Inside a dimly lit room, a tall man with short black hair, brown eyes, and a deep scar running across the left side of his face was staring at a large glass tube filled with thick green liquid.
Inside the tube floated a young girl, about 110 centimeters tall, unconscious and suspended in the liquid.
The tube was connected to several pipes and wires that continuously injected a strange red substance into it—liquid that looked disturbingly similar to blood.
"She is by far the most suitable one. If she succeeds in adapting, we might finally be able to obtain that thing," A wheat-skinned woman with shoulder-length gray hair and black eyes said, her voice brimming with excitement.
The scarred man nodded at her words, then shifted his gaze sideways toward a grotesque mass of flesh, about a meter in diameter, pulsing faintly like a heart.
