"Yes, Yuri. Why are you acting so surprised?" He asked me as he tilted his head.
I wasn't sure how to answer him… so I just made something up.
"S-sorry, I feel like I've heard that name before."
"Oh. Well yeah your brother probably has mentioned him."
"Well since you're now the head of this company, I might as well tell you…"
"Why would I want to be the 'head' of this company??" I retorted. After everything I've heard from Yuri, and seen myself, I'd never want to work here.
"That's what I'm getting too." He sounded annoyed.
"Yuri recently stole one of-" He paused to think.
"I might as well tell you if I want your trust and for this company to survive…"
He was really beating around the bush, why didn't he want to say whatever it was?
"Yuri stole a Xeno and destroyed our facility in Rusland."
I looked him dead in the eye, and could tell he wasn't lying. Why would he do that though? How would he do that?? The short amount of time I've spent with him- wait… he's really rash. He kidnapped me even though he barely knew who I was. He'd differently do something like that, but again, why and how? He has his reasons for what he does but I just need to figure out what it was.
"This is what me and Leo were working on… we really need to find him."
I was still skeptical, so I had to ask him a question.
"Why is it so important to find him though?"
His expression gave me the feeling that he was annoyed or angry that I didn't immediately trust him, but he answered anyway.
"Because! The Xeno he stole is extremely dangerous, and it uses the host to prepare the planet or something." He was annoyed at me and said it like I was supposed to already know this.
"Prepare the planet??" What was he talking about?
"Huh?"
"You… you know what I'm talking about, right?"
Oh crap, he's now suspicious of me… I pushed my luck a little too far. This just makes me even angrier at myself. The one single person that I could openly talk to and possibly learn more about this world is dead, all because of me.
This thought made me drop my head in disappointment… but he took it a different way.
"Oh sorry… obviously you know." He chuckled.
I looked back up and realized I inadvertently got out of the situation, he thought I was sighing, but this was just a one time deal. I couldn't do that again.
"Sigh, I feel bad for the kid… he was rampaging about his sister."
"Where is she?" I asked without thinking.
"Huh? She's dead?"
What… Yuri said she was alive? I think he said that they moved her to this facility.
"How?" I asked.
"I was sure Leo told you… but I guess not." He looked at me perplexed.
"Someone broke into that lab and killed her while stealing the Xeno that was attached to her."
"At first we thought it was him, but to be safe we told him we were moving her to a different facility…"
"We also started doing some tests on him to see if he had the Xeno, but he didn't."
"If you told him she was alive, then why'd he destroy the lab?" If he believed she was safe, then why would he destroy the facility? Were they doing unethical tests? He never really told me what tests they did on him…
"The truth is that he's not a good person, and the Xeno exploited him for it."
"I'm sorry, I'm not following…"
"Like I said earlier, the Xeno is using him to prepare for something-"
I cut him off, "and what is that?? You keep saying that?"
His eyebrow twitched in anger since I cut him off again.
"That's why we need you!" He was slightly agitated.
"We don't know… we've never gotten that information out of them yet." He placed his hand on his forehead.
"So let me get this straight, you need me because you don't know their intentions??" I said bluntly.
He looked up at me as I continued.
"What if they're just trying to live here, maybe even peacefully-"
"ARE YOU STUPID?" He yelled.
I leaned back in shock as he started pushing his nails into his head and started breathing hard.
"That is the dumbest- *^&$!!" He was having a mental breakdown. I don't know why what I said was so bad, but he was livid.
He got up and flared his arm toward me as he screamed.
"YOU'VE SEEN OUTSIDE! BOTH OUR PARENTS WERE KILLED BY THESE THINGS!"
"AND YOU WANT TO TELL ME THAT THEY'RE HERE PEACEFULLY!?!"
Oh… that's why he's so mad.
"Sorry that's not what I meant…" I said as he looked me in the eyes, and sat back down.
He took a deep breath and did a hand motion similar to wiping his face, before speaking to me again.
"Sorry as well! What did you mean?" His entire mood changed again… it was kinda creepy how quickly he would go from being mad to exited or neutral.
"I-I meant the smarter ones, you know, the one Yuri has?"
"Since they're smarter, they may have a different goal…"
"While you're correct that their smarter, the only reason they can't take over the host is because the hosts that can hold smarter ones were born around the Neutral Era…"
"The Neutral Era?"
"The time when the meteorites first started landing… none of the Xeno had waken up yet."
"Which is around when we were born… but not everyone born during that time gained an X gene."
"What's the X gene have to do with this?" I don't even know what that is, but I have to pretend I do… but if it does what I think it does, then do I have one? If I don't, then how would I have a Xeno?
"People who were lucky enough to be born with an X gene during the Neutral Era are completely safe from being engulfed by the X-Virus."
What on earth is the X-Virus, and why do they keep naming everything with an X… I mean I guess it makes sense but still.
"They 're also prone to being able to control a Xeno who attempt to use them as a host."
"The only problem right now is that we don't know how to kill them when they get a host."
"What if you just kill the host?" I asked.
"You don't want to do that… the host is the only thing keeping the Xeno in check."
"So killing the host doesn't kill the Xeno?" The way he said it makes me believe that the Xeno could-
"No. The Xeno just controls the corpse, transforming it into something we don't want happening again."
I knew it! But wait… wouldn't they want to kill their host then to take full control? Doesn't that mean Yuri's in trouble!? I'm in trouble!! My Xeno just heard everything-
Wait a second… things have been so hectic that I almost forgot that the alien had been right there when Lydia died.
Does that mean he really killed me!?