Boogiepop in the Mirror: Pandora (Light Novel 4) by Kouhei Kadono

Author:Kouhei Kadono [Kadono, Kouhei]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2018-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Kit sat in a darkened corner, eating the food she’d been given—an onigiri stuffed with canned tuna—keeping an eye on the group of men sitting in angry silence around the table.

Before they’d brought her here, Kit had never eaten this weird ball of rice wrapped in dry seaweed, but she’d gotten used to it. Now she actually quite liked it. But she didn’t tell them that.

When she was finished eating, she carefully removed all scraps of seaweed from her hands and began brushing her long black hair.

She couldn’t move around the room. There were cuffs on her feet, connected to the exposed iron girders on the walls of the prefab room.

The men, like her, were eating junk food from the convenience store. Unlike her, they weren’t exactly staying calm. Their mounting frustration was making a mess of the meal.

“God damn it, what’s going on?” one shouted, unable to bear it any longer. “It’s been a month since Cavs and them left! What the hell is taking them so long?”

“Shut up!”

“You know I’m right! They said they had Japanese industry ties that could score us a windfall! We even forked over the top secret chips!”

“’Course they did,” the eldest of them said. He had only one eye. “Those chips aren’t even finished, barely anything set on ‘em. Only the Japanese would buy those. And we can’t leave here without money, or something we can turn into money. And we can’t sell her here.”

“Damn it. What’s with this lousy country anyway? How come they’re willing to buy high tech shit but not a weapon?”

He hit the table so hard the vibrations reached Kit in the corner.

She did not react. She just kept combing her hair, as if being called a weapon did not bother her.

“But you’re right. They should be back by now.”

“The buyers being cautious?”

“Let’s hope that’s all it is.”

“What’s your point?”

“We’re all thinking it! The Towa Organization already got to them!”

“Calm down,” the one-eyed man said.

“But…!”

“If they had, they’d be here already.”

The men all turned and looked at Kit.

But none of them spoke to her, or asked her opinion. It was as if she was just an object that happened to be there.

“If we could use her, we could get rid of them easily.”

“And this entire country along with them. And our lives.”

“Jesus. She’s worthless if we can’t sell her.”

“You need facilities on a Towa Organization scale to stabilize something like that.”

“God damn ‘Out of Standardized.’”

“Experiment response was F-, for Christ’s sake.”

They began talking about Kit, spitting jargon incomprehensible to anyone not in their line of work.

Kit did not respond, and kept working on her hair.

She understood their words. She could read and write their language, the language of this country, and every major language in the world.

She simply chose not to respond.

While brushing her hair, she stroked the gold headband holding it in place. The smooth surface of it comforted her.

“That looks nice, Kit. Makes you look like a princess wearing a crown!”

It was a cheap piece of plastic with paint on it, not even gold-plated, but a friend who no longer existed had told her that.

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