The story of Ningyo Minamoto

‘What does it mean to be alive?’, this is a mystery I was never able to solve,

‘Is someone who wishes to die every day is truly alive?’, ‘What about someone who is always putting up a mask to please the people around him, is he truly living?’, these questions were always a mystery to me.

I always envied those people who have the freedom to take the decisions of their life, I never got that chance, but I wish I could.

 And today is my last mission, after which they will just kill me….

My name is Ningyo Minamoto, before I was even born, they modified my genes but they didn’t stop there after I was born, they put me in machines and once I was old enough to know about the world, they isolated me in a room where I was given food and educated me, I don’t remember how long I was there.

Then when I turned 8, they transported me into a facility disguised as orphanage, there I saw kids a little younger than me, they wanted me to socialize so that it could help then,

While I was there, they ordered me to act like a cheerful and happy person, I was no able to act like a person I was not so they punished me every time I failed.

So, after a few years I was able to act like a cheerful person it felt so real that when I see myself in the mirror, I was not able to recognize my own self.

While I was there, I understood something, all the kids there were way too different then me it was like the gap between me and them was not of one or two years it was like a decade.

 There I found a kid named Kazuto, his parents died in a car accident. So I took care of him like the others, but he was different he started admiring me or the cheerful person I looked, he treated me like an older brother, I first time in my life felt a little happy but there was a shade of guilt in it, a guilt of not being the one he admired, the person he admired was a cheerful person not the real me, But I was still happy….

But it did not last very long, before I even knew it, they were back but this time they wanted others too along with me, this time they too 99 other kids with me, I thought they will be similar to me and will be trained but I was proven wrong.

They trained us for a while but got after that they tested us and our scores were evaluated I scored perfectly in everything, but others were different they were not able to score well because of their lack of experience so they failed,

But here in this facility failing was not accompanied by punishment, it was accompanied by death all those who failed were killed all those deaths were on me, I was the one who killed them by scoring good, others looked at me like I was a monster they kept there, distance from me,

The next time I tried to score just enough to pass so no one died so to teach me a lesson they just took the lowest scorer and gave us both knives and the rest was easy a deathmatch, the survivor lives.

As the deathmatch begun the difference in our skills was clear while he was trembling from nervousness, I stood there, calm. He attacked with full force but he left his neck open I dodged this attack and just slit his neck just enough to kill him.

I knew, if I wanted the others to live, I would have to not decrease my score by a drastic level I decreased it by very little just enough so that some people can survive if they tried hard, this way only 10 died in a year. At the end of the second year 10 of us were left.

So, they decided to give us assassination missions if we fail, we die.

This was around the time I found about myself and my parents, it turns out my father was associated with the experimentation of the lab a few years ago while the lab was still experimenting on plants and animals, he was a great scientist, he was the one who found how to manipulate the genes experimentally, he did it to save the kids who have genetic mutations since birth a noble cause, but the higher ups were not that noble they wanted that technique to make tools out of kids,

This was the time my father found out that my mother was pregnant he was overjoyed and started taking my mother to the lab for regular checkups due to the skilled doctors that were there.

While my father was overjoyed with happiness the higherups of the company were doing separate experiments on monkeys to make them smarter and stronger they were able to succeed due the techniques that my father introduced.

They somehow mixed the chemicals while the regular checkups and I was slowly mutating day by day, but one day my father heard the higherups about the experiments they were doing on me, he faced them but was silenced forever. They told my mother that father was on a trip because of some emergency so she should stay in the lab for safety, the trust my mother had on those people was a lot. So, she trusted them this made it easy for them to do their experiments and soon I was born, the chemicals were like toxins and were slowly killing my mother and caused her death a few days of my birth.

The one who told me all this was a scientist who was a friend of my father he respected my father a lot.

And he promised my father that he will stop these experiments no matter what and will watch over me. His gave me his name, Dr. Fuji.

I believed him and we started planning but it was very risky and will take a long time but we found a way, if we could use the plane that send us near the site of mission there were less people there on the plane and Dr. Fuji was one of them.

But while we were planning this the scientists were fed up from waiting so they decided that they will have another death match this time it was me versus all the other 5 who were alive at that time, they were skilled but I was able to kill them without hesitation, this filled me with guilt.

I just became the monster they wanted me to become, I was now able to kill people without any hesitation the people with whom I spent my childhood with were killed by my own hands.

