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{ Light streamed through barred windows into barren corridors as the guards paraded the prisoner towards the office, their footsteps echoing off the walls. Nanashi kept his head down as they treaded through the hall. Why the administrators called for him, he had no idea, but they probably wanted to question him again. After all, he had masterminded a plot to control all of humanity, didn’t he? And since the Master Program was so widely used and coded in his own custom programming language, they couldn’t ask anyone else how to reverse its effects. The government’s best agents had been attempting to understand it for years now, but they didn’t seem to be making much progress.
Nanashi had been willing to cooperate, but the agents were suspicious. He supposed a prisoner in a high-security prison wouldn’t be a very reliable source for information and most of the time spent between interrogations was most likely wasted on checking the validity of his statements. There was really no need for that, his days of lying were gone, along with his plans for the Master Program. If ever he were to be allowed back outside, he would take that program apart piece by piece and rid the world of its dangers.
As he approached the room at the end of the hallway, the door slid open and the guards ushered him inside. A uniformed woman was pacing back and forth inside the small office, a stern expression plastered over her features. Nanashi avoided eye contact as he slowly shuffled into the center of the room. She gestured towards a plastic chair, into which the guards unceremoniously shoved him. The woman halted stiffly and glared down at the male.
❮ ❝You know why you’re here, don’t you?❞ /❯ Her voice was unexpectedly calm and gentle, contrasting her harsh appearance. Nanashi merely shook his head. She was going to tell him anyways, so he might as well get it over with quickly. ❮ ❝You are here,❞ /❯ the woman continued, ❮ ❝because we are giving you a second chance. I assume you have heard of Project Catharsis?❞ /❯ His eyes widened, a hint of surprise passing over his face. Wasn’t that the program that allowed people like him to go rejoin society? ❮ ❝We have been observing your behavior over the last year and you no longer seem to pose a threat. If you can pass our test, we will set you free.❞ /❯
❮❝ Be warned, it will not be an easy task and not everyone is pure enough of heart to succeed. You will be placed into our facility, where you must complete a series of trials. That is all I can tell you, you will find out the rest when you arrive. Any questions?❞/❯
The prisoner hesitated. Him? Why? He hadn’t done anything to deserve this, there must be hundreds of candidates worthier than himself. He was weak and he had committed such a heinous crime against humanity. Why would they give him of all people another chance? ❮ ❝Y-you must have the wrong person. I - there’s no way someone as pathetic as me can participate in this. I can’t do anything.❞ /❯
❮ ❝Well,❞ /❯ said the woman, ❮ ❝We’ll see when you get there.❞ /❯ }
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