Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 257 The Sinner’s Narration

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[Time: 2031.11.9, Recorder: Karen]

[As I said before, Miss Sumire Muroto, now I will tell you everything that happened in this city in the past. 】

[Let me think about it, where should I start...? 】

[It’s really a headache. After thinking about it, it seems that I can only start with that madman Arthur. To be honest, I don’t want to mention him at all now. Just thinking about his disgusting face makes me want to talk about it now. I feel the urge to vomit. 】

[Yes, Arthur Shanak, he is such a complete madman and bastard. 】

[Ms. Muroto Sumire, as one of the [Four Sages], you should still remember the philosophy that Arthur Shanak declared to the outside world, right? 】

['Create a steel weapon that can be controlled by ordinary humans and has the ability to destroy Stage IV or even Stage V. As long as this goal is successfully accomplished, humans will no longer have to endure the suffering caused by the [Devil Virus]. '】

[I’m sure you’ve heard the above statement from that guy more than once. In fact, I was deceived by this slogan that is so ridiculous now that I think about it. 】

[All gasterozoans are damn beasts. I still won’t change this idea until now. But one thing is no longer the same as in the past. That is, I no longer think of those children who are tortured by gasterovirus. is sinful. 】

[Sounds ridiculous, right?As an incompetent man who was killed by thugs because his wife protected...no, should be said to protect his children, but in the end he came to resent these children who were tortured by the virus. How could he say such a thing at the end of his life? 】

[If you think about it carefully, my previous life was really a failure, but these are off-topic. What I really want to tell you is:]

[Arthur Shanak lied to you. 】

[The purpose of that bastard was never to create a weapon of Baogang that ordinary humans could use. No, it should be said that his research on Baogang was just a by-product! 】

[His real purpose is only one from beginning to end]

[——That is to develop a method for humans to become [perfect gastrea]! 】

[Yes, Arthur Shanak, one of the [Four Sages] as people call him, is not a savior against enterozoan viruses at all. On the contrary, he is an extremely pious person who can even be described as fanatical. Enterozoan virus believer! 】

[Go to hell, I’m really blind! 】

[Sorry, my mood seems to be unstable. I’ll stop here for today. I’ll talk about the rest tomorrow. 】

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[Time: 2031.11.10, Recorder: Karen]

[This is the fourth day after the fall of the Tower of Babel. I don’t know why, but when I see the images captured by external cameras of the city being reduced to ruins due to the ravages of gastrea, I feel a sense of joy in my heart. . 】

[Perhaps, I have actually wanted to do this for a long time, right?Haha, it's really funny, letting the gastrea help him achieve his wish or something. 】

[Forget it, let’s not talk about this anymore, let’s continue yesterday’s topic]

[Ms. Muroto Sumire, just like what I said, Arthur Shanak, this guy has never regarded himself as a human being at all, but has always regarded himself as [God's Chosen]. 】

[Yes, [God's Chosen], this bastard has actually been worshiping the gastrula virus as a [god], and even firmly believes that he is the chosen one by God. 】

[Not only that, in his eyes, those children who were infected with the gasterozoal virus at birth were sinners who had soiled the purity of God, and he hated those children in his heart. 】

[As for the results of this hatred, you may have heard reports from people exploring here. If not, please ask them to open the door to rooms 1-04 to 1-10. I believe they will see the scene there. Later, you will understand what I mean. 】

[As you can see, Arthur Shanak is slaughtering wantonly... No, that kind of behavior should be called massacre. He has been killing the Cursed Sons sent to this city in the name of research. , carrying out inhumane killings! 】

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[Time: 2031.11.11, Recorder: Karen]

[No, no, that bastard!What has he done! 】

【Damn!What did I do?What did I do? !I just watched her die in front of my eyes, gradually turning into a corpse on the experimental table that would never move again! 】

【I am such a beast!What qualifications do I have to call myself a father? ! 】

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[Time: 2031.11.12, Recorder: Karen]

[Sorry, Miss Sumire Muroto, please forgive me for not being in the mood to tell you what happened here today. 】

[I think I need to calm down more now and talk. 】

[Haha, that’s true, but now, except to her, their corpses, and this laboratory that nominally belongs to me, where can I go to talk to her? 】

[Maybe, all I can do is deceive myself that someone will see this log, right? 】

[So, no matter who you are, assuming you really exist, whoever sees this diary, can you please listen to me for a moment...listen to an incompetent and useless father, a man who has done nothing to tell me about himself? That ridiculous life? 】

