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When I first visited that place, I was 18 years old and it was summer. That was 20 years ago. I still remember the smell when the helicopter landed and the rotor caused the wind to stir. From the air, the mansion seemed normal but from ground, something was different. Birkin, who was 2 years younger than I, seemed only interested in the research files he had as usual…

1978 July 31 (Monday)
The 2 of us were assigned to that place. 2 days ago, the same day they decided to close the executive training centre. Everything could have been planned out from the beginning, or it could have all been a coincidence. The only person to know the truth was, most likely, Spencer.

Spencer at the time was using the Arklay research facility for the research on the t-virus.

As soon as we got off the helicopter, the president of that place stood in front of the elevator.

I don't even remember the guy's name. It didn't matter what was said officially. From that day on, the research facility was Birkin's and mine. We were assigned to be chief researchers there. This of course, was Spencer's idea. We were the chosen ones.

The two of us ignored the president as we entered the elevator. We had already been briefed about the layout of the area, and Birkin, with no bad intentions, we ignored everyone as usual.

Usually, when someone sees our actions, they would react within 5 seconds.

But the president didn't even react at all.

At the time, I was only a youngster so it didn't bother the president.

In the end, the president understood what Spencer was thinking and didn't take notice of someone like me.

This was our first encounter with that woman.

We were not told anything about that woman. Everything relating to her at the research facility was kept top secret, and the data was not to be leaked to the outside.

From the records, she'd been there since the research facility was created.

She was 25 years old at that time.

But what her name was and why she was there was a mystery.

She was a test subject for the research on the t-virus.

The research began on 1967 November 10.

For 11 years, she had gone through tests with many viruses.

I heard Birkin whisper something.

Whether those words were cursing or praising, I do not know.

But we had come to a place we couldn't get back out from.

We knew we could either take the research to its completion, or end up like her. For us, we only had 1 choice.

That woman lying on the pipebed had moved something within both of our minds.

Was this also a part of Spencer's plan?