Lynette was noncommittal, but when Hayato mentioned her sister, her emotions also became agitated: "You still remember Skye? Very good. Back then, almost all experiments detected that she was an Anomaly, but it turned out she had no abnormalities at all."
"Instead, due to Professor Edwin's experiments on her, an anomaly occurred, and in the end..."
Lynette didn't finish. She choked up, her remaining words dissolving into heavy gasps.
As Claudia had said, Lynette did see the shadow of her sister, Skye, in Serie.
She didn't want to repeat the tragedy: "Has this incident not taught you a lesson?"
"I... I'm also very sorry about Skye. I also have a sister, and I can understand your pain, but Professor Edwin also paid the price with his life for that." Hayato's voice uncharacteristically deepened, carrying a hint of genuine pain.
"If I am wrong this time, I, Hayato, am also willing to use my life to compensate for this mistake."
Lynette sounded a bit speechless: "Listen, no one wants your life! Don't you understand?"
She felt a ridiculous weariness, as if she and Hayato were completely unable to communicate: "You are too prejudiced! Do you want to ruin a girl's life, and then contentedly throw away your own life too? Will that satisfy you?"
"I think you'll need a psychological evaluation after completing this Task."
"Perhaps, but with me here..." Hayato's attitude remained unchanged: "She will absolutely not be able to join the Control Bureau."
"Absolutely... impossible!"
..."Splat!"
The stamp of the Control Bureau's Human Resources Department landed cleanly on the contract.
"Done! Serie, welcome to the Control Bureau~" The energetic Yuji, like a cheerful bird, hopped over and tucked the brand new contract and a cool metal ID card into Serie's hand.
"Tha... thank you..." Serie, still wrapped around the head, fumbled to take them.
The ID card felt cool to the touch. It was engraved with her basic information and a D-Class designation.
This was her identification in the Control Bureau. With this, she wouldn't be completely unimpeded within the Control Bureau, but at least there wouldn't be a repeat of the previous incident where she was almost attacked due to her Anomaly status.
Lynette, watching this scene, a genuine hint of joy bloomed in her cobalt-blue eyes behind her black-rimmed glasses.
Hayato's hysterical appearance during their earlier communication was still vivid in her mind, making Lynette almost believe that he truly had some extraordinary ability to prevent Serie from joining the Control Bureau. But in the end... this was it?
Calm and smooth onboarding!
It seemed his roar could only scare the bats in the cave.
"Congratulations, Serie." Lynette saw Serie being helped over by Yuji, clapped her hands gently, and smiled warmly.
"Thank you, Dr. Lynette. All of this... is thanks to you." Although Serie was still feeling emotional about Lynette's sister, she knew that Lynette absolutely deserved the main credit for her smooth onboarding into the Control Bureau.
"It's nothing, it's all what I should do." Lynette shook her head, and in the depths of the smile in her eyes, a trace of almost imperceptible melancholy seemed to flit by, as if she had remembered something.
Tsk, she must be thinking of her sister again!
Serie's eyebrow, under the bandage, arched, keenly catching the momentary dip in Lynette's tone.
"Oh, right," Lynette collected herself, her tone returning to its usual efficiency, "Yuji should have mentioned the Control Bureau's apprenticeship period on the way, right? Three years of study, then an internship after passing, and then becoming a full-time employee."
"Every apprentice needs to choose an A-Class senior employee as a mentor." She paused, "Do you have someone in mind?"
Lynette's sudden mention of this made her intentions clear.
She was quite confident; if Serie didn't choose her, who else could she choose?
But would Serie really let Lynette off so easily?
She remembered kindness, but she remembered "grudges" even more...
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