From The Side Of The I.S.C

BioLife Secondary Labs
Kitamoto, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
February 29

Brandon entered the place with several notebooks full of things that he should have in mind when he was here. His face only showed concern, his eyes had dark circles and from the way he walked, you could see that he was in a hurry. Several people were waiting for him at the sale, dressed in a vastly similar way to his. They were gathered at a fairly large table full of papers and screens, all with information and numbers of all kinds. When they saw him come in, they felt a little more distant when they saw that their boss had continued working instead of resting as he was supposed to do.

"How are you doing on your side?" asked Brandon worried.

"Not much better I'm afraid" another of the researchers answered
"The last arrangement of the DNA sequence is still too unstable to be able to even make a reasonable list of the possible uncontrollable genetic alterations that might occur"
"It also seems that the only thing that the only thing they have in common is the predisposition to violence or fury"
"This will not serve as an early demonstration"

"Okay, try to run just one RFA-4365 dose test and send me the results as soon as they're ready"
"In the meantime, I will keep looking for a way to create something more stable and try to find a way to increase the purity of the samples"
"If you need something extra, send it to your section manager"
"The kitchen has been filled with more new food so you are free to have a drink, remember to take your breaks and that it is forbidden to talk about work in the dining room"

After that Brandon left the room and went to his temporary office, where the next problem is his list waiting for him. Inside the room, a man was waiting for him in one of the chairs, he was here at Brandon's request. He was a mysterious person, who only knew him as Mr. Gomez, nothing was known other than that he was a person of trust of Mr. Damien Raven. He was almost two meters tall, he was big and wore a black suit, he wore dark glasses next to his impeccable hairstyle, on his face there was only the expression of concentration. He was here because in the last day's several workers had been victims of what seemed like a hunt by some unknown person, so Mr. Gomez was asked to investigate the origin of these events to arrest those responsible. Brandon looked at him from behind, sighed, and then went to his table to put down the notebooks he was carrying.

"Who was it this time?" asked Brandon disappointed

"Kenta Miyata"
"He was a truck driver"
"He was found a couple of hours ago, he was staked to his own vehicle" Gomez put a couple of photos on the table where you could see the police in the scene, as well as the side of the truck where the body was.

"Hell, he never entered this place?"
"He had no relationship with our project"
"This negates our theory that the researchers were being the targets of that madman" Brandon said as he took out of a drawer a package of cookies to eat in an attempt to satisfy his hunger, which is the result of the several days that he had working to the limit.

"But he was still a worker from here"
"The message is clear, it is attacking everything related to this place."
"Our theory remains the same, only the number of people who could be a target has increased."

"The violence of the deaths is terrifying but it is too striking compared to before, it is clear that what you want is to attract attention"
"So it may be "Valkyria" that Akane reported when she returned from the Dam, who now appears to be on the same team as Adelis" Now Brandon took out a bottle of water to drink from another of the drawers because he did not want to waste the little time in which he was not working fully on his project

"Actually that's a very good guess on your part, Mr. Brandon"
"Because I am afraid I have to inform you of more bad news that you may be on your way with this idea"
"I took the liberty to review the access logs to the database and came across something unusual"
"Well, a couple of days ago there was an unauthorized download of several files by an investigator here."
"His name I am afraid is Fuji Igarashi, maybe it will be enough for you to familiarize the name"

"He was the first victim?"

"Exactly"
"I have no idea what he did with the information he stole"
"But perhaps we should assume that he could have given it to this lady of the Alliance and they later killed him to prevent us from getting to find out something"

"How likely do you think that is possible?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but it's quite possible, so I wouldn't rule it out"

"Okay, get on with it but please hurry to finish as soon as possible"
"Nobody can work concentrated if they think they could be the next victim of a murder"
"Maybe I'll be the next one, and you know what will happen if that happens, right?"