[Let me think about it, let’s start from ten years ago. 】

[Ten years ago, there was a young researcher who had a wife who loved her. They met, fell in love, got married, and then gave birth to the fruit of love. 】

[Although their lives are not good, the researcher's achievements have not been recognized for a long time, and his wife cannot go out to work because she has to take care of her unborn child, they do not think there is anything bad about such a life. 】

[The researcher believes that one day he will be able to stand out with his talents, and his wife has been supporting him from behind. The two of them are looking forward to tomorrow with hope. 】

[However, they did not wait for hope, but for the despair brought by the creatures called gasterozoans. 】

[That day, the gastrea invaded their country, their city, the home they depended on for survival. 】

[They saw the proud army of the country being ravaged like toys by giant gastrea animals as large as mountains, saw their friends and relatives being bitten to pieces in fear, and saw people around them dying one by one. scene. 】

[The weak researcher faced all this, but could do nothing. He could only take his wife and run away desperately, escape from home, escape from the city, escape from the country. 】

[In the end, perhaps due to the blessing of fate, they all survived. Not only that, the child in the wife's belly was also safe and sound. They hugged each other and comforted each other, but they did not know that the real despair had not actually come. 】

[After surviving the attack, the researcher took his wife to the city blessed by the monolith, where he found a job again and was quickly reused. His talents finally began to show off, and his wife was pregnant. The children in the middle of the family are also growing up little by little, and everything seems to be developing for the better again. 】

[So, half a year later, their child was born, and everything started to change from this day. 】

[Because their children are [cursed children]. 】

[When the researcher saw the pair of scarlet eyes like those of gastrea, and the scales that were not human at all, the fear that involuntarily arose in his heart made him scream in horror, and he fell to the ground, his brain becomes blank. 】

[At that moment, he did not feel the joy of becoming a father at all, but was dominated by a situation called fear. 】

[Doctors and colleagues began to persuade the researcher to give up the child. The researcher thought so too, but his wife refused. 】【'This is their daughter, and she is her mother. 'That's what his wife said to him at the time, and of course they had a fight. 】

[This was the first time they quarreled since they met, and the quarrel was very fierce. The wife hugged their daughter and refused to let go no matter what. In the end, the researcher had no choice but to agree with the wife's opinion. 】

[In order to avoid the influence of others, he could only move his wife to the outer circle of the city to avoid the eyes and ears of other people. After all, he was raising a cursed son. For other people who have been attacked by gastrula, , is an unforgivable evil act. 】

[The days went on like this, and the relationship between the researcher and his wife gradually recovered. Although he still could not accept the fact that his child turned out to be a cursed child, after calming down, he also recognized what his wife said. In any case, Those were their children, and he didn't want to be a father who abandoned his children. 】

[However, researchers still underestimate people's fear of gastrea...or, in other words, the malice in people's hearts. 】

[It was a very ordinary morning. His wife made breakfast for him and watched him go out. He came to the research institute. Now he is the team leader here and is responsible for overcoming the key issues of Shaogang weapons. 】

[He remembered clearly that that day, he went back very late because of the progress in his research, but he had already told his wife on the phone not to wait for him and to go to bed early. 】

[But when he walked out of the research institute, drove past a corner, and habitually looked down at the location of his home, he was stunned. 】

[His home is burning, and the dazzling firelight is so clear in the dark night. 】

[He rushed home like crazy, taking the nearest road, but when he arrived, he only had time to see his dying wife lying at the door, holding an empty swaddle. 】

['Protect our children' were the last words his wife said to him before she died. 】

[Because of raising a cursed son, a group of thugs broke into their home and wanted to kill their daughter. Her wife was killed by this group of thugs in order to protect their daughter. 】

['It's all the Cursed Son's fault.' The moment he learned the investigation results from the police, this thought emerged uncontrollably in the researcher's mind. 】

[Thus, under the regret of losing his lover, the man completely changed his view of the Cursed Son and became like everyone else, hating the Cursed Son. 】

[It was the Gastrea and the Cursed Son that ruined everything for him. 】

【He wants revenge. 】

[With this idea in mind, he quit his job at the research institute and was no longer willing to just make ordinary steel bullets and firearms. Instead, he pursued a method that could completely eliminate gastrea from the world. 】

[Driven by his obsession, the man devoted himself to the research of Baosteel weapons without sleep and food, and successfully entered one of the top Haosteel weapons research institutes in the world, led by Arthur Shah, one of the [Four Sages] The [Obelisk] Research Institute that Nak is responsible for. 】

