and tie, his posture suggested that he might be the head researcher in this institute, he wore an expression that seemed to entail calm and seriousness, and behind him was a row of guards, that looked to be blocking anyone from leaving the area rather than being here to secure it .
One of the researcher went to the said man and handed him a report, i was able to see and know that the report included health check results of me and my 39 siblings, then the researcher that handed the report said excitedly :
I believe that we finally succeeded, Dr.Takao, the operation went well and the 40 samples vitals are stable and all of them are born magicians, we are all expecting a great results this time.
I was able to know that the name of that guy seemed to be Kanemaru Takao from the name tag he had hanged on the coat he was wearing, for some reason, my cognitive ability seemed to be a bit restricted than before, before i could even grasp some of the thoughts of everyone that was in my field of vision, but for some reason it wasn't working the same as before, no i can still hear some of the thoughts of the people above, so what was exactly the difference here, as i thought of this, i felt as if gears were beginning to spin in my head, as the shapes of the bodies of the people in my field of vision began to change form .
Then the answer presented itself for me, the bodies of all of the researchers in front of me with flickering with light, but the guys that i see above were colorless, the answer to why was i able to read some of those guys thoughts successfully, but failing to do the same with the researcher was actually quite simple, i was unconsciously stumbling upon one of the definitive differentiates between humans and magicians .