59. The Silent Witch (12)
<The Silent Witch, Livia Lacrimosa POV>
“mmm~…!!??” I woke up in a jolt and quickly followed by confusion, it was because it was too quiet, there’s no longer revolting sound of music resounding around the room, subsequently I realized I wasn’t inside the nauseating white room, it was a normal room… a bit luxurious than normal room but it’s still a normal room,
Just… what happened…
Part of me was happy but another part of me was afraid to the unknown and afraid of despair, in fact all of that was only a small part of me, the rest had already numbed to keep my mind sane. I didn’t feel much even when I was able to get out from that room. What’s left was a mindless body
why am I alive…
then the only door on this room opened and a pair of woman and man entered the room
***
Two months passed since then
With a good diet, good environment and I was nicely taken care by those people I was able recover from that mindless doll state...
It’s a miracle, how did I survive, how can I recover and become sane like this, all those that happened to me two months ago those suffering was like a dream to me now
With a healthy mind I can’t help but think that I was already crazy at that time questioning myself ‘why am I still alive’ like that, I can sympathized with myself in the past but I can’t agree with myself in the past who had given up everything, I still wanted to get out of the room, a freedom a world like what described in the books.
Well, I can only think like that when I had leeway in my mind like this, human is never satisfied even when they able to fulfill their three primary needs they reach out their hand to secondary needs, in other word I too still a human even I was a bit unique.
And at the same time the one who helped me was human too, something that I didn’t want to put my trust too much, I was able to recover my mind but not my trust, it was almost impossible for them to help and take care of me this much without wanting any compensation back except they were saints like the one being told in the book
I too wished them to be saint…
The one who saved me a pair of beautiful woman and handsome man, from their looks both of them was in their prime age, the one who actually took me out from that white room was their subordinate, it was the same with the one who took care of me these two months, so from my point of view it was them who saved me
While the handsome man only visited once in two or three days, the woman visited me almost everyday
every time they visited it’s always a happy smile pasted on their face, they too talked to me nicely with a text, they didn’t get disgusted nor afraid of this silent world around me, they didn’t research or hurt me too, even when their talked to themselves inside the silent world, there’s nothing but care about my being
At first I really wanted to trust them but it might be because of what I experienced in the past it became a small trauma for me which made it so hard for me to trust them then and the same time with one glance I can feel it their eyes looking at me behind those pasted happy smile wasn’t much different from the Scientists that confined inside that white room, even with that I’m still trying to trust her… Miss J
Looks like they wary of the silent world, that’s why they never blurted something that can broke their act inside the silent world. But they didn’t wary enough, once they outside the range of the silent world… their underestimated the silent world that let the cat out of the bag
It was about a month after I taken by them I heard their conversation outside the range of the Silent world, they didn’t expect that my actual range was a normal human hearing range + the Silent world range, that let their guard down
“what do you think?” Miss J said to the handsome man
“with those tremendous amount of mana she can become the main card in our plan in the future, that is if we can control her”
“hm? You can’t control her?”
“no, her mana is too big, I can’t enslave her”
“what!? then there’s nothing we can do? How about hi-jack and control her mind directly?”
“we can’t do that either, it’s hard to success with those mana even if we succeeded she became no different than normal doll, her mana become useless to us”
“then there’s really nothing we can do with her?”
“no, they are, we can brainwash her”
“didn’t you just say it’s impossible?”
“different kind of brainwash, it wasn’t the one we used in the hidden world, but the one used in the secular world”
“oooh! Then we’re lucky that she still a child!”
“yes, we can just educate her to be a tool then after she learned how to control her mana, I can enslave her if she’s deliberately accept the enslavement then she can’t betray us anymore like that”
“ok, I understand, it’s my job to get to her good side for now”
“correct, I’ll visit once or twice a week too”
Then the conversation ended… Miss J back to the room
It was only my selfish wish that wanted them to be saint who saved me out of kindness, in the end they are the same as those Scientists they only saw me as a tool
I smiled happily to Miss J who just came inside
If you all saw me as a tool, then I will use you all as my tool too, unlike the Scientists from before looks like they something about this Silent World, I swear I’ll squeezed you all dry before I left this place!
***
Three years later
As expected they never let me out from this facility but it was big and much better than the white room, they had enough for a comfortable living, there are bedroom, reading room, living room, they even had a park inside a room. This is how many third detainment started in the name of mine safety and protection.
In these mean time, I learned many things from Miss J especially about the Hidden World, I didn’t have much common sense but I at least had a bit of it, so it shocked me when she told me about the Hidden World. But I was able to accept it faster as the explainable things always there beside me.
From her I learned the real identity of this Silent World around me, she happily told me that I would be able to get rid of it, if I was able to control my mana
As I know the reason why she taught me so many things and I can’t sincerely happy with her. Still on the outside I acted like an obedient child who liked her very much.
I always wondering How can I survive this long, a child under ten years old tortured for almost three years straight continuously, even if it’s only a mild torture like sound and disgusting meal, a normal child would be insane from the first month, even if I think that I had more durability than normal child, three years was too much, what had been keeping me sane all this time and knowing about Hidden World answered all those question. I subconsciously trying to survive as long as possible and the Mana helped to endure that long
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***
“hey! It’s been three years since you started educating her where’s the result!?” the handsome man yelled at Miss J
As always they underestimated my Silent World, they would never expected that I had been eavesdropping they’re conversation for all these years.
“I know! Do you think this easy!?”
“what!? didn’t you said about one year is enough!?”
“yes! I said that! But that was my prediction when I saw her can easily feel her mana presence! But it was all because of her big Mana Capacity that she can feel it easily, but now it backfired! her Mana so Big that it’s hard for her to control it! I told you before how many times do you want to repeat this conversation!”
“kgh!”
“she’s improving, slowly but surely she’s improving recently she started to able to shoot intermediate magic even if it’s one out of ten while she able to shoot elementary magic more stable now”
I grinned reflexively when I heard that, that’s exactly what I wanted them to believe, if they knew that I can easily fire advanced magic I wonder what how they gonna react kukukuhahaha
I hid it from miss J caused I wanted to extract as much information as I can from her, Even if those information full of their bullshit trying to brainwash myself I can still keep some of it.
And Unlike what I shown her even with my big mana capacity I can easily control my mana from the very first time I tried to control it, I didn't know the reason but it can easily control it like a clay which I can shape it as much as I like.
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“how much time do you need?”
“personality-wise she’s ready, she’s obedient to what I said, ability-wise she need one year the fastest, five years the longest”
“urggh!”
“be patient! We can’t fail! You already waited for how many years just wait a bit more”
“our plan should be implemented one year ago!”
“but the success rate only about 50-60%! With her included our success rate will be more than 85%”
“grrrr! Than we enslaved her next week I need to make sure she won’t betray us”
“hm? Didn’t you say it’s impossible?”
“I had Magic weapon that helped the process and as long as she can control her Mana a bit and willingly to be enslaved it should be a success”
“…. She’s obedient and didn’t need to be enslaved what I would like to say, but you’re right it’s better to make sure it’s impossible to happen, I’ll prepare for it”
Phew… I stopped eavesdropping when they're conversation finished, looks like the time to step out of the stage has come, they would never expect that I can hear all of their conversation since long time ago, this is must be what they mean by ‘a cooked duck flies away’ kuhaha, let’s go with a blast!
Haa~ it seems impossible not be distorted after going throuht all those thing in these recent years
*boooom
That night the whole facility quaked, when Miss J woke up by that and went to check the source, she found out a huge hole on the ceiling of Livia’s room and there’s one small note left behind ‘I want to see the world’.
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