[Not long after entering the obelisk, the researcher realized that this place was actually different from what the outside world said. Compared with the research on Shaogang weapons, more subjects seemed to be on the study of the Cursed Son and the Gastrea Virus. 】

[Every day when you pass the entrance to the basement, you can hear the screams coming from the depths of the corridor. Every day when you get up early and look out the window, you can see the cursed children being transported in batches. 】

['They are the best weapons', when he, who had already made considerable achievements in the obelisk, asked the man named Arthur Shanak, this was the answer from the other party. 】

['I see, what you said does make sense. 'He responded like this at the time. Yes, the researcher at that time, like everyone else in the institute, no longer regarded these girls under ten years old as human beings. 】

[Although there were some doubts that Arthur's treatment of the Cursed Son seemed too extreme, the researcher who was blinded by hatred did not care about it and continued to devote himself to the research and development of Shaogang weapons. 】

[One year, two years, three years...]

[The young researcher gradually entered middle age and became Arthur Shanak’s right-hand man. He gradually became known to tens of thousands of front-line researchers and even gained many admirers and admirers, but all this had no impact on him. It doesn't make any sense. His whole life has been dedicated to the word 'revenge'. 】

【Until that day comes. 】

[Yes, that day, October 2031, 10. On that day, he... saw his daughter again, from the experimental subject that was transported in. 】

[Although he was only ten years old, when he saw the young face that was very similar to his wife's outline, he recognized the other party's identity at the first sight. 】

[His daughter is not dead yet. 】

[At that time, he froze in place, and the words that his wife had entrusted before her death emerged in his mind.]

[For a moment, he almost wanted to rush up and pull the other person down, but the reason in his heart... or hatred stopped him. 】

[That is not his daughter, but the murderer of her wife, he persuaded himself in his mind, until a numb and childish voice came into his ears:]

['Dad...Dad' What is this guy talking about? ''Don't worry about it, she has a brain problem and she can only say these two words to anyone she meets. ''No one taught her how to speak? ''Why teach this kind of thing to speak? ''Yes, take her away. '】

[At that moment, something in his heart seemed to suddenly collapse. The voices of discussions among the colleagues around him gradually faded away, leaving only that title. 】

[It was exactly ten years since he agreed to let his wife stay that he heard his daughter call him daddy for the first time. 】

[Yes, Miss Muroto Sumire, it was not until that day that I, Karen, the head of the Third Research Institute of Babel, a fool who thought I was blinded by hatred, finally woke up. 】

[Until that moment, I finally realized that I had never fulfilled my responsibilities as a husband and as a father. 】

[I neither fulfilled my lover’s instructions nor abandoned my daughter. 】

[I never even cared about her life or death, and what happened to her in the past ten years. In the end, I couldn't even save her, I could only watch her being tied to the experimental table by that beast Arthur. To kill, one must even pretend to have no feelings. 】

[Ms. Muroto Sumire, I am a loser. Just like you told me five years ago, a guy like me will get my own retribution sooner or later. 】

[Looking at it now, you are right, but I cannot feel any resentment towards you, because I know that I deserve all of this. 】

[In the past ten years, I have lost count of how many bodies of innocent children like my daughter have been cut open on the experimental table, their internal organs removed, and their bodies dismembered by machines. 】

[Obviously each of them is a living human being and a victim of the gasterozoan virus, but we deliberately labeled them as cursed children and inhumanely harmed them. 】

[Look back, how ridiculous this is. What is the difference between what we are doing now and that of gastrea animals? 】

[Ms. Muroto Sumire, you know what I was thinking when I saw that giant gastrea animal that was beyond my knowledge that Arthur, that lunatic called a 'god', appeared in front of me. ? 】

【'It's great that our retribution has finally come. '】

[I wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape here with her, but that lunatic Arthur blocked the Tower of Babel directly. For this reason, I could only stay and look for opportunities. 】

[But now, this last opportunity has been missed, Miss Sumire Muroto. Now I have no nostalgia for this world. I could have died, but the sense of responsibility in my heart told me not to do so. 】

[That madman Arthur is still continuing his research. Although he is a complete madman, I have to admit that he is also a genius. 】

[His mind is far from what I can match, so I believe he will be able to successfully research something, but that result is by no means good news for mankind in terms of the concept that you insist on, Ms. Sumire Muroto. 】

[Therefore, I will continue to stay here and look for opportunities, Ms. Sumire Muroto. In the following diary, I will record everything I do. 】

[The above is the end of the self-narration of the sinner Karen. I hope you, Leviathan, and the gentleman named Satomi Rentaro can become the last dawn of mankind. 】

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(End of this chapter)