"Not really"
"Raven just asked me to find the assassin, nothing more"
"If you feel insecure maybe you should bring Akane back or buy a dog"

"Just go now, I have a lot of things to do"

Mr. Gomez got up and gathered his things and left the room. Brandon for the part of him seeing that he finally had a free moment, took out of his lab coat several bottles of medicines, took out several of each, and then swallowed them. Some were to reduce sleep, others to reduce stress and others were supplements, normally a doctor would not advise taking so many pills together, but Brandon did not care because it was not the first time he had done it. Then his phone rang, taking him back to work.

"It's me, Akane"
"I already managed to take care of Jiro Iwasaki."
"It cost me to find it but I managed to find it when searching with the thermal camera while I was flying"

"Excellent, finally good news on this day"
"Dispose of the body, burn it in an abandoned area"
"We don't want the police to find that"
"After that come back here, because I'm afraid that now I need you to take care of something else"

"Roger," She said before hanging up

Brandon put the phone down and started to pick up his notebooks to go to the lab and continue with his work, but again just as he was about to leave the phone rang again. Hearing that the ringtone was different from the previous one, he realized that the call was important, so he ran to answer as soon as possible.

"Mr. Raven!"
"I didn't expect you to call me again so soon"

"It was back in the news."
"Journalists already call it serial killer"
"Certainly the police now will not ignore that all the victims have come from the same company"
"How is the project going? Are there any unexpected problems?"

"No sir, for the moment the project is going well"
"We kept running into problems, but these were all the kind we expected to have"
"DNA is still difficult to predict or control and you have to order a new machine that can take a higher quality sample"
"As you can see, they are normal things in this type of development"
"Now come regarding the serial killer we still don't know anything"
"Gomez recently came to talk to me about the same topic"
"We think that maybe it could be the same alliance team that has been giving us problems from the beginning"
"When we have complete certainty that they are responsible, I will speak with Mr. Miyazaki so that the government can take care of them"

"Do you need more money for this new sample machine?"

"No sir, at the moment it is within the current budget"

"It does not matter, I will transfer more money so that you can negotiate the delivery as soon as possible"

"Don't bother so much Mr. Raven, this machine is not a priority right now"
"I believe that with the current one we can advance the project enough to be able to present an early sample that will convince the Japanese defense ministry to continue"
"It is not necessary for the company to continue putting more money in this project"

"It is not company money, it is from my personal account"
"The night before I dreamed about her again, it reminded me once more of the importance of this"
"This is the least I can do, look at it as a gesture of my commitment to make this go well"

"Alright, you are the boss"

"Okay, I'll leave this as-is for now in your hands"
"I look forward to some encouraging news on this Mr. Brandon"
"My family looks forward to this, don't let us down" Mr. Raven said before hanging up the call

Brandon put the phone back on the desk and with a shaking hand pulled out the bottle of pills to swallow again. He was aware of how very important this was to his boss, so he could not disappoint him and this was the origin of the many overtime that he had been doing. That along with the rest of his team, who he thought were serving or protecting his country in this way, they working fiercely to keep this going despite the adversity. This was finally the stellar moment that Brandon had been waiting for all his life, if he managed to succeed here at last he would stop being the shadow of others, at last, he would be an important person in the scientific field, So he had no plans to leave anything to fate. Although Adelis wasn't behind the serial killer, she was still a threat to his job. So he thought he should try one more time to finish her off. But how could he try to kill her this time?

They had already tried to use bait, kidnapped her, and even tried to raid her house, but all these times they had failed for the same reason. She had a formidable team that was protecting her, in addition to having the dangerous white girl who had given up lost in the continental war and it seems that Adelis somehow managed to get her hands on her, If not was she who planned that in the first place. But he had to try, otherwise sooner or later they would see their faces again. Brandon thought that maybe the approach had to be changed, because if the previous times trying to be elusive was what ended up failing in his plans, maybe a frontal attack to where she thought she was safest could work.

So he picked up the phone and made a couple more calls, this time to a group that may have been brave enough to try this plan, but to his view unrelated to the I.S.C in case they failed. They were a radical group on the internet that seemed to be very against the presence of the US military in Japan and that maybe they just needed a little push to do something stupid. Something like attacking Adelis.