After that they started sending me on assassination missions and I succeeded in all of them, the success of their experiment made them greedier, they wanted more tools like me,

So, they decided to run the experiment again.

They sent me back to the orphanage.

When I reached the orphanage the kids there were happy to see me and ‘were asking where I went?’ and ‘where the others were?’, they all looked at me with those bright eyes I was not able to answer any of them and then I looked at Kazuto he still had that look of admiration, this filled me with guilt, I could not bring myself to tell them the truth,

So, I just left them and did the missions secretly, I wanted them to be away from the things I faced but I couldn’t do anything against the organization.

They came to take these kids for the same experimentation I was not able to do anything I was powerless against them until I was their tool.

They faced the same things I faced.

A few years passed and things changed me and Dr. Fuji were able to derive a plan to bring the organization down, the plan was flawless but just needed time.

The organization was running their experiments on batch 2 but they faced an issue, this time the kids were all normal so the pace of the experiment was very slow this was a good thing as this way I would be able to save a large fraction.

 This was around the time I found a recording device Dr Fuji sneaked the device into the facility. I secretly gave the device to Kazuto so that he could give me the info on what was happening, the things were going too smoothly.

After a few days I was sent to my final mission it was a very big mission, the success was like a must. They wanted me to kill a president,

The mission was a top secret only the most trusted scientist knew about it, that scientist was none other than Dr Fuji. He was the only person selected to accompany me on the mission.

Our plan was clear I will fake my death after completing my mission and as they wanted me dead anyway so they will have no problem so not much search will be done.

So, I with Dr fuji were sent to the site as close as possible without being detected, I sneaked in inside the building and hen I located the target I used the device that could shoot ice bullets at a very high velocity, after a while the bullet will melt and leave no traces behind, I shot the bullet in his head and just went out of the same went I came from, we used the escape tunnel to escape it took two whole days, I was just staying in the building without eating or drinking after two days I was able to get my chance to escape I went to Dr Fuji and we went inside the jet we came from but the first thing we did was to take out our trackers which were used by the organization to monitor us,

Dr Fuji, started the plane and in the mean while I fitted the tracker on to the fake bodies Dr Fuji prepared, and after that we just left those body in the plane while we just left with parachute,

The government was on high alert after the assassination so no plane was allowed to fly in that time,

So, as soon as they detected an unknown plane they decided they will make us land and use us to get to the culprit.

But as soon as the head saw that we could be caught he destroyed the tracker that made the poison inside them to instantly kill us,

That was the reason we left the trackers on the control center of the plane and one blast was able to make it uncontrollable and crash land,

They searched the remains but they only found 2 dead bodies in unidentifiable condition.

The thought that we were dead our plan succeeded.

The head of the organization was of the same party that won but because of the current president it was not possible.

So, he planned on killing him, now the blame will be given to the rival party and the one who will most probably become the new president will be him, but in the meanwhile the vise president took the duty till elections happens.

It was a very foggy day so us leaving the plane that was traveling on a very low altitude we were not even visible.

When I landed, I just laid there for a while as I laid and felt the breeze that was there, I for the first time in my life laughed sincerely, for the first time I felt free, I was not anyone’s pawn at that very moment,

What an irony it was, I had to die in the eye of others just to feel alive in my eyes.

But it was not over yet, we still had to close the experiment one and for all,

Till now things were going too smoothly but as we know things never go smoothly forever,

When Dr Fuji contacted his allies in the organization I found out that they organization took some intense measures to increase the pace of the experiment, they made them assassinate each other and now only 15 of them are alive, and Kazuto disappeared and no one knew where, I knew this had to be the plan of the organization but I was still powerless so we started the second phase of the plan.

The organization was planning on a largescale mission so every subject was to be transported, this was the only way time we could send them to safety.

When that fated day of transportation arrived, we hijacked the planes and the allies of Dr Fuji outnumbered the organization, like Dr Fuji his allies also hated the organization.

We succeeded in the hijacking and we helped them to go to the safe place Dr Fuji found a long time ago.

Then the phase three started this was the extermination phase, we found and killed everyone who was guilty in the organization. We killed all the scientist who were willingly working there, Dr Fuji was the one who made and confirmed the list.

We killed everyone except the head, his execution was my responsibility I used the same tactics used in the president elimination, it was a success.

Then at last, we just blasted off that underground facility to leave no trace behind.

After that it was all finally over or so I thought…..