"I don't know what standards that organization used to choose people. None of us could figure it out. But in the end, my brother and I… Charles… were both selected. We were actually quite happy about it, because at the very least, it meant we wouldn't have to starve anymore."
"The organization stayed there for two days and eventually recruited about thirty people. The members of the organization took us to an abandoned factory on the outskirts of town. The place was in terrible condition, but they had remodeled it into many small compartments. It was there, in that factory, that we first met the man who looked like a monster."
At that moment, LQ said calmly from the side, "Quartz."
Eisen shook his head. "I don't know what his real name was. Anyway, everyone in the organization called him 'Rat.' And he really did look like a rat—no, more like one of those laboratory white mice used for experiments."
