Persona - Mask of Origins

"Do what you have to then. Just keep it to a minimum."

 

"So, when do we leave?"

 

"You go whenever you're ready."

 

"Then I'll see you all in a little bit." Nicholi calmly walked to the gates of the lab.

"You sure we can trust something like him?"

 

"Do we have any other choice?"

 

Zain grunted and lightly touched the crystals, "It's not so bad having them. It's not like they've progressed as fast as being a shadow."

Nicholi took Yuki's suggestion to mind and refrained from killing the guards up front. Though he did knock them unconcious. Standing in the empty halls, a rush of horrifying memories flooded his head. Nicholi dropped to his knees in pain, I never...these aren't my memories. The failures, it's there memories. The blood, the screams...

 

"I guess it's not all that bad, if you overlook the fact that they might kill you."

 

He nodded and sighed, "They did keep that shadow's hand from going right through me. I don't really know if it's a good thing to be human or not. As a human, what would my purpose in this story become?"

A shiny boot stopped infront of Nicholi. "I don't suppose you're going to get up anytime soon are you? Nicholi...you poor thing. You odn't belong here."

 

"At least you were human for a short time. From the studies that Toji did on my blood, he found out that I never was human. I was born this way."

 

"Don't worry, Yuki, it's never changed who you are. And it never will. I'll be alive long enough to see to that."

Nicholi's eyes opened long enough to see the scientist above him wasn't the Doctor, but Dr. Yagami. "I...Yagami..." He picked Nicholi up and carried him out of the lab, "You escaped once, why would you want to come back? I won't let you throw away freedom for something as silly as being homesick."

 

"Thanks, Zain." Yuki said with a smile.

 

Trying vainly to hide his very human blush, he looked down the road Nicholi had taken, "I wonder what's keeping Nicholi?"

Yagami dropped Nicholi at the doorstep of Toji's house. It was a random drop, but he figured Nicholi would be killed by whomever lived there. "I hope you wake up soon, little experiment. You have a lot of work to be done until you're complete."

Callen stiffened and sniffed, "No body move. Ari get the door." Ari moved to obey and came back with both scientist and Nicholi, "Ari found Nicholi and doctor at door. Ari do good?"

 

"I don't know. Let's head back to Toji's for now."

 

Agreeing, Zain walked with Yuki back to Toji's. Ari had left the door wide open. "What the...?"

Snarling, Callen stood, "What did you do to Nicholi?" Zero hissed, "Dr. Yagami..." Ari still waited for approval.

 

"Looks like he's just sleeping." Toji said.

 

"See, I did nothing to Nicholi. He did this to himself. I told him never to leave his white room. What does he do? He leaves and tries to come back. Coming back to a place like that only brings chaos for his kind."

 

"So you're yet another one of my father's underlings. How does it feel to have sold your soul to the devil?"

 

Yagami scratched his chin, "Feels pretty good. You must be Toji, the son who constantly destroys all our research. Ah, you've no idea what you're destroying, do you, boy? Believe with me for a second; a world without disease! Where people don't have to die!"

Zero hissed again, "This isn't a life anyone would willingly have! To be seen as only a weapon instead of a person..."

 

"I know exactly what I'm destroying."

 

Yagami returned from his daydream and gave Toji a serious look, "Oh, do you? Would you have killed Nicholi, knowing he was sentinent and peaceful? Even though he was still in the lab?"

"Of course...he would've..." Nicholi unsteadily sat up, "And I would've thanked him for it. I'd rather be dead than the Doctor's slave. Dr. Yagami, why do you have to patronize him?" "It's my nature. Nicholi, I brought you here, not knowing you already were staying here, so you would avoid the Doctor's experiments. You all should be thankful I didn't kill him myself."